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Submissions for the 20th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival, to be held September 21 - 25 2016 in NYC are OPEN!! The five-day festival includes narrative features, documentaries, short films, spotlight screenings and conversations, live staged screenplay readings, the Urbanworld Digital track focused on digital and social media, and Urbanworld Music, which highlights emerging talent in live performances during after party events. Go to urbanworld.org to submit today!
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The largest festival in South Texas, the 22nd San Antonio Film Festival garners extensive local media attention and rave reviews. Industry and community leaders champion the festival for its diverse and exciting program. SAFILM has a strong reputation for uncovering cinematic treasures every year with an amazing lineup of narrative, animation, documentary and experimental shorts and features. SAFILM works with the top local hotels for special rates for our guests.
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2016 Fan Boy Film Festival Awarding 16K+ in Prizes
Submissions are NOW open at www.FanBoyFilmFestival.com
Over $16,000 in Cash Prizes to be awarded to filmmakers!
NO Submission fee to enter. SUBMISSION DEADLINE is July 1st. FESTIVAL DATES JULY 15th-AUGUST 26th.
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Through the art of film, we celebrate the richness, diversity and creativity of storytelling for the cultural enrichment, progression and education of communities worldwide.
Each year the International Black Film Festival (IBFF) invites filmmakers from all over the globe to submit their projects to be considered as an “official selection” during the festival. Judges select films to be screened to a energetic festival participants. Filmmakers take advantage of the opportunity to interact with the audience and share their personal journey about their film project via Q&A sessions and networking events.
Awards are given in the following categories: Best Documentary, Best Short, Best Feature, Best Animation, Best of the Festival, Audience Choice, Best International Film, Honorable Mention, Best Faith-Based Film, Best Student Film, Best Web Series, Best of Tennessee.
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Submit your best short animated films for a screening May18th at Cannes Film Festival.
Enjoy industry visibility in front of the animation professionals attending Cannes during Animation Day in Cannes (second edition). take advantage of free promotion to buyers and media on our Animation Day in Cannes Newsletters, animation Day in Cannes website, filmfestivals.com pages dedicated to Animation Day in Cannes and our Youtube channel, which will be offered for buyers and Media.
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The 12th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival and Film Conference/Film Market, scheduled for August 11-20, 2016 at the world famous TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, is now accepting submissions. HSFF, 4 times named to MovieMaker Magazine “Top 25 Fests Worth the Entry Fee” lists, has featured over 400 projects showcasing stars and filmmakers including Sofia Loren, Bill Plympton, Anthony and Joe Russo, and Felicia Day.
In 2015, HSFF awarded over $150,000 in prizes, including $60,000 in post services for Best Short, Director, Music Video, Cinematography, VFX, and Commercial, and $15,000 Grand Prize cash . www.hollyshorts.com
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In 2016, WoFF returns for its third edition with great energy and ideas, generated from a wonderful 2015 festival.
Our focus remains on independent cinema from all around the globe, by showcasing the work of first feature filmmakers and female directors in our two main sections, First Features and The Female Perspective, respectively.
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Montreal International Animation Film Festival FESTIVAL DATES June 2-5 2016 Montreal Canada Le MIAFF! is a people's film festival and industry conference dedicated to the art of animation for film and technology. All genres and forms are welcome. Awards & Prizes Software and other award prizes. Visibility in our travelling shows in Berlin, Cannes, Annecy, Glasgow and more. Check 2015 fantastic programming on the website.
Paranoid Girls Comedy by Pedro del Santo was qualified for Oscar selection running for best film, best original song...
Ana, Paula and Veronica become fascinated by modeling and the life that it offers. Yet, they gradually begin to discover the dark side of fashion hidden behind the fame and glamour of the spotlights. The women experience downfall as they engage with an antagonistic photographer who drags models into a high stakes abyss of danger. The women learn to value friendship over the lures of fashion pitfalls and enjoy life's simplicities in the end.
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Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.
Charlie Kane can’t catch a break. He grew into a man who expects the worse out of life and gets it. But that changes when, by chance, he meets a bright, sunny sprite of a woman named Holly who turns him from a dour drip into someone finally allowing himself to be happy.Then a bus flattens her before Charlie eyes. Charlie opts for suicide but can’t even successfully give up on life. Left with no other choice, he adopts Holly’s ethos of positivity and just decides to be happy... by ignoring all the bad things in life. But his cynical best friend isn’t buying Charlie’s new-found happiness and sets out to save Charlie by making him miserable again.
