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> Fantasporto Feb 27 - March 7

The Fantasporto Jury

Pseudonym (first feature) in competition at Fantasporto

Some former discoveries at Fantasporto

Industry Guests attending Fantasporto 2015 - 16 world Premieres

Fantasporto 2015 Full Program

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Last few days to submit to Sydney Film Festival
3-14 June 2015

Deadline: Friday 27 February 2015

Sydney Film Festival hosts a number of awards to recognise excellence in filmmaking, including the Official Competition (open to innovative features worldwide, with a $60,000 cash prize), the Dendy <https://www.facebook.com/DendyAU>Awards for Australian Short Films ($5,000 prizes for Best Director, Best Fiction, Best Animation and Best Screenplay), and the $10,000 Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentary.

Submit at: www.filmfestivallife.com/Sydney-Film-Festival <http://www.filmfestivallife.com/Sydney-Film-Festival>

The 16th Golden Trailer Awards
May 6th, 2015

Submit by march 16th
Movie trailers play an increasingly important role in entertaining us and helping us determine where to spend our leisure time. The best trailers are works of art in their own right, expertly blending elements of cinema and advertising.

Each year through an open competition judged by film industry notables, the Golden Trailer Awards recognize the creative people who make movie trailers, and the best examples of their unique art, in a gala award show.

Trailers must be under 4 minutes and 30 seconds long (no exceptions). Trailers/Teasers/TV spots/Video Game Trailers must be created between April 11th, 2014 through March 16th, 2015. For SUMMER 2015 BLOCKBUSTER (Film RELEASE date between May 7th, 2015 until September 7th, 2015)... Rules for Entry GTA2015

Entry FAQs GTA2015 I Entry Prices GTA2015 I Category List GTA2015 I SUBMIT

Golden Trailer Awards's blog I Website: http://goldentrailer.com/

Manchester International Film Festival
July 10 - 12, 2015

Submit by March 5, 2015

The Manchester International Film Festival has been founded to become an annual event to showcase strong and inventive film-making from around the globe. Running alongside the established and world renowned Manchester International Festival, which brings over 200,000 people to the city, the inaugural Manchester International Film Festival will take place across 2 screens at the AMC Cinema in the Great Northern Warehouse and various original and cool venues in and around the vibrant and creative city of Manchester.

The organisations quest is to champion great story telling that translates brilliantly onto screen through works from Up-and-coming writers, directors and producers, along with established industry professionals. SUBMIT via filmfreeway and withoutabox

Manchester International Film Festival's blog I Website: http://www.maniff.com/

The Montreal World Film Festival
August 27, September 7

The regulations and entry forms to submit a film to the 2015 edition of the MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL are available for download. Please follow the links to get a copy.
- 2015 REGULATIONS
- ENTRY FORM FOR THE 2015 MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
- ENTRY FORM FOR THE 2015 CANADIAN STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL

Click to submit your film

The Montreal World Film Festival's blog I Website http://www.ffm-montreal.org/

Oaxaca FilmFest 6
October 9-17, 2015

We are passionately committed to providing audiences around The Globe with an excellent entertainment experience simply by introducing them to Great Film.

SUBMIT NOW

Oaxaca Film Fest's blog I Website http://www.oaxacafilmfest.com/

Hollyshorts
August 13-22, 2015

The 11th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival and Film Conference/Film Market, scheduled for August 13-22, 2015 at the world famous TCL Chinese Theatre and Roosevelt Hotel, is now accepting submissions. (www.withoutabox.com/login/4655) 2014 HSFF, 3 times named to MovieMaker Magazine “Top 25 Fests Worth the Entry Fee” lists, featured over 400 projects showcasing stars and filmmakers including Sofia Loren, Bill Plympton, Anthony and Joe Russo, and Felicia Day. HSFF awarded over $150,000 in prizes, including $50,000 in post services courtesy of COMPANY 3 and METHOD STUDIOS for Best Short, Director, Music Video, Cinematography, VFX, and Commercial. Shorts HD distribution deals for winners and Final Draft prizes for Screenplay Contest winners.

