Welcome to August, filmmakers! Here’s whats coming up for you this month. Returnee festival Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival has its Late Deadline coming up. Check out our chat with them at Cannes – where you’ll get some intriguing nuggets about what they thought about this years Marché du Film… Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival is […]
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Meet Christian Koch on the Berlin film scene
Christian Koch on the Berlin film scene, Q&A culture and his film ‘Der Gast’ Perhaps it’s obvious, but witnessing FilmFestivalLife success stories is something we love to see. We love to speak with the big guns behind the festival circuses, but what about our filmmakers too? We got going by chatting with Christian Johannes Koch, whose […]
Deadlines on FilmFestivalLife – July 2014
Midsummer has past and it’s time for July’s Deadline List! ‘Our festival exhibits absolute enthusiasm for short films.‘ This is what Roma Creative Contest – Short Film Festival had to say in our interview with them. With a mandate to show the most innovative short films and a crew made up of only under-30’s, it’s a young and 100% forward-thinking fest! Also […]
5 Facts For Filmmakers About NEW ORLEANS FILM FESTIVAL
For its 25th anniversary the New Orleans Film Festival wanted to do something new. That’s why the festival added an entirely new category for music videos! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences themselves enabled this years festivals spotlight, which aims to showcase new work from both emerging and established black filmmakers. ‘So we’re on the lookout for […]
The Baltics, Contemporary Avant-Garde and First Feature Films with 2ANNAS
‘The public are hungry for good films,’ Program Director Anna Veilande Kustikova begins, aware of the regional importance of Riga International Film Festival 2ANNAS, as the only festival last year in Latvia. In its 19th edition the festival knows what films the Latvian audience are after. In response to this, the festival opened a new competition program for […]
Short Feature Films, Workshops and Vinyl – FILMFEST DRESDEN opens for 2014
‘This years program is very colorful, diverse and different with 300 films from 40 countries around the world,‘ begins Katrin Küchler, FILMFEST DRESDEN‘s Co-Director. With prizes and awards worth €64,500, FILMFEST DRESDEN is not only well-known in the festival circuit, it’s also one of the most renowned short film festivals in Europe. As the exclusive […]
4 Facts about Short Films and Bosnia with KRATKOFIL PLUS
‘We are looking for short films, but the shorter the better,’ says Vladan Petkovic, Program Director of the 8th International Film Festival Kratkofil Plus, at the start of our conversation. Every summer, the festival brings the best short films as an open air cinema spectacle to Banja Luka in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Petkovic gave us four facts […]
Deadlines on FilmFestivallife – April 2014
It’s the end of March and we can truly say that the sun is shining and Spring is here at FilmFestivalLife HQ in Berlin. And that’s not all. The start of Spring also heralds a ton of brand-new deadline dates for all filmmakers. It’s April Deadline List time! Big this month is Edmonton International Film […]
Deadlines on FilmFestivalLife – March 2014
Here is this months Deadlines list, designed to help you and your film festival life! A big one this month to look out for is FEST – New Directors|New Films Festival, whose late deadline falls on Mar 09. If the setting on the Portuguese coast, or the panels and talks that make up the FEST Training […]
GDAŃSK DOCFILM FESTIVAL about Prison Films and the Documentary Golden Age
‘The documentary film is experiencing its golden era. Nowadays, you can go nearly anywhere with a camera.‘ Katarzyna Warzecha, Festival Coordinator and Programmer of the 12th Gdańsk DocFilm Festival believes 2014 is the Golden Age for documentaries. We talked with Warzecha about a variety of topics such as their brand-new category about prison films, the features of a […]
Short, Sexy, Hard: Interfilm opens for 2012
Interfilm like it short so lets try to follow their lead: The venue is Volksbühne. In all its theatricality, this big trophy of Berlin’s east is made for events like Interfilm Short Film Festival. In its 28th edition, Interfilm also happens to be about the same age as its high energy crowd attending the Opening Night, […]
Reclaim the Vision! Between Animation and Reality
Last week Leipzig allowed the world renowned DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival For Documentary and Animated Film to claim its city. Based in Saxony, the festival presented a one week mammoth program: 360 films from 62 countries. For 55 years, the festival has dedicated itself to national and international documentary. What I seeked […]
Better times ahead: ALFILM forms new ways to view Arabic culture
The Arab Film Festival hold open the doors to Berlin’s Babylon Cinema this week, celebrating its fourth year offering a new lens through which to see the Arab world. In its Opening Night, Monday 5th October, we were welcomed by the warmly lit faces of the festival family to it’s beautifully subtle prologue, FIDAÏ by […]
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 […]
Side by Side LGBT Film Festival – between culture and human rights
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 […]