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 <pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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looking for a job? check our forum, film forum, fest forum and more.
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Use these links to find the job you have been dreaming about &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;/en/forums/festival_job&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;within a festival&lt;/a&gt; organisation.
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Find a job in a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;/en/forums/film_jobs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;film production&lt;/a&gt;...
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Use these links to offer a position and &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;/en/forums/festival_forum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;find the person best fitting for your festival &lt;/a&gt;organisation, find volunteers, staffers, sponsor experts...
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Just &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:bruno@filmfestivals.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;email us&lt;/a&gt; if you need to promote your position within this profile!
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 <pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:31:34 +0100</pubDate>
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 <link>http://www.fest21.com/en/blog/editor/the_filmfestivalscom_festival_film_of_the_year_2008</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/FESTIVAL-FILM.thumbnail.gif&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; height=&quot;125&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; class=&quot;image image-thumbnail&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Which was your best experience of a film in a festival this year&lt;/b&gt; (feature film or documentary) &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That film which you think should have won but maybe did not make it. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We want YOUR opinion. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;You can publish here, (post a comment including ONE film title ). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OR&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Send us your vote to &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:bruno@filmfestivals.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bruno&lt;/a&gt; and enter the draw to win a free one week banner campaign on filmfestivals.com mentionning &amp;quot;Audience choice&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;inline inline-left&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/fest21com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/logofest21_3180.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; height=&quot;133&quot; width=&quot;180&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Fest21 relied since its start on VPOD.TV video platform. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;We are in the process of changing the video platform for a couple of reasons: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Our partner VPOD has changed its business model and no longer works as a B2C site  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- VPOD will no longer maintain its existing API 1.0 &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;We are working hard to install the new platform, a very complicated process. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;There will  most likely be a few bugs and problems during this migration process, we are sorry about that. Specificaly,the video upload fonction will only be re-installed after the migration is completed. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Between VPOD&#039; problems and the curent migration, there might be some problems with a few videos. We are try ing to keep these problems to a minimum.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Again our sincere apologies and best wishes for a happy new year to you all.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:17:51 +0100</pubDate>
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			&lt;span&gt;Contact the &lt;span class=&quot;contextEntry&quot; id=&quot;editor@filmfestivals.com_body&quot;&gt;Editor&lt;/span&gt; of the site, &lt;span class=&quot;contextEntry&quot; id=&quot;bruno@filmfestivals.com_body&quot;&gt;Advertise&lt;/span&gt; on the sites. Publish your video on fest21.com&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Follow this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/newsletter/newsletter397.shtml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; if you cannot read the newsletter properly&lt;/span&gt;
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						&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;OPEN YOUR FESTIVAL BLOG ON &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/editor/10_good_reasons_to_open_and_maintain_your_festival_blog_on_fest21com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fest21.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
						&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;450 festivals have joined the new Myspace and Youtube for professionnals!...&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
						&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/editor/10_good_reasons_to_open_and_maintain_your_film_or_festival_blog_on_fest21com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;10 Great reasons to open yours&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/editor/blogging_tips_on_fest21com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Publication tips&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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						&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span&gt;PROMOTE YOUR FILM &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;ON&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;//&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fest21.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
						&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;3 500 FESTIVALS ARE LOOKING FOR YOUR FILM &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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			&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;FESTIVALS THIS WEEK &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmfestivals.com/servlet/JSCRun?CfgPath=ffs&amp;amp;Cfg=festlist.cfg&amp;amp;obj=FestWeekListPro&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The calendar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			1 FESTIVALS THIS WEEK: The end of the year festival in &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Capri Hollywood...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;			FESTIVALS THIS MONTH &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmfestivals.com/servlet/JSCRun?CfgPath=ffs&amp;amp;Cfg=festlist.cfg&amp;amp;obj=FestMonthListPro&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Month Calendar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			FESTIVALS CALLING &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/index.shtml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This month&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
			
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			&lt;span&gt;fest21.com and filmfestivals.com will relaunch Iin a few weeks with new functionnalities, search engine and updated database&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
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			&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/dec/houston.shtml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/shtml/728X90-HOUSTON.gif&quot; width=&quot;728&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;90&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;b&gt;AWARDS&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/poll/festival_film_of_the_year_nominees&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;VOTE FOR THE FESTIVAL FILM OF THE YEAR&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;a href=&quot;/poll/festival_film_of_the_year_nominees&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/images/FESTIVAL-FILM.jpg&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;150&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; And &lt;span class=&quot;contextEntry&quot; id=&quot;brno@filmfestivals.com_body&quot;&gt;email us&lt;/span&gt; to enter a draw for week long ad campaign on filmfestivals.com &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/poll/festival_film_of_the_year_nominees&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Filmfestivals.com Festival Film of the year Nominees&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;			&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/htm/more_wrapup.shtml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award – the nominees are …&lt;br /&gt;
			London Short Film Festival’s Auteur Theory Award&lt;br /&gt;
			The Mobile Excellence Awards&lt;br /&gt;
			Filmfestivals.com Festival Film of the year Nominees &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;			______________________________________________________________________________________ &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/htm/more_wrapup.shtml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;DAILIES FROM THE CIRCUIT ON FEST21.COM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
			
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			&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dailies from the circuit: NEXT on fest21.com &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/capri&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Capri&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/sundance&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sundance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Current Fest dailies on fest21.com &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/iffs&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IFFS Vegas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/ecu&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ECU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/fantasporto&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fantasporto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/tallinnblacknightsfilmfestival&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Talinn Black Nights&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			Recent video coverage &lt;a href=&quot;/user/intldocumentaryffamsterdam&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IDFA&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/iffi_goa&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IFFI Goa&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/thessaloniki&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thessaloniki Film Fest &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/fortlauderdaleff&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fort Lauderdale Film Festival&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/fr/blog/nouveaucinema&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Montreal Nouveau Cinéma&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/fr/blog/diractors&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Diractors&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/cinemed&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cinemed&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/unaff&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UNAFF&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/londonfilmfestival&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LondonFilmFestival&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/montreal_world_film_festival&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Montreal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/toronto_film_festival&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Toronto&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/sansebatian&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;San Sebastian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/londonfilmfestival&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;London&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/fr/blog/cinemed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cinemed&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/ischia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ischia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/locarno&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Locarno&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/filmnewyork&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;New York&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.silverdocs08.fest21.