Slipknot released album.5: The Gray Chapter in October 2014, and are expected to head out on a North American tour in April 2015 before flying to Europe for a selection of summer festival dates.
Also reflecting world film festival investment in VOD, Festival Scope has announced its Sala Web, a selection of Venice International Film Festival titles that will be viewable during the run, August 27-September 6. Festival Scope is taking advantage of the newly burgeoning tendency of some festivals to market certain films via streaming, rather than relying solely upon physical attendance.
It is held in locations throughout Australia and offers a selection of the main festival's movies.
If cinema transports us to another world, it makes sense that Australia – occupying its own corner of this one – hosts such a wide-ranging selection of foreign film festivals.
The top award to "Onimusha" also highlights the high number of festival selections from the video gaming world.
This year the number of festival selections that include explicit sex is a provocative reminder that even in these relatively liberated times, for many people — gay as well as straight — homosexual behavior and gender fluidity are still synonymous with the Other.
The product of director McElhaney's final thesis for graduation, BriTANick's magnum opus 'Eagles Are Turning People Into Horses' has been on the festival circuit for the last year or two, most notably as an official selection of the Slamdance Film Festival.
The Emperor of Time made the official selection at Sundance Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, and the Berkshire International Film Festival, and was recently released on Vimeo.
We're offering a Guardian Stage reader (and a guest of their choice) the opportunity to stay in one of the new artists' bedrooms at BAC and attend a selection of shows at the festival.
The View From Cannes "Rain" had its world premiere in last year's Quinzaine des Realisateurs, or Directors Fortnight, which is the most prestigious of the parallel events that have grown up around the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival.
