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Atlanta Film This Week
Enjoy! Monday (5/13) @The Plaza–Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work–7:30p, $5 donation Wednesday (5/15) Old 4th Ward Movies After Dark–Cooley High–Dusk, FREE Thursday (5/16) Atlantic Station Movies in Central Park–Star Trek (2009)–Dusk, FREE Saturday (5/18) @Auburn Avenue Research Library–You Are Not Alone–3p, FREE
Notes From a Festival Programmer: Red Flags to Avoid – Misusing Cannes Film Market and Short Film Corner
Positioning your film prior to, during and after submissions to festivals is a multi-step affair. While films have to stand on the quality of the work, it would be disingenuous, if not an outright lie to say that previous festival screenings don’t assist a film in standing out. Those definitely give it a better shot at
INDIEwire News
- Specialty Box Office: 'Frances' Ha-s Stellar First Weekend; 'Pines' Becomes 2013's First $20 Million Indie
- The Dardenne Bros., Marion Cotillard and Sundance Selects Team For 'Two Days, One Night'
- Phase 4 Buys Anna Paquin's "Free Ride"
- The 9 Best Things Said by the Coen Bros., Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake at the 'Inside Llewyn Davis' Cannes Press Conference
- Cannes is About Money, Money, and Movies: Alec Baldwin and James Toback's 'Seduced and Abandoned'
- RADiUS-TWC Makes First Major Deal Of Cannes: Jeremy Saulnier's 'Blue Ruin'
- Kino Lorber Takes Berlin and Tribeca Winner 'The Rocket' Out of Cannes
- Cannes: Why 'Inside Llewyn Davis' Isn't the Minor Coen Bros. Movie It Looks Like
- IFC Midnight Takes on Femme-Empowered Slugfest 'Raze'
- Cannes Review: 'The Dance of Reality,' Alejandro Jodoroworsky's First Film in 23 Years, Is a Return to Form
Film Threat
- S.I.N. THEORY
- THE BOOTLEG FILES: DOUG HENNING’S WORLD OF MAGIC III
- THE BOOTLEG FILES: LAUREL AND HARDY
- GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – TAKING THE (INDIE FILM SALES) TEMPERATURE AT BERLIN/EFM 2013.
- DIGITAL CELLULOID – ISSUE 138: IMPRESSIONS WITH A VAMPIRE… HUNTER?
- I AM NOT A HIPSTER
- WEST OF MEMPHIS
- THE BOOTLEG FILES: DER SCHNEEMANN
- LINCOLN
- THE BOOTLEG FILES: COLLECTOR’S ITEM
Hollywood Reporter
- Cannes Hit by Second High-Profile Burglary
- Yahoo Approves Bid to Acquire Tumblr for $1.1 Billion
- Cannes: Oscar Isaac Greeted as Rising Star at 'Inside Llweyn Davis' Presser
- TV Ratings: 'Saturday Night Live' Pulls Mostly Even Season Finale
- Box Office: 'Star Trek' Sequel Opens to $84.1 Million in U.S. for $164.6 Million Worldwide
- Cannes: New Dardenne Brothers Movie Starring Marion Cotillard Goes to Sundance Selects
- Seduced and Abandoned: Cannes Review
- Cannes: Phase 4 Takes 'Free Ride' Starring Anna Paquin
Film Festival Secrets
- Countdown to Cannes: numbers that make the Cannes Film Festival add up
- How to request fee waivers (and actually get them)
- Goodbye, Silverdocs: Hello, AFI Docs
- Hot Docs 2013 – Meet the Staff and Virtual Lounge
- SXSW 2013: Do It Like a Local
- Toward Transparent Festival Economics
- Film Festivals 411 – Why Didn’t you Program My Film?
- Michelle Obama’s workshop on “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
- Where would the money come from?
- Put your film in the right category OR How not to screw up in Withoutabox
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