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CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival

American Theatre of Harlem is currently accepting submissions for its 6th Annual CULTURES COLLIDE Community Film Festival.
Located in the arts community of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, this year's festival runs from March 4 - March 7, 2010.
CULTURES COLLIDE celebrates the efforts of multicultural films and filmmakers and features an industry panel.
In addition to the Audience Choice selections each night, the Festival culminates in the presentation of the
Community Treasure award. For questions and submissions info contact info@americantheatreofharlem.org

Cannes Palme d'or winners since 1939

                        1939 Union Pacific by Cecil B. DeMille United States 1946 Torment (Hets) by Alf Sjöberg Sweden The Lost Weekend by Billy Wilder United States The Red Meadows (De røde enge) by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr. Denmark Brief Encounter by David Lean United Kingdom Portrait of Maria (María Candelaria (Xochimilco) by Emilio F...

Interview with Clive Owen at the BFI London Film Festival 22nd October 2009

It's the BFI London Film Festival and I'm at the BFI Southbank to meet Clive Owen. We can all just google Clive Owen to read about his achievements as a BAFTA, Golden Globe winner and for his extensive work in the film and tv industry. Therefore I thought I should pick out some goodies from the interview, that you don't read about everywhere else... Born 1964 in Coventry, Clive Owen was a man who didn't have it all set in his early life. With a father who left the family when Owen was thr...

YouTube documentary online?

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Hello Butterflies: The festival round is coming to its end with Butterflies screening this Sunday for the very last time on a big screen at First Glance Film Fest in Philadelphia. You can find the info here: http://www.facebook.com/ButterfliesTheMovie From all your requests on the videos, we realize we can't bring the film everywhere. But, because we know that lot of you can't make the festival screenings, we are deciding on our next step and want to bring the Award Winning film...

Butterflies screens at La Femme Festival in Los Angeles

La Femme Film Festival will present the Award Winning documentary Butterflies about YouTube on Thursday, October 15th at 6PM at the Davidson/Valentini Theatre in Hollywood. See the feature film about YouTubers one last time, before the festival season closes at the end of the month in Philadelphia. Subscribe here for the trailers and behind the scenes: http://www.youtube.com/ButterfliesTheMovie Follow FILMESTER on Twitter for updates from the festivals. Let's get together one last time ...

Butterflies documentary in NYC, Montana, LA and Philadelphia

We are done with our East Coast Premiere at NewFilmmakers in NYC and the Award Winning film about YouTube had an amazing response there. Here are photos from the screening and I am so super excited to have such an amazing night with all the great people! Next, we are heading to the Montana Independent Film Festival where Butterflies screens on October 25th. We are going back to Los Angeles presenting Butterflies at La Femme Film Festival in the middle of October and then Philade...

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Butterflies will screen at following film festivals this fall:

  Other dates and cities to be announced bellow: Butterflies will screen at: Freeze Fest, Czech Republic, September 5th, 2009 Temecula Valley International Film Festival, September 9-13th, 2009 New Filmmakers, New York City, September 16th, 2009 Montana Independent Film Festival, September 27th-28th, 2009 First Glance Philadelphia, October 2009 ...

The Award Winning Film about YouTube, Butterflies has a Facebook Page

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Join Butterflies here and get invited to the next screening !   Butterflies Promote Your Page Too ...

Butterflies Selected into Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival

The Award Winning documentary Butterflies has been selected into Southern California festival in Temecula, and will play this September at the Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival. "Butterflies is the first feature film that profiles the YouTube community and examines the power of online media. The film had its World Premiere last month at AOF Film Festival, where it received the Alan J. Bailey Excellence Award for Documentary Filmmaking and was nominated for Bes...

See the Award Nominated documentary about YouTube, Butterflies tomorrow

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There is only one day left for the official premiere of Butterflies at the AOF Fest. So far, it has been great seeing other people's films and meeting all the talented filmmakers. But, tomorrow is our turn! Butterflies will screen at AOF (Action on FIlm) International Film Festival July 27th, 2009 @ 8PM Regency Academy Theatre 1003 East Colorado Blvd Pasadena, CA Tickets can be purchased at: https://www.aoffest.com/store/AOF-2009-c4.htm There will be a party after t...

