Film Festival Headlines
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on February 2, 2009 under Denver Jewish Film Festival, Fajr International Film Festival, Fusion:LA LGBT People of Color Film Festival, Insomnia Film Festival, Las Vegas International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival | 
Apple cancels Insomnia Film Festival
Apple has cancelled its “Insomnia Film Festival” according to an email sent out to participants. In the email Apple sites that they were “unable” to reschedule the festival, which had been previously delayed due to “unexpected server problems”. Read more …
Pusan International Film Festival
Pusan International Film Festival announced that the 14th edition of festival will be held from Oct 8th to 16th, 2009.
Denver Jewish Film Festival
From its opening-night film, Noodle, the story of an abandoned Chinese boy who falls into the lap of a widowed El Al stewardess, to the closing-night offering, Lemon Tree, about a Palestinian widow who fights to save her lemon grove from destruction by Israeli security forces on the West Bank, the thirteenth annual Denver Jewish Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, February 5th. Read more …
Fajr International Film Festival
The 27th Fajr International Film Festival kicked off last Friday in Tehran, Iran. Iran’s most important event in the motion picture industry, the Fajr film festival is held annually to commemorate the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The 27th edition of the festival contains 18 sections including Iran’s cinema and the world. A total of 277 feature-length movies, short films, and documentaries from 63 countries will screen this year. The festival will run until February 10. Read more …
Las Vegas International Film Festival
The Las Vegas International Film Festival hits town April 9-12. Read more …
Fusion 2009: The Sixth Annual Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival
Outfest has announced the line-up for Fusion 2009: The Sixth Annual Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival, a three-day program of films, panels, workshops, and parties. The festival of screenings and events will kick-off on Friday, March 6 with the annual Opening Night Gala shorts program-a program of short films that includes award-winning short, “La Corona” and “The Young and Evil,” an official selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The festival will close on Saturday, March 7 with the Los Angeles premiere of “Pedro,” written by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and directed by Nick Oceano. Read more …