Dimitris Eipides is the new director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF), appointed by Greek Minister of Culture Pavlos Geroulanos, following the resignation of previous Festival Director, Despina Mouzaki.

Renderyard Film Distribution works closely with the best Broadcast and Distribution Companies from around the world that allow film makers to get their films shown on major television and online channels and make profit from their creative work.

We have partners in the UK, Spain, France and America and work with distribution and TV channels that include: Antenna 3, HULU, iTunes, and American Pay Per View companies including many other others.

Renderyard is very proud to announce that we are now hosting the best ten short documentaries from CINELAN, co-founded by Morgan Spurlock the director of the multi-award-winning Super Size Me. Watch this unique collection of 10 documentary films from around the world and leave your comments and feel free to share the films with your friends.

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You can enter your own short documentary film into the Renderyard Online Documentary Festival sponsored by CINELAN and get the chance to have your film shown in this unique collection.

To enter your film simply upload it to our web site and choose the Online Documentary category.

Your film must be between 2:30 and 3:30 minutes in length to qualify.

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The two shortlists are announced for the 2010 And/or Book Awards, the UK’s leading prizes for books published in the fields of photography and the moving image. A winner from each category will share a prize fund of £10,000. They will be announced during an awards ceremony at the BFI Southbank, London, on Thursday 29 April.

On February 17, 2010, the WCF Day will once again provide an opportunity to learn more about the programme, successes, funding strategies, films, initiatives, and partners of the World Cinema Fund (WCF).

On this occasion the World Cinema Fund will present its new promotional DVD edition that has been made possible with the special additional support of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. On the same day, the WCF invites all its friends and fans as well as representatives of the industry and press to a panel discussion on Iranian Cinema.

Help is at hand for up-and-coming filmmakers who are seeking financial backing for their films. From today a new service is available that links filmmakers with those offering funding.

The team behind Propeller TV (the pioneering short film channel that was launched on Sky in 2006) have developed a web service aimed at enabling filmmakers to get access to all funds for which they could be eligible. The TV channel was sold to Chinese Broadcasters Xiking Group in July 2009 as the internet was seen as a far more appropriate channel for the expanded range of services that Propeller4Film now offers.

Curzon Cinemas, one of the UK's leading independent cinema chains, celebrated its 75th anniversary in style this year. Not only did Curzon open the first venue in Wimbledon together with leading entertainment retailer HMV back in October, but also converted its last remaining 35mm-only screen in Mayfair to digital projection this month. Curzon therefore announces today that it has become the UK's only fully digital cinema circuit.