Wellington & Auckland - August 2008

The New Zealand Film Commission and the Screen Directors Guild of New
Zealand are pleased to announce Tom Abrams, an award-winning director and
writer in both film and television and will be holding two intensive 3 day
workshops in Wellington (Mon 11/Tue 12/Wed 13) and Auckland (Sat 16/Sun
17/Mon 18) in August.

ABOUT TOM
For the last 15 years, Abrams has taught filmmaking internationally and consulted on projects in more than 20 countries. As a writer, he shared a 1992 Emmy Award for the children's television series, Rugrats, and his short film Shoeshine (1987) was nominated for an Academy Award
and received the Montreal World Film Festival first prize. 1989's Performance Pieces won a special award at that year's Cannes International Film Festival. His projects include
The Desperate Trail (1995) for TNT, Conversations With The Beast (1995, co-written with Armin Mueller-Stahl), The American Princess (2000) for New Line Cinema, The Captain’s Wife for Fox 2000, Have Gun Will Travel for Warner Bros and The Battle of Ono for Executive Producer John Woo at Universal.

WORKSHOP CONTENT

The next International Environmental Film Festival organised by the Ile de France Region will occur in Paris in the Cinema La Pagode from the 19th to the 25th November 2008.

Previous editions festivals have screened features films, documentaries and short films dealing with ecology, sustainable development, global warming, urbanism, evolution of the world ...
The following films have premiered at our festival, Darwin's Nightmare, Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko, Lost in Translation, Sisters In Law, Arbres, Microcosmos, Terres et cendres, Winged Migration, Our Daily Bread, En El Hoyo, Ironeaters, Sharkwater...

Screenings give producers, directors and actors, the opportunity and chance to discuss the film with the audience.
The jury members come from different professional backgrounds: directors, journalists, artists, scientists, all concerned by environmental issues, attended the Festival (Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Michel Jarre, Allain Bougrain Dubourg , Tom Novembre, Jean Becker , Humbert Balsan...).

The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival is hosting a short film competition to focus on the human action of climate change. Thousands of dollars worth of prizes are up for grabs. Entries are due 15th August. For more information visit http://www.hraff.org.au/

Australia.

The TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund will provide up to $140,000 in support of innovative and compelling filmmaking that explores scientific, mathematical, and technological themes and storylines, or a leading character who is a scientist, engineer, innovator or mathematician in fresh ways.

We are seeking exceptional narrative work of all genres (except science fiction or fantasy) with scientifically accurate themes or characters.
Selected projects from eligible directors, screenwriters and producers will be announced in Fall 2008 and highlighted at the Tribeca Film Festival in May 2009. In addition to funding, grantees will receive professional guidance and industry exposure as needed.

Apply Now! Deadline is August 1, 2008.
Visit www.tribecafilminstitute.org/sloan for complete details.

Presented by Women in Film and Television (WIFT) NSW, Australia, the 15th WOW Film Festival is calling for entries.

Screening 1 & 2 October 2008 in Sydney , Australia
Travelling to over 20 locations in Australia & overseas

Earlybird entries end: 16th of June 2008
Regular entry closing date: 16th of July 2008
Late entry closing date: 30th July 2008

Discounted ENTRY FEE for ALL WIFT MEMBERS around the World!

Download Guidelines and Entry Form from www.nsw.wift.org/wow

Short films up to 55 minutes, any genre:

FICTION | DOCUMENTARY | ANIMATION | MUSIC VIDEO | STUDENT FILM

with key creative input by women. Woman DIRECTOR OR women in any TWO of these roles:

PRODUCER, WRITER, EDITOR or CINEMATOGRAPHER

Special Award for BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM!
Exciting prizes to the value of over $16,000 are being offered by our sponsors for category winners.

ENQUIRIES: Sil-Nyin Cameron, Festival Director
email: wowfilmfestival@nsw.wift.org or ph/ text 0402 246 601

Call For Entries: March 19-27, 2009

"A true United Nations of cinema, showcasing films from around the entire world" VIA Magazine

The 8th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival (TIFF) will be held March 19-27, 2009 in Tiburon , California , a showcase for the independent films and filmmakers from around the world.

Submissions are open to all genres of film: Fiction, documentary, short, animation, experimental, student, children, sports, music video.....from any nation in the world.

TIFF screened more than 200 films from 92 countries in March of 2008 from over 3000 entries.

The festival has honored many great filmmakers: Orson Welles, Sam Pekinpah, Luchino Visconti, Blake Edwards, Santiago Alvarez, John Frankenheimer, George Stevens, Brad Bird, Shirin Neshat, Malcolm McDowell, Saul Zaentz, Paul Mazursky, Mark Rydell, Bob Rafelson.....

The Film London Production Finance Market is a two-day event that focuses on facilitating face-to-face meetings between producers and financiers from the international marketplace and the UK to encourage and foster new financing relationships. The market also includes a key note address, workshops and networking events.

The pilot event (22-23 October 2007) attracted more than US$800 million of production value, and leading equity, hedge fund, tax, banking, public and broadcaster financiers.

This year's event has cross industry support from senior UK and European producers, The Times BFI London Film Festival, UK Film Council, and UK Regional and National Screen Agencies, and will bring more than 120 producers, financiers and new forms of investment together over a two-day period at the Hilton London Tower Bridge in the City of London.

Time flies when a deadline looms, and there is now only one month to submit your film for this year’s Show Me Shorts Film Festival.

Show Me Shorts is seeking films between three and thirty minutes long, made within the last three years. All genres are accepted so long as the film has a strong New Zealand or Australian component (i.e. be made in NZ/Oz or have NZ/Oz key creatives). The deadline this year is Monday 7 July.

This is a competitive festival with awards for Best Film, Best Student Film, Atlab Best Technical Contribution and Panavision Special Jury Prize.

Last year the Best Film award went to Kiwis Jeff and Phill Simmonds for ‘A Very Nice Honeymoon’. The previous year the winner was Australian Jannine Barnes for ‘Ray’. “While we’ve already received a substantial number of entries we’re always on the lookout for outstanding films,” says Festival Director Gina Dellabarca.