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Filmfestivals.com Farewell to Jérôme and Jonathan "Au Revoir" from your festival peers
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> FESTIVALS IN FOCUS
The 9th Simon “Mabhunu” Sabela KZN Film and Television Awards Date Announced
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The Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) announces the line-up for in person edition
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The Honorary Partners of the 7th Beyond Borders International Documentary Festival, Castellorizo island
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The 22nd New Horizons International Film Festival kicked off
Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF): Where Great Ideas Can Be Made Real
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18th Annual Oscar-Qualifying® HollyShorts Film Festival reveals its diverse 2022 Line-up
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Festival GrecDoc daté le week-end du 2 au 4 décembre 2022
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38 documentaries from 9 countries will be screened at the 7th Beyond Borders Festival
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Overview of Beyond Borders program of films and events for the 7th edition
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GTA22 - New Show Date
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Interview with Director and Cinematographer Nick Canfield on Debut Film THE REVEREND
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79th Venice International Film Festival announces the Juries for the Orizzonti section and the “Luigi de Laurentiis” Award
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Locarno Film Festival: the Leopard Club Award goes to Daisy Edgar-Jones
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Locarno75: Matt Dillon to receive Lifetime Achievement Award
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Beyond Borders under the renewed patronage of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic
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Film Music Competition: Meet the finalists
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VIDEO Interview with Guillaume Esmiol Marché du Film Co Executive Director
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"Why you need to be screened at Festivals" A Masterclass with Bruno Chatelin at Bangkok Doc
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> FILMS IN FOCUS ...
France in Focus at Venice Production Bridge
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Netflix plans to acquire the Australian animation studio Animal Logic
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Filmakademie’s Animationsinstitut celebrates its 20th anniversary
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Beware of Ducks, Backflips and Flying Sailors, the OIAF Announces Animated Shorts Competition
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Nineteeth Golden Apricot Reviews: "The Forgotten Homeland"
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Golden Apricot Reports: AMERIKATSI -- A new look at Armenia from a half Armenian viewpoint
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Golden Apricot, Yerevan, 2022 YOL, The Full Version, restored and expanded raises festival consciousness
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> AWARDS WATCH ...
Best Independent Producer Award 2022 goes to producer Jason Blum
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The IndieFEST Film Awards Announces Latest Winners! May 2022
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The Accolade Global Film Competition Announces Latest Winners!
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The Prix d’Ornano-Valenti will be awarded to Falcon Lake by Charlotte Le Bon
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The 2022 Lucien-Barrière Literary Prize is awarded to the novel Robert Redford by Michael Feeney Callan
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French composer Bruno Coulais to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 World Soundtrack Awards
David Cronenberg to receive a Donostia Award at the San Sebastian Festival
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Juliette Binoche will receive the Donostia Award
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>FOCUS ON INDIA with SIRAJ SYED
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Case Toh Banta Hai, Trailer Launch and Press Conference: Courting laughter
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Ladki – Enter the Girl Dragon, Review: Girl, drag on
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14th NYC Independent Film Festival
June 11-18, 2023)
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Home of the NYC Indie Awards the festival aims to discover the Artist Filmmaker, showcasing them to the entertainment industry and the NYC public. All NYCIndieFF screenings take place in the historic center of NYC, Time Square which is the perfect home for an event geared toward creating incredible opportunities for independent voices.
NYCIndieFF honors the Best in Category which includes Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Narrative, Best Super Short, Best Covid Diaries, as well as Best Director and Best Screenplay.
NYCIndieFF provides a showcase for the best in independent cinema, including short films, feature films, music videos, and animated works. With panels, parties and a week-long gathering of fellow indie filmmakers NYCIndieFF is the place to be June 12 to June 19, 2022 This dates may move to accommodate any and all government regulations.
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Your Script Produced Studios: season 3
November 3 – 7, 2022
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Discovering and Producing Talented Writers and Filmmakers left behind by the entertainment industry, worldwide!
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> "THE BEST FOR FESTS :
ONES TO WATCH FOR FESTIVAL CONSIDERATION
PIERRE ET JEANNE by Clémentine Célarié
First Feature film 2022 99 minutes
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France 2021 99 minutes First feature film by Clémentine Célarié, produced by Matthieu Rubin - Sazia Films.
