NICOSIA: The 6th Cyprus International Film Festival (www.cyprusfilmfestival.org) opened on 30 September 2011 and runs through 16 October. This year, the festival screens two world premieres among the 26 Greek and Cypriot films in the programme.
Press release: Best Intentions awarded FNE Visegrad Prix for best fiction coproduction
Press releases 28-09-2011WARSAW: The Hungarian coproducer of Adrian Sitaru's Best Intentions has been awarded the prestigious FNE Visegrad Prix for best fiction coproduction. The prix was awarded at the closing ceremony of Jameson CineFest - Miskolc International Film Festival 2011 (17-25 September). Hungarian coproducer Emoke Vagasi of Cor Leonis Films (http://www.corleonisfilms.hu/) collected the 1000 euros cash prize from FNE editor Cathy Meils at the festival's gala closing ceremony on 24 September 2011.
SUBMISSIONS OPEN!!!
The 6th edition of NexT International Film Festival will take place in Bucharest from March 28 to April 1, 2012.
NexT International Film Festival celebrates innovative and creative filmmaking from all around the world. Our goal at NexT IFF is to discover and promote today the major talents of tomorrow’s international cinema.
For the first time, the call for entries is open not only for the competition, but also for three special off competition programs: NexT Imaginaria, NexT Dance and NexT Kids.
Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2011
COMPETITION
NexT calls for entries of narrative films (live action and animation) up to 60 minutes completed after January 1st, 2010. Documentaries, non-narrative films or video installations will not be considered for the competition.
Awards for the films selected in the competition:
NexT Trophy – 4000 Euro
“Cristian Nemescu” Best Directing Award – 2000 Euro
“Andrei Toncu” Best Soundtrack Award – 2000 Euro
Best Romanian Film – 1000 Euro
NexT covers accommodation and travel expenses (%) for the director / sound-designer of the films in competition.
NexT Imaginaria
A program to explore parallel universes, fantasy worlds, alternative history, utopias and dystopias, haunting visions and dark fears for a night to remember at NexT 2012. An international off competition program open to sci-fi, fantasy, horror, extreme action or simply fantastic out-of-the-box films to open your mind and dare you to dream!
Maximum duration of submitted films: 60 minutes.
The films must be completed after January 1st 2010.
NexT Dance
From good ol' school musicals to hot pop, from street dance & hip hop to classical ballet & contemporary choreography, we welcome international narrative short films that spice up their story with a splash of music & dance, for a very special night at NexT 2012. Our goal: a 2-hour off competition program to electrify our audience and make them go home humming and swinging.
Maximum duration of submitted films: 60 minutes.
The films must be completed after January 1st 2010.
NexT Kids
A special program for the youngest hearts at NexT 2012, designed to make them experience smart and fascinating short films: an opportunity for 5 to 12 year olds to discover cinema through creative animations and live action short films from all around the world. The screenings will be followed by hands-on special activities related to the films in the program.
Maximum duration: 10 minutes.
For this section only, there is no time limit regarding the completion date of the films.
For further details, read the regulations of NexT International Film Festival 2012.
Download the entry form of NexT International Film Festival 2012.
DVD PAL screeners must be sent to:
NexT Cultural Society
179 Traian Street
024043, Bucharest
Romania
Besides the competition and the off competition programs, NexT also presents a series of seminars on directing, sound-design, production & distribution, script-writing etc. offered free of charge to the participants.
NexT intends to be a meeting point for young filmmakers around the world.
Get-together with local filmmakers & live music every night.
contact:
Yvonne Irimescu / Festival coordinator
Phone: +40 21 252 48 67
Mobile phone: + 40 721 661 756
www.nextfilmfestival.ro
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14 feature films in competition, all Hungarian premieres, 6 feature films out of competition, 9 classical movies in the PORT.hu CineClassics section, 19 short films, 10 documentaries, 15 animated movies, 3 exhibitions, 3 workshops, conferences, several professional meetings – issues of the 8th Miskolc International Film Festival which ended on 25 September. Due to the achievements of the last 8 years, Jameson CineFest has become the best film festival in Hungary.
Two Polish features: Essential Killing by Jerzy Skolimowski and Sala Samobójców (Suicide Room) by Jan Komasa, both co-financed by the Polish Film Institute, are in official selection for the European Film Awards.
Essential Killing and Suicide Room are among 45 feature films from 32 countries recommended for this year's European Film Awards. Other films in this year's EFA selection include Melancholia by Lars von Trier, In a Better World by Suzanne Bier, and The Skin I Live In by Pedro Almodóvar.
The 2,500 members of the European Film Academy will vote for nominations in 17 categories. The list of nominated films will be announced on November 5 at the Seville International Film Festival.
Two Polish films have already been nominated for this year's European Film Awards in the Short Film category: the documentary Paparazzi by Piotr Bernaś (at the 51st Krakow International Film Festival) and the feature Opowieści z chłodni (Frozen Stories) by Grzegorz Jaroszuk (at the 64th Locarno International Film Festival). Both films were co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.
