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THE FESTIVAL BEAT ! N°1097

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 SXSW IN FOCUS March 8 - 16
Interview with Director Sam Shainberg For SHOTPLAYER, Documentary Short Competition @ SXSW 2024
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The short film SHOTPLAYER (2024), directed by Sam Shainberg, screened in the Documentary Short Competition at this year’s SXSW. SHOTPLAYER is an impressionistic journey into the mind of Wilfred Rose, one of New York City's most notorious pickpockets. As he returns to the subway for the first time in many years, he reflects on a life of crime in a society that has left many of its citizens behind. SHOTPLAYER asks the question: When is it ok to p...
 

 

Interview With Filmmaker Alison Tavel For Debut Doc Feature Film RESYNATOR (2024), SXSW World Premiere
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RESYNATOR is a feature documentary film and synth resurrection project started by director Alison Tavel in 2014. The true story centers around a resurrected synthesizer (aka the RESYNATOR), that was invented by Alison’s late father Don Tavel in the ‘70s, which she dug up from her grandmother’s attic twenty-five years after his passing and has been on a mission to share it with the world ever since. RESYNATOR had its world premiere at SXSW on March 10th, 2024, and won the Docu...
 
 
Interview with Director Olmo Schnabel, Actor Darío Yazebek Bernal & EP Jeremy O'Harris for PET SHOP DAYS (2023) @ SXSW
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Olmo Schnabel's directorial debut PET SHOP DAYS screened as a Festival Favorite at SXSW, 2024. The film stars J...
 

 

Interview with Producer Patrick Reardon & Director Lucian Read "Lions of Mesopotamia" (2024) @ SXSW
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Lions of Mesopotamia had its world premiere at SXSW, on Saturday, March 9th. The film is the true account of hope and victory when Iraq’s national soccer team – aka Lions of Mesopotamia – earned the 2007 Asian Cup amid the bloodiest days of Iraq’s civil war. The fairytale story is directed by Emmy winner Lucian Read and produced by Jupiter Entertainment. In an interview with the film’s producer Patrick Reardon and director Lucian Read after their premiere, h...
 
Interview With Producers Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum of Waypoint Entertainment for CUCKOO (2024) @ SXSW
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Ken Kao is CEO and Producer of Waypoint Entertainment and Josh Rosenbaum serves as Head Executive and Executive Producer for Waypoint, which is a full-service film production and financing company best known for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Academy Award-winning THE FAVOURITE (2018). They have also been behind such films as MID-90s, SONG TO SONG (2017), KNIGHT OF CUPS (2015), THE NICE GUYS (2016), and more. Josh and Ken's latest film, CUCKOO starring Hunter Schafer and
 
And the SXSW winners are:
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The SXSW Film & TV Festival announces winners across various categories, including Narrative Feature Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, Design Awards, and Special Awards during the annual Film & TV Awards ceremony. Short Film Program winners, eligible for Jury Awards, and Film and TV categories eligible for Audience Awards, will be certified by Maxwell Locke & Ritter. Meet the 2024 Jurors for this year’s Narrative and Documentary Feature competitions, Shorts Progr...
 

 

FESTIVALS IN FOCUS        Call for Entries: Faith in Film: International Film Festival and Screenwriting Competition
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Our aim is to forge a film festival and screenwriting competition that will ultimately launch the careers of faith based writers and filmmakers and facilitate established artists in transitioning into faith based films; and to introduce faith based films to mass audiences, ultimately, giving them the same multi platform release schedules and revenue streams that traditional studio films and high end independent films enjoy; and to inspire, showcase, support, and develop writers and filmmakers of all faith’s to make great faith based films that leave others touched, moved and inspired; and filmmakers and distributors empowered to make and distribute more films with an element of faith.

Our screenplay competition accepts feature length scripts (up to 135 pages), short film scripts (up to 50 pages), stage plays, sitcom pilots, and dramatic television pilots.

Our film festival accepts feature length films up to 110 minutes in length and short films (up to 40 minutes in length) in several categories. It is a celebration of filmmaking that allows artists and industry professionals at all levels to come, network, and showcase their work. For many filmmakers it will be the first time anyone has seen their work on the silver screen. SUBMIT

 
Call for entry for the 24th Golden Trailer Awards ends April 5th
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Submit your Best Trailers to the 24th Golden Trailer Awards Rules for Entry for 24th Annual Golden Trailer Awards   CALL FOR ENTRY EoY (End of Year) is true to its name: December 31st, 2023 (Midnight PST) Early Deadline: January 26th, 2024 (Midnight PST) Regular Deadline: March 29th, 2024 (Midnight PST) Late Deadline: April 5th, 2024 (Midnight PST) Late + final submissions deadline April 12th (Midnight PST) The Go...
 

