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3D, Eric Roberts,  Joan Osborne & Tom Shadyac Join this year's 2nd annual New Media Film Festival’s San Francisco festival lineup!

 

The Best in New Media… Honoring Stories worth Telling.

 

San Francisco CA-- Sat. Nov. 5, 2011

 

This year’s program at the New Media Film Festival stars actor Eric Roberts in “Vegan 101” and band Linkin Park in their lunar odyssey music video “Iridescent.” There will be World Premieres for Joan Osborne’s “love and hate," “Sesko” by Carlos Florez, and short film “Hollywood Tales” by Ethan Black. We also have the 2011 Emmy nominated PSA “the power of you” for Big sisters of RI, and award winning short films “Three fifty” and “The strange tale of Billy Barker.”

 

We are also proud to be screening the existential documentary “I AM” from filmmaker Tom Shadyac, the creative force behind such blockbusters as “Ace Ventura," “Bruce Almighty," “Nutty Professor," and “Liar Liar” as he explores two central questions:

 

What’s Wrong With the World? and What Can We Do About it?

The Hollywood Film Festival will run from October 20 to 24 at the state-of-the-art ArcLight Cinemas, in Hollywood.

The Festival will be capped off by the annual prestigious Hollywood Awards Gala ceremony on October 24, which lauds both annual and career achievements of Hollywood's emerging and established talents and launches the awards season.

"We are very excited that we will be celebrating our 15th anniversary and continue our quest to discover embryonic filmmakers from the global creative community," said festival founder Carlos de Abreu. "The Hollywood Film Festival continues to provide a great platform in the world's movie capital for indie filmmakers to show their passion projects before their friends, film lovers, and the industry at large."

The 15th annual Hollywood Film Festival will continue to offer moviegoers a full schedule of tributes, Q&A panels and a diverse schedule of works from around the globe.

"It has been an honor for Starz to be the major sponsor over the past few years of the Hollywood Film Festival," said Stephan Shelanski, executive vice president, programming for Starz. "The Festival continues to grow each year, and we look forward to seeing the current crop of film entries for 2011."

The Hollywood Awards® Gala ceremony will launch the awards season, honoring talent who are bound to leave a long lasting impression. Last year, the Hollywood Awards recognized such films as "The Social Network," "The King's Speech," and "Toy Story 3," well in advance of their major Oscar wins.

In the last 8 years, a total of 73 Oscar® nominations and 27 Oscars® were given to films showcased and/or to the nominees and honorees of the Hollywood Awards.

The Hollywood Film Festival is proud to continue the Hollywood Comedy Film Festival in its third year.  Last year's line-up was a great success featuring hysterical works by such top-notch comedic artists as Dax Shepard, T.J. Miller, Jonathan Lynn and Kevin Farley.

The festival and awards presenter is Starz Entertainment, LLC, a premium movie and original programming entertainment service provider operating in the United States. The company offers 16 premium channels including the flagship Starz® and Encore® brands with approximately 18.2 million and 32.8 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs in total more than 1,000 movies and original series every month across its pay TV channels. Starz Entertainment is recognized as a pay TV leader in providing HD, On Demand, HD On Demand and online advanced services for its Starz, Encore and MoviePlex brands.  Starz Entertainment (www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation and is attributed to the Liberty Starz tracking stock group.

Córdoba International Animation Festival - ANIMA, is both an academic and cultural event, devoted specifically to animation in its artistic and technological dimensions. ANIMA merges the energy, enthusiasm and joy of an Animation Festival with the scientific aspects of a Conference. Held every odd year since 2001, ANIMA is the main animation event in Argentina and a very influential player in its field in Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

ANIMA is no ordinary event. Its main objective is to gather creative individuals devoted to the art and craft of animation into a meeting point where all discussion and exchange can be directed into the scope of animation, in its many dimensions of analysis: as artistic expression, as cultural industry, as educational resource, as corpus for research, etc… Or just as fun!