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By Maria Esteves – April 12, 2016
The 17th Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY16) tribute to Cuba’s iconic actress ISABEL SANTOS commenced Monday, April 11, 6:00PM at the Instituto Cervantes New York. The premiere films VESTIDO DE NOVIA (His Wedding Dress), directed by Marilyn Solaya starring Isabel Santos and Santos directorial debut of EL CAMINO DE LA VIDA (The Path of Life) documentary short preceded the panel discussion The Actor And The Camera with actress/director Santos and cinematographer/director Rafael Solís moderated by founder/executive producer Louis E. Perego Moreno, Prime Latino Media. The Association of Latin Entertainment Critics of New York honored Isabel Santos with the Latin ACE Award for Best Actress in VESTIDO DE NOVIA (His Wedding Dress). The evening concluded with a splendid gala reception.
HFFNY16 Tribute to Isabel Santos: Latin ACE Award winner Isabel
Santos, right, and cinematographer Rafael Solis (Isabel’s Husband)
VESTIDO DE NOVIA.
HFFNY16 Tribute to Isabel Santos Gala Reception: (L-R) HFFNY
artistic director Diana Vargas and Cuban film archives director/author
Luciano Castillo, La Biblia del Cinefilo.
It is finally here! The official selection of the 69th Festival De Cannes was announced at a press conference this morning and the expectations are set high for this year's Competition with names like Xavier Dolan, Jim Jarmusch, Alain Guiraudie, the Dardenne bros, Pedro Almodovar, Andrea Arnold and Ken Loach among the directors who will compete next month for the Palm D' Or.
Here is the full list of films in Competition, Un Certain Regard, Midnight and Special Screenings.
IN COMPETITION
Opening Film
Woody ALLEN (USA)
CAFÉ SOCIETY
Out of Comp.
Maren ADE (Germany)
TONI ERDMANN
Pedro ALMODÓVAR (Spain)
JULIETA
Andrea ARNOLD (United-Kingdom)
AMERICAN HONEY
Olivier ASSAYAS (France)
PERSONAL SHOPPER
Jean-Pierre DARDENNE, Luc DARDENNE (Belgium)
LA FILLE INCONNUE
Xavier DOLAN (Canada)
JUSTE LA FIN DU MONDE
(IT'S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD)
Bruno DUMONT (France)
MA LOUTE
(SLACK BAY)
Nicole GARCIA (France)
MAL DE PIERRES
Alain GUIRAUDIE (France)
RESTER VERTICAL
Jim JARMUSCH (USA)
PATERSON
Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO (Brazil)
AQUARIUS
Ken LOACH (United-Kingdom)
I, DANIEL BLAKE
Brillante MENDOZA (Philippines)
MA' ROSA
Cristian MUNGIU (Romania)
BACALAUREAT
Jeff NICHOLS (USA)
LOVING
PARK Chan-Wook (South Korea)
AGASSI
(THE HANDMAIDEN)
Sean PENN (USA)
THE LAST FACE
Cristi PUIU (Romania)
SIERANEVADA
Paul VERHOEVEN (Netherlands)
ELLE
Nicolas WINDING REFN (Denmark)
THE NEON DEMON
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Behnam BEHZADI (Iran)
VAROONEGI
(INVERSION)
BOO Junfeng (Singapore)
APPRENTICE
Delphine COULIN, Muriel COULIN (France)
VOIR DU PAYS
(THE STOPOVER)
Stéphanie DI GIUSTO (France)
LA DANSEUSE
(THE DANCER)
1st film
Mohamed DIAB (Egypt)
ESHTEBAK
(CLASH)
Michael DUDOK DE WIT (Netherlands)
LA TORTUE ROUGE
(RED TURTLE)
1st film
FUKADA Kôji (Japan)
FUCHI NI TATSU
(HARMONIUM)
Maha HAJ (Israel)
OMOR SHAKHSIYA
(PERSONAL AFFAIRS)
1st film
Eran KOLIRIN (Israel)
ME’EVER LAHARIM VEHAGVAOT
(BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS AND HILLS)
KORE-EDA Hirokazu (Japan)
AFTER THE STORM
Juho KUOSMANEN (Finland)
HYMYILEVÄ MIES
(THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI)
1st film
Francisco MÁRQUEZ, Andrea TESTA (Argentina)
LA LARGA NOCHE DE FRANCISCO SANCTIS
(FRANCISCO SANCTIS'S LONG NIGHT)
1st film
Bogdan MIRICA (Romania)
CAINI
(DOGS)
1st film
Stefano MORDINI (Italy)
PERICLE IL NERO
Michael O’SHEA (USA)
THE TRANSFIGURATION
1st film
Matt ROSS (USA)
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV (Russia)
UCHENIK
(THE STUDENT)
OUT OF COMPETITION
Shane BLACK (USA)
THE NICE GUYS
