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The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival is opening tomorrow, February 9, 2012, with the world premiere of Benoît Jacquot's film Les adieux à la Reine. The director will be attending the gala with actors Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen, Xavier Beauvois and Noémie Lvovsky.
Minister of State and Commissioner for Cultural and Media Affairs Bernd Neumann and Berlin's Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit will open the Festival together with Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick and Jury President Mike Leigh. The event will be broadcast live on television by ZDF/3sat. Music for the gala will be provided by the duo Boy; Anke Engelke will host the evening.
All members of the International Jury- Anton Corbijn, Asghar Farhadi, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mike Leigh, François Ozon, Boualem Sansal and Barbara Sukowa - will be present.
Other celebrities expected to attend the event include:
SPAIN by Anja Salmonowitz opens Diagonale Film Festival 2012- After its world premiere at this year's Berlinale, SPAIN, the first feature-length film by Anja Salomonowitz,
opens this year’s Diagonale Film Festival as an Austrian premiere, on
March 20, 2012 in Graz’s Helmut-List-Halle. Told in multiple
storylines, SPAIN cleverly traces a web of interweaving destinies in a
remarkable visual journey on the quest for support and security. As in
her previous offerings, Anja Salomonowitz sets forth a critical,
socio-political commentary through the charismatic character of Sava
(Grégoire Colin), in which she tackles the theme of migration and how
we deal with it. Watch the trailer.
Diagonale 2010, March 16 - 21: The Programme- Diagonale 2010 - the Festival of Austrian Film - has opened on March 16th in Graz. From now on you can download various press material (press kit, press releases, filmstills and press photographs) here.The guest list is available here. Programme online now.
This year's highlights include:
+ 103 films in the selected programme: a selection of Austria's current best feature, documentary, short, experimental and animated films as well as videos with lots of discoveries.
+ Spectrum: 8 international co-productions with substantial creative input from Austria
+ Tribute Peter Schreiner
+ International Tribute Romuald Karmakar
+ Historical Special Programmes Mansur Madavi and Günther Krampf
+ Special Images of Protest
+ Additional programme: exhibitions, workshops and discussions
The 16th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival 2012 (NYSJFF 2012) will be held in March. The festival presented by the American Sephardi Federation, annually showcase extraordinary films that explores the Sephardic Jewish experience from filmmakers throughout the world.
For more information, please visit http://sephardicfilmfest.org.
22 FEBRUARY - 12 MARCH 2012 11 am - 9 pm, ADMISSION FREE SOUTH GALLERY, SPACE 315, FORUM -1 SMALL ROOM AND LARGE ROOM
The third New Festival at the Centre Pompidou offers the public the chance to discover the diversity of the visual culture of our time and to appreciate how the territory of contemporary culture has broadened.
No fewer than one hundred artists including the film director Guy Maddin, visual artists and performers, writers and historians, musicians and show-men, explore new ‘ways of creating worlds'. They have been invited to this third New Festival which brings together, among other things, memory and childhood, ghosts and spectres, teleportation and dreams of experiences.
The 21st New York Jewish Film Festival 2012 (NYJFF2012) New York Premiere of Dressing America: Tales from the Garment Center directed by Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher was held at the Walter Reade Theater, Monday, January 16, 1:00 PM. A special Q&A session immediately followed with director Steven Fischler and associate producer Phyllis A. Dillon moderated by independent curator Rachel Chanoff, New York Jewish Film Festival. Questions posed to director Steven Fischler and associate producer Phyllis Dillon by moderator Chanoff and the audience included: What were the challenges in making the film? What is the status of the industry today? What is happening to New York's garment center real estate?
BOUDU SAUVÉ DES EAUX
de Jean Renoir (Fra) - 85 min. A classic masterpiec, funny to see it in fantasporto (in french, and quite an exception in the genre line of prgraming)
All the Misses in the office/ Miss who?/ Who is Miss Denmark? The ÉCU office is a cultural mix of people who run in and out every day. That is why names of ÉCU interns can be difficult to remember sometimes. Here is Marie's aka Miss Denmark story.
First Annual Winter Film Awards to Air on American Primetime Television Featuring Winners for Best Studio Film, Indie Film and Emerging Performing Artist
The 10th February has been announced to be the deadline for submitting films to the selection of the 52th Krakow Film Festival. This year it will take place between 28th May and 3rd June. The above mentioned deadline applies to films made after August 31st 2011. Films which were made before that date were due for submission until November 30th 2011.
Krakow Film Festival presents documentary, feature and animated films in three competitions:
Early submissions are almost done here at The Los Angeles Fear and Fantasy Film Festival. February 1st marks the first day of regular submissions. Remember to join us here in LA May 15-20th. As events are set we will announce them here.
The 6th Annual International Film Festival Summit Europe will be the most informative and fun filled summit to date.
Bruno Chatelin will co chair the event with Scott Hillier (ECU festival founder) and Laurie Kirby (IFFS Executive Director).
Bruno Chatelin is the co founder of filmfestivals.comfest21.com, producer (Emotion Film Factory) and former distributor: head of Sony Pictures and UGC FOX France, he is a newly elected Board Member at the European Film Academy.
Scott Hillier is an awarded film and TV producer, the founder and director of Paris based ECU The European Independent Film Festival. www.ecufilmfestival.com
The Summit gathers each year an exclusive roaster of festival executives from around the world. The attendees have included fest directors from Venice, Locarno, Clermont Ferrand, London, Stockholm...
It will offer two creative days for benchmarking, learning and sharing with peers, sponsors and media.
