American Cinema and the Global Market
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INTRODUCTION:
Festivals are one of the places where distributors and exhibitors find new product. As such they are one of the means by which the global film biz gathers and exchanges information. Often the festival is associated with a market (especially Cannes International Festival du Film). Since exhibition in the festival is usually open only to films not currently in distribution, they offer the primary means by which new and/or independent film makers can break in. There are at least 550 festivals annually, or about 10 per week, on average. I have put together info from sources in Variety and elsewhere to present those festivals from September 99 to January 2000.
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Reading 1: Excerpts from VARIETY guide
to Festivals
This inaugural edition of
Variety’s new annual Film Fest Guide arrives at a particularly exciting if
uncertain moment for international film festivals.
Relied upon more and
more for the delivery of cutting-edge talents and masterworks of the major
filmmakers, fests around the world are in a fierce competition for high-profile
films. At the same time, filmmakers are depending upon the kindness of fest
programmers to build critical and popular buzz and fests are serving as an
alternative theatrical system.
That may be good for
cachet, but the economics of fests, both for the organizers and the filmmaking
community, keeps the pocketbook upside an ephemeral goal.
How do the fests survive
and proliferate? Close your eyes and imagine the excitement of Venice,
Deauville, Toronto, Cannes, Karlovy Vary, San Sebastian and the rest. Peek into
our Fest Diversions guide, glance at the astounding lineup of filmmaking talent
on display in all corners of the globe. Bottom line: Forget the bottom line and
celebrate global culture, filmic and otherwise.
There's
an event for everyone
By Lisa D.
Horowitz
Film festivals are a growth industry. Our listings this year encompass more
than 550 film and television festivals and markets.
There are fests that
specialize and fests that generalize. There are fests showing every kind of
film, from studio product to the most independent, low-budget, festival reject;
from silent classics to futuristic sci-fi; from international fare to regional
works. Producers of TV fare will find outlets for showing and selling their
productions. Makers of digital multimedia will find showcases for their work as
well.
And we guarantee there’s
a festival near you. From the Antarctic Film Festival (“for filmmakers left out
in the cold”), which found attendance wasn’t as good as hoped on the icy
continent and plans to hold its second edition in sunny Santa Monica, to
Kathmandu to San Francisco to Rio de Janeiro, festivals are popping up all over
the globe. There’s even the Floating Film Festival, which takes place on a
cruise ship wending its way through the Panama Canal.
Scattered throughout the
listings are profiles of a dozen festivals around the globe: Telluride, Mill
Valley, Fort Lauderdale, Hof Film Days, Amiens, Palm Springs, Gothenburg,
Seattle, Sydney, Art Film, Karlovy Vary and Montreal. Perhaps lesser known than
some, these events have their own particular charms and quirks.
Providing an opportunity
for filmmakers to mingle with their audience and for cinephiles to see movies
that will never be shown anywhere else, spotlighting new trends and new talent,
festivals are the life’s blood of the industry. Enjoy.
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September
Venice Intl. Film
Festival (56th)
Ca Giustinian
San Marco 1364A
Venice 30124, Italy
Phone: (39-041) 521-8878
Fax: (39-041) 522-7639
Director: Alberto Barbera
Programmer: Silvia Menegazzi
Location: Venice, Italy
Competitive.
Deadline: June 30
Dates: Sept. 1-11
Noosa Intl. Film
Festival (1st)
218 Crown St., Suite 1
East Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
Phone: (612) 9360-5384
Fax: (612) 9360-7893
E-mail: noosafilmfest@ozemail.com.au
Web site: www.noosafilmfestival.com
Director/contact: Luke Davis
Location: Noosa, Queensland, Australia
International competitive fest screening features, shorts and docus.
Deadline: July 1
Dates: Sept. 2-8
Figueira da Foz
(28th)
Apartado dos Correios 50407
1709 Lisboa Codex, Portugal
Phone: (351-1) 812-6231
Fax: (351-1) 812-6228
Director: Jose Viera Marques
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Aims at discovering new talents as well as unknowns. Attached independent film
market, MICI. Competitive.
Deadline: July 15
Dates: Sept. 2-12
Intl. Festival of
Fantastic Films (10th)
33 Barrington Road
Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1HZ, U.K.
Phone: (44-161) 929-1423
Fax: (44-161) 929-1067
E-mail: glaneyoung@compuserve.com.uk
Director/contact: Gil Lane-Young
Programmer: Harry Nadler
Location: Manchester, England
Fantasy, sci-fi, horror. Competitive sections for independent and amateur films
of both feature and short length. Also special guests, classics in 3-D,
retrospectives. Held in Manchester.
Deadline: July 25
Dates: Sept. 3-5
1 Reel Film
Festival (4th)
1725 Westlake Ave. N., Suite 202
Seattle, WA 98109
Phone: (206) 281-7788
Fax: (206) 281-7799
E-mail: filmfest@onereel.org
Web site: www.onereel.org
Directors/programmers: Anne Rosellini, Cory Wynne
Location: Seattle, Wash.
Showcase of short cinema, under the umbrella of one of the largest cultural
arts festivals in North America. Competitive.
Deadline: May 10
Dates: Sept. 3-6
Telluride Film
Festival (26th)
53 S. Main St., Suite 212
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: (603) 643-1255
Fax: (603) 643-5938
E-mail: Tellufilm@aol.com
Web site: www.telluridefilmfestival.com
Directors/programmers: Bill Pence, Tom Luddy
Location: Telluride, Colo.
Features and shorts of all styles and lengths are eligible for consideration,
provided they are new works and remain unseen by the public before the
festival. Also retrospectives and three major tributes to guest artists. This
year’s guest director is Peter Sellars.
Deadline: July 15
Dates: Sept. 3-6
Deauville
Festival of American Films (25th)
40 rue Anatole France
92594 Levallois-Perret Cedex, France
Phone: (33-1) 4134-2033
Fax: (33-1) 4134-2077
E-mail: jlasserre@le-public-systeme.fr
Web site: www.festival-deauville.com
Directors: Lionel Chouchan, Andre Halimi
Programmer: Bruno Barde
Location: Deauville, France
U.S.-produced features, shorts, docus, 35mm only. Competitive for indie
features and shorts. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Aug. 6
Dates: Sept. 3-12
Zimbabwe Intl.
Film Festival (2nd)
P.O. Box A4
Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe
Phone: (263-4) 794-355
Fax: (263-4) 707-852
E-mail: djawitz@usa.net
Web site: www.zimbabwe.net/ziff
Directors: Dan Jawitz, Nigel Munyati
Programmer/contact: Dan Jawitz
Location: Harare, Zimbabwe
Competitive for feature films.
Deadline: July 20
Dates: Sept. 3-16
Latin American
Film Festival (10th)
79 Wardour St.
London W1V 3TH, U.K.
Phone: (44-171) 734-8508
Fax: (44-171) 287-2112
Web site: www.metrocinema.co.uk
Director/programmer: Eva Tarr Kirkhope
Location: London
Lineup of contemporary feature films, shorts and documentaries from Latin
America. This year features sections on Mexico, Brazil and Cuba, plus
10th-anniversary look back at the best films of the decade. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: July 2
Dates: Sept. 3-16
MadCat Women’s
Intl. Film Festival (3rd)
937 Fell St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 436-9523
Fax: (415) 934-0642
E-mail: alionbear@earthlink.net
Director/programmer: Ariella Ben-Dov
Location: San Francisco
International films made by women, all genres. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: June 1 (early); July 24 (late)
Dates: Sept. 7, 14, 21, 28
Bar Harbor Film
Festival (1st)
93 Cottage St.
P.O. Box 550
Bar Harbor, ME 04609
Phone: (207) 288-3686
Fax: (207) 288-5723
E-mail: bhff@acadia.net
Web site: www.barharborfilmfest.com
Director/contact: Andrea Sponberg
Location: Bar Harbor, Maine
Juried selection of shorts, features and documentaries. Workshops, panel
discussions, seminars. Deadline: July 1
Dates: Sept. 7-12
Tacoma Tortured
Artists Film Festival (4th)
P.O. Box 1817
Tacoma, WA 98401
Phone: (888) 202-5827
Fax: (253) 627-1525
E-mail: TacomaFilm@aol.com
Web site: www.clubseven.com
Director: James Hume
Programmer: Kristen Revis
Location: Tacoma, Wash.
Independent film and video of all formats, lengths and genres. Competitive.
Deadline: July 31
Dates: Sept. 7-12
Oldenburg Intl.
Film Festival (6th)
Bahnhofstrasse 15
26122 Oldenburg, Germany
Phone: (49-441) 925-0855
Fax: (49-441) 925-0856
E-mail: tnt@filmfest-oldenburg-de
Web site: www.filmfest-oldenburg-de
Director/programmer: Torsten Neumann
Location: Oldenburg, Germany
Independent film from around the world. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: June 30
Dates: Sept. 8-12
Athens Intl. Film
Festival — Opening Nights (5th)
Athens Film Society
5 Benaki St.
15235 Metamorphosi Halandri
Athens, Greece
Phone: (30-1) 606-1413
Fax: (30-1) 601-4137
E-mail: festival@pegasus.gr
Web site: www.pegasus.gr.sinema/festival
Programmer: George Krassakopoulos
Contact: Konstantinos Kontovrakis
Location: Athens
Showcase for American indies as well as shorts, docus and a panorama of world
cinema. Noncom-petitive.
Deadline: July 15
Dates: Sept. 8-16
St. Louis Intl.
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (8th)
PMB #388
6614 Clayton Road
St. Louis, MO 63117-1602
Phone: (314) 997-9846
Fax: (314) 863-6993
E-mail: slilagff@aol.com
Web site: www.slilagfilmfestival.org
Director/contact: Linda Serafini
Programmers: Linda Serafini, Bill Young
Location: St. Louis, Mo.
Noncompetitive fest showcasing international independent films of interest to
the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and straight-allied community.
Deadline: June 25
Dates: Sept. 8-16
RESFEST Digital
Film Festival (3rd)
109 Minna St., Suite 390
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: (415) 437-2686
Fax: (415) 437-2687
E-mail: resfest@resfest.com
Web site: www.resfest.com
Director: Jonathan Wells
Location: San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles
Spotlights the future of filmmaking with screenings, panels, tech
demonstrations. Short films plus a few digital features.
Deadline: June 5 (early); July 5 (late)
Dates: Sept. 9-11 (SF), Sept. 17-19 (Chi), Oct. 21-23 (N.Y.), Nov. 10-14
(L.A.)
Toronto Intl.
Film Festival (24th)
2 Carlton St., Suite 1600
Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1J3, Canada
Phone: (416) 967-7371
Fax: (416) 967-9477
E-mail: tiffg@torfilmfest.ca
Web site: www.bell.ca/filmfest
Director: Piers Handling
Programmers: Piers Handling, Michele Maheux, Noah Cowan, Kay Armatage,
Dimitri Epides, Ramiro Puerta, June Giovanni, Steve Gravestock, Colin Geddes,
Liz Czach, Helen du Toit
Contact: Nuria Bronfman
Location: Toronto
A celebration of cinema featuring hundreds of films and filmmakers from Canada
and abroad. Non-competitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: May 7 (Canadian shorts); May 14 (Canadian features); June 25
(intl. features)
Dates: Sept. 9-18
Intl. Widescreen
Festival — Le Nombre d’Or (5th)
Intl. Broadcasting Convention
Aldwych House
81 Aldwych
London, WC2B 4EL, U.K.
Phone: (44-171) 611-7500
Fax: (44-171) 611-7530
E-mail: joconnell@ibc.org
Web site: www.ibc.org
Director/contact: Jarlath O’Connell
Chairman: Franco Visintin
Location: Amsterdam
Open to all genre of widescreen programs (16:9 video, super 16mm, 35mm). Held
at the RAI Center as part of the Intl. Broadcasting Convention. Competitive.
Deadline: mid-June
Dates: Sept. 10-14
Boston Film
Festival (15th)
P.O. Box 516
Hull, MA 02045
Phone: (781) 925-1373
Fax: (781) 925-3132
E-mail: susanfraine@bostonfilmfestival.org
Web site: www.bostonfilmfestival.org
Director/contact: Susan Fraine
Programmer: Mark Diamond
Location: Boston
Presenting 50 feature-length fiction and docu films, 25 shorts. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: July 15
Dates: Sept. 10-19
Focus on Asia
Fukuoka Intl. Film Festival (8th)
1-8-1 Tenjin, Chuo-ku
Fukuoka 810, Japan
Phone: (81-92) 733-5170
Fax: (81-92) 733-5595
Web site: www.focus-on-asia.com/index_e.html
Director/programmer: Tadao Sato
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Quality films from all over Asia, with regional spotlight. Noncompetitive.
Dates: Sept. 10-19
Yugoslav Feature
Film Festival
Zvezda Film
Trg Slobode 2
21000 Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Phone: (381-21) 615-759
Fax: (381-21) 613-759
Director: Pavle Milivojev
Location: Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Competitive.
Deadline: July 10
Dates: mid-September
Empire State Film
Festival (5th)
P.O. Box 1313
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Phone: (212) 802-4679
Fax: (518) 580-2328
E-mail: Empirefilm@aol.com
Web site: www.empirefilm.com
Directors/contacts: Michael Zimmerman, Jon Galt
Programmer: Media Arts Coalition
Location: Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Ithaca, Utica, Saratoga Springs
and New York City, N.Y.
Screens new works by independent filmmakers and videographers, as well as
student filmmakers, around New York state. Competitive for narrative,
animation, docu, experimental works.
Deadline: July 1
Dates: Sept. 14-Oct. 9
CMJ FilmFest
(5th)
11 Middle Neck Road, Suite 400
Great Neck, NY 11021
Phone: (516) 498-3156
Fax: (516) 466-7161
E-mail: filmfest@cmj.com
Web site: www.cmj.com/Marathon99
Director/contact: Donita Dooley
Location: New York City
Competitive festival for features, shorts, docus. Special recognition to one
film that exhibits excel-lence in use of music. Part of the CMJ Music Marathon.
Deadline: Aug. 2
Dates: Sept. 15-18
Short Cuts
Cologne (2nd)
c/o Kolner Filmhaus
Maybachstr. 111
50670 Koln, Germany
Phone: (49-221) 2227-1027
Fax: (49-221) 2227-1099
E-mail: scc@k-filmhaus.de
Web site: www.k-filmhaus.de
Director: Stefan Sarasi
Location: Cologne, Germany
International short films (up to 30 minutes). Competitive. Also special
screenings (retrospectives, British animation, Belgium program, etc.)
Deadline: June 15
Dates: Sept. 15-19
Independent
Feature Film Market (21st)
104 W. 29th St., 12th floor
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 465-8200
Fax: (212) 465-8525
Web site: www.ifp.org
Directors: Michelle Byrd (exec director), Milton Tabbot (market)
Contact: Milton Tabbot
Location: New York City
Market devoted to emerging U.S. indie films and filmmakers. Docu and fiction
shorts, works-in-progress, features, feature scripts. Also No Borders
international co-production market and IFFM Rough Cuts showcase.
