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| Deauville opens without celebs |
Festival opened this friday with less than stellar guest list!
Public System who runs the show hoped to be smart avoiding the dates clash with Venice though.
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| Sarajevo Film Fest wrapped its 9 day long 14th edition |
Over nine days, the Sarajevo festival — born in a sandbag-protected basement during the Bosnian war — showed 174 movies from 40 countries. The Sarajevo Film Festival was first time launched near the end of the war and grew into the biggest regional film competition. Festival aims to support and promote cinema and authors in Southeast Europe and lately it attracts over 100,000 people. This year's festival welcomed big names such as Kevin Spacey, Mike Leigh, Charlie Kaufman, Sharon Mequire etc as well as regional stars and filmmakers.
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| August, 2008 NYIIFVF Festival Juice from LA! |
Filmmakers, artists and festival goers had a blast at the west coast edition of The New Yo rk International Independent Film and Video Festival (NYIIFVF). The 8-day indie film extravaganza opened at the Cabana Club with a packed networking party and film/art market planned by Annalisa San Juan. An interesting fusion of filmmakers, artists, actors, screenwriters from all over the globe mingled, celebrated and pitched their projects with some managing to intrigue press and eagle-eyed distributors searching for the next lucrative television deal.
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| Venice International Film Festival line up |
The 65th Venice International Film Festival, organised by the Venice Biennale, will take place at Venice Lido from August 27th to September 6th 2008. The aim of the Festival is to encourage the awareness and the promotion of all the various aspects of international cinema as art, entertainment and industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance.
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