Sydney Levine

Festival Scope Partners with Hong Kong FF and Co-Pro Market HAF

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • April 10, 2012 10:30 AM
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The partnership highlights the HAF selected talent: a selection of the previous films of the filmmakers who have a project at HAF are now available for screening on Festival Scope. This will help potential co-producers and sales agents to follow-up their meetings in Hong Kong.

Latino Time

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • June 23, 2011 5:30 AM
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With LALIFF (Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival) coming up in July, a look at what's happening with Latino films worldwide is due. I will put together and moderate a panel on New Modes and Old of Distribution which will target Latino films. Meanwhile, Rotterdam FF's Hubert Bals Fund has financed 8 new Latino films and a call for entries for Films in Progress, the twice-yearly rendezvous at the San Sebastian Festival and the Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine in Toulouse, has opened the registration period for its coming edition and will close June 30! Films in Progress 20 will take place in San Sebastian on 20 and 21 September 2011 within the framework of the Festival’s 59th edition.

Canada O Canada!

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • April 19, 2011 3:30 AM
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Telefilm's Danielle Belanger, Project Leader, Festivals and Markets (left), Carolle Brabant, Executive Director (center; Brigitte Hubmann, Chargee de Projets (right) at Sundance 11Canada has quietly taken its place among the most interesting, important and active cinema producing countries today. As Carolle Brabant ♀, the new Executive Director of Telefilm Canada (since March 15, 2010), assumes leadership she is proud of the international recognition garnered by the Canadian film industry and its talents:

When are Films Political? When They Are Iranian

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • February 1, 2011 11:41 AM
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Rotterdam Film Festival is having a special showing of the films of Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulo and is having issuing a Call To Action!

Rotterdam Cinema Reloaded

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • January 29, 2011 3:29 AM
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The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) finishes the first phase of its Cinema Reloaded program with the launch of its first two crowd-funded short films. These films by Ho Yuhang and Alexis Dos Santos are supported by hundreds of individual donations from Cinema Reloaded co-producers. For them, the premiere on Sunday January 30 is a chance to see the work they have backed reach the big screen. It is also a celebration of the active commitment of the IFFR to support digital innovation.

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