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The moment when, quite a while ago, one caveman split a pile of small rocks separately from a pile of big boulders, mankind discovered one of its main defining characteristics: the ability to categorize things. By a proc
Each year, around this period, we stop and think things through for a minute, and conclude that summer has indeed passed suspiciously fast. Sadness instills itself bit by bit, alongside a short-term sense of nostalgia fo
Here they are: the winners of August 2017! Congrats to everyone who participated and a big thank you for being part of TMFF this month! You can see all the nominees HERE or below: Best Feature - RCTV: El Silencio de la D
The nominees of August 2017 have been announced. We remind you that voting for the audience award is still open until tomorrow night (31st of August) when we will announce our winners as well. You can see all the nominee
Out of all available marketing tools, one holds a major advantage over all the others, because it's completely free. It won't take one cent from your pocket, and nowadays you can't say the same about a lot of things. And
Summer is slowly but steadily drawing to a close, the days are constantly shrinking, and we're not that far away from chilly, rainy weekends spent with a cup of piping hot tea or coffee in our hands, feverishly anticipat
A couple of weeks ago we were talking about sources of inspiration for film projects; after all, knowing what you want to write about before actually starting to put words on paper is very important. Otherwise, you'll en
It's a commonly known fact that summer is the warmest season of the year. Therefore, I would think it natural for warmth during this season to be expected. However, year in year out, we are constantly bombarded with news
Summer is still very much in full swing, the sun is shining relentlessly, and we've got a brand new set of winners! This month, we're talking to Jacob Pilgaard , who wrote and directed ' Behold, Such Clown ', our Film of
Here they are: the winners of July 2017! Congrats to everyone who participated and a big thank you for being part of TMFF this month! You can see all the winners HERE or below: Best Feature (announced at the end of Augus
More often than not, it's quite easy to attribute one or two defining characteristics to the projects of a director - they appear as recurring themes and frameworks throughout much of what they direct. Woody Allen has pr
The nominees of July 2017 have been announced. We remind you that voting for the audience award is still open until tomorrow night (31st of July) when we will announce our winners as well. You can see all the nominees HE
Did you know that J.K. Rowling told the story of a certain wizard named Harry Potter in 4224 pages? That's all books combined, and it's quite a fair amount, in all honesty. But this statistic shouldn't put you off in cas
It’s July already, and this time we’re talking with Guillaume Caramelle, the writer and director of our Film of the Month winning entry for the June edition of our competition – ‘Nikki Marianne’ . JL – First of all, cong
Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself ‘I want to write a screenplay today’? I know I have, quite often actually. There’s something special about placing words on paper and watching them turn into som
The countdown to celebrating the National Day of France has begun: seven days left until 14 July. Just like the storming of Bastille way back in 1789 represented a turning point in the French Revolution, French cinema ha
The winners of June 2017 have been announced! You can see all the nominees and winners HERE or below: Best Feature - Half-Life in Fukushima 2nd Best Feature - The Dazzling Light of Sunset 3rd Best Feature - A MERE BREATH
What’s the point of making a film if nobody will watch it? It will simply drift into obscurity – or not, since it was born into obscurity and never escaped from its confines – and nobody will ever know of its existence.
The nominees of June 2017 have been announced. We remind you that voting for the audience award is still open until tomorrow night (30th of June) when we will announce our winners as well. You can see all the nominees HE
Hello to our dearest screenwriters, Congrats! The winners of the April-May Screenplay Competition have just been announced. You can see all winners and nominees here: http://tmff.net/winners/screenplay-competition/april-
Today we’re asking some questions to Gage Oxley, the writer and director of the film ‘ This World We Live In ‘, which recently won our May 2017 award for FILM OF THE MONTH. JL - Many congratulations on your fantast
With just about everything in life, there are general rules as to how one thing or another mainly functions, but there are also exceptions to those rules. One such rule states that in at least 9 out of 10 cases, film ada
Let’s try out a little exercise this week. Take a pencil and a piece of paper, then proceed to think about your favourite film in the whole wide world for a minute. Well, it doesn’t really have to be your favourite one –
When Motorola demonstrated the first handheld mobile phone back in 1973, little did they know that what they had just designed as a device utilised to enable voice calls without resorting to a landline would eventually e
