film festivals

Shot on Red Film Festival targets indie Red Camera projects

RED is proud to introduce the Shot on Red Film Festival, a showcase of short and feature length independent projects shot on RED cameras. RED and industry leaders will focus on selecting projects that best emphasize visual storytelling. Held on December 4-5th, 2012 in Hollywood, California, this event is intended to bring together some of ….

Rob Zombie and Wes Craven to appear at 10th Annual New York City Horror Film Festival

Horror, suspense and fantasy will be taking over the Tribeca Cinemas during the 10th annual New York City Horror Film Festival. More than 60 shorts and feature films will be presented in 12 programs beginning Thursday, November 8th. As the country’s most respected horror film festival, independent filmmakers from across the globe come to screen ….

One Armed Swordsman star Jimmy Wang Yu to attend screening and Q&A during Hong Kong 15 Film Festival

Organizers of the Hong Kong 15 Film Festival have announced that cult cinema legend Jimmy Wang Yu and producer Roger Lee will be appearing in their respective film screenings, along with acclaimed directors Fung Chih Chiang and Jessey Tsang. Iconic actor, filmmaker and veteran of over 80 films, Jimmy Wang Yu is widely credited as ….

Hugh Jackman to host free Tropfest New York Film Fest at Bryant Park

Tropfest, the world’s largest short film festival, recently announced that actor Hugh Jackman will host the main event when Tropfest takes over New York City from June 21st to 23rd. Tropfest began twenty years ago when Director John Polson (Hide & Seek, Tenderness) showed a six-minute film he made for under $100 at his local ….

Let Fury Have the Hour to screen at Tribeca starring Chuck D, Shepard Fairey, John Sayles and Def Poetry’s Suheir Hammad

In his feature directorial debut, author, visual artist and filmmaker Antonino D’Ambrosio has fashioned a lively social history that chronicles how a generation of artists, thinkers, and activists used their creativity and their work, as a response to the reactionary politics that came to define American culture in the 1980s. An exuberant, mixed media collage ….

New images from “sci-fi” buddy caper film Robot and Frank

Park Pictures has revealed new images from the company’s debut feature Robot & Frank, which will premiere at The Sundance Film Festival this Saturday, January 21st. Robot & Frank is a buddy caper. Set in the near future, aging curmudgeon and retired jewel thief Frank (Langella) lives a solitary life until his son (Marsden) installs ….

Fantasia International Film Fest launches genre filmmaking support program

The Fantasia International Film Festival is taking things up a notch for its 16th edition in 2012, embarking on a new venture that will contribute to the future of cutting-edge genre filmmaking: Frontières, the Fantasia International Co-Production Market. Frontières will be part of the Fantasia Film Market, which will make its official debut in 2012 ….

Tromaville’s latest to screen at Sitges fantasy and horror fest

Troma Entertainment’s latest film, Travis Campbell’s Mr. Bricks, will screen at the 44th annual Sitges Film Festival in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain on October 10th, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. at the Brigadoon. (Edifici Miramar, Carrer Davallada, 12-08870 Sitges, BCN.) Mr. Bricks is described as a heavy metal murder musical. Sitges is the world’s most prestigious film ….

More photos plus winners of the 15th Urbanworld Film Festival

The 15th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival closed its 15th film festival with the New York City premiere of Sundance World Cinema Audience Award film Kinyarwanda, directed by Alrick Brown and starring Cassandra Freeman. The packed theater gave the film a standing ovation, followed by a Q&A with Brown, Freeman and producer Darren Dean, which was ….