Jodie FOSTER (USA)
MONEY MONSTER
NA Hong-Jin (South Korea)
GOKSUNG
Steven SPIELBERG (USA)
DISNEY’S THE BFG
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Jim JARMUSCH (USA)
GIMME DANGER
YEON Sang-Ho (South Korea)
BU-SAN-HAENG
(TRAIN TO BUSAN)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Thanos ANASTOPOULOS (Greece)
Davide DEL DEGAN (Italy)
L'ULTIMA SPIAGGIA
(THE LAST RESORT)
Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN (Chad)
HISSEIN HABRÉ, UNE TRAGÉDIE TCHADIENNE
(HISSEIN HABRÉ, A CHADIAN TRAGEDY)
Rithy PANH (Cambodia)
EXIL
Albert SERRA (Spain)
LA MORT DE LOUIS XIV
(LAST DAYS OF LOUIS XIV)
Paul VECCHIALI (France)
LE CANCRE
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Premier Urban/Minority/Diverse LGBT(Q)I(A) Film Festival For All Pride Colors In The Spectrum. Founded and presented annually since 2016. Year-round programming, screenings, filmmaking institute (geared towards developing new screenwriters, filmmakers and actors), panels and parties.
Urban Rainbow Film Festival celebrates all forms of domestic and international quality films made by and/or starring Urban/Minority LGBT(Q)I(A) Community Members as part of our mission to break the stigma and stereotyping worldwide.
We are developing a high quality festival that becomes independent again after trying the adventure of Rothschild villa, owned by the city of Cannes that has been available for AVIFF for free in 2015 due to a decision of the culture service of the municipality, that we thank in passing, but inappropriate for this kind of event. The place although classified and splendid is not suitable for our festival and is located too far away from La Croisette.
This edition 2016 will see the AVIFF in the center of the city and facing the sea, near the port of Cannes.
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The largest festival in South Texas, the 22nd San Antonio Film Festival garners extensive local media attention and rave reviews. Industry and community leaders champion the festival for its diverse and exciting program. SAFILM has a strong reputation for uncovering cinematic treasures every year with an amazing lineup of narrative, animation, documentary and experimental shorts and even features.
Former SAFILM Alumni often remark how the SAFILM was the springboard to success, and even seasoned filmmakers love the warmth and opportunities SAFILM yields! Director Alonso Mayo said, "Lou Taylor Pucci, Seth Green and I had one of our best festival experiences in San Antonio. The Texas crowd was simply incredible. Thanks SAFILM!" The San Antonio Film Festival is still grassroots — but recognized as the place to find the newest talent. THE 2016 SAN ANTONIO FILM FESTIVAL RUNS FROM July 26-31, 2016.
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The Fan Boy Film Festival is an interactive online film festival that connects filmmakers with fans and other filmmakers.
Fan Boy Film Festival accepts features, documentaries, shorts, student films, web series, trailers, music videos and original trailers in the following genres: science fiction, drama, comedy, fantasy, horror, action, animation, superhero, fan film, fandom related genres and many more.
The founders of the Fan Boy Film Festival are progressive thinkers who understand the filmmaker mindset. Their goal is to streamline the festival experience for both filmmakers and fans.
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Celebrating recent winners at international festivals (from October 2015 onwards) and festival directors attending the Animation Day in Cannes
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Through the art of film, we celebrate the richness, diversity and creativity of storytelling for the cultural enrichment, progression and education of communities worldwide.
