Saturday, September 07, 2013

Filminute 2013 Launch Press Release
















BOLD, DRAMATIC AND VISIONARY ONE-MINUTE FILMS LAUNCH AT FILMINUTE 2013
25 ultra short films from 19 countries are competing for online ratings and votes at the Filminute festival and competition.

LONDON/BUCHAREST/TORONTO, September 5, 2013 – The 8th edition of Filminute, the international one-minute film festival, officially launches this week. A record 19 countries from 6 continents are represented among the festival’s 25 competing finalists.

The 19 countries represented at Filminute 2013 are Argentina (2), Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Martinique, Netherlands (2), Norway, Romania, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, UK (3), and USA (3).

3 documentaries and 2 are animations are included in the mix of 25 films in competition.

Filmmakers the world over, as well as those who made this year’s prestigious 25-film shortlist, will no doubt be impressed by the jury that festival co-founder and Head of Jury John Ketchum has assembled this year: acclaimed American screenwriter and director Richard Linklater; advertising maven and Grey New York President and Chief Creative Officer, Tor Myhren; FIPRESCI film critic and Dazed & Confused Magazine Film Editor, Carmen Gray; Orange prize-winning author of The Tiger’s Wife, Téa Obreht; and Jeremy Azevedo, Senior Director of Original Programming at Machinima, the video entertainment network.

The “Best Filminute” prize and 5 Commendations will be awarded by the Filminute jury. The public at large is invited to view, share, comment upon and rate all 25 films. Each film fan is also entitled to a single vote to put toward the film they feel is most deserving of Filminute’s People’s Choice award.  

“Social media played a big role in the success of Filminute last year, and this year contributed to a dramatic rise in submissions and pre-festival chatter,” says Filminute co-founder Sabaa Quao. “Judging from the activity we’ve seen already from some of this year’s shortlisted filmmakers, social media has definitely become the “go-to” method for marketing indie films. For a festival that grows via social media sharing of films, we couldn’t be happier with this marketing evolution.”

The 8th edition of the festival features an even more impressive list of global media partners as well as the introduction of the CineCoup award, which will put $2,500 (CAD) in the hands of one of the 2013 shortlisted filmmakers. CineCoup, a Canadian-based film accelerator which launched this year and delivers production financing and guaranteed distribution to indie filmmakers, will announce the award at the Filminute Awards, October 9th.

Every year, throughout the month of September, Filminute presents an extraordinary array of 25 films online for festival-goers around the world to enjoy, share, and discuss. The Filminute winners and awards will be announced on October 9.

More information and full details are available at www.filminute.com. You may follow Filminute on Twitter at http://twitter.com/filminute or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/filminute. 

Welcome to Filminute 2013!

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LIST OF THE 25 FILMS SHORTLISTED AT FILMINUTE 2013

Argentina
THE CHEST (El Cofre), David Fernandez
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=224

LAIKA, Gustavo Cordero
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=223

Belarus
MIGRATION, Andrey Levkovitch
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=214

Belgium
TRAFFIC JAM, Piet Sonck
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=209

Canada
THE KISSING BOOTH, Matt West
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=204

Egypt
THE VEIL, Mohamed Salama
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=210

France
THE EVENING CIGARETTE, Mattieu Von Eeckhout
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=212

Hong Kong
LATE, Edith Chong Yuen Ping
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=202

India
END OF LINE, Gopi Krishnan
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=216

Iran
THE LAST PERFORMANCE, Reza Moayedi
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=222

Martinique
MAYBE ANOTHER TIME, Khris Burton
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=208

Netherlands
IDIOSYNCRATIC, Ad Bol
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=219

M-22, David Stevens
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=200


Norway
THE EXPLORER, Alexander Vestnes & Ola Martin Fjeld
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=201

Romania
BYE FOR NOW, Catalin Leescu
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=206

Russia
DAMN VOLVOXES, Arthur Omarov
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=211

Scotland / UK
NUCLEAR MYSTICISM, Guy Phenix
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=207

South Africa
THE DEATH & LIFE OF DESMOND WOLFE, Brett Williams
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=217

Sweden
TORSDAG, Frederik V. Thelander
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=213

United Kingdom
DEAD BIRD, Trevor Hardy
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=220

THE PRESENT, James Cookson
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=205

FISH SUPPER, Orlando von Einsiedel
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=221

USA
BAD DOGGIE, CHUCKLES, Mark Bellusci
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=215

DIRE, Aria London
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=203

SAFE PASSAGE, Matt McCanna
http://www.filminute.com/listing.php?type=1&edition=2013&film=218


Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Filminute 2012: And the winners are...



