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Reliance backs Mumbai with Film Bazaar and All-Woman Jury ♀
Reliance Big Picture, the company behind Dreamworks and IM Global is backing its home festival, the 12th Mumbai Film Festival (October 21-28) along with a film bazaar with 25 top international buyers and sellers. Screen's Udit Jhunjhunwala reports that 200 films from 58 countries will screen and an...
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Film industry streaming platform Festival Scope goes live!
This is an important new way to keep up with (and see!) festival films even when you cannot attend the festival. It was founded by three former sales executive Alessandro Raja, formerly of Celluloid Dreams, Mathilde Henriot, formerly of MK2, and Lucie Kalmar, formerly of Wild Bunch, They know buyer...
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Festivals Undergoing Major Sea Changes As Seen in Fall Fests...Focus on Latino and Spanish Language
IFP, NYFF, TIFF, Locarno, Venice, San Sebastian …and Special Focus on Latino and Spanish Language Oriented Festivals and Business
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14th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival
This festival doesn't get enough ink...who outside of N.Y. and other African Diaspora Film Festivals is aware of the films showing here? Are the acquisitions executives on top of this? It seems like the only African American films we see today are by Tyler Perry. (Exception: Precious). Here is ...
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San Sebastian FF Films in Progress (Cine en Construccion) Awards
I am in San Sebastian International Film Festival September 20 to 25 covering Films in Progress (Cine en Construccion), Latino films (Horizontes Latinos) and The International Film School Meeting.
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Women & Hollywood's Melissa Silverstein Goes to L.A. ♀
Of the top 250 domestic grossing films released in 2009, women comprised 16% of all directors, executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers, and editors. This is 3 percent less than 2001. The numbers break down as follows: women directed only 7%; wrote only 8%, were only17% of all exe...
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Eleven Latin American Films to Contend for the Horizontes Award
Eleven movies from different Latin American countries will contend for the Horizontes Award and its 35,000 Euros at San Sebastian. The Horizontes Latinos section showcases a selection of the most interesting and innovative Latin American films made over the last twelve months, with a number of titles backed by awards garnered at the big festivals of the year and others set for promising futures. Horizontes Latinos consists of features totally or partially produced in Latin America and either directed by moviemakers of Latin origin or set around the framework or subject of Latin communities throughout the rest of the world. These movies must...
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Summer of Goliath wins in Venice
Summer of Goliath, one of three FiGa films in Toronto FF won best picture in Venice's Orizzonti section. A Canadian/ Mexican/ Netherlands co-production, it is the first Mexican film to ever win in Venice. Hubert Bals Funding brought in the Dutch side of the production. There will be lots to celeb...
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Women ♀ Directors Roundtable at LALIFF
Top Left to Right: Consuelo Alba, Yvette Ederly, Sydney Levine, Isabel Cueva, Fina TorresFront Left: Sarah Vaill, Right: Carmen Marron.(Photo by Veronica Zarate)
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Women to Blog About: Fina Torres
Fina Torres (Josefina Torres Benedetti) was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Her film Habana Eva, a Cuban Venezualan co-production, shows tonight at LALIFF. Fina studied design, photography and journalism in Venezuela and earned her bachelors degree in cinematography at the Institute de Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques in Paris. After graduating, she worked as a film editor, camera operator, and script supervisor and also made short films and documentaries. Her debut feature Oriana (which she directed, wrote, and produced) won the Cannes Festival Camera d’Or and international acclaim. In 2001, she directed the romantic comedy Woman on Top starri...
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