Variety and International Media Report on THE GLOW OF THE FIREFLY’s Success Post Winning ‘Best Director’ at the Brasov International Film Festival

Brasov, Romania — October 14, 2014 — The international media everywhere report about the feature film THE GLOW OF THE FIREFLY that had it’s World Premiere and won the ‘Best Director’ award for Khalid Mahmood Mithu at the Brasov International Film Festival & Market last month and that went on to become Bangladesh’s entry in the Foreign Language Film category at the 87th Academy Awards.

• VARIETY:

Variety – Oscar Race: Bangladesh Selects ‘Firefly’ for Foreign-Language Contention

Yahoo Movies – Oscar Race: ‘Firefly’ for Foreign-Language Contention

• LATIN POST:

Oscar 2015 Predictions, Best Foreign Film

• YAHOO NEWS – MALAYSIA:

Asian films submitted for Oscars 2015

• RMN STARS MAGAZINE – INDIA:

Brasov Film Festival Film Goes for the Oscars

 

BRASOV INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL & MARKET 2015:

The 4th edition of the Annual Brasov International Film Festival & Market will be held September 2 – 16, 2015.

The Brasov International Film Festival & Market has opened submissions. The Festival welcomes submissions of feature-length, nonviolent films only.

About the Festival:

Brasov International Film Festival & Market is the most important and renowned nonviolent film festival in the world. It has been listed by the British Film Council in their ‘Festival Directory’. The Festival takes place in the beautiful resort city of Brasov located in the heart of Romania.

A total of eleven films are presented each year; of these, nine films are screened in-competition and two are screened out-of-competition on the opening and closing gala nights. Each film in-competition is awarded in one of the nine Official Awards categories.

More information about Brasov Film Festival: www.brasovfilmfestival.com

About Global Film Studio:

Global Film Studio Inc. has been federally incorporated in Canada. It is a financing, holding and film distribution company with a world spectrum. Global Film Studio is financing Brasov Film Center.

More information about Global Film Studio: www.globalfilmstudio.com

News about Global Film Studio: www.briffnews.wordpress.com

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Film Presented in World Premiere and Awarded at the Brasov International Film Festival 2014 Becomes Official Entry for the Oscars

• Festival winner becomes Academy Awards contender.

• Dates of the 2015 edition of the Festival are announced.

• Film submissions are now open.

Brasov, Romania — October 6, 2014 — The feature film THE GLOW OF THE FIREFLY that had it’s World Premiere and won the ‘Best Director’ award for Khalid Mahmood Mithu at the Brasov International Film Festival & Market this year has been selected as Bangladesh’s entry in the Foreign Language Film category at the 87th Academy Awards. The film was chosen by the members of the Oscars Selection Committee in Bangladesh following its success at the Festival in Brasov.

From the Romanian headquarters of Brasov Film Center s.r.l., the owner and organizer of the Brasov International Film Festival & Market, the company’s President and Festival Director Daria Trifu has sent a message of ‘Congratulations!’ to Khalid Mahmood Mithu who is currently in the United States of America where he has again been awarded ‘Best Director’ for THE GLOW OF THE FIREFLY at an international film festival in Hollywood.

Director Khalid Mahmood Mithu

“I knew that you will be happy for my success because your Festival was the 1st to discover and to figure out the movie. I was never thinking that I will be going to win a ‘Best Director’ award from your strong Festival in Brasov. It is a real surprise for me.”, wrote Khalid Mahmood Mithu to Daria Trifu.

Festival Director Daria Trifu, Bangladesh Film Producers Faridur Reza and Kona Reza and, far right, Actress Denisa Barvon.

The 4th edition of the Annual Brasov International Film Festival & Market will be held September 2 – 16, 2015.

The Brasov International Film Festival & Market has opened submissions. The Festival welcomes submissions of feature-length, nonviolent films only.

About the Festival:

Brasov International Film Festival & Market is the most important and renowned nonviolent film festival in the world. It has been listed by the British Film Council in their ‘Festival Directory’. The Festival takes place in the beautiful resort city of Brasov located in the heart of Romania.

A total of eleven films are presented each year; of these, nine films are screened in-competition and two are screened out-of-competition on the opening and closing gala nights. Each film in-competition is awarded in one of the nine Official Awards categories.

About Global Film Studio:

Global Film Studio Inc. has been federally incorporated in Canada. It is a financing, holding and film distribution company with a world spectrum. Global Film Studio is financing Brasov Film Center.

More information about Global Film Studio: www.globalfilmstudio.com

News about Global Film Studio: www.briffnews.wordpress.com

Brasov International Film Festival & Market – Day 9

Brasov, Romania — September 12, 2014 – For immediate release – The 3rd edition of Brasov International Film Festival & Market (www.brasovfilmfestival.com), the most important and renowned nonviolent Film Festival in the world, continued today with a full house at the screening of the eighth film in competition, HOP, spoken in Romanian language. Tonight the children of Brasov along with their families were treated with candies and entertained with a lovely comedy directed by Tim Hill. The film, starring Russell Brand, James Marsden and Elizabeth Perkins, brought laughter among the audience. At the end of the screening the children were very happy.

The Festival this evening was presented by Film Director Bruno Pischiutta and Actress Denisa Barvon. After the screening they introduced the audience to the ninth film in competition GLOW OF THE FIREFLY, directed by Khalid Mahmood Mithu, which will be screened tomorrow evening with Romanian language subtitles. The screening will be attended by international stars who are members of the production team. ‘We are very pleased to welcome the Executive Producer Mr. Ebne Hasan Khan who has just arrived in Brasov from London, the film’s Producer and Managing Director of Impress Telefilm Ltd. Mr. Faridur Reza, and Mrs. Kona Reza, Executive Producer at Impress Telefilm Ltd. who have arrived from Bangladesh and who will delight us with their presence tomorrow night’ states Daria Trifu, Festival Director.

As previously established, the Festival changed its venue. Starting tonight, this exclusive event takes place at the elegant Cubix Design Hotel, one of the top hotels in Transylvania.

Brasov International Film Festival & Market thanks to the following partners: TVS-Brasov, RMN Stars, Nissa, Hotel Bella Muzica, 24-Fun, Wigo.ro, Metropola and Oktoberfest Brasov.

Each year the Festival is dedicated to a cause. This year the theme of the Festival is Africa, a continent full of problems and promises.