Deadline: June 9
Dates: Sept. 15-22
Showbiz Expo East
(7th)
383 Main Ave.
Norwalk, CT 06851
Phone: (203) 840-5688
Fax: (203) 840-9688
Web site: www.showbizexpo.com
Director: Steven Kalman
Contact: Robert Perschino
Location: New York City
Dates: Sept. 16-18
Breckenridge
Festival of Film (19th)
P.O. Box 718
Breckenridge, CO 80424
Phone: (970) 453-6200
Fax: (970) 453-2692
E-mail: filmfest@brecknet.com
Web site: www.brecknet.com/bff
Director/contact: Shawnna Gauss
Programmer: Terese Keil
Location: Breckenridge, Colo.
Competitive for independent features, shorts and docus, plus studio premieres,
screenplay competi-tion, film forums.
Deadline: late March (screenplays); late June (films)
Dates: Sept. 16-19
Umea Intl. Film
Festival (14th)
P.O. Box 43
90102 Umea, Sweden
Phone: (46-90) 133-388
Fax: (46-90) 777-961
E-mail: film.festival@ff.umea.com
Web site: www.ff.umea.com
Director: Thom Palmen
Location: Umea, Sweden
Features, docus, shorts. National competition.
Deadline: July 23 (shorts), Aug. 4 (features/docs)
Dates: Sept. 16-22
BBC British Short
Film Festival (12th)
B202 Centre House
56 Wood Lane
London, W12 7SB, U.K.
Phone: (44-181) 743-8000, ext. 62222
Fax: (44-181) 740-8540
Director/programmer: Amanda Casson
Contact: Lisa Murray
Location: London
Sole specialized short film fest in the U.K. Screens film and video. Competitive.
Deadline: June 1
Dates: Sept. 16-23
Riga Intl. Film
Forum “Arsenal”
14 Marstalu
Riga, LV 1050, Latvia
Phone: (371) 721-0114
Fax: (371) 782-0445
E-mail: arsenals@latnet.lv
Web site: vip.latnet.lv/arsenals
Director: Benita Sarma
Programmers: Ieva Pitruka, Zaneta Vegnere, Vaiva Krasta
Location: Riga, Latvia
Any length or genre, chosen with the aim of promoting diversity of artistic
approaches and aesthetic conceptions.
Deadline: June 30
Dates: Sept. 16-24
San Sebastian
Intl. Film Festival (47th)
Plaza de Oqendo s/n
20004 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
Phone: (34-943) 481-212
Fax: (34-943) 481-218
E-mail: ssiff@mail.ddnet.es
Web site: www.sansebastianfestival.com
Director/contact: Diego Galan
U.S. contact: Joel H. Coler, phone (310) 246-0688
Location: San Sebastian, Spain
Reviewing recent worldwide productions and recovering classic treasures.
Competitive and noncom-petitive sections. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Aug. 1
Dates: Sept. 16-25
Making Scenes
Film & Video Festival (8th)
2 Daly Ave., Suite 250
Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6E2, Canada
Phone: (613) 566-2113
Fax: (613) 233-0698
E-mail: scenes@fox.nstn.ca
Web site: fox.nstn.ca/~scenes
Director/contact: Donna Quince
Programmers: Donna Quince, Jose Sanchez
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Features, shorts, docs, animation and experimental works on gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgen-dered themes.
Deadline: June 1
Dates: Sept. 16-25
Mostra Rio — Rio
de Janeiro Film Festi-val
Rua Voluntarios da Patria 97
22270-000 Botafogo
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Phone: (55-21) 539-1505
Fax: (55-21) 539-1247
E-mail: ildasan@ibm.net
Director: Nelson Krumholz
Programmers: Marcelo Mendes, Ilda Santiago
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Presenting a panorama of the year’s worldwide productions with films yet
unknown in Brazil. Non-competitive.
Deadline: July
Dates: Sept. 16-30
Gladys Crane
Mountain Plains Film Festival (3rd)
P.O. Box 3951
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-2160
Fax: (307) 766-2197
E-mail: gcflmfes@uwyo.edu
Web site: www.uwyo.edu/A&S/th&d/UWFilmFestival.html
Director: Rebecca Hilliker
Programmer/contact: Harry Woods
Location: Larimer, Wyo.
New films that challenge the status quo and at the same time expand
understanding of the West. Features, docs, shorts, animated films in 16mm or
video format.
Deadline: Aug. 10
Dates: Sept. 17-19
Atlantic Film
Festival (19th)
P.O. Box 36139
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 3S9, Canada
Phone: (902) 422-3456
Fax: (902) 422-4006
E-mail: festival@atlanticfilm.com
Web site: www.atlanticfilm.com
Director: Gordon Whittaker
Programmer: Lia Rinaldo
Contact: Gregor Ash
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Presenting current films from all four Atlantic provinces and the rest of
Canada as well as interna-tional work from countries along the North Atlantic
Rim. Also seminars and co-production confer-ence. Competitive.
Deadline: June 18
Dates: Sept. 17-25
Helsinki Intl.
Film Festival: Love & Anarchy (12th)
P.O. Box 889
00101 Helsinki, Finland
Phone: (358-9) 6843-5230
Fax: (358-9) 6843-5232
E-mail: lanerva@hiff.fi
Web site: www.hiff.fi
Director: Pekka Lanerva
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Daring and controversial titles and themes. Also young European and modern
Asian cinema, Ameri-can independents, gay and lesbian and fantasy films,
Experimental Vision, docs, animation. Non-competitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: July 31
Dates: Sept. 17-26
Bangkok Film
Festival (3rd)
4 Sukhumvit Soi 43
Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Phone: (66-2) 259-3112
Fax: (66-2) 259-2987
E-mail: film@nation.nationgroup.com
Web site: www.nationmultimedia.com/filmfest
Director/programmer: Brian Bennett
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
International features, all genres, 16mm and 35mm. Also shorts and docus.
Noncompetitive.
Deadline: June 15
Dates: Sept. 17-26
Cinema Tout Ecran
(5th)
15 rue General-Dufour
CP 5305
1211 Geneva 11, Switzerland
Phone: (41-22) 328-8554
Fax: (41-22) 329-6802
E-mail: info@cinema-tout-ecran.ch
Web site: www.cinema-tout-ecran.ch
Director/contact: Leo Kaneman
Programmer: Stephanie Billeter
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
International competition for quality films produced by or for television
channels. New series and collections, short films, seminars (new technology,
production).
Deadline: July 10
Dates: Sept. 18-24
Drama Short Film
Festival (5th)
Ag. Varvaras 9
66100 Drama, Greece
Phone: (30-521) 47575
Fax: (30-521) 33526
Director: Antonis Papandopoulos
Location: Drama, Greece
Showcases shorts including fiction, docus, student films, experimental and
animation. Also market. Competitive.
Deadline: June 30
Dates: Sept. 19-25
Jackson Hole
Wildlife Film Festival (5th)
P.O. Box 3940
Jackson Hole, WY 83001
Phone: (307) 733-7016
Fax: (307) 733-7376
E-mail: info@jhfestival.org
Web site: www.jhfestival.org
Director: Mary M. Ford
Programmer: Lisa Samford
Contact: Sarah Dreizler
Location: Grand Teton National Park, Wyo.
More than 550 films in 13 categories, including animal behavior,
cinematography, conserva-tion/environmental, writing. Seminars, forums and
panels devoted to the world of natural history.
Deadline: June 1
Dates: Sept. 20-25
Cinefest: The
Sudbury Film Festival (11th)
218-40 Elm St.
Sudbury, Ontario, PC3 1S8, Canada
Phone: (705) 688-1234
Fax: (705) 688-1351
E-mail: cinefest@vianet.on.ca
Web site: www.cinefest.com
Director: Tammy Frick
Location: Sudbury, Canada
More than 130 Canadian and international films, shorts, docs and animation.
Competitive.
Deadline: Aug. 21
Dates: Sept. 20-26
Sacramento
Festival of Cinema (4th)
c/o Crest Theatre
1013 K St.
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 648-8056
Fax: (916) 442-5939
E-mail: kenneth@interx.com
Web site: www.sacfilmfest.org
Director: Kenneth Knoll
Programmer/contact: Laura Coulter
Location: Sacramento, Calif.
New independent films; evenings dedicated to local cultural groups; acting,
writing and film work-shops; all-day lineup of homegrown films.
Deadline: mid-June
Dates: Sept. 21-25
Aspen Film Fest
(20th)
110 E. Hallam, Suite 102
Aspen, CO 81611
Phone: (970) 925-6882
Fax: (970) 925-1967
E-mail: lthielen@aspenfilm.org
Web site: www.aspenfilm.org
Director/contact: Laura Thielen
Location: Aspen, Colo.
Showing American indies and foreign features, docus and shorts, including
tributes and special presentations. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: July 16
Dates: Sept. 22-26
Fantastisk Film
Festival (5th)
Norra Neptunigatan 5
S-21118 Malmo, Sweden
Phone: (46-40) 124-666
Fax: (46-40) 122-264
E-mail: info@fff.se
Web site: www.fff.se
Director: Magnus Paulsson
Programmer: Pidde Andersson
Contact: Joachim Tevebring
Location: Lund and Malmo, Sweden
Scandinavia’s only festival devoted to films of the fantastic: horror,
thriller, fantasy, sci-fi, under-ground. Competitive.
Deadline: Aug. 2
Dates: Sept. 22-26
Intl. Film Camera
Festival “Manaki Brothers” — Bitola (20th)
Vardar-Film 8 Mart 4
91000 Skopje, Macedonia
Phone/fax: (389-91) 211-811
E-mail: ffmanaki@unec.com.mk
Director: Delco Mihajlov
Programmer: Blagoja Kunevski
Location: Skopje, Macedonia
Competitive festival, focusing on the work of cinematographers. Named after the
first Balkan cam-eraman, Milton Manaki.
Deadline: August
Dates: Sept. 22-26
Nordisk Panorama
(10th)
Filmkontakt Nord
Skindergade 29A
DK-1159 Copenhagen, Denmark
Phone: (45) 3311-5152
Fax: (45) 3311-2152
E-mail: mail@filmkontakt.dk
Web site: www.filmkontakt.dk
Director: Thorgier Gunnarsson
Contact: Kerstin Hagrup
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
Festival travels the five Nordic countries, with the director chosen from that
year’s host country. Competitive for independent Nordic shorts (fiction,
animation, experimental) and docus.
Deadline: May 15
Dates: Sept. 22-26
Netherlands Film
Festival (19th)
P.O. Box 1581
3500 BN Utrecht, Netherlands
Phone: (31-30) 233-684
Fax: (31-30) 231-3200
E-mail: info@filmfestival.nl
Web site: www.filmfestival.nl
Director: Jacques van Heijningen
Programmer: Herman de Wit
Contact: Paul Westgeest
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
The best of new Dutch film and TV drama, including docus and shorts,
incorporating Holland Film Meeting. Also retrospectives of Dutch cinema.
Competitive.
Deadline: July 1
Dates: Sept. 22-Oct. 1
Matita Film Festival
— Intl. Meetings on Ani-mated Film (2nd)
Associazione Culturale Ex Novo
via dei Crociferi, 44
66100 Chieti, Italy
Phone/fax: (39-0871) 321-160
E-mail: exnovo.animation@usa.net
Web site: www.angelfire.com/ct/matitafilmfestival
Directors: Marco Giusti, Camillo D’Alessandro
Contact: Mila Paterra, Camillo D’Alessandro
Location: Guardiagrele, Italy
Selections from the past three years of independent films and from film animation
schools. Also retrospectives, seminars, workshops.
Deadline: June 30
Dates: Sept. 23-26
Blue Sky Intl.
Film Festival (4th)
4185 Paradise Road, #2009
Las Vegas, NV 89109-6506
Phone/fax: (702) 737-3313
E-mail: bsiff@bsiff.com
Web site: www.bsiff.com
Director/programmer: J.M. Hill
Location: Las Vegas
Features, shorts, docs and animation, all genres. Also screenplay competition.
Deadline: July 21
Dates: Sept. 23-26
LA Edge Festival
(1st)
1680 N. Vine St., Suite 1118
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Phone: (323) 466-5141
Fax: (323) 466-5121
Web site: www.greengalactic.com
Contact: Bettina Hubby
Location: Los Angeles
Free programs celebrating Los Angeles' emerging talent in areas including film,
video, new media, art and music.
Dates: Sept. 23-26
Haifa Intl. Film
Festival (15th)
142 Hanassi Ave.
Haifa, Israel 34633
Phone: (972-4) 835-3521
Fax: (972-4) 838-4327
Director/contact: Pnina Blayer
Location: Haifa, Israel
Featuring Mediterranean and Israeli cinema, international panorama, shorts and
documentaries. Competitive for Mediterranean features.
Deadline: Aug. 10
Dates: Sept. 23-28
Holland Film
Meeting
P.O. Box 1581
3500 BN, Utrecht, Netherlands
Phone: (31-30) 232-2684
Fax: (31-30) 213-3200
Director: Jacques van Heijningen
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Competitive. Also market.
Dates: Sept. 24-27
Michigan Lesbian
& Gay Film Festival (7th)
P.O. Box 1915
Royal Oak, MI 48068-1915
Phone: (248) 547-5878
Fax: (248) 547-4405
E-mail: sempq@aol.com
Director/contact: Michael C. Lary
Location: Madison Heights, Mich.
Showcase of gay and lesbian cinema.
Dates: Sept. 24-Oct. 1
Bite the Mango
Film Festival (5th)
National Museum Photography, Film & TV
Bradford, BD11 NQ, U.K.
Phone: (44-1274) 203-308
Fax: (44-1274) 770-217
E-mail: filmfest@mail-server.nmsi.ac.uk
Web site: www.nmsi.ac.uk
Director: Bill Lawrence
Programmers: Irfan Ajeeb
Location: Bradford, England
Celebrating international black and Asian film and TV, both new and archival.
Noncompetitive. Also site of Trade Festival of South Asian & Black Film
& TV.
Deadline: Aug. 1
Dates: Sept. 24-Oct. 2
Festival
International du Film Francophone de Namur (14th)
175 Rue des Brasseurs
B-5000 Namur, Belgium
Phone: (32-81) 241-236
Fax: (32-81) 224-384
E-mail: dany.martin.fiff@skynet.be
Web site: www.fiff.namur.be
Director: Dany Martin
Programmers: Nicole Gillet, Barbara Fiquet
Location: Namur, Belgium
Promoting French-language features, shorts and docus. Competitive.
FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Aug. 15
Dates: Sept. 24-Oct. 2
Ste-Therese/Ste-Adele
Intl. Cinema Festi-val
34 rue Blainville Ouest
Sainte-Therese, Quebec, J7E 1W9, Canada
Phone: (450) 434-0387
Fax: (450) 434-7868
E-mail: festival@odyssee.net
Director: Andre Marion
Programmer: Frederic Lapierre
Location: Sainte-Therese, Canada
Competitive.
Deadline: July 9
Dates: Sept. 24-Oct. 3
Central Florida
Film & Video Festival (17th)
1906 E. Robinson St.
Orlando, FL 32803
Phone: (407) 898-7111
Fax: (407) 898-0504
E-mail: festival@cffvf.org
Web site: www.cffvf.org
Director/contact: Brenda Joyner
Programmer: Jason Neff
Location: Orlando, Tampa, Gainesville and Melbourne, Fla.
Film and video shorts and features in all formats, genres and categories. The
fest tours throughout central Florida. Competitive.
Deadline: June 1
Dates: Sept. 24-Oct. 4
Vancouver Intl.
Film Festival (18th)/Film & TV Trade Forum (14th)
#410-1008 Homer St.
Vancouver, B.C., V6B 2X1, Canada
Phone: (604) 685-0260
Fax: (604) 688-8221
E-mail: viff@viff.org
Web site: www.viff.org
Director: Alan Franey
Programmer: PoChu AuYeung
Location: Vancouver
Presenting 300 films from 50 countries. Sections include Dragons & Tigers:
The Cinemas of East Asia; Canadian Images; midnight series Walk on the Wild
Side; The Best of Britain: Spotlight on France. Tribute for 1999 is Egyptian
helmer Youssef Chahine. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: July 16
Dates: Sept. 24-Oct. 10
New York Film
Festival (37th)
Film Society of Lincoln Center
70 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023
Phone: (212) 875-5610
Fax: (212) 875-5636
E-mail: sbensman@filmlinc.com
Web site: www.filmlinc.com
Director/programmer: Richard Pena
Contact: Sara Bensman
Location: New York City
Twenty-five to 30 international features and shorts screened without categories,
with public screen-ings at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: July 2
DatesSept. 24-Oct. 10
Films From the
South (9th)
Fimens Hus
Dronningens Gate 16
N-0152, Oslo, Norway
Phone: (47-22) 474-500
Fax: (47-22) 474-690
Contacts: Lasse Skagen, Susana Escobar
Location: Oslo, Norway
Showcase for films from Latin America, Africa and Asia, including features,
docus and shorts. Non-competitive.
Dates: Sept. 24-Oct. 3
Intl. Festival of
New Film Split (4th)
P.O. Box 244
21000 Split, Croatia
Phone/fax: (385-21) 525-925
E-mail: split.filmfest@st.tel.hr
Web site: www.st.carnet.hr/split-filmfest
Director: Branko Karabatic
Programmer: Josko Jeroncic
Contacts: Andrea Bubic, Danijela Kuscevic
Location: Split, Croatia
Competitive. New, creative, personal, radical works of all styles, themes,
genres and lengths, whether film, video or new media, preferably from outside
the mainstream.
Deadline: June 1
Dates: Sept. 25-Oct. 2
Ottawa Intl.
Student Animation Festival (2nd)
2 Daly Ave., Suite 140
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6E2, Canada
Phone: (613) 232-8769
Fax: (613) 232-6315
E-mail: oiaf@ottawa.com
Web site: www.awn.com/ottawa
Director/programmer: Chris Robinson
Contact: Suzanne Mullett
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Alternates with the Ottawa Intl. Animation Festival. Only student animation
fest in the world. Open to first-time filmmakers as well as students.
Competitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: July 1
Dates: Sept. 26-Oct. 1
Sportel (10th)
4 Blvd. du Jardin Exotique
Monte Carlo 98000, Monaco
Phone: (377) 9330-2032
Fax: (377) 9330-2033
E-mail: sportel@imcn.com
Web site: www.sportel.org
Director: David Tomatis
Contact: Amparo di Fede
Location: Monte Carlo
International TV program market devoted exclusively to sport. Competitive.
Includes ninth edition of Golden Podium Awards (contact Sissel Durand),
presented in five categories.
Deadline: Submissions accepted on site
Dates: Sept. 27-30
FilmFest Hamburg
(7th)
Friedensalee 44
D-22765 Hamburg , Germany
Phone: (49-40) 3991-9000
Fax: (49-40) 399-190-010
E-mail: filmfest-hamburg@t-online.de
Director: Josef Wutz
Programmers: Josef Wutz, Kathrin Kohlstedde, Gisella Schmalz, Julia Butz
Contact: Anja Ahlers
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Showcase for independent features, international films, docus, animation,
shorts. Tributes and varying focus sections. Noncompetitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: July 7
Dates: Sept. 27-Oct. 3
Annecy Cinema
Italien (17th)
Bonlieu Scene Nationale
1 rue Jean Jaures, BP 294
74007 Annecy-Cedex, France
Phone: (33-4) 5033-4413
Fax: (33-4) 5051-8209
E-mail: anecital@cybercable.tm.fr
Director: Salvador Garcia
Programmer: Jean A. Gili, Pierre Todeschini
Contact: Pierre Todeschini
Location: Annecy, France
Featuring films from Italy including tributes and retrospectives. Competitive.
Deadline: Aug. 20
Dates: Sept. 28-Oct. 5
Screens on the
Bay (5th)
Sacis, Via Teulada 66
Rome 00195, Italy
Phone: (39-06) 3749-8269
Fax: (39-06) 370-1343
Contact: Dino Piretti
Location: Amalfi, Italy
Convention.
Dates: Sept. 29-Oct. 1
Animated
Castles/I Castelli Animati
c/o Consorzio Imprese Castelli Romani
Corso Gramsci 110
00045 Genzano, Rome, Italy
Phone: (39-06) 939-1577
E-mail: castellianimati@allnet.it
Web site: www.castellianimati.it
Location: Genzano, Italy
Screenings and tributes. International competition open to all animated shorts
produced in 1998 and 1999.
Dates: Sept. 29-Oct. 3
Festival du
Film Britannique de Dinard (10th)
2 Boulevard Feart
35800 Dinard, France
Phone: (33-2) 9988-1904
Fax: (33-2) 9946-6715
E-mail: fest.film.britan.dinard@wanadoo.fr
Web site: www.festivaldufilm-dinard.com
Director: Thierry de la Fourniere
Programmer: Hussam Hindi
Contact: Sylvie Pautrel
Location: Dinard, France
Screens British films, with an English-French producers meeting. Premieres and
tributes. Competi-tive.
Deadline: July
Dates: Sept. 30-Oct. 3
Film South
Asia: Festival of South Asian Docu-mentaries (2nd)
P.O. Box 7251
Katmandu, Nepal
Phone: (977-1) 543-333 or 542-544
Fax: (977-1) 521-013
E-mail: fsa@mos.com.np
Web site: www.himalmag.com/fsa
Director/contact: Manesh Shrestha
Location: Katmandu, Nepal
Screens docus on South Asian subjects. Biennial. Competitive.
Dates: Sept. 30-Oct. 3
New York
Comedy Film Festival/Comic Bible Evening of Short Films (2nd)
126 W. 23rd St.
New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 691-6000
Fax: (212) 633-1492
E-mail: nycff@nycff.com
Web site: www.nycff.com
Director: Susie Kricena
Contact: MaryAnn Pierro
Location: New York City
Competitive. Short animated and live-action comedy films.
Deadline: Sept. 1
Dates: Sept. 30
Prix Ars
Electronica (14th)
Europaplatz3
A-4010 Linz, Austria
Phone: (43-732) 6900-24267
Fax: (43-732) 6900-24270
E-mail: info@prixars.orf.at
Web site: prixars.orf.at
Director: Christine Schoepf
Contact: Gabriele Strutzenberger
Location: Linz, Austria
Competitive. Competition for digital media in categories of computer
animation/visual effects, inter-active art, World Wide Web and digital music.
Winners presented during Ars Electronica festival.
Deadline: March
Dates: September
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Black Filmworks
Festival of Film & Video
Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
405 14th St., Suite 515
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (510) 465-0804
Fax: (510) 839-9858
Director: Dorothy Kami
Programmer: Felix Curtis
Location: Oakland, Calif. - Market and competition.
Deadline: July 15
Dates: Oct. 1-3 and 8-10
Gold Camp Film
Festival (1st)
2508½ W. Colorado Ave., #4
Colorado Springs, CO 80904
Phone: (719) 578-0906
E-mail: mhwritscrn@aol.com
Web site: www.cripple-creek.co.us/filmfest.htm
Director/programmer: Michael Herst
Location: Cripple Creek, Colo.
Interactive film festival dedicated to Western films of yesterday and today.
Screening classic movies and non-Western independent films, plus a screenplay
competition.
Deadline: Sept. 10
Dates: Oct. 1-3
Los Angeles Intl.
Short Film Festival (3rd)
P.O. Box 291842
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Phone: (213) 427-8016
Fax: (323) 663-0242
E-mail: info@lashortsfest.com
Web site: www.lashortsfest.com
Director: Robert Arentz
Location: Los Angeles
Eighty short films from around the world in categories of drama, comedy,
animation, docu, experimental, musicvideo. Competitive.
Dates: Oct. 1-3
RiverRun Intl.
Film Festival
Brevard College
400 N. Broad St.
Brevard, NC 28712
Phone: (828) 966-5503
Fax: (828) 884-3790
E-mail: donofrio@brevard.edu
Web site: www.brevard.edu/riverrun
Director/contact: Gene D’Onofrio
Location: Brevard, N.C.
Competitive for international independent features, shorts, docs and animation.
Also screenplay competition.
Deadline: Aug. 10
Dates: Oct. 1-5
L.A. Latino Intl.
Film Festival/LALIFF (3rd)
6777 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 500
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Phone: (323) 469-9066
Fax: (323) 469-9067
Web site: www.latinofilm.org
Director: Edward James Olmos
Programmer: Marlene Dermer
Contact: Adriana E. Padilla
Location: Los Angeles
Showcasing more than 70 features, docus and shorts.
Deadline: July 23
Dates: Oct. 1-10
Tampa Intl. Gay
& Lesbian Film Festival (10th)
4820 N. Highland Ave.
Tampa, FL 33603
Phone/fax: (813) 237-0239
E-mail: abbott4art@aol.com
Web site: www.flagg.net
Director/programmer: Dorothy Abbott
Location: Tampa, Fla.
Films by, for and about gays and lesbians from around the world.
Dates: Oct. 1-10
Cin(e) Poetry
Festival
934 Brannan St., 2nd floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 552-9261
Fax: (415) 552-9271
Web site: www.nationalpoetry.org
Director/contact: Ian C.D. Moore
Location: San Francisco
Work that combines poetry with video, film or digital movies.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: Oct. 2
Mipcom Junior
(7th)
Reed Midem Organization
11 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia
75018 Paris, France
Phone: (33-1) 4190-4576
Fax: (33-1) 4190-4641
Web site: www.mipcom.com
Director: Rene Peres
Programmer: Andre Vaillant
Location: Cannes
Youth programming screenings. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: Aug. 19
Dates: Oct. 2-3
Mipcom (15th)
Reed Midem Organization
11 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia
75018 Paris, France
Phone: (33-1) 4190-4576
Fax: (33-1) 4190-4641
Web site: www.mipcom.com
Director: Rene Peres
Programmer: Andre Vaillant
Location: Cannes
Television program market.
Deadline: Sept. 6
Dates: Oct. 4-8
Intl. Student
Film Festival (4th)
721 Broadway, Room 11043
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 998-1795
Fax: (212) 995-4063
Web site: www.nyu.edu/pages/intlfest
Contact: Jaqueline Milles
Location: New York City
International festival with panels and workshops celebrating young filmmakers
from 35 film schools in 28 countries. Competitive.
Deadline:By invitation only.
Dates: Oct. 4-9
Cherbourg
Festival of Irish & British Films (15th)
15 Passage Digard
50100 Cherbourg, France
Phone: (33-2) 3393-3894
Fax: (33-2) 3301-2078
Director/programmer: Catherine Tyson
Contact: Jean Lejuez
Location: Cherbourg, France
Dates: Oct. 5-12
Flanders Intl.
Film Festival — Ghent (26th)
Kortrijksesteenweg 1104
9051 Ghent, Belgium
Phone: (32-9) 242-8060
Fax: (32-9) 221-9074
E-mail: info@filmfestival.be
Web site: www.filmfestival.be
Director/contact: Jacques Dubrulle
Programmer: Walter Provo
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Competitive, with cash prizes. FIAPF-recognized. Programs features, shorts,
retrospectives, originally with focus on music in film.
Deadline: Aug. 10
Dates: Oct. 5-16
Okomedia-Intl.
Ecology Film Festival
Okomedia Institut
Habsburgerstr. 9a
79104 Freiburg, Germany
Phone: (49-761) 52024
Fax: (49-761) 555-724
Director: Werner Kobe
Location: Freiburg, Germany
Competitive.
Deadline: May 31
Dates: Oct. 6-10
Sitges Intl. Film
Festival of Catalonia (32nd)
Av. Josep Tarradellas 135, esc. A, 3o 2a
08029 Barcelona, Spain
Phone: (34-93) 419-3635
Fax: (34-93) 439-3635
E-mail: cinsit@sitgestur.com
Web site: www.sitges.com/cinema
Director: Roc Villas
Location: Sitges, Spain
Competitive for Fantastic (fantasy films) and Gran Angular (recent non-fantasy
productions) sections. Noncompetitive sections include Retrospectiva,
Brigadoon, Audiovisual Catala. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: July 31 (shorts), Aug. 15 (features)
Dates: Oct. 6-16
Chicago Intl.
Film Festival (35th)
32 W. Randolph St., Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60601-9803
Phone: (312) 425-9400
Fax: (312) 425-0944
E-mail: filmfest@wwa.com
Web site: www.chicago.ddbn.com/filmfest/
Director: Michael J. Kutza
Programmers: Helen Gramates, Jim Healy
Location: Chicago
Oldest international competitive fest in North America. Competitive for
international features, first/second features, docus, shorts, student
productions. Noncompetitive for Special Presentations (films believed to have a
powerful impact on global auds), World Discoveries, American Discoveries, Black
Cinema. Also in-person tributes and retrospectives.
Deadline: July 30
Dates: Oct. 6-21
Animac: Mostra
Internacional de Cinema d’animacio de Lleida (3rd)
Regidoria de Cultura
Major 31
25007 Lleida, Spain
Phone: (34-973) 700-395
Fax: (34-973) 222-288
E-mail: animac@paeria.es
Web site: www.paeria.es/cultura/animac
Director: Audiovisuals Unit, Culture Dept. of the Town Hall of Lleida
Programmers: Fredy Massad, Carles Porta, J.R. Castan, Alicia Guerrero
Yeste
Contact: Alicia Guerrero Yeste
Location: Lleida, Spain
Noncompetitive animation festival open to shorts and features in all
techniques.