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Silverdocs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/festroia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Festroia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;			More archive Blogging from &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;/p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/blog/palm_beach_intl_film_festival%20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Palm Beach&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/miami&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Miami&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;http://cinequest.fest21.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cinequest&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/santabarbara&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Santa Barbara&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/berlin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Berlin&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/sundance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Park City &lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/blog/tribecafilmfestival&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tribeca Film Festival&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fest21.cm/blog/sanfrancisco&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sydney.fest21.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sydney&lt;/a&gt; ,&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cannes.fest21.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			Cannes &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://croisette.fest21.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;La Croisette Cannes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;http://futureofcinema.fest21.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Future of Cinema Salon in Cannes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
			
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			&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;FESTIVAL NEWS FROM THE CIRCUIT &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/htm/festivalsnews.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Santa Barbara International Film Festival&lt;br /&gt;
			Treasure Coast International Film Festival line-up&lt;br /&gt;
			Slamdance rejoices in independent music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;			&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/htm/more_people.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Berlinale Panorama Announces First Titles&lt;br /&gt;
			Tsui Hark, Rachid Bouchareb and Terry Gilliam honoured in Dubai&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/htm/more_people.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DigiTraining Plus 2009: New Technologies Programme from Media&lt;br /&gt;
			Tarantino will be honored at Next Capri Hollywood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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			&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Les interviews vidéos de Cécile Rittweger&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;a href=&quot;/fr/blog/cinemed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Les dailies de Cinemed &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/fr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Votez pour le film de festival de l&#039;année 2008&lt;br /&gt;
			Mon festivalloire!&lt;br /&gt;
			Les top 2008 de la rédaction d&#039;Allociné&lt;br /&gt;
			Les 10 meilleurs bandes annonces de 2008 : le choix de la rédaction du Magazine Premiere&lt;br /&gt;
			Le Programme de Festivalloire&lt;br /&gt;
			Les invités de Festivalloire&lt;br /&gt;
			Le Jury de Festivalloire&lt;br /&gt;
			Sélection des Films de Festivalloire&lt;br /&gt;
			La vie et l&#039;oeuvre de Quentin Tarantino&lt;br /&gt;
			Bibliographie de Quentin Tarantino&lt;br /&gt;
			Les Récompenses de Quentin Tarantino&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/fr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/fr/index.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Le conseil d&#039;administration du SDI&lt;br /&gt;
			Suzanne Clément porte-parole des RDV du cinéma québécois&lt;br /&gt;
			13e Festival de la Géode nouvelle formule&lt;br /&gt;
			Programme du Festival du Film de Comédie de l’Alpe d’Huez&lt;br /&gt;
			Forum International de l’Image 3D Relief 3ème&lt;br /&gt;
			Hommage à John Landis à Gerardmer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;
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			Share your Festival experiences with us: OPEN YOUR BLOG AND PUBLISH ON OUR FREE PLATFORM.&lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;b&gt;FILM FROM FEST FOCUS &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/htm/filmnews.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			In Bruges review&lt;br /&gt;
			The good, the bad and the ugly&lt;br /&gt;
			40th Hungarian Film Week line-up announced&lt;br /&gt;
			Vicki Cristina Barcelona review&lt;br /&gt;
			Sarah Waters Affinity comes to silver screen&lt;br /&gt;
			Hungry Ghost will open Rotterdam Fest&lt;br /&gt;
			Cinema-going in 2008 – some forecast &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;			&lt;/p&gt;&lt;b&gt;D-CINEMA NEWS&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/htm/dcinema.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Celluloid Meets Pixel at next Berlinale&lt;br /&gt;
			Can you speak the Digital language?&lt;br /&gt;
			Digital screenings from Europe&#039;s Finest at Ghent&lt;br /&gt;
			First Digital 3D Movie Released in China&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			
			
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			&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/09/jan/merveilleux.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FILM FESTIVAL OF IMAGINATION AND WONDER &lt;i&gt;Film Festival du film Merveilleux &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;— &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;October 27 - 31, 2009 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			The Festival promotes films celebrating the imaginary, the Wonder and&lt;br /&gt;
			magic from the entire world and allow us and the section &amp;quot;off&lt;br /&gt;
			competition the kaleidoscope&amp;quot; help to re-discover our different&lt;br /&gt;
			cultures and our planet. &lt;br /&gt;
			The theme of the Film festival are magic, the imaginary, the marvelous,&lt;br /&gt;
			the astonishing, the supernatural, the occult, the strange, the&lt;br /&gt;
			esoteric, poetry, the fantastic, science -fiction and myths, legends,&lt;br /&gt;
			comics, manga, video game, dreams...&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/dec/artbychance.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Submit online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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			&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/pixus/base/btn_flechrj.gif&quot; width=&quot;4&quot; height=&quot;7&quot; /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/dec/artbychance.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Art by Chance Ultra Short Film Festival&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;— May 22 - June 5, 2009&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			- 30 seconds long films on concept of &amp;quot;journey&amp;quot; theme &lt;br /&gt;
			- made by enthusiastic and creative international film makers &lt;br /&gt;
			- fiction, documentaries, animation or video art &lt;br /&gt;
			- shown in major metropolitan cities all around the world in May 2009&lt;br /&gt;
			over the same two-week period. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/dec/artbychance.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Submit online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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			&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/pixus/base/btn_flechrj.gif&quot; width=&quot;4&quot; height=&quot;7&quot; /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/dec/houston.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;42nd ANNUAL WORLDFEST-HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;— April 17 - 26, 2009&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			Special Entry Deadline Extension to All FEST21 members! Late Fee is waived! Save 15$&lt;br /&gt;
			Enter the Festival that discovered Spielberg, Lucas, David Lynch, Ang&lt;br /&gt;
			Lee, Ridley Scott and the Coen Brothers! &lt;br /&gt;
			Entry Deadline is December 31st, 2008! Your Holiday wish shall be granted! &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldfest.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.worldfest.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/dec/houston.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Submit online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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			&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/pixus/base/btn_flechrj.gif&quot; width=&quot;4&quot; height=&quot;7&quot; /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/nov/documenta.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DOCUMENTA MADRID &lt;/a&gt;—&lt;b&gt;May 1 to May 10, 2009&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
			Documenta Madrid is an international film festival dedicated&lt;br /&gt;
			exclusively to documentary film. Its offices are located in the capital&lt;br /&gt;
			of Spain and it is organized by the City of Madrid. It is presently the&lt;br /&gt;
			city&#039;s most widely-attended festival. The festival was born for the&lt;br /&gt;
			purpose of strengthening and disseminating the documentary genre, in so&lt;br /&gt;
			far as it understood to be a reflection of the social, cultural,&lt;br /&gt;
			economic, artistic, environmental, and other realities that exist in&lt;br /&gt;
			the world.&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/nov/documenta.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Submit online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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			is a brand new web destination for quality films, videos and animation.&lt;br /&gt;
			With its versatile, high quality player and a host of social networking&lt;br /&gt;
			features designed to create a dialogue between independent filmmakers&lt;br /&gt;
			and their audience, Openfilm is the ultimate platform to feature&lt;br /&gt;
			professional and semi-professional film work. Features include true HD&lt;br /&gt;
			playback, manual processing and encoding of all videos, custom-made&lt;br /&gt;
			subtitles and translation, animated thumbnails and a chance to be&lt;br /&gt;
			featured in a professional film review.&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openfilm.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.openfilm.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;			&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/pixus/base/btn_flechrj.gif&quot; width=&quot;4&quot; height=&quot;7&quot; /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/nov/fantasporto.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FANTASPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt; February 20 - March1, 2008&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			29th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Feb 20 - March 1&lt;br /&gt;
			The Oporto International Film Festival, now going to its 29th edition,&lt;br /&gt;
			specializes in fantasy and science-fiction films in its Official&lt;br /&gt;
			Competitive section. Running on 5 theatres screening 200 feature films&lt;br /&gt;
			each year with Massive press coverage 5000 clippings every year - Over&lt;br /&gt;
			110,000 entries in past editions.contact: Mário Dorminsky (Director) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/nov/fantasporto.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/pixus/base/btn_flechrj.gif&quot; width=&quot;4&quot; height=&quot;7&quot; /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/sep/ecu.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ECU THE EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL March, 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			The European Independent Film Festival 2009 submission deadline of&lt;br /&gt;
			January 15th, 2009 is fast approaching. Held in Paris in March at the&lt;br /&gt;
			prestigious Biblioteque Nationale de Francois Mitterand the very best&lt;br /&gt;
			independent films from around the World will be screened to large&lt;br /&gt;
