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19th April
Perfect Strangers is named as Best Film. Just one David went to Don’t Be Bad, whilst Youth was awarded for its score
19th April
The festival, which kicks off on 20 April, includes retrospectives on Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven and French actor-director Vincent Macaigne
18th April
Cristian Mungiu, Cristi Puiu and newcomer Bogdan Mirică have the chance to win awards on the Croisette
18th April
MIDPOINT rounds up seven European television projects in order to polish their development
18th April
Julia Ducournau, Óliver Laxe, Mehmet Can Mertoglu and Davy Chou are in competition, while Justine Triet, Alessandro Comodin and Jean-Christophe Meurisse are out of competition
18th April
The Danish director’s thriller The Neon Demon – “a Danish cannibal horror film involving top models” – is the only Scandinavian feature in this year’s Cannes competition
18th April
The 20th edition of the ColCoa (City of Lights, City of Angels) Festival kicks off today in Los Angeles and lasts nine days
18th April
The German films at this year’s Cannes include Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, the first German feature in competition since Wim Wenders’ Palermo Shooting in 2008
18th April
Once again, the Dardennes’ new film (The Unknown Girl) has been selected, in addition to four co-productions by Les Films du Fleuve
18th April
The 21st Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris ended last week by announcing its winners
15th April
Delphine and Muriel Coulin with The Stopover and Stéphanie Di Giusto with The Dancer will make their debuts in the official selection
15th April
The Swiss doc festival has scheduled the world premiere of I’m Not from Here by Giedrė Žickytė and Maite Alberdi
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'The Film Festival Academy has my full support. It is amazing that in a market overflowing with all kinds of professional training it has taken until today to come up with a simple and great idea: high level opportunities for the exchange of ideas and programmes for learning more about the complex art and the technical skills of running a film festival. Anybody who has participated in any of the rather dubious endeavours that were made in this field before will appreciate the non-profit approach of the Film Festival Academy; anybody who knows its founders will trust their professional knowledge and personal integrity. I will support the Film Festival Academy in every possible way.'
'The creation of the Film Festival Academy is a very important step in the ongoing process of consolidation and exchange on the European festival scene. I wish all possible success to this important initiative.'
'To focus on film festivals, not in opposition to but in articulation with critical and scholarly thought, is what world cinema needs in order to be understood in all its complexity. The Film Festival Academy deserves our applause and support for providing, for the first time, a common platform for festival professionals, critics and passionate spectators.'
'The Film Festival Academy offers a much needed interchange of views between filmmakers, festival programmers and academics doing research on film festivals. That this interchange takes place not in the academy but at festivals themselves will be a huge boon to film festival scholarship and to an important sharing and deepening of the perspective of those interested in not only theorizing but also intervening in the continued growth of these events which play such a crucial part in the disseminating of a global cinema and in the breaking down of commerical barriers.'
'The role of the film festival in today's digital world is constantly being re-evaluated and debated, but it's clear that film festivals are still as relevant and important as they have ever been. The Film Festival Academy should provide an important focus for the rich and diverse amount of film festivals in the world while giving festival practitioners an important outlet for networking and collaboration.'
'The inauguration of the Film Festival Academy brings important and long overdue attention to film festivals as cultural locations for the traffic in filmmaking, from glitterati events with red carpets, to those that shed light on human rights abuses, to the world-building projects of activist communities.'
'Do Film Festivals need an Academy in this day and age? The answer is, resoundingly, yes! A complex mixture of the professional and the cultural, the economic and the cinephilic, film festivals today are increasingly complex beasts – and no festival is an island unto itself. Connected in a tight web of international exchanges, comparisons and manœuvres, festivals are all about giving value to particular films or particular types of films – and finding, or creating, the audiences for them. The new Film Festival Academy is ideally placed to integrate the already widely scattered field of researches, discussions, trainings and co-operative interrelationships occurring within and between the literally thousands of film festivals in the modern globe. It is a new world on every level – from the challenge of projection formats to the politics of curating – and the Film Festival Academy will open the doors to it.'
'The Film Festival Academy has a great potential to become a truly valid platform for creative film festival professionals willing to share knowledge and experience on a collaborative basis. This initiative should be welcomed with enthusiasm and excitement.'
'The enormous growth of film festivals – in number, location, diversity, and artistic influence – is accelerating by the day. But not until now has their importance to global culture been matched by an organization with the cinematic acumen, media savvy, networking skills, and expert leadership needed to provide top-level support, training, information, and connectivity for participants in all areas of festival activity, from programmers and publicists to filmmakers, academics, and critics. The arrival of the Film Festival Academy is the most exciting development in years for moving-image professionals everywhere.'
'The new Film Festival Academy initiative is to be very much welcomed by all film festival professionals and anyone interested and involved in the increasingly central role played by film festivals in the international cinema industry; this is definitely the right thing at the right time and promises to be an exciting and important development that will be of great service to all of us working in the film festival arena.'
'The unswerving positive response from film festivals, professionals and academics regarding the launch of the Film Festival Academy comes as no surprise. Sharing between academia and industry is essential in developing highly-trained film professionals and we look forward to the collaboration between film schools, film institutes, festivals and other film industry partners through this unique platform.'
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