Each year the International Black Film Festival (IBFF) invites filmmakers from all over the globe to submit their projects to be considered as an “official selection” during the festival. Judges select films to be screened to a energetic festival participants. Filmmakers take advantage of the opportunity to interact with the audience and share their personal journey about their film project via Q&A sessions and networking events.
Awards are given in the following categories: Best Documentary, Best Short, Best Feature, Best Animation, Best of the Festival, Audience Choice, Best International Film, Honorable Mention, Best Faith-Based Film, Best Student Film, Best Web Series, Best of Tennessee.
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The 12th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival and Film Conference/Film Market, scheduled for August 11-20, 2016 at the world famous TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, is now accepting submissions. (www.withoutabox.com/login/4655) HSFF, 4 times named to MovieMaker Magazine “Top 25 Fests Worth the Entry Fee” lists, has featured over 400 projects showcasing stars and filmmakers including Sofia Loren, Bill Plympton, Anthony and Joe Russo, and Felicia Day.
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Our focus remains on independent cinema from all around the globe, by showcasing the work of first feature filmmakers and female directors in our two main sections, First Features and The Female Perspective, respectively.
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FRAMES, FICCI’s Media & Entertainment conclave, attracts 20 countries
FRAMES is big. There is no M&E (Media and Entertainment) event in the country bigger than FRAMES. For many years now, the venue is the idyllic hotel in Mumbai’s lake-district, and the only thing wrong with the location is the distance that many attendees have to cover to get there. To those unfortunate visitors who live either at the southern end of the island or the outer suburbs in the north, it could be a two-hour journey, one-way. For those coming from other cities or other countries, this is a non-issue. Delegates include speakers, exhibitors, country partners and industry professionals. Among them are many NRI friends, who travel from the USA or Europe and meet me only at this event, year after year. Every year, there is at least one country partner, and in 2016, it was Turkey.
‘Change or Perish – The Year of Digital’ was the theme running through the conclave, which was fine, but there was no need to keep drumming it ad nauseam. FICCI always invites a Union Minister for the inauguration, and this time it was Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, holding the Communications & Information Technology portfolios. He set the tone by remarking, “India’s talent combined with the power of Information Technology would act as a springboard to launch India into the big league.”
Mr. Prasad said that the Government of India recognised the importance and relevance of promoting the media and entertainment industry. Hence, visa processes were being eased for film shootings. Besides the National Centre of Excellence was coming up for the M&E industry and a new film facilitation office was also being set up. The Minister said that for government campaigns like Make in India, Skill India, Digital India and Smart Cities, ‘digital’ was the foundation. He added that to bridge the digital divide in the country, there was a need for empowering India, digitally.
Mr. Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries Ltd., was also present at the inaugural and stressed that India was poised to become a $100 billion industry in the coming decade, but still ranked 150th, in access to internet and mobile. Mr. Uday Shankar, Chairman, FICCI Media & Entertainment Committee, & CEO, Star India, said that India cannot remain in a state of denial, as the world was changing, and it was time India adopted and embraced digitisation. “Power of stories will remain, and breaking away from the traditional media, the digital media was making way for new stories,” he added. Dr. A. Didar Singh, Secretary General, FICCI, said that this year delegations from almost 20 countries were participating in FICCI FRAMES.
The Government of India is making a conscious effort to move towards less regulation of the media and entertainment industry, and is encouraging auto regulation by industry,” said Mr. Sunil Arora, Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, at a keynote session on ‘Making India a Global M&E Hub’. Mr. Arora said that the industry had time and again raised the issue of ‘clearances’, hence the government was easing and liberalising the process of security clearances, to allow greater flexibility for the film fraternity. Speaking about the FM radio station licence auctions, he said after the successful auction last year, a new set of rules have been submitted to the Cabinet, for the next phase of FM radio auctions.
Underlining the challenges for making India a global M&E hub, Mr. Arora said that the theatre density (number of cinemas in relation to the population) of the country left a lot to be desired (India has 9,000-10,000 cinemas only, a poor comparison to many other nations). There was a need to increase the number of theatres in the country. On the taxation side, he said that the levies would be rationalised automatically once the GST is in place.
