September 2007 - World Film Festivals

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World Film Festivals - September 2007

2007 SPAA FRINGE PROGRAMME UNVEILED!

September 27th 2007 07:52

LAST CALL FOR EARLY BIRDS: Friday 28 September. The programme for 2007 SPAA Fringe is now finalised and boasts an incredible line up of keynote speakers, workshops, one-on-one sessions, roundtables, interactive activities and unique access to the industry's top Producers.

2007 also features the inaugural streaming of SPAA Fringe, via a multi-cam shoot and broadcast over the internet. The webcast will be facilitated by Viocorp in partnership with SPAA Fringe, Metro Screen,Screenhub and Firelight Productions

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Raindance opens in London.

September 25th 2007 06:51

The 15th annual; Raindance film Festival which also spawned the British Independant Film Awards in 1998 opens today September 25.

The Raindance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the United Kingdom. The festival was established in 1992 to celebrate and support independent filmmaking and has gone on to feature such successes as Pulp Fiction, The Blair Witch Project, Capturing the Friedmans, Memento, Oldboy, Steve Balderson's Firecracker, Girlfriend in a Kimono, and End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

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Mitsubishi Supershort Series

September 22nd 2007 00:30

TROPFEST UPDATE

Cross section marketing between Mitsubishi and PBL will produce a series of six 60 second shorts made by Tropfest filmmakers to promote the new Mitsubishi range under the headings of

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TROPFEST UPDATE @ Tribeca

September 17th 2007 04:14

The Sixteen short films have been selected for this years Tribeca film Festival. The free outdoor event created in the same spirit as the highly successful TROPFEST FILM FESTIVAL held late February every year in Australia will take place this coming Sunday September 23 at the World Financial Center Plaza in New York City. The finalist films were selected from 161 entries from all around the world. Tropfest which started with only a single film put o by Founder John Polson for a group of friends at the Tropicana café in Victoria Street Sydney has grown to be the world’s largest short film festivals in the world screening in one night to every capital city in Australia and now even reaching to regional centres throughout the country

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Festivals for September

September 12th 2007 06:20

Sorry All, but with my comp crashing, I completely forgot to post the festival list for September. If you know of a festival that isn't on the list, and I know there are probably quite a few, but I have to start somewhere, send me an email at simon@moviecentre.net and I will modify the list, or just leave a comment for me and I will do the same. Apologies to any festivals that have already been run and done.

SEPTEMBER FESTIVAL WEBSITES

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VENICE FESTIVAL COMES TO A CLOSE (LINK)

September 12th 2007 04:48

For the second time Ang Lee has triumphed taking home the Golden Lion at this years Venice Film Festival with his sexually explicit thriller Se, Jie (Lust, Caution). The award continues Lee’s success at the festival after winning the same award for the 2005 award winning film Brokeback Mountain. He dedicated his award to Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who died in July

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SYDNEY GOES UNDERGROUND FOR APEC

September 6th 2007 07:33

Dont have much time as my home computer has crashed and am on a public comp so here is a quick run down and link to the Sydney Underground Film Festival

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AWARDS OF THE WORLD FILM FESTIVAL - MONTRÉAL 2007

September 6th 2007 07:27

This years Montreal World Film Festival held August 23 -September 3, 2007 has finally come to a close. With films from over 70 countries including established filmmakers and unknowns from all over the world another bumper crop of new talent has emerged. And it’s not only specialist juries that get to have their say at this years 31st World Film Festival with the general public also having a say in the voting.
“The goal of the Montreal World Film Festival (Montreal International Film Festival) is to encourage cultural diversity and understanding among nations, to foster the cinema of all continents by stimulating the development of quality cinema, to promote filmmakers and innovative works, to discover and encourage new talents, and to promote meetings between cinema professionals from around the world

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FLICKERFEST ENTRIES CLOSING

September 5th 2007 01:30

Entries are flying in thick and fast and with one month to go this might be your last chance to submit an entry for Flickerfest 2007. Deadline for Australian entries is September 14th 2007. For international entries the deadline is September 21st.

Flickerfest is Australia’s only ®Academy Award accredited Short Film festival, and its largest short film competition. The festival screens for 10 days under the summer skies at Bondi Beach in January 2008 with three (3) competitive programs - International, Australian and Documentary as well as special programs and forums. The festival then heads off to tour Australia at 16 different venues throughout this wide brown land

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RUSSIAN FESTIVAL OPENS SYDNEY THIS THURSDAY!

September 4th 2007 06:09

Quick note to all you festival goers out there. This Thursday in Sydney is the Opening night of the Russian Resurrection Film Festival with the wonderful Stolichnaya people providing all in attendance with a few shots of their delicious vodka to warm the hearts and fire up the mind before we enter the fantasy world of Wolfhound an amazing film directed by Nikolai Lebedev.
Wolfhound smashed all records at the Russian box office in 2006,delivering high class fantasy with enough magic sword wielding muscle and dark arts sorcery to satisfy any feverish imagination.
And then on Sunday, the epic production of Tolstoy’s WAR AND PEACE which comes in at an astonishing 505 minutes with amazing battle scenes reconstructed without the special effects people to help like they are want to do in today’s cinematic experiences. Winner of the 1969 Academy Award for best foreign film, this is one hell of a way to spend your Sunday afternoon. Of course there will be refreshments provided. Not even the world famous Cossack Soldiers would be able to go this long without a quick break to shoot down once again a short shot of vodka

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