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Jennifer Schubert-Akin has a good feeling about the inaugural Freedom Conference Film Festival. It’s the same feeling she had shortly after co-founding its parent festival, the Freedom Conference, a free-market policy event produced by the politically conservative Steamboat Institute in the idyllic ski town of Steamboat Springs. “I didn’t know if this would be just another thing actors and producers felt obligated to do in promoting their films,” said Schubert-Akin, chairwoman and CEO of the Steamboat Institute. “But they’re genuinely excited about it. It’s been really refreshing to see the enthusiasm and potential of it. It reminds me of the first Freedom Conference in 2009, when we didn’t know if anybody would show up or care.” Not only did people show up for the conference, which returns for its 10th installment Aug. 10-11 in Steamboat Springs, but past years boast guests such as Vice President Dick Cheney, former … [Read more...] about Conservative film fest to preach free-market gospel from Steamboat

The 76th edition of the Venice International Film Festival kicked off with Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's mother-daughter drama, "The Truth," starring Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche. The 11-day festival began on August 28 and will end by September 7. The event will showcase 21 films from directors all around the world, who have narrated different types of stories through their direction.The festival is taking place at Venice Lido and is organized by La Biennale di Venezia. It is officially recognized by FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Association). The eleven-day journey opened with "The Truth," which Venice chief Alberto Barbera called "a poetic reflection on the relationship between a mother and her daughter, and the complex profession of acting." Thursday is lined up with James Grey's "Ad Astra" from Fox. In this movie, we will see Brad Pitt as an astronaut who is out on a mission to protect the solar system. The same day, we will see the couple … [Read more...] about Venice Film Festival kicks off, highlights real issues

The third edition of the El Gouna Film Festival has opened its curtains in Egypt. More than 200 movie stars and filmmakers made an appearance on the red carpet, including Canadian-Egyptian star Mena Massoud, who is best known for playing the lead role in the recent Disney remake of Aladdin. “This is really the whole point of a festival like this, to show the rest of the world how much talent and how much our film industry has grown," he told Euronews’ Daleen Hassan. “We celebrate American films but we also celebrate films from the North African and Middle Eastern region and it’s my hope that festivals like this can show the world how much talent, ambition and execution we have. “ Running from 19 to 27 September, the event will showcase 84 films, representing a total of 41 different countries. Amongst this year’s selection are films which already showed in international film festivals such as Toronto, Venice and San Sebastian. However, most films are … [Read more...] about El Gouna Film Festival opens in Egypt

Sep 27, 10:53 PM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury World By Thomas URBAIN 09/27/19 AT 10:30 PM Director Martin Scorsese unveiled his new film "The Irishman" Friday, kicking off the New York film festival with the ambitious Netflix movie that was more than a decade in the making.The star-studded gangster epic had a budget of $160 million, using 117 different filming locations to shoot 309 scenes which together add up to a run time of 3 hours 29 minutes.Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro started planning the film adaptation of Charles Brandt's book "I Heard You Paint Houses" 12 years ago."Things got in the way," Scorsese told journalists Friday after the world premiere screening. "We couldn't get backing -- there was no way -- for years," he added."I'm just happy we all got finally to do it because it did take a long time," said De Niro. "We were lucky to get people to put up the money."After several studios declined the … [Read more...] about Scorsese And Netflix Unveil Ambitious New Film “The Irishman”

A Spanish language film has been chosen to open the Cannes Film Festival for the second time only in the event's 71 year history. Known locally as Todos Lo Saben, the psychological thriller Everybody Knows stars Hollywood couple Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem and was directed by two-time Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi. Cruz plays the role of Spanish woman, Carolina, whose life is turned upside down when she leaves Argentina with her husband (Ricardo Darin) and children to return to her home near Madrid for a family celebration. Iranian director Farhadi teamed up for a third time with producer, Alexandre Mallet-Guy who he also collaborated with on Oscar-winning films, The Salesman and The Past. Everybody Knows is Farhadi's eighth feature film. It was shot on the Iberian Peninsula. The Cannes Film Festival runs from May 8 to 19. … [Read more...] about Spanish language film to open Cannes Film Festival 2018