LONDON/BUCHAREST/TORONTO, October 10, 2012 – Awards for the 7th edition of Filminute, the international one-minute film festival, were announced today. UK director Ant Blade's dramatic and hilarious animation CHOP CHOP took top honours with the jury, while fellow Brit Ben Jacobson's comic thriller, CANDY CRIME was the favourite selected by Filminute’s voting public.

The 7-member international jury which included Prasoon Joshi, Radu Jude, Arjun Basu, Lenora Hume & Gyorgy Karpati, gave animation its strongest year ever at the festival with Best Filminute as well as 3 of the 5 Jury Commendations going to the animations M/W 9/11 (USA), A HERO'S TALE (UK), and Ant Blade’s second film in the competition, WILDEBEEST (UK). The moving and beautiful Dutch documentary SARINA and the darkly amusing Lithuanian film CUT! rounded out the jury-commended films at Filminute 2012.

The race for the People's Choice award at Filminute 2012 was close right up to the finish with CANDY CRIME emerging as the winner, followed by CIUDAD HELSING (Argentina) and THE KEY (Canada). Audiences from more than 130 countries tuned in to watch this year’s collection.

The Top Rated film for 2012 was won by Georgian director Tamta Gabrichidze. Her stark and provocative film LADY I received an impressive 4.8 rating (out of 5) from the public.

“Comedy-driven animations and challenging dramatic works stood out at Filminute 2012,” said Filminute executive director and head of jury, John Ketchum. “It was also exciting to see the festival’s footprint continue to grow with particularly strong gains in the east - including Lithuania, Georgia, Turkey and Russia – as well as in South America, where Argentina, Colombia and Mexico continue to produce more one-minute films and bigger audiences. 

The 7th edition of the popular online-based short film festival saw social media again demonstrate its power and reach. The festival saw a dramatic increase in the number of festival mentions, reviews of films, and embeds of films on websites, blogs and online media around the world. “Increasingly, independent filmmakers are grasping the power that social media gives them to market their films. Filminute provides an ideal test ground — arguably what works for a one-minute film can work for a feature film when it comes to social media. Both the filmmakers and our festival saw a great return on our social media investments this year,” said co-executive director Sabaa Quao.
 
Every year, throughout the month of September, Filminute presents an extraordinary array of 25 films online and across a variety of media for festival-goers around the world to enjoy, share and discuss.

More information and full details are available at www.filminute.com. You may follow Filminute on Twitter at http://twitter.com/filminute. On Facebook, follow via http://www.facebook.com/filminute. 

Congratulations to the winners!

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Filminute press contacts:           


LIST OF THE 25 FILMS SHORTLISTED AT FILMINUTE 2012

Argentina
CIUDAD HELSING, Gustavo Cordero

Belgium
HOL VS. RUS, Piet Sonck

OEHOE, Ben Gijsemans

Brazil
A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE, Weyner Tristao

Canada
THE KEY, Randy Kelly,

France
COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL, Louise & Jeanne Traon

