The Los Angeles Film Festival recently announced their line up. And it's great. Some of our festival favorites are screening including Lake Bell's In A World, Stacie Passon's Concussion, Short Term 12, Haifaa Al Mansour's Wadjda amongst many others.
Read More »If you are in New York, check out Women and Hollywood's Melissa Silverstein moderating a panel on film festival PR tomorrow, Wednesday (4/24) at Merrill Lynch (601 Lexington Avenue, 47th Floor) at 6:30pm. You can get tickets here. Be sure to use the discount code WIH-PR.
Read More »Recently Ottawa International Animation Festival director and programmer Chris Robinson asked in a private Facebook message to 10 female animators what they felt about gender specific festivals. Namely -- programs of films made only by women.
Read More »Saturday night in the Hamptons was a true highlight and a terrific capper to the final festival I'll attend as Editor-in-Chief of indieWIRE (after November 1st, this blog will be my sole editorial outlet here at iW as I embrace my co-founder title and head to the Film Society of Lincoln Center). For months I'd been anticipating the Hamptons/indieWIRE Industry Toast to Ben Barenholtz, an idea that came together earlier this year with Frances McDormand, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen as the catalysts. The three of them owe a lot to Ben and Saturday's event was a chance for them to give something back just a few days after he celebrated his 75th birth...
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