The 2012 SXSW Film Festival has finally announced their full film schedule, after much anticipation! South By Southwest is an extravaganza of events including music, and interactive schedules but we like to think of it as just a film festival with music and interactive backup. Regardless, here is the single list, featuring a [...]

In case you missed it, here is a recap of all the jury prizes awarded at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The festival ran from January 20, 2012 – January 26, 2012 and award prizes on closing day.
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Audience Award for Feature Documentary: Getting Up by Caskey Ebeling
Audience Award for Feature [...]

Texas is taking film festival locales and big name busting to a whole new level with the announcement of the Corpus Christi Film Festival affectionately dubbed Crash The Coast! Taking place around 200 miles from SXSW, the Crash The Coast Film Fest is the brain child of the Corpus Christi Film Society which is [...]

Stephanie Allain, known most notably for her role as producer to Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan, will be taking the helm as director of the LA Film Festival.
She succeeds Rebecca Yeldham, who voluntarily left her position for personal reasons. Stephanie will be working closely with Festival Managing Director Gloria Campbell and Festival [...]

The South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival and Music Convention is less than two months away! The festival is charging ahead with its release of its all-star panel list, featuring familiar faces across several industries. Here is the released list, which is sure to have at least one face for every interest group:
Renowned [...]

Oren Peli, director of Paranormal Activity which played at the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival, sits down with Slamdance to discuss resourcefulness in filmmaking.
Paranormal Activity takes the cake for low risk, high reward films with a budget of $11,000 that yielded a following and payout of over $500 million. Surely, if anyone has the insight to [...]

After seeing an interesting article by Reuters who sat down with John Cooper, director/chief programmer of the Sundance Film Festival, a few things crossed my mind when considering how the phenomenon of Sundance as well as other festivals projects onto the many tones of the film industry.
When asked how he felt the relationship between Hollywood [...]

The YouTube venture into the film festival arena, Your Film Festival, will accept submissions of short films (less than 15 minutes) from February 2, 2012 – March 31, 2012. The fifty semi-finalists will be chosen by Scott Free Productions.
The contest presents a great opportunity for creative minds everywhere as the genre can be of any [...]

Film critic and journalist Marshall Fine writes about movies at the website Hollywood & Fine (www.hollywoodandfine.com). He serves as freelance film/TV critic for Star magazine.
The Huffington Post takes a great look at the daunting task of Sundance in this piece by Marshall Fine, as the grand festival is creeping up on us all. Continuing [...]

The Miami International Film Festival is a month or so off but there’s no reason to not be pumped for all the cinematic action coming your way! With scheduling by Festival Genius, MIFF has released its full film lineup today along with the ability to sign up for pre and post festival parties/events! [...]