2018 Sundance Film Festival: Latest Additions Announced, Including Eight Features, Virtual Reality Work, Hosted Retrospectives

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Sundance Institute completes the slate of bold independent work set for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, with eight feature films, a VR experience, the NEXT Innovator’s Award juror and hosted retrospectives joining the lineup today. Screenings will take place in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort January 18-28.

RuPaul will convene a retrospective of VH1’s Emmy-winning “RuPaul’s Drag Race” on the heels of its 10th season, and host a panel with executive producers and Sundance Film Festival veterans Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, along with Tom Campbell and Pamela Post, senior vice president of Original Programming for MTV, VH1 and Logo. RuPaul will also serve as the Festival’s inaugural and sole NEXT Innovator Award juror, and will present the NEXT Innovator Award to his favorite film in that category, which showcases pure, bold works distinguished by innovative, forward-thinking approaches to storytelling.

Other additions to the program include features Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock, Hereditary, Lords of Chaos, The Long Dumb Road, Private Life, You Were Never Really Here and Sweet Country and New Frontier work Isle of Dogs Behind the Scenes (in Virtual Reality). Hearts Beat Loud, a feature announced earlier in the Premieres section, is now confirmed as a Closing Night Film.

These latest additions are joined by archive film Smoke Signals, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998, and a selection of early work by filmmaker Todd Haynes, whose feature film directorial debut Poison won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival. The archive films are selections from the Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA, a partnership between UCLA Film & Television Archive and Sundance Institute. Established in 1997, the Collection is devoted to the preservation of independent documentaries, narratives, and short films supported by Sundance Institute. The Collection has grown to over 4,000 holdings representing nearly 2,300 titles and preservation efforts have brought renewed attention to films such as Hoop Dreams, Desert Hearts, Reservoir Dogs, River of Grass, Walking and Talking, Paris is Burning, El Mariachi and Paris, Texas. Titles are generously donated by individual filmmakers, distributors and studios.

For the 2018 Festival, 121 feature-length films were selected, representing 29 countries and 53 first-time filmmakers, including 30 in competition. These films were selected from 13,468 submissions including 3,901 feature-length films and 8,740 short films. Of the feature film submissions, 1,799 were from the U.S. and 2,102 were international. One hundred and eight feature films at the Festival will be world premieres. In 2017, the Festival drew 71,638 attendees, generated $151.5 million in economic activity for the state of Utah and supported 2,778 local jobs.

The latest additions to the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Program are:

FROM THE COLLECTION

An Evening with Todd Haynes / In the thirty years since he burst onto the indie scene, Todd Haynes has established himself as one of most distinctive voices in American cinema. A special conversation with Haynes and longtime collaborator, producer Christine Vachon, explores Haynes’ early work, including clips from notable, recently restored gems.

Smoke Signals / U.S.A. (Director: Chris Eyre, Screenwriter: Sherman Alexie, Producers: Larry Estes, Scott Rosenfelt) — When Victor’s estranged father Arnold dies in Arizona, he must leave his home on an Idaho reservation to retrieve Arnold’s ashes. Victor’s friend Thomas offers to fund the trip, but only if he can accompany Victor. Together they undertake a journey filled with discovery about their personal and cultural identities. Cast: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal.

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES

Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock / U.S.A. (Director: Cody Lucich, Producers: Heather Rae, Gingger Shankar, Ben-Alex Dupris) — Standing Rock, 2016: the largest Native American occupation since Wounded Knee. Thousands of activists, environmentalists and militarized police descend on the Dakota Access Pipeline in a standoff between oil corporations and a new generation of Native Warriors. This chronicle captures the sweeping struggle, spirit and havoc of a People’s uprising. World Premiere. THE NEW CLIMATE

MIDNIGHT

Hereditary / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Ari Aster, Producers: Kevin Frakes, Lars Knudsen, Buddy Patrick) — After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family tries to escape the dark fate they've inherited. Cast: Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd, Milly Shapiro. World Premiere

Lords of Chaos / U.S.A. (Director: Jonas Åkerlund, Screenwriters: Jonas Åkerlund, Dennis Magnusson, Producers: Kwesi Dickson, Danny Gabai, Jim Czarnecki, Erik Gordon, Jack Arbuthnott, Ko Mori) — Based on truth (and lies), Lords of Chaos is a dark drama about a precocious teenager, Euronymous, who wants to spread evil, chaos, and true Norwegian black metal. When Euronymous invites a mysterious loner, Varg, to join his “Black Circle,” a rivalry sparks, leading to unexpected consequences. Cast: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Sky Ferreira, Jack Kilmer, Valter Skarsgård. World Premiere

NEW FRONTIER

Isle of Dogs Behind the Scenes (in Virtual Reality) / (Lead Artists: A collaboration between Felix Lajeunesse & Paul Raphael and the Isle of Dogs production team) — This virtual reality experience places the viewer inside the miniature world of Wes Anderson's upcoming stop-motion animated film, face to face with the cast of dogs as they are interviewed on set, while the crew of the film works around you to create the animation you are seeing. Cast: A selection of actors from the cast of Isle of Dogs.

PREMIERES

The Long Dumb Road / U.S.A. (Director: Hannah Fidell, Screenwriters: Hannah Fidell, Carson Mell, Producers: Hannah Fidell, Jacqueline "JJ" Ingram, Jonathan Duffy, Kelly Williams) — Two very different men, at personal crossroads, meet serendipitously and take an unpredictable journey through the American Southwest. Cast: Tony Revolori, Jason Mantzoukas, Taissa Farmiga, Grace Gummer, Ron Livingston, Casey Wilson, Ciara Bravo. World Premiere

Private Life / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Tamara Jenkins, Producers: Anthony Bregman, Stefanie Azpiazu) — A couple in the throes of infertility try to maintain their marriage as they descend deeper into the weird world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption. When their doctor suggests third-party reproduction, they bristle. But when Sadie, a recent college dropout, re-enters their life, they reconsider. Cast: Kathryn Hahn, Paul Giamatti, Molly Shannon, John Carroll Lynch, Kayli Carter. World Premiere

SPECIAL EVENTS

“RuPaul’s Drag Race:” A Retrospective of the Cultural Phenomenon / U.S.A. (Lead Artist: RuPaul Charles) — A retrospective of VH1’s Emmy-winning “RuPaul’s Drag Race” on the heels of its10th season, and a panel hosted by RuPaul with executive producers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, along with Tom Campbell and Pamela Post, senior vice president of Original Programming for MTV, VH1 and Logo. Cast: RuPaul Charles, Michelle Visage, Carson Kressley, Ross Mathews. World Premiere

SPOTLIGHT

You Were Never Really Here / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Lynne Ramsay, Producers: Pascal Caucheteux, Rosa Attab, James Wilson, Rebecca O'Brien, Lynne Ramsay) — A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening. Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Alessandro Nivola, Judith Roberts, Ekaterina Samsonov, John Doman, Alex Manette. North American Premiere

Sweet Country / Australia (Director and screenwriter: Warwick Thornton, Producers: David Jowsey, Greer Simpkin) — In 1920s Australia, a middle-aged Aboriginal man’s comfortable life is upended by a newcomer’s arrival. Wanted for murder in the bloody aftermath of a violent shootout, he must flee into the dangerous outback with his wife. Cast: Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Hamilton Morris, Ewen Leslie, Thomas M. Wright, Matt Day. Utah Premiere

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(MALIBU, CA) 18th Malibu Film Festival presented by Little Beach House Malibu | Soho House returns to Malibu January 13-14 with creenings and events at Malibu Civic Theater. The 2018 festival commences with Academy Award Nominee Josh Brolin hosting the Opening Film from Malibu local Emmy award-winning filmmakers Paul Taublieb, Susan Cooper and Jon Freeman. Bryan Fogel’s Icarus (shortlisted by the Academy for Oscar consideration) will close the festival. The audience will decide the festival winners from local, national and international films from emerging filmmakers to modern masters. The festival will wrap up in style with the Awards hosted and presented by Little Beach House Malibu | Soho House.

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CHIMERA by Maurice Haeems USA India Thriller Science Fiction 79 minutes

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A brilliant but disturbed scientist decides to freeze his children alive, while he races against time to cure their deadly genetic disease by unlocking the secret of immortality encoded within the DNA of the Turritopsis jellyfish.

LIVING AMONG US by Brian Metcalf - Vampire Found Footage Thriller Ocober 2017 80 minutes

A family of Vampires hire some filmmakers to bring their story to the world with devastating results. STARRING: John Heard (Home Alone), Esmé Bianco (Game of Thrones), Thomas Ian Nicholas (American Pie), William Sadler (Iron Man 3), Andrew Keegan (10 Things I Hate About You).

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LIVING IN THE FUTURES PAST by Susan Kucera, A documentary presented by Jeff Bridges.
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Academy Award Winner, Jeff Bridges presents this beautifully photographed tour de force of original thinking on who we are and the environmental challenges we face. Jeff, alongside prominent scientists and authors, weave evolution, emergence, entropy, dark ecology, and what some are calling the end of nature, into a story that helps us understand our place among the species of Earth’s household. The film upends our way of thinking and provides original insights into our subconscious motivations, the unintended consequences, what to do about our fossil slaves, and how our fundamental animal nature influences our future as Humankind.