Deadline: Aug. 30
Dates: Oct. 7-10
Wildscreen (10th)
P.O. Box 366
Bristol, BS99 2HD, U.K.
Phone: (44-117) 909-6300
Fax: (44-117) 909-5000
E-mail: info@wildscreen.org.uk
Web site: www.wildscreen.org.uk
Director: Jane Krish
Contact: Sue Lion
Location: Bristol, England
The world’s biggest festival of images from the natural world. Competitive
biennial event for natural history and environmental film, TV and interactive
media.
Deadline: end of March
Dates: Oct. 7-13
Austin Film
Festival (6th)
1604 Nueces
Austin, TX 78701
Phone: (512) 478-4795
Fax: (512) 478-6205
E-mail: austinfilmfestival@aol.com
Web site: www.austinfilmfestival.org
Directors: Barbara Morgan, Marsha Milam
Programmer/contact: Dianne Murray
Location: Austin, Texas
Shorts, student shorts, features. Competitive. Runs concurrent with the Heart
of Film Screenwriters Competition/Conference.
Deadline: Aug. 23 (shorts/features); Sept. 1 (student shorts)
Dates: Oct. 7-14
Denver Intl. Film
Festival (22nd)
1430 Larimer Square, Suite 201
Denver, CO 80202
Phone: (303) 595-3456
Fax: (303) 595-0956
E-mail: dfs@denverfilm.org
Web site: www.denverfilm.org
Director/programmer: Ron Henderson
Contacts: Ron Henderson, Bret Withey
Location: Denver, Colo.
Invitational expo of film, including international features, cutting-edge indie
fiction and docu films, animation, experimental works, kids programs and
shorts. Competitive.
Deadline: July 15
Dates: Oct. 7-14
Mill Valley Film
Festival (22nd)
38 Miller Ave., Suite 6
Mill Valley, CA 94941
Phone: (415) 383-5256
Fax: (415) 383-8606
E-mail: finc@well.com
Web site: www.finc.org
Director: Mark Fishkin
Programmer: Zoe Elton
Location: Mill Valley, Calif.
International video, interactive media and children’s films. Noncompetitive.
FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: June 30
Dates: Oct. 7-17
Warsaw Film
Festival (15th)
P.O. Box 816
PL-00950 Warsaw 1, Poland
Phone: (48-22) 853-3636
Fax: (48-22) 853-1184
E-mail: festiv@wff.org.pl
Web site: www.wff.org.pl
Director/programmer: Stefan Laudyn
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Showcase for international features, 35mm only. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: June 30
Dates: Oct. 7-18
Leeds Intl. Film
Festival (13th)
The Town Hall
Leeds, LS1 3AD, U.K.
Phone: (44-113) 247-8398
Fax: (44-113) 247-8397
E-mail: filmfestival@leeds.gov.uk
Web site: www.leedsfilm.com
Director/programmer: Chris Fell
Contact: Charlotte Fergusson
Location: Leeds, England
Sections include Voices of Cinema (conversations with special guests), Eureka
(new European filmmaking, with workshops), e-volution (digital cin-ema),
Fanomenon (cult films) and Fringe Film Festival. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: June 30
Dates: Oct. 7-23
Adirondack Silent
Film Festival (2nd)
P.O. Box 489
Lake Placid, NY 12946
Phone/fax: (518) 576-2063
E-mail: naj@kvvi.net
Web site: www.adirondackfilm-society.org
Director/contact: Naj Wikoff
Programmer: Nelson Page
Location: Lake Placid, N.Y.
Noncompetitive festival celebrating the art of silent film. Screenings accompanied
by live music.
Dates: Oct. 7-28
queerDOC
P.O. Box 1081
Darlinghurst, NSW 1300, Australia
Phone: (61-2) 9332-4938
Fax: (61-2) 9331-2988
E-mail: info@queerscreen.com.au
Web site: www.queerscreen.com.au
Location: Sydney, Australia
Documentaries about, made by or of interest to gays and lesbians.
Dates: Oct. 8-10
FilmFest Kansas
City (6th)
705 E. 72nd St.
Kansas City, MO 64131
Phone: (816) 333-0814
Fax: (816) 421-0255
E-mail: menglish@juno.com
Web site: www.filmkc.org
Director/contact: Martin English
Programmers: Jerry Harrington, John Shipp
Location: Kansas City, Mo.
Noncompetitive for international independent films.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: Oct. 8-14
New Orleans Film
& Video Festival (12th)
225 Baronne St., Suite 1712
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: (504) 523-3818
Fax: (504) 529-2430
E-mail: neworleansfilmfest@worldnet.att.net
Web site: neworleansfilmfest.com
Director: Carol Gniady
Programmers: John Despias, Angela Santoro
Location: New Orleans, La.
Independent and arthouse films and videos, as well as the MPA Latin American
Film & Lecture Tour, curated classics, international films. Features,
shorts, docs, animation, musicvideos, etc. Competitive.
Deadline: June 15
Dates: Oct. 8-14
Intl. Film
Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg (48th)
Collini-Center, Galerie
D-68161 Mannheim, Germany
Phone: (49-621) 102-943
Fax: (49-621) 291-564
E-mail: ifmh@mannheim-filmfestival.com
Web site: www.mannheim-filmfestival.com
Director: Michael Koetz
Programmers: Michael Koetz, Jan Heijs, Gunter Minas, Petra Hoehne
Location: Mannheim and Heidelberg, Germany
Aims to discover talented new independent filmmakers from all over the world.
Competitive for features, docus and shorts. FIAPF-recognized. Also market.
Deadline: July 25
Dates: Oct. 8-16
Hot Springs
Documentary Film Festival (8th)
P.O. Box 6450
Hot Springs, AR 71902-6450
Phone: (501) 321-4747
Fax: (501) 321-0211
E-mail: hsdff@docufilminst.org
Web site: www.docufilminst.org
Director: Edwina Fraley
Programmer: Gretchen Miller-Taylor
Contact: Georganne Beck
Location: Hot Springs, Ark.
About 70 documentaries screened, plus forums and seminars. Noncompetitive.
FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: April 28
Dates: Oct. 8-17
Raindance Film
Showcase (7th)
81 Berwick St.
London W1V 3PF, U.K.
Phone: (44-171) 287-3833
Fax: (44-171) 439-2243
E-mail: info@raindance.co.uk
Web site: www.raindance.co.uk
Director/contact: Elliot Grove
Programmer: Suzanne Ballantyne
Location: London
Presents independent films and videos. Competitive. Also market.
Deadline: Aug. 15
Dates: Oct. 8-23
Pordenone Silent
Film Festival (18th)
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto
c/o La Cineteca del Friuli
Via Bini, Palazzo Gurisatti
33013 Gemona, Italy
Phone: (39-0432) 980-458
Fax: (39-0432) 970-542
E-mail: gcm@proxima.conecta.it
Web site: www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/
Directors: Livio Jacob, David Robinson
Location: Sacile, Italy
Showcase for silent cinema, with sections this year on Nordic silents of the
1920s, Biographs by D.W. Griffith, films by Graham Cutts on which Alfred
Hitchcock worked and 30 recently rediscovered Melies films. Noncompetitive.
Also market.
Dates: Oct. 9-16
Italian Film
Festival (23rd)
233 Santa Margarita Drive
San Rafael, CA 94901
Phone: (415) 456-4056
Fax: (415) 456-4086
E-mail: lido@italianfilm.com
Web site: www.italianfilm.com
Director/programmer: Lido Cantarutti
Location: San Rafael, Calif.
Showcase for Italian features, subtitled in English. Noncompetitive. Held on
six successive Saturday nights.
Dates: Oct. 9-Nov. 20
Cork Intl. Film
Festival (44th)
Hatfield House, Tobin Street
Cork City, Ireland
Phone: (353-21) 271-711
Fax: (353-21) 275-945
E-mail: ciff@indigo.ie
Web site: www.corkfilmfest.org/ciff
Director: Michael J. Hannigan
Programmer: Bo Mandeville
Location: Cork, Ireland
International program of features, docus, shorts, animation, experimental
films. Competitive for shorts; noncompetitive for features, docus. Irish
Show-case and Focus On... sections. Retrospectives, seminars, master classes.
Deadline: first week of July
Dates: second week of October
PILOTS (Programme
for the Intl. Launch of Television Series Work-shops)
Diputacio 279
E-08007 Barcelona, Spain
Phone: (34-93) 487-3773
Fax: (34-93) 487-3952
Director: Pera Fages
Location: Sitges, Spain
Deadline: Sept. 14
Dates: Oct. 10-16
London Premiere
Screenings
Greyhound House
23-24 George St.
Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1HY, U.K.
Phone: (44-181) 948-5522
Fax: (44-181) 940-1685
E-mail: emmab@single-market.co.uk
Contact: Emma Bewick
Location: London
Pre-Mifed market and screenings.
Dates: Oct. 11-15
Canadian Intl.
Annual Film/Video Festival (29th)
25 Eugenia St.
Barrie, Ontario, Canada, L4M 1P6
Phone/fax: (705) 733-8232
Fax: (705) 733-8232
E-mail: ciaff@canada.com
Web site: fast.to/ciaff
Director/contact: Ben Andrews
Programmer: Kevin Harrison
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia
Competitive for shorts and features.
Deadline: June 15
Dates: Oct. 12-16
Bogota Film
Festival (16th)
Calle 26, No 4-92 Piso 1
Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia
Phone: (57-1) 282-5196
Fax: (57-1) 342-2872
E-mail: cidc@col1.telecom.com.co
Director/programmer: Henry Laguado
Contact: Jose Maria Zuluaga (Bogota; josezul@col1.telecom.com.co); Jairo
Cruz (Europe; jairocruz@hotmail.com)
Location: Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia
Films by new directors (first three films). Each year a different country is
guest of honor (1999: France). Competitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: June 30
Dates: Oct. 12-20
Kudzu Film
Festival (2nd)
P.O. Box 1861
Athens, GA 30603
Phone: (706) 227-6090
Fax: (706) 227-1083
E-mail: omni@prometheus-x.com
Web site: www.prometheus-x.com
Directors/programmers: Todd Campbell, Paul Marchant
Contact: Jason Emond
Location: Athens, Ga.
Features and shorts in all genres. Competitive.
Deadline: Aug. 1 (early); Aug. 15 (late)
Dates: Oct. 13-16
Dokumentart —
European Film Workshop (8th)
Grosse Krauthoferstrasse 16
D-17033, Neubrandenburg, Germany
Phone: (49-395) 566-6609
Fax: (49-395) 566-6612
E-mail: latuecht@t-online.de
Web site: www.nbnet.de/latuecht
Director: Holm-Henning Freier
Contact: Cornelia Jarisch
Location: Neubrandenburg, Germany
Competitive. Documentaries in all lengths. Programs for youth, Eastern European
films, film schools and retrospectives.
Deadline: June 25
Dates: Oct. 13-17
Japan Digital
Animation Festival
Nagoya Chamber of Commerce & Industry
2-10-19, Sakae, Naka-ku
Nagoya, 460-8422, Japan
Fax: (81-52) 231-6767
E-mail: info@jdaf.gr.jp
Web site: www.jdaf.gr.jp
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Competitive for computer-generated animation. Also workshops and production
expo.
Deadline: Aug. 31
Dates: Oct. 13-17
Vistas Film
Festival (1st)
2808 Fairmount St., Suite 300
Dallas, TX 75201
Phone: (214) 220-3260
Fax: (214) 220-3790
E-mail: vistas99@hotmail.com
Director: Rita Meno
Location: Dallas, Texas
Highlighting minority involvement in the film arts, with emphasis on Hispanic
artists and cultures. Features, shorts, Q&As, panels, tributes.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: Oct. 14-17
Valencia Film
Festival (19th)
Fundacion Municipal de Cine
Plaza del Arzobispo, 2 Bajo
46003 Valencia, Spain
Phone: (34-96) 392-1506
Fax: (34-96) 391-5156
Director: Luis Fernandez
Programmer: Elena Escriba
Location: Valencia, Spain
Aiming to encourage a greater understanding between people and cultures,
especially in the Mediterranean area. Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 1
Dates: Oct. 14-21
Pusan Intl. Film
Festival (4th)
Yachting Center, Room 208
#1393 Woo-1 Dong
Haeundae-Gu, Pusan 612-021, South Korea
Phone: (82-51) 747-3010
Fax: (82-51) 747-3012
E-mail: piff00@chollian.net
Web site: www.piff.or.kr
Director/contact: Dong-Ho Kim
Programmers: Yong-Kwan Lee (Korean); Jeon Jay (intl.); Ji-Seok Kim (Asian)
Location: Pusan, South Korea
Screens Korean and international features, shorts, indie films, animation,
docus, box office hits, retrospectives. Competitive. FIAPF-recognized. This
edition will focus on past, present and future of Asian cinema in anticipation
of the millennium.
Deadline: Aug. 12
Dates: Oct. 14-23
Chicago Intl.
Children’s Film Festival (16th)
1517 W. Fullerton Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: (773) 281-9075
Fax: (773) 929-0266
E-mail: kidsfest@facets.org
Web site: www.cicff.org
Director/programmer: Rebekah Cowing
Contact: Rebekah Cowing, Kathleen Beckman
Location: Chicago
Films, videos and TV programs, including live-action and animated shorts and features,
as well as child-produced works. Competitive.
Deadline: May 31
Dates: Oct. 14-24
FCMM (Montreal
Intl. Festival of Cinema & New Media)
3668 Boulevard St-Laurent
Montreal, Quebec H2X 2V4, Canada
Phone: (514) 843-4725
Fax: (514) 843-4631
E-mail: montrealfest@fcmm.com
Director/programmer: Claude Chamberlan
Location: Montreal
Deadline: May 15
Dates: Oct. 14-24
San Juan
Cinemafest
P.O. Box 4543
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902-4543
Phone: (787) 721-6125
Fax: (787) 724-4187
Director: Mario Paniagua
Programmer: Dominique Borrell
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Competitive.
Deadline: Aug. 31
Dates: mid-October
DOCtober: The
Intl. Documentary Film Festival (3rd)
Intl. Documentary Assn.
1551 S. Robertson Blvd., Suite 201
Los Angeles, CA 90035-4257
Phone: (310) 284-8422
Fax: (310) 785-9334
E-mail: ida@artnet.net
Director/programmer: Betsy A. McLane
Contact: Melissa Disharoon
Location: Pasadena, Calif.
Showcase for U.S. and international independent documentaries, both feature and
short.
Deadline: July 15
Dates: Oct. 15-21
L’immagine
Leggera Intl. Videoart, Film & Media Festival (4th)
CP 136
90133 Palermo, Italy
Phone: (39-091) 696-1740
Fax: (39-091) 696-1557
E-mail: info@leggera.it
Web site: www.leggera.it
Director/programmer: Alessandro Rais
Contact: Marcello Alajmo, Maurizio Spadaro, Ignazio Plaia
Location: Palermo, Italy
Summary of the present state of audiovisual art, including video, experimental
film, performance and media installation, plus lectures and workshops.