 

50th Seattle International Film Festival to open with Magnolia Pictures’ Thelma from Josh Margolin
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  Lead actress June Squibb to be honored with the 2024 Golden Space Needle Award  for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema   The 50th Seattle International Film Festival will open with Josh Margolin’s action comedy Thelma from Magnolia Pictures and honor lead June Squibb with the 2024 Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema. The Festival’s Opening Night Film & Party will take place Thursday, May 9 at The Paramount Theatre followed by a ...
 

 

21st Calgary Underground Film Festival Lineup Announcement
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The 2024 program includes 50+ Films & Special Events, including John Waters in attendance!   The Calgary Underground Film Festival has announced the full lineup of films playing the 21st Festival, from April 18-28, 2024 at Globe Cinema. On-scale with the expanded programming of last year’s 20th Anniversary Festival, the largest in the organization’s history, CUFF 2024 will show 41 feature films, 37 shorts, and host 8 special events over 11 days.    ...
 

 

38th BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival wrapped
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  BFI Flare 2024 in numbers 28,125 audience attendances across BFI Southbank screenings, events and short films on BFI Player   54% of all ticket bookers new to the Festival   87% occupancy at BFI Southbank screenings and events   58 features and 81 shorts from 41 countries   5 world premieres, 2 international premieres, 6 European premieres and 23 UK premieres across the feature films   285 filmmakers and their ...
 

 

 
Full Frame Recognizes 43 Regional and National Festival Sponsors
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  Full Frame recognizes the generous contributions of the 43 regional and national sponsors of the 26th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, which takes place April 4–7, 2024. “I am humbled by the tremendous amount of support from so many incredible sponsors and partners. Their generosity enables us to produce a world class event that gathers together thousands of people to celebrate documentary film and artists, and also puts a spotlight on our wonderful city of ...
 

 

Edinburgh International Film Festival announces collaboration with Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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Edinburgh International Film Festival announces collaboration with Edinburgh Festival Fringe, unveiling new venues and programming strands Out of Competition, Midnight Madness and Repertory strands will showcase the best in UK and World cinema   The newly relaunched Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has today announced a landmark collaboration with the renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe which will open up the Film Festival programme in new venues across the city i...
 

 

Call for Applications: Arthouse Cinema Training 2024
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  The Arthouse Cinema Training returns to Berlin this summer for its 21st edition.  19-25 AUGUST 2024 BERLIN, GERMANY     Don't miss it. Applications are open!   What is the Arthouse Cinema Training?   The Arthouse Cinema Training is an intensive one-week program that brings together arthouse exhibition professionals from across the world. The only program of its kind, the Training gives participants a unique chance to learn from top e...
 

 

370 short films from 62 countries for the 36th edition of Filmfest Dresden -16 to 21 April 2024
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For the 36th edition of Filmfest Dresden (16 to 21 April 2024), more than 370 short films from 62 countries compiled in the three Competitions and various special programmes are awaiting the audiences. In today’s press conference in the Filmtheater Schauburg festival cinema, Festival Directors Sylke Gottlebe and Anne Gaschütz together with further members of their team are providing insights into the highly diverse programme, including the already announced thematic focus on “...
 

 

41st IFFF Dortmund+Köln, 16 to 21 April 2024
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The Focus programmes: Rage & Horror, desired! – film lust & queer, Panorama and more Festival specials   From 16 to 21 April 2024, IFFF Dortmund+Köln presents an eclectic array of films and we look forward to welcoming numerous German and international film-makers to Cologne. Alongside the Competitions, the Festival sections with their different profiles will showcase provocative and poignant works by directors from all over the globe. This year’s Focus: Rage &a...
 

 

UNAFF 2024 Call for Entries
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SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN for the 27th UNAFF, which will run from October 17-27, 2024 in Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, San Francisco and Stanford University.    SUBMIT NOW May 4, 2024 Earlybird Deadline May 14, 2024 Regular Deadline May 24, 2024 Late Deadline   SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Documentaries only and absolutely no films that are available online for free before the end of the festival(10/27/2024)
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Porto Femme - International Film Festival returns to Porto from 16 to 21 April
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In this 7th edition, Porto Femme will continue to focus on sharing the work of women and non-binary people in the seventh art, promoting equality and empowerment in the cinematographic universe. It will once again be a space for creative freedom, sharing and debate for everyone. More than just a festival, Porto Femme is a festival that, by its nature, has multiple dimensions and aims to celebrate the diversity of genres, themes and languages, promoting values of equality, justice and human...
 

 

The Brainwash Movie Festival’s 30th Anniversary Annual Shows!
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OK, Look Out Now, here comes our 30th! Annual Brainwash Movie Festival! But first, here are our winners form our 2023 Festival, shown at SF’s New Farm, 10/27-29/2023:   1st Prize: Loop Garou – a French Canadian Werewolf Fable – Erin Greenwell 2nd Grand! Prize!: The Unseen – John Akre 3rd Prize: Shitfaced – Jack E. K. Collier 4th Prize: Once I Passed – Martin Gerigk 5th Prize: # SPONSORED – Yurie Collins   So get in on the show and en...
 
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