In an all-star session, ‘Change or Perish: Surviving the Digital Divide’, the luminaries on stage were Mr. Aroon Purie, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief, The India Today Group; Mr. Arthur Bastings, President and Managing Director, Discovery Asia-Pacific; Mr. Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO, Viacom18; Mr. Siddharth Roy Kapur, Managing Director, Disney India; Mr. Vikram Chandra, Executive Director & CEO, NDTV Group and Mr. Neeraj Roy, CEO, Hungama
Mr. Bastings commented that in the digital sector, the players were still looking for a way to drive the emerging medium. Business plans were still evolving. He added that the consumption measurement system of television was bad, and there was a need for a better and more reliable method. Mr. Vats reminded us that, on the digital platform, it was easier to measure and gauge the number of actual users, track the content consumption and pattern of consumer behaviour, in comparison to traditional media, like television, where the consumer behaviour was based on a small sample of consumers. Speaking on the relevance of the big screen in the era of emerging digital platforms, Mr. Kapur, whose company makes mainly film content, was of the opinion that cinema was being consumed on small screens, but big screens will continue to exist. However, the type of content will play a critical role while audience will decide to choose a medium to watch a movie.
Last year, FRAMES started Frame Your Idea (FYI) for those with a creative spark and the burning desire to achieve success in celluloid but no access to makers. Across the three days of FYI, over 2700 meetings were held between 300 writers/idea owners and over 70 producers/studios/broadcasters. Panellists included an international who’s who: Rajkumar Hirani Films, Dharma Productions (Karan Johar), Rohit Shetty Productions, Disney Films, Drishyam Films, Salman Khan Films, Film Karavan Shemaroo Entertainment, Fox Star Studio, Tips Industries, Eros, Viacom18 Motion Pictures, John Abraham Productions, Kabir Khan Films (Kabir had a Master Class too, with Vidhu Vinod Chopra), Macguffin Pictures, Phantom Films, Vishesh Films(Mahesh Bhatt), BBC Worldwide India Phantom Films, Star Plus, ZEE TV, Cartoon Network , Shemaroo Entertainment, Nickelodeon and more.
Besides Kabir Khan (director Phantom, Bajrangi Bhaijan, Ek Tha Tiger, Kabul Express, New York), Asif Kapadia, the England-based 2016 Oscar winner for Amy (Best Documentary, also Britain’s highest grossing documentary ever) and the maker of F1 racing driver Ayrton Senna’s biopic, also had a master class. With family origins in Gujarat, 44 year-old Kapadia was born and educated in England. Speaking at 200 words per minute (beyond 180 is almost incomprehensible) , he came across a gifted, albeit proud, film- maker who admires Alfred Hitchcock, hates rules and is not crazy about technology. He also did not take too kindly to my observation that there was too much movement in his films, of people as well as vehicles. Likewise, a couple of speakers dealing with the topic of Indian sports on TV weren’t really excited about my scepticism about coverage and commentary of kabbadi, based on memories of my days at ESPN, Singapore.
Attendance at FRAMES 2016 was low overall, and quite a few of those present came only to network, not to attend any sessions. One reason for the low turnout could be the shift in dates. Over the last few years, the event has moved from the third week of March to the end of the month. Many regulars who have been blocking their calendars based on previous editions were unable to adjust their schedules to match the staggered dates. Though unaffected by this shift, personally, I had three points as feedback: fewer sessions than before are a welcome development, rather than the earlier obsession with cramping 10-12 sessions into a day; with time, budgets should increase, rather than tighten, as was felt this year; management should be more efficient and friendlier, than evidenced in 2016.
The Istanbul Chamber of Commerce and Tourism led a delegation to promote collaboration in the Cinema and Television sectors, between India and Turkey. Companies participating in the delegation were Ayyapim, Kadraj, Kanal 7, Outline Ajans, Pana Film, Tac Medya, TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation) and ULKE TV. His Excellency, Mr. Burak Akçapar, the Turkish Ambassador to India, later announced, “Turkey is predicting content exports of USD 20 million to India by 2018." Feriha (original title Adini Feriha Koydum), a Turkish TV programme currently being beamed on Zee Zindagi, reportedly has a viewership of 36 million/week. The series, which had a 67-episode run in Turkey that ended in January 2016, is about a young, beautiful girl from a lower middle class family, named Feriha. Her father is a janitor in an upper-class neighbourhood of Istanbul, while her mother is a house-keeper. Feriha gets a scholarship and joins a private university. There, she feigns being a rich girl. As it happens, she meets a handsome, rich boy called Emir Sarrafoğlu. Then, ...catch it on TV.
