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 [...]

The Focus Forward Filmmaker Challenge is giving away a whopping $200,000 in cash prizes to the top five three-minute nonfiction film entries surrounding the theme of invention and innovation. You have until August 23rd to submit your film in the hopes of the $100,000 grand prize. First announced at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the [...]

The Independent Film Center will be screening the infamous and very rare 35mm print of the Italian film Salo, Or the 120 Days of Sodom as a part of their Queer/Art Summer film series on June 11th at 8 pm. The screening will be preceded by an introduction by producer Peter Cramer and actor Jack [...]

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 [...]

With websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, which both claim to be the world’s largest funding platform, jumpstarting a personal project has been made as easy as clicking a button: so long as others click that button as well. Instead of dealing with pesky bank loans and other financial nightmares, the power of investment has been [...]