We have so much to tell you in this issue of VM Productions News! We have taken part in an exotic riot of film festivals around the world, including China, Brazil and Russia! We absolutely love having the opportunity to share our films and meet other dedicated and passionate filmmakers. This year, we are proud to be supporting the World Film Fair
in New York, where two of our films will be screened!
We were delighted to receive four nominations in the Feature Films category for Notes from the New World and Shades of Day at the prestigious Alternative Film Festival in Toronto, Canada in September 2017: Best Drama, Best Mystery/Thriller/Suspense, Best Writer, Best Director.
The primary mission of the
Festival Brasil de Cinema Internacional
is the promotion of the best Art cinema productions and dissemination of culture in the world.
Notes from the New Worldwas officially selected recently by Cinema de Autor 2018,the art house friendly Spanish Film Festival in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
(May 23-28).We were honoured to be the second to sign and support this year’s
the Festival Manifesto(Claudia Cardinale, the Italian star who was the special member of the Jury at the last festival was the first).
Our trailer for Dostoyevsky Reimagined: The Making of the Award-Winning Notes from the New World, and the award-winning script for
Crime and Punishment LA,
were nominated for awards at the 2018 Los Angeles Neo Noir Novel, Film & Script Festival. In the last year (2017) this festival awarded our movies Shades of Day and Notes from the New World respectively Gold and Bronze awards. This festival is hailed by LA Weekly as the film festival with "the world's sexiest, darkest, crime films.".
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THE WORLD FILM FAIR - NEW YORK CITY
The World Film Fair’s School and Universities Films Production Center aims to showcase emerging talent by presenting top student films from all over the world. Winners will have an opportunity to screen their work at some of the best festivals in the world. The World Film Fair is passionate about supporting students of film and the institutions where they learn the craft, so there will be no charge to the students, schools or universities.
The team at VM Productions are proud to be showcasing two of our award-winning films, Shades of Day and Notes from the New World, at this high-profile event. We are working alongside the organisers to promote this opportunity and seek emerging talent within film schools and universities around the world.
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I stumbled upon this book in a charity shop in England while looking for second-hand DVDs of film classics. I hadn’t known about its existence previously, but I was intrigued by the blurb…
Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most esteemed (albeit easily misinterpreted) thinkers of all time, once referred to Fyodor Dostoyevsky as “the only psychologist from whom I’ve anything to learn.” This was, to be sure, long before Freud, whose first...
Not often do we equate Fyodor Dostoevsky’s concept of Existentialism with comedy, but the truth of it is that the two pair together quite well. READ MORE
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