There are some really exciting film events being planned around the national political conventions! Yesterday the Impact Film Festival announced their line-up of films. About the festival (from the website):
Impact Film Festival is a four-day event held during the 2008 Democratic and Republican Conventions in Denver and Minneapolis. IFF will showcase two to three socially-themed […]

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It still surprises me that there are filmmakers unfamiliar with Withoutabox.com, the film festival submission site. You enter all of the information about your project and it allows you to select the festival you wish to submit to, you pay your entry fee and the festival gets access to all of that information you entered. […]

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Nikki Finke is reporting that the fire at Universal has destroyed a library of archival film prints.
“…In the short term, Universal has canceled bookings of anything archival coming directly from Universal City and can’t honor any film bookings of prints that were set to ship from there. Let me be clear: I am assured by insiders that the negatives […]

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Documentary Voices: Pulling Focus, the first ever United Arab Emirate-area initiative to focus strictly on documentary films, will premiere in Dubai, UAE, July 4 - 8, 2008. Screenings and workshops will be held at Knowledge Village, Dubai’s state-of-the-art destination for educational opportunities. Documentary Voices: Pulling Focus will highlight perspectives on culture, society and […]

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Before it tours the world, I caught the Thursday night sold-out world premiere screening of the 8th Annual Media That Matters Film Festival presented by Arts Engine at the IFC Center. Tonight’s screening at the Tribeca Cinemas is nearly sold-out, too, but I’m told there are some tickets left for a lucky few. […]

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