			audiences competing for 16 awards in 11 categories. &lt;br /&gt;
			For more information go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ecufilmfestival.com&quot; title=&quot;www.ecufilmfestival.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.ecufilmfestival.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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			&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/pixus/base/btn_flechrj.gif&quot; width=&quot;4&quot; height=&quot;7&quot; /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/sep/short.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL &amp;amp; ASIA June, 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
			Now entering our 11th year, Short Shorts Film Festival (SSFF) has&lt;br /&gt;
			become one of Asia’s largest festival for international short films and&lt;br /&gt;
			is one of the few Academy Award(R) accredited short film festivals SSFF&lt;br /&gt;
			reaches audiences of 30,000 in Tokyo and major cities in Japan. Our&lt;br /&gt;
			main festival is held for over a week in the heart of Harajuku TOKYO! &lt;br /&gt;
			Please note that our festival dates are tentative. &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/sep/short.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SUBMIT ONLINE NOW&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
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			&lt;/span&gt;This is a festival started by funny people, for funny people. All judges are top names in the fields of comedy and filmmaking.&lt;br /&gt;
			If what you have is short and people laugh at it, around here, that’s a good thing.&lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;b&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;So, you think you&#039;re funny? Prove it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
			&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfestivals.com/bulletin/08/sep/lacomedy.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SUBMIT ONLINE NOW&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
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			Calls SHORT FILMS producers worldwide to participate with their works.&lt;br /&gt;
			Also see the news on the Festival for Documentaries and Narrative Movies.&lt;br /&gt;
			Awards information and &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmfestivalspro.com/bulletin/03/sept/frontiers.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;call for entries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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			Maximize film entries. Email our COO &lt;span class=&quot;contextEntry&quot; id=&quot;bruno@filmfestivals.com_body&quot;&gt;Bruno Chatelin &lt;/span&gt;for a detailed proposition ________________________________________________________________________________________ &lt;/p&gt;
			
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;SOUTH-EASTERN STORIES: ASTERFEST #5&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;27-31 May 2009 - Int’l Festival of SoutEasternEurope Film Authors&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Strumica – M a c e d o n i a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;We have the pleasure to inform You that we are approaching the final stage of the preparations for the new, fifth edition of our new festival in the Macedonian country, as well as in the region and beyond, dedicated to the professional film (documentary and fiction) culture and emphasizing its affirmation, popularization and valorization towards the audience.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;It is about the initiative for AsterFest, film and video festival, focusing on documentary, fiction (features or shorts) works of film authors who are coming from or living in Western Balkan region, neighbor countries and other related meridians.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;We invited and receive films from several productions which submitted film-s for our forthcoming festival. It may be long or short-length film. We will present it into the programs: ASTERDOCS, BALKANS FICTION, ONE WOMAN / ONE FILM, MOVIELAND, MERRY-DIONES, HOMAGES - focused on authors from southeastern European, EU countries and abroad.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;We plan that the next edition of AsterFest 2009 will officially take place in the period 27-31 May on several locations in the Macedonian town of Strumica, where several other cultural areas will be renewed, related to the climate, ancient values and constant spiritual wideness, which have provided existence to this town for more then two millenniums. The concept is the projections to take place in an ambient, outdoor (in correlation with the summer scheme), and indoor. &lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;The promotion of new, alternative multicultural fields with our projections is one of our aims. Interactivity between the audience and film works is also an important parameter to work on in the near future.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;SEE film authors in ASTERDOCS category will be competing for Gold, Silver and Bronze Horseshoe. The award in a shape of horseshoe should associate to gallop, happiness, movie stars, lancer Asteropaeus, young Struma etc. In other words, the film horseshoe should be a symbol of eternal glow of the documentary values which remain permanently marked as a movie project, despite the changes in formats and technologies.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;The main cinematic space in previous AsterFest edition was antique Thermal Bath near Strumica.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;The motto of forthcoming AsterFest is ‘south-eastern stories’.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;AsterFest takes place in STRUMICA, the second largest city in eastern part of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Macedonia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;, whereas is the first for its beauty. There live inhabitants, who can not wait to unfold their hospitality towards you. Whereas different cultural heritage buildings will also fulfil your curiosity, as they present attraction that you will transmit to your friends. The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Old&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Emperor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Towers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;, Antique Thermal Bath, Monasteries Veljusa and Vodoca, Tomb of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Struma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt; are only few of them. &lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;Naturally the quickest way to come here is through the airport. You board a plane somewhere in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Europe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt; and before eating your lunch or cakes you are in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Skopje&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Sofia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt; or Thessalonika airport. From there you have to get to the bus station and chose bus to Strumica. Then you will board a bus (via Stip or via Gevgelija or directly), you are in Strumica, the city where AsterFest exists. &lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;Now that you have reached Strumica, you only need to be accommodated in one of the local hotels or in Bansko.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;Strumica is therefore one of the richest and ecological cleanest area in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Republic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt; of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Macedonia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;. Strumica is developing into modern city and expanding its infrastructure last few years. The improvement of infrastructure is determined also by Strumica&#039;s geopolitical position (some 20 kilometers from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Bulgaria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt; and 45 kilometers from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Greece&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;). &lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;Strumica (Macedonian: Струмица, Greek: Στρώμνιτσα/Stromnitsa, Turkish: Usturumca) is a city of about 55.000 people in southeastern &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Republic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt; of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;Macedonia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;. There are about 150.000 people living in the region surrounding the city.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;Previous four years we have chosen around 300 films in the competitive contest, together with 7 special programs where will be shown 40 extra films. &lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;The festival programme will be shown in summer and alternative cinemas. &lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-AU&quot;&gt; e-mail: asterfest@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;the &amp;quot;Capri, Hollywood 2008 - Honda International Film Festival&amp;quot; will open on december with the European premiere of Rian Johnson&#039;s &amp;quot;The Brothers Bloom&amp;quot;.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;The Brothers Bloom&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2009 caper film written and directed by Rian Johnson and stars Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Zachary Gordon, Nora Zehetner and Rinko Kikuchi. Shooting began in Belgrade, Serbia on March 19, 2007 and ended recently. The film is budgeted at $20 million. It will have a limited release on May 15, 2009, and expand into wide release two weeks later on May 29.&lt;br /&gt;
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The world&#039;s greatest con men, the Brothers Bloom, have made a living off of swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Stephen (Ruffalo) and Bloom (Brody), and their silent partner and sidekick Bang-Bang (Kikuchi) team up for one last job, conning beautiful heiress Penelope (Weisz) by taking her on a tour of the world and relieving her of US$2.5 million. On the way, Bloom (who has no first name in the entire movie) falls for Penelope, which complicates the con severely.
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&lt;span class=&quot;inline inline-left&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/cmj08&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/cmj08logo.thumbnail.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-thumbnail&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;58&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The 28th Annual 2008 CMJ Music Marathon &amp;amp; Film Festival(CMJ08), the largest international new music discovery event was held at venues throughout New York City, October 21-28, 2008. The outstanding festival presented by XBOX 360, Zune, and Doritos, showcased music marathon, film festival, exhibit hall, panel discussions, seminars, comedy shows, special events, parties, concerts, and awards ceremony. This year, over 1000 artists performed at 70 venues throughout New York. CMJ08 attendees included artists, DJs, producers, promoters, remixers, college radio programmers, and industry professionals from all over the world. 
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CMJ08 Opening Night &amp;quot;&lt;b&gt;Media Meet-n-Greet&lt;/b&gt; presented by Experience Music Project, The Bloom Effect, and Ariel Hyatt Cyber PR with DJ O of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thebeatardsnyc.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;THE BEATARDS&lt;/a&gt; spinning Hip-Hop, Rock, and Pop was held at Sutra, Tuesday, October 21, 5:00 PM. Attendees included recording artists, DJs, producers, promoters and journalists.
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/2008_cmj_music_marathon_film_festival_photo_coverage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/cmj08-open-jc-ar-a1.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;343&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
CMJ08 Opening Night &amp;quot;&lt;b&gt;Media Meet-n-Greet&lt;/b&gt;&amp;quot;: (from left-right),&lt;br /&gt;
recording artist &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joshcharlesmusic.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Josh Charles&lt;/a&gt;, with writer Annie Reuter, and&lt;br /&gt;
Ariel Hyatt, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arielpublicity.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ariel Cyber PR&lt;/a&gt;.
