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Sydney Levine focuses on international film industry developments and analysis of the international film market related to buyers, sales agents, filmmakers, film festivals and distribution.

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Openfilm: $500,000 Award to Short Filmmaker to Produce Feature!

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June 29, 2011 2:30 AM
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The FilmCollaborative uses them to stream films for buyers. Miami Int'l Film Festival loves them. Now they're trying to finance content now too. They have just announced the filmmaker that their advisory board (James Caan, Robert Duvall, Scott Caan, Mark Rydell) has selected to produce a feature film with.

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June 28, 2011 7:41 AM
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Power to the Pixel is accepting entries for The Pixel Market, a unique marketplace dedicated to showcasing and financing cross-media projects from around the world. It takes place on 12 & 13 October 2011 as part of Power to the Pixel's annual Cross-Media Forum, held 11 - 14 October in association with the BFI London Film Festival.

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June 28, 2011 2:30 AM
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Shorts are having an impact on new digital media and new types of distribution. Their importance and their filmmakers' importance has long been recognized by the top festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, TIFF) and among the trade, agents keep an eye on the top shorts filmmakers. So too, certain leading shorts film festivals and markets, the leaders of which are Clermont Ferrand in France and Oberhausen in Germany (for more cutting edge shorts), festivals like the Guanajuato International Film Festival, Expresión en Corto, held during the final week of July in the cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato Capital, Mexico and the Palm Spring Shortfest, NeXt in Bucharest and the Cannes Film Festival's Shorts Corner are increasingly important as are their winners who are the talents to watch.

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June 26, 2011 2:29 AM
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Talk about Location! Here is the place you want to go. Paradise! And they are now focusing now on the unique Artist-in-Residence program created with the sublime Meadowood Resort & Spa who will be housing (for up to five nights!) the directors of the films in the Dramatic Features Competition. This Festival holds promise to be the most comfortable and creative venue in the U.S. Filmmakers are invited to submit for the inaugural Film Festival November 9-13, 2011, featuring new independent films as well as Napa Valley’s finest food, wine and hospitality Napa Valley Film Festival (NVFF) Co-Founders and Directors Brenda and Marc Lhormer are accepting film submissions for the first annual Napa Valley Film Festival until June 30 through Withoutabox. Showcasing the best of new independent cinema along with the Napa Valley’s finest food, wine and hospitality (with partners like Chef Thomas Keller of The French Laundry, Chef Michael Chiarello, Emmy-winning host of the Food Network’s Easy Entertaining and more than 50 award winning wineries in the region), NVFF will debut November 9-13, 2011 with a five-day festival spread over four of the valley’s postcard-perfect towns.

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June 24, 2011 10:24 AM
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Click here for the PDF catalog for Edinburgh IFF 2011.Edinburgh International Film Festival June 15 - 26, 2011: A position for Artistic Director will be advertised soon.

By Sydney Levine
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June 24, 2011 7:30 AM
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Frédéric Boyer whose edition for Directors' Fortnight in Cannes this year showed eight feature debuts has not been reappointed for the coming year. Boyer also serves as director of Les Arcs European Film Festival held in December and which is now calling for entries.

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June 24, 2011 7:00 AM
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Singapore is making moves to put itself more squarely in the center of the Asia Business World. It is cohosting new weekly TV program with the BBC featuring discussions with democratic governments in the region, and ScreenSingapore, which is backed by the government's Media Development Authority, has recently attracted 700 delegates to its three-day film market, the focal point of the weeklong event (its original target was 500, it said). The western press has not covered this event as much as the Asian press except for Variety who cohosted the Winston Baker Film Financing Forum @ ScreenSingapore.

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June 24, 2011 6:55 AM
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Thanks to Patrick Frater and Film Biz Asia for covering the views of master international sales agent Ashok Amritraj of Hyde Park.

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June 24, 2011 6:50 AM
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Thanks again to Film Biz Asia and Patrick Frater for covering the subject to distribution models.

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June 24, 2011 6:45 AM
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Thanks again to Film Biz Asia for this article by Marcus LimHollywood is getting smarter about engaging with Asia on more equal terms, having learned lessons from earlier unsuccessful attempts, according to two senior Hollywood executives at the second In Conversation seminar held Wednesday at ScreenSingapore.

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