The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) will celebrate its 20th anniversary in grand style with a string of highly-anticipated films. The festival will kick off festivities with a star-studded Opening Night Gala on Thursday, February 9, 2012. First up: The Los Angeles premiere of “Think Like a Man,” based on the New York Times best-selling [...]

Cinekink holds the indie torch in the most – well – kink way possible! Celebrating independent thinking in every way, this NYC festival promises a wide range of films with a centralized theme of – well – everything kinky! Here is a short synopsis of the festival from Cinekink: Celebrating and exploring a wide diversity [...]

ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival is the largest festival in the country dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different abilities. Initiated in NY in 2007, the festival presents award winning films by and about people with disabilities in multiple locations throughout each hosting city. Post-screening [...]

The 8th NYBFF kicks off Tues, Feb 21 through Sat, Feb 25, 2012, at the world-renown Tribeca Cinemas. For the 8th time NYBFF brings the best of the recent Bulgarian cinema to an international audience in New York City. This year for a first time the Festival will be presented by the organizers of So [...]

San Francisco Independent Film Festival begins Thursday with an opening party that would set any indie crowd on fire with excitement! The list of performances can be found on the festival’s Festival Genius webpage, but we’ve parsed it here as well. If you’re already going then you can look forward to performances by LIVE EVIL [...]

Bassist and co-founder of the popular band Mötley Crüe Nikki Sixx is teaming up with P. R. Brown in a film sure to reflect the cast it has required. P.R. Brown is a Grammy nominated commercial and music video director. He started his career as a graphic designer and photographer working on album packages for [...]

A seamless combination of the innovative qualities of both genres, Concrete Circus fosters and develops the genres of sport and film into a aesthetically titillating documentary that showcases the lives of amazing athletes and the filmmakers that vy to match their passion with those athletes. The athletes in question are a mixed bunch, all with [...]

More news out of the Academy Awards as we enter February and approach the 2012 Cinematic Super Bowl that is this award show! Halle Berry will present at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced today. Berry won an Oscar® in 2001 for her lead performance in “Monster’s Ball.” [...]

Today is the day! Your Film Festival, You Tube’s challenge to filmmakers the world over to tell a compelling and deeply enriching story in 15 minutes or less, is now taking submissions on what is sure to be the most innovative approach in online video cinema to date. The details are simple: create a video [...]

Film Independent recently announced the six filmmakers who were selected for the 11th Annual Film Independent Directing Labs. The Directing Lab is an intensive nine-week program in Los Angeles, designed to assist directors with strong, original voices develop new narrative feature films, improve their craft, and advance their filmmaking careers in a nurturing yet challenging [...]