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The poster for the seventh annual ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Toronto features an athletic, feather-adorned, braided and buckskinned Princess Pocahontas straddling the Gardener Expressway. Wearing combat boots, [...]

* FILM Original Screenplay Each awards season, observers lament a dearth of strong entries in the original screenplay category--but this year is an exception because many of 2004's most-talked-about scripts […]

COMEDY JUST DOESN'T GET TAKEN SERIOUSLY DAYS. BUT WHEN THE U.S. COMEDY ARTS FEST COMMENCES THIS YEAR IN THE HIGH-ALTITUDE CLIMES OF ASPEN, COLO., ITS ORGANIZERS ARE HOPING THEY CAN […]

Meryl Streep will be the guest of honour at the thirteenth Philadelphia Weekend Film Festival in February 1999, held in the Rittenhouse Hotel. The annual event offers a mixture of films, discussion and gourmet food, attracting top film stars and directors.

Several members of the board of the Chicago International Film Festival have resigned, and there is speculation about the ability of the event to survive. The problems center on Michael Kutza, the charismatic founder of the festival.

IRANIAN FILMS HAVE GARNERED RENEWED CRITICAL acclaim at international festivals this year and an innovative film festival in London will premier the best of a diverse new crop of contemporary [...]

The Stars and Stripes will be flying high over the Croisette when the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary edition unspools May 16-27. High-profile U.S. helmers and stars--even some dead ones--are [...]

An empress is draped in a 44-pound, lustrous gold brocade-and-sequined robe, emblematic of her determination to instigate an epic battle. A bejeweled and powdered queen parties and gambles in a [...]

ROME -- Ever since plans for Italy's newest film festival, the curiously named RomaCinemaFest, were announced a year ago on the Venice Lido, chatter about the Venice Film Festival has [...]

Pity the short film. Like the runt of the litter, it is destined to be overlooked and undervalued, dwarfed by its more muscular sibling the full-length feature. Sure, it has [...]

PARK CITY -- Sundance Film Festival jurors and audience members were of the same mind when it came time to select the festival's top awards. Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer's [...]

While slimming down the Premieres section, the Sundance Film Festival has combined the former American Spectrum and Special Screenings sidebars into the new Spectrum section, which will show 24 non-competing [...]

In unveiling the lineup Monday for the independent feature film and world cinema competitions for next year's Sundance Film Festival, programmers characterized the upcoming fest as a return to its [...]

Started as a means to steer children and their parents to the best in home entertainment, the Coalition for Quality Children's Media now regularly introduces live audiences around the country [...]

ROME -- As if following a script, the 62nd annual Venice International Film Festival, set to begin Aug. 31 and conclude Sept. 10, figures to have many intriguing subplots. Speculation [...]

FRIDAY I [??] HUCKABEES (Fox Searchlight) 6 p.m. Broadway Screening Room (N.Y.). RSVP: (212) 556-8283. SPANGLISH (Columbia Pictures) 6 p.m., Sony Screening Room (N.Y.). RSVP: (212) 833-7516. BRIDGET JONES: THE […]

HOLLYWOOD -- Promoted as the foremost platform for American independent cinema, the Sundance Film Festival will become an international fest in every sense of the term as it introduces its [...]

The idea of a film festival set in the studio film-making epicenter of the world still baffles many industryites. Why would the average Angeleno want or need to see movies [...]

It's a year of comebacks for the Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival. The city itself has made a major comeback since its former mayor, the late Sonny Bono, started the [...]

in the world of international film sales, attitude is everything. Last May, after a lackluster American Film Market, increasing conflict in Afghanistan and ongoing terrorism fears, optimistic buyers and sellers […]

** year marked Dieter Kosslick's debut as director ** The Berlin International Film Festival, but 2003 ** be the year festivalgoers gain a real sense of his ** for Germany's […]

Coffey, who has designed many performances spaces, stepped forward to save the 30-year-old CIFF when it was in danger of being cancelled. His success was due to reaching such goals as restoring the festival's credibility, and showing consistently good quality films at one convenient venue.

Byline: JOELLE DIDERICH AND KATYA FOREMAN The Cannes Plan From Marilyn Monroe to Nicole Kidman, this year's Cannes Film Festival promises to be one long celebration of Hollywood's finest. The [...]

Two episodes of the new 'Baldo' TV series are slated to premiere during the 14th annual San Diego Latino Film Festival March 8-18. The series is based on the 'Baldo' [...]

By Cindy Spielvogel This March, Docurama will debut 10 titles on DVD as part of the Docurama Film Festival III . The company's first such festival began last summer. With [...]

Byline: Lisa Robinson In Robert Altman's scathing 1975 film Nashville, the director used the capital of country and western music as a backdrop to focus on American show business, politics, [...]

By Susanne Ault Supplier enjoys rising popularity of gay, lesbian niche Wolfe Releasing has acquired seven films at this summer's film festivals, snapping up its largest amount of new content [...]

AOL Latino, with sponsor Mercury Mariner, is giving Hispanic filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their short films to millions of consumers online as part of El Festival De Cine Corto. [...]

Blogging from the Cannes Advertising Festival, as the first-ever international judging of promotion entries moves ahead, Greg Sullentrup of Momentum Worldwide writes: 'Today we went through roughly a third of [...]

Agency The Bank picked The Design Museum in London to kick off a roving cinema tour as part of an integrated campaign. Lorraine Francisco reports. La Dolce Vita, Italian for [...]

The staten island film festival, conceived 18 months ago at a meeting of borough economic development leaders, will become a reality next month--and the borough is buzzing. Tickets to the [...]

CRAIG HATKOFF, 52, co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival five years ago with his wife--Jane Rosenthal--and actor Robert De Niro. The festival runs April 25-May 7. JUGGERNAUT Conceived as a one-time [...]

World's Only High Definition Film Festival Presented by Intel Staged at the ETC Digital Cinema Lab at the Hollywood Pacific Theatre and the Dolby Laboratories' Larry Umlang Presentation Theatre II [...]

The Detroit Docs International Film Festival, now in its fourth year, will be hosted by two new venues this year after breaking from last year's main partner, Wayne State University. [...]

NEW YORK-Moser rubbed elbows with both celebrities and statesmen last month. Moser, which is distributed by Martin's Herend Imports, provided the crystal globe awards for the 40th Karlovy Vary International [...]

Byline: Jennifer Grzeskowiak Last year, the movie "Napoleon Dynamite" showed the world how "sweet" moon boots, tater tots, tetherball and Preston, Idaho, can be. To celebrate the quirky, cult production […]

Silver Spring, Md.--Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival announces its full slate of films and participants for the 2005 festival. Silverdocs 2005 includes 89 provocative films representing 43 countries selected from [...]

INDIAN FILMS IN FESTIVAL--The 2004 Heard Museum Film Festival in Arizona included 10 indigenous and American Indian films, of which several actors and directors were available to discuss the films. [...]