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Tallinn Black Nights Fest announced the international competition programmes

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13th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) published today the competition programme. EurAsia competition programme which takes place sixth year presents 21 movies. Official competition programme EurAsia:   MOON / Dir: Duncan Jones / Great Britain NEM VAGYOK A BARATOD / I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND / Dir: György Palfi / Hungary ENTER THE VOID / Dir: Gaspar Noe / France, Germany KASI AZ KORBEHAYE IRANI KHABAR NADAREH / NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS /...

Christmas Wishes 2009 – Fantastic Free Gift . Music Video

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Christmas Wishes 2009 – Fantastic Free Gift . Music Video Christmas Wishes and New Year Greetings to Your Friends How time flies! Christmas 2009 is around the corner and New Year, too! I would like to share with you a fantastic free gift for your family, relatives and friends. It is a sweet music video and it is free. You may send the gift to anyone on the Internet easily when Christmas comes. Greetings Page: (Ready made wishes to be sent by MSN, Yahoo Messenger, Skype o...

Documentary Deluge In Amsterdam for IDFA

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One could call it a documentary deluge.......IDFA, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the world's largest event devoted to the non-fiction form, is expecting over 2000 international guests over the next 10 days. If you are in and into docs, Amsterdam is ground zero for film premieres, special events, chic parties and industry seminars and networking sessions. The Festival has clocked in some 2200 accredited guests from The Netherlands and around the world to at...

Montana Independent Film Festival (MTIFF) - REVIEW (filmmakers avoid!!! )

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This was the third year for this “film festival” and we should have known better and save ourselves the $60 submission fee. Upon receiving the acceptance letter, we were also informed, that if we are planning to make the journey to Montana for this film-festival, we should absolutely contact the festival organizers. I have tried this for over 3 weeks without an email or phone call response. Again, we should have known …. Because we were planning our trip to other film festivals and n...

Israel Film Festival ready to open

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The 24th Israel Film Festival, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the United States will open on Saturday, December 5, 2009 and continue through December 13 at the SVA Theater (333 W. 23rd St.).   Opening night will find celebrated actor Elliott Gould on hand to receive the 2009 IFF Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his tremendous achievements and body of work.  This Academy Award® Nominee has over 200 film and television credits to his name, and is easily re...

DOCUMENTA MADRID 10: Last call for entries!

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Until December 31, 2009 we have opened the inscription for Documenta Madrid 10. This is the second year we request PREMIER IN SPAIN REQUIRED. Access to the registration online clicking here. DOCUMENTA MADRID 10 will have four competitive sections: ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION All films previously unreleased in Spain featuring an original or innovative perspective in terms of either form or content will be admitted for competition. This section has two categories: Fu...

Film Festivals Reviews on Fest21?

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Dear Filmmakers: As our festival run with Butterflies ended, we were wondering if you would like to hear about the experiences we had at different film festivals. We have found that some festivals and festival organizers are really helpful and there for indie filmmakers, and some other ones only care about the submission fee money. Would you be interested in hearing about the festivals we attended? Let me know :)       ...

New French Film Festival launches ‘In French with English Subtitles'

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                                                        http://www.infrenchwithenglishsubtitles.org/ Feast your eyes on the latest successes from the French box office. Launched in the presence of the great French actor Vincent Perez amongst others, and followed by a gourmet buffet catered by the Maitres Cuisiniers de France, this prestigious French cinematographic weekend event will take place on December 4th, 5th and 6th...

India Comes To New York

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  New York City prides itself as being the "capital of the world", as it has attracted immigrants from all over the globe and set up individual communities within the city's urban grid. For the past few decades, the communities of South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan, have become vibrant parts of the city's mosaic, producing in their midst the finest curry dishes, sari shops and music concerts this side of Delhi and Peshawar. This past weekend, New York opened up ...

