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THE FESTIVAL BEAT ! N°1096

 
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 SXSW IN FOCUS March 8 - 16 Interview With Producers Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum of Waypoint Entertainment for CUCKOO (2024) @ SXSW
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

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

 
Visions du Réel unveils the programme for its 55th edition (12 – 21 April 2024).
 
The eye of the storm: a resolutely current selection for 2024, in tune with the present   Visions du Réel unveils the programme for its 55th edition (12 – 21 April 2024). A bold and well-rounded official selection of 165 films from 50 different countries, with gender parity for the second year running. With 88 world premieres and 14 international premieres amongst the 128 new films being shown, Visions du Réel reaffirms its position as Switzerland’s second most...
 
 
The Overlook Film Fest returns this early April
THE SCHEDULE IS HERE! SINGLE TICKETS ON SALE NOW   In just over 2 weeks, the Overlook Film Fest emerges from its long, dark slumber to bring you spine-tingling thrills guaranteed to give you nightmares!  Check out the official schedule, 6 new films added to the lineup, 2 more immersive shows, 6 Special Events, more guests and the festival premiere of a mysterious new musical...read on, if you dare!     ...
 
 
 
We love the 2024 ILLUMINATE Film Festival Poster!
  Illuminate Festival had an incredibly rich and joyful experience collaborating with this year's poster artist, local Santa Barbara creatrix, Tricia Evenson, who shares: In the creation of art for the Illuminate Film Festival, I am drawn to the intricate dance between the arts, the mind, science, spirituality, nature, and human connection. This festival’s key art transforms into a multi-media canvas, beckoning viewers to embark on a journey of explora...
 
 
Debut Feature Film Competition 2024 at the 41th festival edition of the IFFF Dortmund+Köln
  41st IFFF Dortmund+Köln, 16 to 21 April 2024 International Debut Feature Film Competition Eight directors compete for the 10,000 euro award Jury: Thelma Buabeng, Cristina Andreu Cuevas, Jennifer Reeder German feature ELLBOGEN opens the festival on 16 April   The Cologne edition of the Festival pays particular attention to showcasing the work of young film-makers. The International Debut Feature Film Competition is considered a useful barometer not just of directorial ta...
 

 

Nominees for BANFF's Rockie Awards
Congratulations to the 2024 nominees of BANFF's prestigious Rockie Awards International Program Competition We are pleased to announce 155 incredible programs selected from entries across 33 countries vying for this year's top honours across five streams and 30 categories in BANFF's flagship competition recognizing excellence in global screen content. Screen clips from all nominated shows HERE and meet the nominees...
 

 

CANNESERIES unveils its sixth Out-of-Competition Series
  MÁXIMA with Delfina Chaves, Martijn Lakemeier et Sebastian Koch will be screened on Tuesday, April 9th at the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière.   © Millstreet Films/ Martijn van Gelder   Pays-Bas • Netherlands ­     Just like in fairy tales, all's well that ends well. To close its Out of Competition program, CANNESERIES invites the audience to discover the wonderful adventure of Queen Máxima. Argentinian s...
 

 

The 2024 New African Film Festival celebrates its 20th year with 26 films from 16 countries running March 15–28
   Presented by AFI and Africa World Now Project. See them all and save with the NAFF All-Access Pass! Get tickets and All-Access Festival Passes now.   ...
 

 

HIFF launches Ōpio Fest for student films April 5-7
Join us for the HIFF 'Ōpio Fest HIFF’s inaugural ‘Ōpio Fest is tailored to engage young audiences and families through a celebration of student films that spotlights the diverse voices of young filmmakers across Hawai‘i. We are honored to bring this new Festival to audiences of all ages and take pride in offering all ‘Ōpio Fest programming completely FREE to the public! Please join us in recognizing the remarkable achievements of these young filmmakers...
 

 

Countdown to Lovers Film Festival in Turin-Europe's oldest and 3rd oldest film festival on LGBTQI+ in the world
Countdown to Lovers Film Festival in Turin-Europe's oldest and 3rd oldest film festival on LGBTQI+ in the world (Turin, Cinema Massimo – 16-21 April 2024) The first previews with guests Paolo Camilli, Annagaia Marchioro and Guglielmo Scilla National premiere at the festival "LIL NAS X: LONG LIVE MONTERO" by Carlos López Estrada and Zac Manuel. The countdown to the Lovers Film Festival begins on Tuesday 16 April (press conference 10 April, at 12 at the Cinema Massim...
 

