The11th Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival will be held from 14 to 23 September. This year we are especially pleased to welcome as our guest of honour, the American film director John Landis. John Landis, an avid cinephile, began his career in the mailroom of 20th Century Fox Studios. A high school dropout, he made his way to the former Yugoslavia at age 18 to work as a “gofer” on MGM’s K...

      Danny DeVito (Neptune, New Jersey, United States, 1944) will be presented with a Donostia Award at the 66th edition of the San Sebastian Festival on Saturday 22 September in the Kursaal. The fo...

As we gear up for the 10th Annual NYC Independent Film Festival, we are thrilled to announce that in celebration of a decade of ‘never boring’ cinema, we will be screening all past ‘Best in Music Video’ winners from 2012-2018!  We thank all past winners for allowing us to screen their music videos again as a special treat for all of you. Get ready to jam! In other exciting news, all of our 2018 interviews are now available to watch on our website. Intereste...

19th Annual All Free TromaDance Film Festival Scheduled for Fall 2018 due to filming of "Shakespeare's Shitstorm"       "Due to the filming of our next feature film, 'Shakespeare's Shitstorm' the 19th Annual TromaDance Film Festival will be held this Fall. A little later than usual, but rest assured, TromaDance 19 is happening! Please continue to submit your feature films and shorts! The tentative submissions dea...

  The Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the U.S., is launching its 32nd edition by hosting a Sponsor Luncheon celebrating Israel’s 70th anniversary and honoring Netflix’s Larry Tanz, Star Wars: The Last Jedi producer Ram Bergman and philanthropist Stanley Black, it was announced by Festival Founder and Executive Director Meir Fenigstein. Tanz, Vice President, Global Television at Netflix, has been named the 2018 IFF Achievement ...

Advance Sneak Peek of Jeff Bridges Living in Futures Past with Music Artist, Olivia Olson at New Media Film Festival Out of news from Cannes, Living in Futures Past got a theatrical release making this screening an advance sneak peek celebration of the film ahead of the theatrical.  On June 16th and 17th, 2018, Saturday at 7:30 pm in the James Bridges Theater in Los Angeles, CA, the 9th Annual New Media Film Festival opening night festivities begin. This year’s festival boasts 110 ...

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The Universe Multicultural Film Festival ( UMFF) started its honoree program from 2017 edition.  The program is opening for worldwide general public to nominate their favorite film makers via on line form that listed on its web site. This year, the winners for the 2018 UMFF honorees are : 1.  Lifetime Achievement Award: Gene Warren Jr,  Gene Warren Jr. is an accomplished Oscar winner cinematographer, model maker, sculptor and stop motion animator. His experience in motio...

    Tiburon International Film Festival proudly is holding a tribute in honor of the great Italian poet, and filmmaker, Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the most talented, controversial, intelligent, and daring filmmakers of his generation. We salute Pasolini and pay our homage with a new documentary titled The Isle of Medea, directed by fellow Italian filmmaker Sergio Naitza.     ...

Come to the Silver Scream Festival this February to see the Creature From The Black Lagoon on the big screen. After the screening, meet the man in the suit himself, Ricou Browning! The last surviving Universal Monster honors us with his presence to meet with fans and talk about possibly the most important monster movie ever.   With rave reviews coming in for The Shape Of Water we wanted to celebrate the film that inspired Guillermo Del Toro's modern masterpiece.  ...

Shashi Kapoor gone? What a huge loss! Nine years ago, the Pune International Film Festival honoured Shashi Kapoor with a Life-time Achievement Award. He had already suffered a stroke and could only mumble, yet his presence lit up the auditorium. I felt privileged to have contributed his profile to the official brochure of the festival, but a tear ran down my cheek as he was given the award. As the news of his ing away came in an hour ago, I felt deeply distraught. We had worked together i...