News from Paso Digital Film Festival

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Just South and Sideways of Sundance in the Cowboy Wine Country town of Paso Robles, California,  promoter Benford Standley is bringing back his unique independent film festival for a second-year run.  Last year's festival was honored to host actor-director Clint Eastwood, Oscar-winning film editor Joel Cox, producer Nigel Sinclair, and a wide slate of fantastic independent films and filmmakers. Four days of films and music in 2008 featured greats like Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Johnny Rivers, Eagl...

Maurizio Scaparro and Rafael Azcona exceptional protagonists at the Closing Gala of the Seville Festival

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  Alfonso Guerra spoke in praise of the Italian director while Fernando Trueba did so for the Spanish scriptwriter. The Seville politician defined Scaparro as “the man of our fantasies and our hopes, the last pulcinella”. Words of praise for the person responsible for the Theatre Sector of the Venice Biennale from Guerra, who congratulated Scaparro for “being the last romantic crossing Europe in the caravan of the commedia del arte”.   After giving his thanks...

Miami Shorts: Festival in action

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The Miami Short Film Festival (MsFF) has unveiled a sneak peek of the program for its 8th annual edition, scheduled for November 13th - 22nd, announcing a special focus on the environment. "Back To The Roots" is MsFF's slogan for 2009, as the Festival adds a new prize category for Best Environmental Short Film and replaces its Opening Night Gala red carpet with a "green" carpet. "The first films ever made were short films," MsFF Founder and Director William Vel...

27 + 1: The Official Selection

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BAD MISTAKE   Belgium, 2009, 6 min, 35mm Director: Хavier Hibon   BAD TIMING   France, 2008, 15 min, HDCAM   Director: Olivier Barma     BETTY B. &  THE THE’S   Germany, 2009, 13 min, RED Director: Felix Stienz   BIRDS OF HEAVEN Bulgaria, 2008, 30 min, 35mm Director: Kristina Grozeva   CASTING Russia, 2006, 20 мин, 35mm Director: Olga Stolpovskaya   CITIZEN VERSUS KANE   ...

18.900 visitors at 19th FilmFestival Cottbus

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Setting a new record of 18.900 visitors the 19th FilmFestival Cottbus is closing down this Sunday, Nov 15th. In addition to thousands of cinema guests there were more than 600 guests of the international film scene attending the festival, amongst them more than 130 film makers as well as many producers. "We're no longer a sepcial-interest-section", said Festival Director Roland Rust. "Meanwhile Cottbus may be regarded as home of Eastern-european film." The Festival Dir...

Focus on Denver Day 2

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History of the RIFF Cultural Association

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The RIFF Cultural Association was created in January of 2001, but has been a project of the association's founder and president, Fabrizio Ferrari, since early 1999. It was conceived with the intention to promote both Italian and international independent cinema.     2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 C...

Roma Independent Film Festival (RIFF): The Mission

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The Roma Independent Film Festival (RIFF) is Rome 's first independent and international film festival. Its aim is to unite enthusiasm for films and filmmaking among young filmmakers with the realities of film production and distribution. The main aims of the Association are: To create better international distribution opportunities for independent films excluded from the major distributors To create a lively and mutually beneficial point of contact between new or underrepresen...

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A COMPLEXION CHANGE - International & Intercultural Diplomacy

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FOUNTAINHEAD® TANZ THEATRE e LETTER, Berlin/Germany November 2009 www.fountainhead-tanz-theatre.de www.blackinternationalcinema.de www.black-international-cinema.com Please send replies to / Bitte senden Sie Antworten an bicdance@aol.com ******************************************************* CALL FOR ENTRIES http://www.black-international-cinema.com/BIC10/bic_10.htm XXV. Black Internatio...

Freeride World Tour 2010

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A unique mix of the world's foremost freeride skiers and snowboarders have all confirmed their participation in the Freeride World Tour 2010, with the prize purse of no less than $206 200. The athletes will see a new event on the 2010 Tour calendar, the Nissan Freeride de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, with scheduled competition day on January 30. "The fluidity in the choice of lines, the perfection of technical jumps combined with speed, has pushed freeriding into a new era. Chamonix-Mont-Blanc...
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