Competitive for experimental video/film, CD-ROM, radio plays.
Deadline: July 10
Dates: Oct. 15-23
Atlantic City
Film Festival (3rd)
6701 Black Horse Pike, A4
Egg Harbor Township, NY 08234
Phone: (609) 646-1640
Fax: (609) 646-1656
E-mail: filmfest@jerseydirect.com
Web site: www.jerseydirect.com/filmfest
Director: Joe Fedison
Programmer: Brian Neidig
Contact: Alison Schlachter
Location: Atlantic City, N.J.
Competitive. Features, shorts, docs and animation in 35mm, 16mm and Beta.
Deadline: Aug. 20
Dates: Oct. 15-24
Viennale (Vienna
Intl. Film Festival) (38th)
Stiftgasse 6
A-1070 Vienna, Austria
Phone: (43) 526-5947
Fax: (43) 523-4172
E-mail: office@viennale.or.at
Web site: www.viennale.or.at
Director/programmer: Hans Hurch
Location: Vienna, Austria
"Festival of festivals,” highlighting best of other fests worldwide.
Features, documentaries, shorts. Homages and tributes. Noncompetitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Aug. 15
Dates: Oct. 15-27
Sao Paulo Intl.
Film Festival/Mostra Internacional de Cinema (23rd)
Al. Lorena 937 - cj.303
01424-001 Sao Paulo, Brazil
Phone: (55-11) 883-5137 or 3064-5819
Fax: (55-11) 853-7936
E-mail: info@mostra.org
Web site: www.mostra.org
Director: Leon Cakoff
Programmers: Leon Cakoff, Renata de Almeida
Contacts: Christian Poccard, Renata de Almeida
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
New Directors competition (first, second or third features) and International
Perspective section, offering features and shorts from about 60 countries.
Emphasis on independents. Competitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Aug. 12
Dates: Oct. 15-28
Kidscreen
Rue des Palais 112
B-1030 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: (32-2) 242-5409
Fax: (32-2) 242-7427
Director: Felix van Ginderhuysen
Location: Milan and Como, Italy
Market.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: Oct. 16-19
Prix Europa
(13th)
Prix Europa/SFB (Sender Freies Berlin)
D-14046 Berlin, Germany
Phone: (49-30) 3031-1610
Fax: (49-30) 3031-1619
E-mail: prix-europa@t-online.de
Director: Susanne Hoffmann
Location: Berlin and Potsdam, Germany
Now merged with the Prix Futura, this event shows films produced for TV
including fiction, nonfiction, miniseries and programs for young people. Also
hosts a European radio & TV competition.
Deadline: July 1
Dates: Oct. 16-23
Mifed (66th)
Fiera Milano
Largo Domodossola 1
I-20145 Milan, Italy
Phone: (39-02) 4801-2912 or 4801-2920
Fax: (39-02) 4997-7020
E-mail: mifed@fmd.it
Web site: www.fmd.it/mifed
Director: Antonello Tessarin
Contact: Elena Lloyd
Location: Milan, Italy
International film market.
Deadline: Oct. 1
Dates: Oct. 17-22
European Cable
Communications ’99
Cable Communications Assn.
Fifth Floor, Artillery House, Artillery Row
London SW1P 1RT, U.K.
Phone: (44-171) 222-2900
Fax: (44-171) 799-1471
Contact: John Robertson
Location: London
Dates: Oct. 18-20
ShowEast
244 W. 49th St., Suite 200
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 246-6460
Fax: (212) 265-6428
E-mail: sunshine@maestro.com
Contact: Mitchell Neuhauser
Location: Atlantic City, N.J.
Convention for cinema owners, distributors and equipment/concession
manufacturers and dealers.
Dates: Oct. 18-21
Sheffield Intl.
Documentary Festival (6th)
The Workstation
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield, S1 2BX, U.K.
Phone: (44-114) 276-5141
Fax: (44-114) 272-1849
E-mail: info@sidf.co.uk
Web site: www.sidf.co.uk
Director/contact: Kathy Loizou
Programmer: Alex Cooke
Location: Sheffield, England
The U.K.’s only film and TV documentary festival. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: June 15
Dates: Oct. 18-24
Uppsala Intl.
Short Film Festival (18th)
Box 1746
75147 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: (46-18) 120-025
Fax: (46-18) 121-350
E-mail: uppsala@shortfilmfestival.com
Web site: www. shortfilmfestival.com
Director/contact: Asa Garnert
Programmer: Christoffer Olofsson
Location: Uppsala, Sweden
Sweden’s only international short film festival, screening new short fiction,
animation, docu and experimental films. Also retrospectives, thematic programs,
Nordic video section, focus on Swedish film schools, children’s film festival.
Competitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: July 23
Dates: Oct. 18-24
Hamburg Lesbian
& Gay Film Festival (10th)
Querbild e. V.
Schanzenstr. 45
D-20357 Hamburg, Germany
Phone: (49-40) 348-0670
Fax: (49-40) 340-522
E-mail: filmtage@hamburg.gay-web.de
Web site: hamburg.gay-web.de/filmtage
Programmers: Joachim Post, Ronald Behm, Andreas Regelsberger, Astrid
Luders, Bettina Wagner
Contacts: Joachim Post, Andreas Regelsberger
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Films of any length, category and format with gay or lesbian theme. Competitive
for shorts, European features.
Deadline: Aug. 2
Dates: Oct. 19-24
Yamagata Intl.
Documentary Film Festival (6th) )
Kitagawa Building, 4th floor
6-42 Kagurazaka
Shinjuku-ju, Tokyo, 162-0825, Japan
Phone: (813) 3266-9704
Fax: (813) 3266-9700
E-mail: yidff@bekkoame.ne.jp
Director: Yano Kazuyuki
Programmers: Ono Seiko, Fujioka Asako
Location: Yamagata, Japan
Competitive. Biennial.
Deadline: March 31
Dates: Oct. 19-25
Hamptons Intl.
Film Festival (7th) )
3 Newtown Mews
East Hampton, NY 11937
Phone: (516) 324-4600
Fax: (516) 324-5116
E-mail: hiff@hamptonsfest.org
Web site: www.hamptonsfest.org
Director: Denise Kasell
Programmers: Linda Blackaby, Lynda A. Hansen
Contact: Shawn Caila Folz
Location: East Hampton, N.Y.
International festival includes shorts, features, docus, “discovery” market and
a digital gallery. Competitive for short, feature, docu, student short; also
audience awards.
Deadline: May 30 (shorts); June 30 (features)
Dates: Oct. 20-24
Marco Island Film
Festival (2nd) )
P.O. Box 2002
Marco Island, FL 34146
Phone: (941) 642-3378
Fax: (941) 394-1476
E-mail: info@marcoislandfilmfest.com
Web site: www.marcoislandfilmfest.com
Director: Patricia Berry
Programmer: Heather Kretschmer
Contact: Joy Shinn
Location: Marco Island, Fla.
International independent features. Also seminars, panels, workshops.
Noncompetitive.
Deadline: Aug. 20
Dates: Oct. 20-24
Tucson Lesbian
& Gay Film Festival (5th) )
P.O. Box 40726
Tucson, AZ 85717-0726
Phone: (520) 885-2315
E-mail: tucson1999@aol.com
Web site: members.aol.com/tucson1999
Director: Garry Forger
Programmer/contact: Joe Saracco
Location: Tucson, Ariz.
Drama, docu, short, student, experimental films. Bringing to Tucson films that
otherwise would be unavailable to the community. Noncompetitive
Deadline: July 15
Dates: Oct. 20-24
Heartland Film
Festival (8th)
613 N. East St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone: (317) 464-9405
Fax: (317) 635-4201
E-mail: hff@pop.inquest.net
Web site: www.heartlandfilmfest.org
Director: Jeffrey L. Sparks
Contact: Mary Jane Sorbera
Location: Indianapolis, Ind.
Films that explore the human journey by artistically expressing hope and
respect for the positive values of life. Competitive.
Deadline: June 15
Dates: Oct. 20-28
Fort Lauderdale
Intl. Film Festival (14th)
1402 E. Las Olas Blvd., #007
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Phone: (954) 760-9898
Fax: (954) 760-9099
E-mail: Brofilm@aol.com
Web site: www.ftlaudfilmfest.com
Director: Gregory von Hausch
Programmer: Bonnie Leigh Adams
Contact: Lily Majjul-Pardo
Location: Fort Lauderdale, with mini-festivals in Miami, Boca Raton and
Hollywood, Fla.
International event showcasing more than 100 features, documentaries, animation
and shorts, by both professionals and students, with galas and educational
seminars. Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 1
Dates: Oct. 20-Nov. 15
Fort Worth Film
Festival (2nd)
P.O. Box 17206
Fort Worth, TX 76102-0206
Phone: (817) 915-9155
Fax: (817) 390-7226
E-mail: fwff@fortworthfilmfest.com
Web site: www.fortworthfilmfest.com
Director: Dwight Greene
Contact: Sheila Greene
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
All formats, all genres, with special emphasis on films exemplifying the spirit
of life in the West. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: July 15
Dates: Oct. 21-24
Ottawa Intl.
Animation Festival (14th)
2 Daly Ave., Suite 140
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6E2, Canada
Phone: (613) 232-8769
Fax: (613) 232-6315
E-mail: oiaf@ottawa.com
Web site: www.awn.com/ottawa
Director/programmer: Chris Robinson
Contact: Suzanne Mullett
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Largest competitive animation festival in North America, featuring
retrospectives, professional development workshops and a trade fair.
FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: July 1
Dates: Oct. 21-24
United Nations
Assn. Film Festival (2nd)
UNAFF
Stanford University
P.O. Box 9369
Stanford, CA 94309
Phone: (650) 725-0012
Fax: (650) 725-0011
E-mail: jasmina1@unaff.org
Web site: www.unaff.org
Director/contact: Jasmina Bojic
Programmers: Jasmina Bojic, Seeta Pena Gangadharan
Location: Stanford, Calif.
Noncompetitive international documentary fest.
Deadline: June 30
Dates: Oct. 21-24
Vermont Intl.
Film Festival (10th)
One Main St.
Union Station
Burlington, VT 05401
Phone: (802) 660-2600
Fax: (802) 860-9555
E-mail: viff@together.net
Web site: www.vtiff.org
Director: Jennie Bedusa
Programmer: Kenneth Peck
Contact: Devon C. Purdy
Location: Burlington, Vt.
Theme of fest is “images and issues for social change,” with categories of war
and peace; justice and human rights; and the environment. Also Cuban showcase
and an Asian cinema program.
Deadline: Aug. 1
Dates: Oct. 21-24
Virginia Film
Festival (12th)
Drama Dept., University of Virginia
109 Culbreth Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Phone: (804) 982-5277
Fax: (804) 924-1447
E-mail: filmfest@virginia.edu
Web site: www.vafilm.com
Director/programmer: Richard Herskowitz
Location: Charlottesville, Va.
Themed fest, this year on the subject TechnoVisions, an exploration of the
emergence of new media technologies. Event brings together industry
professionals, critics, scholars and film lovers to discuss and see classic,
independent and premiere films, videos and CD-ROMs. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: July 1
Dates: Oct. 21-24
New York Comedy
Film Festival
110 W. 57th St.
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 343-8449
Fax: (212) 343-9557
E-mail: nycff@nycff.com
Web site: www.nycff.com
Contact: Duncan M. Rogers
Location: New York City
Screening unreleased features, shorts and animation celebrating the people who
make us laugh.
Dates: Oct. 21-25
AFI Los Angeles
Intl. Film Festival (13th)
2021 N. Western Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone: (323) 856-7709
Fax: (323) 462-4049
E-mail: afifest@afionline.org
Web site: www.afifest.com
Director/programmer: Jon Fitzgerald
Contact: Julianna Brannum
Location: Los Angeles
Competitive showcase for American independent and international filmmakers, as
well as tributes and special events. Shorts, animation, docus.
FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: June 15 (early), Aug. 2 (final)
Dates: Oct. 21-29
FIFI: Intl. Film
Festival About Insects (3rd)
1 rue Littre
F-66170 Millas, France
Phone/fax: (33-4) 6857-2749
E-mail: opielr@wanadoo.fr
Web site: www.educ-envir.com/OPIE_LR
Director: Remi Pinault
Contact: Nathalie Hanon
Location: Narbonne, France
Showing every kind of movie about insects.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: Oct. 22-24
Palo Alto French
Film Festival (1st)
P.O. Box 114
Palo Alto, CA 94302-0114
Phone: (650) 404-2211
Fax: (650) 320-9660
E-mail: info@pafff.org
Web site: www.pafff.org
Director/contact: Hayet Ennabli
Location: Palo Alto, Calif.
Feature-length film from France and French-language countries around the world.
Noncompetitive.
Dates: Oct. 22-24
Seattle Intl. Gay
& Lesbian Film Festival (4th)
1122 E. Pike St., PMB 1313
Seattle, WA 98122
Phone: (206) 323-4274
Fax: (206) 323-4275
E-mail: filmfest@drizzle.com
Web site: www.drizzle.com/~filmfest
Directors: Justine Barda, Kirsten Schaffer
Location: Seattle, Wash.
Lesbian and gay film and video. Competitive for shorts and features.
Dates: Oct. 22-29
Film & Music
Fest (10th)
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau-Gesellschaft e.V.
Kornerstr. 3
D-33602 Bielefeld, Germany
Phone: (49-521) 67743
Fax: (49-521) 67727
E-mail: murnau.ram@mail.bicos.de
Web site: www.fh-bielefeld.de/fb4/murnau
Director/programmer: Kurt Johnen
Location: Bielefeld, Germany
Archival program of silent movies with live orchestral accompaniment.
Dates: Oct. 22-30
Valladolid Intl.
Film Festival (44th)
Teatro Calderon
c/Leopoldo cano, s/n, 4th floor
P.O. Box 646
47003 Valladolid, Spain
Phone: (34-983) 305-700
Fax: (34-983) 309-835
E-mail: festvalladolid@seminci.com
Web site: www.seminci.com
Director: Fernando Lara
Contact: Denise O’Keefe
Location: Valladolid, Spain
Competitive for features, shorts and docus not screened before in Spain.
Noncompetitive Meeting Point section. Retrospectives, this year on Alexandre
Trauner, Robert Guidiguian, Jaime Chavarri, 1939 Memories of a Spanish Exile
and School of Cinema: INSAS, Brussels.
Deadline: June 30
Dates: Oct. 22-30
Golden Rhyton
Nonfeature Film Festival
Bulgarian National Film Center
2-A Dondukov Blvd.
