The film festival history and its twisty-turny past are filled with notable incidents and tie in with some of the most integral political and historical events of the last century. We’ve dived into this melange, to give you a crash-course in the film festival history, the lifeblood of FilmFestivalLife. Here’s our essential six major events you should […]
Cannes Film Festival
LIFF and The Challenge of Defining ‘American Independent Film’
We met Leiden Film Festival Alexander Moure and Managing Director Evert de Vries in Cannes Film Festival and talked about the films they are looking for and why it’s so hard to define what real American independent films are. ‘We’re interested in ‘crossover’ films, not too commercial and not too art-house.’ Alexander Mouret, Artistic Director […]
Stop-motion in Cannes: An Interview with the Makers of ‘wHole’
To screen a film at the Cannes Film Festival is the dream of every filmmaker. For the team behind the stop-motion short film WHOLE, it came true. The film students of the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg created a surreal drama about a couple living isolated in a yurt on the Eurasian Steppe. After invitations from national festivals such […]
Doclisboa in Cannes, New ways of Looking at Documentaries
We met with the documentary film festival Co-Director Davide Oberto and Managing Director Vanessa Alvarez at the bustling International Village, finding time to discuss the status of documentary films in Cannes, the kind of films they are looking for and the importance of film festivals. For many a festival programmer, the Cannes Film Festival marks […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
‘Let’s talk about art’ with Cannes’ ART FILM FESTIVAL
‘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, […]
Cannes aftermath: How ‘THE OPPORTUNIST’ team utilize Cannes to launch their festival life
The 52nd Critics Week program featured one sole US short in competition fittingly titled THE OPPORTUNIST. Filmmakers David Lassiter, Cate Smierciak and Alberto Roldan were heralded immediately following the Cannes section selection, hitting the front cover of the LA times as, “Cannes-do Kickstarter Spirit” and in Hollywood Reporter and Indiewire as, “The only American […]
A talk with Jane Campion: ‘TOP OF THE LAKE’, Cannes, female filmmakers and Harvey Keitel
“If you are a female director I wouldn’t wait! […] put all your energy in to do an amazing piece of work.” Jane Campion is in Cannes to share her vast line of experiences as a filmmaker. Without question, we are in the first row to listen to her stories. Lars von Trier, Gus […]
Meet Ari Folman’s new road to ‘THE CONGRESS’
Opening the Directors Fortnight section in this years Festival de Cannes with its world premiere Wednesday 15th May, the film is stirring serious but varied criticism on the Croisette. We sat in on the screening and the Q and A, only to find ourselves increasingly enrolled by his fearlessness to take on the industry so […]
A List Festivals, a tightly curated list.
In your hot and clammy hands you need more tightly curated festival lists, relevant festival deadlines and a hell of a lot of time and patience. Here’s a A list film festivals we dedicated time to this week to add to your briefcase. As a result of the numerous festivals operating each year in the […]
CANNES OFFICIAL SELECTION 2012
The Cannes Film Festival has announced its full competition line-up for 2012! The festival is one of the most important and popular festivals worldwide and one of the circuit’s highlights for both film professionals and film enthusiasts. This year, Cannes kicks off on May 16th and ends on the 27th. Opening film of the 65th […]