tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:21:24 +0000http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/index.phpnoreply@blogger.com (Webmaster)Blogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-8068709708249499382Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:09:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.373-05:00Festival AmbassadorThe Bahamas International Film Festival wrapped in Nassau Thursday night with the closing night film, Precious, which brought out the island out to watch the film and then partake in a Q&A with screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher and Lenny Kravitz, who stars in the film. The seven day fest also included a career tribute to Johnny Depp earlier in the week, another tribute to Bahamanian underwater http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/12/2010-bahamas-film-festival.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-6393992362000653124Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:39:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.373-05:00Festival AmbassadorThe Bahamas International Film Festival announced today that Johnny Depp will be receiving the fest's career achievement award this year. Check back to Festival Ambassador for reports from BIFF when the fest takes place in Nassau Dec. 10-17.More NewsChildren of God/Precious Bookend Festhttp://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/12/johnny-depp-to-receive-career.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-7767531980704673145Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:11:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.373-05:00Festival AmbassadorThe Hamptons International Film Festival's annual Screenwriters Lab are taking submissions for their 2010 Lab taking place April 16-18. Early Bird deadline is Dec. 4 (final deadline is Jan. 8). Learn more here.http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/11/deadline-alert-hamptons-screenwriters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-6490356585324217603Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:43:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.373-05:00Festival AmbassadorThe Bahamas International Film Festival will open its 6th editon with Kareem Mortimer's Children of God (which was shot entirely in the Bahamas in Nassau and Eleuthera last summer) and close with Lee Daniels's Precious, according to a release sent out today.The festival takes place Dec. 10-17 in Nassau. Learn more about the festival here.http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/11/children-of-god-precious-bookend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-3823070729907826430Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:23:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.374-05:00Festival AmbassadorFor the past several weeks the Hawaiian film community and Native Hawaiian activists have been abuzz about Barbarian Princess, British director Mark Forby’s new film on Princess Kai’ulani, one of Hawaii’s most revered historical figures whose tragic life story—sent into exile in England as a teenager, she became an international voice against the American-business-led coup that virtually http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/10/whats-in-name-barbarian-princess-begins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Sanders)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-628511321086013671Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:27:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.374-05:00Festival AmbassadorThe Royal Flush Festival, formerly known as the Evil City Film Fest, announces its lineup of independent films, music videos, live music performances, and underground art openings taking place October 15th-18th at Anthology Film Archives and other venues throughout New York.Royal Flush Festival’s film component will open with Merle Becker’s ode to American rock poster art, American Artifact, on http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/08/royal-flush-fest-announces-line-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-5589964033936858188Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:12:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.374-05:00Festival AmbassadorSundance early deadline is on Aug. 17 (see full list of deadlines here).Slamdance early deadline is Aug. 21 (full list here).Good luck.http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/08/deadline-alert-sundance-slamdance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-7553933312293419139Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:25:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.375-05:00Festival AmbassadorAfter a successful inaugural edition in New York last summer, the Hola Mexico Film Festival has spread nationwide for '09. Having just left L.A. last week, Hola will be running from June 19-24 in Chicago and June 23-28 in New York. Considered the largest Mexican film festival abroad, the Hola program presents 13 feature films, some of them U.S. premieres, showcasing the rich diversity of http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/06/hola-heads-to-chicago-and-ny.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-4412161180448901289Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:17:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.375-05:00Festival Ambassador"Humpday" stars Joshua Leonard and Mark Duplass mingle and interview during the daily CineVegas Happy Hour.At the CineVegas Filmmaker Brunch, IFC's Arianna Bocco played a game of "Distribution Roulette" whereby distrib heads from different companies were given a fictitious film's brief description. Then they had to give their best strategy for the film's release. A panel of judges awarded the http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/06/cinevegas-snapshots_6983.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-5065582325763623177Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:54:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.375-05:00Festival Ambassador"Frozen River" producer Heather Rae with CineVegas artist director Trevor Groth at the Palms Pool Party.AFI Dallas fest programmers Sarah Harris and James Faust with CineVegas' Mike Plante.Harris and Faust have been walking the fest with a Flip camera, recording testimonials on the importance of programmers attending other festivals. Their hope: to convince their own board of directors not to http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/06/cinevegas-snapshots_13.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-6842849167536519779Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:41:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.375-05:00Festival AmbassadorCinetic's Matt Dentler with "Winnebago Man" writer/producer Malcolm Pullinger and director Ben Steinbauer.Dentler talked up his company's new VOD channel called Cinetic Film Buff, going live on July 15. Every month the channel will release 5 new or library films, which effectively puts Dentler, the former film producer of SXSW, back into a curatorial role. Dentler said they are in talks with http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/06/cinevegas-snapshots.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-290701282714244881Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:38:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.376-05:00Festival AmbassadorWednesday night, CineVegas artist director Trevor Groth opened the fest with the premiere of Hue Rhodes' comedy "Saint John of Las Vegas."Fest Grand Poobah Dennis Hopper makes his way to the opener."Saint John of Las Vegas" actors Aviva, Romany Malco and Jesse Garcia celebrate after the screening.http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/06/cinevegas-opens-with-saint.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike Jones)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-2579893580625627933Wed, 27 May 2009 14:47:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.376-05:00Festival AmbassadorThe DFC, a co-production market that coincides with the Dubai International Film Festival, is now open for submissions of doc and narrative feature projects in development or works-in-progress from directors of Arab nationality or origin. Deadline for online submission is Aug. 15. The third editon of DFC will take place Dec. 11-15.Learn more here.http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/05/call-for-entries-dubai-film-connection.