#Film festivals

[artsekey]

My thesis film has gotten into three festivals back-to-back!

[weclassybouquetfun]

Luca Marinelli at Mubi Fest - Milano

with writer/director Alice Rohrwacher pulling photog duty, which is nothing new for Luca.

Luca and Alice are surely no strangers to each other as Luca costarred with Alice's sister Alba in LA SOLITUDINE DEI NUMERI PRIMI / THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS

Still friends today.

Bello, Luca.

[leotanaka]

if anyone is interested...

the japanese film festival (online) starts on june 5th, lasts for a month and is completely free; and

the spanish film festival starts in australia and goes from june to july.

[jdboy2000]

Be a part of the making of the future of horror!

@macabrethemovie is an exciting new horror/slasher project and is currently funding on Kickstarter until September 5th, 2024. No funds will be withdrawn from the backers of the project until then.

In this clip, co-writer/director Zack Cherry gives a deeper explanation of the concept behind "Macabre" (@macabrethemovie) and offers insights into both the short film and his plans with co-writer/director Erik Champney along with their cast and crew to enter the film into film festivals and use the buzz around the short film to eventually make a feature length film. The short film stands alone, but it also serves as the opening to the feature film.

If you are interested in pledging to the Kickstarter campaign, you can find it here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/randyborruso/macabre-a-horror-short-by-zack-cherry-and-erik-champney

If you would like updates on the progress of the campaign and the production of "Macabre," head over to

http://www.macabreshortfilm.com

Even if you can't contribute to "Macabre" monetarily, sharing the links and helping to spread the word about the project is also extremely helpful.

This project is only possible thanks to people like you.

[yournoeliafan]

[davidhudson]

It’s on.

[foxsoulcourt]

Queer is the Spotlight Gala film @ NYFF62

Written in the early 1950s yet not published until 1985, William S. Burroughs’s Queer has come to be considered a canonical work in the career of the Beat Generation author and a cornerstone of transgressive gay literature. In his wildly ambitious adaptation, Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, NYFF55) expertly evokes the book’s post–World War II time period and cinematically translates Burroughs’s iconoclasm with panache.

In a transformative role, Daniel Craig immerses himself into Burroughs’s alter ego William Lee, a habitual heroin user luxuriating in freedom and desiccation among a disconnected group of gay American expatriates in Mexico City in the late 1940s. When enigmatic, preppy ex-military kid Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey) catches Lee’s eye, he swoons into a headlong love affair, commencing an odyssey that will take them all the way to the Ecuadorian jungle in pursuit of the ultimate high.

Buoyed by go-for-broke performances from Craig and Starkey, and rollicking, unexpected supporting turns from Lesley Manville and Jason Schwartzman, Queer is a dazzling showcase for many in Guadagnino’s stable of collaborators, including Challengers screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes, cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, and music composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. 

It’s a film that finds Guadagnino in his most formidable, gutsiest mode yet, a universal love story featuring expressionistic flights of fancy, gratifying moments of psychedelic surrealism, and surprising tenderness. 

[shipwreckedcomedy]

In terms of festival news, we've saved the best for last - Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story is an official selection of the Austin Film Fest and we could NOT be more excited!! Not only that, one of our screenings is on Halloween!! 🎃 Join us in Austin for our screenings on October 28th and 31st - some of our team will definitely be there. We've had our eyes on this fest for many years and we are so ecstatic to be included in this year's lineup. Break out the ribs!!

[eretzyisrael]

Report: Israeli Artists Censored by Hollywood

The Hollywood Reporter revisited that topic, expanding the focus to show how Israeli artists struggle to get their visions to the screen.

Israeli content creators are increasingly becoming pariahs in the global marketplace.

According to the site, some Jewish artists can’t find funding post Oct. 7. That’s bad enough, but it gets worse.

Israelis have become persona non-grata, particularly on the film festival front — even when their work and social media profiles are apolitical….Israeli filmmakers say their projects are being deliberately excluded on the festival circuit by gatekeepers, some of whom have signaled support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement on social media.

We also hear from “veteran Hollywood dealmaker Craig Emanuel” who said festival programmers (including those from Sundance and the Toronto International Film Festival) fear “pushback and demonstrations” from anti-Israel activists.

That convinced them to avoid Israeli films and filmmakers regardless of the content. Pro-Palestinian protesters helped make this a reality. The Heckler’s Veto is alive and well within the creative community.

Shameful. Cowardly.

[therogerclarkfanclub]

More stills from Roger's upcoming horror short film, Damn Handy.

Roger mentioned it was supposed to come out this month, I will keep you updated when a release date is announced.

[filmcourage]

The Ultimate Guide To Film Distribution And Marketing - Jon Reiss [FULL INTERVIEW]

Watch the video interview on YouTube here.

[scopophilic1997]

scopOphilic artist Bruce Morrow presents a short video:

Celebrating "in dreams begin…" and being in 10 Film Festivals! 2023

Design: Rodd Vano

[penelope-all-that-mads]

Mads Mikkelsen attends the 76th Cannes Film Festival [X]

[inyourbenevolence]

Someone up there likes this show

In the same week as the season 1 finale, we zipped past 1,000 downloads (thank you post-season binge listeners!) and got our first awards laurel, in the Best Podcast category at the Inno Vision Festival in Italy (thank you judges!)

[thecosmiccircus]

Grand Theft Hamlet Review

If anyone ever complains to you that there’s nothing new under the sun in the world of cinema, please kindly point them to the documentary Grand Theft Hamlet. This experiment from British co-directors (and romantic partners) Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane covers the gamut of human emotion, from triumph to tragedy, in its 89 minutes of infectious fun. The story behind Grand Theft Hamlet We begin in…

[yournoeliafan]