Filmmaker And Publicist John Wildman Chats About The Current State Of The Indie Film Festival World

Screen Media Ventures President David Fannon will be attending this year’s Cannes markets by way of Connecticut. He is, like so many of the now homebound buyers and sellers that plan on making the most of the Virtual Cannes Market, working from home offices, basements and kitchen tables.

festival announced Thursday.The romantic comedy, written and directed by Allen, stars Elena Anaya (“Wonder Woman”), Louis Garrel (“An Officer and a Spy”), Gina Gershon (“The Insider”), Sergi López (“Pan’s Labyrinth”), Wallace Shawn (“Marriage Story”) and Christoph Waltz (“Inglourious Basterds”).Allen shot the film last summer in and around San Sebastian, a town located in the mountainous Basque region of northern Spain.

It was only a matter of time. The 2020 Toronto Film Festival, set to run Sept.

The Toronto International Film Festival has laid off another 31 employees as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic cuts deeply into its operating revenues. "In response to the devastating impact COVID-19 has had on TIFF's regular operations, we announced today the difficult decision to reduce our full-time staff by 17 percent, which represents 31 valued employees," Toronto festival co-heads Joana Vicente and Cameron Bailey said in a statement.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAs the world slowly recovers from the coronavirus crisis and theaters start reopening, sales agents and distributors, whose business traditionally drives the independent film sector, are facing an uncertain future while trying to make the best of this year’s abbreviated festival circuit.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Brazil’s Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival, which is the largest genre event in South America, has locked a partnership with local streaming service Darkflix to allow it to host its 16th edition online, and free for local audiences.The 2020 edition of the fest was originally scheduled to take place in May this year, but had to be postponed due to the pandemic.

The Recording Academy has announced new changes that will impact the 2021 Grammy Awards. In a press released obtained by E! News, The Academy announced updates to the Best New Artist category, Latin, R&B and Rap Fields, Nominations Review Committees and more.

Tim Dams The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has unveiled its line up of features for this year’s edition, which is taking place online due to the coronavirus crisis.The festival, which was due to take place in Scotland this month, has partnered with Curzon Home Cinema to present an online festival instead.The line up includes the U.K. premieres of Ron Howard’s documentary “Rebuilding Paradise,” Susanne Regina Meures’s doc “Saudi Runaway,” Alex Thomson directed U.S.

The much-awaited Cannes Film Festival which happens around May every year was cancelled this year owing to the Coronavirus pandemic. Indian celebrities like , , and others who usually walk the red carpet for brands also did not get to put down their best fashionable foot forward.

Note: This episode was recorded over a week ago, before the current state of affairs. If you have the means, please consider donating to Black Lives Matter and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, among many other organizations, during this time.

Star Wars actor John Boyega was so inspired by the worldwide protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement over the past week that he joined one in London to make sure his voice was heard.

The selections for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival have been announced despite this year’s live event being cancelled.

«What are next year's Oscars going to look like?» It's a question the industry, awards forecasters and armchair pundits alike have been wondering as release schedules are scuttled and film festivals are canned amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Despite growing concerns about the global pandemic, an industry that’s still in lockdown, and festivals being canceled left and right, the 2020 edition of the Telluride Film Festival will still go on as planned over Labor Day weekend.

By Dave McNary

What cinephiles have missed most this spring are the cries of “hon hon hon!” — the bitchy sound of French laughter — bellowing from the Côte d’Azur.

Thierry Fremaux doesn’t just help run the Cannes Film Festival. He’s also one of the heads of the Lumière Film Festival that happens each fall.

By Andreas Wiseman

YouTube isn’t here to save the film festival season, but the platform’s We Are One event is surely attempting to fill the void left by the numerous canceled events due to COVID-19 this year. And with the online festival expected to begin later this week, the platform announced its first-ever line-up consisting of over 100 films, including 13 world premieres, 31 online premieres, and five international online premieres.

With most of the film festivals in the first half of 2020 either canceled or postponed already, the next big event on the calendar is the Venice Film Festival in early September. And up until now, the idea that the Italian event would continue as planned, even with COVID-19 still a major issue all around the world, was in doubt.