During his stay in the hospital, the finance professional came up with the idea to start a film festival.
Hollywood actor Al Pacino has been honoured at a film festival in Dublin.
And no matter what time of year it is, there is bound to be a film festival going on in some part of the country.
When a brand manager starts to explain why her company has come to a film festival, you can start to connect the dots.
Los Angeles authorities said they sought his arrest when they learned that he would be traveling to Switzerland for a film festival in September.
On Saturday, 1, 000 people with a coffin filled with musical instruments, film reels and theatre masks marched through La Rochelle, where a film festival is being held.
Whenever French towns want to raise their profile, their first choice is to hold a film festival, which may explain why there are now more than 100 such cinefests in France every year.
She then leads us to the Sundance Kabuki Theatre - a cinema with a film festival vibe, showing independent films as well as blockbusters, where she tucks into a cocktail as she sits down to watch a film.
It's about as meta as it gets because you're sitting in a Cannes Film Festival screening room, watching a movie about someone trying to make a movie at the Cannes Film Festival.
Strange won a Crystal Bear award at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival for a short film called "Aphrodite's Farm, " a magical tale set on a dairy farm in the 1930s.
He said it was a decision the film festival board was currently weighing up, with benefits to both arrangements.
Without high qualify films, I can hardly hold a high quality film festival.
Tudou also has a popular mobile film festival, which is now in its fifth year, which encourages videomakers to compete for prizes.
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It is most fitting that in the year of Prince Will and Princess Kate, cinematic royalty is kicking off a new British film festival now rolling out in movie theaters across the United States.
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Also grabbing for a share of the pie this year is a traveling Food Film Festival starting in Charleston, South Carolina (May 10-11), before moving to New York (October 23-27) and Chicago (November 21-23).
"Six Sessions" (formerly known as "The Surrogate, ") a highly anticipated film-festival hit with John Hawkes and Helen Hunt, is about a man in an iron lung who wants to lose his virginity.
Al Marri, who is a filmmaker himself and has worked with the Abu Dhabi Film Festival as a content producer, says UAE filmmakers should also be looking towards creating movies on an international level rather than solely targeting a local audience.
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As a judge at the Montreal film festival, he infuriated the government by wearing a green scarf to show his support for the opposition and was briefly detained back home for attending a ceremony for victims of official brutality.
The film had a private screening at the Cannes film Festival in May.
But you don't have to collide with the creator of "Star Wars" to ensure a visit to Cannes Film Festival is memorable.
To mark the Horowitz centennial, New York's Lincoln Center is holding a three-day film festival about the Ukrainian-born musician, who died in 1989 at the age of 86.
The movie was to have been shown at a Vatican-sponsored film festival earlier this month, but Gibson pulled the movie because he wanted to re-edit parts of the film.
It will also be screened in 3D - only the second time in the history of the festival a film has been shown in the format after Pixar's Up opened in 2009.
Three years later, Newton -- who was then married -- learned from a conversation with a producer at Cannes Film Festival in France that the director had used the video to entertain guests during late-night parties.
Started in 1985 in the ski-resort of Park City, Utah by actor Robert Redford, this year it has 57 world premieres and half of all the films in competition are made by women - a first for any film festival.
The film, starring Gael Garcia Bernal, was a surprise hit of the Cannes Film Festival and has since gathered accolades around the world.
Mr Kaurismaki plans to premiere the film (he has yet to give it an English title) with a full orchestra at the Berlin Film Festival.
Over the first weekend of the festival, it has featured a line-up that the Cannes Film Festival would envy - Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Julianne Moore, Matthew McConaughey and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have braved the freezing temperatures and utilitarian venues to premiere their movies.
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