Posted by editor@vimooz.com on August 31, 2009 under New York Surf Film Festival | 
The New York Surf Film Festival Presented by JetBlue Airways and the Dominican Republic has put together an eclectic Short Film Program encompassing animation, environmental documentaries, comedy, abstract and more. The NYSFF opens Friday September 25th and has a stacked program that will be sure to get the audiences hooting and stoked. Each short film is under 30 minutes and provides the filmmakers with a great opportunity to show off their creativity within the limited time frame.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under New York International Independent Film & Video Fes |
The New York International Independent Film & Video Festival runs from October 22nd-29th in Manhattan and will showcase a diverse range of features, shorts, documentaries and animations from all over the globe. The opening night kick-off party takes place at Boulevard (199 Bowery at Spring St., NYC, NY) on Thursday, October 22nd. Film screenings begin Friday, October 23rd - 29th at City Cinemas Village East (181 2nd Avenue at 12th Street, NYC, NY).
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under Toronto After Dark Film Festival |
Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2009 wrapped up eight thrilling nights of new horror, sci-fi, action and cult cinema last week, blazing new cinematic trails and setting new records! A new high of over 9,000 enthusiastic fans attended the Toronto After Dark 2009 which ran Aug 14-21 at the legendary Bloor Cinema, over double the size of the event of just three years ago!
Highlights of the 4th Annual Festival included jam-packed screenings of Nazi zombie movie DEAD SNOW, the creepy anthology TRICK ‘R TREAT and the cult action flick BLACK DYNAMITE, which won Gold, Silver and Bronze respectively in our Audience Choice Awards. The festival also hosted its first ever World Premiere, STRIGOI, an offbeat Romanian vampire comedy that was awarded by the fest Gold in the Best Independent Feature Film category. Silver and Bronze honours went to the darkly hilarious undead buddy movie THE REVENANT and the shocking zombie baby flick GRACE respectively.
And the winners are
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on August 18, 2009 under Woodstock Film Festival |
Hailed for its riveting performances by Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton and Steve Buscemi, the East Coast Premiere of Oren Moverman’s The Messenger will kick off the 10th Anniversary Woodstock Film Festival, Thursday night, October 1, at the Tinker Street Cinema in Woodstock, followed by a Q&A and reception with the director and select cast.
Woody Harrelson was WFF’s 2003 honorary Maverick Award Recipient. Steve Buscemi received the honorary Maverick Award in 2005 and director Oren Moverman co-wrote the Bob Dylan bio-pic I’m Not There, which closed the 2007 Woodstock Film Festival.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on August 17, 2009 under HollyShorts Film Festival |
Congratulations to the 5th Annual HollyShorts Award Winners!
Best Short Film
La Petite Lilia by Reda Mustafa
Grand Prize. Clifton Production Services RED ONE Rental Package Prize: The winner will be awarded a RED ONE digital cinema package rental that includes camera body, support and
accessories valued up to $5,000.00. Moving Pictures Magazine Automatic entry into its short film contest.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under SCINEMA Festival of Science Film |
Victorian student Kristian Lang has taken out the top student prize at the SCINEMA Festival of Science Film for the second year in a row.
Kristian is one of several Australian filmmakers whose films garnered awards from the international science film festival, which screens across Australia and New Zealand during National Science Week (August 15 - 23).
The winners were announced at the launch of National Science Week at Questacon in Canberra this morning.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under Canary Wharf Film Festival |
Canary Wharf Film Festival has announced its tantalising 2009 film line-up, and with four UK premieres, six world premieres and a whole host of international award winning shorts…
CWFF 09 promises to be the stand out festival of the year.
Canary Wharf Film Festival 2009 (CWFF 09) takes centre stage this September with a film offering unlike any other festival this year. The festival will host UK and international short film premieres along with programmes focussing on Serbian film and international award winning short films which rarely touch these shores.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on under Tribeca Film Festival |
The Tribeca Film Festival announced today that the ninth Tribeca Film Festival will be held April 21 - May 2, 2010 in New York City and that the Tribeca Film Institute’s Tribeca All Access (TAA) program will take place April 19 - April 26, 2010. The Festival has also announced a Call for Submissions for narrative and documentary features as well as for short film entries. TAA has announced a call for qualifying feature length scripts and documentary works-in-progress.
Deadlines to submit U.S. and International films for the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival are as follows:
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