Links and Festivals

         Attention CINE Golden Eagle certificate award winners
 The CINE Golden Eagle Film & Video Competition in Washington DC, USA, and the WorldMediaFestival in Hamburg, Germany, are international
 "Partner Festivals". You benefit from a special agreement between CINE and the WorldMediaFestival. Please visit the WorldMediaFestival
for online registration and information. Further details about the cooperation and your benefits are to be found at the site Festival Information / Partner Festivals. With a copy of your recent CINE Golden Eagle certificate you are eligible for a discount off the normal entry fee for the WorldMediaFestival.

          Attention WorldMediaFestival Silver, Gold, Grand Awards and Grand Prix winners
Winners of the WorldMediaFestival Silver, Gold-, Grand Award and Grand Prix Awards are eligible to enter the CINE Golden Eagle Film & Video Competition with a 20% discounted rate off the standard CINE entry fees - just send a copy of the WorldMediaFestival-certificates with the CINE-entry form. If you have any further questions about the WorldMediaFestival and your US entry, please feel free to contact our
North American Representative

Mr. Chris Kater
Video Placement Worldwide
216 South Payne Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-836-9797
Fax: 703-836-9799
Email: vpw@erols.com

AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Documentary Film Festival

COME TO SILVERDOCS!
See the best new documentaries from around the world. Join filmmakers and film enthusiasts, leaders from politics, policy, media and beyond.

AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS 2009 presents 122 films representing 55 countries selected from 1,976 submissions. Highlights include:

• The US Premiere of Opening Night film MORE THAN A GAME chronicling baskeball icon LeBron James, his team and coach at the very beginning of his career. Moderated by Michele Norris, Host of NPR's All Things Considered.
• World Premiere of Closing Night Film THE NINE LIVES OF MARION BARRY exploring the rise and fall of the former DC Mayor.
• Guggenheim Honoree Albert Maysles joined by Barbara Kopple, the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and other special guests for a conversation about his career. Moderated by Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum. Fest to screen several Maysles features and rarely seen shorts.
• Special Programs include FACING ALI, with Special Guest Muhammad Ali, also featured in festival screenings of SOUL POWER and WHEN WE WERE KINGS.
• Ensemble Filmmaking Centerpiece Screening CONVENTION; and World Premiere of RIP: A REMIX MANIFESTO, newly cut with open-source audience content. Performed by Eclectic Method, Mash-up DJs, and SOUL POWER's Fred Wesley.
• Festival circuit favorites including: THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, THE COVE, WINNEBAGO MAN, BEST WORST MOVIE and NO IMPACT MAN.
• International Documentary Conference to explore "The Future is Strange" and "Storytelling in an Always On World" with Keynote by Tom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics, plus master classes, panels, pitch sessions, "Doc Talks" and other special events.

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Take advantage of SILVERDOCS exclusive early ticketing window - May 21-27. Click here to purchase a pass!

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Tickets on sale starting May 28th:
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Road
SIlver Spring, MD 20910
1.877.DOCS.TIX
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• Keynote Speaker Tom Bernard - Tom Bernard is the co-President and co-founder of Sony Pictures Classics, which distributes, produces, and acquires independent films from the United States and around the world. under his leadership, Sony Pictures Classics has released such acclaimed documentaries as THE FOG OF WAR, WALTZ WITH BASHIR, WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?, WHY WE FIGHT, and WINGED MIGRATION.
• Are you ready to pitch your next project? Workshop with SpeakEasy - In this hands-on session, storytelling experts from SpeakEasy DC will walk participants through the process of discovering their own story and shaping it into a compelling narrative. The workshop will be a mix of demonstration, interactive exercises, discussion and feedback from the instructors.
• Classes with the Masters - Cinematography with Louie Psihoyos, THE COVE; Editing with Sam Pollard, BY THE PEOPLE: THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA; Music with Composers John Califra, Brendan Canty and Ion Furjanic; Directing with Leon Gast (WHEN WE WERE KINGS) and Jeffrey Levy-Hinte (SOUL POWER)
• THROUGH A LENS DARKLY and DIGITAL DIASPHORA FAMILY REUNION - Together, THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE and DIGITAL DIASPHORA FAMILY REUNION represent a new model of participatory nonfiction filmmaking where the public contributes content that helps unlock hidden or forgotten histories. By merging family photo collections with public archival holdings, the two projects will present a more complete historical record of African Americans as told through the lives of the people who actually lived it.
• TIME WARP Camera Demo - Join us for a demonstration of Photron's amazing FASTCAM SA1 camera, used for the slow motion imaging of fascinating phenomena, animal behavior and human feats on Discovery Channel's hit television series, TIME WARP. Viewers see popcorn popping at 10,000 frames per second (fps), water balloons popping at 20,000 fps, and much more.
• TOP EXECUTIVES IN ATTENDANCE - Strategic counsel from leaders in the field include representatives from HBO, A&E Indie Films, Cinetic, b-side, Indie Pix, Argus Entertainment, New Video/Docurama, AFI Digital Content Lab, Bay Area Video Coalition, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Planet Green, Sundance Channel, RoadSide Attractions, Cactus Three, WE:Women's Entertainment, Smithsonian Channel and A&E Television Network.

Looking for a comprehensive film festival directory? Check out FilmFestivalWorld.com

FilmFestivalWorld.com provides a comprehensive film festival directory with festival profiles that offer a prism on the whole of each festival event with facets for descriptive information, statistical data, images of festival venues and people, film submission information and links, and an interactive area for blogging where film awards and other festival news is posted.

The website features an up-to-date and easy to use film festival calendar system designed to help filmmakers set up a circuit of film festival submissions. Festivals are also displayed by country on a series of map pages. Clicking on any of the calendared or mapped festivals pulls that festival profile into view. In addition FFW offers online press kit pages to filmmakers for films that are screening on the festival circuit or that have recently won awards.

FilmFestivalWorld.com presents sections for both documentary and television festivals that provide news of the latest award- winning films, easy access to those festivals and statistical charts for comparing them. Additional resources available at FFW profile the world’s leading academies, professional guilds and awards organizations and offer annotated selections of film blogs, academic journals and cinema ezines.