Bartosz Nowacki's film On the Road is qualified for the 21st edition of L.A. SHORTS in Los Angeles.

LA Shorts International Film Festival ranks among the most prestigious and largest international short film festivals in the world. The festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (ACCT) presenters of the Canadian Screen Awards.

In past years, a total of 50 LA Shorts filmmakers have earned Academy Award nominations, with 15 taking home the Oscar.

On the Road cast: Magdalena Boczarska, Szymon Bobrowski, Adam Bobik, Przemysław Bluszcz and Jakub Papuga.

Film was written and directed by: Bartosz Nowacki.
Director of photography: MichałSterzyński.

Production Company (Poland): ALISTAN

Co-producers (Poland): STERN PICTURES and POZNAN FILM COMMISSION regional film fund.

Those who have been honored at the festival include directors, Jon Favreau, Paul Haggis, Bryan Singer, Jan de Bont, Shane Black, and actors Gary Oldman, James Woods, Martin Landau and Richard Dreyfuss. Many recognized actors and directors have screened films and attended the festival such as Scarlett Johansson, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Courteney Cox, Tim Burton, Jason Reitman, Terry Gilliam, Spike Jonze, Eva Mendes, Jessica Biel, Rachel Weisz, Hilary Swank, Josh Brolin, Kirsten Dunst, Rita Wilson, Ralph Macchio, Ricky Gervais, Vin Diesel and many more.

The 21st annual LA Shorts International Film Festival will be held at L.A. LIVE Regal Cinemas and the Laemmle NoHo 7 Theatres.

Official website of the film: http://nadrodzefilm.pl

Official festival website: http://lashortsfest.com/content.asp?PageID=2

 

 

A collaboration of  Wrocław's T-Mobile New Horizons IFF and the European Film Academy (EFA), the 6th edition of 'A Sunday in the Country' gathers a dozen of young film journalists from Europe for a retretat/workshop in the first weekend of the festival. The participants gather for 3 days in a remote country house near Wrocław (Zagórze Śląskie on Bystrzyckie Lake) where they get to know each other, watch films and discuss them, meet special guests (filmmakers brought by the New Horizons) and talk about issues such as: What’s the responsibility, if there is one, of a critic towards (national) film productions? And towards the reader? What is the reality for film critics in different countries? They exchange their professional experiences and build international relations.

In 2017 A Sunday in the Country in Wrocław will take place during the 17th T-Mobile New Horizons IFF from August 5th till 8th.

For the 6th edition of the exceptional retreat-get-together 11 participants have been selected from 9 different countries: Austria (Franziska Bechtold), Denmark (Samina Jakobsen), the Netherlands (Hugo Emmerzael), Israel (Shani Kiniso), Germany (Karl-Leontin Beger), Portugal (Tiago Silva), Romania (Andra Petrescu) and Italy (Edoardo Becattini) and including 3 Poles: Piotr Czerkawski, Sebastian Smoliński and Patrycja Mucha.

They participants will work and network under the guidance of the established critic from the Austrian Celluloid Magdalena Miedl as well as co-ordinators of the New Horizons Association and EFA. They will meet established filmmakers-guests of the New Horizons FF, jury members Hadas Ben Aroya and Gaston Solnicki as well as the director of The Ornithologist Joao Pedro Rodrigues and author of78/52 documentary, Alexandre O. Philippe.

The event is supported by the Polish Film Institute, Austrian Cultural Forum, Camoes Institute, Danish Cultural Center, the Embassy of the Netherlands, Italian Cultural Institute, Romanian Institute of Culture, Polish Cultural Institutes in Berlin and Tel Aviv,blog.filmpolska.de, Kulturbrauerei e.V. and organized in collaboration with Krzysztof Mętrak Award for young critics.

 

BUCHAREST: Film and music piracy has seen a major reduction in Romania over the past five years due to the availability of cheaper legal audiovisual products and affordable applications.

GALAȚI: The first 12 D cinema in Romania opened in the Museum of National Science in Galați on 19 July 2017.

For the second year, New Nordic Films in Haugesund is proud to select a recipient of the Eurimages Lab Project Award. The award of 50 000 EUR is intended for the most promising cutting-edge feature film project (mainly fiction or hybrid) made outside traditional rules of film making, both in terms of form/narrative and production.

True to the Eurimages profile, the films must be an international collaboration in some way. A jury will select the recipient of the award among the presentations in our Work in Progress programme. 

See http://newnordicfilms.no/ for more information, or contact programme coordinator Aleksander Huser at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The call for eligible projects will close shortly.

SARAJEVO: Three world premieres and three debut features are among the seven titles selected for the main competition of the new edition of Sarajevo Film Festival, set to take place from 11 to 18 August 2017. 

COTTBUS: connecting cottbus is expanding the deadline for its new section Work in Progress to 30 August 2017.

PULA: Twelve Croatian feature films are competing for Golden Arenas in the main competition programme of the 64th Pula Film Festival, which takes place from 15 to 22 July 2017.

Czech director Andrea Culková is developing the documentary Testosterone Story.

Sarajevo Film Festival proudly presents Competition Programme - Documentary Film.

Important stories, new voices, relevant debates – all are to be found in our selection of fourteen films.

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