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The Winter Film Awards and Film Festival Debuts
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- Published on Saturday, 04 February 2012 22:31
- Written by Stephan Powell
The inaugural Winter Film Awards and Film Festival takes place in New York City, February 9th to the 12th, 2012. This event reverses the usual circumstances of combined awards and festival in that the awards are not being present specifically for eligible fest films but for the best of the industry for the previous year of 2011.
Scheduled to be held in Manhattan, the Roy Arias Studios (300 W. 43rd St.) is the event’s primary location.
The Winter Film Awards both promotes and showcases not only new and old talent, but also those making a name in the New York film festival scene. It welcomes people of all backgrounds for a fun time that you will never forget.
Besides the awards for the established indie film industry, there will be screenings of movies being judged at this year's festival.
Several examples are listed below:
The Three Way
This feature film is about relationships, what may or may not go bad and the consequences of that.
Time Again
Here is a feature film that provides action through a science fiction scenario about getting a second chance to make things right which is a wild ride for all.
Fast Talk - When Words Will Leave You Breathless
This documentary about debate teams shows that there are more important things than competition.
EMANNzipation
Of the foreign films, this feature length production is about great pain, uncommon issues, and the "light at the end of the tunnel."
The Awards Show will take place on Sunday, Feb. 12th on American Primetime Television or APTV.
The specific locations to be announced for both The screenings will take place at the Roy Arias Studios (300 W 43rd. St.) while the locations for the awards show and parties have yet to be confirmed; pay attention to the website for updates.
Tickets range from $10 per individual screening to $100 for an all-access pass. Total access includes screenings, parties, awards show and after party.
The inaugural Winter Film Awards will not disappoint, at least in terms of its ambitions if nothing else.
For updates and further announcements, check out the website: winterfilmawards.com
Winter Film Awards and Film Festival
February 9 - 12, 2012
New York City
"Upheaval" at Berlinale 2012
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- Published on Friday, 03 February 2012 05:00
- Written by Renzo Adler
Upheaval; it's a subject that the city of Berlin is not unfamiliar with, and it's the motif of 
this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, being held February 9 - 19, 2012, at the CinemaxX Potsdamer Platz, the CineStar theatres and other venues around Berlin.
The Berlinale, which has been running since 1951, will feature an expected international blend of titles in this year’s selection of over 400 films. But this year, there is a particular focus on Middle Eastern filmmakers.
Casting off the shackles of Tiananmen Square VHS-era technology, the recent Arab Spring was captured in pristine HD, provoking filmmakers from both within and outside the Middle East, to address the subject with films such as Mohammadreza Farzad’s Falgoosh / Blames and Flames.
Athena Film Fest Celebrates Women and Leadership
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- Published on Thursday, 02 February 2012 05:00
- Written by Lynne Shannon
After a highly successful launch last year, which brought such acclaimed films as Miss Representation and Vision (about Hildegard von Bingen) to New York filmgoers, the Athena Film Festival returns for its second eagerly anticipated run February 9 - 12, 2012 at Barnard College in Uptown Manhattan, New York City.
A "Celebration of Women and Leadership", the Festival is a production of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College and Women and Hollywood.
"The Festival highlights the diversity of women’s leadership in both real life and the fictional world, illuminating the stories of women from across the globe who have made a difference in their countries and communities."
Meanwhile in the Other Hemisphere: Film Fest Rotterdam
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- Published on Thursday, 19 January 2012 05:00
- Written by L E Shannon
The 41st Annual International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is being held January 25 - 
February 5, 2012 all over downtown Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
From its start with an audience of 17 people in 1972, through the 1973 festival which hosted over 7,000 visitors, IFFR has grown to be one the largest audience driven film festivals in the world. It is also one of the largest cultural events in the Netherlands.
Concurrently with IFFR, the 29th CineMart, IFFR's co-production market, is taking place from January 29 - February 1.
"CineMart was the first platform of its kind to offer filmmakers the opportunity to launch their ideas to the international film industry and to find the right connections to get their projects financed.
Every year, CineMart invites a select number of directors/producers to present their film projects to co-producers, bankers, funds, sales agents, distributors, TV stations and other potential financiers."
Between IFFR’s longtime venue LantarenVenster and Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Pathé Schouwburgplein, Cinerama Filmtheater, Oude Luxor Theater and Sub-urban Video Lounge, among others, something Festival-related is happening everywhere, be it film showings, video installations or arts exhibitions.
