Arthur Fogel, President of Global Touring and Chairman of Concerts, Live Nation, personally oversees many of their largest tours, connecting artists with millions of fans around the globe. Current tours include Oasis’ highly anticipated 2025 stadium tour which has sold out all dates across Europe and North America and just announced Australia and New Zealand shows, Justin Timberlake’s The Forget Tomorrow World Tour, Sting’s 3.0 Tour, and more. Recent notable tours include th...

  Tobias Pausinger, der neue Programmleiter von Berlinale Talents / Tobias Pausinger, the new Programme Manager of Berlinale Talents  © Steffen Junghans   On October 1, Tobias Pausinger will take over the programme management of Berlinale Talents, completing the dual leadership team of the talent development initiative alongside Project Manager Nikola Joetze.   Tobias, a seasoned, interdisciplinary creative executive, has made a...

As in previous years, the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival will be honouring two distinguished special guests. Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay will receive the GRAND IFFMH AWARD, while the festival will dedicate a HOMAGE to Polish director Agnieszka Holland. By conferring these honours, the festival will be recognising two of the most eminent female directors of our time for their work in cinema. Festival director Dr Sascha Keilholz: “This year we are honouring two ...

Sydney Film Festival (SFF) announces the appointment of Justin Martyniuk as the Festival’s new Head of Programs. Justin has been a core member of the SFF programming team for several years, working alongside outgoing Head of Programs, Jenny Neighbour, and brings over eight years of experience curating film programs. Alongside this announcement, Lisa Kitching, who has been with the Festival for ten years, has been promoted to Head of Industry and Special Projects. Lisa’s promotion ...

  Variety will honor Amy Poehler with the Variety Legend & Groundbreaker Award at the Newport Beach Festival on Sunday, October 20. The award is reserved for those who have broken barriers in the industry and withstood the test of time. Poehler will accept the honor for her career achievements, including the recent success of “Inside Out 2.”   Reprising her role as the voice of Joy in “Inside Out 2,” Poehler served as a leader of the emotions inside Ril...

    14TH ANNUAL CATALINA FILM FESTIVAL HONORS MARCIA GAY HARDEN AND EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI AT THE LEGENDARY CATALINA CASINO Notable Attendees: Matt Walsh, Aleksa Palladino, Necar Zadegan, GaTa, Nolan Gould, Amy Tsang    The 14th annual Catalina Film Festival celebrated two extraordinary women making waves and impacting change, Saturday, September 28, 2024 at the historic Avalon Theatre at the Catalina Casino: Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden and actress/philan...

I'm delighted to announce today the appointment of Justin Martyniuk as the Festival’s new Head of Programs, and Lisa Kitching as Head of Industry and Special Projects. After an extensive search for our new Head Of Programs, we’re delighted to appoint Justin Martyniuk from within our own ranks. He has been a core member of the SFF programming team for several years, working closely alongside outgoing Head of Programs, Jenny ...

  “Together, let’s celebrate the power of cinema to inspire and bring us closer as a diverse, democratic society”. Those are the words of the patron of this years’ edition of the European Arthouse Cinema Day, the First Vice-President of the European Parliament Sabine Verheyen in her video message inviting cinemas to the day and highlighting the values of the event. Cinema stands for #Democracy     ...

Filmmaker Nicholas Gyeney has received top prizes on the global festival circuit for his feature horror/thriller The Activated Man. On September 21st, the Hungarian-American director received the Paramount Award, presented by the Hungarian Hollywood Council, at the inaugural Tony Curtis International Film Festival held in Mátészalka, Hungary; followed by the Best Director and Best Film prizes at Cinema Scares Fi...

‘Taste of Music’ received a standing ovation at the Norwegian Ravenheart film festival in Oslo. The promise of this short directed by the brilliant and talented Kyle Sevenoaks is about a man (played by the maverick Chris Wiborg) for is facing his music keyboard turned evil after a cosmic storm hitting the Earth. The question is, “what would you do if your keyboard became alive and ready to attack you”? I was lucky to connect with Kyle and Chris and to explore a little m...

Ali Samadi Ahadi was born in Tabriz, Iran, and is now based in Cologne, . He’s an award-winning filmmaker, with directorial credits including Lost Children (05) and The Green Wave (10). Seven Days (24) is his latest film. Interview by Emmanuel Itier https://tiff.net/events/seven-days     TIFF invited an amazing director, Mr. Ali Samadi Ahadi, to showcase his very moving new film: Seven Days. You will have tears in your eyes whil...

Cannes Investors Circle, the Marché du Film’s exclusive gathering of top film financing experts and investors, concluded its second edition today with resounding success. This year’s high-profile event, held during the 77th Festival de Cannes at the Festival & Marché’s official beachside venue Plage des Palmes, featured s with leading international experts in film and media financing. The s were followed by a private pitching sessi...

