Global online film festival to bring together 21 international events

The Women of the World (WOW) Foundation has announced what it describes as the first-ever global online festival focused on women and girls.

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.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentThe Key Buyers Event: Digital Edition, a market showcase for the Russian film and TV industry, launched Monday with a welcome video from actress Anya Chipovskaya, the event’s ambassador, sent to its 400 international participants, including buyers, commissioners and producers from 55 countries.In the video Chipovskaya appears as an A.I.

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.

Originally scheduled to happen this weekend (June 5-7), the second iteration of the online dance music festival Digital Mirage has been rescheduled for June 12-14.

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.

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Right now, a lot of DJs are hanging out at home with very little to do.Thankfully for dance music fans, many of these music-makers are passing their time by playing the incredible number of livestream events happening during the pandemic, events that seem to get bigger and more fully realized from a production standpoint with each passing week.So it goes with Digital Mirage 2.0, the followup event to April's Digital Mirage three-day livestream festival.

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.

As the Covid-19 outbreak causes a wave of film festival cancellations, these showcases are joining forces in unprecedented ways to support filmmakers and one another.

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.

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Despite SXSW and Cannes being cancelled, the 2020 Venice Film Festival will reportedly go ahead. This year’s event is due to kick off in Venice from 2-12 September and, according to trade paper Variety, that event will still happen with Cate Blanchett (above in Thor: Ragnarok) presiding over the jury.

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