Starring Loris FREEMAN, Elodie GODART, Clémentine CÉLARIÉ, Philippe UCHAN, Mathieu AMALRIC, Sergi LOPEZ, Dominique PINON, Tom LEEB, Jacqueline CORADO, Marie DURET...
Sibling Rivalry and truth untold emerge after the unexpected inheritance of Jeanne
"Pierre et Jeanne" recounts the devastation caused by an inheritance intended for Jeanne, Pierre's younger sister. This poisoned gift from a friend of the parents will instill discord, jealousy, discord and sibling rivalry until an untold truth is revealed.
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RETURN TO EDEN written and directed by Jeff Gross: 87 minutes April 2022
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Starring Gary Kohn, Jade Struck, Claude Duhamel, Jim Kinney...
Jeff Gross is a novelist and film maker. He has several writing collaborations with Roman Polanski to his name, including "Frantic" and "Bitter Moon"
Returning to the small town of Eden, Oregon after 30 years in France, Josef, a writer, filmmaker, and self-described permanent exile, tries his best to fit in. Unable to write, the world is so crazy that he can't keep up, he starts coaching the girls' tennis team at one of the local high schools. Lonely, adrift, he develops a friendship with Hope, a remarkable woman who dances in Puritan Eden's only strip club. But as the dark clouds of fascism roll in, rumors run rampant, and soon enough, inevitably, the two worlds collide, with tragic consequences.
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THE THRILL by Gordi de st. Jeor 8 minutes USA Jan 29 2022
Starring Aidan Browne and Sofia Masson
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TIME IS ETERNAL by Dreamteam filmmaker duo of Bayou Bennett and Daniel Lir - Starring berite labelle
Short Film Fantasy USA December 2021 - 14 Minutes 20 seconds
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A prestigious feminine writer examines in her most recent novel what it means to be a woman across history and conjures up Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt and fierce feminine writer/philosopher Mary Wollenstonecraft(mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frakenstein) who have crossed deserts of eternal time to meet.
The women materialize into her present time environment and recount their greatest victories, defeats, loves, regrets and dreams.
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ORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN by Barbara Bentree
Documentary December 2021 - USA 90 minutes
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Kevin Box has always known exactly what he intends to do with his life. In his words, "I want to have a conversation with people now and hundreds of years into the future."
As an artist, Kevin has been fascinated by the evolution of "lost wax casting" to create bronze sculptures and he spent many of his early years being mentored by other successful sculptors. Through his own R&D, he developed a unique signature by “unfolding” origami and casting these beautiful patterns into museum quality wall hangings.
"ORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN" traces the career arc of Kevin and his partner/wife Jennifer as they now continue to create multiple traveling exhibitions of their artwork. Over the past decade, their unique sculptures have been viewed all over the country by millions of people.
"ORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN" is an Artfilm, a Love Story, and an inspiration for all by showing what is possible…just starting with a simple piece of paper!
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HOT MONEY by Susan Kucera (director of Jeff Bridges Living in the future’s past)
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Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, General Wesley Clark and his son Wes Clark Jr. take us on a journey through the complicated realities of our financial system and its profound exposure to climate change. Hot Money outs the whole game, the whole charade, the whole crapshoot of the money system with all the humor and intelligence of a New Yorker cartoon. Combined with the wisdom of international business experts and academics, Hot Money is rich with historical context. It severs the knot of economic and political forces that may lead to societal collapse.
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12TH HOUR narrated by David Morse
Documentary by Susan Kucera (director of Jeff Bridges Living in the future’s past)
USA July 2021 51 minutes 48 seconds
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Much of our population currently lives with hopeful delusions about climate change. These delusions, many of which are built in by evolution, hamper our ability to meaningfully address the problem.
Our brains evolved to solve short-term challenges for our survival. Climate change is a long-term challenge to our survival. Can we bridge the gap between these modes of thinking?
Emmy-nominated actor David Morse narrates the brutally honest 12th hour with insight from noted evolutionary biologists, climate scientists, cognitive researchers and psychologists.