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DEAD ON ARRIVAL D.O.A. by Stephen Sepher - Thriller - USA - June 2017 - 96 minutes

Emmy nominated Billy Flynn stars in an ensemble cast as Sam Collins, a pharmaceutical sales rep who visits a small town in Louisiana to close the business deal of a lifetime. He finds himself in a dark world of sex, corruption and murder as he is poisoned with no antidote to save his life. Desperate for answers, with less than 24 hours to live, Sam turns to a local girl Jesse. Their path leads to a voodoo priestess who only confirms Sam's doomed fate. On the run, caught in a deadly vertigo with no one to trust, Sam and Jesse find themselves running from police detectives, the Mob and a dirty sheriff who wants him dead.

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THE EVIL WITHIN by late Andrew Getty

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The sadistic tale of a lonely, mentally handicapped boy who befriends his reflection in an antique mirror. This demonic creature orders him to go on a murderous rampage to kill the people he loves most.

Starring: Frederick Koehler (Death Race), Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints), Michael Berryman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) Brianna Brown (General Hospital), Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers), Kim Darby (True Grit)

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OFFENSIVE, Jon Ford's thriller.Winner in Houston Worldfest, Best Film and Audience Award for Best Film at Torino Film Fest

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A retired couple, Bernard and Helen Martin, inherit a remote house in rural France, the very same village Bernard’s war hero father liberated during the Second World War, over 70 years earlier. This peaceful couple quickly become the target of a crual gang of street kids, who terrorise the village.

An e-generation permanently plugged into their devices, devoid of empathy, a new breed of technological psychopath…Pushed beyond breaking point, can Bernard live up to his father’s legend, as the situation explodes into a brutal war of generations ?

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The Unwilling by Oscar nominee Jonathan Heap

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6 family members gather for the reading of a will. It comes with a mysterious box. Who will leave alive?

Starring David Lipper, Dina Meyer, Levy Tran, Austin Highsmith, Jake Thomas, Robert Rusler, Bree Williamson and Lance Henrickson.

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Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.

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16th Third Eye Asian Film Festival: VI

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16th Third Eye Asian Film Festival: VI Three Marathi films are the focus of today’s post: Nati Khel, Nadi Vahate and Copy. They were shown as part of a package at that consisted of as many as eight films, the maximum in any language from any Indian language. TEAFF is organised by the Asian Film Foundation and P.L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy, and co-organised by Prabhat Chitra Mandal and Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Chitrapat Mahamandal. It is supported by Department of Culture, Gover...

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10th Jaipur International Film Festival-JIFF 2018 opens

January 6, 2018, 10:28 pm

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Much awaited JIFF 2018 finally opened in a magnificent manner; for all the Film enthusiasts; Cinema lovers and fans. For next four days; many National – International Films would be screened at Golcha Cinema and Manipal University. The Film Festival has been started, with lighting the lamp at Golcha Cinema. Surendra Bohra, Rajeev Arora, Sandeep Sancheti [President Manipal University], Mark Plain and JIFF Founder Hanu Roj were present at the stage.
Hanu Roj shared his emotional experiences of the long decade journey of JIFF! Hanu expressed that people’s positive responses make him go ahead on this path! Hanu said that JIFF believes in inviting real Film – Makers; instead of celebrated Superstars!
On the behalf of JIFF; Gorune APRIKIAN [France], Katerina Philppou [UK], Dora Elek [UK], Roope Olenius [Finland], Phillippa Frisby [UK]; and Chandrashekhar, Dr Vibhuti Pandey and Vivek Sharma were felicitated.
After the grand opening of JIFF 2018; Surendra Bohra has been honoured with the LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. Surendra is a noted Indian Producer and Director; who’s first produced Film was Maa Manne Kyu Parnai. He debuted directing Films with Saajan Ka Ghar; starring Rishi Kapoor and Juhi Chawla; and continued on a path of success for years.
Surendra Bohra gave a Big THANK to JIFF. Bohra expressed that he considers this AWARD, the biggest AWARD in his life!
Sandeep Sancheti congratulated JIFF. Besides, he thanked all the Film – Enthusiasts; who have come to JIFF.
JIFF 2018 opened with screening of the Hindi Film Angrezi Me Kahte Hain, at 6 pm. Entire star cast of Angrezi Me Kahte Hain has been present on the stage including Ekavali Khanna, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Pankaj Tripathi, Brijendra Kala and Anshuman Jha.
Directed by HARISH VYAS, Angrezi Me Kahte Hain is a story of middle – aged man Yashwant Batra, who makes attempts to win his wife’s heart. It’s interesting to see an old man doing varied amusing things to woo his wife, which are often done by young men!
This is the 10th year of JIFF. Hence, JIFF is celebrating the ‘Decade of Excellence’. Most of the screened Films aren’t released yet, and hence, people would get to watch them for the first time at JIFF. Here, Film enthusiasts would get to interact with Directors, Writers, Actors,

GLIMPSES of PROGRAMS for TOMORROW –
Ish Madhu Talwar would hold a dialogue session about “Hasrat Jaipuri: His Life and Time”; at 11 am. At 12:30 pm; Rakesk Gogna would take a workshop about Web Series and Mobile Film Making. At 2 pm; during ART CAMP; Era Tak would have a dialogue with Surendra Pal Joshi and Dr Ashwin Dalwi; about “Cinema and Visual Art”.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS with FILM MAKERS -
Dora Alek [Director Lend Me Your Eyes] at 1 pm; in Tivoli Screen [Golcha Cinema].
Suneeta Mishra [Director Birds in Flight] at 2 pm; in Tivoli Screen [Golcha Cinema].
Vendanti Daani, Pavi Trehan, Yuvraj Kumar, Vinayak Pimple [Team Inkblot] at 11 am; in Nile Screen [Golcha Cinema].
Gorune APRIKIAN [Director Just A Fling] at 4:30 pm; in Nile Screen [Golcha Cinema].

FILM SCREENING –
SCREEN 1 – Tivoli
11 AM to 1 PM – Kajal / The Peace Agency / Quira.
1 to 2 PM - Lend Me Your Eyes / Baltazers.
2 PM to 4 PM - Jai Jai Hindustan / Birds in Flight / Pashi / End Unsung / The Reform / Love Sex and Side Effects / Played / Happy Building.
4:15 to 6:15 – POW: Point of View.
6:15 to 8:15 - In the Shadow of Mother Tree.
8:15 to 10:45 - Naani Bai Ro Maayro.

SCREEN 2 – Nile
11 to 1 PM - Soch / How To Save Your Best Friend / Inkblot / Job / Framed / Two Balloons / Humanity With Little Friends.
1:15 P.M. to 4 P.M. - Andre Draux Aux / Teen Aur Aadha.
4:15 P.M. to 6:15 P.M. - Pahad Gatha / Just A Fling / Return of the Goddess.
6:30 P.M. to 9 P.M. - Ingrained / Half Widow / Bhura.
Due to court stay; film Half Widow would not be shown.

SCREEN 3 – Manipal University
10:30 A.M. to 1 P.M. – Puya: In the Circle of Time.
1:15 P.M. to 3 P.M. - Girl in Red / Shades / Chhoti Si Guzarish / Moonlight Princess.
3:15 P.M. to 5 P.M. - Mother / Happy Birthday Mango! / Ma Terre [My Ground] / Angel Of Anywhere / Fated / Kadwi Hawa Badlo / Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times.

Tribute to Shyam Sundar Jalani

Life Time Achievement Award presenting to Surendra Bohra

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Children's Film Festival Seattle -- "Dream The Future" -- Opening Jan. 25

January 6, 2018, 10:53 pm

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Some Special Guests in Attendance!

Robin Grey, US producer of the feature documentary "Purple Dreams," will be in attendance for the screening of her film at 3pm Sunday, Jan. 28.
DirectorDagmar Seume, German director of the feature film "Wendy," will attend the screening of her film at 3pm Saturday, Jan. 27.
Indian filmmaker Piyush Panjuani, director of "5 Rupees," will attend the North American premiere of this feature film, on Sunday, January 28, at 5 pm.
Puerto Rican filmmaker Julio Benito Cabrera ("Youth Challenge") will be in attendance at the screening of the short film program, "Planet Wise," on Sunday, Jan. 28 (5:30pm)
And More!

Opening Weekend and Special Event Highlights:
-Free kids hands-on digital animation, 360 and mobile video workshops
-An immersive educational installation set-up in the Northwest Film Forum lobby including a VR periscope!
-The second Saturday morning of the festival will mark another longtime tradition: a Whole Foods-sponsored, all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption, at 1804 13th Avenue. After the breakfast, at 10:30 and 11 a.m., there will be showings of “Into the Magic,” an uplifting, all-ages program of animated shorts, at Northwest Film Forum.

Some Festival Highlights:
- A slew of 17 amazing programs of short animated and live action films, with thematic content telegraphed in the program titles, including “Dream Chasers" "Planet Wise" and "Indigenous Showcase"
-The inspiring documentary, "Purple Dreams" (USA), takes audiences behind the curtain to meet the talented and determined cast members of the country's first high school production of the Broadway musical, "The Color Purple." Another powerful documentary, “Not Without Us” (Germany), goes global, showing what life is really like for 16 children in 14 countries, on five continents.

Children's Film Festival Seattle 2018 Trailer

Northwest Film Forum is getting ready to roll out the red carpet for its 2018 edition of Children's Film Festival Seattle— the largest and most respected festival of its kind west of the Mississippi.

The festival will stretch out over the course of two weeks, from its opening night on January 25 to its awards ceremony on February 10, 2018, with most screenings at Northwest Film Forum, in the bustling heart of Capitol Hill. Opening night, sponsored by The Boeing Company and presented in partnership with Seattle International Film Festival, will take place at the Egyptian Theatre, also on Capitol Hill.