1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Phone: (359-2) 987-4096
Fax: (359-2) 873-626
E-mail: nfc@mail.bol.bg
Director: Dimitar Dereliev
Programmer: Karin Yanakieva
Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: Oct. 23-29
Cinekid (13th)
Weteringschans 249
NL-1017 XJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
Phone: (31-20) 624-7110
Fax: (31-20) 620-9965
E-mail: engel2x@xs4all.nl
Director: Sannette Naeye
Programmers: Harry Peters (film), Signe Zeilich (TV)
Location: Amsterdam
Showcasing the best film and TV created for children and young adults.
Competitive.
Deadline: Aug. 1
Dates: Oct. 23-31
Kyiv Intl. Film
Festival Molodist (29th)
Dom Kino, Suite 115
6 Saksagansky St.
252033 Kiev, Ukraine
Phone/fax: (380-44) 227-4557
E-mail: molodist@gu.kiev.ua
Web site: www.uis.kiev.ua/~molodist
Director: Andriy Khalpakhchi
Programmer: Alek Shpylyuk
Contact: Lyudmila Novikova
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Showcase for student films as well as shorts, docus, animation and features.
Competitive. FIAPF-recognized. Also a noncompetitive program featuring
Ukrainian cinema 1998-99, retrospectives of Budapest film school and programs
on Swiss docu filmmakers and East Europe cinematography.
Deadline: June 15
Dates: Oct. 23-31
Columbus Intl.
Film & Video Festival (48th)
5701 N. High St., Suite 200
Worthington, OH 43085
Phone/fax: (614) 841-1666
E-mail: info@chrisawards.org
Web site: www.chrisawards.org
Director: Richard B. Long
Programmers: Richard B. Long, Linda Thornburg
Contact: Joyce Long
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Film, video and CD-ROM entries compete in subject-matter categories.
Entertainment, docu, informational and TV. Event also is known as the Chris
Awards.
Deadline: July 3; July 17 (late)
Dates: Oct. 24-27
DaKino Film
Festival (9th)
DaKino Foundation
16-20 Calea Victoriei St.
Pasaj Villa Cross
Bucharest 3, Romania
Phone: (40-1) 311-1154
Fax: (40-1) 311-0029
E-mail: dakino@ines.ro
Contacts: Dan Chisu, Anca Pantu, Adina Dimitrief
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Competitive for docus, fiction features, animation, short films. Also
conferences.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: Oct. 25-30
Kinofilm ’98 —
Manchester Intl. Short Film & Video Festival (5th)
48 Princess St.
Manchester, M1 6HR, U.K.
Phone: (44-161) 288-2494
Fax: (44-161) 237-3423
E-mail:john.kino@good.co.uk
Web site: www.kinofilm.org.uk
Director/programmer: John Wojowski
Location: Manchester, England
Showcase for innovative international shorts. Animation, U.S. underground,
Eastern European, lesbian & gay sidebars. Competitive.
Deadline: Aug. 21
Dates: Oct. 25-31
Tranny Fest
584 Castro St., Suite 273
San Francisco, CA 94114
Phone/fax: (415) 552-4249
E-mail: trannyfest@aol.com
Directors/programmers: Christopher Lee, Alison Austin
Location: San Francisco
Transgender and transgenre cinema. All genres.
Deadline: July 31
Dates: Oct. 26-30
Intl. Leipzig
Festival of Documentary & Animated Films (42nd)
Grosse Fleischergasse 11
D-04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone: (49-341) 980-3921
Fax: (49-341) 980-6141
E-mail: dok-leipzig@t-online.de
Web site: www.mdr.de/dokfestival
Director: Fred Gehler
Programmers: Fred Gehler, Tamara Trampe, Otto Alder, Barbara Ciselski,
Jurgen Bruning
Contacts: Grit Lemke (press); Gerd Werner Schnabel
Location: Leipzig, Germany
Competitive for international documentary and animated films and videos. Also
retrospectives, tributes, market.
Deadline: Sept. 5
Dates: Oct. 26-31
Intl. Hof Film
Days (33rd)
Heinz Badewitz Lothstr. 28
D-80335 Munich, Germany
Phone: (49-89) 129-7422 or 30796-8700
Fax: (49-89) 123-6868
E-mail: info@hofer-filmtage.de
Web site: www.hofer-filmtage.de/
Director/contact: Heinz Badewitz
Programmers: Heinz Badewitz, Rainer Hubsch
Location: Hof, Germany
Features, shorts, docus. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: Oct. 27-31
Geneva Film
Festival “Stars of Tomorrow” (12th)
35, rue des Bains — C.P. 5615
CH-1211 Geneve 11, Switzerland
Phone: (41-22) 809-9450
Fax: (41-22) 809-9444
Contact: Roland Tay
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Discovering and promoting new European actors. Competitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: mid-August
Dates: Oct. 28-Nov. 2
Rencontres
Internationales de Cinema a Paris (5th)
Forum des Images
Porte St. Eustache
75001 Paris, France
Phone: (33-1) 4476-6200
Fax: (33-1) 4476-6224
E-mail: jbledsoe@vdp.fr
Web site: www.forumdesimages.net
Director: Michel Reilhac
Programmer: Marie-Pierre Macia
Contact: Jeffrey Bledsoe
Location: Paris
Thirty new international independent features. Competitive.
Deadline: July 31
Dates: Oct. 28-Nov. 8
Mediterranean
Cinema Festival (21st)
78 avenue du Piree
F-34000 Montpellier, France
Phone: (33-4) 9913-7373
Fax: (33-4) 9913-7474
E-mail: cinemed@mnet.fr
Web site: www.cinemed.tm.fr
Director/programmer: Pierre Pitiot
Location: Montpellier, France
Mediterranean films past and present. Competitive for features and shorts; also
competition for development grants for full-length fiction films.
Deadline: July 31
Dates: Oct. 29-Nov. 7
San Luis Obispo
Intl. Film Festival (7th)
P.O. Box 1449
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406
Phone: (805) 546-3456
Fax: (805) 781-6799
E-mail: information@slofilmfest.org
Web site: www.slofilmfest.org
Director/programmer: Mary A. Harris
Location: San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Showing classics and restored films, shorts, docus, animation and international
features. Seminars and guest lectures. Competitive for fiction features and
shorts, docus, animation.
Deadline: Aug. 1
Dates: Oct. 29-Nov. 7
St. Louis Intl.
Film Festival (8th)
55 Maryland Plaza, Suite A
St. Louis, MO 63108
Phone: (314) 454-0042
Fax: (314) 454-0540
E-mail: info@sliff.org
Web site: www.sliff.org
Director/contact: Delcia Corlew
Programmer: Audrey Hutti
Location: St. Louis, Mo.
International fest presenting more than 100 features, docus and shorts, with
specialty sidebars, seminars and tributes. New Filmmakers Forum com-petition.
Deadline: Aug. 21; Sept. 10 (late)
Dates: Oct. 29-Nov. 7
Abitibi-Temiscamingue
Intl. Film Festival (18th)
215 Avenue Mercier
Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, J9X 5W8, Canada
Phone: (819) 762-6212
Fax: (819) 762-6762
E-mail: fciat@sympatico.ca
Web site: www.telebec.qc.ca/fciat
Director: Jacques Matte
Contact: Nathalie Albert
Location: Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada
Showcase for about 80 international features and shorts, with some 20
premieres. Fiction, animation, etc., in all lengths. “Sorties du Festival”
(projection evenings) presented in different cities of the region.
Noncompetitive.
Deadline: Sept. 1
Dates: Oct. 30-Nov. 4
Tokyo Intl. Film
Festival (12th)
3F Landic Ginza Building No. 2
1-6-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku
Tokyo 104-0061, Japan
Phone: (81-3) 3563-6305
Fax: (81-3) 3563-6310
Director: Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Contact: Toshiyuki Horie
Location: Tokyo
Showcase for the best young and Asian cinema. Competitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: July 15
Dates: Oct. 30-Nov. 7
Olympia Film
Festival (16th)
Olympia Film Society
416 Washington St. SE, Suite 208
Olympia, WA 98501
Phone: (360) 754-6670
Fax: (360) 943-9100
E-mail: ofs@olywa.net
Web site: www.olywa.net/ofs
Director: Holly House
Programmer/contact: Sean Savage
Location: Olympia, Wash.
International, indie, experimental, animation, classic and fringe features,
docus and shorts. Competition for experimental shorts.
Deadline: August
Dates: October
Native American
Film & Video Festival (11th)
National Museum of the American Indian
One Bowling Green
New York, NY 10004
Phone: (212) 514-3730
Fax: (212) 514-3725
E-mail: fvc@ic.si.edu
Web site: www.si.edu/nmai_film+video
Director/contact: Elizabeth Weatherford
Location: New York City
Films, videos, radio programs and electronic media projects made by Native
Americans or reflecting Native American perspectives. Features, docus,
experimental works.
Deadline: March
Dates: late October-early November
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Duisburg Film Week
(23rd)
Am Konig-Heinrich-Platz
D-47049 Duisburg, Germany
Phone: (49-203) 283-4171
Fax: (49-203) 283-4130
Director: Werner Ruzicka
Location: Duisberg, Germany
Showcase for docus in German. Competitive.
Deadline: Aug. 13
Dates: Nov. 1-7
Ohio Independent
Film Festival (14th)
2258 W. 10th St., #5
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
Phone: (216) 781-1755
E-mail: OhioIndieFilmFest@juno.com
Web site: www.ohiofilms.com
Directors/programmers: Bernadette Gillota, Annetta Marion
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Showcase for independent film and video. Competitive. Also market.
Deadline: Aug. 1 (early); Sept. 1 (late)
Dates: Nov. 2-7
News World Intl.
Forum for Broadcast News
39 St. James’s St.
London SW1A 1JD, U.K
. Phone: (44-171) 491-0880
Fax: (44-171) 491-0990
Director: Kerry Stevenson
Location: Barcelona
Dates: Nov. 3-5
Film Arts
Festival of Independent Cinema (15th)
346 Ninth St., 2nd floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 552-8760
Fax: (415) 552-0882
E-mail: festival@filmarts.org
Web site: www.filmarts.org
Director/contact: Mark Taylor
Programmers: Mark Taylor, Kevin Cunningham
Location: San Francisco
Showing Northern California indie film and video. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: June 18 (early); July 9 (final)
Dates: Nov. 3-7
FilmFestival
Cottbus (Festival of Young East European Cinema) (9th)
Bautzener Strasse 91
D-03050 Cottbus, Germany
Phone: (49-355) 431-070
Fax: (49-355) 431-0720 or 431-0717
E-mail: filmbuero@inpetho.de
Web site: www.cottbus.de/kultur/filmfestival
Director: Roland Rust (artistic), Peter Fischer (managing)
Programmer: Roland Rust
Contact: Eberhard Nahly
Location: Cottbus, Germany
Competitive for feature films, shorts and children’s/youth films. Also an
annual regional
focus, Spectrum, national hits and co-productions with East European countries.
Deadline: Aug. 10
Dates: Nov. 3-7
Louisville Film
& Video Festival (3rd)
c/o Speed Art Museum
2035 S. Third St.
Louisville, KY 40208
Phone: (502) 634-2724
Fax: (502) 634-9242
E-mail: nrenick@speedmuseum.org
Web site: www.artswatch.org/lfvf.html
Director/programmer: Nancy Renick
Location: Louisville, Ky.
Films selected by a jury of filmmakers, scholars and critics. All genres.
Competitive.
Deadline: Aug. 1
Dates: Nov. 3-7
Northampton Film
Festival (5th)
351 Pleasant St., Suite 213
Northampton, MA 01060
Phone: (413) 586-3471
Fax: (413) 584-4432
E-mail: filmfest@nohofilm.org
Web site: www.nohofilm.org
Directors/programmers: Howard Polonsky & Dee DeGeiso
Location: Northampton, Mass.
Independent U.S. film and videos, shorts, animation, docs. Competitive. Also
seminars and work-shops.
Deadline: June 30
Dates: Nov. 3-7
Up-and-Coming
Film Festival Hannover (5th)
Postfach 1967
D-30019 Hannover, Germany
Phone: (49-511) 661-102
Fax: (49-511) 393-025
E-mail: info@up-and-coming.de
Web site: www.up-and-coming.de
Director/programmer: Harald inHulsen
Location: Hannover, Germany
International competition for young filmmakers and video artists, up to 27
years old.
Deadline: Aug. 1
Dates: Nov. 3-7
London Film
Festival (43rd)
National Film Theatre
South Bank, London SE1 8XT, U.K.
Phone: (44-171) 815-1322
Fax: (44-171) 633-0786
E-mail: sarah.lutton@bfi.org
Web site: www.lff.org.uk
Director: Adrian Wootton
Programmer: Sandra Hebron
Contact: Sarah Lutton
Location: London
International cinema, all gauges and lengths, plus video and documentary.
Noncompetitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Aug. 6
Dates: Nov. 3-18
Latino Film
Festival of Marin (3rd)
3100 Kerner Blvd., Suite G
San Rafael, CA 94901
Phone: (415) 459-3530
Fax: (415) 456-0560
E-mail: cinefest@latinofilmfestival.org
Web site: www.latinofilmfestival.org
Director/contact: Sylvia Perel
Programmer: S. Stalman
Location: San Rafael, Calif.
Works produced by or about Latinos in the U.S. and internationally. Competitive
in categories of narrative short, docu, women’s film (by or about women’s
issues), student film, feature.
Deadline: July 1 (early); July 15 (late)
Dates: Nov. 4-7
MicroCineFest
(3rd)
3700 Beech Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: (410) 243-5307
E-mail: bfink@bcpl.net
Web site: www.bcpl.net/~bfink/microcinefest
Director/programmer: Skizz Cyzyk
Location: Baltimore, Md.
Showcasing D.I.Y. projects with substream/psychotronic subject matter. All
lengths and formats. Competitive, including prizes for coolest video made for
less than $100 and coolest film made for less than $1,000.
Deadline: July 31
Dates: Nov. 4-7
Native American
Arts & Intl. Film Festival (1st)
P.O. Box 26321
Las Vegas, NV 89126
Phone: (702) 365-5686
Fax: (702) 365-5698
Director/contact: Patricia Martinelli Price
Location: Las Vegas
Dates: Nov. 4-7
Nordic Film Days
Lubeck (41st)
Schildstrasse 12
D-23539 Lubeck, Germany
Phone: (49-451) 122-4105
Fax: (49-451) 122-4106
Directors: Andrea Kunsemuller, Ada Kadelbach
Contact: Wolf-Rudiger Ohlhoff
Location: Lubeck, Germany
Devoted to the cinema of North and Northeastern Europe. Organized by the city
of Lubeck with the film institutes and foundations of Denmark, Finland,
Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic states. Includes feature, docu, short
and children’s/youth films. Competitive.
