PARSING CANNES ' DIRECTOR'S FORTNIGHT
The last major segment of films for the 69th Cannes Film Fest was announced earlier this week as the fest announced films selected for its Director's Fortnight program. The films that seemed to have the most initial Telluride potential (based on past T-ride selections) would seem to be:
Paul Schrader's Dog Eat Dog
Pablo Larrain's Neruda and
Alejandro Jodorowsky's Endless Poetry
I have linked coverage of the Director's Fortnight announcement from Indiewire here:
Meanwhile, I missed this last week. Director Eran Korilin, who appeared at Telluride in 2007 with The Band's Visit has new film in the Un Certain Regard section, which, because of the reception Band's Visit received nine years ago, must be considered a serious SHOW prospect. The film is titled Beyond the Mountains and the Hills.
CALLING ALL FILM MAKERS
The word went out earlier this week...The Telluride Film Festival has opened its film submission period. Here's the text of the announcement:
BERKELEY, CA – Telluride Film Festival (September 2-5,
2016), presented by National Film Preserve, Ltd. announces its Call for Entries
in all categories including student, short and feature length films.
Submission period begins April 15, 2016. Film Entry
Form is available on the TFF website: www.telluridefilmfestival.org.
Shorts and student film submissions must be received
no later than 5:00 PM, July 1, 2016. Feature film submissions must be received
no later than 5:00 PM, July 15, 2016. All submissions must have been completed
after July 15, 2015 and no works in progress will be accepted. Feature-length
films (60 minutes or longer) will only be considered if they are to have their
first North American screening at Telluride Film Festival. Final program
determinations will be made by August 1, 2016. No early or late entries will be
accepted.
Professional and amateur filmmakers working in all
aesthetic disciplines and genres including narrative, documentary, animation
and experimental are welcome.
Each year Telluride Film Festival plays host to an
average of 25 feature films and 25 shorts and student films. Films selected to
screen at Telluride Film Festival will be shown out-of-competition. TFF is not
a competitive festival.
For more information visit www.telluridefilmfestival.org
AWARDS DAILY TALKS TELLURIDE (AND SOME OTHER FILM FESTS)
Awards Daily's Sasha Stone posted a detailed piece yesterday focusing on four film fests and their Oscar footprint: Telluride, Cannes, Venice and Toronto. It's interesting and says a number of the same things that I write in this space from time to time. Take a look:
http://linkis.com/www.awardsdaily.com/p9pZU
That's a wrap for Thursday. More to come on Monday...have a great weekend.
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