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French Riviera Film Festival Announces 2022 Finalist Shorts and Unveils Official Festival Trailer
Festival to Feature Two Days of Screenings on May 20 and 21 at Eden Hotel & Spa in Cannes, Online Screenings on Sparq, Fifth Annual Global Entertainment Showcase and VIP Awards Receptions
Cannes, May 5, 2022 – Scheduled from May 20-21, 2022, the fourth annual French Riviera Film Festival (FRFF), celebrating short film and short-form content from around the globe, is pleased to announce the finalist shorts of the 2022 competition, the announcement was made today by festival co-founders Gotham Chandna and Nicole Goesseringer Muj.
First launched in 2019, FRFF recognizes and celebrates short-form content created for film, television, web and all digital platforms. Scheduled during the time period of the Festival de Cannes, FRFF invites filmmakers from around the globe to participate in the two-day event that includes screenings, Global Entertainment Showcase (to be announced shortly), VIP receptions, and closing gala awards ceremony.
The festival will feature the works of filmmakers from more than 28 countries. The full list of finalist and honorable mention films in the award categories of Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Sci-Fi/Horror, Animation, Experimental, Lifestyle, Fashion, Music Video and Micro Short is listed on the festival’s official website: https://
At the official awards ceremony, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Audience, Industry Excellence and Lifetime Achievement Awards will also be presented. Attendees and participants include filmmakers, industry executives, celebrities, media and influencers.
“We’re truly thrilled to be back on the Croisette once again in 2022,” comments Goesseringer Muj. “The festival will kick-off with a special out-of-competition screening of the Oscar-nominated short from Denmark, On My Mind, by award-winning director Martin Strange-Hansen. We’re honored that the film’s executive producer Kim Magnusson will be in attendance to introduce the film and attend the festivities.”
Free to attend festival screenings will be held live over two days from 10 am to 3 pm at the Eden Hotel & Spa (133 rue d’Antibes), with special ‘by invitation only’ receptions and awards events after each day’s screenings at the Bel-Air Fine Art Gallery and Eden Hotel. FRFF will also present, out-of-competition, the festival premiere of Down From The Clouds (Turkey) starring
“For those who cannot make it to Cannes, we will also have our festival finalist and honorable mention films streamed online on SPARQ,” adds co-founder Gotham Chandna. “The festival’s virtual component began during the pandemic, and we decided to continue it, allowing for a much wider audience to enjoy the amazing work by our talented filmmakers.
Event partners include Eden Hotel and Spa, Beverly Hills Hotel, Bel-Air Fine Art, Chateau de Berne, The Good Gin, Cardinal du Four, DiFiore New York, Indie Entertainment Media, SPARQ, and filmfestivals.com. Gift bag partners include Byroe, Laritzy, Lipsma
Festival passes are now available for both online and in-person screenings and special events on the SPARQ platform at https://frff.sparqfest.live
FRFF’s Advisory Board includes Michael Benoraya, founder, International Film Trust; Bruno Chatelin, COO, filmfestivals.com (also on festival jury), Emmy Award-winning actor Vincent De Paul; Larry Namer, president/CEO, Metan Global Entertainment Group, Ana B. Remos, vice president, editorial director & founder, azureazure.com (also on festival jury), Dr. Laura Wilhelm, founder/principal, LauraWil Intercultural (also on festival jury), and Daphna Edwards Ziman, president, Cinémoi USA. Jury members include Rehna Azim, awards editor, Movie Marker; Lena Basse, journalist, Hollywood Foreign Press Association; Claude Brickell, filmmaker, screenwriter and educator; Anna Marie de la Fuente; renowned actress Wendy Morgan, James Prestige, publisher, Close-Up Culture; entertainment attorney Tshombe Sampson; Eileen Tasca, managing director, Alien Films & Task Films; and Sue Vicory, founder, Heartland Films and womendocumentaryfilmmakers
FRFF recently launched a celebrity PSA campaign and partnership with DiFiore New York in support of the people of Ukraine. The festival recently announced the non-profit French Riviera Art and Cultural Alliance to promote cultural exchange and collaboration among filmmakers around the world.
Cloud 21 PR International and Kultura PR International have produced numerous industry special events, including the annual “Global Entertainment Showcase” in partnership with ROSKINO during the Cannes Film Festival and Marché du Film, the annual “Production Without Borders” event during AFM, the annual Indie Entertainment Showcase in Park City, Utah, and “A Salute to Akira Kurosawa” with China’s Jinke Entertainment in Cannes in 2017, plus many others. Most recently, they produced the very successful virtual “3rd Annual Global Entertainment Showcase” held during the online Marché du Film. The companies have co-produced events and worked with top entertainment and technology brands, including Cinando, Creative Coalition, Davines North America, E! Entertainment Television, ECU Film Festival, Eurocinema, Euromed, FlixSnip, Maverick Entertainment, Metan Global Entertainment Group, Oculus, Sony Interactive, Vesilind, 8K Miles Media Group, FanVestor, plus many others.