The family-friendly extravaganza celebrates the best and brightest in international cinema that is age-appropriate for ages 2-14, and will include 168 films from 55 nations, spanning the globe from North to South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The festival includes animation and live-action shorts, features, and hands-on filmmaking workshops, all crafted with care to appeal to a wide range of age groups.

The theme of the 2018 festival is “Dream the Future.”

“We want children to come to the festival not only to be entertained by funny and fantastic films, but also to discover common ground, to build empathy and envision their places in the wider world,” said Festival director Elizabeth Shepherd. “Now, more than ever, we see the potential of Seattle youth to become compassionate and proactive global citizens, and we are certain that the films included in our programs will energize and motivate them to make the world a better place.”

For young viewers, the festival is also full of stories of exploration and adventure, many of them to be found in the festival’s overstuffed animation section made up of 92 films. Visual storytelling in this category covers subject matter ranging from intergalactic voyages, to whimsical hunts for buried gold, to desperate dashes for freedom during wartime.“We look for films that show young people overcoming great odds, making a difference, charting their own courses,” said Shepherd. “This films are meant to encourage our audience members to think of themselves, too, as agents of change.”

Though the films in the festival show the broader world, the festival itself aims to be a cozy silver-screen experience for families, with most films served up in Northwest Film Forum’s intimate two intimate cinemas, seating 120 and 46 people, respectively.

Shepherd says, “Everything we do at our festival is warm and intimate, and geared to creating an age-appropriate experience that will enchant and inspire kids and their families.”

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OPENING WEEKEND & SPECIAL EVENTS

Festival opening night, sponsored by
The Boeing Company, is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, at the Egyptian Theatre, 805 E. Pine Street, with a gala presentation of Hayao Miyazaki’s classic 1986 film, “Castle in the Sky.” The film is a breathtaking animated adventure about a young girl with a mysterious crystal pendant who searches for the site of a long-dead civilization promising enormous power to those who can unlock its secrets. The evening, presented in partnership with Seattle International Film Festival, will begin with a costume contest for audience members — a chance to strut the stage dressed as their favorite characters from Miyazaki’s films.

Another film classic will be revisited at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26, at Northwest Film Forum, with the screening of "Invention for Destruction" (The Fabulous World of Jules Verne”), a rediscovered and newly restored 1958 gem by renowned Czech animator and designer, Karel Zeman. Fantastical machines, a deadly submarine, and science put to nefarious ends all figure into the film, which seems, at times, ripped from today’s headlines. It is also a visual experience like none other, with live action melding with animated imagery based on Victorian steel engravings. Spoiler alert: there is also a happy ending.

Hands-on workshops for kids will roll out on January 27 and 28, with workshops in 360 filmmaking and mobile filmmaking taught by Northwest Film Forum education manager and lead youth teacher, Jonah Kozlowski. A talk and software demonstration on January 27, led by British artist and educator Anne Terkelson, will introduce older teenagers to the digital animation program at Arts University Bournemouth, in the UK. In addition to these workshops, free interactive, drop-in activities will transform Northwest Film Forum’s lobby, throughout the festival, into a fabulous world where children can actively dream the future in displays that are part submarine (with VR periscope!), part film set, and part special effects classroom. For complete information about educational activities, visit the “classes” section of
www.childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org.

The second Saturday morning of the festival will mark another longtime tradition: an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption, at 1804 13th Avenue. After the breakfast, at 10:30 and 11 a.m., there will be showings of “Into the Magic,” an uplifting, all-ages program of animated shorts, at Northwest Film Forum.

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

Festival highlights in 2018 will include several insightful documentaries for families. “Purple Dreams,” a US film, is the chronicle of a triumphant high school musical production that propels its cast and crew —students who struggle with homelessness, poverty and gang-related violence — into a new world of opportunity and accomplishment. Another powerful documentary, “Not Without Us” (Germany), goes global, showing what life is really like for 16 children in 14 countries, on five continents.

Narrative features include the West Coast premieres of The Legend of Timm Thaler (Germany), Hero Steps (Colombia), Cloudboy (Sweden/Netherlands/Belgium/Norway) and the Seattle premieres of Treasure (Mexico) and Wendy (Germany). 5 Rupees (India) will be a North American premiere.

Animated features, for younger audiences, will be Bamse and The Witch’s Daughter (Sweden), a US premiere, and Lila’s Book (Columbia-Uruguay), a West Coast premiere. Also notable will be a program of international youth-made films, “World Lens: Youth Dream the Future,” will mark the second annual partnership between CFFS and the PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival— a joint initiative between the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and the International Organization for Migration. The New York-based festival showcases films made by young people around the world on the themes of migration, diversity and social inclusion.

As in previous years, kids will also be decision-makers and VIPS at the festival — this year’s Children’s Jury, made up of 25 Seattle-area youth ages 9 to 15, will be led once again by a group of several teenaged jury graduates. And every audience member will also have an opportunity to vote for the festival’s coveted audience awards given in several categories.

SPECIAL GUESTS

Director Dagmar Seume, German director of the feature film "Wendy," will attend the screening of her film at 3pm Saturday, Jan. 27.
Indian filmmaker Piyush Panjuani, director of "5 Rupees," will attend the North American premiere of this feature film, at 5pm Sunday, Jan. 28.
Robin Grey, US producer of the feature documentary "Purple Dreams," will be in attendance for the screening of her film at 3pm Sunday, Jan. 28.
Seattle Animator William Jarcho ("Not One of Us") and Puerto Rican filmmaker Julio Benito Cabrera ("Youth Challenge") will be in attendance at the screening of the short film program, "Planet Wise," on Sunday, Jan. 28 (5:30pm). Jarcho will also attend a screening of the program on Sunday, Feb. 4 (11:30am).
Filmmaker Halima Lucas (Amelia’s Closet) will be in attendance at the screening of the shorts program, "Never Say Never," at 1:30pm Saturday, Jan. 27.
British Educator Anne Terkleson, Production Manager, Arts University Bournemouth (UK), will attend the festival and teach a workshop for high school students on digital animation, Saturday, Jan. 27 at 1:30pm.

USEFUL INFORMATION FOR PRESS

Children’s Film Festival Seattle: January 25 to February 10, 2018

Full festival schedule and tickets available below. Tickets are on sale NOW! www.childrensfilmfesetivalseattle.org
Festival press screening date on Tuesday January 16 at 5PM at Northwest Film Forum. RSVP here.
Festival backdrop, stills and screener details available from liz@nwfilmforum.org
Screenings for groups are available weekdays and weeknights in January and February — tickets for groups of 20 or more are only $5 per person. For schedule and educator information, visit www.childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org under the section “field trips."
Admission to most public programs is $7 for Film Forum members, $9 for children under 12 and seniors, and $12 general admission. There is also special pricing for Opening Night and the Pancake Breakfast. Festival passes are also available — see website for details at www.childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org.

ABOUT NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

Northwest Film Forum's mission is to incite public dialogue and creative action through collective cinematic experiences. The Film screens more than 200 independently made and classic films annually, offers a year-round schedule of filmmaking classes (including summer camps for young people), and supports filmmakers at all stages of their careers. www.nwfilmforum.org

Children's Film Festival Seattle's presenting sponsor is The Boeing Company.

Press Contact:
Rachel Green
rachel@smarthousecreative.com
(206) 697.2888

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16th Third Eye Asian Film Festival: VII

January 7, 2018, 4:09 am

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16^th Third Eye Asian Film Festival: VII

TEAFF was organised by the Asian Film Foundation and P.L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy, and co-organised by Prabhat Chitra Mandal and Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Chitrapat Mahamandal. An annual event, it is supported by Department of Culture, Government of Maharashtra. Screenings were held at Ravindra Natya Mandir Mini Auditorium, Mumbai, which has been the venue for the last few years.

In my last instalment, I covered two Marathi films. Today, we will talk about one Marathi and one Hindi film. That will still leave four films not yet covered, and those will feature in the next piece.

Copy, 2017

Directors Hemant Dhabade and Dayasagar Wankhede have made a hard-hitting documentary-like feature about corruption in, and commercialisation of, the education system in rural Maharashtra. It has a crusading zeal that is palpable throughout the 112 minutes of running time. The story and screenplay have been written by Rahul Salve, along with the director duo. Wankhede has written the dialogue. Choosing a real background, the film was shot in Kasu village, in Pen, close to Mumbai.

Missing school-teachers who make lots of easy money by teaching at coaching/tuition classes while playing truant during school-hours, putting careers of an entire generation of students at stake, forms the subject of this purposeful drama. Politicos run educational institutions funded by government grants, and a large portion of such funds is misappropriated. The dysfunctional or barely functional school plays havoc with the lives of students, since there is no other school in the vicinity. But to keep the wheels in motion, students are allowed, even encouraged, to cheat at examinations, copying the answers to the questions from, each other and from text-books. Passing examinations is all that matters. Not surprisingly, the school boasts of 100% results.

One teacher runs tuition/coaching classes, where he offers large sums of money to his colleagues, to persuade them to keep away from their school job. His logic is that the school management keeps defaulting on salaries, up to a whole year, so the teachers are justified in finding alternate sources of income. Two idealistic teachers stand-up against this crass commercialisation of the education system, and use fasting and satyagraha (non-violent protests, popularised by Mahatma Gandhi), in which they are joined by two students.

