Film Budgets | SXSW Film Festival

South By Southwest Film Festival (SXSW)

The 25th SXSW Music and Media Conferences

Dates:  March 11th-20th, 2011

Submission deadline:  Early deadline - November 4th, 2010



No discussion of film festivals has begun without mentioning the venerable SXSW fest.
Located in Austin, Texas SXSW creates an atmosphere of individuality and artistic integrity from the start for its varied audience of filmmakers, filmgoers, musicians, critics, techies, gamers and new media professionals.   With the occasional tent pole studio product with their vast film budgets to the more common gem of an indie flick find in the lower movie budget range, South by Southwest has an incredibly wide range of films to present and premiere to a global audience.


 


For while SXSW is a film festival it is also one of America's foremost independent music festivals and music conference for artists of all ranges of music from indie rock, alternative, electronic, folk, bluegrass, R&B and more.

Additionally, SXSW New Media Conference is a bastion for all interactive, new media endeavors on the internet, web programming, gaming, systems engineering, software development and technology advancement with regards to user interface, mobile and online media.

Put all this together in a small western eclectic town and you've created one dynamic atmosphere for intellectual discourse, creative advancement and community building unlike any other festival.

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Film Budgets | San Francisco Film Festival

The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival

Dates:  April 21st - May 11th, 2011

Submission deadlines:

Primary feature film deadline is 11/8/10
Final deadline for short films is 12/6/10
Final deadline for features is 12/13/10

The San Francisco Film Festival is a premiere event for cinema in the United States showcasing emerging filmmakers and world cinema talent.  Featuring Gala opening night premieres of international acclaimed films, worldwide and USA first look screenings and movies in competition.

Set in the beautiful west coast of California the stars come out to fette their peers presenting movies shot with medium film budgets and blockbusters alike, and join the celebration of filmmaking in an eclectic setting of fashion, talent, fine dining with proximity to the Napa Valley, Marin County, Carmel and Big Sur.













The festival promotes musical presentations, student and youth-generated projects with small movie budgets, short films and a large press and publicity contingent.











The San Francisco International Film Festival is known as the longest running festival in the Americas.  The fest attracts over 80,000 fans to its audiences each year.


A dozen awards are presented for films in competition and those out of competition with an emphasis on discovery, documentaries, new media taking advantage of its unique surroundings and artistic community.












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Film Budgets | Film Festivals | Tokyo Film Festival | Filmbudget.com

The 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival


Dates:  October 23rd, 2010 - October 31st, 2010

Location: Roppongi Hills (Minato City) and the greater Tokyo metro area.
Chairman:  Tatsumi 'Tom' Yoda
Created in 1985 Tiff aims to be one of the four top film festivals in the world.  Festival is hosted by UNIJAPAN The Japan Association for International Promotion of the Moving Image,  the Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Industry, Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Agency for Cultural Affairs, with funds by the Japan Arts Fund.

  

Programs:

The Main Program is made up of films in competition from 81 countries with various levels of movie budgets and cinematic scope.  Specialty Screenings include world cinema releases prior to their Japan distribution. Winds of Asia represents the Asian point of view.  Japanese Eyes previews current local movies.  World Cinema promotes North American and European films honored at the esteemed festivals of those regions and the Natural Tiff shows movies demonstrating how man and nature may co-exist in harmony.

This years films in the Competition will include:

News Update:

Opening Night Film Announced

The Social Network - directed by David Fincher will open the festival.
                                Drama surrounding founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg

Closing Night Film Announced

The Town - directed by Ben Affleck will close the festival.

Other films include:

And Peace on Earth
The Piano in a Factory
Sketches of Kaitan City
Zephyr

Movie presentations of World Cinema

The Ghost Writer
Winter's Bone

This year will feature fine works exposing the talents of Taiwanese filmmakers.
The Tokyo film fest showcases cinema with large film budgets from well known directors from the EU countries and the USA as well as those with a more modest movie budget from all regions of the globe.

With the trend toward reduced overseas pre-sale activity the resulting reduction in the scope and scale of the movie budget is evident in this year's crop of projects coming to the fore.  While it remains to be seen if a resultant drop in quality ensues, it is noted that foreign filmmakers have had to work with much less than their US counterparts for decades.

