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Martin Scorsese Masterclass in Cannes

 

 

 

LittleBig Pictures brings K9 star power with Mr Zoo 25

  LittleBig Pictures was founded in 2013 between 11 top film production companies hoping to lead the film industry toward a more reasonable and creative direction by establishing a more equal platform for production companies. LittleBig Pictures will continue to seek opportunities to invest and distribute in a diverse slate of projects that will lead the way for the future of the Korean film industry.   U...

AFM DAY 4 Market beat 125h69

  THE MARKET BEAT FROM THE FILMFESTIVALS.COM TEAM! Welcome to the release of our daily newsletter from Santa Monica View in your browser in our Newsletters reaching 199 000 subscribers from 200€  email us for a quote FOLLOW FILMFESTIVALS.COM              Promote your line up during AFM AFM 2019 runs November 6 -...

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Immersive Summit presented by Winston Baker wrapped November 9 1i1c45

Saturday, November 9     |     2:30pm – 6:00pm     |     Starlight Ballroom, Fairmont Hotel The XR Content Market: Where Do We Go From Here? Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, Paramount Pictures   The immersive market is at a standstill. There’s been limited progress on the hardware side and market demand continues to be a challenge. So if you’re a storyteller, producer, financier or distributor in this space, where do you go ...

Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Esai Morales 1d3s2b

Esai Morales, Activist and performing artist who launched his feature film career as Paco Moreno in Bad Boys opposite Sean Penn. Award-winning actor Esai Morales is a graduate of New York's High School for the Performing Arts. He was born in Brooklyn, to Puerto Rican parents, and began his acting career on the stage, first appearing in El Hermano at the Ensemble Theatre Studio and at New York's Shakespeare Festival In The Park in The Tempest.         ...

Conferences & Programs Finance Conference II Time: 9:15am – 12:45pm Location: Starlight Ballroom, Fairmont Hotel Shooting Intimate Scenes Time: 9:30am – 11:00am Location: Palisades Stage – Loews Hotel The PVOD Window: How Cinemas are Future Proofing their Business and What it Means for Independent Film Time: 10:00am – 11:30am Location: Venice Stage – Loews Hotel Building a Marketing Toolkit for Independent Fea...

Science Fiction films at AFM from Summer Hill! 143810

Summer Hill Films is at AFM in Suite 847 with California Pictures.  Please ask for Monique White.  These are available for select territories.  Please us for more info and visit our website at www.summerhillfilms.com!      NORTH AMERICA SOLD: 2020 Doomsday shadows a tightly knit cult hiding in a remote desert enclave as they prepare for the impending apocalypse. Two dissenters try to escape the threat of extinction - which becomes...

John Singleton’s Daughter Justice Singleton Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award on His Behalf at Inaugural Your Script Produced! 5r6n52

  John Singleton’s Daughter Justice Singleton Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award on His Behalf at Inaugural Your Script Produced! International Feature/TV/Short Script Competition Season 1 Awards Dinner Friday, November 8, in Beverly Hills (l to r) Bruno Chatelin, Doval Bacall, Justice Singleton, Sheila Shah (Photo by Ari Perilstein Getty Images for YOUR SCRIPT PRODUCED!)   Justice Says She Wants to “retrace” Father’s Steps   Ted Campbell Named ...

AFM Day 4 Highlights 2n5b70

Today’s programming included: PITCH CONFERENCE Pitching Essentials: The 2-Minute Pitch lists: Tobin Armbrust, Producer, former President, Worldwide Production & Acquisitions, Virgin Produced Effie Brown, Producer, Duly Noted, Inc. Cassian Elwes, Producer, ELEVATED : Lee Jessup, Screenwriting Career Consultant & Coach, leejessup.com   THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SCRIPT SUPERVISOR Presenter: Randi F...

AFM 2019 Market Debut of 2020 Brand New Completed Horror Films 381m1u

    We look forward to your requests for meetings at AFM 2019! Cheers! Asif Akbar JJ Rogers AVAIL Entertainment LLC/XVIII Entertainment LLC P.O.Box 4004 San Dimas CA 91773 IMDb: https://pro.imdb.com/company/co0447059/ Website (currently being updated): Avail Films       ...

3 Page Story on Bruno Chatelin and his festival insights in Indie Entertainment Magazine 4947g

Indie Entertainment Magazine – Film Market 2019 Santa Monica Indie Entertainment Magazine is delighted to unveil its 2019 AFM edition that features an exclusive never before published photo by Carlo Scimone of John Paul Getty III from his filming of the lost film “The Last Supper” and the thoughtful accompanying story by Claude Brickell, an interview with Nicole Kidman about “Big Little Lies” and working with Meryl Streep by HFPA’s Lena Basse, an inter...

Bruno Chatelin (filmfestivals.sitesdebloques.org editor) keynote on festivals and markets strategy during AFM at LATC 6b6o2i

Students regrouped to sing "Thank you for watching filmfestivals.sitesdebloques.org" at the end of the presentation! Much fun!     ...

2019 AFM Lineup     WW Rights Available WW excluding US/Canada     ANGELS FALLEN Sci-Fi, Action | 86 mins | 2019   After the tragic loss of his wife battling the forces of darkness, Gabriel is persuaded to re his former team of d...

