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Heartland Names Truly Moving Pictures of 2009
Heartland Truly Moving Pictures announced its first ever Top 10 "Truly Moving Pictures" of 2009. The top films were selected from the 22 films that were honored with the Heartland Truly Moving Picture Award in 2009.
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Sundance’s “Next” Wave of Indie Moviemakers
After introducing now-iconic indies like Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape), Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket) and Kevin Smith (Clerks) to mainstream success in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the Sundance Film Festival became the world’s greatest showcase of low-budget moviemaking. In more recent years, however, it has been criticized for being more glitz than grit, complete with celebutantes and gifting suites.
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Sundance From Your Couch
In a brand new initiative, the video on demand label "Sundance Selects" has partnered up with the Sundance Institute and created “Direct from the Sundance Film Festival”—a program that will bring three of the films being screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival to a nationwide, on-demand audience.
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Sundance Film Festival Announces 2010 Jury Members
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival announced the members of five juries for this year’s festival. This selected jury members include an international collection of award-winning moviemakers, journalists, producers and film aficionados.
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China Pulls Two Films From Palm Springs Film Festival
The Palm Springs International Film Festival announced yesterday that two Chinese films set to screen at the 2010 festival, City of Life and Death and Quick, Quick, Slow, have been withdrawn.
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Brian Wimmer Takes Action at X-Dance
Established in 2001, Salt Lake City's X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival has become one of the few viable outlets for extreme sports moviemaking.
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Let’s Go Ride A Couch
Creative ways of promoting your film
So, by luck or sheer bribery, your movie somehow has made it into a festival. How is your film going to stand out in the crowd of all those other films that don’t deserve to be there nearly as much as yours? Answer: Promote the crap out of your movie. Actually, promote the crap out of your movie in a fresh and creative way.
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Calgary International Film Festival Goes Maverick
One of the largest film fests in Canada, the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is dedicated to honoring burgeoning moviemakers from around the world who possess an undying passion for their craft.
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Johnny Depp Given Career Achievement Award in Bahamas
After helping rake in more than $2.7 billion for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, it's fitting that Johnny Depp will be the recipient of the Career Achievement Award at this year's Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF).
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Sundance Announces Films In Competition
It’s nearly New Year’s and that means Sundance is just around the bend in Park City, Utah. This year, the festival is making some modest changes, however. Instead of showing a single film on opening night, the evening will include one narrative film, one documentary and one short. In addition, the prestigious festival will add a new section devoted to very low or no-budget films, a nod to Sundance’s early years.
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Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker Awards Announced
The Sundance Institute and the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) announced the 12 finalists for the 2010 Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker Awards.
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Chapman University Hosts Pusan West Film Festival
From November 20 to 22, Chapman University in Orange County, California will introduce to cinema what chefs have been successfully applying to food for decades: Asian fusion. The university’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts will play host to the first ever Pusan West Film Festival, the western incarnation of the famed Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF).
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Paul Osborne Gets His Official Rejection
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"Oh, yeah, you guys are infamous," said Bruce Fletcher as he leaned back in his chair, his trademark jack-o'-lantern grin stretching across his face. "You're downright notorious." He was referring to the reaction our documentary about film festivals, Official Rejection, generated when it came up in conversation during a recent informal gathering of various festival directors at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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SQIRRL Runs Amok on the Festival Circuit
New Website allows moviemakers to share their festival experiences
The current film festival circuit is a sprawling network of opportunity for up-and-coming moviemakers. There are festivals for every format and genre. The pitfall that comes with having all of these choices is the risk of submitting (and being accepted by) a festival that may not be right for you and your movie. That's where SQIRRL comes in.
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Angelus Student Film Festival Goes Global
Angelus Student Film Festival director Monika Moreno discusses the past, present and future of the festival here with MovieMaker.
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Frankie Latina Reveals His Modus Operandi
Move over, Black Dynamite: There’s a new exploitation movie homage in town. Co-starring genre vets like Danny Trejo (Grindhouse; The Devil’s Rejects) and Mark Metcalf (National Lampoon’s Animal House; “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), Modus Operandi follows a vengeful C.I.A. agent (Randy Russell) who goes on a dangerous mission to find the man who murdered his wife.
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Horror Comes to Rhode Island
RI International Horror Film Festival celebrates its 10th year
What do Providence, Rhode Island and Halloween have in common? For the past decade, the spookiest of holidays has been the backdrop of the Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary from October 22nd to 25th.
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Atom Egoyan is a “Master of Cinema”
Twenty-five years after taking home a Golden Ducat at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg for Next of Kin, the first award of his extraordinarily decorated career, Canadian moviemaker Atom Egoyan is returning to the place where it all started.
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19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Award Nominees Announced
Earlier today, the Independent Film Project announced the nominees for the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. Michelle Byrd, executive director of the IFP, was enthusiastic about the nominations. "Ranging from the small gems produced on micro-budgets to extraordinary films from specialty distributors, the nominees all share the type of creative vision and risk-taking that are a hallmark of independent film," she says.
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Royal Flush, Killer Fest
Judging from the poster for the upcoming Royal Flush Festival in New York City, kicking off today, audiences are in for one crazy festival!
