Kinemastik joins Chaos Filmgruppe in China

Kinemastik’s Bojana Dimitrovska will be joining Chaos Filmgruppe on their China Tour throughout October/November 2009. Bojana will take a collection of Maltese short films, making our presence felt for the first time in a multi billion country.

If you happen to be around Chongqing, Chengdu, Suzhou, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong or  Beijing, make sure you visit Blitzfilm.

This is whats hot right now so be there or be square in China!

http://www.blitzfilm.de/index.php?id=313&L=1

Cultureclash in China!

The BLITZFILM Festival is a platform of the German speaking, contemporary (short) Film scene which this year is touring through Chi

• entertainment and provocation
• documentation and experiment
• mainstream and  low budget

BLITZFILM is not a travelling fair of the German film industry; rather it presents a cineaste spectrum that goes far beyond the commercial field. The main focus of the event lies in current tendencies within film and society, experimental operations within the medium, as well as new nonconformist ways of dealing with cinema. BLITZFILM sees itself as an audience- orientated festival, which is also concerned with encouraging work with the Chinese film scene. BLITZFILM is engaging and distracting. It does not promote stereotypes of German culture.

image courtesy of www.psfk.com

Bonnie Prince Billy at Garden of Rest

Kinemastik and Stagedive Malta have invited ‘Bonnie Prince Billy’ to perform in Malta at Garden of Rest, an old British Cemetery.  It was a great pleasure to host these people and probably one of the most remarkable concerts ever and ever.

2 birds wins Kinemastik Short Fest!

Runar Runarsson’s film 2 birds won the Audience Award at 5th Kinemastik Short Film Fest in Malta. Kinemastik waves congrats to Mr Runarsson from the rock!

Short Film Fest…Change of Venue..

Dear all,

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to change the venue at the last moment. The new venue is The Herbert Granado Gardens, Floriana, just bellow the old venue.

Please follow the link bellow

Link: <http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=35.894895,14.512081&spn=0.001556,0.004823&t=h&z=18&msid=116527958358602132642.00046feae0632dfab2fd5>

Saturday 1st August 21:00 h  & Sunday 2nd August 21:00
Herbert Granado Gardens
Floriana

if you got any trouble finding please call:
99242815, 99208758, 99239406

THE EXPLODING CINEMA

Exploding Cinema will be in Malta on Saturday 30th May for a one night only show organised by local NGO
Kinemastik.

Founded 16 years ago in the disused ‘Cooltan’ suntan oil factory in Brixton by a collective of media
outsiders seeking to stage their own screenings of isolated and disenfranchised media, Exploding Cinema
has since screened more than fifteen hundred unfunded films.

Attending an Exploding Cinema event is an unspoken rite of passage to underground cinema. Following in
their tracks, since the early nineties a No Wave of cinema groups has emerged, including, Omsk and Kinokulture the group Films That Make You Go Hmmmm, The Halloween Society and many others.

The EXPLODING is also a key organiser of the VOLCANO!!! Underground Film Festival (1996-2000) an annual event in which most of the London Underground film groups come together for two weeks to stage a London wide multi venue celebration of low/no budget underground film and video.

Exploding Cinema have collaborated with various other international underground film festivals and toured
with other film groups such as Kino Trotter from Belgium and Filmgruppe Chaos from Germany, who also
came to Malta through Kinemastik in 2007.

Exploding Cinema is voluntary and democratic; anyone can contribute and anyone can join. The group is
non-profit making, all work is voluntary, no wages are paid and all the money made is used to run
screenings and to buy collectively owned equipment.
Local NGO Kinemastik will be hosting an event featuring Exploding Cinema on Saturday 30th May at the
Ospizio in Floriana.

Bark Bark Disco will have their debut concert right after the screening followed by DJ Bob and DJ Vinc on decks or something else.

Doors open at 9 pm.

Entrance fee €7.

Kinemastik Members
Free Entrance

BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY May1st 2009

Kinemastik’s Wandering Cinema

On 1st March Kinemastik will announce an open call for short film submissions for The Wandering Cinema- 3 months of mobile cinema screenings across Malta and Gozo. Kinemastik invites the public to send their short film in any format: film, mobile phone, web cam, animation, to St James Cavalier, Valletta or to their email address at kinemastik@gmail.com. There are 3 themes on which the films should be based: Migration, Felicity or Monsters. The duration of the film should not exceed 15 minutes. There is no application fee and may come from anywhere in the world.The application deadline is April 10th 2009. On May 1st Kinemastik will start screening the selected films in different villages squares in Malta and Gozo projected on a mobile vehicle – the Kinemobile, and for the subsequent 3 months, The Wandering Cinema will announce its arrival in the local village or town through various promotions, capturing the interest of a public not necessarily familiar with the medium. The final screening will take place in August 2009 at the Kinemastik Short Film Festival. The film makers will also be given an opportunity to take part in international workshops that will take place during the festival. Kinemastik will then produce a DVD in September of all selected works and also make the work available and free for all to share through their websites. Kinemastik aims to promote these events in local and foreign media through publications, press releases, posters and electronic media.

Mark and Ester won The Guldbagge award

The Swedish Film Institute s award for the best Swedish documentary in 2008 went to our last year’s guests Mark Hammarberg, Ester Martin Bergsmark and Beatrice Maggie for the film Maggie in Wonderland/Maggie vaknar på balkongen. Congrats.

Short film competition for creative talents

The Competition:

TheCrane.tv, Discovery Campus and Reelisor.com are hosting a film competition for creative talents from all over the world in the categories: Culture, Art&Design, Lifestyle, Fashion, Ideas, Travel and “Green”. We reward creativity and encourage you to offer fresh, insider perspectives into your topic of choice. We would like to feel inspired and enriched by your contribution.

Launch: 18th November 2008 at the International Film School Festival, Munich
Deadline: 28th February 2009
Films: There are no boundaries to your creativity. The short videos can be non-fiction, fiction, animated or could be in a journalistic or documentary style
Jury:
Ora Ïto (Product Designer, ORA-ÏTO)
Karl Lagerfeld (Fashion Designer, Chanel)
Flavio Albanese (Editor in Chief, DOMUS Magazine)
Fernando Sulichin (Film Producer, Central Films)
Kirill Razlogov (Director of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research)
Laurent Claquin (Senior VP CSR and Executive Committee member, PPR Group)
Specifications: Between 1 and 5 minutes long, preferably in English (or subtitled) and all standard file formats
Submissions: Electronically via the upload portal on www.thecrane.tv

Here you can also register your email address to receive the latest news on the competition.

The winning films will be selected by our accomplished jury and announced at the international launch of TheCrane.tv in March 2009. The rewards for Laureates include cash, equipment and TV broadcast. All entries will be available for viewing on www.thecrane.tv when the competition is over.

Megunica premiered at Milano FF

Megunica, a film by Lorenzo Fonda was premiered at Milano Film Festival in front of the full theatre. This beautiful film is yet to tour the world so we wish it a great journey.