LGBT film festivals are often more than just a bunch of good films, parties and network events. The events are a way to express political statements dedicated to educate, to reduce prejudices against sexual minorities and to protect human rights. Although there have been great achievements regarding […]
PLAY International Music + Film Festival
This weekend Amsterdam is the place to be. Besides the established IDFA festival, PLAY, the music film festival organized by Amsterdam pop venue the Melkweg, will have its first edition. From November 17 to 20 film and music will be staged in every hall of the Melkweg. PLAY shows music films, fiction films and documentaries, […]
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 […]
The LGBT Film Festival List
It’s LGBT Film Festivals time at FilmFestivalLife! We have put those film festivals under the radar that make a major contribution in raising awareness about issues related to sexual orientation and gender. The various LGBT film festivals we have discovered all have one thing in common: to establish free open cultural spaces in which homosexual […]
How To Make the Best of Your Film Festival Run
When filmmakers finish their projects the very same question always arises: how to build a festival career for this specific film? Besides the many question marks one has regarding the realities of the continuously changing festival circuit, the digital age with its additional opportunities complicates this stage perhaps even more. After thorough research, we conclude […]
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 […]
The HORROR & FANTASY Film Festival List
It would be horrible not to know how to get an overview of the numerous horror and fantasy film festivals and where in the world they take place. To prevent this nightmare, we took charge of the situation and listed the most interesting festivals of these long-existing genres. Thrilled by the huge amount of horror […]
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 […]
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 […]
SFIFF – Pictures by Isaac Vazquez
A few months have passed since we were in San Francisco to visit the San Francisco International Film Festival. It is never too late though to show pictures of previous journeys. Hereby, we would like to give you a visual impression of the lovely environment we enjoyed end of April. The young talented artist Isaac […]
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 […]
The Documentary Film Festival List
Documentary film festival: the genre in which authenticity and controversy play the main role. For FilmFestivalLife’s new list we tried to cover all continents and as many regions as possible. As usual, we have created handy shortlists for the must have festivals, the important ones and those you should keep on the radar In addition […]
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 […]
International Short Film Festival Hamburg!
This coming week, June 7 – June 13 2011, the Hamburg ShortFilmAgency is organizing the International Short Film Festival Hamburg. The ambitious organization behind the festival has been very successful by creating an environment in which they contribute to the establishment of short film and encourage the production of shorts. The festival is the place […]
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 […]