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DEMI MOORE DOES HORROR
The Substance, which premiered at Cannes and won Best Screenplay, literalizes the painful experience of aging in Hollywood.
Here’s the official synopsis for the film, which just dropped an insane Reqium for a Dream-esque trailer:
A fading celebrity (Demi Moore) decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
The film is wildly violent; it’s full-on maximalist body horror as a younger Moore (played by Margaret Qualley) literally bursts out of her body.
Moore explained:
“The script is that this was about the male perspective of the idealized woman that we have bought into as women. And what’s so interesting in the film is here, this newer, younger, better version gets an opportunity and she still repeats the same pattern.”
She continued:
“She’s still seeking this external validation. And in the end comes face to face with just fighting herself because that’s where we have to really look within, not without.”
We are all seeking some level of external validation—this film brilliantly warns us not to be consumed by it.
Dennis Quaid, who plays Moore’s boss—a sublime vision of assholeness—called the director:
“A cross between Stanley Kubrick and Sam Peckinpah.”
The Substance is not derivative. It is so hard core stylized it feels entirely its own creation.
Debuting in theaters September 19th.
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IFFR & Göteborg Film Festival Screenings Information | Borrowed Time by dir. CHOY Ji
Borrowed Time was officially selected by two European film festivals —— the 53rd edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam Bright Future Section and the 47th edition of Göteborg Film Festival Ingmar Bergman Competition!
The European Premiere of this film will be held at the 53rd edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Swedish Premiere of this film will be held at the 47th edition of Göteborg Film Festival.
Borrowed Time
China | 2023 | Drama | 93 min | Debut Feature
Director: CHOY Ji
Screenwriter: Yin WANG
Producer: Jinjin MO
Cinematography: Shuli HUANG, Chiheng LIANG
Starring: Dongping LIN, Sunny SUN, Eddy AU-YEUNG, Jie PAN, Tai-Bo
Festivals：
International Film Festival Rotterdam | Bright Future
Göteborg Film Festival | Ingmar Bergman Competition
Busan International Film Festival | New Currents Competition
Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival | Hidden Dragon Competition
IFFR Screenings Schedule
Public screening: 01-26, 20:00, Cinerama 3
Public screening: 01-28, 12:30, KINO 1
Public screening: 01-29, 15:00, LantarenVenster 3
Göteborg Film Festival Screenings Schedule
Public screening (Q & A) : 01-30, 19:45, Göta 1
Public screening (Q & A) : 01-31, 17:30, Göta 2
Public screening: 02-01, 10:15, Göta 1
Public screening: 02-04, 19:30, Hagabion 2
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Elaheh Nobakht, President of the Jury of the 6th Beirut Women Film Festival
Mansour Jahani – The Iranian movie producer, Elaheh Nobakht, has been elected as the jury president of the competition category “Documentary and Animated Shorts” at the 6th round of Beirut International Women Film Festival, heralding “Women for Leadership” as the focal topic of the event held in Lebanon.
With her third attendance at the Berlin International Film Festival in the preceding month as producer of the documentary feature film “Dreams’ Gate” in the competition category “Generations”, Nobakht had also formerly contributed as a juror to international festivals such as Switzerland’s FIFOG, Italy’s Religion Today Film Festival, as well as MENA International Film Festival held in the Netherlands.
The feature-length documentary film “Dreams’ Gate” directed by Negin Ahmadi and produced by Elaheh Nobakht, will have its second international screening in the competition category of “Feature-Length Documentaries” at the 6th round of Beirut International Women Film Festival.
Following its trend of global screenings, “Dreams’ Gate” is slated to have the third international run at the 19th edition of Kosmorama International Film Festival that is held in Trondheim, Norway.
The 6th edition of Beirut International Women Film Festival is presided over by Sam Lahoud, Beirut Film Society president, and will feature works of filmmakers coming from various countries under several categories, namely “Feature-Length Fiction Films”, “Feature-Length Documentaries”, “Documentary and Animated Shorts”, “Short Dance Films”, as well as specialized summits held from 5-11 March, 2023, in Beirut, Lebanon.
Photo: Mansour Jahani
For more details: https://beirutwomenfilmfestival.com/
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