Dear Filmmakers, The Valley Film Festival (VFF) is currently engaged in watching your shorts, features, music videos, trailers, etc., but it hasn't stopped us from getting excited about the emails you've been sending, asking about the status of our programming and telling us why it's important to you to screen with VFF. It gives us a warm & fuzzy feeling to hear your stories and ask that you keep them coming.    Since launching VFF in 2000, one...

:: Filmmakers submit to 2 Fests in SE Asia for One Fee :: CamboFest [Cambodia] & the newly launched Bangkok IndieFest [Thailand] are now enabling filmmakers to submit to both fests for one entry fee-- Bangkok IndieFest officially launches and announces its call for entries at the beginning of August - but filmmakers are able to access the "2 Fests / One Fee" special now by visiting the submissions page on the CamboFest website: http://www.cambofest.com/submit/submit.html...

Tim Pek, winner of CamboFest's 2008 Grabay Meas ("Golden Buffalo") Award for Best Movie ["The Red Sense"] in the Cambodian filmmaker local showcase can now be seen here--> http://cambofest.blogspot.com/2009/07/pix-of-tim-pek-red-sense-2008-cambofest.html         ...

~ We Made It! ~ CAMBOFEST: Film, Video and Animation Festival of Cambodia is happy to announce that we've met the minimum financial requirements to continue operating through the 2009 season without interruption! Thanks in the end to the following new ers as we conclude Phase 1 of our Rainy Season/Beginning of Spring fundraising drive: &nb...

DONT FORGET! MAY 14TH FINAL TV PILOT & WEBSERIES SUBMISSION DEADLINE It really feels like we just had a deadline.  And now there's another one!  May 14th is our final deadline.  Make sure you get your submissions in soon at itvfest.org    INDEPENDENT TELEVISION FEST LAUNCH PARTY! COME CELEBRATE CINCO DE MAYO WITH ITVFEST AT HOLLYWOOD HOTSPOT LIBERTINE! 8210 Sunset Boulevard Shmoozing 8pm-11pm            Silent auction 9pm-11pm Mand...

Tv Pilot & Webseries competition   Don't dilly dally our submission deadlines are quickly approaching.  If you have an independently produced TV pilot or webseries, submit before the final deadline on May 14, 2009. You can submit through our website www.itvfest.org. The 4th Annual Independent Television Festival will be held July 31- August 6, 2009 in Los Angeles,CA. Follow us on Twitter.  Get submission tips and Festival Facts.  twitter.com/itvfest ...

ITVFEST Submission Deadline & New Sponsors on board  EARLY DEADLINE IS APRIL 23RD!! $40 submission fees are quickly coming to an end.  Hurry up and get your pilot or webseries in to be considered for early acceptance.  Know early, relax often. SUBMIT NOW ITVFEST IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE NEW SPONSORS With the sponsorship drive well under way, we'll be announcing all of our sponsors and partners as they come.  Please our sponsor by visiting their websites and utl...

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Getting to Cannes  By planeAEROPORT INTERNATIONAL DE NICE COTE D'AZUR www.nice.aeroport.frTel. (from ) : 0820 423 333Tel. (from abroad) : +33 (0)4 93 21 30 30 By trainSNCF (a 5-hour high speed train journey from Paris) www.sncf.frTel. (from ) : 08 92 35 35 35Place de la Gare - 06400 Cannes Reservation and information : 36 35 (0,34€/min)  By CarBy Esterel Highway A8By bus Nice / CannesBus Rapides Cotes D'Azur / Lignes 2102 place Cornut-Gentille - 06400 CannesTel : +33 (0)4 93 85 ...

The city was founded around 315 BC by the King Cassander of Macedon, on or near the site of the ancient town of Therma and twenty-six other local villages. He named it after his wife Thessalonike, a half-sister of Alexander the Great (Thessalo-nikē means the "victory of Thessalians"). It was an autonomous part of the Kingdom of Macedon. After the fall of the kingdom of Macedon in 168 BC, Thessalonica became a city of the Roman Republic. It grew to be an important trade-hub located on ...

CALL FOR ENTRIES It's time to send a screener of your FEATURE FILM to the Taormina Film Fest 2008, taking place in Sicily from June 15 to 21, 2008. Our deadline for submissions is MAY 9. We are now accepting films for selection in the most exciting summer festival in Europe, a boutique showcase for just 20 new films to be shown to our audiences and distributors from around the world. Once again we will privilege world and international premières, divided into the following three sections: ME...

 Thursday, January 24---------The first Sundance awards were announced today, beginning a process that will culminate with the announcement of the major awards in the US Independent and World Cinema categories on Saturday evening. The Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards were created in 1996 to honor visionary film directors from four global regions (Europe, Latin America, the United States and Japan) in realizing their next projects. The prizes are a collaboration between the Sundan...