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The 3rd Annual Harvest Moon Film Festival

The 3rd Annual Harvest Moon Film Festival brings together filmmakers, locals, and industry in an annual celebration of American and international independent cinema. Established by local businesses, foundations, arts groups, and filmmakers, the Harvest Moon Film Festival provides opportunities for its local and nearby communities to experience the art of film. Dates: November 12-14, 2009 ….

4th Annual Peachtree Village International Film Festival

Atlanta’s 4th Annual Peachtree Village International Film Festival, which is presented in conjunction with the African American Cinema Gallery and Gipp Museums, is committed to the belief that the film community provides a powerful, vital voice in society, connecting communities locally and globally. Highlights include: 50 industry leaders will lead PVIFF panels and workshops to ….

Boyle circling new Slumdog Millionaire tale?

According to the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph, Danny Boyle has purchased the rights to another book about Mumbai and its culture, titled Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. This is according to a statement by Simon Beaufoy, who won an Oscar for his Slumdog Millionaire screenplay.

12th Annual Indie Memphis Film Festival

Indie Memphis connects and inspires indie filmmakers through the unique creative landscape that is the home of the Blues and the birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll. The Festival serves as a connecting point for regional filmmakers from all corners of the country and provides a showcase for films celebrating Southern stories and storytelling. Dates: October ….

4th Annual Central Florida Film Festival

The 4th Annual Central Florida Film Festival (CENFLO) was established to showcase and support independent films, as well as to foster a national awareness of the plethora of production resources available around Central Florida. To this end, the Orland-based CENFLO is a valuable networking and learning event for both movie lovers and moviemakers. Dates: September ….

Win one of five copies of the award-winning indie comedy Ibid

On June 9th, Indiepix Films will release the SWSX Official Selection IBID, on DVD. IBID was produced by award-winning producer Heather Rae, who recently took home the Producer’s Award at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards for Ibid and Frozen River. To celebrate the DVD release of IBID, FilmFetish is getting five copies of the DVD, ….

Séraphine opens in New York and L.A. this week

Séraphine, the new film from French director Martin Provost, and starring renowned French actress Yolande Moreau, recently swept the César awards with seven wins including Best Film, Best Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Music. The film opens in New York this Friday, June 5th, at Lincoln Plaza Cinema and the Angelika Film Center, and in ….

Edgar Allan Poe poem Annabel Lee adapted into indie suspense feature film

In this, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, a feature film adaptation of his renowned macabre poem “Annabel Lee” will have its world premiere on Thursday, June 11, as the closing night selection of the Dances with Films independent film festival. It will screen at the Laemmle’s Sunset 5 in West ….

Either You’re In Or You’re In The Way book review

Identical twin brothers Logan and Noah Miller’s homeless father died alone in a jail cell. Little did they know, that their vow to complete their feature film debut, Touching Home, as a dedication to their love for him, would cause their lives to unravel as a pretext to the two brothers digging deeper into a ….

21-Day Filmmaking Competition 2009

The 21-Day Filmmaking Competition gives teams of filmmakers and animators from around the globe, the chance to make short films and animations (up to 10 minutes long) in just 21 days, and provides a guaranteed theatrical screening at the Project Twenty1 Film Festival, and worldwide promotion after the festival ends. For 2009, the competition begins ….

Trailer for Lynn Shelton buddy comedy Humpday

Apple has posted the trailer for writer/director Lynn Shelton’s (My Effortless Brilliance) new indie comedy Humpday. Recipient of the “Someone to Watch Award” at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards, Shelton mines the biggest ironies of the male ego in Humpday, a buddy movie gone wild. It’s been a decade since Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew ….

62nd Festival de Cannes line-up filled with cult, arthouse favorites and veterans

Arthouse favorites Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee, Pedro Almodovar, Johnny To, Lee Daniels, Jane Campion, Lars Von Trier and Terry Gilliam are among the directors, whose projects will be screened at Cannes, when the festival kicks off next month. Festival co-chairmen Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux unveiled the entries at a press conference in Paris earlier ….

Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera book review

Who would swing off a six-story building for a homemade Spider-Man movie? Why would newlyweds with a baby spend $20,000 on a Star Wars film from which they can never profit? How did three nobodies blow Steven Spielberg’s mind with an Indiana Jones flick they made as teens in the Eighties? – Excerpt from Homemade ….

Yojiro Takita’s Departures trailer online

The trailer for Yojiro Takita’s new film Departures has premiered on Apple’s trailer site. Departures centers on Daigo (Masahiro Motoki), a cellist who becomes jobless when his symphony orchestra in Tokyo disbands. Giving up his dream of being a performer, Daigo moves back to his close-knit home town with wife Mika (Ryoko Hirosue) to reevaluate ….

Batman: Dead End filmmakers return with Hunter Prey

Sandy Collora, famous for producing the indie short Batman: Dead End, recently wrapped an original sci-fi feature film called Hunter Prey. The new film centers on a group of elite intergalactic commandos that have crash-landed on a harsh planet while transporting an alien prisoner. Now they must track down and recapture the escaped creature, and ….