All said and done, the lingering memories of FICCI FRAMES 2016 include the faces of the beautiful women from the Turkish delegation, and the tasty balaclava and nuts they distributed to a select sample. Feriha might have mixed responses, but everybody is nuts about balaclava.
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Cinema City International Film Festival invites filmmakers from all across the globe to apply for the Up to 10,000 Bucks selection. This selection is one of the most appealing festival programs which presents films made with no budget or with a budget of less than USD 10,000. Thanks to this authentic program, every year festival goers have a beautiful chance to enjoy unique low-budget auteur films from all over the world.
The Festival will take into consideration only films released in 2015 and 2016 with a budget of up to USD 10,000. The call will be open until the 5th of May, and anyone wishing to apply can do so by filling out the form the following link: http://eng.cinemacity.org/upto10000/
For the last eight years, the Up to 10,000 Bucks program has been offering a creative mosaic of diverse ideas, forms and cultures marked by the contemporaneity and its challenges. The program presents feature films, documentaries, animated films, student and experimental films, all bound by the courageous venture of talented artists who are capable of creating a magnificent piece of art in spite of the lack of the financial assets.
The ninth edition of the Festival will be held in June in Novi Sad at a unique location – the new creative quarter comprised of Chinatown and Limanski Park, offering an extraordinary festival experience through an innovative program and a truly attractive festival location. Following its previous tradition, the Cinema City will present the carefully chosen films and young film talents from the country and the world who certainly shape and influence the future of film art.
See you @ #cinemacity2016!
Edinburgh International Film Festival is delighted to announce that the much anticipated remake of the iconic Scottish comedy Whisky Galore! will close the 70th edition of the festival on Sunday 26th June 2016.
Inspired by Sir Compton Mackenzie’s 1947 novel, Whisky Galore! is written by award-winning screenwriter Peter McDougall and based on the true story of a shipwreck off the coast of Eriskay of a ship sailing for America with a cargo of export-only alcohol during World War II. The Scottish islanders, in the midst of a wartime drought of whisky, are determined to take advantage of an unexpected windfall despite opposition from the local Home Guard Captain.
Shot on location entirely in Scotland, Whisky Galore! features a fantastic ensemble cast of well-known Scottish actors, including Gregor Fisher (Love Actually), James Cosmo (Braveheart), Kevin Guthrie (Sunset Song), and Sean Biggerstaff (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), while also starring is Eddie Izzard (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian) playing the uptight Home Guard, Captain Waggett. The film also introduces new talents Naomi Battrick and Ellie Kendrick.
Director Gillies Mackinnon said: “I am delighted that Whisky Galore! will close the Edinburgh International Film Festival. This feels like the perfect and most appropriate world premiere for a film which is the remake of a Scottish film classic.” Producer Iain Maclean adds: “I remember watching the film many times, as a child growing up on the Hebrides, on television and of course in black and white. It’s wonderful to bring Sir Compton Mackenzie's story about whisky and the islanders to a new generation of film fans through this year’s EIFF.”
Artistic Director Mark Adams said: “We are absolutely delighted to be staging the world premiere of Whisky Galore! as closing night of this year’s festival. It is a delightful adaptation of a much-loved classic and will wrap up our 70th edition in memorable style.”
Whisky Galore! is produced by Iain Maclean and Alan J Wands.
From original press release - edited by Martin I. Petrov
By Maria Esteves – April 18, 2016
The 15thTribeca Film Festival 2016 (TFF16) First Annual Whoopi’s Shorts Program introduced by festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal commenced Sunday, April 17, at the Tribeca Festival Hub in New York. The eight captivating films that inaugurated the animated shorts program were Fear, directed by Dawn Dreyer and Andrea Love; I am a Pencil (Je suis un crayon), directed by Joe D’Arcy; The Loneliest Stoplight, directed by Bill Plympton; Lucens, directed by Marcel Barelli; The Orchestra, directed by Mikey Hill; Shiny, directed by Daniel Cloud Campos; The Short Story of the Fox and a Mouse, directed by Camille Chaix; and Violet, directed by Maurice Joyce, narrated by Aidan Gillen.