Popular comedian Anshuman Vichare, who acted in Shwaas, plays the role of a bearded teacher, with high moral standards, for a change. It is also a welcome change for Jagannath Nivangune, who has been typecast as a police officer, being cast here as the other crusader, along with Vichare. Both do a creditable job. Milind Shinde plays the unscrupulous opportunist who runs the coaching class, looking the part and apparently enjoying himself. Kamlesh Sawant, Anshuman Vichare, Jagannath Nivangune, Vipul Salunkhe, Anil Nagarkar, Kailas Waghmare and Poonam Waghmare provide adequate support.

Not an ideal package, Copy is at least an honest attempt at addressing a burning issue, with depth in writing.

(The schedule and the brochure mention only Dayasagar Wankhede as director. Wankhede clarified that this was a printing error and that the film was co-directed by Hemant Dhabade).

Rating: ***

Indu Sarkar, 2017

One would have expected Madhur Bhandarkar to call his 2017 vehicle 'Politics'. It is about politics. In the tradition of Chandni Bar, Satta, Traffic Signal, Fashion, Page 3, Corporate, Jail and Calendar Girls, naming it Politics conforms to the pattern of deriving a title from the milieu. Bhandarkar’s films do have the settings the titles suggest, but are usually the stories of women and men who populate such realms. Chandni Bar was more the tale of its protagonist than the bar and the historical timeline of the religious riots in Mumbai. So, come 2017, Bhandarkar decides to name his film after his protagonist, who is an indirect victim of the political scenario in New Delhi circa 1974-77.

Those were the days of Indira Raaj (rule), Indira Gandhi being the iron-fisted Prime Minister of India. A series of events across the country prompted Gandhi to Impose Internal Emergency, suspending most constitutional and human rights, and a gunpoint regime was made operational. There were many benefits of a policy of zero-tolerance towards hoarding, absenteeism, train delays, profiteering and more, which were weighed against the rule of diktats promulgated by Gandhi’s younger son Sanjay, the most draconian of which involved razing dawn of slums in New Delhi and a nationwide forcible sterilisation of men of all ages, in an attempt to stem population growth. Bhandarkar, now 50, was a little boy during the emergency period, so his story is not a memoir, by any yardstick. Anil Pandey, who worked with him in Dil Toh Baccha Hai and Calendar Girls, is also a post-emergency citizen, as is the dialogue writer, Sanjay Chhel. So, the film is fiction meets research.

Yes, the negatives of the emergency constitute a significant part of the film, though with a name like Indu Sarkar, it was only logical to expect an indictment of Indu (Indira)’s Sarkar (government). Very early in the film, Bhandarkar makes it clear that his leading lady is an orphan by the name of Indu, who stammers and writes poetry, and Sarkar is her married surname. So, Indu Sarkar is not about Indira’s government. Indira Gandhi, as played by an actress, is seen for about five seconds, at the end, and has no words to speak. By contrast, there is ample footage devoted to Sanjay Gandhi, again played by an actor.

Barring occasional flashes of inspiration, and some good lines, the fictionalised re-enactment of the dark period is lack-lustre. Kirti Kulhari (Shaitaan, Jal, Pink) as Indu Sarkar struggles to make the stammering work for her, and only barely succeeds. Tota Roy Chowdhury (Shubho Mahurt, Chokher Bali, Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh) as Navin Sarkar comes with impeccable credentials, only to get wasted. Neil Nitin Mukesh (Johnny Gaddaar, New York, 7 Khoon Maaf, Jail) does look a lot like Sanjay Gandhi. His scenes have a uni-dimensional look about them. Rashmi Jha as Farzana (named to rhyme with Rukhsana; Rukhsana Sultana was reported to be very close to Snajay) plays along like a moll, the role having been written more literally than cinematically. Sheeba Chaddha as Mekhla and Manav Vij as Inspector Sodhi draw appreciation, while Mohan Kapoor as Sahani and Parvin Dabas as an Intelligence Bureau Officer are stock characters. Casting artistes of the calibre of Anupam Kher as Nanaji Pradhan and Zakir Hussain as Inspector Mishra is a colossal waste. Lastly, Supriya Vinod, as Indira Gandhi, comes just before the credits roll.

Of some curiosity value is the rendering of his father, Aziz Nazan's iconic qawwali, ‘Chadhta sooraj dheerey dherey dhalta hae,” by Mujtaba Aziz Nazan, retained in full and picturised with the screen representation of Sanjay Gandhi in audience.

Stray incidents and allegories do not add up to an impressive whole in Indu Sarkar.

Rating: **

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British Urban Film Festival to return in June 2018

January 7, 2018, 11:55 am

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British Urban Film Festival to return in June 2018

The British Urban Film Festival is to return in June 2018. Taking place 4 – 9 June, the six day event will feature UK and international premieres of short films and feature length titles. Also returning will be the annual Live Script Readings (now in its’ 6th year) which will showcase the work of 3 writers selected by BUFF's panel of script judges.

The showpiece BUFF Awards returns for a 4th year and will open this year’s festival on Monday 4 June.

Last year’s festival included the London premieres of Free In Deed (starring David Harewood), Chapter and Verse (starring Daniel Beaty, Omari Hardwick and Loretta Devine) and Potato Potahto (starring OC Ukeje and Joselyn Dumas). Last year's awards gave special honorary recognition to actor Ashley Walters for a career spanning 25 years.

The 2018 line-up (including the awards nominations and recipients) will be announced at the BUFF Media Day on Thursday 8 March.

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Global Content Bazar is an international market for the content industry in India

January 8, 2018, 4:35 am

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"The content world today is in many ways more open, transparent, and importantly, with the consumer in control."

Global Content Bazar is an international market for the content industry and it will be organised in India every year in the month of January, making it the calendar year’s very first important content market.

It is the ideal platform to meet genuine marketers to strike a deal with.

India's first ever content market, Global Content Bazar 2017 hit the bulls eye, witnessing many eager, high-quality trade visitors who echoed a sentiment of highly beneficial exchanges and interactions with exhibitors, buyers, sellers, syndicators, distributors and participants culminating in a healthy amount of content acquisition and sales.

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Call For Entries: Tomorrow Is The Last Day To Enter

January 8, 2018, 4:38 pm

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Tomorrow is the last day to enter your feature, short, animation, screenplay, or graphic novel to the Silver Scream Film Fest.

The Silver Scream Fest is this February 16-18 at the Roxy Stadium 14 Theater in Santa Rosa. This year we're celebrating The Heroines Of Horror - Kelli Maroney, Barbara Crampton, and Dee Wallace. Meet the original Creature From The Black Lagoon Ricou Browning. There's even a special screening of the 4K Criterion Edition of Night Of The Living Dead.

In the day enjoy films from fresh new filmmakers, cult classics, and panels with special guests. At night experience the Friday night reception at the 3rd Street Aleworks, Saturday's VIP dinner at the Flamingo, and a private wrap party for the indie filmmakers and the Silver Scream Staff at Mary's Pizza Shack.

Enter at withoutabox.com here:

https://www.withoutabox.com/03film/03t_fin/03t_fin_fest_01over.php?festview=1&festival_id=8369

https://youtu.be/RS2APY5m78A

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Here’s the Program for the 2018 Göteborg Film Festival!

January 9, 2018, 1:46 pm

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Amateurs, by Gabriela Pichler

A press conference held at 1 p.m. today marked the release of the program for the 41st Göteborg Film Festival, the largest film festival in the Nordic countries.

The festival will show 399 films from 78 countries during 11 intense days, January 26–February 5. In addition there will be seminars, discussions, parties and live music.

The tickets will be released to festival members on January 11 and to the general public on January 13.

Leaf through the program here>>

Amateurs, by Gabriela Pichler

Amateurs by Gabriela Pichler to Open Göteborg Film Festival

The world premiere of Gabriela Pichler's Amateurs will kick off Göteborg Film Festival.

The uncompromising debut Eat Sleep Die immediately established Gabriela Pichler as one of Sweden’s most-respected directors. Eat Sleep Die won the Audience Award at Venice Film Festival's Critic's Week and four Guldbagge Awards (the Swedish equivalent to the Oscars) including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Now Pichler is back with her second feature Amateurs – an intelligent, warm and wonderfully funny film about who gets to decide a community's outward image. The small municipality of Lafors hopes to solve its economic drought by attracting a German discount supermarket. In order to bolster Lafors' brand, local teenagers are asked to produce films about their hometown, but the films do not turn out as expected. The project gets called off, but two young girls decide to continue working on their documentary anyway. Based on a script that Pichler wrote together with author Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Pichler depicts everyone, from the discontented citizens to angst-ridden politicans with great precision, an engaging sense of humor and 100% accuracy.

Amatuers is also included in Nordic Competition.

Holiday, Isabella Eklöf

Nine Films Compete for One Million Crowns

For the 30th time, Göteborg Film Festival will hand out the award for best Nordic film, Dragon Award Best Nordic Film. All in all, nine films are included in the competition, which offers a prize sum of one million SEK that is handed out in cooperation with Volvo Car Group, Region Västra Götaland and City of Gothenburg.

This year’s nominees are: Amateurs by Gabriela Pichler (Sweden), The Charmer by Milad Alami (Denmark/Sweden), Euphoria by Lisa Langseth (Sweden/Germany), What Will People Say by Iram Haq (Norway/Germany/Sweden), Jimmie by Jesper Ganslandt (Sweden/Austria/Croatia), The Violin Player by Paavo Westerberg (Finland), The Return by Malene Choi (Denmark), Holiday by Isabella Eklöf (Denmark) och And Breathe Normally by Ísold Uggadóttir (Iceland/Sweden/Belgium).