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CMJ08 Opening Night “&lt;b&gt;Media Meet-n-Greet&lt;/b&gt;” DJ O.
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independentmusicawards.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (IMA) @ CMJ08 showcased the 8th IMA winners at Kenny&#039;s Castaways, Thursday, October 23, 7:00PM. List of performing artists included Marco Benevento, Mudville, Jonah Smith, Jose Conde y Ola Fresca, Ari Gold and Animate Objects.
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&lt;b&gt;INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS&lt;/b&gt; (IMA) @ CMJ08: IMA program&lt;br /&gt;
director Martin Folkman, (left), and IMA winner &lt;b&gt;Marco Benevento&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt; “Teardrop Tea.”
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/2008_cmj_music_marathon_film_festival_photo_coverage_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/cmj08-ima-agold1.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;236&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS&lt;/b&gt; (IMA) @ CMJ08&lt;br /&gt;
IMA winner recording artist &lt;a href=&quot;http://arigold.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ari Gold&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;quot;Love&lt;br /&gt;
Wasn&#039;t Built In A Day.&amp;quot;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;By Maria Esteves - December 30, 2008&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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The 28th Annual CMJ Music Marathon &amp;amp; Film Festival 2008 (CMJ08), &lt;span class=&quot;inline inline-right&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;College&lt;span class=&quot;inline inline-right&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Radio Awards ceremony was held at New York University Eisner &amp;amp; Lubin Auditorium, Thursday, October 23, 3:45 P.M. The ceremony honored America&#039;s best DJs, producers, promoters, remixers, radio shows, and podcasts in college radio.
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&amp;nbsp;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/cmj08_music_marathon_college_radio_awards_ceremony_photos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/cmj08-awards-rratner-acorey1.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;257&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
CMJ08 five-time College Radio Award winner&lt;br /&gt;
(Most Groundbreaking, BestPodcast, Biggest&lt;br /&gt;
Asset To The Community, Station Of The Year,&lt;br /&gt;
Most Likely To Reinvent Radio), outreach&lt;br /&gt;
manager /DJ Rachel Ratner, (left), and program&lt;br /&gt;
manager Andrew Corey, &lt;a href=&quot;http://kexp.org/Default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;KEXP&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;.

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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/cmj08_music_marathon_college_radio_awards_ceremony_photos_0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/cmj08-awards-cbehle1.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;257&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
CMJ08 Best Use Of The Web Award winner DJ&lt;br /&gt;
Caitlin Behle, &lt;a href=&quot;http://woxy.lala.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOXY.COM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/cmj08_music_marathon_college_radio_awards_ceremony_photos_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/cmj08-awards-cmfox1.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;236&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
CMJ08 Best Mentor Award winner &lt;b&gt;CANADA&lt;br /&gt;
M. FOX&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://piratepirate.com/wp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pirate!&lt;/a&gt; Promotion and Management.
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/cmj08_music_marathon_college_radio_awards_ceremony_photos_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/cmj08-awards-tgharakhanian1.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;257&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
CMJ08 Biggest Innovator Award winner &lt;b&gt;TENNI&lt;br /&gt;
GHARAKANIAN&lt;/b&gt;, CFRE, 91.9 FM, University of&lt;br /&gt;
Toronto, Canada.
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/cmj08_music_marathon_college_radio_awards_ceremony_photos_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/cmj08-awards-ohusain1.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;257&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
CMJ08 three-time College Radio Award winner&lt;br /&gt;
(Music Director Of The Year, Music Director With&lt;br /&gt;
The Best Band, Most Fun) &lt;b&gt;OMAR HUSAIN&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cjlo.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CJLO&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
1690 AM, Montreal, Canada.
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/cmj08_music_marathon_college_radio_awards_ceremony_photos_4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/cmj08-awards-rratner-mdehghan1.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;257&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
CMJ08 Label Promoter Of The Year Award winner&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;MONA DEHGHAN&lt;/b&gt;, Sub Pop.
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 <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:16:35 +0100</pubDate>
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&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/nicola-LOGO-quadri-verso104.preview.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;259&quot; /&gt;
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This is America by Nickolay Velikanov is currently at post production stage. &lt;br /&gt;
The documentary is expected to be premier at the key festivals that feature best indie and documentaries.
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;By Maria Esteves - December 30, 2008&lt;/i&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;inline inline-left&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/cmj08_music_marathon_college_radio_awards_ceremony_and_photos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/cmj08-rawards-logo.thumbnail.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-thumbnail&quot; width=&quot;98&quot; height=&quot;125&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The 28th Annual CMJ Music Marathon &amp;amp; Film Festival 2008 (CMJ08), College Radio Awards ceremony was held at New York University Eisner &amp;amp; Lubin Auditorium, Thursday, October 23, 3:45 P.M. The ceremony honored America&#039;s best DJs, producers, promoters, remixers, radio shows, and podcasts in college radio.
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This year&#039;s ceremony included 23 awards. A combination of award prizes from Zune, Gibson, Insound, Ghost-Town Studios, piphone, and Western Australia Music were presented to the following winners:
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* &lt;i&gt;Most Groundbreaking&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://kexp.org/Default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; KEXP&lt;/a&gt;, 90.3 FM, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
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&lt;p&gt;* &lt;i&gt;Best Mentor&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;CANADA M. FOX&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://piratepirate.com/wp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pirate!&lt;/a&gt; Promotion and Management.&lt;/p&gt;
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* &lt;i&gt;Best Use Of The Web&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://woxy.lala.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;WOXY.COM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Cincinnati, OH.
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* &lt;i&gt;Best Online Resources&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://terrorbird.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TERRORBIRD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Media.
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* &lt;i&gt;Best Podcast&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://kexp.org/Default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;KEXP&lt;/a&gt;, 90.3 FM, University of Washington, Seattle.
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* &lt;i&gt;Best Genre Specialty Promoter&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;TYLER MCCAULEY&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://terrorbird.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Terrorbird&lt;/a&gt; Media.
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* &lt;i&gt;Best Student-Run Non-FM Station&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cjlo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CJLO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, 1690 AM, Montreal, Canada.
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* &lt;i&gt;Best Use Of Limited Resources&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kssu.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;KSSU&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 1580 AM, Sacramento State University, CA.
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* &lt;i&gt;Best Team Effort&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cjlo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CJLO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, 1690 AM, Montreal, Canada.
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* &lt;i&gt;Biggest Asset To The Community&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://kexp.org/Default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;KEXP&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 90.3 FM, University of Washington, Seattle.
&lt;/p&gt;
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* &lt;i&gt;Biggest Innovator&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;TENNI GHARAKANIAN&lt;/b&gt;, CFRE, 91.9 FM, University of Toronto, Canada.
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* &lt;i&gt;Music Director Of The Year&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;OMAR HUSAIN&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cjlo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CJLO&lt;/a&gt;, 1690 AM, Montreal, Canada.
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* &lt;i&gt;Music Director With The Best Band That Doesn&#039;t Suck&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;OMAR HUSAIN&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cjlo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CJLO&lt;/a&gt;, 1690 AM, Montreal, Canada.
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* &lt;i&gt;Label Promoter Of The Year&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;MONA DEHGHAN&lt;/b&gt;, Sub Pop.
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* &lt;i&gt;Station Of The Year&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://kexp.org/Default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;KEXP&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 90.3 FM, University of Washington, Seattle.
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* &lt;i&gt;Promoter Of The Year&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;DOUG BLAKE&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://piratepirate.com/wp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pirate!&lt;/a&gt; Promotion and Management.