Be part of the history on July 27th in LA, see Butterflies

Be there on July 27th, 2009 to see history in making! The online personalities are making it to the big screen and this will, without a doubt, be the end of entertainment as we know it. You remember when television killed the radio star? Well, this is when Internet kills the TV star :) No more fabricated characters in movies, no more perfect people that no one can compare to. These are regular folks, that have it all, and you can see how they did it. See the YouTube stars taking over the e...

Butterflies is nominated by AOF for Best Social Commentary Award 2009

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Press Release For Immediate Release    Lives of YouTube “Weblebrities” Chronicled in Upcoming Documentary The increasingly popular world of new media has introduced online viewers across the world to a diverse group of individuals in cyberspace.  YouTube.com has emerged as one of the leaders to catapult an Average Joe into an instant “Weblebrity” with the stroke of a computer key.  Meet six folks in the feature documentary “Butterflies” who share the common goal of b...

Quickfest.com Fest 103 - Shorts Contest

www.quickfest.com PRESS RELEASE QUICKFEST ANNOUNCED NEW CONTEST – SHOOT A COMMERCIAL - FEST 103 Los Angeles, CA – Quickfest.com has partnered with a premier water company for it’s next film festival where filmmakers will submit their take on a 30 or 60 second spot. A winner will be selected from a panel of judges that include a representative from the water company along with a commercial direction. Having just wrapped it’s successful Quickfest 102 - Horror Fest, Quickfest is excited to bring a new type of filmmaking event to the filmmaking community. The commercial contest, Quickfest 103, will begin July 24, 2009 at noon Pacific Standard Tim when registered filmmakers will learn the name of the water company and be provided with artwork as part of the critical elements list. Competing filmmakers will then have 10 days to complete and upload their spot (or spots) by the end of the festival on August 2, 2009. The winning commercial will be announced one week after the end of the contest and the winning commercial will have a chance to be broadcast and as well as additional prizes to be announced as the event unfolds. Entries will be accepted either 30 or 60 second length. In the coming weeks the judges for the event will be announced along with other details and special surprises. “We are excited to be bringing on a company that is excited to tap into the creativity of the Quickfest audience” said Greg Zekowski, Quickfest’s Festival Director. Mr. Zekowski adds that “like all commercial shoots, the company has high expectations after seeing the great entries for the recent horror fest”. To enter or get on the Quickfest mail list, go to www.quickfest.com and register. The winning films of our past festivals can also be seen here, or at Quickfest’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/QuickfestTV. About Quickfest: Quickfest (quickfest.com) is a unique Film Festival founded by Filmmakers. Quickfest events occur online and are open to Filmmakers around the world with competitions in various formats and genres. Quickfest reaches out to creative people everywhere, featuring the work of film industry professionals and amateurs with a passion for telling a story. For more information, contact Festival Director, Greg Zekowski at greg@quickfest.com and follow Quickfest at twitter www.twitter.com/quickfest

ABEL FERRARA AWARDED BY THE ISCHIA FILM FESTIVAL

 Abel Ferrara wins the “Ciak di Corallo” for his career achievements at the Ischia Film Festival seventh edition (July 5-11), the only international contest dedicated to the filming locations.The American director, born July 19 1951 in the Bronx, will receive the cinema’s world tribute thanks to his work, that has always been visionary, original and restless in a unique way in the international movie scene.The Ischia Film Festival will present a short preview of Ferrara’s docufiction ex...

Isabelle Huppert opens the Ischia Film Festival

[Ischia, June 16th2009] “Villa Amalia”, directed by Benoit Jacquot andstarring Isabelle Huppert , will be the opening film of the Ischia Film Festival7th edition, an international film competition dedicated to thelocation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFLBcTT_Hkc The French film will be introduced as a national premiere the 5thof July in the evening, during the Festival opening gala, in the wonderfulscenery of the Aragonese Castle, in Ischia Ponte.Based on the homonymous novel by...

TICFF 2010 NOW is Calling for Entry

TICFF 2010  NOW is Calling for Entry Please visit http://www.ticff.org.tw for details.

Call for Entries

TICFF 2010 Calls for Entries visit http://www.ticff.org.tw for more information!
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