Welcome to August, filmmakers! Here’s whats coming up for you this month. Returnee festival Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival has its Late Deadline coming up. Check out our chat with them at Cannes – where you’ll get some intriguing nuggets about what they thought about this years Marché du Film… Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival is […]
Meet Christian Koch on the Berlin film scene
Christian Koch on the Berlin film scene, Q&A culture and his film ‘Der Gast’ Perhaps it’s obvious, but witnessing FilmFestivalLife success stories is something we love to see. We love to speak with the big guns behind the festival circuses, but what about our filmmakers too? We got going by chatting with Christian Johannes Koch, whose […]
6 Ways To The Oscars For Short Filmmakers With FLICKERFEST
Four Academy-qualifying awards and also a BAFTA recognised festival – Flickerfest, Australia’s premier international short film festival, is one of the hot new open calls for short filmmakers at FilmFestivalLife. Besides the traditional Best Australian Short Film, Best Short Film and Animation awards for international filmmakers, the festival at the famous Bondi Beach acts also as a […]
Deadlines on FilmFestivalLife – July 2014
Midsummer has past and it’s time for July’s Deadline List! ‘Our festival exhibits absolute enthusiasm for short films.‘ This is what Roma Creative Contest – Short Film Festival had to say in our interview with them. With a mandate to show the most innovative short films and a crew made up of only under-30’s, it’s a young and 100% forward-thinking fest! Also […]
5 Facts For Filmmakers About NEW ORLEANS FILM FESTIVAL
For its 25th anniversary the New Orleans Film Festival wanted to do something new. That’s why the festival added an entirely new category for music videos! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences themselves enabled this years festivals spotlight, which aims to showcase new work from both emerging and established black filmmakers. ‘So we’re on the lookout for […]
6 Facts about Short Films with ROMA CREATIVE CONTEST
‘In Short We Trust’ – The slogan of the 4th Roma Creative Contest – Short Film Festival leaves no questions open what it is about. With a team made up solely of under 30’s and the European Commission as a patron, the festival is one of the hot spots for emerging filmmakers. With a new […]
FOCUS • ‘I expected more’ Razor Reel about Cannes’ Marché du Film and Genre Films
With a new festival name, the Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival – formerly Razor Reel Fantastic Film Festival Bruges – is ready to enter new waters. As a festival that is looking for all kind of genre films, Managing Director Patrick Van Hauwaert and Artistic Director Joke Ruysschaert are expecting a lot of new names […]
Deadlines on FilmFestivalLife – June 2014
It’s Deadline List time again! June’s list is one of many highlights, starting with Giffoni Film Festival. ‘For some filmmakers it can be very scary, but at the same time it’s very funny,’ said Deputy Artistic Director Antonia Grimaldi in our FOCUS interview earlier this year. Why’s that? It’s a festival dedicated for films for children and […]
6 Tips for Independent Filmmakers from LEIDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
To act as a gateway for American independent films into Europe is one of the main goals of the Leiden International Film Festival. Evert de Vries, LIFF‘s Managing Director and Programmer, gave us some hot tips for independent filmmakers you shouldn’t miss… As the fastest growing festival in the Netherlands, it‘s a great way for American filmmakers to […]
New Ways Into The Film Market with VIEWSTER ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL
Festivals, cinema and then TV – is this still the common journey a film takes? […] we want to break with these common structures and want to offer opportunities for monetising films. We’re not an advocate of exclusivity,’ says Simon Zsebök, Festival Manager of the second Viewster Online Film Fest (#VOFF), who wants to offer […]
Deadlines on FilmFestivalLife – 2014
Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines. Whilst many in the film community will be hightailing it down to La Croisette for one rather glamorous film festival, let’s not forget that May is still high time for submissions! It’s time to say bonjour to May’s Deadline List! One of our biggest deadlines this month is Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, one […]
Parties, Prizes and Indie Filmmaking at NYC INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
Indie films have always craved exposure. And that’s what NYC Independent Film Festival offers, as a veritable showcase for independent filmmakers. We spoke to their Executive Director Dennis Cieri, about what you should know when submitting to the festival and we got some intriguing nuggets out of him. Read on to find out about the […]
6 Tips for Documentary Filmmakers from ANTENNA DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
‘As a programmer, you start to have a kind of instinctive feeling about films,’ – when it comes to documentaries, Rich Welch, Program Manager and Co-Director of Antenna Documentary Festival, knows his stuff. Only in its third edition the festival has become Sydney’s major meeting point for the international and local documentary industry. As one […]
The Baltics, Contemporary Avant-Garde and First Feature Films with 2ANNAS
‘The public are hungry for good films,’ Program Director Anna Veilande Kustikova begins, aware of the regional importance of Riga International Film Festival 2ANNAS, as the only festival last year in Latvia. In its 19th edition the festival knows what films the Latvian audience are after. In response to this, the festival opened a new competition program for […]
Short Feature Films, Workshops and Vinyl – FILMFEST DRESDEN opens for 2014
‘This years program is very colorful, diverse and different with 300 films from 40 countries around the world,‘ begins Katrin Küchler, FILMFEST DRESDEN‘s Co-Director. With prizes and awards worth €64,500, FILMFEST DRESDEN is not only well-known in the festival circuit, it’s also one of the most renowned short film festivals in Europe. As the exclusive […]