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50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2024

Before we get to our list of the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2024, can we share…

2 weeks ago
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Indy Shorts Lineup Includes Tom Holland, David Letterman, Bella Ramsey and More — See You There?

Tom Holland, Bella Ramsey and Indiana's own David Letterman are among the famous faces appearing in films at the latest…

10 months ago
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Best of Lonely Wolf #22LWIFF: Poetic Hysteria, Regret and Dystopian Worlds

Lonely Wolf International Film Festival #22LWIFF received a record number of submissions in 2022: 1,804, with more women at the…

1 year ago
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2022 Climax Critics Awards Announced In Ambitious New “Vexhibition”

The Climax Critics Awards, based out of Madrid, Spain, announced its award winners following an ambitious art "vexhibition," where filmmakers…

1 year ago
  • Festivals

20 Great Film Festivals for First-Time Moviemakers, Presented by Film Freeway

Almost every new filmmaker has the same plan: Finish the movie, get it into Sundance or SXSW or another major…

2 years ago
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Tel Aviv and The Civil Dead Lead Mammoth Lakes Film Festival 2022 Awards

Marat Parkhomovsky's drama Tel Aviv won two awards and Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas' ghost comedy The Civil Dead won the…

2 years ago
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50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2022, Presented by FilmFreeway

Moviemaker Kevin T. Morales, whose ‘90s high school comedy Generation Wrecks is coming soon, tweeted something recently that we strongly…

2 years ago
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Locarno in Los Angeles Returns With Films You Can’t ‘Peg, Slot, Define’

Locarno in Los Angeles returns for its fifth edition today, and co-director Bob Koehler promises films “that you can't peg, slot,…

2 years ago
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At the Amelia Island Film Festival, Fish & Men and The Dark Hobby Call Out Oceanic Absurdities

"Do you know where your seafood is from?" asks Fish & Men, a feature length documentary that played Friday at…

2 years ago
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How Bridge-Builder Sandra Lipski Created the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival

A little over a decade ago, Sandra Lipski was an L.A.-based actor-filmmaker from Berlin who decided she should submit her…

3 years ago
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Mammoth Lakes Film Festival 2021: Larry Flynt for President, Isaac and Ultrasound Win Big

The documentary Larry Flynt for President, the sci-fi mystery Ultrasound and the Holocaust drama Isaac were among the big winners…

3 years ago
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NFMLA Celebrates Veteran Cinema With Supernatural Tales of Class Disparities, Acts of Courage and Heroes

New Filmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) celebrated the cinema of veterans with stunning tales of class disparities, supernatural occurrences and acts…

3 years ago
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Louisiana Film Prize Names 20 Made-in-Louisiana Short Film Finalists

The 2021 Louisiana Film Prize, which is celebrating its 10th year of recognizing short films shot in Louisiana, has announced…

3 years ago
  • 2021 Coolest Film Festivals

The 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World 2021, Presented by FilmFreeway

Each year when we compile this list of the coolest film festivals in the world, we try to come up…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

How Topology of Sirens Writer-Director Jonathan Davies Skipped Shorts to Go Straight to Features

Jonathan Davies' film Topology of Sirens is a very unusual cinematic debut, in that it's a true debut: Davies didn't…

3 years ago
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How We Made Our Film We Don’t Deserve Dogs — Almost Alone

Matthew Salleh is the director, cinematographer and editor of We Don’t Deserve Dogs, which chronicles the relationship between dogs and…

3 years ago
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South East European Film Festival Panel Predicts Downsized Multiplexes and More Niche Streaming Services

What does the future hold for theatrical distribution, the studio system and streaming giants? A panel of industry insiders at…

3 years ago
  • 2021 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee

50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2021, Presented by FilmFreeway

The 2021 film festival landscape is all about recovery, and almost every festival expects this year to be better than…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2021, Presented by FilmFreeway

The 2021 film festival landscape is all about recovery, and almost every festival expects this year to be better than…

3 years ago
  • LGBTQ Film Festivals

20 Fantastic LGBTQ+ Film Festivals, Presented by Film Freeway

What’s queerness without community? We queers—we noble trans and gender-nonconforming folks, we lesbian, gay, pan, and bisexual babes, we non-binary,…

3 years ago
  • What Film Festivals Want

What Film Festivals Want: Festivals Tell Us Their Ideal Submissions and Pet Peeves

What do film festivals want from moviemakers submitting films? The fact that you're asking that question already puts you ahead…

3 years ago
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Nightstream Is Coming: Five Beloved Film Festivals Unite for Halloween Delights

Five fantastic film festivals are teaming up for the chillingly named Nightstream, a brand-new Halloween season virtual festival to run…

4 years ago
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John Waters and Killer Rabbits: A Night at the Drive-In, July 2020

"I got my film education at the drive-in, and tonight, you will too," John Waters said Friday night, as he…

4 years ago
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The Best Online Film Festivals of 2020, Presented by FilmFreeway

Watching online film festivals is one of the best ways to assure yourself that everything is going to be okay.…

4 years ago