Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 8, 2009 under Pusan International Film Festival | 
“Good Morning President,” director Jang Jin’s new comedy about three Korean presidents will open the 14th Pusan International Film Festival. The festival will close with “The Message,” a spy thriller directed by Chen Kuo-fu and Gao Qunshu set in 1942 China under Japanese rule.
The festival will screen a record 355 films from 70 countries, with 98 world premieres and 46 international premieres.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 5, 2009 under Pusan International Film Festival |
Bollywood director Yash Chopra (Lamhe, Dhoom 2, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and New York) has been named the Asian filmmaker of the year by organizers of the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF).
Kabir Khan, who directed New York, which is about three friends and the impact of 9/11 on their friendship, has also been specially invited to the festival.
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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 …
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Terror Film Festival
Terror Film Festival ‘call for entries’ is now open. Terror Film Festival is an international film festival that nurtures new and upcoming genre filmmakers and screenwriters who are the next Hitchcock, Romero, Rob Zombie, Robert Rodriguez, George Lucas, M. Night Shyamalan, Steven Spielberg, Orson Welles, Hammer Films, etc. The festival has been labeled by the press as “one of the most theatrical events in the industry with incredible showmanship”, and they offer over $15,000 in cash and prizes, free promotion, and the coveted Claw Awards. [via]
Purple Violet Student Film Festival
The Purple Violet Student Film Festival at Kean University is accepting short film submissions!
The Purple Violet Student Film Festival at Kean University is dedicated to the encouragement and recognition of emerging filmmakers. The one-day Festival features the screening of student short films in four unique categories (Comedic, Animation, Dramatic and Documentary) and a New Jersey High School Public Service Announcement Video Contest.
Special Guest Artist Emily Hubley will be screening and discussing her latest feature The Toe Tactic.
Selected works will be presented at Kean University on April 16, 2009. The four winners will each be awarded a cash prize of $250.
Download an application online at http://www.kean.edu/premierestages/
All submissions must be postmarked by March 13, 2009. [via]
Broad Humor Film Festival
The Fourth Annual Broad Humor Film Festival is accepting screenplay submissions in three length categories: Under 20 pages, 20 to 60 pages, and over 60 pages. Broad Humor celebrates film comedies written and directed by women so screenplays should be submitted by female writers only. Dramedies are accepted as long as the script has lots of laughs or “smile moments” important to the story. Early (postmark) deadline is March 7; late deadline is May 9.
The Broad Humor Film Festival takes place June 12-14, 2009, at the Electric Lodge Performing Arts Center in Venice and includes screenplay readings as well as film screenings. [via]
Pusan International Film Festival
Pusan International Film Festival announced that the 14th edition of festival will be held from Oct 8th to 16th, 2009. Also, Pusan International Film Festival has set this year’s deadlines of submitting films for official programs as well as of Asian Cinema Fund(ACF), Asian Film Academy(AFA), and Pusan Promotion Plan(PPP). Details? Read more …
Outfest, The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 9, 2008 under Pusan International Film Festival |
Kazakh director Rustem Abdrashev’s “The Gift to Stalin” will open the 13th Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea and the festival will close with South Korean director Yoon Jong-chan’s “I Am Happy,” about the relationship between a psychiatric patient and a nurse.
The festival, which runs October 2-10, will show 315 movies from 60 countries, 85 of which will be world premieres, and 48 International premieres.