The Q&A session immediately followed curated by Whoopi Goldberg with director Mikey Hill, co-writer Jennifer Smith, The Orchestra; crew member Will, The Loneliest Stoplight; directors Dawn Dreyer and Andrea Love, Fear; director Maurice Joyce, Violet (http://bcove.me/ttam2j4p); directors Joe and Carol D’Arcy, I am a Pencil. Questions posed to filmmakers by Goldberg included: "Why did you make this film? Where did the idea come from? How did this collaboration came?"
TFF16 First Annual Whoopi’s Shorts: (L-R) directors Joe and Carol D’Arcy, I am a Pencil,
director Maurice Joyce, Violet, director Andrea Love and Dawn Dreyer, Fear.
Tribeca Film Festival 2016 hosted New York filmmakers at the Welcome Party
Photograph: © Mustafa ÖNDER, mustafaonder.com
IFFBoston is more than just a spring festival. For more than 13 years, it has grown into the best way to experience independent film in, around, and about Boston.
It starts with the main hosting venues. The Somerville, Brattle, and Coolidge Corner Theatres are the premier independent cinemas in the area, each with their own niche of iconic offerings that make them destination moviehouses throughout the year. These range from retrospective series at the Brattle, to the Science on Screen and Sounds of Silents events at the Coolidge, to live performances at Somerville.
Beyond the week of the Festival, IFFB hosts special screenings showcasing recent Festival favorites or new off-season Festival-worthy films. For example, in 2015, IFFB year-round fans had the chance to see a preview screening of Room, with an Academy-Award-winning performance from Brie Larson, before its widespread theatrical release.
Of course, there is also the flagship IFFB event, eight days of films and friends, panels and parties each spring.
Some newcomers will happen by a marquee or a queue, be intrigued, and see a show. Others might arrive seeking out a particular film. Those folks have a nice time, happy to be in an area where such artistic outlets exist.
Then there are those that indulge in a weekend or the whole week-plus-long event. These folks gorge themselves on a half-dozen, dozen, or perhaps dozen-and-a-half narratives, documentaries, panels, and/or slates of shorts. A fantastic cinematic splurge, but doing it only once misses out on the real strength of IFFBoston.
Like a great movie that you find more depth from with additional viewings, IFFBoston is best experienced over time. Film fans that discover the festival mark their calendars for its return. The growing crowd of familiar faces adds to the flavor of the event for returnees. Because of its prestige in the region, IFFB is a magnet for artists and films with ties to Boston and, more broadly, New England. Wherever their home, filmmakers that come once look forward to coming back. This collective through-line allows the festival’s frequent flyers to see directors interpret new material, watch performers mining new characters, witness documentarians tackling a new subject, and relive their own nostalgic journeys through local and personal history.
Some of the more recent examples of these through-lines:
IFFB Opening Night veterans had the chance to see James Ponsoldt – the first two-time director of an IFFB opener – handle two different kinds of relationships. First, the Miles Teller / Shailene Woodley led coming-of-age tale, The Spectacular Now (IFFB 2013) – also with Brie Larson. Then, the Jason Segel / Jesse Eisenberg portrayal of the interaction between novelist David Foster Wallace and Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky in The End of the Tour (IFFB 2015).
Joshua Oppenheimer’s devastatingly unforgettable, and Oscar-nominated, documentary The Act of Killing (IFFB 2013) explored the 1965 Indonesian genocide through unprecedentedly revealing interviews. Release of this footage uncovered information that rippled through a family’s history, giving rise to a cinematic coda in IFFB 2015’s follow-up, The Look of Silence.
Actor/writer/producer Brit Marling is a multi-year IFFB veteran, with 2011’s Another Earth and 2013’s The East, that had a multi-film return in 2015 with appearances in both The Keeping Room and Posthumous. The math geek in me wonders if this is an elaborate biennial Fibonacci sequence that will have her return again with a three-film effort in 2017 and five appearances at IFFB 2019. But that’s probably just me.
Along with Marling’s IFFB debut in 2011, Mark Sandman, the late frontman of Boston-based international indie-rock legends, Morphine, had his story told in Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story. Four years later, 2015’s Morphine: Journey of Dreams took a fresh look at the band’s arc through the eyes of the surviving band members and their peers.
Long-time fans of Boston culture could continue the walk down memory lane with a trio of films in the recent past.
