film festivals

Free screening of Night Catches Us to open Newark Black Film Festival

The Newark Black Film Festival (NBFF), which is celebrating its 37th Anniversary, opens in Newark on Wednesday, June 29th, with a six-week run ending on August 3rd, 2011. Youth Cinema will be held on Mondays at the Newark Public Library and at the Newark Museum on Wednesdays beginning July 6th. The festival is a showcase ….

Content nabs rights to psychological thriller Story/Teller

Content Film has announced the acquisition of the psychological thriller Story/Teller for international sales. The company has a Directors Presentation reel screening in their offices during the Cannes Film Festival, and is marketing the project during the event. The film stars Alice Eve (Men in Black III, The Raven, She’s Out Of My League) and ….

Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest documentary screening at Tribeca Film Fest

Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, the Michael Rapaport-directed documentary on the groundbreaking hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival next week. Here’s the Tribeca screening schedule: Wed, Apr 27, 6:00PM BMCC Tribeca PAC (between Greenwich & West Streets) 199 Chambers Street New ….

Annual TromaDance AFM Panel to preview fest and discuss state of indie filmmaking

TromaDance founder Lloyd Kaufman announced that the annual American Film Market’s TromaDance Press Conference will take place this year on November 4, 2010, at 3 pm in the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel Press Room. Now in its 12th year, the TromaDance Film Festival is considered a beacon for truly independent cinema. Each year, the ….

Alice in Wonderland and Avatar production designer to be honored by Hollywood Film Festival

Oscar-winning production designer Robert Stromberg, whose work was most recently featured in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and James Cameron’s Avatar, will receive the Hollywood Film Festival’s Hollywood Production Designer of the Year Award during the Festival’s October 25th awards gala Ceremony, according to festival founder and president Carlos de Abreu. Stromberg’s selection followed a ….

Fantastic Fest schedule includes yakuza crime thrillers, cult horrors and martial arts heroes

The sixth edition of Fantastic Fest, which describes itself as a film festival with the boring parts cut out, is scheduled for September 23-30th, in Austin, Texas. The festival announced part of its programming for this year’s event, including: Bedevilled (2010) Director: Cheol-soo Jang, South Korea, 115 minutes If you beat, brutalize, dehumanize and torment ….

Win screening tickets to Storm Riders sequel The Storm Warriors and Bodyguards & Assassins

The New York Asian Film Festival is screening two films on Sunday, June 27th – The Storm Warriors (12pm) and Bodyguards and Assassins (2:15pm). The star of the films, Simon Yam, will attend both screenings, and the folks over at New York Anime Festival want you to see the films so badly that they’re giving ….

Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival chooses themes of travel and adventure for 2010

The principal genre film festival in Asia, Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) kicks off its 11 days of movie mayhem on July 15th, and runs through the 25th. Young Bin Kim is this year’s festival director. With this year’s theme being an “Up and Coming Genre Explorer Travelling to a World of Love, Fantasy, ….

Media That Matters 2010 seeks to inspire global action

After a decade of short films and big issues, Media That Matters continues to inspire and impact people across the globe. The tenth annual festival will feature twelve new films—each under twelve minutes—that will inspire audiences to screen, act, impact. Transgender youth identity, deep-seated racial prejudice in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, detainee accounts of ….