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, ….

Tempe, Arizona wins hometown premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Tempe, Arizona’s residents, schools, businesses, and a major cinema emporium are pulling out all the stops to prepare for the World Premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, on April 27, at Harkins Temple Marketplace 16. The Tempe Hometown Premiere will have all the trappings of a mega-Hollywood event including red carpet arrivals, klieg lights, screaming fans, ….

Loew’s continues classic film series with vintage shockers Ghost and Mrs. Muir and The Innocents

This weekend the Loew’s Jersey Theatre is starting off their spring screening season by showing three classic ghost stories. If you’re a fan of classic film, the Loew’s shows them how they were meant to be watched. Two of the three films screening this weekend will be using fresh vault prints from 20th Century Fox. ….

Attend the U.S. premiere of Tetsuya Nakashima’s latest film FREE

ANA presents the Nippon EIGA Series: Part 17, featuring the U.S. premiere of Tetsuya Nakashima’s film Paco and the Magic Book. Tetsuya Nakashima – who directed Kamikaze Girls and Memories of Matsuko – creates a story of miracles packed with laughter and tears, featuring a dazzling cast for epic, rainbow-colored entertainment. In the build-up to ….

Film noir screening series this weekend at classic New Jersey movie palace

This coming Friday and Saturday night, The Loews Jersey has another great classic film series. This time it’s the Film Noir Series, hosted by Professor Foster Hirsch, author of The Dark Side of The Screen, a revised and updated look at Film Noir. The landmark Loew’s Jersey Theatre is a not-for-profit arts and entertainment center ….

Classic Cronenberg screening series at IFC Center

IFC Center’s Waverly Midnights Series continues with a healthy – or unhealthy – dose of classic David Cronenberg films, running at midnight on weekends from February through April. Some of his most graphic and visually stunning work will screen, including Videodrome and Spider, considered classic sci-fi/horrors. The IFC Center is located at 323 Sixth Avenue ….