2015’s I Am What I Play remembers the peak era of rock radio (‘60s-‘80s) through the eyes, ears, and anecdotes of four iconic DJs: Toronto’s Dave Marsden, New York’s Meg Griffin, Seattle’s Pat O’Day, and Boston’s own Charles Laquidara – who famously took over on WBCN for Peter Wolf when Wolf left to be the voice of The J. Geils Band.
A more targeted timeframe was covered by 2014’s Life on the V: the Story of V66, which charted the meteoric rise and demise of the mid-‘80s Boston-area music video UHF channel, V66. (For readers under 30, UHF channels were the ones on the second dial of TVs, back when TVs had dials. For readers under 20, ask Siri what a “dial” is.)
Whenever he has a new film, local-kid-made-good Bobcat Goldthwait brings it to the IFFBoston audience. It’s hard to imagine that he could bring a more personal film than Call Me Lucky (IFFB 2015). In the 1980s, Boston was a focal point for several aspects of the American zeitgeist. Among them: music, ice cream, and comedy. The prior several films bear witness to the important of music in the area. Call Me Lucky explores the life of Barry Crimmins, perhaps the strongest driving force of the Boston comedy scene at the time. Crimmins was a mentor and protector for many comedians that launched from Boston to broader national appeal, including Goldthwait himself (whose nickname is a kind of homage to Crimmins). For all his influence on comedy, the circumstances of his life gave Crimmins’ public life a second act of real and lasting impact for society at large. Somehow, Call Me Lucky is able to tell two otherwise distinct stories in the same film because they are two facets of the life of a single man and each might not happen without the other. Yet without this film, it might be easy for some to forget that both of these very different stories involve the same impassioned individual, if they ever knew it at all.
IFFBoston is woven into the fabric of Boston. If you haven’t been to the Festival, you should go for the experience. If you have been before, you should go again to see the new threads that are added and become a part of the fabric of Boston yourself.
The 14th edition of the Independent Film Festival Boston runs from April 27 – May 4, 2016. Details can be found at iffboston.org.
Bande Annonce TV Festival de Cannes 2016
TFI Interactive, with the support of the Ford Foundation, assembles the brightest thinkers and innovators for an all-day forum that explores storytelling in the digital age. The Interactive Playground connects participants with a selection of groundbreaking projects.
During TFI Interactive, participants come together to explore how the evolving digital world is impacting their industries and the art of storytelling. Key speakers and skilled media artists give a series of short talks to inspire ideas and collaborations. The day aim to encourage participants to challenge existing filmmaking standards and to embrace digital in this ever-evolving field.
Photographs: © Mustafa ÖNDER, mustafaonder.com
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Divines - Houda Benyamina
Dog Eat Dog - Paul Schrader
Fai Bei Sogni - Marco Bellocchio
Fiore - Claudio Giovannesi
L’Économie du couple - Joachim Lafosse
L’Effet aquatique - Sólveig Anspach
La Pazza Gioia - Paolo Virzì
Les Vies de Thérèse - Sébastien Lifshitz
Ma vie de courgette - Claude Barras
Mean Dreams - Nathan Morlando
Mercenaire - Sacha Wolff
Neruda - Pablo Larraín
Poesía Sin Fin - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Raman Raghav 2.0 - Anurag Kashyap
Risk - Laura Poitras
Tour de France - Rachid Djaïdani
Two Lovers and a Bear - Kim Nguyen
Wolf and Sheep - Shahrbanoo Sadat
Abigail - Isabel Penoni and Valentina Homem
Chasse Royale - Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret
Decorado - Alberto Vazquez
Habat Shel Hakala - Tamar Rudoy
Happy End - Jan Saska
Hitchhiker - Jero Yun
Import - Ena Sendijarevic
Kindil el Bahr - Damien Ounouri
Léthé - Dea Kulumbegashvili
Listening to Beethoven - Garri Bardine
Zvir - Miroslav Sikavica
7 films selected out of 1 100 screened
Charles Tesson, the Artistic Director of La Semaine de la Critique, comments the 2016 selection. La Semaine de la Critique supports emerging talents with a programme of 10 first and second features, along with 15 short and mid-length films. With seventeen countries represented, this 55th selection explores new territories, namely Asia and the Middle East. This 50+5 edition reveals new talents conveying atypical universes and is marked by the strong comeback of comedy.
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