HollyShorts.com/submissions: www.withoutabox.com/login/4655

Screenplays: www.withoutabox.com/login/12900

Hollyshorts's blog I Website http://hollyshorts.com/

Le MIAFF ANIMAZE Montreal International Animation Film Festival
April 16 – 19, 2015

Submit by march 6

Le MIAFF (April 16 – 19, 2015) is a Montreal-based international animation film festival providing a showcase for animators and animation producers to showcase and market their works.

Le MIAFF provides an animation industry conference, workshops for animators, producers network, cocktail networking and ANIMAZE DAYS international co-production incentive. For independent filmmakers festival strategy workshops.
Taking place during The City of Montreal Printemps Numerique (Digital Spring) Le MIAFF will also facilitate and curate works and subjects pertaining to digital arts.
Expect news to unfold, great guest and films to be screened. Motivational guest speakers, teachers and master classes. Taking place on site at Concordia state of the art Hall Theatre which just completed a 3.5 million dollar state of the art screening room.
The festival will screen animation features, shorts and experimental film. Industry conferences, panels and international co-productions will be facilitated. Workshops on the state of the art(s). Public film festival screening, panels and educational platform for children. A student film contest challenge from all graduate level animation film schools across the province of Quebec and Canada.
Submit

Animaze - Montreal International Animation Film Festival's blog I Website: http://animazefestival.com/

> FILMS IN FOCUS

For festival consideration

Pseudonym, for festival consideration

First feature by french actor director Thierry Seban. Produced by la Petite Reine (The Artist) and Diabolo Films (The Suicide Shop).
Synopsis: Alex is a divorced father, a stressed executive. His daily routine is work, work, work. Tonight he's in a hurry, he's due to meet a beautiful young stranger... who contacted him via the internet. But this blind date will flip him into a downward spiral and disrupt forever the course of his life. Thriller, 75 min., Scope, Dolby 5.1 Directed by Thierry Sebban Starring: Simon Abkarian, Igor Skreblin, Perrine Tourneux... Email us for a screener

February Selection of Films for your consideration

PRICE OF LOVE - Ethiopian Film Premiering At International Film Festivals

PRICE OF LOVE A Film By Hermon Hailay Set To Make It’s World Premiere in Competition In FESPACO, Burkina Faso, February 28-March 7 (Hermon is One of Only 3 Female Directors In Competition out of 20) Followed By European Premiere In Competition At Films de Femmes, Paris, March 13-22 PRICE OF LOVE, the third feature from leading Ethiopian director Hermon Hailay, produced by Max Conil, will make its World Premiere in competition at the Panafrican Film and T...

Pseudonym selected as North America Premiere at Houston Worldfest

Coming this April... The 48th WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. Its the 48th annual event of WorldFest-Houston, and this year is packed with 10 Great Days of 50 award-winning Indie Films, 111 great Short Films, and 550 Indie filmmakers from around the globe. Come see the rising stars of film from the festival that discovered Spielberg, George Lucas, Ang Lee, Francis Ford Coppola, Randal Kleiser, Oliver Stone, John Lee Hancock, The Coen Bros and hund...

Rooted in Peace by Greg Reitman has its world premiere at Sedona International Film Festival

Showing the BEST in independent film from around the world: February 21 - March 1, 2015. ROOTED IN PEACE SCREENINGS AT THE 2015 SEDONA FILM FESTIVAL Rooted in Peace will have its World Premiere: Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 9:10am - The Harkins Theatre, Sedona, AZ Friday, February 27th at 3:00pm – Mary D Fisher Theatre, Sedona, AZ From features to shorts, documentaries to animation and foreign films to student films, you will be treated to a cinephile’s dream ... NI...

Women making film is a radical act, Panels and networking during Berlinale

Large Turn-out for the "Get NetWorked Up" Symposium about Women in the Film Industry and Their Networks at the Berlin International Film Festival 2015. Just three of the 23 films at this year's film competition in Berlin were made by women film directors, that's 13%. Speaking in his opening address at the "Get NetWorked Up" event on 12 February 2015, Dr Ralf Kleindiek – State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women a...

