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07/19/11 LOS ANGELES -- The Artivist Film Festival, a unique showcase of films exploring socially active themes, has selected its 2011 features and short film line-up for the festival's eighth annual Hollywood edition, to be held August 18-20 at the historic Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.
07/16/11 WATERVILLE -- Actor Malcolm McDowell was quick to point out that the Mid-Life Achievement Award given to him Saturday during the 14th annual Maine International Film Festival was not a "mid-life crisis award."
07/15/11 WATERVILLE -- Nancy Sanford is a great fan of the Maine International Film Festival.
07/15/11 FAIRBANKS - The Fairbanks Film Festival is looking for entries for its sixth annual showing. The deadline is tonight at midnight. Categories include feature (over 40 minutes,) documentary (any leng...
07/12/11 *Congratulations to Jeff Friday, founder/CEO of Film Life Incorporated on the celebratory success of this years 15th Annual American Black Film Festival which took place in Miami, Florida July 6th thru July 9th. With the Ritz-Carlton serving as the host hotel and film screenings being shown at various venues close by, South Beach sizzled with [...]
07/08/11 The Orange County Society For Humanistic Judaism will present a summer Film Festival with three films beginning Friday, July 22. All films will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will be held in Clubhouse 3, Dining Room 2.July 22: "The Day We Met": A military...
07/08/11 Three new films screened at Frameline's recent San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival depict gay men and women who must not only learn how to think on their feet, but depend on their feet to run on auto pilot in an emergency.
07/07/11 The Lyon Film Festival concluded at The Lyon Theatre with the Festival Awards Ceremony.
07/07/11 MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (AP) - One of the most prestigious festivals honoring black cinema returned to Miami Beach on Wednesday to promote cultural diversity and recognize the contributions of black directors, writers and actors to the film industry. Now in its 15th year, the American Black Film Festival promotes cultural diversity ...
07/06/11 ALBANY, New York -- PrimaLoft , the world leader in performance insulation and sponsor of the Banff Mountain Film Festival , is proud to announce the winner of its November to Remember Sweepstakes. Randomly selected from over 5,200 entries, Muriel Meier of Wernersville, Pa., has been named as the...
07/04/11 This month indieWIRE turns 15. In honor of our decade and a half in the game we've dug through our vaults to uncover some old goodies. Check back throughout this month for some old classics. Here's our 2008 first person in which Mark Gill declared provocatively "Yes, The Sky Really Is Falling." Speaking at the L.A. Film Festival's Financing Conference, the then CEO of The Film Department (and ...
06/30/11 10 Films Take Top Honors in Five Thematic Categories Prior to Their Debut at Artivist Film Festival in Hollywood in August, Award-Winners to be 'Previewed' in Six U.S. Cities, July 8-10: Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, Sedona and Washington D.C.
06/28/11 The new Kings of Leon documentary film Talihina Sky got it's premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival over the weekend.
06/28/11 The annual "Premiere Brazil!" Festival starts at MoMA on July 14 and runs to the 27. The festival is a collaboration between MoMA and the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival and allows New Yorkers the opportunity to see work from new and established Brazilian filmmakers. Gustavo Pizzi's "Craft" will open the fest and "The End of the Endless" and "Amor?" will close it. The festival will ...
06/27/11 Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival has announced that Kevin Smith's "Red State" will open this year's edition, which takes place July 14 to August 7. John Landis will receive a lifetime achievement award and "The Wicker Tree," sequel to "The Wicker Man," will have its world premiere along with the launch of the book by the same title. Gabriel Thibaudeau will conduct a 30-person ...
06/27/11 Campus MovieFest , the world's largest student film festival, in partnership with Panasonic and the International 3D Society , completed the first CMF 3D Film Festival during the Campus MovieFest International Grand Finale events in Hollywood from June 23-26. ? The winners of CMF 3D were awarded at a red carpet grand finale in the Steven J.
06/26/11 Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by the Los Angeles Times and supported by L.A. LIVE, announced the jury and audience award winners for the 2011 Festival at the Awards Brunch, sponsored and hosted by CHAYA Downtown for the second year, and sponsored by Dove?® Hair Care. ? Allison Janney and John C.
06/24/11 (Clockwise from top left: Isaac Chung, Valerie Chu, Clementine Dusabejambo, Fils Habyarimana, and Kayambi Musafiri. Photo by author.) I'm standing outside the Clearview Cinemas in Chelsea, on a loud, busy Manhattan sidewalk. Theater employees mingle with staff and volunteers of the annual Tribeca Film Festival , the latter given away by the lanyard badges flapping against their chests. In front ...
06/24/11 TULALIP -- Aaron Jones hopes to see his film this August when it's part of the Smithsonian Native Cinema Showcase in Santa Fe, N.M. He also wants to see the screening of "History is Unwritten" at this year's Albuquerque International Film Festival.
06/24/11 Yesterday here at the Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival, hundreds gathered in the large theater at the AFI Silver for the Guggenheim Symposium to honor the careers of DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, the cinema verite filmmakers behind such classics as "The Energy War" (which took viewers into Carter's White House to watch him and his team deal with the fuel catastrophe), "The War Room" (a ...
06/24/11 Turning 35 this year, Frameline, or the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival, joins the ranks of some of the world's most senior film events. It also has the distinguished title of the world's oldest gay festival, starting as a small gathering back in 1977, but quickly catapulting to screenings in the city's iconic Castro Theater, which it still uses today. It's probably not a surprise that the ... | 
