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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 27, 2009 under 7 Islands International Film Festival, Columbus Jewish Film Festival, Future Film Festival, Hayti Heritage Film Festival (HHFF), International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec, Southern Art Federation's Traveling Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival | Be the First to Comment

The Future Film Festival kicks off its eleventh edition today with the David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, nominated for 13 Academy Awards.  Read more …

The 7 Islands International Film Festival kicked off yesterday in Mumbai, India, intends to expose the Indian youth to films that bring new ideas, methodology, solutions and experimentation for social change through non violence and global disarmament. [via]

The Jules Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University will present the Southern Art Federation’s Traveling Film Festival today, Tuesday.The event, free to the public, will begin at 6 p.m. CST.  Read more …

The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 66th Venice International Film Festival (2nd > 12th September 2009) is to be awarded to the American director and producer, John Lasseter - one of the protagonists of the innovation in contemporary animated cinema - and to the directors of Disney•Pixar.

The Columbus Jewish Film Festival at the Columbus Public Library continues Thursday at 7 p.m. It started Jan. 22. The film this week is “The Rape of Europa.”  Read more …

The annual Hayti Heritage Film Festival (HHFF), formerly known as the Hayti Black Diaspora Film Festival is celebrating 15 years of existence.  The 2009 festival, being held February 19-22 in Durham, North Carolina, will be totally spearheaded by three dynamic women with years of experience in the performing arts community.

The sixth annual International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec will be screening and promoting ethnographic films by new filmmakers both Canadian and international, along with films by big-name visual anthropologists and social documentarians from January 30 to February 1.  Read more …