&lt;/p&gt;
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* &lt;i&gt;Promotional Company Of The Year&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;PIRATE!&lt;/b&gt;
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* &lt;i&gt;Specialty Music Director Of The Year&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;JESSE NOVAK&lt;/b&gt;, WWVU, FM U92, West Virginia University, VA.
&lt;/p&gt;
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* &lt;i&gt;In It For The Music&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;CYTHIA LUNA&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wbwc.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WBWC&lt;/a&gt;, 88.3 FM, Baldwin-Wallace College, OH.
&lt;/p&gt;
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* &lt;i&gt;Most Fun&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;OMAR HUSAIN&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cjlo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CJLO&lt;/a&gt;, 1690 AM, Montreal, Canada.
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* &lt;i&gt;Most Likely To Reinvent Radio&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://kexp.org/Default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;KEXP&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 90.3 FM, University of Washington, Seattle.
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* &lt;i&gt;Most Ahead Of The Game&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://terrorbird.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;TERRORBIRD&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;	Media.
&lt;/p&gt;
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* &lt;i&gt;Most Legit&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;LISA HRESKO&lt;/b&gt;, CMJ.
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&amp;nbsp;
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 <title>14th Annual 2008 Directors Guild of America Eastern Student Film Awards </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;By Maria Esteves - December 30, 2008&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;inline inline-left&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/2008_dga_eastern_student_film_awards&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/dga08-logo2.thumbnail.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-thumbnail&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;94&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dga.org%20thedga/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;14th Annual 2008 Directors Guild of America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (DGA) Eastern Student Film Awards was held at the Academy Theater, New York, Monday, December 15, 2008, 7:00 PM. The award honors the best minority and women student filmmakers in the East Coast, USA.  Producer/director Ted Bogosian, DGA student film Awards chair committee, Eastern directors council, introduced award presenter DGA First VP/PAC leadership council co-chair Paris Barclay, executive producer &lt;b&gt;IN TREATMENT &lt;/b&gt;(HBO series). A reception immediately followed the special Award winning film presentation screenings.
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Since 1960, DGA president George Marshall began an Awards program to honor directors for their directorial achievement. DGA Awards were given on a quarterly basis and culminated in the Annual Award for Best Directorial Achievement at the General Membership Meeting. DGA Student Film Awards annually presents the outstanding achievements of African American, Asian American, Latino and women student filmmakers in the East and West Coast of the United States.
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The 2008 DGA Eastern Student Film Award winners were judged by:
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* Casey Childs – DGA director&lt;br /&gt;
* Daniel Cooper Bay – DGA director&lt;br /&gt;
* Gary Magatelli – DGA director&lt;br /&gt;
* Rolando Hudson – DGA director&lt;br /&gt;
* Vince Misiano – DGA director&lt;br /&gt;
* Sam Weisman – DGA director&lt;br /&gt;
* Gary Winick – DGA director&lt;br /&gt;
* Maggie Zackheim – DGA director
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This year&#039;s ceremony included 4 awards within 4 categories. A combination of cash awards and honorable mention awards were presented to the following winners:
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&lt;i&gt;Asian American Student Award&lt;/i&gt;, presented to filmmaker Wei-Hsin Yang of Columbia University for &lt;b&gt;PASSING FANCY&lt;/b&gt;.
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&lt;i&gt;Latino Student Award&lt;/i&gt;, presented to filmmaker Marco Garcia of North Carolina School of the Arts for &lt;b&gt;1915&lt;/b&gt;.
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&lt;i&gt;African American Student Award&lt;/i&gt;, presented to filmmaker William Sutphin of Columbia University for &lt;b&gt;UNCLE KILLA&lt;/b&gt;.
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&lt;i&gt;Women Student Award&lt;/i&gt;, presented to filmmaker Elina Fessa of Columbia University for &lt;b&gt;STILL WATER&lt;/b&gt;.
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/2008_dga_eastern_student_film_awards_0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/dga08-awards-tbogosian2a.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;236&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
2008 DGA Eastern Student Awards: producer&lt;br /&gt;
/director Ted Bogosian, DGA student film&lt;br /&gt;
Awards chair committee, Eastern directors&lt;br /&gt;
council.
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/2008_dga_eastern_student_film_awards_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/dga08-awards-pbarclay1.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;257&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
2008 DGA Eastern Student Awards presenter: DGA&lt;br /&gt;
First VP/PAC leadership council co-chair Paris&lt;br /&gt;
Barclay.
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/2008_dga_eastern_student_film_awards_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/dga08-awards-pbarclay-whyang-tbogosian1.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;257&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
2008 DGA Eastern Asian American Student Award&lt;br /&gt;
winner filmmaker Wei-Hsin Yang, &lt;b&gt;PASSING FANCY&lt;/b&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
(center), with DGA First VP/PAC leadership council&lt;br /&gt;
co-chair Paris Barclay, (left), and DGA student film&lt;br /&gt;
Awards chair committee, Eastern directors&lt;br /&gt;
council Ted Bogosian.
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/2008_dga_eastern_student_film_awards_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/dga08-awards-pbarclay-mgarcia-tbogosian1.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-_original&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
2008 DGA Eastern Latino Student Award winner filmmaker Marco Garcia,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;1915&lt;/b&gt;, (center), with DGA First VP/PAC leadership council co-chair&lt;br /&gt;
Paris Barclay, (left), and DGA student film Awards chair committee,&lt;br /&gt;
Eastern directors council Ted Bogosian.
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/2008_dga_eastern_student_film_awards_4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/dga08-awards-pbarclay-wsutphin-tbogosian1.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;257&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
2008 DGA Eastern African American Student Award&lt;br /&gt;
winner filmmaker William Sutphin, &lt;b&gt;UNCLE KILLA&lt;/b&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
(center), with DGA First VP/PAC leadership council&lt;br /&gt;
co-chair Paris Barclay, (left), and DGA student film&lt;br /&gt;
Awards chair committee, Eastern directors council&lt;br /&gt;
Ted Bogosian.
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/2008_dga_eastern_student_film_awards_5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/dga08-awards-pbarclay-efessa-tbogosian1.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;343&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
2008 DGA Eastern Women Student Award winner filmmaker Elina&lt;br /&gt;
Fessa, &lt;b&gt;STILL WATER&lt;/b&gt;, (center), with DGA First VP/PAC leadership&lt;br /&gt;
council co-chair Paris Barclay, (left), and DGA student film Awards&lt;br /&gt;
chair committee, Eastern directors council Ted Bogosian.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;By Maria Esteves - December 29, 2008 &lt;/i&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;inline inline-left&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/en/image/cmj08&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/cmj08logo.thumbnail.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-thumbnail&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;58&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The 28th Annual CMJ Music Marathon &amp;amp; Film Festival&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;2008 (CMJ08), &amp;quot;&lt;b&gt;Current Independent Culture Through the Eyes of True Indie Pioneer&lt;/b&gt;&amp;quot; panel discussion was held at New York University Kimmel Center, Thursday, October 23, 2:00 P.M. The successful standing room only panel attended by artists, industry executives, producers, promoters, remixers, digital/recording artists, DJs, and press discussed the decline of major record labels and the rise of independent record companies from personal views, experiences, and the future of the independent music culture. Moderated by music editor Rob Harvilla, Village Voice, panelists included singer/songwriter &lt;a href=&quot;http://davederby.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dave Derby&lt;/a&gt;; rock musician/songwriter/producer Walter Schreifels, former member Quiksand band; artist Paul D. Miller (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.djspooky.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DJ Spooky&lt;/a&gt;); director Insights &amp;amp; Digital Media Dave Allen, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/in/pampelmoose&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nemo Design&lt;/a&gt;, former member &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gangoffour.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gang of Four&lt;/a&gt; band; and lead singer Aaron Lazar, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thegiraffes.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Giraffes&lt;/a&gt;.