The Festival is open to animation films of every genre, topic, format and screening media (film, video, television, Internet). Special interest is granted to those works where the filmmaker’s expressive intention stands out from marketing requirements; and also to school productions. Participation is open for artists all over the world, with special interest in those from Latin America. There is no limit in the number of works an author can send, but a separate Entry Form must be completed for each work, and shipping instructions must be respected.

There is no entry fee.

Categories
Feature Animation Animated films over 50 minutes running time.
Animated Stories Animated shorts with a strong narrative profile.
Themes and Rhythms Animated shorts with a strong experimental and/or abstract interest.
Music Video
Animated TV Series for children
Animated TV Series for adults
Advertising Animation

After the very successful 2010 Edition, I'VE SEEN FILMS International Film Festival announced, along with its founder, international artist Rutger Hauer, that the Festival’s 4th Edition will be held from October 5 to 14, 2011 in Milan, Italy.

The deadline to submit films for the 2011 I'VE SEEN FILMS International Film Festival is Monday, April 11, 2011

The 2011 Festival edition competition also anticipates the submission of feature and short films in stereoscopic 3D format.

The competition categories as follows: Fiction, Animation, Experimental, Documentary and Videoclip, which include various sections such as: "Children Are Watching Us", "Things Women Don't Tell", "Dreams and Needs", "Poor But Beautiful", "His Master's Voice".

In addition, there is also a section dedicated to Social Awareness issues, as well as one that deals with themes and images from the Arts, called "Art e-Motion" (painting, sculpture, theater, poetry and literature).

Submission forms, Call for Entry document and complete information regarding eligibility and entry rules and regulations are available at:  www.icfilms.org/eng/regulations.asp

The I'VE SEEN FILMS International Film Festival was founded in 2007 by Rutger Hauer and the goal is to promote, both on a world-wide basis, and through the internet streaming medium, the works of filmmakers desiring powerful exposure and visibility to their films.

The I'VE SEEN FILMS Festival stands out among other film festivals because the film authors can have their works screened in digital high definition. This professional approach allows a superlative high-quality projection which, during the past editions, gathered enthusiastic praises from the audience and film authors alike.

I'VE SEEN FILMS provides a unique platform for up-and-coming filmmakers to demonstrate their artistic capabilities and for the public to recognize their talent. A prestigious Jury of internationally-known film experts enhances the complexity and uniqueness of this Festival.

In an agreement between I'VE SEEN FILMS and Microcinema Digital Network, the competing films are aired via satellite in the 170 theaters of this digital network.

Furthermore, the I'VE SEEN FILMS Internet Contest offers film authors additional exposure to their works, by the assignment of Internet Audience and Internet Jury awards. The 2010 edition totaled 278 online competing works (from 58 countries), that received a staggering number of more than 2,000,000 views.

For the competing film authors, in the true I'VE SEEN FILMS tradition, the Award Evening will evolve into an unforgettable moment that makes them the real protagonists of the Festival.

The Burbank International Film Festival would like to call to your attention our Official Call for Entries. If you could please spread the word regarding the festival it would be much appreciated. The link for submissions on withoutabox is http://www.withoutabox.com/login/7137 

Submission Dates 
December 31st, 2010 Earlybird Deadline 
June 15, 2011 Regular Deadline 
July 15th, 2011 Late Deadline 
July 25th, 2011 WAB Extended Deadline

 

Silicon Valley Film Festival - International Awards

The Second Annual Film Festival Accepting submissions under 8 categories, Internationally and judges from International Countires. The real prestigious Awar