The award will be handed out at the Dragon Award gala on Saturday, February 3.

Presenting partner for Dragon Award Best Nordic Film is Volvo Car Group.

Read more here>>

Disobedience

The festival launches new international competition

This year Göteborg Film Festival will launch its new International Competition. The section includes 20 international films and the festival audience will select the winner. Dragon Award Best International Film along with 50 000 SEK (approx. 5000 euros) is awarded to the winner. Dragon Award Best International FIlm is presented by newspaper Göteborgs-Posten.

The 20 films nominated for Dragon Award Best International Film are:
Disobedience by Sebastián Lelio, The Death of Stalin by Armando Iannucci, Angels Wear White by Vivian Qu, Western by Valeska Grisebach, Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli, Mademoiselle Paradis by Barbara Albert, Pity by Babis Makridis, Over the Limit by Marta Prus, Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts by Mouly Surya, The Wound by John Trengove, Men Don't Cry by Alen Drljevic, Good Favour by Rebecca Daly, Sweet Country by Warwick Thornton, Pororoca by Constantin Popescu, Makala by Emmanuel Gras, The Other Side of Everything by Mila Turajlic, Outside In by Lynn Shelton, Israfil by Ida Panahandeh, Anna's War by Aleksei Fedorchenko and The Eternal Feminine by Natalia Beristáin.

Ava

The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award

Ingmar Bergman was the honorary president of Göteborg Film Festival until his death in 2007. In cooperation with him, the festival established an international film award for “a debuting filmmaker who in their film treats an existential theme with a dynamic or experimental approach to the cinematic means of expression.”

The eight films nominated for the award, which will be handed out for the eleventh time:
Dead Pigs by Cathy Yan (China/USA)
Ava by Sadaf Foroughi (Iran/Canada/Qatar)
Malila: The Farewell Flower by Anucha Boonyawatana (Thailand)
Death of a Poetess by Dana Goldberg, co-director: Efrat Mishori (Israel)
Microhabitat by Jeon Go-woon (South Korea)
The Flower Shop by Ruben Desiere (Belgium/Slovakia)
Menina by Cristina Pinheiro (France)
The Blessed by Sofia Djama (Algeria/France/Qatar)

From Where We've Fallen

Focus: Electric Shadows of China

The swift and unpredictable social changes that China is experiencing creates a rich and nuanced film culture full of young filmmakers who explore new cinematic paths beyond the standardized commercial film culture. These films are the focus of Göteborg Film Festival’s Electric Shadows of China.

– To those interested in Chinese film culture, it’s clear that Chinese cinema today is an electrifying place that reflects and challenges a superpower that is currently going through political, economic and cultural changes that will have an impact on the entire world, says Jonas Holmberg, Artistic Director, Göteborg Film Festival.

Seven feature films, four documentaries and a retrospective form the programme for Electric Shadows of China.

Read more here>>

Juliette Binoche, Angelo Chricchi

Honorary Dragon Award 2018: Juliette Binoche

"As one of the most influential actors of our time, Juliette Binoche has behind her a wide range of iconic performances that have helped shape modern European film history.", Jonas Holmberg, Artistic Director, Göteborg Film Festival.

Read more here>>

Alicia Vikander, Johan Bergmark

Nordic Honorary Dragon Award 2018: Alicia Vikander

Göteborg Film Festival proudly presents the recipient of the 2018 Nordic Honorary Dragon Award: Alicia Vikander. The Academy Awarded actress actress will visit the festival Jan 26 to Jan 28.

Read more here>>

Triptyk

Guédiguian, Iannucci, von Trotta and Laurie Anderson set for Göteborg Film Festival

A selection of guests that will attend the 41st Göteborg Film Festival.

Laurie Anderson visited the festival 2016 with Heart of a Dog. This year she returns with her VR-project Chalkroom. Anderson will hold a Master Class on February 2.

French director Robert Guédiguian and actress Ariane Ascaride will attend the festival with House by the Sea, which screens in the section Masters.

BAFTA- and Emmy award-winning writer and director Armando Iannucci will attend the festival with his critically acclaimed The Death of Stalin. The film will screen as part of the International Competition. Iannucci will give a Master Class January 30.

Legendary director Margarethe von Trotta received the festival's Honorary Award in 2013. This year she attends the festival with her new film Forget About Nick. Von Trotta has also contributed to the Bergman celebrations by selecting Hour of the Wolf for a retrospective. Von Trotta will give a Master Class on February 2.

British author and screenwriter Ian McEwan ("Atonement", "Amsterdam") will visit the festival together with director Dominic Cooke with their film On Chesil Beach.

French filmmakers Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano will visit the festival with C'est la vie.

A complete guest list will be published on goteborgfilmfestival.se shortly.

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5 Reasons to Attend the Chandler International Film Festival next week

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1) Screening 183 films

We have films from different genres including Documentaries, Music Videos, Sci-Fi Shorts, Animated Shorts, Horror Shorts, Comedy Shorts, Feature-length films, you name it! Among these 183 films, we are honored to have 2 World Premieres, 4 U.S. Premieres, and 13 Arizona Premieres! The films we screen come from all over the globe, bringing together different cultures and different stories all in one exciting place.

2) 8 venues, 4 days

This year’s festival will be held in 8 different venues spread out across Downtown Chandler over the course of 4 days. Our venues all have different styles: theater rooms at Harkins and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, ballrooms in the San Marcos Crowne Plaza Resort, restaurants where attendees can eat and drink while watching some amazing films, and outdoor screenings where you can enjoy the beautiful Arizona January weather!

3) Activities

At our festival, we do more than just show films. We host a lot of other exciting events! We will be hosting a Workshop, taught by industry legend Dov Simens, where local people and filmmakers alike can learn professional filmmaking techniques in just two days! For the first time in Arizona history, we will be hosting a Film Market, a place where locals and filmmakers can go talk with film financiers, distributors, and other industry professionals. Over the course of the weekend, a Silent Auction of film paraphernalia will be going on. You can bid on items used or made by famous film people and the person with the highest bid wins!

4) Free Hollywood-style red carpet

This red carpet is not just for celebrities and filmmakers. You can make your red carpet debut for free! Get dolled up like a celebrity, walk the red carpet and get your picture taken and participate in some media interviews!

5) Film, fun, and festival

Over 300 filmmakers local and international and over 1,000 local people come together for indoor and outdoor festival screenings! Every night of this event there will be after parties with celebrities and filmmakers. This is the perfect place to network, meet with local talent, and connect to start making something fun, new, and exciting!

Find out more about their films on our website https://www.chandlerfilmfestival.com and to get your tickets!

3185 South Price Road, Chandler, AZ, United States

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MIFF 2018, II

January 9, 2018, 11:31 pm

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MIFF 2018, II

Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) for Documentary, Short and Animation Films, which begins on 28 January, 2018 in Mumbai, has released the list of films to be screened in four sections. Here is the list of films selected for the International Competition section, in the two duration-based categories, 45 or less and no specified duration. The shortest of the lot runs for 15 minutes while the longest is a marathon 183 minutes long. Films come from India, Canada, Australia, USA, UK, France, Austria, Poland, Finland, South Korea, BanglaDesh, Estonia and Singapore.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION SECTION
Sr. No.	Title In English	Country	Duration in mins	Category	Director
1	Campus Rising	India	74	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Yousuf Saeed
2	The Dispossessed	Canada	183	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Mathieu Roy
3	Abdul & Jose	Australia	52	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Luigi Acquisto & Lurdes Pires
4	SALAM	United States	75	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Anand Kamalakar
5	RICE	United Kingdom	35	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	David Blamey
6	Atul	India	52	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Kamal Swaroop
7	3 Seconds Divorce	Canada	54	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Shazia Javed
8	Charlie vs Goliath	United States	80	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Reed Lindsay
9	The Cinema Travellers	India	96	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Shirley Abraham & Amit Madheshiya
10	Surabhi Family, In Life In Drama	France/India (Made in collaboration with France Televisions)	52	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Neeta Jain Duhaut
11	THE BAULKHAM HILLS AFRICAN LADIES TROUPE	Australia	84	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Ros Horin
12	VELVET REVOLUTION	India	56	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Nupur Basu
13	Brother Jakob, are you sleeping?	Austria	86	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Stefan Bohun
14	The Poetics of Fragility	United States	64	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Nicolas Grandi & Lata Mani
15	A Brave Bunch. Uprising through children’s eyes.	Poland	29	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Tomasz Stankiewicz
16	I am Bonnie	India	45	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Satarupa Santra, Farha Khatun,Sourabh Kanti Dutta
17	Earth Crusader	India	55	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Shabnam Sukhdev
18	My Secret Forest	Finland	56	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Niina Brandt
19	Born Together	Bangladesh	72	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Shabnam Ferdousi
20	Grandfather	India	22	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.)	Amar Kaushik
21	THAT GUSTY MORNING	India	22	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.)	Jahnu Barua
22	MY TURN	South Korea	15	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.)	Nakyung Kim
23	The Egg	Israel	19	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.)	Nadav Direktor
24	ICE	France / Estonia	15	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.)	Anna Hints
25	Wabi Sabi	Singapore	25	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.)	Anshul Tiwari

Registrations are open. Contact registration@miff.in or go to www.miff.in

Screenings will be held at the Films Division Complex and the Russian Culture Centre, both on Peddar Road, in south Mumbai.

MIFF has been organised since 1990, by the Films Divsion of the Government of India, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

It is a biennial event.

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The Alliance Française French Film Festival, returns to Adelaide’s Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas from 22 March to 15 April 2018.

