The Blue Water Film Festival (BWFF) announced recently the two winning students of its Video Public Service Announcement Contest. Steve Rhein, a 2012 graduate of St. Clair High School and St. Clair TEC and Juleana Cain, a senior at St. Clair High School and St. Clair TEC have both won $5,000 scholarships to attend the [...]

Itching for a way to watch AMC’s explosive series, Breaking Bad, that is NOT on a 13 inch computer monitor? Nitehawk Cinema has you covered! They will be hosting FREE screenings for the entire 5th season every Sunday at 10pm in their lobby. Following the success of their Sunday night Mad Men screenings, Nitehawk will [...]

With a view to facilitating the access of the film industry to the Cantonese film markets in Guangdong Province and neighbouring areas, the Hong Kong Film Development Council (FDC) has helped secure the enhancementof the measure under the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement to lift the quota and allow synchronised release of [...]

Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) today announced the continuation of Artistic Director Chris Fujiwara’s tenure, initially for a further three years. The appointment was announced following 2012’s successful EIFF that saw admissions of just over 40,000 across the 12-day event. The 66th EIFF, Fujiwara’s first Festival as Artistic Director, hosted an international programme with 120 diverse [...]

CALL FOR ENTRIES Submissions are now being accepted for the 9th Annual Big Apple Film Festival.  The festival will screen a variety of specially selected film from the New York City independent film community, as well as additional selections from across the country and around the world. The festival includes New York City premieres, interactive [...]

By popular demand the documentary Birth Story will have an additional screening at Los Angeles Film Festival! The documentary Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin And The Farm Midwives tells the story of counterculture heroine Ina May Gaskin and her spirited friends, who began delivering each other’s babies in 1970, on a caravan of hippie school buses, headed [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Rooftop Films presents a lineup going into the summer that’s sure to get you pumped for film and, of course, the fun of the outdoors (oh, how we love combining the outdoors and movies!). Coming up Thursday, June 7 is The Sheik and I, Co-Presented by Rooftop Films & SXSW. Here’s a little about the [...]

ÉCU’s festival partner, International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, is now open for submissions. Interested parties are invited to submit their entries no later than July 10th, 2012. The festival will take place at the Rialto Theatre in Limassol, October 13th through the 20th, 2012. The Ministry of Education and Culture and Rialto Theater announce that the [...]