Georgia
LADY I, Tamta Garbrichidze *** TOP-RATED FILM

Germany
INDIAN MYSTERY, Christian Fischer

Israel
SCHNITZELS, Tal Haring

Lithuania
CUT!, Jonas Velutis *** JURY COMMENDATION

Netherlands
MACROMOUSE, Nicolas Stamboulopoulos

SARINA, Tara Fallaux & Stijn Ghijsen *** JURY COMMENDATION

Russia
BROTHERS, Anton Mironovich

TAKE A REST!, Natalia Mirzoyan

Sweden
BARGIRL, Renzo & Hanna Anerod

Turkey
LIGHT, Munir Dogan

UK
A HERO’S TALE, Nick Black *** JURY COMMENDATION

CANDY CRIME, Ben Jacobson *** PEOPLE’S CHOICE 2012

CHOP CHOP, Ant Blades *** BEST FILMINUTE 2012

FLIP BOOK, Richard Dunford

WILDEBEEST, Ant Blades *** JURY COMMENDATION

USA
FOLKLORE, Charles Yeager

M|W 9|11, James Kelly *** JURY COMMENDATION

STILL HERE, Rafael Morais & Vijessna Ferkic

THE END, Michael Darling

Best Filminute

People’s Choice
Top Rated






Thursday, September 06, 2012

Filminute 2012 Launch Press Release




LONDON/BUCHAREST/TORONTO, September 6, 2012 – The 7th edition of Filminute, the international one-minute film festival, officially launches this week. 15 countries are represented among the festival’s 25 competing finalists.

The 15 countries represented at Filminute 2012 are Argentina, Belgium (2), Brazil, Canada, France, Georgia, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, Netherlands (2), Russian Federation (2), Sweden, Turkey, UK (5), and USA (4). Five countries have made the shortlist for the first time: Brazil, Georgia, Israel, Lithuania, and Sweden.

Of the 25 films in competition, 6 are animations, and 2 are documentaries.

Filminute co-founder and Head of Jury John Ketchum has once again convened an international, experienced, contemporary, and witty jury: Sundance & Sarajevo award-winning Romanian film director, Radu Jude
; Indian “Ad Guru” and award-winning film lyricist, Prasoon Joshi; FIPRESCI Vice President & Hungarian film critic, György Kárpáti; Shut Up! Cartoons producer and long-time Walt Disney Television Animation Senior Vice-President, Lenora Hume; and award-winning writer and superstar Twitter storyteller Arjun Basu.

The “Best Filminute” prize and 5 commendations are awarded by Filminute’s jury. The public at large is invited to view, share, comment upon and rate all 25 films. Each film fan is also entitled to a single vote to put toward the film they feel is most deserving of Filminute’s People’s Choice award.  

“We expect social media to continue to play an increasing role in the growth of the festival,” says Filminute co-founder Sabaa Quao. “Not only can filmmakers take direct control over the marketing of their film, the sharing and discussion of the film between the filmmakers and their audiences is a natural marketing driver. Much of what a filmmaker learns to do here is applicable to learning how to better market their feature length projects.”

The 7th edition of the festival also features a more accessible website and an expanded pool of global media partners who will all be choosing their top picks from the festival to screen for their audiences.

Every year, throughout the month of September, Filminute presents an extraordinary array of 25 films online for festival-goers around the world to enjoy and discuss. The Filminute winners and awards will be announced on October 9.

More information and full details are available at www.filminute.com. You may follow Filminute on Twitter at http://twitter.com/filminute. On Facebook, follow the festival via http://www.facebook.com/filminute

Welcome to Filminute 2012!

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Filminute press contacts:           

John Ketchum john.ketchum(-@-)filminute.com
Oana Koulpy filminute2012(-@-)gmail.com


LIST OF THE 25 FILMS SHORTLISTED AT FILMINUTE 2012

Argentina
CIUDAD HELSING, Gustavo Cordero


Belgium
HOL VS. RUS, Piet Sonck


OEHOE, Ben Gijsemans


Brazil
A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE, Weyner Tristao

Canada
THE KEY, Randy Kelly,


France
COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL, Louise & Jeanne Traon


Georgia
LADY I, Tamta Garbrichidze


Germany
INDIAN MYSTERY, Christian Fischer


Israel
SCHNITZELS, Tal Haring


Lithuania
CUT!, Jonas Velutis


Netherlands
MACROMOUSE, Nicolas Stamboulopoulos


SARINA, Tara Fallaux & Stijn Ghijsen


Russian Federation
BROTHERS, Anton Mironovich

TAKE A REST!, Natalia Mirzoyan


Sweden
BARGIRL, Renzo & Hanna Anerod

Turkey
LIGHT, Munir Dogan


UK
A HERO’S TALE, Nick Black


CANDY CRIME, Ben Jacobson


CHOP CHOP, Ant Blades


FLIP BOOK, Richard Dunford


WILDEBEEST, Ant Blades


USA
FOLKLORE, Charles Yeager


M|W 9|11, James Kelly


STILL HERE, Rafael Morais & Vijessna Ferkic


THE END, Michael Darling