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Get Your Freak Show On
Horror fans may have a new destination for an early Halloween this year. From October 9-11, the Freak Show Horror Film Festival will take place at the Wyndham Orlando Resort in Florida.
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The Butterfly Circus Takes Top Prize at Doorpost
The Butterfly Circus is a touching tale of a circus that travels across America during the Great Depression. It stars Nick Vujicic as Will—dubbed “the Limbless Man” by the cruel showman at a fairground sideshow, it is only when he joins the Butterfly Circus that he realizes his true potential.
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Film Festival Dos and Don’ts
You’ve made your little independent feature film, financed with love, credit cards and some spare change from mom and dad. Now you’re going to take it to Sundance, where it will be watched by excited buyers from all of the major distributors. One of said distributors will cut you a big check, gather your movie up into its warm, welcoming arms and sprinkle it into theaters all across the land. Right?
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CineVegas Film Festival Announces Hiatus
We all know the current economic climate has taken its toll on the entertainment industry. Another casualty of the economic crisis is Las Vegas’ CineVegas Film Festival, which has announced that it will not be held in 2010. The film festival, which celebrated its 11th year in 2009, has been a place for unconventional moviemakers to showcase their work. Festival president Robin Greenspun states that “Given the current economic climate and the pressures it has created, we made the difficult decision to put CineVegas on hiatus for the coming year. CineVegas has become such a well respected film festival, and rather than allow the economy to affect its level of quality we have opted to put the event on hold.”
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Mill Valley Film Festival Celebrates Number 32
Now in its 32nd year, the Mill Valley Film Festival is dedicated to screening the best in independent and world cinema.
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Doorpost is About More Than Money
The Doorpost Film Project truly is unique in the world of short film festivals. It receives hundreds of submissions, and from those selects 10 finalists. Here’s the good part: The finalists then receive a $30,000 budget to create a new film. The winner of this championship round receives a $100,000 cash prize.
But, as moviemaker Brent McCorkle knows, Doorpost isn’t all about the money: It’s also about the support and encouragement you receive, both from the contest staff and fellow moviemakers. McCorkle, whose short film The Rift made it to the top 10, took the time to answer some of MovieMaker’s questions about his film and the festival.
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Cucalorus Film Festival Announces Early Lineup
The early lineup of the 15th annual Cucalorus Film Festival was just announced and, as expected, it's a pretty eclectic bunch of movies—running the gamut from uproarious comedies to searing Southern dramas. Taking place November 11 - 15 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Cucalorus is a truly unique festival and was recently named by MovieMaker as one of the 25 "Coolest Film Festivals."
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Eddie Chung Takes It Easy with The Achievers
Imagine five years of White Russians, bowling alleys, smelling piss on rugs and seeing adults dressed up in costumes like bowling pins and Creedence Clearwater Revival tapes. This all sounds hilarious and slightly unbelievable, but director Eddie Chung experienced all of this at the numerous Lebowski Fests (fan gatherings dedicated to the Coen brothers' 1998 classic, The Big Lebowski) he visited while filming his documentary The Achievers, which comes to DVD on August 18th.
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Austin Film Festival Honors Ron Howard’s Extraordinary Contributions
Hopefully Ron Howard's shelf for awards is made out of hickory (the strongest wood), because he's going to be adding yet another statue to his collection of Oscars, DGA, Golden Globes and Broadcast Film Critic Association awards.
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Downtown Film Festival Highlights L.A.’s Cinematic History
The Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles has become a vital part of the film scene in the historic center of L.A. The festival seeks to emphasize the area’s cinematic roots by bringing a wide variety of films, both shorts and feature-length, to downtown Los Angeles.
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Imagine Science Film Festival’s Science of Cinema
When uttered in the same breath, the words "science" and "cinema" will more often than not elicit images of light saber swordplay, viscous green creatures and wildly inconceivable viruses. However, Imagine Science Film Festival director and founder Alexis Gambis has his own notions about the unique combination, potentially explosive for both scientists and moviemakers alike.
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25 Coolest Film Festivals: 2009
Depending on the era in which one grew up, what is “cool” can be a very different thing. But whether you watched James Dean on the big screen, were introduced to cinema through Quentin Tarantino or believe that great movies begin and end with Michael Bay, “cool” cinema takes us beyond the expected, captures the zeitgeist and changes the way we view the films that come along for us afterward. The same can be said for the 25 film festivals profiled below. With the help of hundreds of independent moviemakers, festival directors and fest attendees, we scoured the world to identify more than two dozen fests that are creating a truly unique film festival experience (for moviemakers and festival-goers).
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Anne Thompson Moves from Variety to indieWIRE
One of the film industry's most revered journalists, Anne Thompson recently announced that her popular blog, "Thompson on Hollywood," will moved from Variety.com to indieWIRE.
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Lynn Shelton Celebrates Humpday
This year has been a bit surreal for me. Humpday is my third feature and the first of mine to be accepted into the Sundance Film Festival. I made the film on a shoestring budget in Seattle, the town where I live, with talented, wonderful friends whom I love—just as I have made my previous two movies.
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On the Eve of Adam
In late November of 2008, I found out that Adam, the film I’d spent most of the past two years and parts of the previous four writing and directing, had been accepted into the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
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