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Film Festivals | New York Film Festival

The New York Film Festival

Dates:  September 24th, 2010 to October 10th, 2010

This greatly respected festival is put on by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City.  An artistically curated representation of the very best in world cinema from the major festivals with a few discoveries emerging which are overlooked by the grand dads of motion picture festivals around the globe.  The eclectic slate worthy of the Lincoln Center of course is dotted with pictures with modest film budgets to those of larger movie budgets while maintaining a level of quality and appreciation of the art of filmmaking.

Festival Director - Mara Manus
Programming Director - Richard Pena




Movies screening

Opening Night:   The Social Network - David Fincher

Centerpiece:  The Tempest - Julie Taymor

Closing Night:  Hereafter - Clint Eastwood




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Film Festivals | Edinburgh

Edinburg International Film Festival - Scotland, United Kingdom

Date:  June 16-27, 2011

Submissions open:  November 1, 2010

Part of the Edinburgh International Festival the film section is the longest continuously running film festival. Set in the beautiful old city centre with its ancient castles and cobble stoned walkways visiting this city truly takes one back in time into a setting of culture and adventure.

In 1947 the EIFF got its start alongside the renowned international arts festival. It was not only one of the first such festivals with a worldwide focus it is likewise the oldest.








Artistic Director:  Hannah McGill - a former critic for The Herald

Edinburgh showcases UK and global films including documentaires, fiction films and short subject features and docs.

Festival Premieres which have proven successful for the filmmakers going forward have included:

My Beautiful Laundrette

The Blair Witch Project

Pulp Fiction

 L.A. Confidential

Amélie 

Lars von Trier's 

Antichrist

The Hurt Locker

Moon

Away We Go

Independent cinema screened at festivals such as this embraces modest film budgets and productions with humble beginnings whether in England, Scotland, Europe or Asia.

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Film Festivals | Telluride

The 37th Telluride Film Festival 

Location:  Telluride, Colorado USA

Dates:  September 3rd through 6th, 2010



Telluride is world renowned for its eclectic slate of new movie screenings both in and out of competition.  Such is the elusive nature of the selection process that the movie slate is not even announced until the opening day.  Still thousands flock to the mountain oasis in the beautiful Colorado landscape.

The program is curated by founding partner Tom Luddy with recently hired Gary Meyer taking the role as the new Co-Director and Julie Huntsinger Managing Director joining the group taking over for Bill and Stella Pence.

The festival never disappoints with an ever surprising offering of incredible films with generally modest to lower film budgets with the rare large film budget faire from some of the world's most talented and respected directors.  More than the film itself perhaps is the signature of the Telluride style; the director is heralded as the star and the unifying theme is the auteur nature of filmmaking.

                


Announced New Film Screenings:

127 Hours (Director Danny Boyle)
A Letter to Elia (Martin Scorsesse and Kent Jones)
The Princess of Montpensier (Bertrand Tavernier)
The Kings Speech (Tom Hooper)
Precious Life (Shlomi Eldar)
Chico and Rita (Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal)
Happy People  (Dmitry Vasyukov)
Another Year (Mike Leigh)
Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
The First Grader (Justin Chadwick)
Tabloid (Erol Morris)
Tamara Drewe (Stephen Frears)
The Tenth Inning (Ken Burns)
The Way Back (Peter Weir)

Link to Program Guide

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Film Festivals | Deauville

Deauville - 36th American Film Festival | France

Dates:  September 3rd - 12th, 2010

Deauville is a highly sought after slot in the prestigious European film festival circuit.  Celebrating American movies and talent since 1975 it has welcomed US faire like no other with a sense of tribute to the artistic nature of American filmmaking while upholding independent cinema and worldwide artistic expression through the medium of cinematography and storytelling.  From low budget to higher American film budgets this iconic gathering of film buffs, artiste's and celebrities alike has inspired many to fulfill their goals of an international audience for their projects.

Previously a non-competitive festival, it began offering prizes in 1995 culminating in the
Prix spécial du jury du cinéma indépendant américain (Special Jury Award of American Independent Film).  Jurors for the festival have included Neil Jordan, Charlotte Rampling, Claude Lelouch and Andrei Konchalovsky amongst other talented directors, actors and producers.





Films in competition this year include:
Abel
Buried
Cyrus
Holy Rolers
Morning
Mother and Child
The Dry Land
The Joneses
The Myth of the American Sleepover
Welcome to the Rileys
Winter's Bone




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