In its 10th anniversary achtung berlin – new berlin film award has grown into a place for networking and mingling with the Berlin-Brandenburg film industry. Attending last edition’s opening night, we experienced first hand why this festival is so popular for filmmakers. ‘It is very hard to get your first film financed and this is […]
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‘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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bao Nguyen • INTERVIEWED
[decoline][details] [item title=”Age”]28[/item] [item title=”Country”]United States/Vietnam[/item] [item title=”City”]New York/Saigon[/item] [item title=”Profession”]Director and cinematographer[/item] [item title=”Website”]www.baominhnguyen[/item] [item title=”Latest”] WHERE HEAVEN MEETS HELL [/item][/details] [decoline] Please meet the great talent Bao Nguyen that we got to know during the Berlinale festival. The 28 year old photographer and filmmaker is currently based in both New York and Saigon. […]
Amirah Tajdin • INTERVIEWED
[decoline][details] [item title=”Age”]25[/item] [item title=”Country”]Kenya[/item] [item title=”Profession”]Screen writer and director[/item] [item title=”Latest”] FLURESCENT SIN [/item][/details] [decoline] It is Berlinale time and FilmFestivalLife would like to introduce you to one of its Talent Campus participants Amirah Tajdin. The 25 year old filmmaker was originally born and brought up in Nairobi, but spend her teenage years in […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]