Latest festival news – Page 481
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NewsAdrienn Pal wins at shortened Hungarian Film Week
Agnes Kocsis’ Adrienn Pal named Best Film at 42nd Hungarian Film Week
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NewsJean Gentil wins top award at Jeonju Film Festival
Israel Cardenas and Laura Amelia Guzman drama takes top Woosuk Award
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NewsCannes adds new films from Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof
Good Bye added to Un Certain Regard; This Is Not A Film will be a Special Screening.
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News50 Cent to attend Aruba premiere of Things Fall Apart
50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) will be attending the second annual Aruba International Film Festival to attend the red carpet premiere on June 14 of his new film Things Fall Apart.
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NewsUK premiere of Red Dog to kick off London Australian Film Festival
AFI winners Animal Kingdom and Tomorrow, When The War Began also screening at 17th edition of festival (May 5-12) at the Barbican
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NewsSheffield Doc/Fest and EIFF to host joint premieres
Both festivals now take place in June; documentaries to be screened at both festivals will include James Marsh’s Project Nim.
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NewsSlew of deals signed for titles at Hot Docs festival
A number of deals have been signed for feature documentaries showing at Hot Docs, now underway in Toronto.
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NewsHazanavicius' The Artist moves into Competition in Cannes
Un Certain Regard adds Zvyagintsev’s Elena; UCR and Camera d’or juries completed.
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NewsTaipei Film Festival to open with Toast, Jump! A-shin
The Taipei Film Festival has unveiled its opening films and nominees of its competition section.
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NewsHot Docs festival and Blue Ice Film create $1million African doc fund
Six to 10 grants of $10,000-$40,000 will be given annually.
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NewsVenice to honour Pacino, to screen his new doc Wilde Salome
Actor and director Al Pacino has been tapped to receive Venice’s Glory to the Filmmaker 2011 Award dedicated to an artist who has left an original mark on contemporary cinema.
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NewsEdinburgh unveils first titles including projects from David Mackenzie, David Hare
The EIFF line up includes David Hare’s political thriller Page Eight and David Mackenzie’s sc-fi drama Perfect Sense starring Ewan McGregor.
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NewsLIFF winners include Being Sold, The Honey Killer
The London Independent Film Festival wrapped its eighth edition with Phil Hawkins taking the top best film prize for Being Sold, a dark comedy about a man who sells himself at online auction.
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NewsVenice Days' Gosetti replaces Eipides as programme head for Reykjavik
The Reykjavik International Film Festival has appointed Giorgio Gosetti as programme director of its main section New Visions and general programme advisor for the festival.
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NewsSheffield Doc/Fest reveals high profile line-up
Adam Curtis, Nick Broomfield, Molly Dineen and John Akomfrah are amongst the film-makers who will be appearing at next month’s Sheffield Doc/Fest.
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NewsLocarno Open Doors selects 12 Indian projects
Projects by Indian filmmakers Anup Singh [pictured] and Alka Raghuram are among 12 selected for this year’s edition of the Open Doors co-production lab to be held in Locarno from August 6-9.
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NewsHitchcock composers to be celebrated in Ghent
Taking place during the Ghent International Film Festival, the concert will feature music from legendary composers Bernard Herrmann and Franz Waxman.
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NewsTrans Atlantic Partners training scheme recruits 24 producers
Karyn Edwards, Jared Moshe, Tom Collins among producers taking part in co-production training event
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NewsGuam to launch inaugural film festival
The festival will take place on the US island of Guam in the Western Pacific.
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NewsTwo Gates of Sleep takes top prize at CPH PIX
Other winners include The Solitude of Prime Numbers, and composer Gaute Storas for Elias and the Hunt for the Gold of the Sea.