Latest festival news – Page 476
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NewsTyrannosaur crowned king at VOICES, St Petersburg's Kinoforum kicks off
Pure also wins big in Vologda; Kinoforum, presents two competition programmes.
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NewsRestoration wins top prize in Karlovy Vary
Other winners include Gypsy, Punk’s Not Dead, Sunflower Hour, The Good Life; number of attendees up from 2010, and 54 debut films presented.
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NewsMichael Fassbender, Luxembourg Fund join Gleeson's At-Swim-Two-Birds
Brendan Gleeson’s A-list period drama gets further cast and co-production support.
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NewsCanadian premiere of Red State to kick off Fantasia Festival
Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark will also receive its Canadian premiere as the festival’s official closing film.
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NewsArte's Reilhac to deliver keynote at Canada's Strategic Partners
Michel Reilhac [pictured], executive director of Arte France Cinema, will be delivering a key note speech at co-production market Strategic Partners, which will take place during the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Canada (Sept 15-18).
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NewsGruffalo among the six nominees for Cartoon d'Or
Six animated short films have been nominated for this year’s Cartoon d’Or award, which will be presented at an awards ceremony on Sept 15, during the Cartoon Forum in Sopot, Poland.
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NewsVenice jury to include Todd Haynes, Mario Martone
Darren Aronofsky serves as international jury president.
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NewsBFI appoints Clare Stewart as head of exhibition
The Australian veteran will lead exhibition including London Film Festival and cinemas.
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NewsFrench producers stalk Quebecois Denis Coté’s Bear at Paris Project
Hot titles at ninth edition of Paris Project included Vic & Flo Saw a Bear, Evil Woman, Mitrovica, Cannibal and A Screw. Rotterdam Films seals co-production deal on Thai director Sivaroj Kongsakul’s Cinefondation project Arunkarn.
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NewsSarajevo selects eight features for competition, including world premiere of Slovenia's A Trip
Debut films and young themes lead selections; Documentary Competition to have seven world premieres
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NewsFestival Scope adds partnership with IDFA
Titles available on online industry platform include Guilty Plasures, Agnus Dei and Imams Go To School (pictured).
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NewsCannes Critics Week title 17 Girls wins Priz Michel D'Ornano
The film’s directors Delphine and Muriel Coulin will receive the award at the Deauville American Film Festival in September.
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NewsEli Roth's next projects include producing Chilean earthquake film
New projects include producing next film by young director Nicolas Lopez; he also talks about radical solution to film piracy.
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NewsProject Nim, In A Better World to screen at Branchage Film Festival
The Jersey based film festival, now in its fourth year, continues its tradition of screening films in unusual venues.
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NewsMelbourne International Film Festival to open with The Fairy
World premieres include dramas from Schepisi, Hewitt, Do and Lahiff; closing film will be Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive.
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NewsBergman Week wraps with best-ever ticket sales
Visitors to Faro included Istvan Szabo, cinematographer Manuel Alberto Ciaro and Henning Mankell (who has written forthcoming biopic series to be directed by Susanne Bier).
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NewsSarajevo unveils Panorama programme for 17th edition
Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur and John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard are amongst the 25 titles screening in the Panorama programme.
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NewsPatrick Duynslaegher appointed artistic director of Ghent Film Festival
It is part of a wider restructure of the Ghent Film Festival’s team, ahead of the 38th edition which runs October 11-22.
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NewsMonte Hellman reveals process behind Road to Nowhere in Karlovy Vary
“We had directions for an ending that would have made the film a black comedy. But when I got on set that morning, I started to change my mind. I thought of a new idea,” the director said.
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NewsFrightFest line up includes record number of British features
British films in the line-up include Ben Wheatley’s Kill List which screened earlier this year at SXSW.