The European Film Awards are among Europe's most prestigious forms of recognition in the world of filmmaking. In 2010, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz received the European Film Award for Best Short Film for her feature Hanoi-Warszawa (Hanoi-Warsaw), also co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.
The European Film Awards ceremony will be held on December 3 in Berlin.
The complete list of films recommended for this year's awards is available at: www.europeanfilmawards.eu.
Olga Domżała
Film Sales Support & PR Manager
Polish Film Institute
Krakowskie Przedmieście 21/23
00-071 Warsaw PL
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PARIS,
FRANCE (16 September 2011) - ÉCU- The European Independent Film
Festival continues its world tour when it travels to Tbilisi, Georgia to
present the award winners from the 2011 festival. This special edition
of ÉCU will take place at Cinema Amirani from 7th to the 9th October,
bringing to Georgia the cinematic independent spirit that has kept
filmmakers and audiences returning to the European Independent Film
Festival year after year. "We
saw some
incredible film
talent from
Georgia with the
film April Chill
which won the
Europe's Best
Independent
Dramatic Short
Film award at ÉCU
2011. We are
tremendously
excited to be
showing our films
in Tblisi and we
look forward to
meeting more
filmmakers from a
country with such
an upcoming cinema
culture", says ÉCU
Film Festival
president Scott
Hillier. Audiences
will be treated to 19 of Europe's Best Independent Films made up of
features, shorts, documentaries, music videos, animations and
experimentals from 14 countries. Festival president and award-winning
director Scott Hillier, will also hold a directing master class during
the weekend. ÉCU's
showcase in Georgia has been made possible by the generosity of the
Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia, the Georgian
National Film Center, TBC Bank, Nikora, Metro, Mozaika, and www.rus-press.ge. To see the action as it unfolds in Georgia, visit www.ecufilmfestival.com
Today at the press conference held at the Warsaw Marriott Hotel the programme
of the 27th Warsaw Film Festival was announced. The festival will run
for ten days – October 7-16, 2011, on nine screens at two locations in the heart
of Warsaw: Multikino Zlote Tarasy and Kinoteka. The Opening Film will be Page Eight by David Hare. The Director and Bill
Nighy are expected to attend. The Closing Film will be A Dangerous Method by
David Cronenberg. Other programme highlights will include The Battle of Algiers,
a 1966 classic by Gillo Pontecorvo and This Is Not A Film by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb,
a documentary about Jafar Panahi, Iranian filmmaker, who stays under home arrest
awaiting the sentence for his alleged “anti-system activities”. Panahi was
invited to preside the Warsaw Jury. Since 2009 WFF is listed by FIAPF (www.fiapf.org - 17 Hours (23-F) by Chema de la Pena, Spain 2011 / International
Premiere - Alois Nebel by Tomáš Luňák, Czech, Germany, Slovakia 2011 - Another Silence (Otros silencios) by Santiago Amigorena, France, Argentina,
Canada 2011 - Beast by Christoffer Boe, Dania 2011 / World Premiere - Being Mitsuko by Kenji Yamauchi, Japan 2011 / World Premiere - Blowfish by Chi Yuarn Lee Taiwan 2011 / European Premiere - Courage (Wymyk) by Greg Zglinski, Poland 2011 - Crulic – The Path to Beyond (Crulic – drumul spre dincolo) by Anca Damian,
Romania, Poland 2011 - Grey Matter (Matiere Grise) by Kivu Ruhorahoza, Australia, Rwanda 2011 /
European Premiere - Land of Oblivion (La terre outrage) by Michale Boganim, France, Germany,
Poland, Ukraine 2011 - Lena by Christophe van Rampoey, Netherlands, Belgium 2011 / European
Premiere - A Letter to Momo (Momo e no Tegami) by Hiroyuki Okiura, Japan 2011 /
European Premiere - Losing Innocence in Alma-Ata (Terya nevinnost v Almaty) by Zhanna
Issabayeva, Kazakhstan 2011 / World Premiere - Majid by Nassim Abassi, Marocco 2010 / European Premiere - Policeman (Ha'shoter) by Nadav Lapid, Israel 2011 - Presumed Consent (Prezumpcya soglasya) by Farkhot Abdullaev, Russia 2011 /
International Premiere - Reasons of the Heart (Las razones del corazón) by Arturo Ripstein,
Mexico/Spain 2011 / International Premiere - Rose (Róża) by Wojciech Smarzowski, Poland 2011 - Three and a Half by Naghi Nemati, Iran 2011 / World Premiere - Ulysses by Oscar Godoy, Chile, Argentina 2011 Most filmmakers of films in competition are expected to attend, including
Arturo Ripstein, Christopher Boe and his long-time collaborators, actors Nicolas
Bro and Nikolaj Lie Kaas. The winner will get the Warsaw Grand Prix and 100,000 zlotys (approx. 23,000
euro). The Jury are: Christa Saredi, Milcho Manchevski (Before the Rain, Mothers),
Bogdan George Apetri (Periferic), Alvaro Brechner (Bad Day for Fishing), and
