The Los Angeles Film Festival announced the jury and audience award winners for the 2012 Festival at the Awards Brunch. The Narrative Award recognizes the finest narrative film in competition at the Festival and went to Pocas Pascoal for the North American Premiere of All is Well, with an Honorable Mention going to Dominga Sotomayor’s [...]

Check out the trailer for one of this week’s features at Rooftop Films: An Oversimplification of Her Beauty! For more info on this film head over to the Rooftop Films event page.

Brooklyn’s Northside Festival kicks off tomorrow with a series of entrepreneurship seminars hosted by leaders in the art, music, and film world. The series stretches out until Friday and hopes to target the question, “What’s next?” in innovation and entrepreneurship. The seminars cover innovation, design, software development, music, and films while showcasing the latest technology [...]

Established in 1947, the Edinburgh International Film Festival is renowned around the world for discovering and promoting the very best in international cinema – and for heralding and debating changes in global filmmaking. Here’s a teaser video released recently that will get you even more excited about this year’s EIFF! EIFF runs from June 20, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]