  Charlie Higson, most known for his Young Bond  novel series, will co-write Curse of the Kohinoor,  the recently announced scripted series by Amara Raja Media & Entertainment, in partnership with Star Entertainment Worldwide and Contentflow Studios.   The heist thriller series tells the story of a plot to steal the Kohinoor diamond, centrepiece of the British Crown Jewels.  Featuring many of the biggest names from the Indian entertainment industry, Curse of the...

Ted Campbell wins best script at Your Script Produced 542pv

Ted Campbell Named Ultimate Grand Prize Winner: Feature Film, Receives $10,000, Plus $250,000 Production Deal to Produce “Blue Motel” When his bank robber father injured in a recent heist seeks refuge at the desolate motel where he works, a motel clerk is forced to confront the truth behind a botched heist from his past.   Ted Campbell 's Bio:   Originally from Boston, Mass, I am a screenwriter and director who specializes in thoughtfu...

Maria Riberio s Voltage Pictures as Director of Marketing 6m2r4e

Voltage Pictures has appointed Maria Eduarda Ribeiro as Director of Marketing with immediate effect, it was announced today by President and COO Jonathan Deckter. Ribeiro will oversee all marketing related matters, including reviewing and approving marketing materials created by company's international distributors. She will also oversee creative and all aspects of marketing for Voltage Picture’s film slate.  She  will report to Voltage Picture’s President, Jonathan D...

AFM: Arclight Films handling sales on Epic Advenure TOMIRIS 3i182i

Leading entertainment company Arclight Films, led by chairman Gary Hamilton, announced today the company has closed worldwide distribution rights (excluding Kazakhstan), for the action adventure Tomiris, the powerful and epic portrayal of the legendary Queen Tomiris, directed by multi award-winning director Akan Satayev (“The Liquidator”) and Kazakhstan’s official Golden Globe submission.    Starring Kazakhstan superstars Almira Tursyn (as Tomiris), Adil Akhmetov (a...

Come As You Are, feel-good movie hit from SXSW screens today in the market 1jb3f

      COME AS YOU ARE COMEDY SATURDAY, Nov. 9 @ 13:00 | AMC SANTA MONICA - 5 ...

November 10 s at AFM : PVOD, Faith based films and festivals, LGBTQ content and much more l236q

Finance Conference II Sunday, November 10     |     9:15am – 12:45pm     |     Starlight Ballroom, Fairmont Hotel Producing Studio Films with Independent Budgets Production quality and talent are more crucial than ever. Producers need to be strategic with their budgets – talent, locations, special effects, crew, everything! Seasoned producers and experts share their advice on how to stretch budgets and get every dollar, euro,...

November 9 s at AFM : the perfect pitch, How to work the afm, the Immersive Summit and more k3hj

Pitch Conference Saturday, November 9     |     9:15am – 12:45pm     |     Starlight Ballroom, Fairmont Hotel Pitching Essentials: The 2-Minute Pitch A good pitch can get a bad film made, while a bad pitch can leave a terrific project languishing on the shelf. Pitching is part art (it’s creative), part science (it needs to follow a tight script) and part sales (you have to wow them). Conference attendees will learn essential ...

AFM 2019 Day 3 with ambiance from Loews, Beverly Hills Awards reception and LATC Conference 463852

      THE MARKET BEAT FROM THE FILMFESTIVALS.COM TEAM! Welcome to the release of our daily newsletter from Santa Monica View in your browser in our Newsletters reaching 199 000 subscribers from 200€  email us for a quote FOLLOW FILMFESTIVALS.COM              Promote your line up during AFM ...

Your Script Produced Award Ceremony with Tribute to late John Singleton 1t5c5u

An intimate reception with winners and friends took place at Bombay Palcae in Beverly Hills. Sheila Shah and Doval Bacall hosted the event Doval Bacall festival founder with Justice Singleton who attended to accept the tribute to her late father John Singleton, (Boyz'n The Hood) Ted Campbell Blue Motel Grand Prize Winner will see his winning script produced for a quarter of a million dollars, Doval Bacall producing. photos Bruno Chatelin     ...

  Added Screenings Film: The Best Is Yet to Come Time: 11:30 am Theater: AMC Santa Monica 2 Company: Pathé International Film: Aiyai Time: 1:00 pm Theater: Laemmle 5 Company: Phoenix Worldwide Film: Los Japón – Big in Japan Time: 3:30 pm Theater: Arclight 11 Company: Beta Cinema     Conferences & Programs Pitch Conference Time: 9:15am – 12:...

Our friend Petra Terzi, bothfilmmaker and festival director screens 5 films at AFM 2qzr

Screenings on 11/11,12/11 &13/11 @Santa Monica: Venue: Promenade Playhouse 1404 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, CA 90401 Nov.11, 11:50 - "She Should Run-Cyprus", Petra Terzi, Cyprus, 2019, 55' Nov.11, 15:30 - "ROSES Trilogy by Petra Terzi", Greece, 2019, 32' Nov.11, 16:00 - "49 Years After-Above Limits", Petra Terzi, Greece, 2017, 9' Nov. 12, 19:00-19:45 - Workshop: "From No Budget To Big Business"...

AFM Finance Conference s November 8 54p3f

The Future of Film An exploration of the future of independent film, emerging marketplace trends, global film finance, and the impact of streaming platforms. A Conversation With BRON Studios BRON’s filmmaker-first approach has helped the company solidify its creative relationships. BRON is at the forefront of Hollywood deal-making, from slate financing deals with MGM and Warner Bros to securing financing and distribution for their own properties. BRON continues to invest in incredible ...

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