Artem Vassiliev (producer, A Room and a Half, Paper
Soldier). COMPETITION 1-2 line-up: - Avé by Konstantin Bojanov, Bulgaria 2011 - Between Night and Day (Entre la noche y el día) by Bernardo Arellano,
Mexico 2011 - Breathing (Atmen) by Karl Markovics, Austria 2011 - The Cinema Hold-Up (Asalto al cine) by Iria Gómez Concheiro, Mexico
2010 - Combat Girls (Kriegerin) by David F. Wnendt, Germany 2011 - Hanaan by Ruslan Pak South, Korea (South), Uzbekistan 2011 - January (Enero) by Cynthia Gabrenja, Marcelo Scoccia, Argentina 2011 - My Last Round (Mi último round) by Julio Jorquera, Chile, Argentina
2010 - Natural Selection by Robbie Pickering, USA 2011 / European Premiere - No. 89 Shimen Road by Haolun Shu Hong Kong (China), Netherlands 2010 - Porfirio by Alejandro Landes, Colombia, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay 2011 - Qarantina by Oday Rasheed Iraq, Germany 2010 - The Shadow of the Sun (La sombra del sol) by David Blanco, Spain 2011 /
International Premiere - Spots (Fleke) by Aldo Tardozzi, Croatia 2011 - Toll Booth (Gişe memuru) by Tolga Karaçelik, Turkey 2010 / International
Premiere - The Trip (Izlet) by Nejc Gazvoda, Slovenia 2011 - Twilight Portrait (Portret v sumerkakh) by Angelina Nikonova, Russia
2011 The Competition 1-2 Jury are: Sitora Alieva, Andrzej Bart (writer, director,
and scriptwiter, Reverse), and David Mackenzie (Young Adam, Hallam Foe, Perfect
Sense) Separate Juries will judge films in Free Spirit Competition,
Documentary Features Competition and Shorts Competition. FIPRESCI, Ecumenical
and NETPAC Juries will also give their awards. Premieres in the Free Spirit Competition - Close Encounter of Mahjong by Donald Li, China / European Premiere - Farewell Loneliness by Huai-Syuan (Yaoyao) Jhuang, Taiwan, China / World
Premiere - Indifference / Bezrazlichie by Oleg Flyangolts, Russia / International
Premiere - The Man Who Dances / El hombre que baila by Sergio Aisenstein and Pablo
Pintor, Argentina / European Premiere - Pompeya by Tamae Garateguy, Argentina / European Premiere - A Sky Too Far to See by Norio Enomoto, Japan / International Premiere - Splinters by Adam Pesce, USA / European Premiere Premieres in the Documentary Competition: - Buck by Cindy Meehl, USA / European Premiere - Dancing Across Borders by Anne Bass, USA / European Premiere - How To Boil A Frog by Jon Cooksey, Canada / European Premiere - A Man's story by Varon Bonicos, UK / European Premiere - Überflieger - The Art of Ski jumping by Matthias Thönnissen, Germany 2010 /
World Premiere A total of 127 feature length films and 97 shorts from 59
countries will be presented. The CentEast Market Warsaw, an
industry event accompanying the WFF, will run October 14-16. It will consist
of: - CentEast Warsaw-Moscow (October 14), presentations of selected
Eastern European works-in-progress, which will be repeated October 22 in Moscow
at 2morrow Film Festival, in collaboration with TVINDIE; - Warsaw Screenings, industry screenings of the newest Polish
films; - panel on sales and distribution; - The Art of Editing (October 12), an open workshop where the basics
of film editing will be explained; - FIPRESCI Warsaw Project, workshop for young Eastern European film
critics and journalists, organised with FIPRESCI (www.fipresci.org); - Shorts Warszawa, a programme for young Polish short filmmakers, who
will learn about how the international film industry works. More info at
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
line-up:
Call for entries for 2012
You
can submit your
film into the international competition
from
20th September untill
20th December 2011.
The 11th
edition of AniFest, which will take place from 26th April till 1st May
2012, is
now accepting films into international competition. You can submit your
film
into one of the following categories:
- International Competition of Short Animated Films up to 5 Minutes in Length
- International Competition of Short Animated Films from 5 to 15 Minutes in Length
- International Competition of Short Animated Films from 15 to 60 Minutes in Length
- International Competition of Feature-length Animated Films
- International Competition of Student Animated Films
- International Competition of Animated Television Films and Series
- International Competition of Animated Commercials and Jingles
- International Competition of Animated Music Videos
- International Competition of Non-narative and Experimental Animated Films
- International Competition of Animated Films Made by Children up to 12 years of age
- International Competition of Animated Films Made by Children from 12 to 15 years of age
Online submission form HERE.
There's no entry fee.
Festival
statute and regulations HERE,
some answers regarding technical specifications of the films HERE.
Should
you have any questions, do not
hesitate to contact us:
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