Miff 2012 .. from 3rd Feb - 101 best documentary and short films to be showcased during MIFF 2012Prize Money almost doubled.
Kuala Lumpur International Short Film Festival 30 January – 1 February 2012
The Kuala Lumpur International Short Film Festival (KLIS) is the first and only short film festival in Malaysia and it is based in the metropolitan city of Kuala Lumpur.
The 21st New York Jewish Film Festival 2012 (NYJFF2012) Closing Night World Premiere of Welcome to Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resorts, directed by Caroline Laskow and Ian Rosenberg was held at the Walter Reade Theater, Thursday, January 26, 2012. The sold out world premiere documentary of Kutsher’s Country Club included entertainer actor/comedian Jerry (Gerald Isaac) Stiller, cast members Helen Kutsher, and Celia Duffy. A special Q&A session immediately followed with directors Caroline Laskow and Ian Rosenberg moderated by associate program director Scott Foundas, Film Society of Lincoln Center, and associate curator director, Aviva Weintraub, New York Jewish Film Festival.
The 21st New York Jewish Film Festival 2012 (NYJFF2012) Closing Night World Premiere of Welcome to Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resorts, documentary directed by Caroline Laskow and Ian Rosenberg was held at the Walter Reade Theater, Thursday, January 26, 2012. Entertainer actor/comedian Jerry (Gerald Isaac) Stiller and many of the cast members such as Helen Kutsher and Celia Duffy attended the sold out world premiere documentary of Kutsher’s Country Club. A special Q&A session immediately followed with directors Caroline Laskow and Ian Rosenberg moderated by associate program director Scott Foundas, Film Society of Lincoln Center, and associate curator director, Aviva Weintraub, New York Jewish Film Festival.
VIEW AWARD 2012 | International contest of animated shorts
The 2012 VIEW AWARD’s are ready to come out in full! Breaking free from its international tradition, the 2012 VIEW AWARD’s are opening up their doors to new themes, subjects, and a wider audience of contestants!
Tonight on January 26th, 2012 will see opening of the 27th SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (SBIFF) in Santa Barbara, California. The festival will open with the world premier of Lawrence Kasdan's film: “DARLING COMPANION” (2012) with an all star cast including Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Dianne Wiest. The film will open with a an Oscar-nominated Animated Pixar Short, “LA LUNA” (2011).
The screening will take place in the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, CA with cast to appear on the red carpet: Director Lawrence Kasdan with wife Meg Kasdan, Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton, Ayelet Zurer (Angels & Demons), Jay Ali and Kasey the dog and from La Luna: Director Enrico Casarosa.
Also Attending the opening will be: Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld), Brad Hall (S.N.L.), David Koechner (SBIFF Jury), Anthony Zerbe (SBIFF Jury), W. Earl Brown, (SBIFF Jury), Dante Di Loreto (Executive Producer, Glee) and more…
"Mary and Bill" is a new submission to ÉCU 2012. A documentary following two elderly athletes, Mary, a 90 year old triathlete, and Bill, an 83 year old high jumper. Mary has just broken her leg while down hill skiing and Bill, who smoked for 45 years, is recovering from a heart attack. Through their amazing commitment, both Mary and Bill prove that age is just a number.
"Mary and Bill" est un nouvel entré pour l'ÉCU en 2012. C'est un documentaire qui suit deux athlètes senior, Mary, une ancienne sauteuse en hauteur. Mary s'est cassée la jambe lors d'un randonnée en ski et Bill, fumeur durant 45 ans, se remet d'une crise cardiaque. A travers leur incroyable engagement, Bill et Mary prouve que l'âge n'est qu'un chiffre.
Celebrating The Power of Cinema, the 6th Texas Black Film Festival returns to Dallas- 6th Texas Black Film FestivalCelebrating The Power of Cinema, the 6th Texas Black Film Festival returns to STUDIO MOVIE GRILL DALLAS next week, February 1st through 4th. Featuring the premieres of independent film from around the world, TBFF celebrates a rich culture through the art of film, workshops and filmmaker Q&A. Throughout the festival, TBFF will premiere over 50 shorts, documentaries, features and animations of independent filmmakers from Texas and from around the world.
Yesterday I was talking to a carpenter I know and he was asking me about the FEAR AND FANTASY festival when our conversation turned to the writing of screenplays. "How many scripts have you written?" he asked me. "Four features in the last few years, one of those made it to the screen.. but total some? I don't know, two dozen completed.... and many more who died during the process and whose half written corpses still lie at the bottom of a dresser drawer somewhere".
He told me that he is an aspiring screenwriter and finds himself caught in the limbo of numerous ideas and half written scripts. We discussed the "discipline" of sitting down EVERY day, at the same time and (hell or high water) writing SOMETHING. No, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" does not count.
1. Hi Jordan! We’ve never met but your film “Argo” was an official selection here at ÉCU in 2007. Tell us a bit about your new film, “The Sea Is All I Know”…
Westerns from all over the world, a focus on Bangladesh and several programme sections with prominent Swiss figures: new Artistic Director Thierry Jobin and Secretary General Esther Widmer announced the concept of the 26th edition of the International Film Festival Fribourg at a presentation given at the Solothurner Filmtage. For the first time, the FIFF introduces annually recurring parallel sections, which highlight thematic core areas. Amongst other things they include sections devoted to the genre film, regional film industries that have received very little attention in the past or the phenomenon of Diaspora. The latter allows a Swiss celebrity to present cinematographic treasures from his ancestral homeland. This programme section will kick off with cartoonist Patrick Chappatte, who introduces us to films from the Lebanon.