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-3293121272840061134Tue, 19 May 2009 15:45:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.376-05:00Festival AmbassadorRegular contributor Mike Plante filed this report on the Poland-based fest Off Plus Camera, which took place April 17-26 and is gaining notoriety on the fest circuit because of its Grand Prize of $100,000. We can just hear you all practicing your Polish now.The Off Plus Camera film festival is brand new but already pushing expectations. The first edition of the fest held in beautiful Krakow, http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/05/notes-from-off-plus-camera-film.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-1276987625166009542Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:54:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.376-05:00Festival AmbassadorToday one of the most anticipated panels for filmmakers in the Tribeca Talks series took place. Moderated by Hollywood Reporter's Steve Zeitchik with a panel consisting of IFC's Ryan Werner, 42 West's Cynthia Swartz, Bomb It director Jon Reiss, YouTube's Sara Pollack, Tribeca Enterprises' Geoff Gilmore and Oscilloscope's David Fenkel (pictured above right-left), the group discussed the http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/04/tribeca-talks-focuses-on-distrib-20.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-4937381503792556330Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:32:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.377-05:00Festival AmbassadorThough the Tribeca Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday with the screening of Woody Allen's Whatever Works, the fest really kicked into gear on Thursday as screenings started as well as the parties. Apple Store's annual party was tonight with the highlights being an appearance by a cute dog named Archie (pictured right) who roamed around the first and second floor with ease, acting more http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/04/highlights-at-tribeca-apple-store-party.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-944871119141576381Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:39:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.377-05:00Festival AmbassadorAt this year's SXSW we asked Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo director Bradley Beesley to take along Nokia's N95 multimedia device to shoot pictures of his funny and touching doc about women convicts who get the chance to compete in a rodeo. We thank Bradley and the crew of Sweethearts for taking part in this. Here's his photo diary. Here's a shot from the VIP balcony at the newly remodeled http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/04/sweethearts-at-sxsw.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-3724809671581017288Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:08:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.377-05:00Festival AmbassadorOne of my favorite aspects of this (at times) overwhelming festival is its panel discussions. The Tribeca Film Festival, since its inception, has always brought in well-respected, usually very blunt professionals to talk about everything from films they've made to industry topics. And what better time to hear what the state of the business is than right now. Here's the panels I feel will help http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/03/tffs-tribeca-talks-series-announced.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-2057514959412647549Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:52:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.377-05:00Festival AmbassadorTo get the latest news on this year's South by Southwest Film Festival, go to our SXSX page which will be updated daily.http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/03/sxsw-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-8813931193724168805Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:20:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.377-05:00Festival AmbassadorThe programs and slate for the 11th Sarasota Film Festival were announced today. Running March 25 - April 5, many of this year's top titles on the fest circuit will converge to the Gulf Coast including opening night film Oren Moverman's The Messenger and Adam Del Deo/James D. Stern’s Every Little Step to close the fest. See the full list of titles at sarasotafilmfestival.com.Full of programs http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/03/sarasota-fest-celebrates-11th-year-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-2427575223947593593Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:44:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.378-05:00Festival AmbassadorThe Tribeca Film Festival announced their out of competition slate today. Highlights include world premieres of Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience (he showed a rough cut at Sundance), Cheryl Hines's Serious Moonlight, penned by her Waitress co-star and director Adrienne Shelley, a new Ti West horror, The House of the Devil, and the directorial debut of Eric Bana, Love the Beast. Full http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/03/tribeca-announces-out-of-competition.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-5444354064075140865Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:49:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.378-05:00Festival AmbassadorWith a mix of the economic wowes and losing sponsors like Target and GM, this year's Tribeca Film Festival will have a slimmer line up with 86 features and 46 shorts. Announced today were the Discovery, World Narrative competition (which includes the world premiere of the Polish brother's Stay Cool) and, what I feel is the strongest section at Tribeca, the Documentary competition slate (the worldhttp://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/03/tribeca-announces-world-narrativedoc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-655321373106923146Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:16:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.378-05:00Festival AmbassadorOriginally posted on the Filmmaker blog, here's Jamed Ponsoldt's post on the True/False Film Festival.Last weekend, I was fortunate enough to find myself in Columbia, Missouri, for the fantastic True/False Film Fest.True/False is one of the premiere documentary film festivals in the world, and it's distinctive not only for the inspired programming and thoughtful panels, but also because the http://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/03/truefalse-thanks-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-8556297525658689230Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:11:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.378-05:00Festival AmbassadorThe Florida Film Festival, which will celebrate its 18th year March 27-April 5, announced their competition line up today. Screening a handful of festival circuit favorites like Sita Sings The Blues, Prince of Broadway and In A Dream, the fest will also World Premiere 2008 "25 New Faces" E.E. Cassidy's debut film We Are The Mods. Learn more about the fest at floridafilmfestival.com. The full listhttp://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/03/florida-film-festival-announces-its.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201486540220650883.post-4881499810956951940Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:34:00 +00002010-02-25T14:53:56.378-05:00Festival AmbassadorAfter a four year absence from shooting in his beloved New York City, Woody Allen's latest film Whatever Works -- starring Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley Jr -- will open this year's Tribeca Film Festival. In a press release sent out today, the festival announced the film, which will be released by Sony Pictures Classics in the summer, will screen at the festival onhttp://filmmakermagazine.com/festivalambassador/2009/03/tribeca-09-to-open-with-allens-whatever.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jason Guerrasio)0