  The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Wednesday (October 25) to present a Special Award – an Oscar® statuette – to director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s virtual reality installation, “CARNE y ARENA (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible),” in recognition of a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling. “The Governors of the Academy are proud to present a special Oscar to ‘CARNE ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tonight honored 17 student winners from colleges and universities around the world at the 44th Student Academy Awards® ceremony, held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards were announced and presented by actors Amber Tamblyn and Andy Serkis, producer DeVon Franklin and director Jennifer Yuh Nelson. The 2017 Student Academy Award winners are: Alternative (Domestic Film Schools) Gold: &l...

Tom Alter: Actor, Cricketer, Urdu lover and Caucasian Unlikely combination of professions and hobbies for a man named Thomas Beach Alter, who hailed from a family of American missionaries. His acting abilities were never in doubt, and the barest accent betrayed his ethnicity. But his skin and hair distinguished him from other Indian co-actors quite noticeably, and he had to be content with parts showing him as a British colonial or modern day baddie. There were occasions when he was made to s...

Jaeger-LeCoultre honours its commitment to the San Sebastian Film Festival and awards, together with the Festival, the ''Jaeger-LeCoultre Prize to Latin Cinema'' to Paz Vega The Spanish actress has worked with filmmakers including Julio Medem, Pedro Almodóvar, Frank Miller, Danis Tanovic and the Taviani brothers, among others         Jaeger-LeCoultre is proud to sponsor, for the sixth consecutive year, the San Sebastian Film Festival, in supp...

  On the occasion of this year's 30th European Film Awards (EFAs) and in recognition of a unique contribution to the world of film, the European Film Academy takes great pleasure in presenting Aleksandr Sokurov with the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for his outstanding work in the field of directing, dramaturgy and cinematography. Having first graduated in History, Aleksandr Sokurov started out making various TV films and documentaries and then studied at the Soviet Uni...

The 73rd Venice International Film Festival has dedicated this edition of the Festival to Mr. Abbas Kiarostami and this Homage will include two short films by Mr. Kiarostami, "24 Frames" and "Take Me Home" as well as a very brand new documentary by Seifollah Samadian (documentary filmmaker and photographer of ABC Africa and Five), "76 Minutes & 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami". This is a Portrait of an artist, whose exceptional approach to Art and Life, de...

    As with every edition of the International Film Festival of Panama, IFF Panama 2016 will host a select group of prominent representatives from the global film industry. Between April 7thand 13th, audiences will be able to interact with our guests through post-screening discussions, seminars, workshops, lectures and s.   Lucía Bosé Lucía Bos&...

Love of nature and wild-life was inculcated in Naresh Bedi by his father, Dr. Ramesh Bedi, an international expert in plant medicine and a consultant to the government of India. Born and raised Haridwar, close to forests and animal habitats, Naresh Bedi recalled the days when his father carried him on his shoulders into the forests. He also ed the day when he, all of eight years old, was returning from a trek, and suddenly spotted an elephant waking up from slumber. Terrified, he had ...

Bimal Roy Film Festival: Dharmendra, Helen, Ameen Sayani honoured Cinemas in Mumbai usually play the country’s national anthem, ‘Jana gana mana’, written by Rabindranath Tagore, before the feature film, a practice mandated by the government. Two weeks ago, at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (BVB) in south Mumbai, which is not a regular cinema hall, the song was played as part of the Bengali film that had incorporated it in its credit titles. Udayer Pathe (on the way to enlightenm...

  Palm Springs, CA – The 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) presented Bryan Cranston with the Spotlight Award, Actor at its annual Awards Gala. The Gala also presented awards to previously announced honorees Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, Michael Fassbender, Brie Larson, Rooney Mara, Tom McCarthy, Saoirse Ronan and Alicia Vikander. The Awards Gala was hosted by Mary Hart on Saturday, January 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The Fest...

For fans of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, one of America’s all-time great screen couples, Key Largo is the place to be in late October. Festival attendees can discover the best of Bogie and Bacall in — where else? — Key Largo. That’s not just because Key Largoshares its name with one of Bogie and Bacall’s iconic films, though the connection to the classic is undeniable. It’s also because the island at the head of the Florida...