Deadline: June 9
Dates: Nov. 4-7
Boston Jewish
Film Festival (11th)
1001 Watertown St., 3rd floor
Newton, MA 02465
Phone: (617) 244-9899
Fax: (617) 244-9894
E-mail: info@bjff.org
Web site: www.bjff.org
Director/contact: Sara L. Rubin
Programmer: Kaj Wilson
Location: Boston and Brookline, Mass., with selected films in
Marblehead, Mass., and Hanover, N.H.
Best of contemporary cinema with Jewish themes. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: May 31
Dates: Nov. 4-14
Ajijic Festival
Internacional de Cine (1st)
Centro Ajijic de Bellas Artes
Colon 43
45920 Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico
Phone: (52) 3766-3070 (English); (52) 013-684-3856 (English or Spanish)
Fax: (52) 3766-1920
E-mail: jim2rob@laguna.com.mx or jorge@cinepronic.com.mx
Web site: mexcon-nect.com/amex/cineindex.html
Director: James Lloyd
Programmer: Isabel Fuente
Contacts: James Lloyd, Marcela Gutierrez
Location: Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico
Open to all genres of shorts, docus, animation or feature films. Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 1
Dates: Nov. 5-7
Banff Mountain
Film Festival (24th)
P.O. Box 1020, Stn.38
Banff, Alberta T0L 0C0, Canada
Phone: (403) 762-6125
Fax: (403) 762-6277
E-mail: cmc@banfcentre.ab.ca
Web site: www.banffcentre.ab.ca/cmc
Director/programmer: Bernadette McDonald
Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada
Competitive international fest for films and videos on mountain subjects.
Deadline: Sept. 17
Dates: Nov. 5-7
Amiens Intl. Film
Festival (19th)
MCA, Place Leon Gontier
F-80000 Amiens, France
Phone: (33-3) 2271-3570
Fax: (33-3) 2292-5304
E-mail: amiensfilmfestival@burotec.fr
Director/programmer: Jean-Pierre Garcia
Location: Amiens, France
Competitive showcase focuses on films exploring cultural identity, minority
groups and ethnic issues, with emphasis on little-known cinema from around the
world. Features, shorts or docus that address identity of people or ethnic
minority, racism or issues of representation and differences. Also
retrospectives and tributes. Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 6
Dates: Nov. 5-14
Augsburg
Children’s Film Festival (19th)
Schroeckstr. 6
86152 Augsburg, Germany
Phone: (49-821) 349-1060
Fax: (49-821) 349-5218
E-mail: filmbuero@t-online.de
Director/programmer: Ellen Gratza
Location: Augsburg, Germany
International children’s films. Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 1
Dates: Nov. 5-14
Hawaii Intl. Film
Festival (19th)
1001 Bishop St.
Pacific Tower, Suite 745
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone: (808) 528-3456
Fax: (808) 528-1410
E-mail: hiffinfo@hiff.org
Web site: www.hiff.org
Director/programmer: Christian Gaines
Location: Honolulu and neighboring islands
Artistic, political and commercial films and videos from or about Asia, the
Pacific Rim and North America. Competitive.
Deadline: July 12
Dates: Nov. 5-14 in Honolulu; Nov. 17-21 on neighboring islands (Hawaii,
Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Lanai)
Northwest Film
& Video Festival (26th)
Northwest Film Center
1219 SW Park Ave.
Portland, OR 97205
Phone: (503) 221-1156
Fax: (503) 294-0874
Web site: www.nwfilm.org
Contact: Meagan Atiyeh
Location: Portland, Ore.
Juried survey of new features, shorts and docus by independent producers living
in Oregon, Wash-ington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and British Columbia.
Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: Nov. 5-14
West Virginia
Intl. Film Festival — Fall (15th)
P.O. Box 2165
Charleston, WV 25328-2165
Phone: (304) 342-7100
Fax: (304) 776-8469
E-mail: haynespam@aol.com
Web site: www.wviff.org
Director/programmer: Pamela Haynes
Location: Charleston, W.Va.
Shorts and features in 35mm, all genres. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: Aug. 1
Dates: Nov. 5-14
Worldfest —
Flagstaff Intl. Film Festival (7th)
P.O. Box 56566
Houston, TX 77256
Phone: (713) 965-9955
Fax: (713) 965-9960
E-mail: worldfest@aol.com
Web site: www.worldfest.org
Director: J. Hunter Todd
Programmer: EK Haney
Location: Flagstaff, Ariz.
Focusing on American and foreign indie features and shorts. Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 10
Dates: Nov. 5-14
Three Rivers Film
Festival (18th)
477 Melwood Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: (412) 681-5449
Fax: (412) 681-5503
Web site: www.pghfilmmakers.org
Programmer: Gary Kaboly
Contact: Tom Ripy
Location: Pittsburgh, Pa.
World cinema and American independents. Noncompetitive.
Dates: Nov. 5-18
Ljubljana Intl.
Film Festival
Presernova 10
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: (386-61) 176-7150
Fax: (386-61) 224-279
Director: Jelka Stergel
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 20
Dates: Nov. 5-19
Independent Film
Festival of Ourense (4th)
Apartado 664
32080 Ourense, Spain
Phone: (34-988) 224-127
Fax: (34-988) 249-561
E-mail: oufest@ourencine.com
Web site: www.ourencine.com
Director/programmer: Jorge Maroto
Location: Ourense, Spain
Competitive sections for short and feature-length independent films, and for
shorts from Portuguese and Galician production companies or directors.
Seminars, workshops, retrospectives. Also hosts Atlantic Axis Film Forum.
Deadline: July 22
Dates: Nov. 6-13
London Program
Market
23-24 George St.
Richmond, Surrey TW9 1HY, U.K.
Phone: (44-181) 948-5522
Fax: (44-181) 332-0495
Director: James Laing
Location: London
Market for buyers and sellers of TV programs.
Dates: Nov. 8-10
Shorts Intl. Film
Festival (3rd)
9 Desbrosses St., 2nd floor
New York, NY 10013
Phone: (212) 343-9598
Fax: (212) 343-1416
E-mail: lwalborsky@mindspring.com
Web site: www.shorts.org
Director/contact: Lisa Walborsky
Location: New York City
Competitive for shorts in categories of animation, comedy, docu, drama,
experimental and student.
Deadline: Sept. 13
Dates: Nov. 8-11
Rassegna di
Palermo/Intl. Sport Film Festival (21st)
Via XII Gennaio
32-90141 Palermo, Italy
Phone: (39-091) 334-609
Fax: (39-091) 611-4968
Director/contact: Vito Maggio
Programmer: Claudio Bertieri
Location: Palermo, Italy
Features, shorts and videos covering the broad subject of sport. Competitive.
Deadline: July 31
Dates: Nov. 8-12
Cinanima — Intl.
Animated Film Festival (23rd)
Apartado 743 - Rua 62, 251
4500-901 Espinho Codex, Portugal
Phone: (351-2) 734-4611 or 734-1621
Fax: (351-2) 734-6015
E-mail: cinanima@mail.telepac.pt
Web site: www.cinanima.pt
Director: Antonio Ferreira Gaio
Programmer: Hernani Barrosa
Contacts: Antonio Gaio, Cristina Lima, Manuela Lima
Location: Espinho, Portugal
International competitive event devoted to animation. Retrospectives,
exhibitions, tributes, work-shops, debates.
Deadline: Aug. 2
Dates: Nov. 8-14
Filmfest
Braunschweig (13th)
Hochstr. 21
D-38102 Braunschweig, Germany
Phone: (49-531) 75597
Fax: (49-531) 75523
E-mail: filmfest@t-online.de
Web site: forum.gaertner.de/filmfest
Directors/programmers: Stefan Vockrodt, Edgar Merkel, Margot Ruhlender,
Roland Kirsch
Contact: Martina Fuchs
Location: Braunschweig, Germany
About 70 features and 70 short films, mainly European or Euro co-productions.
Competitive for European debut film.
Deadline: Aug. 31
Dates: Nov. 9-14
Channel Islands
Indie Film & Video Festival (2nd)
1500 Colonia Road, #10
Oxnard, CA 93030
Phone: (805) 385-7844
Fax: (805) 240-9743
E-mail: eptf@aol.com
Director: Luis Guereca
Programmer: Luis Alba
Contact: Dianna Perez
Location: Ventura and Oxnard, Calif.
Shorts, features, docus, experimental films.
Deadline: July 7
Dates: Nov. 10-14
Days of
Independent Film (13th)
Schroeckstr. 6
86152 Augsburg, Germany
Phone: (49-821) 349-1060
Fax: (49-821) 349-5218
E-mail: filmbuero@t-online.de
Director/programmer: Harald Munding
Location: Augsburg, Germany
Documentary and independent features of all formats and lengths, with
retrospectives, regional or national focuses and an international doc
symposium. Competitive for docs.
Deadline: Sept. 1
Dates: Nov. 10-14
Deep Ellum Film
Festival (1st)
2808 Commerce St.
Dallas, TX 75226
Phone: (214) 823-9396
Fax: (214) 744-2789
E-mail: deffman99@aol.com
Web site: www.deepellumfilmfestival.com
Director/contact: Michael Cain
Location: Dallas
Celebrating unique visions of American and Latino filmmakers, musicians and
artists. Panels, screenings, retrospectives. Categories are Unfinished,
dramatic, animation, docu, Texas cinema, Latin cinema, 2000, One Step Beyond.
Deadline: Sept. 6; Sept. 27 (late)
Dates: Nov. 10-14
Rehoboth Beach
Independent Film Festival (2nd)
4493 Highway One
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
Phone: (302) 645-9095
E-mail: rbfilm@dmv.com
Web site: www.rehobothfilm.com
Director/programmer: Barry Becker
Contact: Barry Becker, Rob Rector
Location: Rehoboth Beach, Del.
A diverse lineup of features, shorts, animation, video, kids, gay/lesbian, etc.
Deadline: Aug. 28
Dates: Nov. 10-14
Festival
Internazionale del Cinema di Salerno
Casella Postale 137
I-84100 Salerno, Italy
Phone: (39-089) 231-953
Fax: (39-089) 223-632
Director: Ettore Capuano
Programmer: Mario De Cesare
Location: Salerno, Italy
Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 5
Dates: Nov. 10-15
Calcutta Intl.
Film Festival (5th)
Nandan, West Bengal Film Center
1/1, A.J.C. Bose Road
Calcutta, India 700-020
Phone: (91-33) 223-1210
Fax: (91-33) 223-5744
Web site: www.calfilmfestival.com
Director: Ansu Sur
Location: Calcutta, India
Indian and international cinema, retrospectives, tributes. Competitive.
Dates: Nov. 10-17
Intl. French Film
Festival Tubingen-Stuttgart (16th)
c/o Filmtage Tubingen
Osterbergstr. 9
D-72074 Tubingen, Germany
Phone: (49-7071) 569-652
Fax: (49-7071) 569-696
E-mail: filmtagetuebingen@t-online.de
Web site: www.cityinfonetz.de/filmtage/index.html
Directors: Dieter Betz, Stefanie Schneider
Programmer: Dieter Betz
Contact: Andrea Bauer
Location: Tubingen and Stuttgart, Germany
Films from French-speaking countries. Competitive. Fiction and docus, features
and shorts. Also retrospectives and focuses.
Deadline: Aug. 31
Dates: Nov. 10-17
Forum of European
Cinema
10 rue Alexandre Parodi
Paris, France 75010
Phone: (33-1) 4489-9999
Fax: (33-1) 4489-9960
Director: Peter Fleischmann
Programmer: Pierre-Henri Deleau
Location: Strasbourg, Austria
Deadline: Oct. 5
Dates: Nov. 11-15
Brynmawr Film
Festival
Blaenau Gwent Arts Development Office
Beaufort Theatre
Beaufort, Ebbw Vale
Gwent, South Wales, NP3 5QQ, U.K.
Phone/fax: (44-1495) 308-996
Director/programmer: Geoff Cripps
Dates: Nov. 12-15
Festival dei
Popoli — Intl. Review of Social Documentary Film (40th)
Borgo Pinti 82R
50121 Florence, Italy
Phone: (39-055) 244-778
Fax: (39-055) 241-364
E-mail: fespopol@dada.it
Director/programmer: Mario Simondi
Contact: Patricia Baroni
Location: Florence, Italy
Presenting docus dealing with social, anthropological, political and historical
topics as well as the arts. Retrospectives and tributes. Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 1
Dates: Nov. 12-18
Women in Cinema
Film Festival (5th)
911 Pine St., Suite 607
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: (206) 464-5830
Fax: (206) 264-7919
E-mail: mail@seattlefilm.com
Web site: www.seattlefilm.com
Programmers: Anne Rosellini, Maryna Albert
Contact: Anne Rosellini
Location: Seattle, Wash.
Celebrates the accomplishments of women filmmakers in contemporary cinema.
Noncompetitive.
Deadline: Sept. 20
Dates: Nov. 12-18
Margaret Mead
Film & Video Festival (23rd)
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024-5192
Phone: (212) 769-5305
Fax: (212) 769-5329
E-mail: meadfest@amnh.org
Web site: www.amnh.org/mead
Director: Elaine Charnov
Programmers: Elaine Charnov, Melanie Kent, Kate Hurowitz
Location: New York City
U.S.’s largest ethnographic/documentary film festival, screening features and
shorts. Noncompeti-tive.
Deadline: June 1
Dates: Nov. 12-19
Festival de Cine
de Alcala de Henares (29th)
Plaza del Empecinado 1
28801 Alcala de Henares, Spain
Phone: (34-91) 881-3934
Fax: (34-91) 881-3906
E-mail: alcine@euro-red.com
Web site: www.euro-red.com/alcine
Directors/programmers: Luis Mariano Gonzales, Pedro Medina
Contact: Anabel Hidalgo
Location: Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain
Competitive for Spanish shorts and new Spanish directors; noncompetitive for
international shorts.
Deadline: Sept. 28
Dates: Nov. 12-20
Stockholm Intl.
Film Festival (10th)
P.O. Box 3136
SE-10362 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: (46-8) 677-5000
Fax: (46-8) 200-590
E-mail: program@cinema.se
Web site: www.filmfestivalen.se
Director: Git Scheynius
Programmer/contact: Jakob Abrahamsson
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Pointing at new directions in filmmaking, with a focus on first, second and
third films. Special sec-tions for genre film, shorts and docus, plus
retrospectives. Competitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Sept. 10
Dates: Nov. 12-21
Thessaloniki
Intl. Film Festival (40th)
40 K. Paparrigopoulou St.
11473 Athens, Greece
Phone: (30-1) 645-3669
Fax: (30-1) 644-8143
E-mail: info@filmfestival.gr
Web site: www.filmfestival.gr
Director/contact: Michel Demopoulos
Programmers: Michel Demopoulos; Dimitri Eipides (New Horizons)
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Competitive for first and second features. New Horizons section dedicated to
international independ-ent film.
