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He's received major honours at some of the world's biggest film festivals and is regarded as one of America's most exciting filmmakers.

After being showcased in big film festivals like Sundance, Imperial Dreams very quickly fell off the radar after it wasn't picked up by a distributor.

Feeling more spontaneous and improvised than ever, this tale of chance encounters at a big film festival is easy on the eye and strewn with humorous gems, as it wryly reflects on the festival business and its denizens.

MUBI is heading to Cannes once again this year, with the world's biggest film festival taking over the subscription service to offer a collection of Croisette favourites.

The Muestra Internacional de Cine offers the best of the world's cinema and it is considered to be the city's most important film event, aside of the bigger film festivals.

I get asked a lot about what it's like to attend a big film festival.

Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Sony, Universal — all studios that have major films this year have decided to eschew the world's biggest film festival for whatever reason, giving us a much more esoteric and independent lineup.

It turns out the biggest film festival in the world can't resist the likes of X-Men, Jedi, and animated fairy tale characters.

On a film distributor's dime, when an actor rolls up in a sleek black SUV for an interview it's usually in the vicinity of a red carpet at a big film festival or in front of a swank hotel laden with free - loading junket journalists.

The 50th anniversary of Eastern Europe's biggest film festival gathers the elite, stars and offers in competition a satire that sends up neo-Nazi culture in Germany

With our 20th annual Ebertfest now in the rearview mirror, we are gearing up for the world's biggest film festival inching its way ever - closer on the horizon.

The UK's biggest film festival returns next month or its 61st edition, opening on Wednesday 4 October with the European premiere of Andy Serkis» sterling directorial debut, Breathe, and closing 11 days later with the UK premiere of Martin McDonagh's latest black comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Sam is one of the stars heading for Edinburgh Samantha Morton, Bob Hoskins and Tilda Swinton will be among the famous names jetting in for Britain's biggest film festival next month.

Not exact matches

Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand with big events.

Essence's wildly popular Essence Festival, held in New Orleans and featured prominently in last year's summer film Girls Trip, is the biggest magazine - sponsored festival in the world.

Unlike other festivals that screen films in the hopes of getting a bigger distribution deal, Ellison's crew plans to use social media and other tech to turn these films into year round events, it says.

Keep in mind last year at Sundance, we produced the film that won the jury prize [«I Don't Feel at Home In This World Anymore»], and we acquired «Mudbound» in the biggest acquisition of the festival.

«We have had films like Tunde Kelani's Abeni feature at the festival as well as Half of a Yellow Sun, which is a collaboration between Nigeria and the UK, but I think this is an opportunity to do more and to go bigger.

Here you will find all videos related to the Brave New Voices festival, the Off / Page Project, the Bigger Picture, Raise Up Project, Life is Living, and other films from Youth Speaks» local and national programming.

Sobering the proceedings is a look back to last Sundance, where The Big Sick went on to gross nearly $ 40 million last year, and Wind River right behind it at $ 34 million to be the top - grossing prestige films of 2017, with both coming out of this festival.

It's gone down a storm with audiences at the big late - summer film festivals.

For those who don't know, most studios use the fall film festivals as a kind of launching pad for their big awards contenders.

The question now must be asked was Whiplash the perfect opening night film to celebrate this festivals big 30th Anniversary or was it just another mediocre film like the majority of films that have opened the festival in the past?

Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure is also too long, but it's bigger fault is that it borrows the central premise of Julia Loktev's far superior The Loneliest Planet (2011) and then turns that film's greatest strength — subtext expressed through ambiguous gestures — into pages and pages of festival - friendly, on - the - nose text.

Held April 26 - 29 at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre complex, Egyptian Theatre, Cinerama Dome and poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel, the classic movie marathon expanded this year to 120 films and events, «making it our biggest festival yet... creating four days of movie magic along Hollywood Boulevard,» said festival director Genevieve McGillicuddy.

If either of those films are a hit at Sundance, chances are they'll go on to even bigger things, because over the years the festival has become a formidable launching pad for actors, directors and their movies.

Below are some of the biggest trends shared between the 70 feature - length films playing at the festival this year.