January 10, 2018, 6:46 am

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Australia’s most evocative cultural film event, the Alliance Française French Film Festival, returns to Adelaide’s Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas from 22 March to 15 April 2018.

Celebrating its 29th season and running across seven cities and two satellite locations from late February to early April 2018, the Festival, which screens at Palace Cinemas throughout Australia, is proudly presented by the Alliance Française in association with the Embassy of France in Australia, Unifrance Films and the gracious support of esteemed Presenting Sponsor, Renault Australia.

Once again, this beloved, yet very avant-garde ‘grande dame’ will delight with a superb line-up of contemporary French cinema including, for the first time, a LGBT strand spread across categories such as “We are Family” and “Crazy in Love”, in celebration of the 40th Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras and Australia’s recent ‘Yes’ vote for same-sex marriage.

For his second year at the helm Artistic Director, Philippe Platel, has selected more than 50 features and documentaries – many of which will be Australian premières.

Perhaps as a counterpoint to the increasing challenges faced by modern society, the 2018 program also reflects the overall sense of positivity infusing many recent French titles, incorporating messages of courage, generosity, camaraderie and equality.

History will also play a key role, with three titles in particular - See You Up There (Au revoir là-haut), Golden Years (Nos années folles) and The Guardians (Les gardiennes) - exploring very diverse stories inspired by World War 1.

The work of emerging filmmakers like Hubert Charuel (Bloody Milk / Petit paysan), Léa Mysius (Ava) and David Foenkinos (Jalouse) will screen alongside the latest from established directors such as Anne Fontaine, Philippe le Guay, Cédric Klapisch, François Ozon, Claire Denis and Tonie Marshall. Included will also be films from ‘artists’ adept on both sides of the camera including Mathieu Amalric, Albert Dupontel, Noémie Lvovsky and Valérie Lemercier.

Escorting us on this intoxicating voyage will be new ‘darlings’ of French cinema such as Swann Arlaud, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Finnegan Oldfield, Laetitia Dosch and Anaïs Demoustier joining acknowledged stars including Fanny Ardant, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Nathalie Baye, Gael García Bernal, Bérénice Béjo, Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Vincent Cassel, François Cluzet, and Catherine Deneuve, to Gérard Depardieu, Emmanuelle Devos, Jean Dujardin, Romain Duris, Samy Frey, Nicole Garcia, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Isabelle Huppert, Agnès Jaoui, Tcheky Karyo, Mathieu Kassovitz, Mélanie Laurent, Chiara Mastroianni, Vanessa Paradis, Roschdy Zem andOmar Sy.

Highlights of the 2018 line-up also include Montparnasse Bienvenüe, the stunning feature debut from director Léonor Serraille about a young woman adrift in Paris, awarded the Camera d’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival; Robin Campillo's BPM (Beats Per Minute), also a big winner at Cannes 2017, securing both the Grand Prix and FIPRESCI Prize; Double Lover (L’amant double), an erotic thriller with Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier and Jacqueline Bisset; Ismael's Ghosts (Les fantômes d’Ismaël) starring Mathieu Amalric and Marion Cotillard as two former lovers whose paths collide, and Custody, the story of a broken marriage that leads to a bitter custody battle that won the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival.

http://www.affrenchfilmfestival.org

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Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival 2018 Call for Entries

January 10, 2018, 4:35 pm

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Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival is calling all fantastic filmmakers to submit their feature films, shorts and music documentaries to the 14th edition of the festival which will take place from the 10th to the 14th of July in Ljutomer, Slovenia. Deadline is the 1st of May.

Selected feature films will compete for Grossmann’s most prestigious award, the Vicious Cat.

Selected short films will compete for the Slak's Vicious Cat award for Best Short Film or the Melies d’Argent award which will enable the winner to compete for the Melies d’Or award, given to the Best European Fantastic Short Film by the European Fantastic Film Festival Federation (EFFFF) at the end of the year’s festival cycle.

Submissions are also open for the Noisy Cat award for Best Music Documentary.

Feature live-action and animated films that will not be selected into competition programs will be considered for other festival categories.

http://www.grossmann.si/call-for-entries/film-submission

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Fantasporto 2018 line up revealed in partnership with filmfestivals.com

January 11, 2018, 2:13 am

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LINE UP FANTASPORTO’2018

38th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

OPENING NIGHT

Marrowbone- Sérgio G. Sanchez- 110’ – Esp

OPENING OF THE COMPETITIVE SECTIONS

Anna Karenina. Vronsky’s Story– Karen Shakhnazarov- 132’ Russia

CLOSING NIGHT

Le Fidèle (Racer and the Jailbird - Fidelidade Sem Limites)- Michael R. Roskam- Bel - Filme representante Bélgica aos ÓSCARES

FANTASY FILMS OFFICIAL SECTION

Competition

Features

Ruin Me - Preston DeFrancis – 88’ – EUA - ANTRESTREIA EUROPEIA

Living Among Us - Brian A. Metcalf- 80’ – EUA - ANTRESTREIA MUNDIAL

Woman in Unit 23B (Ang Nanannagal) – Prime Cruz - 83’- Filipinas - INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Ilawod-The Water Spirit– Dan Villegas - 96’ Filip- INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Ajin: Demi-Human- Katsuyuki Motohiro - 109’- Jap.

Les Affamés– Robin Aubert- 97’ – Can

Still Born– Brandon Christensen -87’ Canadá- ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

Replace - Norbert Keil– 101’ – Can/Alem

November - Rainer Sarnet – 115’- Estónia/Holanda/Polónia- REPRES OSCARES pela ESTÓNIA

A Day– Sun-ho Cho- 110’- Coreia- ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

Involution- Pavel Khvaleev – 87’ –Russ/Alem - ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL

Glass Garden– Shin Su-won - 117’- Coreia - ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

The Child Remains- Michael Melski-113’ – Canadá

DC Superheroes VS Eagle Talon-Frogman-104’- Jap- INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

The Hollow Child– Jeremy Lutter – 88’ Can - INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

A Comédia Divina– Toni Venturi -97’- Bras – ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

Shorts

Reruns- Rosto – 14’23’’ – Hol/ Fra/Belgica - ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

Caronte – Luís Tinoco- 15’51’’ – Esp

Creature from the Lake- Renata Antunez, Alexis Bédué, Léa Bresciani, Amandine Canville, Maria Castro Rodriguez, Logan Cluber, Nicolas Grangeaud, Capucine Rahmoun-Swierczynski, Victor Rouxel, Orianne Siccardi, Mallaury Simoes – 5’ 10’’- Fra

Yemanja- Frédéric Gaudin, Marceau Leger, Tanguy Lemonnier, Patrick Martini, Diana Nikitina, Flora Silve – 5’52’’- Fra

Azdaja- The Dragon– Ivan Ramadan – 13’- Bosnia e Herzegovina- ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

The End of Time- Milcho Manchevski – 5’24’’- USA/Cuba

Sweet Water- Drew Casson- 20’- UK- INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

In the Dark, Dark Woods- Jason Bognacki – 4’ 30’’- EUA - 2017

Merry-Go-Round- lhor Podolchak- 4’ 59’’- Ucrânia/ Polónia

Belle à Croquer- Axel Courtière- 14’57’’- Fra

BEC- Tony Morales- 12’17’’- Esp – INTERNATIONAL PREMIÈRE

Zarr-Dos- Bart Wasem - 6’ 34’’ - Suiça

Storylines – Juan Manuel Betancourt Calero -17’50’’- Colombia – ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

Salvatore- Maarten Groen- 11’38’’- Holand- INTERNATIONAL PREMIÈRE

A.L.- Cashell Horgan- 10’57’’ – Irlanda- ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL

28^th OFFICIAL SECTION DIRECTOR´S WEEK

MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA´S AWARD

Competition

Aparição- Fernando Vendrell- 116’- Port- ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL

Uma Vida Sublime– Luís Diogo- 106 - Port- ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL

Anna Karenina. Vronsky’s Story– Karen Shakhnazarov- 132’ Russia

Bhoy Intsik- Joel Lamangan- 107’ – Filipinas – INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Budapest Noir – Éva Gárdos- 95’- Hung- ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

The Charmer– Milad Alami - 102’ – Din

Bikini Moon– Milcho Manchevski – 102’- EUA - ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

Al- Asleyeen– Marwan Hamed – 125’ – Egipto -ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL

True Fiction– Jin-Mook Kim- 104’- Coreia do Sul - ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL

The Butcher, The Whore and the One-Eyed Man- János Szasz- 102’ – Hungria

18^th OFFICIAL SECTION ORIENT EXPRESS

Competition

True Fiction– Jin-Mook Kim- 104’- Coreia do Sul - ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL

Bhoy Intsik- Joel Lamangan- 107’ – Filipinas - INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Woman in Unit 23B (Ang Nanannagal) – Prime Cruz- 83’- Filipinas - INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Ilawod-The Water Spirit– Dan Villegas -96’ - INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

Ajin: Demi-Human- Katsuyuki Motohiro - 109’- Jap

A Day– Sun-ho Cho- 110’- Coreia- ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

Glass Garden– Shin Su-won - 117’- Coreia - ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

DC Superheroes VS Eagle Talon-Frogman-104’- Jap- INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

OFFICIAL SECTION OUT OF COMPETITION PREMIÈRE & PANORAMA

Medium and Feature Films

Portuguese premieres

Doutores Palhaços– Bernardo Lopes, Helder Faria- 75’ –Port - ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL