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CMJ08 &amp;quot;&lt;b&gt;Current Independent Culture Through the Eyes of True Indie&lt;br /&gt;
Pioneer&lt;/b&gt;&amp;quot; Panel: CMJ moderator music editor Rob Harvilla, Village Voice,&lt;br /&gt;
(center), with panelists, (left), rock musician/songwriter/producer&lt;br /&gt;
Walter Schreifels, and artist Paul D. Miller (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.djspooky.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DJ Spooky&lt;/a&gt;).
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&lt;a href=&quot;/en%20/image%202008_cmj_music_marathon_current_independent_culture_panel_discussion_photos_0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/files/images/cmj08-cicpanel-dderby-wschreifels-rharvilla2a.preview.jpg&quot; class=&quot;image image-preview&quot; width=&quot;343&quot; height=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
CMJ08 &amp;quot;&lt;b&gt;Current Independent Culture Through the Eyes of True&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt; Indie Pioneer&lt;/b&gt;&amp;quot; Panel: (from right-left), CMJ moderator music&lt;br /&gt;
editor Rob Harvilla, Village Voice, with panelists rock musician&lt;br /&gt;
/songwriter/producer Walter Schreifels, (center) and singer&lt;br /&gt;
/songwriter &lt;a href=&quot;http://davederby.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dave Derby&lt;/a&gt;.
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CMJ08 &amp;quot;&lt;b&gt;Current Independent Culture Through the Eyes of True Indie Pioneer&lt;/b&gt;&amp;quot; Panelists: (from left-right), artist Paul D. Miller (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.djspooky.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DJ Spooky&lt;/a&gt;), director Insights &amp;amp; Digital Media Dave Allen, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/in/pampelmoose&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nemo Design&lt;/a&gt;; and lead singer Aaron Lazar, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thegiraffes.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Giraffes&lt;/a&gt;.
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The blog is absolutely free like any myspace, youtube video blog...! &lt;br /&gt;
Your visitors do not have to be registered or logged in to enjoy the visit.
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&lt;strong&gt;The strongest videoblog platform for search engine&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;visibility &lt;/strong&gt;(google...)
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Try for yourself:
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Do any festival related search on google: typing for instance &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cinequest 18 wraps&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  or &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cinequest 18&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;: you will find our platform giving N°1 positioning ahead of variety, indiewire, any myspace youtube... (and cinequest website) there are several reasons for this but this is a long story (Google friendly technology).
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&lt;strong&gt;Free promotion on our websites &lt;/strong&gt;
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When publishing on fest21.com you give us the opportunity to give you more publicity on filmfestivals.com : we paste some of the members contributions from the blog on our portal, and also mention in the 60 000 recipients weekly &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;/en/blog/newsletter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;newsletter&lt;/a&gt;.
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&lt;strong&gt;You can post videos, audio, text, pix... with no limit whatsoever&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
Myspace and youtube... impose a size limit on video files, we do not, and accept any video format.
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&lt;strong&gt;Latest technology: your blog is compatible with mobile delivery.&lt;br /&gt;
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We can include the RSS from another blog of yours or a minor technical cost of 50$
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The blogs that are regularly updated, and that get audience votes appear on the homepage offest21.com
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&lt;strong&gt;Fest Pro Only: your blog is hosted in a festivals-and-films-only environment&lt;/strong&gt;, why settle for less with other platforms that are not dedicated to the festival circuit:
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the result is a more relevant environment for the search engine who will recognize the quality of the pages (full of relevant words, like film, festival...)
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&lt;strong&gt;We are open&lt;/strong&gt; for any innovative ideas, like online competitions with public votes on our platform, best of fest presentation... Just ask
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&lt;strong&gt;We look forward to welcoming you to our community&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Greetings from the sun and surf of Santa Cruz!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;As we gear up for next May, I wanted to take a look back at the 2008 Festival and share with you the activities of some of the films we presented then.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;It was a fantastic Festival with a terrific program (if I may so myself).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Over those nine beautiful Spring days, we screened 149 films from all over the world to a record audience of nearly 8000 film lovers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;This is truly a testament to the dedication and enthusiasm of our community for independent film and video.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;Many of the films we showcased during the 2008 Festival have enjoyed further success since then:&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;SCFF Best of the Fest Winner, Chaz Thorne’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.justburiedmovie.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span&gt;JUST BURIED&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; secured US and Canadian distribution after the Festival. The film went into wide release in Canada in July through a deal with Seville Pictures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In the US, Liberation Entertainment released the film in October in selected theatres and plans a January 27, 2009 DVD release.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Tell your friends!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;Stewart Wade’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.truloved.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span&gt;TRU LOVED&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;, SCFF Best Actress Award Winner for Najarra Townsend, also secured distribution with Regent Releasing and went into limited release in October in California, New York, Chicago, Seattle and Ft. Lauderdale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;The film also continues to screen at a number of film festivals and art house cinemas around the country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Independent British Feature, and SCFF Jury Prize Winner, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span&gt;SUMMER SCARS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt; by Julian Richards has continued its Festival run picking up more awards along the way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;So far, the film has won awards for Best Child Acting at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival and the Bronze Award for Suspense/Thriller at WorldFest Houston.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Additionally, it was a BAFTA Cymru Winner (the Welsh branch of the British Academy Awards) for Best Newcomer to Al Wilson for writing, and Winner for Best Title Graphics, and was a Nominee for Best Film.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;Finally, Joshua Tickell’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thefuelfilm.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span&gt;FIELDS OF FUEL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; continues to screen around the country and was recently named as one of the 15 documentaries to the shortlist for the Academy Awards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Best of luck, Josh!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;We are thrilled at the accomplishments of the films from our 2008 Festival and wish them, and all the other films, the greatest of further success.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;We’re proud to have been a part of their achievements and look forward to continuing to support the success of all the films we present and will present in the future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;We are in the midst now of reviewing films for the 2009 Festival and are excited about what we are seeing so far.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;As usual, we are blessed with an abundance of quality work in all categories and will be forced to make some very difficult choices when we construct the Festival’s program.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;I am sure you will be as ecstatic as we are about the program when it is announced in April.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In the meantime, our Call for Entries is open and we are accepting films and videos for consideration until the end of January.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Please spread the word to all and any filmmakers who might be interested in participating in the Santa Cruz Film Festival.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;We promise and amazing venue to showcase their work and the best film audience around!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Information on entering can be found at our website: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.santacruzfilmfestival.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;www.santacruzfilmfestival.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;See you at the Festival!&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;Julian Soler&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;Director of Programming&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;Santa Cruz Film Festival&lt;/span&gt;
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What is 2008 going to be like for the cinemas? It is still too early to give an answer because, although the end of the year is close, we already know that these last few weeks, and in particular the Christmas period, are of crucial importance for cinema-going. Frequently, cinema-going in November and December has proved to be critical for determining the year&#039;s results.&lt;br /&gt;
The appointment with the European Film Awards nonetheless encourages us to hazard a few predictions based on the results of the first nine or ten months of the year and on the judgement of authoritative representatives of the European cinema community.