The festival still is finalizing its competition film roster, but organizers won't find a bigger film than this one.

A film that premiered at Cannes in 2015 and made a big splash at festivals all the way through its 2016 US theatrical release, Green Room is among the most confident thrillers I've seen in many years.

Sundance remains perhaps the hippest film festival on the planet, and the best place to score a distribution deal with one of the big studios.

Even so, the biggest deal to come out of the festival was for an old - fashioned movie - movie, the spy thriller 355 that will star Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz and Lupita Nyong» o. Global Road Entertainment paid US$ 25 million for North American rights to the film.

It's one of the biggest dates in the international film festival calender, as both Hollywood and the international film industry at large take a keen interest in the new emerging acting and filmmaking talent featured at the festival.

There is a lot going on in this film and while it might be considered «too out there» for everyone to enjoy, I think this film will hit big with the film festival crowd especially those at SXSW.

America's premier film festival, held every January in the mountains of Utah, is too big and diverse for attendees to see all the same movies, let alone...

Some mixed signals with the traditional unveiling of the Cannes film festival's official selection: a very lively and effervescent list, with eight newcomers in competition and plenty of big names sidelined.

Otis at Monterey, with uncompressed stereo soundtracks Alternate soundtracks for all three films featuring 5.1 surround mixes by recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in DTS - HD Master Audio Two hours of performances not included in Monterey Pop, from the Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Blues Project, Buffalo Springfield, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, the Electric Flag, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Al Kooper, the Mamas and the Papas, the Steve Miller Blues Band, Moby Grape, Laura Nyro, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simon and Garfunkel, Tiny Tim, and the Who Audio commentaries from 2002 featuring Pennebaker, festival producer Lou Adler, and music critics Charles Shaar Murray and Peter Guralnick New interviews with Adler and Pennebaker Chiefs (1968), a short film by Richard Leacock, which played alongside Monterey Pop in theaters Interviews from 2002 with Adler and Pennebaker and with Phil Walden, Otis Redding's manager 1987 interview with Pete Townshend on Monterey and Jimi Hendrix Audio interviews with festival producer John Phillips, festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby Photo - essay by Elaine Mayes Festival scrapbook Trailers and radio spots PLUS: A book featuring essays by critics Michael Chaiken, Armond White, David Fricke, Barney Hoskyns, and Michael Lydon

In recent years, the Telluride, Venice, and New York festivals had poached some big titles from Toronto, and TIFF is now making an effort to reward films that hold their premieres for the trip north.

As Tribeca begins and ahead of Sundance London, our critics examine the big hitters on the film festival circuit

Woody Allen) Cast: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, Louis C.K. Over the years, eleven of Woody Allen «s films have shown at Cannes (five opening the festival, including most recently «Midnight In Paris «-RRB-, with some of his biggest latter - day successes unspooling.

The movie was on track to become one of the biggest movies in the Toronto film festival.

In a festival that is never short on big films from big directors, Much Loved was a true discovery.

SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: The festival's big «Centerpiece» presentation, The Wackness, came out of Sundance with a lot FESTIVAL: The festival's big «Centerpiece» presentation, The Wackness, came out of Sundance with a lot festival's big «Centerpiece» presentation, The Wackness, came out of Sundance with a lot of buzz.

MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES EXPECTED GUESTS FESTIVAL DATES ~ OCTOBER 6 — 16, 2016 Some of Hollywood's biggest stars will be appearing at the 39th Mill Valley Film Festival this year, including Oscar winner Nicole Kidman and Oscar nominees Annette Bening, Amy Adams and Emma Stone.

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: When it comes to cinema, there are often little gems in a sea of bigger spectacles, that can break through in the most proficient way.

TIFF doesn't go overboard with awards, but because it is a public festival in the middle of a big city, the Audience Award is one of the most important awards they give out because it not only indicates which film is truly spectacular, but it means it also plays very well with general audiences.

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Programmer Colin Geddes tends to launch some big genre films every year, with past festivals premiering films like You're Next, Insidious, The Raid: Redemption and Oculus.

Having a big Hollywood film is part of the tradition of the festival, what our audiences expect.

Two big festival films go head to head this weekend in limited release.