Best Short Film Competition - EVER!

Best short film competition - EVER!! The winning filmmaker wins up to $25,000 to shoot one of the top 10 scripts. Winning writer receives up to $10,000 for their short script! Writers judge filmmakers and filmmakers judge writers. It’s that simple! We fund you to collaborate. The writers review films and decide the best filmmaker. The filmmakers read scripts and decide the top 10 scripts. The winning filmmaker selects one of the top 10 scripts to shoot and we fund the production. The sc...

Edge Entertainment secures Sundance Winner

Edge Entertainment returns from the EFM in Berlin with a new acquisition, the Grand Jury Prize winner The Wolfpack. The Wolfpack (Magnolia Pictures International) directed by Crystal Moselle follows the Angulo brothers who have lived locked away from society in an apartment on Manhattan, creating elaborate sets and props inspired by their favorite films. The Wolfpack won the Grand Jury Prize in the US Documentary Section at Sundance 2015. Edge has acquired The Wolfpack for Scandina...

> OSCAR TIME

Birdman Top Winner at the 87th Academy Awards

By Maria Esteves – February 25, 2015 The 87th Academy Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S.) for outstanding film achievements of 2014, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris was held at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre & Highland Center, televised live on ABC Network and in over 220 countries Sunday, February 22, 2015. Four Oscars went to Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) including Best Picture and Best Director ALEJANDRO G. IÑ&Aacut...

CITIZENFOUR A Film by Laura Poitras WINS THE 2015 OSCAR® FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY

Laura Poitras' landmark documentary CITIZENFOUR has won both the Academy Award® and the Indie Spirit Award, thus cementing its status as the most critically acclaimed and honored documentary of the year, and one of the most talked-about films of 2014.

The 2015 Oscars, By Adrienne Papp

By Adrienne Papp The Oscars have been handed out, the corks on the champagne bottles have been popped, the winners are all sleeping off their hangovers, and the movie industry has put a wrap on the 2015 Oscars. On Sunday night during the 87th Academy Awards broadcast shown on ABC, “Birdman” took home Best Picture and Best Director prizes on an Oscar night filled with passionate political speeches. At evening’s end, &...

87th Academy Award Winners

BEST PICTURE WINNER BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole, Producers NOMINEES AMERICAN SNIPER Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan, Producers BOYHOOD Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland, Producers ...

Kristen Stewart won a Best Supporting Actress César Award for her role in "Clouds Of Sils Maria" by Olivier Assayas.

She was the first American actress ever nominated in the category. Kristen Stewart AP/SIPA All the videos of the César Awards are available here: http://bit.ly/Cesar2015-Videos ...

> THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT

Year 11 Comes to a Close!

Year 11 Comes to a Close! With fantastic weather, outstanding attendance numbers by both fans and filmmakers, and a programming lineup of 114 unique short films, The Dam Short Film Festival finished its 11th season in great form. Over three hundred people packed the historic Boulder Theatre for the Best of the Fest Award Screening, and everyone had a great time at the Filmmaker Meet-n-Greet, 11th Dam Mixer, and the Post Awards Party! At The Dam Short Film Festival, the audience chooses the ...

5th edition Arab Women's Film Festival, 6-8 March 2015

Arab Women’s Film Festival 2015 5th edition 6 – 8 March 2015 The Arab Women’s Film Festival celebrates its 5th anniversary with an intensive program, starting Friday the 6th of March, ending Sunday the 8th in the Hague! This festival, the only one of its kind in Europe, aims to give a more nuanced view of the stuggle for emancipation of Arab women. Whether they live in Europe, the Arab world, or far beyond. This year, the central theme will be The mother...

VELOBerlin Film Award 2015

The online vote has begun! Giving bicycle culture a frame. www.veloberlinfilmaward.com The international online award for short films about cycling, the VELOBerlin Film Award, has just kicked off its third round. Until the 21st of März 2015, 18 nominated shorts from 11 countries will compete for the favour of the world-wide, cycle-mad online audience. Within just two months, more than 120 short films from 30 countries were submitted, viewed and apprai...

