Latest festival news – Page 468
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NewsEdinburgh to reinstate Michael Powell award; festival keeps June dates
Emma McCorkell at Organic Marketing to lead festival public relations.
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NewsUK has strong presence at Haifa Film Festival
The Debt director John Madden [pictured] will be the guest of honour.
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NewsEasy Money 2, Hallstrom's Hypnotist to screen as works in progress in Stockholm
The Stockholm International Film Festival has unveiled a number of hot titles screening in its Works In Progress section.
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NewsBFI to give Fellowship Awards to David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes
Jurors across LFF prizes include John Madden, Sam Taylor Wood, Andrew Eaton, Andy Harries, and Anne-Marie Duff.
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NewsThessaloniki's Balkan Survey to pay tribute to Erden Kiral
Festival also announces 14 films in the Balkan Survey’s core programme.
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NewsUK Jewish Film Festival to open with This Must Be The Place
The festival, which runs in London (November 1-20) will feature works from Joseph Cedar, Percy and Felix Adlon.
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NewsRotterdam plans 14th edition of Young Critics project
Up to six critics under age 30 will participate.
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NewsRussia's Twilight Portrait wins Golden Puffin in Reykjavik
Runar Runarsson’s Volcano wins two prizes.
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NewsTake Shelter named best feature at Zurich Film Festival
Laurence Fishburne, Paul Haggis, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Marc Forster were all in attendance at the awards ceremony, which marks the highest profile Zurich Film Festival to date.
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NewsFrightFest Halloween event to host world premiere of Bad Meat
Acclaimed UK genre festival Film4 FrightFest is launching a new Halloween event (on Oct 29) at London’s Vue West End, with screenings from 6 pm until dawn.The films will include the world premiere of Lulu Jarmen’s splatter film Bad Meat, about a camp for troubled teens where fascists used spoiled ...
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Crossover Labs, Sheffield plan Skillset-backed training scheme
Crossover Labs and Sheffield Doc/Fest have received funding from the Skillset Film Skills Fund to launch Devise to Deliver, a si-month, UK-wide training scheme.
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NewsLFF industry innovations include Festival Scope partnership
Research and policymaking symposium to be held Oct 26.
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NewsTokyo announces new jury members including Kees Kasander, Fan Bingbing
Ed Pressman already confirmed as jury president.
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NewsLuc Besson's The Lady to close Doha Tribeca Film Festival
The Contemporary World Cinema programme for the third edition of the DTFF includes Pawel Pawlikowski’s Woman In The Fifth and Mika Kaurismaki’s Mama Africa.
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NewsNorman Jewison to be honoured at 38th Ghent Film Festival
Award-Winning director and producer Norman Jewison, renowned for such films as In The Heat Of The Night, Fiddler On The Roof and The Thomas Crown Affair, will be presented with the Joseph Plateau Award at this year’s 38th Ghent Film Festival, which takes place in the Belgian city (October 11-22).
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NewsSomeday This Pain set for Rome premiere
Italian director Roberto Faenza’s English language project Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You will have its world premiere at the upcoming edition of the International Rome Film Festival (Oct 27-Nov 4).
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NewsKormakur dives into post for The Deep for end-of-year release
Baltasar Kormakur’s The Deep is one of a number of hot Icelandic titles, also including thriller Black’s Game, that are in post production now.
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NewsEncounters unveils competition programme including Tony Grisoni short
The festival will be recruiting for a new head of programme as Mark Cosgrove steps up to become artistic director in 2012.
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NewsCentEast selects 10 works in progress
The CentEast Warsaw-Moscow has selected 10 Eastern European films to present as works-in-progress.
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NewsColla and Madsen among 20 European filmmakers showcased by EFP in Korea's Busan
Switzerland’s Rolando Colla, Romania’s Adrian Sitaru and Denmark’s Ole Christian Madsen are among 20 European directors who will be having their latest films showcased by European Film Promotion (EFP) at the forthcoming Busan International Film Festival (Oct 6-14).