film festivals

  • Climate Change, War, Disco in SnagFilms Fest

    Second annual online festival designed to open new distribution channels for documentaries

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  • ‘Hockey Musical’ to Open Toronto Film Festival

    Festival keeps with tradition by kicking off with Canadian film

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  • ‘The Runaway,’ ‘The Pipe’ Win Awards in Galway

    Irish festival concludes six-day run with audience and jury prizes

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  • 50,000 Films Is a Very Good Thing

    Digital media increase ease of filmmaking, which should lead to greater appreciation of the art and history of film

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    Brian Newman

  • Film Festivals Go Mobile

    Winners of the 3rd Babelgum Online Film Festival were just announced, and Jury Award winners screened for the public at Tribeca

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    Debra Kaufman

  • Hooray for TCM! Turner Getting Into Fest Business

    First-ever TCM Classic Film Festival will honor the best of old Hollywood. Telluride co-founders on board.

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  • Toronto Festival Rounds Out Lineup

    Red carpet expected to include George Clooney, Michael Moore, Coen brothers.

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    Wrap Staff

  • It’s About Time for Westdoc

    It’s time for a trade conference for producers of documentaries that is designed by producers. If you’ve been in the business for the past decade or so, you may well agree that the limited focus of many of the conferences offered to us is disappointing at best. And, why do we have to schlep to…

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    Chuck Braverman

  • Why Sundance Rejected You

     Here we are once again in January on our way to Park City, UT in the hope that we’ll be among the first to see the latest and greatest of independent filmmaking at Sundance. Some 120 feature filmmakers and 85 short filmmakers are having business cards printed, picking out their favorite parkas and creating a…

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    Roberta Marie Munroe

  • Sony Pictures Gets a Jump on Sundance

    Though the Sundance Film Festival doesn’t begin until next week, a number of big acquisitions are already under negotiation.

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    Wrap Staff

  • Bootleg DVDs Plague Sundance Filmmakers

    A number of films slated to debut at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah next month are making the rounds within the industry via bootlegged copies.

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    Wrap Staff