Red is a low-budget psychological thriller that will be shot in San Francisco and released worldwide.  Starring Jodelle Ferland of Twilight: Eclipse and Silent Hill, the film is the debut feature effort of Films by Neptune, a dynamic new production company based in San Francisco. Red will be distributed by RSquared Distribution. Based on the classic fairytale Little Red Riding Hood, Films [...]

Cornwall Council today announced it is helping to boost Cornwall’s film industry, by securing a £1.2 million injection of European funding. The €1.5million from EU-funded programme Interreg will help set up the Cross Channel Film Lab 2, a £2.4million research and development project designed to help filmmakers make the most of modern technology. The project [...]

Two of our acclaimed documentaries about Brooklyn, Last Summer at Coney Island and Up on the Roof, will be airing on Channel Thirteen/WNET and other PBS stations; both films are by documentary filmmaker JL Aronson of Creative Arson Productions. Here’s a little about each film: Last Summer at Coney Island (93 min on DVD, 57 [...]

AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival, created through a unique alliance between the American Film Institute and Discovery Communications, today announced highlights of its International Documentary Conference taking place June 19-23, 2012 in the Washington, D.C. metro area. The Conference provides five full days of essential discussion, professional development and cutting-edge market intelligence, with over 50 [...]

Open Road Rooftop is home to Rooftop Films’ event tonight, complete with Matthew Lillard’s Fat Kid Rules The World and EULA EULA! EULA EULA is a 3-piece outfit found in Brooklyn, NY; Nate is the pants, Alyse is the blouse, and Jeff is the cummerbund. They taste like post-punk-pre-historic-medium-gauge-no-wave, with a splash of lemon.  Lillard will [...]

Today the Los Angeles Film Festival, in conjunction with Presenting Media Sponsor the Los Angeles Times and Host Partner L.A. LIVE, announced its jurors for the 2012 Festival, which runs Thursday, June 14 to Sunday, June 24 in downtown Los Angeles. The narrative jury consists of Film Independent Spirit Award-nominated actress Rachael Harris (Natural Selection, [...]

Just a reminder: Silverdocs is quickly approaching with a spectacular slate of documentary films (as always) and a very special Guggenheim Symposium to honor Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky are leading voices in American nonfiction cinema. Over the course of their two decades of work, the filmmakers have demonstrated a [...]

Don’t miss the world premiere of Pincus, a film by David Fenster starring David Nordstrom and Paul Fenster, at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival!  The film will be featured in the Narrative Competition. A little about the film: Pincus Finster is in way over his head: trying to find a way to stall his father’s Parkinson’s, halfheartedly [...]

The Crossroads Film Society will hold a special one-time-only showing of “MARLEY,” the newly-released documentary by filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland”) on the life of the legendary singer/songwriter Bob Marley.  The film is currently in limited release nationwide.  For more information about the film, click here.        Thursday, June 14, 2012 [...]

Submissions are now being accepted for the Cinequest Screenwriting Competition. A $5,000 top prize will be awarded to the winner of this years competition. Festival expert Chris Gore named Cinequest one of the “best festivals for screenwriters” in the latest edition of his Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide (Testimonials). Follow the link to submit your screenplay to Cinequest. [...]