Film festival News
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When we look at our diverse society in this 21st Century, one aspect to that diversity that still has yet to be fully understood is the subject of disability. The lives of people with disabilities is important.
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The fifth edition of the Cape Town International Animation Festival has pulled together some of the world's best animators and animated films, and includes several workshops with industry leaders.
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‘Farhope Tower’ is a competent haunted house story that is constantly building out its narrative without ever straying too far from its core plot. Shot in Niagara Falls, the film opens The Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival.
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Films from far away as Kazakhstan will be making a premiere at the 29th Annual Superfest: International Disability Film Festival this coming Nov. 14. One of the festival's coordinators Professor Emily Beitiks, PhD took some time to talk about it.
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Virtual reality isn't the stuff of fantasy any longer. Thanks to FIVARS, Canada's first virtual reality film festival, this super-charged tech is destined to change how we experience on-screen storytelling.
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Toronto -
Celebrating 10 years of the greatest cinematic-diplomatic mash-up in existence, the European Union Film Festival (EUFF) closes this weekend with with three new screenings, and three encore presentations.
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Toronto -
Toronto's first annual horror movie celebration gets off to a screaming start come November. With a combination of panels, parties, and a selection of horror-lore guests, HORROR-RAMA hopes to make its bloody mark on the local horror culture scene.
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The start of spring and warmer weather marks the start of international film festival season. In the U.S. the popularity of international film festivals has grown with almost every state hosting their own festival.
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San Sebastian -
San Sebastián is the place to be in Spain on Friday, as the San Sebastián Film Festival kicks off, with 13 movies lined up for the best film award. Hugh Jackman is due to receive a lifetime achievement award during the event.
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Toronto -
The latest documentary tracking the photographic project of Canada's Edward Burtynsky is visually mesmerizing, but it's also layered with an urgent message on how mankind has mishandled water and its ecological value.
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Toronto -
"I got a bad feeling about this mission," says George Clooney's astronaut character in one of the more foreboding lines in the upcoming film Gravity. Thanks to skilled direction and awe-inspiring visuals, this lost-in-space story surpasses expectations.
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Concert documentaries are not often remarkable. But Ron Howard's Made in America dazzles at almost every turn as he chronicles Jay-Z's massive 2012 music fest in Philadelphia, which brought together dozens of disparate acts.
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Toronto -
Forget its hefty three-hour runtime. Look beyond the explicit sex scenes. What makes Blue is the Warmest Color a standout film (and a deserved winner of Cannes' Palme d'Or) is the impressive acting courtesy of leads Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
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To the tune of Barry White's “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything”, Tilda Swinton jumped into the audience in Virginia Theater, Champaign, Il and inspired them to get up and dance in honor of the late Roger Ebert. Includes video of the event.
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Chicago -
One of the most famous film critics has died. Roger Ebert, a former television host and longtime Chicago newspaper columnist, has died at the age of 70 after a long battle with cancer.
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Los Angeles -
Angelus film festival was born 16 years ago, when a few people in Hollywood, disaffected by the negative coming out, got together to provide a venue for filmmakers to pursue positive themes and award them.
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New York -
The 2013 Athena Film Festival on the Barnard College campus at Columbia, NYC provides an engaging weekend of feature films, documentaries and shorts that highlight women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world.
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Fresno -
This Sunday, do-it-yourself film innovators Dumb Drum of Fresno, California released their latest "Sweded" trailer to the public. This time their inspiration was the trailer for Marvel Studios upcoming Iron Man 3 movie.
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Toronto -
A delivery boy in a Paraguayan market is the highlight of 7 Boxes, debuting at the Toronto International Festival Market. His wild ride serves as the suspenseful engine for a film that should earn widespread distribution.
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Toronto -
If you look past the crotch shots, rib-thumping dubstep and ultra-violence perfect for a Clockwork Orange sequel, Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers is a fun movie destined to be a cult classic.
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Toronto -
Screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, Robert Redford's The Company You Keep succeeds as an entertaining thriller, but focuses too much on the adventurous journalist instead of the characters at the core of the film.
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Several truly creative gems stand out in the Short Cuts Canada programmes at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Here is our top six picks worth seeing.
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Venice -
Film Festivals around the world seem to be battling each other for bigger stars and bigger movies but this year's Venice Film Festival, that opened August 29th, is turning its attention away from celebrity and back to the films.
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Toronto -
A potential Hollywood blockbuster will open this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September. The time travel thriller, Looper, stars Bruce Willis and will be featured at the opening gala.
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Toronto -
Toronto’s Inside Out LGBT Film Festival has built up a strong loyal following of filmgoers over the 22 years since they began, and each year the line-up of feature presentations, parties, and celebrity attendees never disappoints.
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Toronto -
Thirteen days of movies, games, interactive exhibits and plenty more family-friendly fun are part of the 15th annual TIFF Kids International Film Festival, starting April 10 in downtown Toronto.
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Montreal -
People’s struggles around the globe will be front and centre in Montreal this weekend at the third-annual DocFest, a film festival featuring documentaries dealing with human rights issues.
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With the 2012 Sundance Film Festival just weeks away, Cindy Meehl, winner of the 2011 Sundance Audience Award for "Buck," shared her perspectives on her film and on her experience at Sundance.
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Screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, Rampart is compelling but somewhat unsatisfying as the story of how an LAPD police tries to clear his name after being caught applying his own brand of street justice.
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One of the more timely films debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival is Think of Me, the story of an American woman struggling with her finances while trying to raise a precocious daughter naive to the despair weighing down her family.
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"I loved the film festival and had a wonderful time. Being the MC was an honor," said comedian Nina G. "Often times the media misrepresents disability, that is why I think Superfest is so important." Nina's favorite films this year was "Vectors of Autism" and "The Mural." Courtesy of Superfest 2014
SFIFF program director Rachel Rosen answered questions from the press in a panel discussion format. The Opening Press Conference held on Tues. March 29, 2011 was well attended.
Devour! The food/film festival, Wolfville, Nova Scotia Courtesy of Devour
On Nov. 2, 2014, Superfest was held at the Contemporary Jewish Museum which featured over 52 films about and by people with disabilities. Courtesy of Superfest 2014
Neil Marcus, courtesy of Superfest 2015
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the White House Student Film Festival in the East Room at the White House in Washington, February 28, 2014 Reuters / Jonathan Ernst
A still from the film Spring Via TIFF
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2012 Latino Showcase - Blue Bay film from Chile
The author trying out the Samsung Gear VR headset while watching a virtual-reality film Courtesy FIVARS staff
The area where the Sundance Film Festival is held in Park City, Utah Courtesy Sundance Institute/Jemal Countess
Theme logo of the film Festival held in Lagos, south west Nigeria
Ryan Gosling stars in Clooney's The Ides of March Courtest TIFF
San Francisco International Film Festival, executive director, Graham Leggat, addressed those in attendance at the Opening Press Conference for the festival held at the Westin St. Francis Hotel on Tues. March 29, 2011
Superfest 2014, Festival Coordinators Catherine Kudlick Director of San Francisco State’s Paul Longmore Institute on Disability with Bryan Bashin, CEO of the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Courtesy of Superfest 2014
2012 Newport Beach Film Festival - Latino Showcase
Long Beach International Film Festival Drone photo, Jason Belsky
A riot of colour – a British Film Institute publicity picture for the 24th annual Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in London BFI publicity picture
San Francisco — 2015 Superfest International Disability Film Festival. @ Superfest
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