Marrowbone- Sérgio G. Sanchez- 110’ – Esp

The Unwilling– Jonathan Heap - 81’- EUA

The Night of the Virgin- Roberto San Sebastián- Esp- 117’

Freddy/Eddy- Trini Tullman- 94’ –Alemanha

Meio Expediente– Santiago Dellape- 40’ – Bras- ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

Chimera- Maurice Haeems – 80’ – India/United Arab Emirates/USA - ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL

Vade Retro– André Felipe Binder, Rodrigo Meirelles, Mauro Mendonça Junior - 35’ 10’’ – TV Globo

Mexico Barbaro II – Diego Cohen, Christian Cueva, Ricardo Farias, Michelle Garza, Carlos Meléndez, Lex Ortega, Abraham Sanchez, Sergio Tello, Fernando Urdapilleta. 95’ - Mexico

Carcereiros- José Eduardo Belmonte - 36’- TV Globo

Crone Wood- Ark Heridan- 85’ Irlanda- ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

Fractured- Jamie Patterson – UK- 108’- 2016 - ANTESTREIA EUROPEIA

Acts of Violence– Brett Donowho – 86’ – EUA

Le Fidèle (Racer and the Jailbird - Fidelidade Sem Limites)- Michael R. Roskam- Bel - Filme representante da Bélgica aos ÓSCARES

OFFICIAL PORTUGUESE CINEMA AWARDS 2018

Competition

Best First films from Portugal

Shorts

Calipso– Paulo A.M.Oliveira, Pedro Martins - 15’05’’ – Port- 2focusimage@gmail.com

Spin - Off– Farid Salamé – 15’27’’ – Port / Líbano –farid.salame@gmail.com -

Não Desculpo– Sofia Almeida Ferreira, Pedro Marta- 6’ 38’’- Port- sofialmeidaferreira@gmail.com

Entretons- Luís Miranda- 4’34’’- Port- mirandafilmes@gmail.com

Qualquer Coisa de Belo - Pedro Senna Nunes- 10’ 04’’– Port - pedrosennanunes@gmail.com

Red Queen– Adriana Martins da Silva, Pedro Martins – 15’29’ – Port adriana.cmartinssilva@gmail.com-

Features

Uma Vida Sublime– Luís Diogo- 106´Port- ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL

Aparição- Fernando Vendrell- 116’- Port - ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL

Doutores Palhaços– Bernardo Lopes, Helder Faria- 75’ –Port - ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL

Best Fuilm Schools Prizes

MELHOR ESCOLA DE CINEMA E AUDIOVISUAL 2018

Universidade Católica do Porto – Escola das Artes

Casas Caiadas- Kyle Sousa – 13’26’’

O Manto- Duarte Castelo Branco – 13’26

Uma Formiga- João Veloso – 14’14’’

Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa

Anexo - Leonor Basílio – 7’48’’

Ermo - Fábio Rebelo- 7’ 53’’

Tartus -Francisco Mineiro, Leonor Abreu – 10 28’’

Universidade do Minho

Quantas Almas Tenho - António Magalhães, David Rodrigues, João Pereira, 5’30’’
Fear - Denis Fernandes, 3’50”
Os Médicos do Povo- Juliana Ramalho- 9’30”
Demons- Jennifer Gomes- 3’30”
Amo(r)-te -Vanessa Cortez- 3’’
Locked Up -Carolina Estrella - 2’47”
Mad Hatter- Joana Sofia Carvalho- 2’40”
Recantiga - Ana Martins- 2’21”

Terminal de Cruzeiros- Inês Paredes- 2’20”

Aqui vai o Ganso- Mariana Duarte, Diogo Rodrigues, Rui Araújo , Francisco Sousa- 2’
Opia - Gabriela Ferreira , Mário Almeida- 2’25’’

UTAD – Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

As Miúdas- Tiago Machado- 7’

Julieta- Sandra Vieira, Mariana Ribeiro, Tiago Machado, Rui Fraga –12’

Máscaras- Diana Lopes, André Peixoto, José Silva, João Gama – 5’

Óscar - Carla Barbosa, Mónica Ribeiro, Sara Carvalho – 4’

Tipos de Pessoas- Ana Rute Cardoso, Bárbara Silva, Fabiana Bezerra, Joana Silva, Rute Carvalho – 5’

ESAP - Escola Superior Artística do Porto

Correntes– Lourenço Malcatanho – 5’ 11’

Mistério– Pedro Magano Pinto -4’50’’

Oblívia- João Monteiro- 20’

EPI/ETIC - Escola Técnica de Imagem e Comunicação - Lisboa

Azul Adolescente– Afonso Raimundo -16’ 06’’

Wanted- Eduardo Inácio – EPI- 3’ 52’’

Insanus- Rita Isaúl- 14’ 43’’ – Port

La Boîte Rouge- João Rodrigues- 3’

ESAD - Escola Superior de Arte e Design do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

Two Time Two– Rute Mateus- 13’ 50’’

BRTHR – Imma Veiga – 8’

Púrpura- Pedro Antunes- 12’

ESMAD - Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design - Politécnico do Porto

Independência ou Morte- Mariana Bittencourt – 12’09’’

Mother’s Day– Rita Figueira, Vânia Oliveira – 7’ 29’’

The Voyager– João Gonzalez- 4’ 38’’

Quem Bate à Porta- Afonso Marmelo- 14’45’’

Special P¨rogram

TV GLOBO FANTÁSTICA

Meio Expediente– Santiago Dellape- 40’ – Bras

Vade Retro- André Felipe Binder, Rodrigo Meirelles, Mauro Mendonça Jr- 35’10’- Bras

Carcereiros–José Eduardo Belmonte- 35’ 07’’- Bras

Tribute to LAURO ANTÓNIO

Manhã Submersa- Lauro António - 127’ – Port

5th Fantas Classics

DREAM DEMON - 30º ANIVERSÁRIO da estreia do clássico de Harley Cokeliss, na presença do realizador

Participou a concurso no Fantasporto’1989.

Dream Demon - Director’s Cut- Harley Cokeliss- 89’- 1988/89- UK

RETROSPECTIVE FILMS FROM CHANG TSO- CHI - Taiwan

Ah Chung- Chang Tso-Chi- 1996- 97’

Darkness and Light- Chang Tso-Chi- 1999- 104’

The Best of Times- Chang Tso-Chi- 2002 –109’

Soul of a Demon- Chang Tso-Chi- 2007- 122’

When Love Comes- Chang Tso-Chi- 2010-108’

TAIWAN B-MOVIES

Taiwan Black Movies- HOU Chi-Jan- 61’- 2005

On the Society File of Shanghai- WANG Chu-Chin – 91’ -1981

Never Too Late to Repent - OUYANG Chun- 96’- 1979

Woman Revenger - OUYANG Chun-85’ - 1982

The Challenge of the Lady Ninja - LEE Tso-Nam – 91’- 1982

The Lady Avenger -YANG Chia-Yun- 90’- 1981

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The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced its dates and the festival’s affiliated

January 12, 2018, 3:14 am

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TIFF will be held for 10 days from October 25 (Thu.) to November 3 (Sat.) at Roppongi Hills, EX Theater and other venues in Tokyo, while TIFFCOM will be held for 3 days from October 23 (Tue.) to 25 (Thu.) in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.

TIFF was launched in 1985 as Japan’s first major film festival and in the ensuing years, shined a 　 spotlight on exceptional films and filmmakers from around the world. Celebrating its 30th anniversary last year with an expanded program, the 30th TIFF drew 201,790 attendees, an increase of 11% over the previous year.

TIFF Festival Director Takeo Hisamatsu commented: “We are very grateful for everyone’s participation and enthusiasm at the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival last year. For the 31st TIFF, the entire TIFF staff will do our utmost to make it even more appealing by further enhancing our program and related projects. We look forward to your continued support.”

TIFF will remain fully committed to sharing the joys of cinema and cultivating cultural exchanges between filmmakers and film lovers. Our direction is represented by the slogan Entertainment and Art in Symmetry, encompassing our three visions for the festival: Expansive, Empowering and Enlightening.

The TIFF team appreciates your ongoing support and interest in the Tokyo International Film Festival.
See you in Tokyo in 2018!

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Preview of SXSW to be held March 9-18, 2018 in Austin, Texas

January 12, 2018, 3:18 am

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Yesterday the festival announcedMelinda Gates as a Keynote Speaker. As Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda sets the overall direction of the world’s largest private foundation, hacktivist/COO of Techfugees Joséphine Goube will be the Opening Speaker.
You won’t want to miss our new round of Featured Speakers including Olivier Assayas, Michael Dell, Ray Kurzweil, Jonathan Nolan, Priscilla Presley, Megan Smith, Alex Winter, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Rachel Zoe, and more.
Don’t forget that we have conference programming across more tracks going into the second half of SXSWeek.
We’ve got a Music Festival announcement coming soon and lineup news from the Film and Comedy Festivals.

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15th IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, 2018 Call for Entries

January 15, 2018, 1:33 am

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Earlybird Deadline

March 15, 2018

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IN THE PALACE is an international festival dedicated to short films, new media and digital arts under 27 minutes in length. The main purpose of the Festival is to present contemporary film art from Bulgaria, Europe and the whole world. IN THE PALACE ISFF provides an exceptionally favorable environment and platform for expression for both young film artists and established professionals in this artistic field. Established in 2003, the festival had grown from a competitive forum for student films into the largest and most prestigious short film festival in Bulgaria and the region.