 

 
Women in motion-Tsitsi Dangarembga and Gabriele Sindler present their African-European collaboration in Hamburg on 21.03.2024
Beim Schlump 84a 20144 Hamburg *Tsitsi Dangarembga, Author, Director, and Cultural Activist, Institute for Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA), Harare The author, director an activist Tsitsi Dangarembga lives and works in Zimbabwe, USA, and Germany. She attended Cambridge University and Sidney Sussex College before studying psychology at the University of Zimbabwe and screenwriting and directing at the German Television Academy Berlin. She held several university chairs and res...
 
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FILMS IN FOCUS
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga World Premiere at the 77th Festival de Cannes
Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ action adventure “FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Nine years after Mad Max: Fury Road, the Australian director, screenwriter and producer George Miller’s famous saga’s is back on the Croisette! The highly anticipated Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will be revealed in the presenc...
 

 

SHAMBHALA Review: Berlin Film Festival Competition Film from Nepal
(Thinley Lhamo from Shambhala by Min Bahadur Bham, © Aditya Basnet / Shooney Films)   By M.R. D’Amico   It is the first Nepalese film to be in competition at Berlinale and one of the best surprises of the festival. In a Nepalese Himalayan village a young beautiful woman, Pema, starts her adult life with a polyandrous marriage to Tashi and his two younger brothe...
 
 
The award winner animated short film «Little t» selected to shine at AmDocs
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"After failing to get her dream job, Alexis questions her inner critic and unravels the origins of her comfort food". USA 2023 - 6 minutes animation -   «Little t», an award-winning animated short by Pixar's Masha Ellsworth, entered the official selection at the AmDocs Film Festival 2024 in Palm Springs. The film explores how a young girl—and her grown woman counterpart—struggle with her inner critic. Since its 2023 release, &laq...
 
 
 

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AWARDS WATCH Winners announced at SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival NY - 11th edition juried by filmfestivals.com staffers...
The 11th annual edition of SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival NY in-person section closed on Monday, March 18, with an Awards Ceremony at the beautiful National Arts Club, hosted by the Club’s Moving Image Committee and Chair Nina Urban. In the presence of over 140 attendees, including club members, filmmakers, jury members, and friends, the screening of the last block of short films Before the Oil, ByKids: Beekeeper, and SeaMonster was followed immediately by the Awards Ceremony...
 
Series Mania Forum closes with record numbers and a stronger global presence than ever before
  SERIES MANIA : We've had another fantastic week in Lille, both at the festival and at Séries Mania Forum. The figures are almost in, and we've already exceeded 98,000 spectators - a 15% increase on last year!   As for the Forum, 4,200 professionals from 72 countries gathered at Lille Grand Palais.   This year, new countries took to the festival's red carpet (Latvia, New Zealand, South Africa, Taiwan), and international stars such as Patrici...
 

 

 

Dublin International Film Festival Awards announced
That’s a Wrap! Thank you to all of our guests, partners, funders, venues and to you, the fabulous audiences. That’s a wrap for this year!   The 2024 festival welcomed 19,200 people across 10 days, screening 138 films from 50 countries, shown across 14 venues. It featured an expanded programme with 16 public events, 15 industry events, and 40 post-screening Q&As.     Submissions for DIFF 2025 open in May 2024!     See ...
 

 

 

New York International Children’s Film Festival Award Winners
And the winners are... The results are finally in: please join us in congratulating the 2024 New York International Children’s Film Festival Award Winners, based on YOUR votes!           Audience Awards   ...
 

 

 

In Celebration of 10th Anniversary, Bentonville FilmFest Foundation announces their Grant Recipients
Geena Davis’ Bentonville Film Foundation (BFFoundation), announced the second annual beneficiaries of their two filmmaking grants totaling $45,000. A BFF alumni shorts filmmaker, Gabrielle Roberts, was awarded the M&M’S For All Funkind Grant totaling $20,000 and the team behind the upcoming indie feature Nuked received a $25,000 grant for the See It, Be It, Make It Filmmaker Grant presented by NBCUniversal. The BFFoundation is a non-profit organization focused year-round o...
 

 

 

Punto de Vista 2024 Winners
Kumjana Novakova’s Silence of Reason wins the Grand Prize for Best Film The international jury of the eighteenth Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra, made up of Ruth Somalo, Jorge Villacorta and Ainara Elgoibar, after watching the entries in the Official Section has decided to award the following prizes: ...
 

 

 

Levante is the winner of BFM 41! Best Doc Prize goes to The Golden Thread.
  Levante/Power Alley by Lillah Halla (Brazil, France,..
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