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Closed Circuit Giveaway: Win a Focus Features DVD Set
Focus Features’ latest release Closed Circuit, the taut legal thriller starring Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall, comes out this Friday, and to celebrate we have a package of Focus DVDs to give away to two lucky winners. In order to win copies of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Debt, send the answer to the following question to nick AT filmmakermagazine DOT com: Which previous Focus Features release was also written by Closed Circuit screenwriter Steven Knight? N.B. This contest is only open to residents of the U.S. and Canada.
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Win a DVD Copy of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love
In the past year or so, austere Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl has unspooled his Paradise trilogy at major festivals: Paradise: Love premiered at Cannes last year, Paradise: Faith at Venice later that fall, and Paradise: Hope bowed at the 2013 Berlinale. Strand Releasing has picked up the trilogy for distribution in the U.S., and the first installment has just hit the home entertainment market, with Love coming out on August 6. Courtesy of Strand, we have copies of Paradise: Love to give away on DVD to the first five (5) people who email nick AT filmmakermagazine DOT com with the […]
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Win The World’s End Prize Packs
Thanks to our friends at Focus Features, Filmmaker has three prize packs to give away to mark the upcoming August 23 release of The World’s End, the conclusion of Edgar Wright’s “Cornetto trilogy.” The sci-fi-tinged comedy, starring Wright’s regular cohorts Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, is about a group of high school friends who reunite 20 years on to try and complete an epic pub crawl, but find that their old hometown is not as they remember it. So, if you would like a prize pack comprised of a special The World’s End T-shirt and pint glass (see below), simply […]
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Win Copies of To The Wonder and Mud
Finish off Friday with a free movie. Thanks to Magnolia and Lionsgate, we have five Blu-ray or DVD copies to give away of two of the most acclaimed movies of the year: Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder and Jeff Nichols’ Mud. To win copies of both before their release on August 6, all you have to do is email nick AT filmmakermagazine DOT com with the answer to the following question: Which two women worked on films directed by both Malick and Nichols in 2011? (Clue: one is an actress, the other a producer.)
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Win Copies of Ginger & Rosa and Kiss of The Damned
Filmmaker has five copies to give away of two films out on DVD and Bluray today: Sally Potter’s coming-of-age drama Ginger & Rosa and Xan Cassevetes’ sexy vampire flick Kiss of The Damned, courtesy of Lionsgate and Magnolia respectively. The first people to email nick AT filmmakermagazine DOT com with the correct answer to one of the following trivia questions will a copy of the corresponding film. Ginger & Rosa trivia question: Who was the leading lady in Sally Potter’s first feature film? Kiss of the Damned trivia question: What are the names of the debut feature films by both of Xan Cassevetes’ […]
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Win a Copy of A Place at the Table
Courtesy of Magnolia, we’ve got five copies to give away of Lori Silverbush and Kristi Jacobson’s Sundance doc A Place at the Table, which received critical acclaim for its insightful and engaging analysis of the American hunger crisis. The first five respondents to answer the following question correctly will receive a copy of the DVD: According to the trailer, one in how many kids in the United States will be on Federal Food Assistance at some point in their lives? Email your answers to nick@filmmakermagazine.com. Here is what R. Kurt Osenlund had to say in his interview with the directors for Filmmaker: If Food, […]
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Win a Copy of The ABCs of Death
Inspired by children’s books, The ABCs of Death is a wildly ambitious anthology that draws upon more than two dozen of the horror genre’s most creative, and macabre, directors from around the world (spanning fifteen countries) to bring you segments that range from provocative to hilarious. Under the auspices of the project, the filmmakers were each assigned a letter of the alphabet and then given the freedom to choose a word to craft their short film around. The only requirement was that it dealt with death. The result is a collection that Fangoria called, “a stunning roll call of some of the […]
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Win a Copy of Side Effects
As described on its official site, “Side Effects is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily’s psychiatrist (Jude Law) – intended to treat anxiety – has unexpected side effects.” Dripping with generous tastes of Hitchcock and Henri-Georges Clouzot, the film has been described by The Guardian as, “a gripping psychological thriller about big pharma and mental health that cruelly leaves you craving one last fix.” Now, you can win one of five copies of Side Effects if you are one of the first to […]
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Win a Copy of Mama
As described on the Mama‘s site, “Guillermo del Toro, the Academy Award®-nominated writer of Pan’s Labyrinth, presents this supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When the young sisters are found alive in a decrepit cabin, their uncle (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau,Game of Thrones) and his girlfriend (Oscar® nominee Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty) take them in. As they try to introduce the children to a normal life, Annabel (Chastain) begins to wonder if the traumatized girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home.” Directed by […]
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Win a Copy of Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics
Thanks to our friends at Focal Press, Filmmaker has two copies of Michael Rabiger and Mick Hurbis-Cherrier’s newly updated book, Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics, which is recommended by USC professor Jeremy Kagan as “the only comprehensive book on filmmaking that I recommend to my students.” This current edition, the book’s fifth, has been fully updated to be relevant to today’s readership and not only features practical exercises and immersive projects, and also has a website that complements and expands on all that is featured in the book. To win a copy of the book, simply email nick AT filmmakermagazine DOT […]