9th Byron Bay International Film Festival announces its final selection of 225+ cutting-edge films from home and abroad

Year 11 Comes to a Close!

Industry Screenwriter agrees to be ManIFF’s Stig!

Industry Screenwriter agrees to be ManIFF’s Stig! FREE SCREENWRITING WEB COURSE Every great film begins with a great story and Manchester International Film Festival is excited to announce its very own ‘Secret Screenwriter’ web course. ManIFF’s chosen ‘Stig’ of the film world is donning his screenwriting helmet and is offering his knowledge to all our followers in the run up to the inaugural Manchester International Film Festival 2015. Whether you follow his...

> PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Danish documentary filmmaker Mads Brügger completes lineup at Visegrad Film Forum

4. Visegrad Film Forum (11th – 14th March 2015) The Danish documentary director Mads Brügger will come to Visegrad Film Forum Bratislava to talk about his trademark documentary filmmaking. In his films Mads Brügger plays different roles in order to gain access to environments controlled by dictators (North Korea) or corrupt politicians and businessmen (Central African Republic). His debut The Red Chapel,&n...

Sue Hollenberg Named Education Director Of The Montclair Film Festival

The Montclair Film Festival (MFF) in Montclair, NJ announced today the appointment of Sue Hollenberg as Education Director of MFF. This newly created position will serve to launch and manage the MFF’s year-round film and media education initiatives and community partnerships. “We are thrilled to welcome Sue to our team,” said MFF Executive Director Tom Hall. “As we look to launch our education department to reach throughout our community and beyond, Sue provides ...

Alan Silvestri at the 15th World Soundtrack Awards

FILM FEST GENT ANNOUNCES ALAN SILVESTRI AS GUEST OF HONOUR AT THE 15TH WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS Held on October 24th, the World Soundtrack Awards will celebrate its 15th anniversary with one of the most brilliant film composers of his generation, known for his scores of ‘Back to the Future’, ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ and ‘Forrest Gump’. Brussels Philharmonic will perform the compelling scores by Alan Silvestri, con...

South Korea Is Honouring Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick for His Outstanding Cultural Services

The government of the Republic of Korea is awarding its Order of Cultural Merit, the Eungwan Medal, to Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Berlin today, on February 23, 2015. Dieter Kosslick is receiving the Eungwan Medal in recognition of his contribution to the development and perception of South Korean cinema in the world. The Order will be presented to the Festival Director by His Excellency Kim Jae-shin, Ambassador of the Republic...

Abderrahmane Sissako Thierry Fremaux:no Palme in Cannes but 7 Cesar

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Ikusmira Berriak is born, an interinstitutional programme of support to new audiovisual projects

IKUSMIRA BERRIAK is a new programme of support to audiovisual projects committed to innovation and experimentation in areas of both cinematic language and means of production. The initiative is the result of collaboration between Tabakalera – International Contemporary Culture Centre, Donostia Zinemaldia / San Sebastian Festival, San Sebastian European Capital of Culture 2016, Donostia Kultura and the Filmoteca Vasca Foundation. Its main objective is to promote audiovisual creation. ...

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Major Buzz Factory : Expérience du marketing Digital pour les films

Fort du expérience acquise dans la distribution de film spour deux Majors (Sony et Fox mariée sous a direction avec UGC) Bruno Chatelin propose une expérience pointue au service de votre stratégie digitale à Travers sa structure de Conseil MAJOR BUZZ FACTORY Le fondateur Bruno Chatelin : un Professionnel de la communication entouré de spécialistes, son expérience est ancrée sur trois univers La publicité, Le mark...

Bilan positif pour le 5e MyFrenchFilmFestival.com

Hippocrate, Une place sur la terre et Respire sont les lauréats de la 5e édition de MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, une édition réussie malgré la censure en Chine. La 5e édition du festival de cinéma f ...

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