DEADLINES • NOV 2011 / #1

We don’t want you to miss any important submission festival deadlines. In the following two weeks lots of noteworthy festivals are having their upcoming deadlines: the True/False Film Fest is actually offering filmmakers, behind schedule, the last chance to submit their films; the Berlinale is requesting shortfilmmakers to submit their works; the Seattle International Film Festival […]

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Angela Bravo • INTERVIEWED

[decoline][details] [item title=”City”]Berlin/Stockholm[/item] [item title=”Country”]Sweden/Chile[/item] [item title=”Age”]30[/item] [item title=”Profession”]Director/Producer[/item] [item title=”Website”] www.angelabravo.com[/item] [item title=”Latest”] Everyone Needs a Heaven  (animated documentary), Within (feature documentary/work in progress), The Blue Hour (editing right now)
 [/item][/details] [decoline] We would like to introduce you to Angela Bravo, a talented artist and filmmaker with an international background. Her parents are originally […]

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THE TELLURIDE HORROR SHOW – a digital media lesson from an insider

To launch an event like a film festival is a huge venture. There is more to it than just the idea. In the age of Facebook giving your brand exposure to the public is at least easier, but also brings a lot more work than one would expect in the first place. The young film festival Telluride Horror Show has been using the social network very effectively since its start last year. The result: around 24.000 fans on Facebook. This made us very curious to know how they got to this level so quickly!

Festival director Ted Wilson shares his insight information on how a beginner film festival can […]

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Techcrunch

MUBI x Film Festivals

A trend is spreading in the film festival world. More and more festivals finally start embracing the web as an extention to their event. This is not only realized under the wing of the festivals organizations, like Tribeca’s own Online Film Festival, IDFA TV or Oberhausen Films Online, but also through collaborations with online video […]

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Sophie van de Perre

IDFA – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

[decoline]IDFA – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam: [details] [item title=”City”]Amsterdam[/item] [item title=”Country”]Netherlands [/item] [item title=”Founded”]1988[/item] [item title=”Edition”]24th[/item] [item title=”Date”]11/16 – 11/27/2011[/item] [item title=”URL”]IDFA[/item] [item title=”Entry fee”]none[/item] [/details] [decoline] FilmFestivalLife is delighted to showcase the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam as our first festival in the spotlight. With approximately 300 documentaries on offer in its international […]

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Dor Fadlon • INTERVIEWED

During the Tribeca Film Festivals I had the pleasure to meet Dor, a talented filmmaker from Israel. It was particularly nice talking to him as we share a common path, being both filmmakers and entrepreneurs. Besides directing shorts Dor is the founder and CEO of a Telaviv based startup. I learned an interesting […]

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IFPRODUCTIONS • INTERVIEWED

Please meet Ilse and Femke van Velzen, sisters and an amazing filmmaker duo from the Netherlands. Since 2002 they have specialised in making documentaries, in which they want to expose injustice (in developing countries) to a worldwide audience and give oppressed people a voice. Ilse and Femke develop, produce and direct documentaries as independent […]

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