We’re announcing our new online feature, FEST TV 2010, a net TV channel with the highlights of FEST TRAINING GROUND 2010.
This TV channel is only possible with the wonderful collaboration with Jo Coune’s Mediapunt Belgium students.
You can check the channel at our hosted website (http://tv.fest.pt) or at Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/festfilmfestival).

Due to a high number of requests, the deadline for registration in FEST – TG2010 was extended untill the 19th of June. Please be aware that by now there is a very limited number of accomodation packs available, so be sure to be fast to avoid disapointments.
See you in Espinho in June!

We have just confirmed another well established film professional in FEST – Training Ground 2010.
And we have just confirmed no less than Larry Smith, who was the last cinematographer to work with Stanley Kubrick, more exactly in the film Eyes Wide Shut, work which was largely praised. Larry Smith’s career started with a close connection [...]

We are happy to announce the long established Hervé Schneid as the speaker on the Editing Master Class on FEST – Training Ground 2010.
Hervé Schneid is a long time editor and collaborator of Jean Pierre Jeunet, he was the responsible of the editing of Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Alien Resurrected, A Very Long Engagement [...]

We are happy to confirm 4 top experts just added to the Training Ground 2010’s program:
OLIVIER COTTE IN “SPECIAL EFFECTS ON MY BACKYARD”
Olivier Cotte (born June 20, 1963) is a French film director, writer, graphic novel author, and animation historian.
After studying music, ballet, fine arts and films, he worked 15 years in the [...]

The Filmmakers Corner will be a great chance for up and coming filmmakers to expose their work and open new opportunities for them, this section will be a part of FEST-Training Ground 2010.
The Filmmakers Corner will consist on a special screening room, which will be open from the 22 to the 26th [...]

David Macmillan, is a long established Sound Department expert winner of 3 Oscars, and who has worked in the highest level for five decades.
David has worked with some of the best film Directors of our time, he has helped names such as Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Sydney Pollack, Philip Kaufman, Alan Parker, Joel Schumacher, [...]

Marc Price is the person responsible of one of the biggest film phenomenon’s in 2009 with its film “Colin”.
“Colin” hit the spotlight in Cannes where the film wowed by the critics and got several distribution deals, but some films have achieved similar objective, but none of the others had a similar budget to “Colin” that [...]

Nancy Bishop,  is an Emmy-award nominated casting director, and has cast over sixty film anc TV projects, from her base in Prague. She is a member of The Casting Society of America, and the International Network of Casting Directors. She has cast for major feature films including Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist, Hellboy, Bourne Identity, and [...]

We are happy to announce the presence of Manuel Claro on FEST – Training Ground 2010 with the masterclass entitled Fundraising.
Manuel Claro was responsible for the cultural activities in Lisbon’s City Hall, representative of Film Comission. In 2008, he joined Media Desk and became it’s director on October 2009. Claro has shown consistently with his [...]