The festival is implemented within a week and consists of several main components:

• Competitive programme in 4 genres : fiction, documentary, animation, experimental
• ON FOCUS programme
• Q & A sessions
• Filmer Forge educational programme
• Pitching session
• Film industry market
• Videolibrary
• Side musical programme

IN THE PALACE is organized by Format SFF Foundation and Community Centre Veshtina in partnership and with support of Sofia Municipality, National Palace of Culture and Bulgarian National Film Center.

Awards & Prizes

The total award fund of the Festival amounts to 10 000 EUR payable in gold.

Rules & Terms

Festival Rules and Regulations

1. Eligible films must be maximum 27 minutes in length and completed after 1 January 2016.

2. The Festival accepts individual and institutional submission (i.e. production companies, distribution companies, film academies, national film centers, television networks, creative associations, etc.).

3. Entry fees and deadlines*:
FIRST DEADLINE: 15 of April 2017 - 15.00 EUR for the International and National Competition Programs;
LAST DEADLINE: 15 of March 2018 - 20.00 EUR for the International and National Competition Programs.

* Authors whose films have been selected in some of the 2 most recent editions of the Festival shall not be charged a submission fee.
** Authors whose films have been awarded or nominated in previous editions of the Festival shall not be charged a submission fee.

On 01 May 2018 the Festival will officially announce its final selection for the International and National Competition Programs.

4. The Festival does not pay any screening fees.

5. The total award fund of the Festival amounts to 10 000 EUR payable in gold.

6. The Festival Competition Program includes:

I. MAIN COMPETITION PROGRAM
ONLY for films having their Bulgarian premiere at the Festival, including the following categories:

-Fiction
-Documentary
-Animation
-Experimental films, hybrid forms and formats, digital art works.

Films and audiovisual works PUBLICLY SHOWN IN BULGARIA or RELEASED ON-LINE ON FREE ACCESS WEBSITES or PLATFORMS are NOT ELIGiBLE for this Competition Program.

II. STUDENT COMPETITION PROGRAM
Includes the following categories:

-Fiction
-Documentary
-Animation
-Experimental films, hybrid forms and formats, digital art works.

Eligible are only films that have been completed during the study years of their directors.

III. NATIONAL COMPETITION PROGRAM
ONLY FOR BULGARIAN MOVIES, including the following categories:

-Fiction
-Documentary
-Animation
-Experimental films, hybrid forms and formats, digital art works.

Eligible are films produced in Bulgaria or co-productions with Bulgarian participation.

7. The Festival appoints a Selection Committee and a professional International Jury to assess the films shown at Festival.

8. Authors of selected films will be timely informed about the decisions of the commissions.

9. Accreditation applications should be submitted via E-MAIL (guests@inthepalace.com) not later than 01 June 2018. The Festival has the right to decline accreditation; in this case the applicant will be timely notified.

10. The deadline for sending screening copies of selected films is 01 June 2018.

11. English subtitles are mandatory for all the movies, also for the ones with English dialogues. The subtitles must be always burned in the movie.

12. The recommended format of screening copies, together with all technical requirements, are sent to the address specified in the application. Once and if the movie is selected the recommended format of screening copies, together with all technical requirements will be sent to the mail indicated in the moment of the submission; please check carefully that the address is correct. If you don’t receive any communication, please write us asap to mail@inthepalace.com to check the status of your movie.

13. The Festival reserves the right to screen the preview copies of the films presented at the time of selection, if the screening copy is late and/or is different from the one selected, and/or in case the technical characteristics of the screening copy are different from the ones accepted by the Festival.

14. The Festival will cover the accommodation of one film representative per film of the movies selected in the competition program. The accommodation will be arranged based on preliminary accreditation. In the case of late applications the Festival will not be responsible if the accommodation capacity is filled up.

15. The Festival reserves the right to include films that have not accumulated enough selection points to participate in the competition programs, in thematic non-competitive festival programs.

16. Copyright and other rights owners of the film agree to its inclusion in any Festival and further presentation programs, such as gratuitous publication and showing of screenshots, trailers and parts of the film (online or via other media) with the purpose of presenting the film’s participation in the Festival.

17. Further to the Festival’s mission to preserve and protect short filmmaking as part of contemporary cultural heritage, all submitted demos of films will be automatically included in the Festival Video Library for a period of 10 years, and will be accessible for non-commercial and professional viewing. In the absence of an explicit written request on behalf of the rights owners at least 2 months before the expiry of the above 10-year period, the permanence of the movie in the Festival Video-Library will be automatically renewed for another period of the same duration (10 years).

18. The Festival Director has the right to personally resolve any cases not covered by the present rules and regulations.

19. The submission for participation in the Festival constitutes acceptance of all the present rules and regulations.

The Festival reserves the right to cancel an Application for participation and undertake action in case of breach of the present rules and regulations and/or indecent behavior: acts of aggression and arrogance, intolerance towards difference, etc. that undermine the Festival’s name or impede its normal proceedings.

Any legal disputes shall be resolved by a Bulgarian court.

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MIFF 2018, III

January 12, 2018, 8:14 am

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Films in the National Competition section of the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) for Documentary, Short and Animation films have been categorised into Long Documentaries (above 60 minutes), Short Documentaries (up to 45 minutes), Short Fiction (up to 45 minutes) and Animation. Altogether, 43 films will be shown, varying in length from 6 minutes to 112 minutes.

LIST OF FILMS SELECTED FOR NATIONAL COMPETITION SECTION IN MIFF-2018
Sr. No.	Title In English	Duration in mins	Category	Director
1	Kali	66	Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)	Subrata Sen
2	THE BOOKS WE MADE	68	Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)	ANUPAMA CHANDRA & UMADEVI TANUKU
3	LUCKNOW 1920-1949	66	Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)	UMA CHAKRAVARTI
4	ASK THE SEXPERT	83	Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)	Vaishali Sinha
5	Santhal Family to Mill Re-call	112	Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)	RV Ramani
6	Naachi Se Baanchi	70	Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)	Biju Toppo, Meghnath
7	Living The Natural Way	78	Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)	Sanjib Parasar
8	1984,When the Sun didn’t Rise	57	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	Teenaa Kaur
9	VEIL DONE	30	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	Juhi Bhatt
10	Withering House	26	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	Shreyas Dasharathe
11	The Loss of Western Ghats	23	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	Biju Pankaj
12	WORK OF FIRE	52	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	K R Manoj
13	For Susan	25	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	Arunima Tenzin Tara
14	Ima Sabitri	57	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	Bobo Khuraijam
15	In the Shade of Fallen Chinar	17	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	Fazil NC & Shawn Sebastian
16	SOME STORIES AROUND WITCHES	53	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	LIPIKA SINGH DARAI
17	Thankamma	14	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	Ramabhadran B
18	I am Jeeja	28	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	Swati Chakraborty
19	Chasing Tails	49	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	Tangella Madhavi
20	The Eyes of Darkness	54	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	Amitabh Parashar
21	Vanishing Glacier	52	Documentary Film (up to 60 minutes)	Raja Shabir Khan
22	Khidkee	30	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Rohan Parshuram Kanawade
23	Beloved	18	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Ranjan Chandel
24	Sopanam	12	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Sharan Venugopal
25	Nest	28	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Saurav Rai
26	Post Mortem	25	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Vinod Kamble
27	Conversation	22	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Harshal Wadkar
28	Paro	26	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	VIjay Kumar
29	VAISHALI	9	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	PRACHI SHARMA
30	Aaki	14	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Harshwardhan Bhalerao
31	Sakhisona	26	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Prantik Basu
32	Catharsis	34	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Indira P
33	InstaStories	25	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Kislay
34	Pressure Cooker	16	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Heena Dsouza
35	Mazhabi Laddu	25	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Saurabh Tyagi
36	SCARECROW	15	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	MAINAK GUHA
37	TASTE ALTERNATE	10	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	THEERTHA MYTHRY
38	TERRORIST	6	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	ASHUTOSH JHA
39	The Waterfall	20	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Lipika Singh Darai
40	DUALITY	15	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	VISHAL VASANT AHIRE
41	The Threshold	30	Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.)	Nishant Roy Bombarde
42	Come back WOOL E (This is the correct spelling)	10	Animation Film	Sumanta Ghosh
43	Tokri (The Basket)	15	Animation Film	Suresh Eriyat

Screenings begin on 28th January. Registration is on.

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Extended and Final Deadline for Submissions January 31, 2018

January 12, 2018, 12:44 pm

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The extended and final deadline for submissions is January 31. Don't miss out on the opportunity to participate in our celebration of indie film from May 7 to 13! Visit our website for details on how to submit: https://www.nycindieff.com/submissions/submit.

Trophies and certificates are awarded to all winners. Confirmed prizes for 2018 will be updated regularly:

Best Director
Panasonic AG-DVX200 4K camera
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Cinematography
SONY PXW-X70 free 2-week rental
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Narrative Feature
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Documentary Feature
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Short Film
ShortsTV Distribution
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Super Short Film
ShortsTV Distribution
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Short Documentary
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Short Script
Free listing on InkTip
ISAConnect membership & featured in writers showcase on ISA website
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Animation
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Art/Experimental
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Music Video
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Actor
iActing Studios one-year subscription to online classes
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Actress
iActing Studios one-year subscription to online classes
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best VR Video
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
$200 cash
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Short Sketch Comedy Video
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
$200 cash
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best TV Pilot
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
$200 cash
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

Best Web Series
1 year complimentary membership and pitch listing on iPitch.tv
$200 cash
Free access to licensed music catalogue for next project, provided by Epidemic Sound

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