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After a 2007 characterized by the dip in audiences but also by the positive affirmation of European films, what can be expected of 2008? Will cinema-going have suffered from the consequences of the negative trend in the economy and on the financial markets or, as has already happened in the past, will it manage to swim against the current, catching hold of the desire to escape from the difficulties of daily life? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From the five main European markets, those that are &amp;quot;worth&amp;quot; at least a hundred million spectators each (or even approaching the coveted two-hundred million threshold), various different signals are coming. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As regards Spain, the wave of drops in admissions, which began in 2005, does not seem to be coming to an end in 2008. &amp;quot;After one of the best summer seasons of the last years, we estimate that overall admissions will be about 10 million less than in 2007. In fact 2008 suffers from the lack of very successful domestic productions such as the horror movies El Orfanato and Rec, two blockbusters both at home and abroad&amp;quot;, says Borja de Benito Porto, Head of Communications and Marketing at Federación de Cines de España. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Italy arrives at the threshold of the Christmas period with a slight dip: this means that the results of the two-month November-December period will be decisive, in particular the Christmas holidays, a traditional time for the release of the &amp;quot;made in Italy&amp;quot; comedy, which draws mass audiences. &amp;quot;Tickets sold in the first ten months of 2008 show a 5% decrease compared to the previous year. If we consider that 2007 was an exceptional year, characterized by a 11% increase, we can be satisfied with the expected results for 2008&amp;quot; says Paolo Protti, President of ANEC. &amp;quot;The real challenge will be in 2009, when we&#039;ll see how cinema will react to the financial crisis&amp;quot;. In the meantime it can already be confirmed that, after a 2007 market share amounting to 33%, in 2008, too, Italian productions have not only won an important share of the home market (at the end of October one point more compared to the previous 12 months), but also international visibility, thanks to the success of Gomorra (1.7 million tickets sold at home) and Il Divo (783,000 tickets). &lt;br /&gt;
Italian statistics see European productions, including the French films La Graine et le Mulet and Persepolis, the German Der Baader Meinhof Komplex and the Belgian Le Silence de Lorna, in a strong position, even though it must be remembered that in several cases these are co-productions with the United States, like Cassandra&#039;s Dreams e Vicky Cristina Barcelona.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Stable or growing slightly&amp;quot;: this is the forecast for the German market by Detlef Rossmann, President of the organization representing the arthouse sector in Germany, who emphasizes the great success of European titles such as Planet Earth (a German - British coproduction totalling 3.7 million spectators in Germany) and Astérix aux Jeux Olympiques, standing at 1.6 million, coming from France, like Bienvenue chez les Ch&#039;tis. The market share of domestic productions - led by Keinohrhasen (4.7 million tickets sold by the end of June) is very high too. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;After recording an exceptional number of admissions in the summer - the highest for forty years - the United Kingdom is confident of repeating, if not improving on, the excellent 2007 results, i.e. over 160 million spectators,&amp;quot; says Philip Clapp, Chief Executive Officer of CEA, whose calculations are supported by attentive analysts of the British market, who have taken into consideration not only the trend of the first ten months of the year but also the potential of coming releases over the next few weeks. &lt;br /&gt;
In 2008 the commitment of the UK Film Council, supporting the circulation of foreign-language films, continues, thanks also to the fast track by which distributors can obtain economic support for digital distribution. Consequently, the titles that have appeared in British cinemas also include specialty films such as Caramel, 4 Luni 3 Saptamini si 2 Zile, Caos calmo, Mio fratello è figlio unico, Anche libero va bene. All-round optimism for France, which closes October with almost 153 million spectators, or 3.6% more than the same month in 2007. Good news, too, in terms of domestic productions, which have secured as much as 47% of the market up to now, three points more than those made in the USA. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Amongst the titles that cross national borders, apart from those already mentioned, are Babylon A.D., Taken and the 2008 Golden Palm Entre les Murs, sold on fifty or so markets and already released in Belgium and Italy. &lt;br /&gt;
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Lastly, amongst the most interesting expressions of European filmmaking, capable of establishing themselves on the international scenario, are two productions coming from small but dynamic countries: the bold Danish production Flammen &amp;amp; Citronen, dealing with the German occupation, bold in terms of both the resources used and the topic it deals with, and the Belgian Fly me to the Moon, which has succeeded in its task of distinguishing itself on the innovative scenario of 3D productions that are candidates for digital screening. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To sum up, Europe is giving us quality content and forward-looking technology.
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The Dubai International Film Festival today honoured two of its three 2008 Lifetime Achievement Awards recipients in a special press conference.
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&lt;strong&gt;Tsui Hark&lt;/strong&gt;, a major Hong Kong filmmaker, and &lt;strong&gt;Rachid Bouchareb&lt;/strong&gt;, an Algerian-French director, were present to discuss their work with the audience.
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&lt;strong&gt;Terry Gilliam&lt;/strong&gt;, the third honouree, attended DIFF earlier in the week and received his award in a special award ceremony on December 12.
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Moderator Simon Field stated: &amp;quot;The idea of the &lt;em&gt;Lifetime Achievement Award&lt;/em&gt; is to signal what our ideals are about cinema. The &lt;em&gt;Lifetime Achievement Award&lt;/em&gt; figures are people who are extraordinarily unique in their treatment of cinema...they are also filmmakers who&#039;ve crossed borders, which is very appropriate to DIFF.&amp;quot;
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Field continued that &amp;quot;all three of these filmmakers are very much at the peak of their work, their activity and their involvement in cinema. They are all working in popular or commercial forms, and have interesting ideas about nationalism, identity and tradition.&amp;quot;
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Hark has worked for many years in both Hong Kong and in China, and was strongly influential in the regeneration of Hong Kong Cinema in the 1980&#039;s. He was instrumental in starting the careers of John Woo and Chow Yun Fat, and reenergized the popular ‘wuxia&#039; genre that became popular around the world. Rachid Bouchareb is a prolific producer and director involved with films such as &lt;em&gt;Wes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;t Beyrouth&lt;/em&gt; and this year&#039;s DIFF film &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Niloofar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. His &lt;em&gt;Indigenes: Days of Glory&lt;/em&gt; showed at DIFF 2006 and won the Best Actor prize for its entire ensemble of actors at Cannes 2006. His new film &lt;em&gt;London&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; River&lt;/em&gt; will show in Berlin in the coming months.
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Simon Field pointed out that each director combines an eye for commercial, popular cinema with an intellectual approach. Hark said that he has always had to work in commercial genres, since it would be difficult to survive in Hong Kong otherwise, but Bouchareb said that in France, government support for cinema is so strong that directors may continue to work even if they never have a box office success.
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Accordingly, both directors had a very different take on the situation of world cinema today. Hark said that since the Chinese market has opened up to Hong Kong cinema, the situation has much improved, although the future of the Asian market was uncertain: &amp;quot;Everyone is going to Hollywood, so we&#039;re running out of filmmakers and running out of actors to put on the screen...We have to be very alert and concerned about the strength of the industry in order to build up the basis for a future.&amp;quot;
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Bouchareb expressed his gratitude that since the French government recognizes that cinema is ‘an art, not an industry,&#039; he can be free with his subject matter. He was concerned about this situation being preserved, since the American government has tried to force the French to stop subsidies of the film industry through the World Trade Organization.
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As the curtain falls on the landmark fifth edition of the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), the foremost cultural event on Dubai&#039;s yearly calendar, organizers have released figures that indicate that the 2008 event was the most successful yet.
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A total of 47 500 movie-goers streamed into DIFF&#039;s screenings as of Wednesday, December 17, representing a significant increase in festival attendance over 2007. Coveted seats went in a flash, particularly for the festival&#039;s Gala films, such as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Slum Dog Millionaire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and South African apartheid-era biopic &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skin&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which were sold out to Dubai&#039;s inquisitive filmgoing audience.
