Isabella Rossellini presents Green Porno 2
Isabella Rossellini visits the IFC Center next Wednesday, April 1st at 7 pm, to present the theatrical premiere of the second season of her noted Green Porno short-film series, along with a special screening of The Flowers of St. Francis, directed by her father, the Italian master Roberto Rossellini, for a special Movie Night program.
HollyShorts looking to top ’08 event, which featured the work of Josh Brolin, Jessica Biel and David Arquette
On the heels of the most successful HollyShorts Film Festival to date, which honored acclaimed filmmakers David Lynch and Paul Haggis, with a showcase of short films from the likes of Josh Brolin, Jessica Biel and David Arquette, organizers recently announced the official call for entries for the 5th Annual festival event, which takes place ….
Trailer for indie short Beautiful Exposure
I received a message with a trailer for a short-form thriller titled Beautiful Exposure, which follows a depressed photographer that gets back together with his ex girlfriend, who is a model, for one last photo shoot. From the looks of the trailer, it looks like the shoot turns out bad for somebody. Beautiful Exposure was ….
Enter your short or animation and win a trip to Beijing and cash from Adobe
I wish this was a FilmFetish.com sponsored contest, but alas… This one is sponsored by Adobe, and it’s for full-time film and design students working in a variety of formats, including short film, animation, motion graphics and much more. The 2009 Adobe Design Achievement Awards gives higher education students from around the globe the chance ….
Have Paul Haggis and Barry Sonnenfeld screen your short film
No joke. Apple Computer is again sponsoring the Insomnia Film Festival, where filmmaking teams can potentially have their self-produced short films screened by industry heavy-hitters, including John August, Doug Ellin, Jody Hill, Masi Oka, Jason Bateman, Paul Haggis, Greg Mottola and Barry Sonnenfeld. If your movie makes the top 25 picked from online voting, you ….
Demo scene from Stephen King’s The Talisman feature
I found this great scene for a proposed film version of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s book The Talisman. Mathieu Ratthe, who directed the scene, says his main objective for creating the piece was to demonstrate his directing ability and vision to Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, who own the feature film rights to the ….
Watch full length features from Austin’s Fantastic Fest for free online
Place this one on your calendars. As I was posting my story about the Conquest of the Planet of the Apes screening at Fantastic Fest, I read one of their releases that stated festival sponsors are placing five feature films and six shorts from this year’s festival online for free streaming, starting on September 14, ….
In Time film review
(Reviewed as part of the Short Film Competition at Sundance 2005) In Time is a short film about a modern day African family living in the U.S. It’s based around a mother and her two daughters. One of the daughters is engaged to be married to a young man from their native country. The mother, ….
NBC Seeks Diversity for Short Cuts Film Fest
Furthering its commitment to providing ongoing aid and opportunities to filmmakers of all cultures, Withoutabox, the market-leading network for independent filmmakers, has teamed up with NBC Universal’s Talent Diversity Initiative for the first annual Comedy Short Cuts Film Festival. NBC Universal tapped Withoutabox’s newly launched social networking platform AUDIENCE to help solicit top-quality submissions, and ….