Disponible en avant première sur fest21.com, un lecteur ciné e-book incluant 26 livres autour du cinéma sera disponible le 14 mai 2008 pour l'ouverture du Festival de Cannes Faisant suite au succès très remarqué du lancement fin 2007 de son pack e-book Cluster21 destiné aux professionnels, puis de son pack Psycho21 en mars dernier, M21 Editions, le précurseur en des communautés web, fait appel au savoir-faire des éditions Nouveau Monde pour créer le pack ciné e-book fest21 con...

 Thursday, May 15-------Don’t bother trying to American film professionals in their New York or Los Angeles offices this week…..the bulk of them are cruising the Croisette at the Cannes Film Festival, looking for films that they can add to their theatrical slates. Distribution bigwigs are mixing with smaller specialty companies in a mad search for the next small European gem that could become a major box office champion. With many available titles vying for attention in the Official...

                       FUTURE OF CINEMA SALON Series: FESTIVAL DE CANNES 2008Future of cinema, few know, few share, we dare do both! Let us embark for a trip a few decades ahead of us.Our first stop is Cannes, with possible next stops on the festival circuit in Paris, Rome, Stockholm and moreFest21.com, CFC Media Lab and Telefilm Canada are proud to present another installment of our Future of Cinema Salon Series at the Cannes Film Festival. This year promises to be a stell...

Saturday, May 3------One of the more intriguing new players in the digital field is Film Annex. Through its website, Filmannex.com, the company's mission is to provide a new channel for promoting filmmakers and their works as well as distributing their films — to anyone with an Internet connection and selective corporate clients. Since art and independent films (particularly non-English language films) are often hugely popular at film festivals, but suffer at the distribution level t...

Thursday, May 1--------One of the fab parties this week at the Tribeca Film Festival was the Tuesday evening bash at BAR 13, hosted by Wallflower Press, the largest publisher of film books and magazines in the United Kingdom. Yoram Allon, Editorial Director and Publisher, was in Gotham with his wife Nicky Allon and editor Ian Haydn Smith as part of the company’s North American launch of the INTERNATIONAL FILM GUIDE, the authoritative Yearbook of International Cinema, and FILM & FESTIVALS M...

Thursday, May 1-------Although the Tribeca Film Festival does not have a formal market, the sheer number of World and International Premieres has upped the acquisitions quotient for films participating in the program. In the past week, a number of deals were announced that have given the Festival more “industry cred”.  IFC Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopena's FERMAT’S ROOM. The Spanish drama tells the story of four mathematicians who do ...

Monday, April 28-------Last evening at the fab Hotel QT off Times Square, the oranges were out in force in the Big Apple for the annual fete presented by Film Florida, a non-profit organization representing a variety of Florida film commissions, industry associations and labor organizations. The Apples And Oranges Party was set around the indoor pool of the Hotel QT, bringing a bit of Florida sunshine to the somewhat gloomy weather of New York in late April.Film Florida is promoting the Sunshine...

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Salon des Ambassadeurs, 4ème étage, Palais des Festivals, Cannes Dimanche, 18 mai 2008 : 14h30 - 16h15 ♦ OUVERTURE par Wolfgang Closs, Directeur exécutif de l'Observatoire européen de l'audiovisuel ♦ TENDANCES DU MARCHE DU CINEMA 2007 par Martin Kanzler, Analyste du Département "Informations sur les marchés et les financements" de l'Observatoire européen de l'audiovisuel  ♦ INTRODUCTION AU par André Lange, Modérateur et Responsable du Département "Infor...

« VoD - quelles licences pour quels marchés ? » est le thème de l'après-midi de l'Observatoire européen de l'audiovisuel organisé à Cannes cette année. Au fil des ans, cet atelier s'est imposé comme un événement incontournable du calendrier cannois, l'année dernière ayant été exceptionnelle avec 350 professionnels du cinéma rassemblés au Salon des Ambassadeurs pour écouter les dernières analyses présentées par l'Observatoire. L'accès à cet atelier sera à nouveau gratuit ...

"CINEMA, DIANYING YAN, KINO, CHALCHITRA, CINE..."  CONSTRUIRE UN MONDE D’ECHANGES  Pour la 6e Journée de l’Europe au Festival de Cannes le lundi 19 mai 2008, Viviane Reding, Commissaire européenne à la Société de l’Information et aux Médias, Gilles Jacob, Président du Festival de Cannes, et Thierry Frémaux, Délégué Général du Festival invitent les ministres de la Culture et de l’Audiovisuel de l’Union Européenne à réfléchir ensemble aux moyens d'accroî...

OUR VISION Future of cinema, few know, few share, we do both! We are taking this think tank on the road throughout the global festival circuit. Let us embark for a trip a few decades ahead of us. Our first stop is Cannes, with possible next stops on the festival circuit in Paris, Rome, Ischia, Stockholm and more.        FUTURE OF CINEMA SALON Series FESTIVAL DE CANNES 2008 CONTEXT Fest21.com, CFC Media Lab and Telefilm Canada are proud to ...

Les éditions Nouveau Monde et M21 Editions s'allient pour lancer un pack Ciné e-book sur le cinéma au Festival de Cannes Disponible en avant première sur fest21.com, un lecteur ciné e-book incluant 26 livres autour du cinéma sera disponible le 14 mai 2008 pour l'ouverture du Festival de Cannes. Faisant suite au succès très remarqué du lancement fin 2007 de son pack e-book Cluster21 destiné aux professionnels, puis de son pack Psycho21 en mars dernier, M21 Editions, le précurseur en F...

CINEUROPA.ORG - The Best Of European CinemaThe European film industry and film lovers of European films finally have a web site dedicated entirely to them and published in no less than four languages, English, French, Italian, and Spanish.Read by many hundred of thousands people all around the World, Cineuropa.org publishes daily news about the most important events of the European film landscape, weekly interviews and focuses of films soon to be released, making of and special reports. Cineurop...

 Tuesday, April 15--------Today at the Palm Beach International Film Festival, filmmakers and industry representatives will be among the first in the world to preview an amazing new technology: 3D TV and displays that do not require any special glasses. CEO/Visionary/inventor Fernando Delmau of XES (Xtreme Electronics Systems) along with Sean McKee, CEO of distributor Screen Time Images will be on hand at the Delray Beach Marriot to introduce what's next after the HD revolution.To be shown w...

After a cool 3H 15 trip from Paris Gare du Nord to new St Pancras station, a quick cab took me in less than 10 minutes to the hotel (less than the waiting for a cab at the station)Arriving at the Cumberland reception I got worried when they told me I was staying in a "nice room in the business executive building" off one block...Did not sound too engaging, or even convenientTurns out the rooms ARE nice in fact (vast, modern design, spacious...)      ...

For First Time, IPF Market Event Will Take Place at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology from September 14 - 19, 2008Gearing up for its 30th anniversary this September, IFP today announced that its annual IFP Market has been officially renamed Independent Film Week to reflect its mission of discovering, showcasing, and ing new independent film projects and talent. IFP is the nation's oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers. Since its founding in 1979, IFP has facil...