New Orleans Film Festival 2009

The New Orleans Film Society’s mission is to engage, educate and inspire through the art of film. Accepted filmmakers are enthusiastically welcomed to New Orleans as the Festival’s own special guests with accommodations, local transportation, and all-access passes to NOFF festivities, including an extensive program of screenings, workshops, panels, and Q&A’s. Date: October 8 to ….

Acefest Film Festival 2009

ACEFEST’s mission is to provide a nurturing forum for domestic film and video, thus magnifying the focus on this country’s creative voice. The Festival offers filmmakers special perks just for submitting, including subscriptions, discounts, goods, and more. All entries will also be made available in the ACEFEST Film Market for accredited industry professionals, distributors and ….

Feel Good Film Festival 2009

The Feel Good Film Festival envisions a world where happy, positive, and inspiring films are highly respected and widely distributed to promote the constant flow of positive energy through film viewing, and works to further this mission. FGFF screens family-appropriate features and shorts in the vein of MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, JUNO, and FINDING ….

Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival 2009

The Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival is dedicated to bringing the finest international cinema to its community and providing a cultural resource for filmmakers, artists, and the public at large. Highly anticipated by locals, and respected by film industry professionals, NSWC is one of the Bay Area’s most important cultural events. The Festival is ….

Rome International Film Festival 2009

RIFF welcomes films and filmmakers from around the globe to share the art of independent film with regional audiences, entertain and enlighten festival attendees, provide filmmakers the opportunity for professional networking and development, and to encourage cultural tourism and film industry development in Rome and the surrounding area. Held annually in downtown Rome, Georgia, RIFF ….

Nevada City Film Festival 2009

Organized in 2001 by Nevada City’s Magic Theatre, the NCFF brings top independent cinema to the foothills of Northern California, creating a forum for exchange and interaction between local filmmakers and the national and international independent film community. The filmmaker experience is a high priority at NCFF, and the Festival provides attending filmmakers accommodations, meals, ….

Blu-ray release of Star Trek: The Original Series giving hardcore Trek fans exclusive this weekend

Owners of Star Trek: The Original Series on Blu-ray will be able to access daily reports from FEDCON, Europe’s largest Star Trek convention, for direct download from the disc’s BD-Live portal. Apart from the additional information and exclusive videos and trailers provided via BD-Live, videos of the highlights at FEDCON will be available for download. ….

Full trailer for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra features sword-wielding ninjas, metal-eviscerating bombs and guns – lots of guns

Allocine has posted the full trailer for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the Stephen Sommers-directed adaptation based on the Hasbro toyline. The upcoming film stars Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Byung Hun Lee, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, Ray Park, Said Taghmaoui, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans and Dennis Quaid. The trailer debuts in theaters ….

Some behind-the-scenes video from the set of Neil Marshall’s historical epic Centurion

I found this behind-the-scenes video about the filming of writer/director Neil Marshall’s upcoming Centurion, featuring some action scenes from the film, as well as Marshall, Olga Kurylenko, Dominic West and others discussing the genesis of the story, the shooting schedule and more.

Bruce Willis up for mob pic Scarpa, video game adaptation Kane & Lynch, and a bunch of other action films

Bruce Willis is currently in discussions to appear in three new action films, including a thriller titled Inventory, an espionage film called Red and the mob biopic Scarpa, according to The Risky Business Blog. In Red, the actor would play a former black-ops agent now in retirement, who’s forced back into action when a high-tech ….

Viral campaign for sci-fi show Flash Forward explained (at least to me)

During Lost’s 100th episode last night, which I thought was one of the best episodes in a long while, there were a number of mysterious on-screen references to something, before and after commercials, that totally eluded me, in between the amazing new clips from Star Trek, Transformers 2 and Terminator Salvation. At one point, I ….