We've collected a list of Twitter accounts from the filmmakers, actors and folks behind the scenes in the U.S. Drama/Doc Comps, Premiere categories and NEXT section. Click on the twitter accounts (below) to follow folks such as Christine Vachon, Mike Birbiglia, the Tim and Eric guys for some lively feeds where the secrets of Park City will be revealed. And don't forget to follow the IONCINEMA.com team @ioncinema -- Nicholas Bell (NB), Eric Lavallee (EL) and myself, Jordan Smith (JS) will be tweeting from this channel.

Yesterday we premiered the poster one sheet for Gregory Kohn's Northeast, today we've your first look at the trailer. Tribeca Film is releasing the indie pic nationwide on December 26th via cable VOD, iTunes, Amazon, and Vudu. For more updates (including a new batch of stills) check out the official Northeast Facebook Page.

We've got your exclusive first look at the poster one sheet for Gregory Kohn's Northeast, the shot on 16mm pic which stars David Call, ("Two Gates of Sleep") and Eleonore Hendricks (from the Safdie Bros.' The Pleasure of Being Robbed and Go Get Some Rosemary). Tribeca Film are releasing the indie pic nationwide on December 26th.

Closing out Wavelengths 2011 was an inspired, if imbalanced, double bill that matched The Return (see pic above) - the newest work from Nathaniel Dorsky (who is some kind of avant-garde guru) - with a live cinema performance by Sandra Gibson, Luis Recoder, and Olivia Block called Aberration of Light: Dark Chamber Disclosure.

Everyone in the avant-garde and experimental cinema world seems to revel in the idea of 'space': interior & exterior spaces, how one 'negotiates' space, 'place' vs. 'space', 'virtual' vs. 'physical', mapping vs. traveling, and so on down the line. Really, though, as we're officially immersed in the still foreign space known as the WWW, we're more disoriented now than ever before.

The most enigmatically grouped programme in this year's Wavelengths was the third showcase. Where Wavelengths 1 was modelled on the fading analogue medium of celluloid, and Wavelengths 4 interpreted the concept of 'space' in six radically different ways, the theme of Serial Rhythms seemed to evolve from one piece to the next.

In its eleventh year, TIFF's Wavelengths programme - which is curated by Andréa Picard and spotlights much of the world's best avant-garde shorts and features - was reduced from six screenings to five. It's anyone's guess as to what prompted the slim, but the end result, in theory, suggested there would be a concentration of the sidebar to only the most superb work, whittling out some of the stragglers and fillers.

I caught one of the year's best docs in Park City earlier this year, and this choice clip underlines how Senna's teammate, and rival Alain Prost's deliberate faux-pas from the previous year sort of implodes one year to the date later when the 1990 Championship is on the line, and a possible similar outcome appears imminent.

Today co-directors Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling of the Toronto International Film Festival announce the first batch of titles that are the make-up of the 36th edition. Today's the pair will read off mostly Gala screening mentions (our Blake Williams will be LIVE tweeting), which in turn give us a strong indication as to what will be shown in Venice and what Telluride, NYFF and BFI London Film Festivals might salvage/lasso as their own.

Running between August 31st and September 10th, the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival would be a dandy last edition for festival impresario Marco Muller even if he doesn't nab the likes of Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster, Walter Salles' On the Road, Fernando Meirelles' 360 and/or Zhang Yimou's Heroes of Naking. In his final year of contract, with approximately twenty-two competition slots (minus the already confirmed opening film from Italian res George Clooney and his TIFF-bound The Ides of March), this thursday's announcement should be heavy on items from the the U.K along with a robust presence from European filmmakers headed by Roman Polanski's Carnage.

Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival turns 15 years old this summer, and sandwiched between the official opening and closing films - Kevin Smith's horror bow Red State and the Guillermo del Toro-scripted and -produced remake of 1973's Don't Be Afraid of The Dark, respectively - will be more than 120 features, 240 short films, 110 invited guests hosting screenings of their films, and numerous special events including the bestowing of lifetime achievement awards and round table discussions. Below is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's on offer this year.

