Film Festival Circuit
SEFF Secures Spanish Releases for all Competition Winners
With the release of Malcolm Venville’s 44 Inch Chest on Friday 3 September, Seville European Film Festival has remained true to its commitment of ensuring that every Festival prizewinning film is secured a domestic...
Ghent to Open with Madly in Love and World Soundtrack Discovery Nominees Announced
The 37th edition of the Ghent Film Festival, which runs from 12-23 October, will open with Hilde Van Mieghem’s romantic comedy, Madly in Love. The film looks at the lives of four strong women, from a teenager and her...
Jim Jarmusch and Docs aplenty at RIFF 2010
One of American Independent cinema’s icons, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch will attend this year’s Reykjavik International Film Festival, which runs from 23 September – 3 October. The director of Stranger Than Paradise, Down...
Sheffield Doc/Fest to open with Joan Rivers
Doc/Fest has announced that it will open this year’s festival, which begins on 3 November, with Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg ‘s entertaining profile of the American comedienne, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. The...
Filmgate
Production Spotlight: Filmgate
One of the most prominent European post-production houses operating today, Swedish-based Filmgate have been involved in a slew of commercially successful and critically acclaimed features, both at home and internationally. In the past four years, Filmgate has worked on over 30 feature films in nine countries, ranging from mainstream to art-house releases. The company is the brainchild of Håkan Blomdahl, Andreas Hylander, Markus Hejdenberg and CEO Sean Wheelan, who explains why Filmgate...
IFG Spotlight: From the Past and into the Future
An Interview with Sean Wheelan, Filmgate CEO Filmgate has now been in existence for four years. How do you feel it has developed in that time? We have to be happy! We have worked very hard to get to, what we feel is, a very promising position to build from. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to state that no VFX/post production company in Sweden has achieved, comparatively, what we have done in such a relatively short period of time. When we think of the productions and directors we have...
International Film News
IFG Readers offered 25% off The Media Festival Arts
The Media Festival Arts, which runs from 8-10 September 2010, promises to address the critical questions facing arts, film and media businesses at a time of widespread change. As the new government beds in, and announces cuts, restructuring and...
UK Film Council to be Abolished
The UK government announced that as part of its cost cutting plans in order to reduce the national deficit, the UK Film Council would be abolished. Along with many other government-related or funded organisations, the Culture Secretary Jeremy...
Power to the Pixel Returns
Power to the Pixel have announced that they are now receiving applications to find 20 of the world’s best cross-media projects for The Pixel Market, which takes place at the annual Power to the Pixel Cross-Media Forum on 12–15 October, 2010. The...
World Survey
World Survey
A survey of the film culture and output in 123 countries, as reported by our network of correspondents around the world.
DVD Review
Flicker Alley
(Region 1) Silent and pre-sound cinema is lovingly brought to life by Flicker Alley. As Jeff Masino, who founded the company in 2002, has stated, it ‘was born out of a passion for film history and a desire to bring...
Country Focus
ISRAEL
With the worldwide success of the Israeli animation documentary WALTZ WITH BASHIR, contributing writer Dan Fainaru surveys the Israeli film industry and finds a prolific production bonanza of films and talents.
IFG Award
Florin Serban wins at Zlin International Film Festival for Children and Youth
This year saw the partnership between Zlin International Film Festival for Children and Youth and the International Film Guide expand into the awards section, where the European Debuts Competition was sponsored by...