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Shivani Pandya, DIFF&#039;s Managing Director, stated: &amp;quot;We are thrilled by high participation from the public and industry members alike, which means that there is a strong enthusiasm in Dubai for our mandate to showcase quality cinema. We are looking forward already to the 2009 festival, and another five years with our warm, supportive and informed Dubai audiences. We have a responsibility to our local community-we are proud to have contributed to putting Dubai on the world film industry map, and will do our utmost to continue to do so.&amp;quot;
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While &lt;strong&gt;Ben Affleck&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Salma Hayek&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Abdulhussein Abdulredha&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hassan Salwan&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Ahmad al Saleh&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;strong&gt; Goldie Hawn&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Preity Zinta&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Abhishek Bachchan&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Lebleba&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Nicolas Cage&lt;/strong&gt; were some of the highest-profile festival guests, there were approximately 1000 members of the international film industry at DIFF this year, both for the second annual Dubai Film Connection and to attend the workshops, networking events and panel discussions put on by the Industry Office.
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Hayek, Zinta and Hawn, along with &lt;strong&gt;Danny Glover&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Terry Gilliam&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Laura Linney&lt;/strong&gt; were some of the A-list celebrity auctioneers at the second annual Cinema Against AIDS event, which despite global financial woes raised almost USD 2 million for the prominent HIV/AIDS research foundation amfAR.
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The fifth edition of DIFF ran from December 11 to 18, 2008.
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The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) drew to a close last night with a stunning award ceremony to recognize the best films in the festival and in the AsiaAfrica and Arab Muhr Competitions.
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The Muhr Awards was expanded this year to include a new AsiaAfrica segment, which embraces films from emerging markets. Some of the entries were submitted from Afghanistan, Turkey, Cameroon and Kazakhstan. The Muhr Awards for Excellence in Arab Cinema was strong than ever this year, with an increased number of applications from filmmakers all over the Middle East and around the world.
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Masoud Amralla al Ali, DIFF&#039;s Artistic Director, said: &amp;quot;This year our jury members were hard at work trying to evaluate the merits of truly excellent films. We are extremely proud of the films that we have screened, and choosing between them was very difficult. However, we are pleased with the results, and hope to see these filmmakers back at DIFF in following years with new projects.&amp;quot;
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At the beginning of the evening, three awards were presented to Emirati filmmakers: the prize for Best Emirati Talent went to Haydar Mohammed. Best Emirati Female Filmmaker was presented to Nujoom Al Ghanem, and Best Emirati Filmmaker went to Saeed Salmeen Al-Murry.
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For the first time, the International Federation of Film Critics, or FIPRESCI, awarded a Best Arab Film prize to one of the films in the Arab Muhr Competition. The prize went to MASQUERADES by Lyes Salem.
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&lt;li&gt;First Prize: LA ROUTE DU NORD (THE NORTH ROAD) by Carlos Chahine &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Special Jury Prize: BINT MARIAM by Saeed Salmeen Al-Murry &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Second Prize: SA&#039;ET ASARY (AT DAY&#039;S END) by Sherif El Bendary &lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;First Prize: THAKIRAT L SABBAR: HIKAYAT THALATH QURA FALASTEENIA (MEMORY OF HE CACTUS: A STORY OF THREE PALESTINIAN VILLAGES) by Hanna Musleh &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Special Jury Prize: SAMAAN BIDIYAA (THE ONE MAN VILLAGE) by Simon El Habre &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Second Prize: MARINA OF THE ZABBALEEN by Engi Wassef &lt;/li&gt;
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Best Cinematographer: Luca Coassin for CASANEGRA&lt;br /&gt;
Best Composer: Sylvain Rifflet for ADHEN - DERNIER MAQUIS&lt;br /&gt;
Best Editor: Nicolas Bancilhon for ADHEN - DERNIER MAQUIS&lt;br /&gt;
Best Screenplay: Annemarie Jacir for MILH HADHA AL-BAHR (SALT OF THIS SEA)&lt;br /&gt;
Best Actress: Hafsia Herzi for FRANCAISE&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Special Jury Prize: EXPECTATIONS by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun &lt;/li&gt;
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Best Cinematorgrapher: Reza Teymouri for ARAM BASH VA TA HAFT BESHMAR (BE CALM AND COUNT TO SEVEN)&lt;br /&gt;
Best Composer: Jorga Mesfin, Vijay Iyer for TEZA&lt;br /&gt;
Best Editor: Sreekar Prasad for FIRAAQ&lt;br /&gt;
Best Screenplay: Deepa Mehta for HEAVEN ON EARTH&lt;br /&gt;
Best Actress: Anh Hong for TRANG NOI DAY GIENG (MOON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL)&lt;br /&gt;
Best Actor: Askhat Kuchinchirekov for TULPAN
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The festival had previously announced the results of the second annual Dubai Film Connection (DFC), established to bring Arab and international film professionals together. DFC selected 18 projects from 108 submissions, of which three were awarded a USD 25, 000 Dubai International Film Festival Prize: This is my Picture When I Was Dead, by Mahmoud al Massad (Jordan-Netherlands); Barbershop Trinity, by Chadi Zeneddine (Lebanon); and Ouardia Once Had Sons, by Djamila Sahraoui (Algeria-Morocco). The three producers of the three projects will attend the prestigious 2009 Cannes Producers Network.
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Every Day is a Holiday, by Dima El-Hor (Lebanon-France) won the DIFF Desert Door Work in Progress Award, the 6000 Euro ‘International Relations&#039; prize from French broadcaster Arte went to Death for Sale, by Faouzi Bensaiei (Morocco-France-Belgium); and the new Bahrain Film Production Company Works in Progress Award went to When I Saw You, by Annemarie Jacir (Palestine-Jordan). The new Young Journalist Award, instituted in 2008 to stimulate interest in film criticism as a career in the region, went to Melissa Khan of Mahe Manipal University in Dubai.
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Cannes, Ghent, Sydney, London, New York, British Independent Film Award, chicago Film Festival, Independent Spirit Award, Montreal, Venice stockohlm,Sydney, Tallin, Toronto, Telluride film festival, Cork film festival,&lt;br /&gt;
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Grand Jury Prize cannes, EFA winner of 5 awards, Karlovy Vary, Toronto, New York, Stockholm, Chicago, AFI, Denver, Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award, Satellite Awar, Golden Orange Film Festival, Santa Fe, Vancouver, European Film Academy Festival, Seville, Cambridge Film Festival, Ghent, Ajaccio italian film festival, Athens, Dubai, Durban, E.F.A 2008, Festival Do Rio, FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DEL NUEVO CINE LATINOAMERICANO, Munich, &lt;br /&gt;
Haifa, Bratislava, Manresa, Lubiana, Melbourne, New Zeland International film festival, Pusan, Sao Paulo, Taipei, Tallin, Haugesund, Tokyo&lt;/p&gt;
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vicky Cristina Barcelona by Woody Allen&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Cannes, San Sebastian,  Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award, Satellite Award, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Montreal, London, Denver, International Haifa Film Festival, Traverse city film festival, Kaunas international film festival, Film Festival Ghent, Stockholm International Film Festival&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Samuel L Jackson will join Baz Luhrmann and Quentin Tarantino to receive the Capri Legend Award at the 13th Capri, Hollywood – Honda International Film Festival.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/strong&gt;Festival chairman and producer Mark Canton and festival director Pascal Vicedomini made the announcement :&lt;br /&gt;
Luhrmann and Jackson will attend screenings of their latest projects – &lt;span&gt;Australia&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span&gt;The Spirit&lt;/span&gt;, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;As with his current film &lt;span&gt;Australia&lt;/span&gt;, Baz Lurhmann continues to carve out his own unique path in the film industry, making visually stunning and epic productions,&amp;quot; Canton said. &amp;quot;Samuel L Jackson has become one of Hollywood&#039;s greatest actors, giving knockout performances with every new role.&amp;quot;
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&amp;quot;We are honoured to have these two great talents at Capri, Hollywood – a fitting addition to our top tier international attendees,