We complete our look at the key players in the Cannes market with the sales agent that has the most number of highly anticipated film projects. Wild Bunch came to the fest with popular items such as Polisse, The Artist and The Kid With a Bike, and it looks like they might outfit Venice and TIFF with some premium titles with Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmasters being one of the most sought after titles this coming August/September.

If I hadn't of missed out on the slate unveiling during the festival, I would have been extremely curious about what the Weinstein Co. had to show for for Jim Field Smith's Butter. With the distribution rights pick-up of The Iron Lady and The Artist, the Weinsteins are now more focused then ever in sticking to what they know best. The distribution and Prod co. had several items that have already been released and are selling, but in the titles that are getting ready for the fall, we look forward the most to Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn starring Emma Watson (see above) and Michelle Williams (aka Harvey's new Paltrow) as Monroe.

With European auteurs Stefan Ruzowitzy (Blackbird) and Tomas Alfredson (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) (see pic of Gary Oldman) moving into more mainstream items, Studiocanal have a strong pair for the Fall festival season that we can look forward to.

The U.S based Sales Agent and Production Co. company comes to Cannes with items for sale and surprisingly enough, they've got a Main Comp entry in Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive. We've got big eyes for a title Sierra/Affinity is repping in Oren Moverman's Rampart which I predict great things for, and Matt Piedmont directorial debut film which might confirm the genius I found in his Sundance winning short films.

The French Sales Agent, Theatrical Distribution and Production company based out of Paris comes to the fest with a pair of items (Cristian Jimenez's Bonsai and Liza Johnson's Return) but Rezo also got a pair of must sees in Julie Delpy's 2 Days in New York (which we could technically find at TIFF and will once again back a Stéphane Brize project -- his A Few Hours of Spring is currently in pre-production.

Pyramide, the French sales agent and theatrical distribution had a great Cannes last year repping films that collected prizes in: A Screaming Man and Ano Bisiesto. This year they've got another Bruno Dumont film (see pic above), the closing film in the UCR section with Andrey Zvyagintsev's Elena and Ismael Ferroukhi receives an invite as well for Free Men in a Cannes' section that we figure isn't really part of the festival since there are no official press screenings made available.

A graduate in Film Direction at Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Brazilian born Ricardo Alves Júnior's first short movie "Material Bruto" (Raw material), received over 10 awards at international festivals, and his second film, "Convite para jantar com camarada Stalin" won the award for Best Experimental Short Film at the International Short Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro; Best Short Film, Best Director and Best Photography at the 40th Film Festival of Brasilia, plus Special Mention "Film of Tomorrow" at the International Festival of Short Films, in Belo Horizonte. This May, Ricardo's 32-minute film "Permanences", was an official selection at Cannes Critic’s Week. Here is our interview with the filmmaker.

With 14 of 16 members in our 2011 Critics' Panel voting, we naturally had to come to a gridlock. We have a two way tie with four votes apiece for The Tree of Life and Le Havre winning the Palme D'Or and in second place we have Pedro with three votes apiece for The Skin I Live In. We have one vote for The Artist, one for The Kid With a Bike and one person voted for Drive -- which must have crazy Vegas odds. I asked our 2011 panel to submit their winner predictions for the top three prizes and if they wanted to add anything further then we'd mention them as well.

I remember when they announced the titles for this year's Main Competition and being baffled/puzzled by the inclusion of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive. Yesterday we found out why it was deserving selection alongside the 19 other competing titles. Starring a soft/angry Ryan Gosling, this is a genre mixer with references/homages to Bullit, Michael Mann's nocturnal cityscapes and it embodies the viciousness of Cannes' winner Oldboy. A film that will won't work for some, but for others this is a game changer -- three folks gave this a perfect score.