Visionary thinkers like Peter Russell, Dr. Paul Piff, Dr. Kari Norgaard and dozens of the brightest minds in academia lay out an unflinching look at mankind: our past, our abilities, our shortcomings and what may be humankind's final destination.
If we have any hope to survive the changes we’ve locked in to our climate, we need to be honest with ourselves and our limitations. The 12th Hour lays out our biases so that we may overcome them.
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ENOUGH Lebanon's Darkest Hour
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Documentary by Daisy Gedeon second feature documentary
Australia june 2021 90 minutes (in post)
ENOUGH! Lebanon’s Darkest Hour follows Australian-Lebanese filmmaker Daizy Gedeon’s personal and independent introspection into how her ancestral homeland, the place her family was forced to flee in the 1970s because of the Civil War, has ended up in a state of complete catastrophe. It is a story of awakening in which Daizy is forced to abandon her idealism about Lebanon and face the cold, harsh truth about the country’s dark underbelly which is its most sinister enemy.
Daizy prosecutes the case against the corrupt political class which has reduced a proud people to beg for garbage collection instead of greatness and negotiate potholes rather than peace.
ENOUGH! is the plea and the prayer, the feeling and fierce determination of the 4.5 million Lebanese in Lebanon as well as the 16 million members of the Lebanese diaspora scattered around the world, whose hearts continue to bleed for a homeland they are desperate to return to and so deeply want to believe in...once again.
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The Sound of Us directed by Chris Gero
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"The Sound of Us" illustrates that during this critical time in world and U.S. history, music gives sound to hope and courage, allows us to grieve and be honest, and is the great, universal language that unites us all.
As the world grapples with unrest the profound truth remains that, through music, we are not alone.
The Sound of Us weaves inspiring stories about the beauty and goodness of music with interviews and performances by artists such as Ben Folds, Sarah McLachlan, Avery*Sunshine, Eric Whitacre, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Hiromi, Antonio Sanchez, Butch Walker, Will Wells, Patti Smith, and many more. Combined, these powerful vignettes illustrate how music heals us, gives us hope for the future through our children, keeps our heritage and history alive, allows us to have the most difficult of conversations, sheds light on current struggles, and continues to invite us back to the thing that unites us all - music.
The film is directed by Chris Gero, a Grammy nominated, American music industry executive, concert producer, record producer, songwriter, film director and composer, founder of Yamaha Entertainment Group of America and Chief Artist Relations Executive for Yamaha Artist Relations Group
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INVISIBLE HAND by Matthew Taylor
director of The Creepy Line, Marcel Duchamp the art of the possible, Safeguard an electoral debate...
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USA 28 minutes August 2021
Invisible Hand is an exploration of memory. Our unnamed protagonist lives a life of repetition and insecurity. Every day is a blur of abstract actions until one night she meets a dark stranger who gives her a mysterious gift. Her life is turned upside down when she confronts a terrifying truth about her past. Deciding to take herself out of the abstract daily routine, she journeys into the crevices of her memory to untangle a dark secret that could ultimately destroy her.
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Zero Gravity USA first film directed by Thomas Verrette
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74 minutes First feature documentary USA April 2021
A diverse group of middle-school students go on the journey of a lifetime when they compete in a nationwide competition sponsored by MIT to code satellites aboard the International Space Station.
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> NEWS IN FRENCH
Des partenariats forts avec les plus grands festivals et marchés
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Le Jury du 48e Festival de Deauville
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Le Jury de la Révélation du Festival de Deauville
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FIFAV 2022, un avant-goût de la programmation
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L'affiche du Festival FIFMA, 39ème édition, du 30 novembre au 4 décembre
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LFF2022: International feature and short films, special guests, but also exhibitions, music and meetings
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La 33e édition du Festival du court métrage d'humour de Meudon se déroulera du 5 au 9 octobre
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Lancement de la 3ème édition du festival de ciné-débat Projection Transition
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Festival du Film Arabe de Fameck - Val de Fensch: Mounia Meddour Présidente du jury longs-métrages, l’Algérie pays invité
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