    Ydalie Turk is a South African, Lebanese actress and writer. She is known for The Grand Bolero (2021), Ma Lina (2022), and the feature Trifole (2024). She graduated from The New York Film Academy in 2018 with a BFA in drama and has since been working in both theatre and film. In 2022 she was named one of MovieMaker magazine's screenwriters to watch for The Grand Bolero (2021). In 2022 she co-founded Holding Thumbs Productions with her frequent collaborator Casey-Anne...

 Ken Kao  Josh Rosenbaum  Ken Kao is CEO and Producer of Waypoint Entertainment and Josh Rosenbaum serves as Head Executive and Executive Producer for Waypoint, which is a full-service film production and financing company best known for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Academy Award-winning THE FAVOURITE (2018). They have also been behind such films as MID-90s, SONG TO SONG (2017), KNIGHT OF CUPS (2015), THE NICE GUYS (2016), and more. Josh and Ken's latest ...

Writer, director Tom Van Avermaet is a Belgian filmmaker known for his unique blend of surrealism and melancholia. His acclaimed short films, “Dreamtime” (2006) and “Death of a Shadow” (2012) (starring Matthias Schoenaerts), have garnered significant recognition both nationally and internationally. “Death of a Shadow” won the European Academy Award (European Film Award) for Best European Short and was nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Live Acti...

    Filmmaker Bess Kargman Award-winning documentary filmmaker Bess Kargman, known for her documentary short “Coach” (2013), which won the Jury Award at Tribeca Film Festival in 2013, screened her breakthrough feature documentary film “Diane Warren: Relentless” (2024) at SXSW where it held its World Premiere. It tells the up close and personal story of renowned and prolific multi academy award-winning singer/songwriter Diane Warren, featuring interviews ...

Actor, Producer, Director, David Lipper, CEO of Latigo Films, has worked on dozens of films and series throughout his profession; his recent producing titles include "My Favorite Girlfriend" (2022), "Freud's Last Session" (2023), "Not Without Hope" (2025), "Hotel Tehran" (2025), starring Liam Neeson and Zachary Levi, "Off The Grid" (2025), starring Josh Duhamel and Greg Kinnear. He directed a film he wrote called "The Neglected" (...

UK producer Gareth Wiley spent his time after university working with some of the world’s leading investment banks (including Salomon Brothers and UBS Warburg) in London, Hong Kong, and New York. A lifelong fascination with the film business resulted in him leaving banking in 2002 and since then, Gareth has worked with (amongst others), Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz, and Javier Bardem and with Oscar winning director Alex Gibney. Furthermore, he has served ...

 Director Gabriele Fabbro Named by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the top 2022's screenwriters to watch, Gabriele Fabbro was born in 1996, in Milan, Italy. He's a film director with a BFA degree in Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy. Since 2011, he wrote, directed and produced over 30 productions including features, short films, music videos and commercials. Among his most recent works, he directed the music video "If You Run (2020)" for Josh Homme (Queens of the St...

Cinthya Brasil is a Brazilian comedian, writer, and actor based in Los Angeles. A regular at The Ding Dong Show at The Comedy Store, she has performed internationally in Australia, Brazil Canada and toured all over the US. Her sharp wit and sarcastic humor often parody cultural stereotypes, horror and the unique experiences of growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness. Beyond stand-up, Cinthya has worked with industry veterans like Brett Gelman, Eric Roberts, Tiffany Haddish and Harry Lennix. S...

Sarah Nocquet is a French American screenwriter and director. Born and raised in Paris, she moved to New York to pursue a degree in film & TV production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and has since expanded her domain of work to include Paris, New York, and London. Her short psychological thriller Speed Queen 51 starring Rory Culkin premiered at Palm Springs Shortfest 2024, and her 5min drama Decoy starring Lia Williams is planning a festival run in 2025. Her s...

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Born and raised in Paris and of Vietnamese heritage, Lang Khê Tran was immersed in the cinematic world from a young age, with her father as a director and her mother as both an actress and artistic director. Having studied theatre and cinema at La Sorbonne University in Paris, complemented by a year of applied arts, she started to model in and London. Her debut in cinema was alongside Gaspard Ulliel, Gérard Depardieu, and Guillaume Gouix in Guillaume Nicloux...

  Composer Will Bates has composed original scores for a myriad of filmmakers including acclaimed directors Mike Cahill (Another Earth; I Origins; Bliss), Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks; Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief; Zero Days; The Forever Prisoner), Ry Russo-Young (You Won’t Miss Me; Nobody Walks) and Fisher Stevens (Mission Blue; Bright Lights).  Bates’ up...

Sam Shainberg The short film SHOTPLAYER (2024), directed by Sam Shainberg, screened in the Documentary Short Competition at this year’s SXSW. SHOTPLAYER is an impressionistic journey into the mind of Wilfred Rose, one of New York City's most notorious pickpockets. As he returns to the subway for the first time in many years, he reflects on a life of crime in a society that has left many of its citizens behind. SHOTPLAYER asks the question: When ...