One of the mantras of the CinEast – Central and Eastern European Film Festival is to make the ‘wild east’ just a little bit more familiar by showcasing the cinema of the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Every year the festival screens around 50-60 features and short films. Now in its 8th edition, CinEast is […]
Amanda Duthie About Cannes, Indigenous Filmmakers and The Adelaide Film Festival
Big news for the Adelaide Film Festival. The FilmFestivalLife submission partner has just announced that Cannes Film Festival’s Christian Jeune will lead the international jury at this year’s festival. Since 2002 the festival in South Australia has relished its status as a premiere film event, one celebrating contemporary on-screen culture from both Australia and the wider world. […]
Deadlines on FilmFestivalLife – June 2015
Welcome to the European Summer, filmmakers! Outdoor festivals, al fresco dining and long sunlit evenings. There’s much to look forward to, but don’t forget, there’s still plenty of deadlines to get stuck into… One to watch out for is the DocLisboa – International Film Festival. We had a chat with their Program Coordinator last year, Miguel Ribeiro, […]
Axe Throwing, Rocky Horror and All-Round Quirkiness with Portland Film Festival
Coolest city in the world? Portland, Oregon, is a bona-fide candidate, known for being a craft-beer swigging, alternative culture pioneer. And it’s also the home of the Portland Film Festival. Launched in 2013 by Josh Leake and Jay Cornelius, it’s still a relative newbie but it’s pioneering approach to film programming has seen them create a […]
FilmFestivalLife Filmmakers Selected For Sydney Film Festival 2015
The Sydney Film Festival is upcoming, and it’s looking like a vintage year for the festival. And the stats don’t lie. According to Festival Director Nashen Moodley, ‘as well as adding two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool, the numbers of titles to be screened have jumped from 183 last year to 251 this […]
Deadlines on FilmFestivalLife – May 2015
FFL partner festivals have many big deadlines this month, including HollyShorts Film Festival. The short film festival is showcasing the best short films from around the globe, the festival, as you’ve probably guessed, has Hollywood as its home. Where else?! Edmonton International Film Festival’s call for entries is also coming to an end this month. We spoke […]
Meet Liwaa Yazji
With its 8th edition, the prestigious Doc Alliance Selection Award moves to Locarno, Switzerland. There, one of the seven directors nominated for the award designed primarily for emerging documentary talents will receive the award on August 8. With her debut HAUNTED, Syrian native Liwaa Yazji enters this year’s competition. Read about the success of her film […]
How To Be Fantastic with TOHorror
La Dolce Vita – or in the case of TOHorror, it’s less about the good life, and more about the supernatural life. Indeed, the Turin-based festival is focused on the fantastic genre, the old literary genre defined by an ambiguous presence of supernatural forces. It’s a genre which is constantly posing questions – most notably what’s real, and what’s not. […]
FFL Filmmakers Selected for Cannes Film Festival 2015
Cannes Film Festival is less than a month away. While we’re preparing our trip to the Côte d’Azur, we’d like you to meet the six FFL filmmakers who will be showing their short films in competition at the prestigious festival in France. The 2015 Short Films Competition: The 2015 Short Films Competition comprises nine films – a […]
FILMFEST DRESDEN 2015 Announces Full Competition Program
FILMFEST DRESDEN has selected over 300 short films from around the world for its 27th edition. This year the short film festival has chosen 71 films for their international and national competition, all in the hunt for one of the coveted Golden Horsemen. As FilmFestivalLife’s exclusive submission partner, all the selected films were submitted through the platform […]
Deadlines on FilmFestivalLife – April 2015
Springtime usually heralds a spot of cleaning but instead maybe it’s time to get submitting? Big this month includes the renowned Bosnia and Herzegovina festival International Film Festival Kratkofil Plus. We had a chat with Program Director Vladan Petkovic last year about the festival, which pioneered bringing short films to Bosnia & Herzegovina and why festivals are important […]
Join FilmFestivalLife at Digital Landscape in Cannes – Panel, Screening & Networking
FilmFestivalLife, Jeune chambre économique de Cannes, Festival du film Merveilleux & Imaginaire , cloud 21, Cineuropa and Utopia Film Festival calling filmmakers, producers, and distributors. Discover how to improve your strategies of digital marketing, film festival placement, sales, and distribution in a dynamic digital landscape. Learn how to effectively integrate and adopt new business techniques. […]
Meet syrian filmmaker Jalal Maghout
Is Berlin the perfect place for foreign filmmakers to create their art? It’s certainly that way for Jalal Maghout, a FilmFestivalLife filmmaker from Syria who currently resides in the German Hauptstadt. Jalal Maghout discusses with us about his animated documentary SULEIMA and his film festival career. Working in the narrow genre of animated documentary, his […]
The Progression of LGBT Cinema and Challenging the Mainstream – Pushing Boundaries with Queer Lisboa
As the only film festival dedicated exclusively to Queer Cinema in the country, the 19th Queer Lisboa – International Queer Film Festival is undoubtedly a gateway for Portuguese audiences to discover more. Queer Cinema encompasses all gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and transsexual themed films, but Queer Lisboa doesn’t stop here: „we search for films that […]
Join the Kino Maidan Movement!
For the 8th time, One World Romania festival awakens the screening halls of Bucharest with the power of people’s and documentary accounts of injustice, problems of contemporary democracy and the significance of civil protests. Why does this year’s edition carry the title Kino Maidan? The Festival Director Alexandru Solomon will give you the answer in […]