Best Short Film We accept shorts of lengths, styles and genres, including DOCUMENTARY shorts and ANIMATED films. Films can also be shot in any format or media as long as the submitted format is on DVD, in which we ultimately screen from. We try to put as few limits on the filmmakers as possible. Time limit: Under 30 minutes in length. Best Music Video This film section is one of the most exciting during our festival. Time limit: Under 10 minutes in length. Best Documentary Documentary films under 30 minutes. Best Animation Animated short films under 30 min in length Best Innovation & Entrepreneurship Film Best initiative film that emphasis , inspires, promotes Innovation & entrepreneurship Best Green Earth Film Best initiative film that emphasis a Green Earth. Best Vision of the Future Predict the future World. The most possible and accurate visionary film wins the 'Best Vision of the Future - Silicon Valley Award' Best Film By SVFF AUDIENCE 'Best film chosen by all the attendees of Silicon Valley Film Festival '

Pixar Artists Masterclass

Artists from Pixar are coming to Montreal, Quebec, Canada this summer to teach a Masterclass in Animation & Story Development.

Please view details here:
http://www.vanarts.com/events/pixar-artists-masterclass-2011-montreal-quebec

Thanks,
-- VanArts

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This event is part of the 2011 Tour that stops in: New York City, NY | Austin, Texas | Montreal, Quebec
http://www.vanarts.com/events/pixar-artists-masterclass-2011-tour

We are a not-for-profit festival celebrating the wealth of talent working across all genres of short film including live action drama, documentary, animation, music video, and broadcast design including online or mobile content, title sequences, and idents.

The work of newcomers and established filmmakers is promoted by screening work at cinemas, screening rooms and cafes throughout Soho and London’s West End.

We consider a short film to be under 12minutes, the time limit for most our competitive categories but we also consider longer short format work in our Long Form selection which includes work up to 30 minutes in length.

Our annual activities centre around a 10 day festival (2o to 29 July 2011) where the work of both established filmmakers and newcomers is viewed and judged on a completely level platform. These are joined by UK and international programmes and guest curators providing a total of 24 film programmes (each screend 3 times) and 45 plus events within the festival.

The competitive categories are:

The International AwardThe Long Form AwardThe Documentary AwardThe Short Film AwardThe Animation AwardThe Music Video AwardThe Broadcast Design AwardThe Newcomers Award

Through the Autumn and Spring we curate programmes of work at other festivals and events, while also encouraging production companies and organisations to view content from the most recent festival. Hopefully resulting in those filmmakers being invited to pitch on new projects and jobs as they arise.

Productions entered consistently feature a host of recognisable names and faces alongside gifted ‘unknowns’ giving everyone the opportunity to see, unmistakably, the british aptitiude for filmmaking and showcasing global filmmaking talent. Sue Johnston, James Fox, Mackenzie Crook, Dita Von Teese, David Tennant, David Thewlis, Saffron Burrows, Jimi Mistry, David Soul, Patsy Palmer, Jack Dee, Phil Jupitus, Natalie Press and Michael Sheen are but a few of the people who give their time, often for free, to play characters in these films providing an interest for a broader public audience.

At the conclusion of the festival the Rushes Awards are held to  announce the most acclaimed production from each category. Judges ranging across the creative industries vote for their prefered film, the 3 finalists from each category being invited to attend to hear the announcement, with all attendees then invited to celebrate and commiserate at an after party.

Rushes Soho Shorts Festival is now calling for submissions

Rushes Soho Shorts is now calling for submissions for their 13th celebration of everything short. Renowned for maintaining a significant bridge between the independent and commercial filmmaking communities, the annual not-for-profit festival celebrates the previous year’s best director in each of eight competition categories.

Work should have been completed between 1st January 2010 and April 2011.

Films can be submitted up until 21st April with the shortlisted films being announced early in June.

The Short Short Story Film Festival (SSSFF) is a unique international film festival presenting live-action and animated short films from around the world, all of which tell a story in five minutes or less.  

The festival travels to select locations in the northeastern US in November.

2011 marks the fifth year of the festival.

Note that submission to the festival is free.

For more information on the festival, including submission details, visit http://www.mergingarts.org.