L'association Festival Connexion qui comprend près de 70 festivals de la région Rhône-Alpes organisait sa réunion de rentrée à la Cartoucherie à Bourg lès Valence à coté de Valence.
La journée comprenait la visite de la Cartoucherie, des projections
de films et une séance d'échanges sur la diversité des pratiques au niveau Festivals & Education à l'image.
La Cartoucherie est un nouveau pôle autour de l’image animée.
Il allie conservation patrimoniale ave...
Arrived yesterday in Cannes. Our booth is open since Wednesday. We have started to cover the festival, organize our next week's numerous events on Future of Cinema... and prepared the launch of our cinema ebook pack...
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We just launched a revised version of Fest21.com. Hope you enjoy it. ...
We arrived in Cannes, set up our booth in the Palais (level 01, booth 23.11) to cover the event, organize events, 3 conferences on the Future of Cinema and experiment with partners on the Second Life Cannes Island. To follow all our activities: CannesCannes in French Future of Cinema Second Life The Cannes backstage entrance we use to go to our booth is already crowded! ...
At the Paris Book fair, MM2 Editions, publisher of this Fest21.com community, announces it's new name : M21 Editions. A l’occasion du Salon du Livre 2007, l’éditeur des Métamorphoses du 21 siècle, MM2 Editions, annonce son changement de nom pour devenir M21 Editions et présente ses communautés virtuelles : Cluster21.com et Fest21.com Paris le 15 mars 2007, ...
We are enhancing fest21 with new features Sorry for the down time today. After a first step a couple of weeks ago, we added today many new features with geolocalization, links, image display...A new look&feel will follow up in the coming weeks. Look-up your profile and enhance it with your Google map address or location (a city is enough), with your blog profile, category, skype info... Enjoy and stay tuned. ...
We are upgrading fest21. Sorry for the down time today.This first step is to include new software version, to enhance the post editing features and prepare for the new additional features. The additional features and a new look&feel will arrive in the coming weeks.Stay tuned. ...
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The Fest21 platform is undergoing major development with server upgrade, new video tools for every account...
During this upgrade process, we will try to keep downtime and errors to the minimum possible.
We apology in advance for any inconvenience that might arise from this upgrade. We know for example that today some images do not appear and that it is difficult to add new ones.
Be assured that we are working actively on all this to build a better film and festival community platform.
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After two crazy weeks, Cannes is now over. Most people are back home. A few are still there to finish editing their stories, videos, TV shows... I left Sunday to watch the award ceremony on TV.
Awards, as always, were quite surprising. The Palme d'Or (see all videos) went to Ken Loach's the Wind that Shakes the Barley, not my own favorite. Surprisingly, no prize was awarded to Marie-Antoinette from Sophia Coppola nor for the Pan's Labyrinth from Guillermo Del Toro.
See you soon...
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I was invited by the Cannes Short Film Corner to talk with Jacques Bensimon, head of the Canadian National Film Borad, with Stephan Lechère from Google Video and Orna Ghenassia from Cinézime at this conference.
Interesting exchanges on fragmented markets, number of opportunities, long tail, community building...
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The first Tahiti Film Festival is launched by our friend Pascale above. It will be held this October 21-29 in... Tahiti off course.
In Cannes, the Tahiti beach already gives us a first idea of the coming event and ambiance.
Enjoy the music and dance with this video.
Who would not want to come to such paradise...
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In partnership with the Cannes Market, Filmfestivals.com, MM2 Editions and Moving Pictures in Cannes at the Majestic Beach from 3pm to 5pm, we organized:
THE CONFERENCE : THE FUTURE OF CINEMA
The conference started with keynote speakers:
- Frank Otto, the composer and director of the first open source rock opera movie
- JD Lasica, the author of Darknet: Hollywood’s War against the Digital Generation.
After the introduction by the keynote speakers, the panel to discuss the various aspects o...
Presented today in Cannes, out of Competition: "Over the Hedge", animation film from Dreamworks by Tim Johnson et Karey Kirkpatrick with prestigious voice over from:
Avril Lavigne, William Shatner, Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte...
Jeffrey Katzenberg from Dreamworks is also there.
Standing ovation after the film premiere.
Check the video.
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This Blu-Ray association presents this new High-Definition platform with impressive specifications. Blu-ray discs hold from 25 to 50GB, video and sound quality is superior, interactivity is on a new level, Internet access will be included in the coming versions of hardware...
Remains to be seen at what price the first harware and disks will be priced in Q3 or Q4 of this year and how the digital rights management handles all this...
Check also the interview of Blu-ray Disc Association head, ...
Everything is getting ready from the Red Carpet, well, not yet red, too the Variety pavillion.
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Surprises aren’t always a good thing in San Francisco.
Exhaustive media coverage of the centennial of the 1906 great earthquake and fire—the defining event of the city’s history and biggest natural disaster in America until Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast last year—recently shook Bay Area residents with constant reminders that this is shake-rattle-and-roll country.
On Saturday morning, Talk Cinema founder and former Film Comment editor Harlan Jacobson admitted to being a “ne...
That is the most important question... and the answer is the most difficult to formulate. Cannes remains faithful to its principles, and the philosophy which leads the selection equally remains the same: highlighting auteur cinema, the search for singular voices in different cultures, qualities of direction, the practice of cinema as art, a world which recognises itself through the films screened. To this must be added the relationship between the state of cinema and that of its audiences, as we...
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