‘We are looking for arthouse films never shown before in France and not yet distributed through digital media. Duration, genre and style is open,’ begins Art Film Festival‘s Director Christian Pouligo. Since 2011 the festival shows international authors’ video art films during the Cannes Film Festival in May. Emerged from a contemporary art fair, […]
6 Attempts at Defining ‘Underground’ with the CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
MovieMaker Magazine just listed the Chicago Underground Film Festival as one of the coolest underground film festivals in the world*. Artistic Director Bryan Wendorf didn’t want to define the word ‘underground’. That made us even more curious so we tried it anyways. Is your film ‘underground’ enough to submit… DEADLINE • 15 December 2013 1. […]
6 Facts You Should Know about Leipzig’s DOK Market ******
There it is: an invitation to a festival market in your email folder. But what is going on at these places behind the doors that are only open when you have the right color on your badge? Will it be worthwhile to go there and invest valuable film budget on the experience? DOK Market, […]
5 Tips for Short Filmmakers Applying to the LANDSHUT SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
We had a chat with Michael Orth, Festival Director of the 15th Landshut Short Film Festival. He gave us five useful tips for short filmmakers at submission time. 1. Think international Next year our animation award is open internationally. Previously the short film and animation awards were only for German and Austrian films. The […]
DOCUMENTARY EDGE FESTIVAL
Today we spoke to Dan Shanan, Festival Director of the 9th Documentary Edge Festival DEADLINE • 15 November 2013 For its 9th edition, Documentary Edge Festival are going to concentrate on films made for youth and children. This is an ongoing interest that we find for our audience for films. Alongside feature and short film […]
DELHI SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Today we spoke to Rambhul Singh, Festival Director of the 2nd Delhi Shorts International Film Festival DEADLINE • 25 September 2013 We began the Delhi festival in 2012 and in just a year we have grown many, many more international entries. I think the competition is very high and quite equal this year for the national […]
SEBASTOPOL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Today we spoke to Jason Perdue, Program Director of the 7th Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival DEADLINE • 19 September 2013 We don’t really create the sections before open calls – usually they are developed in the program, basing them on the films that come through. You kinda get a better gist of what is happening in […]
STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Today we spoke to Johannes Palmroos, Program Coordinator at the 24th STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DEADLINE • 16 August 2013 In terms of sections or awards, we have an expanded industry program right now for new talents. There is one that is called Stockholm Debut for young directors wanting to make their feature debut. We have […]
OZU FILM FESTIVAL
Today we spoke to Enrico Vannucci, Artistic Director of the 21st OZU FILM FESTIVAL EXTENDED DEADLINE • 15 August 2013 This year we wanted to give all of the participants the possibility to be in competition so we just set up an entirely competitive festival. Previous festivals we just had between one to three competitions and […]
LEEDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Today we spoke to Alexander King, Program Manager of the 27th Leeds International Film Festival DEADLINE • 30 August 2013 Leeds is a large, general, audience-driven film festival and we show all sorts of films across the spectrum. We have many different sections in which we try to represent films on an equal footing. There are […]
REEL INDIE FILM FEST
Today we spoke to Avi Federgreen, Executive Producer of the 1st REEL INDIE FILM FEST DEADLINE • 19 August 2013 Festivals are a great vehicle for films to get their start before they travel around the world ‘in distribution land’. I am a big fan of music and I have been involved in music off-and-on as […]
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL WINTERTHUR
Today we spoke to John Canciani, Artistic Director of the 17th INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL WINTERTHUR DEADLINE • 31 July 2013 This is my first year as Artistic Director. It is a pretty democratic situation we have in Winterthur so everyone in the program is part of the strategy in which films are interesting for our festival […]
BUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Today we spoke to Pak Dosin, Programmer of World Cinema at the 18th BUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DEADLINE • 31 July 2013 There is one major change since last year in terms of programming which is that the world competition section FLASH FORWARD will not be a competition section anymore. Instead, it will have an audience award. […]
SAN SEBASTIÁN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Today we spoke to José Luis Rebordinos, Festival Director of the 61st SAN SEBASTIÁN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DEADLINE • 16 July 2013 There are no significant changes in relation to 2012. We have, though, a novelty: a new section called SAVAGE CINEMA dedicated to adventure and action sports films. Besides that, the Pearls section, which has […]
CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Today we spoke to Mimi Plauché, Programming Director at the 49th CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DEADLINE • 8 July 2013 Two sections we are doing in particular this year is firstly a focus on comedy at the festival. The motivating factors behind this begin with seeing comedy as always being an integral part of film […]