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Film Budgets | International Film Festival Rotterdam

International Film Festival, Rotterdam

where: The IFFR is held within a series of theaters throughout the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands.

When: January 26th - February 6, 2011

Who: the Festival is put on by its Director Rutger Wolfson

What: the awards and recognition within the various categories of the festival:

The IFFR hosts World and international Premiers for independent films, including those with reduced film budgets derived from experimental and innovative visual art mediums. Throughout the course of this 12 day event, 100's of filmmakers and other artists screen their work to a large audience of potential future collaborators, film financiers, distributors and the general public. Around 3000 press and film industry representatives show up to give the public an idea of who next years players are going to be and who they will be working with.

Previous winners of the VPRO Tiger Awards

2005

Changing Destiny, by Daniele Gaglianone, Italian Film

"4," by Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Russian Film
The Sky Turns, by Mercedes Alvarez, Spanish Film

2006
Walking on the Wild Side, by Han Jie, Chinese Film
The Dog Pound, by Manuel Nieto Zas, Uruguay-Argentina-Canada-Spain
Old Joy, by Kelly Reichardt, United States

2007
Love Conquers All, by Tan Chi Mui, Malaysian Film
The Unpolished, by Pia Marais, German Film
Bog of Beasts, by Claudio Assis, Brazilian Film
AFR (ex aequo), by Morten Hartz Kaplers, Denmark Film

2008
Go With Peace Jamil, by Omar Shargawi, Denmark Film
Wonderful Town, Aditya Assarat, Thailand Film
Flower in the Pocket, by Liew Seng Tat, Malaysian Film

2009
Be Calm and Count to Seven, by Ramtin Lavafipour, Iranian Film
Breathless, by Yang Ik-June, South Korean Film
Wrong Rosary, by Mahmut Fazil Coskun, Turkish Film

2010
Agua fria de mar, by Paz Fabrega, Costa Rican Film
Alamar, by Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, Mexican Film
Mundane History, by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand Film

For a full list of award winning films and directors for the past 15 years, go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Film_Festival_Rotterdam

From a variety of high movie budget films to those of lower film budgets Rotterdam represents a broad selection of European and World Cinema for the festival going public.


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Berlin Film Festival - Update

Update - view the original Berlin Film Festival post

The Berlinale, or Berlin Film Festival, announces its first selection of competing Films. So far eight films have been announced at this Festival, which runs from February 10th through the 20th.

Ralph Fiennes' modernized version of Shakespear's "Coriolanus" starring Gerard Butler; Miranda July's "The Future" previously screened at the Sundance Film Festival and co-produced by Germany's Razor Film Produktion and stars Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky, and Isabella Acres; "Pina" by Wilm Wenders are going to be participating in the main competition of the Berlin Film Festival.

The Sundance Film Festival will be working closely with both the official 2011 Berlin Festival program and the European Film Market, according to Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick.

Another film included in the fist Selection is Andreas Veiel's "If Not Us, Who?," which observes the life of Gudrun Ensslin, a minister's daughter turned terrorist as a leading figure in the Red Army Faction. the film stars August Diehl, Lena Lauzemis, and Alexander Fehling.


Another debuting feature is Victoria Mahoney's U.S. film "Yelling into the Sky." The picture stars Zoe Kravitz, Gabourey Sidibe, and Tim Blake Nelson. The film will be having its World Premiere at this sixty-first Berlinale.

Additionally, "Our Grand Despair,"  the Turkish title directed by Seyfi Teoman, screens amongst the Israeli film "Lipstikka," by Jonathan Sagall.



Previously announced screener "True Grit" will be opening the Festival but also screened outside of the competition, alongside "Corialanus" and "Pina".

Movie Budget | Slamdance Film Festival

Slamdance Film Festival

Dates:   January 21-27, 2011

Where:  Park City, Utah - United States

Created by filmmakers for filmmakers, Slamdance's proactive support of independent film production represents a self-governed creative showcasing of movies which allows for first time writers and directors to stake a claim within the industry's noteworthy festival platforms.

Founded in 1995 by Dan Mirvish, Jon Fitzgerald, Shane Kuhn, and Peter Baxter, the annual festival continues to take place in January alongside its more gloriously fetted Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Beginners and veterans alike participate for recognition of quality cinema no matter what size of movie budget their film is comprised of. It is a well known place for low film budget cinema to boost its creators reputation amongst the big movie budget films found in the mix. 

Some debuting films that have been guided into distribution by Slamdance are as follows:

2007, The King of Kong – Picturehouse and New Line Cinema
2007, Weirdsville– Magnolia Pictures
2006, The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang – Sony BMG
2005, Mad Hot Ballroom –Paramount Classics
2005, Zombie Honeymoon– Showtime Networks
2004, Bruce Haack– Seventh Art Releasing
2003, End of the Century – Magnolia Pictures

These films are just a few amongst the 50 plus films to have achieved such heights.

The Slamdance Film Festival is big on having past award winning veterans of the festival whom may have started off with lower film budgets but went on to mainstream success help out those that are up and coming. Piggy-backing off the creative reccomendations, knowledge, and reputation of these previous winners can be valuable for those future participants daring enough to complete their work and seek out such recognition.

The festival this coming new year is already closed for new submissions since October, however, you can participate as a viewer of these new-coming talents in the audience as of January 21st thru the 28th. If you have more questions regarding future participation in the event, call 323-466-1786 and speak to somebody in the office in this regard. Alternatively, you can find more information about the Slamdance Film Festival at thier website at  http://www.slamdance.com/

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