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Read More »DAILY NEWS: Sundance, AFI and Slumdance Explore Online Opportunitiesby Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE(indieWIRE/6.2.00) -- Each day in the indieWIRE office brings an increasingnumber of press releases highlighting dotcom deals. Yesterday, threeentities familiar to the indie community announced online intiatives -- theSundance Institute, the American Film Institute and Slumdance.The Sundance Institute unveiled a plan which will bring its June Filmmakersand Screenwriters Lab online. In conjunction with Salt Lake City-basedB/O/W/G Advertising, the Institute will include filmmaker and screenwriterdiaries, interviews, and photos online as the select ...
Read More »DAILY NEWS: SF Lesbian & Gay Fest Lineup; Lot 47 and Sony Classics Cannes Dealsby Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE, with a report from Carl Russo>> San Francisco Announces Lineup for 24th Lesbian and Gay Film Festival(indieWIRE/6.1.00) -- The 24th San Francisco International Lesbian and GayFilm Festival is bracing for a lineup of 270 works with more US premieresthan ever, killer lesbians, gay caballeros, and a mascara showdown betweenTammy Faye and local drag queens.The fest opens June 15 with Patrik-Ian Polk's "Punks" (EdmondsEntertainment), a musical adventure focusing on the lives ofAfrican-American men in Los Angeles, and closes June 25 wit...
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Read More »DAILY NEWS: Eveo and Atom Partner; Newport Lineupby Eugene Hernandez /indieWIRE>> Eveo Signs Distribution Deal with AtomFilms(indieWIRE/5.31.00) -- Eveo calls it "user-generated content" whileAtomFilms calls it "community powered" entertainment -- whatever you call it, the two companies are seeing eye-to-eye on distributing work created by site visitors. Eveo announced yesterday a syndication deal with AtomFilms to license and distribute the "best of" its online content via Atom's pipeline. According to Eveo, the site pact gives Atom a first look and option to acquire Eveo content for distribution."We're so pleased to be partnering with AtomF...
Read More »DAILY NEWS: Florida and Human Rights Watch Festival Lineupsby Eugene Hernandez /indieWIRE>> Florida Fest to Open with "Love & Sex"; Competition Linueps Set(indieWIRE/5.30.00) -- The Florida Film Festival, a top regional stop on the Spring festival circuit, has announced the lineup for its 9th annual event -- June 9th - 18th in Maitland, FL. The Festival will open with Valerie Breiman's "Love & Sex," starring Famke Janssen and will be preceded by Joe Nussbaum's popular parody short, "George Lucas in Love."The Festivals showcase Narrative and Documentary Feature competitions will include a solid collection of recent independent films. In the ...
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Read More »DAILY NEWS: Docfest Linuep; "Groove" in NYC; Latino Fest Correctionby Eugene Hernandez /indieWIRE>> 3rd New York DOCFEST Set to Open with "Saluzzi" and Close with Verite Doc(indieWIRE/5.26.00) -- The third annual Docfest, New York's InternationalDocumentary Festival, will kick off in Brooklyn next week with the USpremiere of Daniel Rosenfield's "Saluzzi: Composition for Bandoneon andThree Brothers." The screening at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Cinemason May 31st will be followed by a gala opening night party that will includea performance by Argentinian musician Dino Saluzzi. The festival willcontinue through June 6th at the Director'...
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