Deadline: Oct. 1
Dates: Nov. 12-21
Foyle Film Weekend
2nd Floor, Northern Counties Building
8 Custom House St.
Derry, Northern Ireland
Phone: (44-1504) 267-432
Fax: (44-1504) 371 738
E-mail: shaunakelpie@thenerve-centre.org.uk
Director: Shauna Kelpie
Programmer: Michael McDaid
Location: Derry, Northern Ireland
Competitive.
Deadline: June 25
Dates: Nov. 12-22
Intl. Documentary
Film Festival Amascultura (10th)
Centro Cultural Malaposta
Rua Angola
2675 Olival Basto
Odivelas, Portugal
Phone: (351-1) 938-8407
Fax: (351-1) 938-9347
E-mail: amascultura@mail.telepc.pt
Director/programmer: Luis Correia
Contact: Luis Correia, Joao Pereira, Nina Ramos
Location: Olival Basto, Portugal
Portugal’s only film festival entirely devoted to documentary film.
Competitive. Tribute to late founder Manuel Costa e Silva, sections on docs in
South Africa, film school output, CineScience.
Deadline: Sept. 5
Dates: Nov. 13-21
Hi/Lo Film
Festival (3rd)
P.O. Box 170309
San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 267-0642
E-mail: hilo@killingmylobster.com
Web site: www.killingmylobster.com/hilo
Directors/programmers: Brian L. Perkins, Marc Vogl
Location: San Francisco
Noncompetitive international event celebrating the high-concept works of low-budget
filmmakers. Any format, length, genre.
Deadline: Sept. 1
Dates: Nov. 14-16
Holland Animation
Film Festival (8th)
Hoogt 4
3512 GW Utrecht
Netherlands
Phone: (31-30) 233-1733
Fax: (31-30) 233-1079
E-mail: haff@knoware.nl
Web site: www.awn.com/haff
Director/programmer: Gerben Schermer
Location:Utrecht, the Netherlands
International animation.
Dates: Nov. 15-19
Oulu Intl.
Children’s Film Festival (18th)
Torikatu 8
90101 Oulu, Finland
Phone: (358-8) 881-1293
Fax: (358-8) 881-1290
E-mail: oek@oufilmcenter.inet.fi
Web site: www.ouka.fi/oek
Director: Pentti Kejonen
Programmer/contact: Eszter Vuojala
Location: Oulu, Finland
Feature-length films for children. Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 13
Dates: Nov. 15-21
London Effects
& Animation Festival (6th)
Advanstar Communications
Advanstar House
Park West, Sealand Road
Chester, CH1 4RN, U.K.
Phone: (44-1244) 393-261
Fax: (44-1244) 399-180
E-mail: shenderson@advanstar.com
Web site: www.digmedia.co.uk
Director: Zena Barick
Contact: Sally Henderson
Location: London
Seminars, master classes, workshops and awards competition in digital media
creation, computer-generated animation, digital moving image. Competitive for
commercials (animated and live-action), short films, musicvideos, features,
student films, titles/IDs.
Deadline: Sept. 17
Dates: Nov. 16-18
Jamerican Film
& Music Festival (1st)
c/o Island Girl Prods.
4250 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Phone: (323) 692-9537
Fax: (323) 936-8951
E-mail: jafilmfest@aol.com
Web site: www.jamericanfilmfest.com
Directors: Sheryl Lee Ralph, Eugene Haynes
Location: Montego Bay, Jamaica
Docus, features, shorts and musicvideos.
Deadline: Aug. 31
Dates: Nov. 17-21
Kasseler
Dokumentarfilm & Videofest (16th)
Filmladen Kassel e.V.
Goethestr.31
34119 Kassel, Germany
Phone: (49-561) 707-6421
Fax: (49-561) 707-6441
E-mail: dokfest@filmladen.de
Web site: www.filmladen.de/dokfest
Directors/programmers: Gerhard Wissner, Wieland Hohne
Location: Kassel, Germany
International documentaries. Also experimental and artistic videos.
Deadline: Aug. 15
Dates: Nov. 17-21
Southern African
Intl. Film & Television Market (4th)
P.O. Box 1176
Oakland Park
Johannesburg 2006, South Africa
Phone: (27-11) 714-3229
Fax: (27-11) 714-3275
Contact: Richard Ishmail
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Platform for global filmmakers, producers, distributors and programmers to meet
with the South African entertainment industry. Noncompetitive.
Dates: Nov. 17-23
Birmingham Intl.
Film & TV Festival (15th)
9 Margaret St.
Birmingham, B3 3SB, U.K.
Phone: (44-121) 212-0777
Fax: (44-121) 212-0666
E-mail: info@film-tv-festival.org.uk
Web site: www.film-tv-festival.org.uk
Director: Sarah McKenzie
Programmer: Barbara Chapman
Contact: Yen Yau
Location: Birmingham, England
Gala premieres; Cutting Edge; Music on the Screen; film and TV with a new
thematic and stylistic vision. Competitive for local filmmakers
. Deadline: September
Dates: Nov. 17-29
Verzaubert Intl.
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (9th)
Rosebud Entertainment
Fregestr. 36
12161 Berlin, Germany
Phone: (49-30) 861-4532
Fax: (49-30) 861-4539
E-mail: rosebud-entertainment@t-online.de
Web site: www.queer-view.com/verzaubert
Directors/programmers: Schorsch Muller, Rainer Stefan
Location: Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Cologne, Berlin
Traveling showcase (one week each city) for features, shorts and docus of
interest to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people. Competitive.
Deadline: Aug. 31
Dates: Nov. 17-Dec. 8
Transfest
5/Singapore
European Film Institute
Gartenstrasse 72
D-76135 Karlsruhe, Germany
Phone: (49-721) 985-0520
Fax: (49-721) 985-0525
E-mail: eikk@compuserve.com
Director/programmer: Gideon Bachmann
Contact: Monika Boettcher
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
Southeast Asian films. Co-programmed by Philip Cheah.
Deadline: Sept. 30
Dates: Nov. 18-21
Mar del Plata
Intl. Film Festival (15th)
Auditorium
Boulevard Maritimo 2880
7600 Mar del Plata, Argentina
Phone/fax: (54-223) 493-6001
E-mail: incaa@microstar.com.ar
Web site: www.incaa.gov.ar/ra062.htm
Director: Sabina Sigler
Programmer: Nicolas Sarquis
Location: Mar del Plata, Argentina
Competitive, with retrospectives, tributes, sections on Argentine film, Latin
American Screen, Behind the Camera, Women in Film. FIAPF-recognized. Also
market.
Deadline: Sept. 30
Dates: Nov. 18-27
SMPTE Technical
Conference & Exhibition (141st)
595 W. Hartsdale Ave.
White Plains, NY 10607
Phone: (914) 761-1100, ext. 114
Fax: (914) 761-3115
E-mail: istier@smpte.org
Web site: www.smpte.org
Contact: Ilisha Stier
Location: New York, NY
Exhibitions, sessions and seminars examining new technology in motion imaging.
Registration on site.
Dates: Nov. 19-22
Brief Encounters
(5th)
P.O. Box 576
Bristol, BS99 2BD, U.K.
Phone: (44-117) 922-4628
Fax: (44-117) 922-2906
E-mail: brief.encounters@dial.pipex.com
Web site: www.brief-encounters.org.uk
Director/contact: Louise Jennings
Programmer: Catharine Des Forges
Location: Bristol, England
Short films.
Deadline: July 30
Dates: Nov. 19-26
Gijon Intl. Film
Festival for Young People (37th)
Paseo de Begona, 24-ent.
P.O. Box 76
33205 Gijon, Spain
Phone: (34-98) 534-3739
Fax: (34-98) 535-4152
E-mail: festcine@las.es
Web site: www.las.es/gijonfilmfestival/
Director: Jose Luis Cienfuegos
Programmer: Fran Gayo
Contact: Maria Jose Alvarez
Location: Gijon, Spain
Pics made by and for young people and those experimenting with innovative
filmmaking. Competi-tive for features and shorts. Highlights emerging
filmmakers and new forms of filmmaking. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Sept. 20
Dates: Nov. 19-26
Intl. Festival of
Auteur Film — View Into the World (6th)
Jugoslavija Film
Makedonska 22/VII
11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Phone: (381-11) 324-8282
Fax: (381-11) 324-8659
E-mail: jugofilm@autorfilmfest.co.yu
Director: Vojislav Vucinic
Contact: Vojislav Vucinic, Mira Nikolic
Location: Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Competitive.
Deadline: Oct. 15
Dates: Nov. 19-26
Cinema Giovani —
Turin Intl. Film Festival (17th)
Via Monte di Pieta 1
10121 Torino, Italy
Phone: (39-011) 562-3309
Fax: (39-011) 562-9796
E-mail: info@torinofilmfest.org
Web site: www.torinofilmfest.org
Director/programmer: Stefano Della Casa
Contact: Mara Signori
Location: Turin, Italy
Four competitive sections (features, shorts, Spazio Italia, Spazio Torino),
retrospectives, tributes (this year spotlights director John Carpenter and
Portuguese cinema) and panorama sections. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Aug. 31 (shorts), Sept. 30 (feature)
Dates: Nov. 19-27
European Nature
Film Festival Valvert (6th)
D-Facto Organization
Rue du Laekenveld, 27
1080-Brussels, Belgium
Phone: (32-2) 420-3757
Fax: (32-2) 420-0255
E-mail: frederic.lequeu@d-facto.be
Web site: www.bbl.be/festivalvalvert
Director: Sebastian Lob
Contact: Frederic Lequeu
International features and docus about animals. Competitive.
Deadline: June 26
Dates: Nov. 19-27
Welsh Intl. Film
Festival (11th)
Market House, Market Road
Cardiff, CF5 1QE, Wales
Phone: (44-1222) 406-220
Fax: (44-1222) 233-751
E-mail: enq@iffw.co.uk
Web site: www.iffw.co.uk
Contact: Michelle Williams
Location: Cardiff, Wales
Celebrating Welsh filmmaking in an international context. Features, shorts and
animation, including British, Irish, Asian and European films. Competitive.
Deadline: first week of September
Dates: Nov. 19-27
Oslo Intl. Film
Festival (9th)
Ebbellsgt. 1
0183 Oslo, Norway
Phone: (47-22) 200-766
Fax: (47-22) 201-803
E-mail: filmfestival@eunet.no
Web site: wit.no/filmfestival
Director/programmer: Tommy Lordahl
Location: Oslo, Norway
Features, docus, shorts, U.S. indies and Made in Norway sections.
Noncompetitive.
Deadline: Oct. 15
Dates: Nov. 19-28
French Film
Festival (8th)
Institute Francais d’Ecosse
13 Randolph Crescent
Edinburgh EH3 7TT, U.K.
Phone: (44-131) 225-5366
Fax: (44-131) 220-0648
E-mail: richard.mowe@which.net
Director: Richard Mowe
Contact: Sally Williams
Location: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and London
Devoted exclusively to French cinema, including new films, retrospectives,
guests, panels. Competi-tive for first/second film.
Deadline: Sept. 30
Dates: Nov. 19-28
Ibero-American
Film Festival of Huelva (25th)
Casa Colon, Plaza del Punto S/N
21003 Huelva, Spain
Phone: (34-959) 210-170
Fax: (34-959) 210-173
E-mail: festihue@ayuntamientohuelva.es
Web site: festihuelva.otd.es
Director: Francisco Lopez Villarejo
Contact: Berta Centeno
Location: Huelva, Spain
Showcase for Latin American cinema trying to mediate between Europe and Latin
America. Competi-tive.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: Nov. 20-27
Mumbai Festival
of Films (2nd)
Mumbai Academy of Moving Images
Rajkamal Studios, S.S. Rau Road
Parel, Mumbai, 400 012, India
Phone/fax: (91-22) 413-1918
E-mail: ffmumbai@yahoo.com
Director/contact: Sudhir Nandgaonkar
Location: Mumbai, India
Feature films. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: Nov. 20-27
Junior Dublin
Film Festival
c/o Irish Film Centre
Eustache Street
Dublin 2, Ireland
Phone: (353-1) 671-4095
Fax: (353-1) 670-3074
Director/programmer: Alan Robinson
Location: Dublin
Deadline: Oct. 6
Dates: Nov. 21-Dec. 1
Asia-Pacific Film
Festival (44th)
2nd floor, Public Relations Dept.
Soi Areesampan Rama 6 Road
Payathai, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
Phone: (662) 618-2340 or 618-2323
Fax: (662) 618-2372
E-mail: film44@asiapacificmovie.or.th
Director: Kom Akadej
Programmer: Federation of National Film Assn. of Thailand
Contact: Vipavee Prasong
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Competitive for films from the 14 Asia-Pacific nations. Seminars, tributes.
Deadline: Sept. 20
Dates: Nov. 22-26
Bilbao Intl. Festival
of Documentary & Short Films (40th)
C/Colon de Larreategui, No. 37-4o
48009 Bilbao, Spain
Phone: (34-94) 424-8698
Fax: (34-94) 424-5624
Director: Jaseba Inchaurraga
Programmer: Maria Angeles Olea
Location: Bilbao, Spain
Competitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: Nov. 22-27
Festival des 3
Continents (21st)
BP 43302
F-44033, Nantes Cedex 1, France
Phone: (33-2) 4069-7414
Fax: (33-2) 4073-5522
E-mail: f3c@franceplus.com
Directors/programmers: Alain Jalladeau, Philippe Jalladeau
Location: Nantes, France
Feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America. Competitive.
Deadline: Oct. 1
Dates: Nov. 23-30
Graz Biennial on
Media & Architecture (4th)
Hallerschlossstrasse 21
A-8010 Graz, Austria
Phone: (43-316) 356-155
Fax: (43-316) 232-6315
E-mail: art.image@thing.at
Web site: www.thing.at/art.image
Director: Charlotte Pochhacker
Location: Graz, Austria
Features moving images (film, video, CD-ROM, Internet) that creatively and innovatively
deal with cultural, social, political and aesthetic implications of
material/immaterial spaces. All genres and lengths. Competitive.
Deadline: June 30
Dates: Nov. 24-28
Intl. Documentary
Film Festival Amsterdam (12th)
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10
1017 RR Amsterdam, Netherlands
Phone: (31-20) 627-3329
Fax: (31-20) 638-5388
E-mail: info@idfa.nl
Web site: www.idfa.nl
Director/programmer: Ally Derks
Contact: Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen
Location: Amsterdam
The most recent creative docs, both film and video, not screened or broadcast
before in the Nether-lands. Categories include First Appearance, Kids &
Docs, Highlights of the Lowlands. Competitive. FIAPF-recognized. Held
concurrent with Forum for Intl. Co-Financing of Documentaries (Nov. 29-Dec. 1),
bringing together indie producers, commissioning editors, distribs and
financiers (deadline Sept. 17), and Docs for Sale, an international docu market
(Nov. 25-Dec. 2, deadline Oct. 19).
Deadline: Aug. 25
Dates: Nov. 24-Dec. 2
Cairo Intl. Film
Festival (23rd)
17th Kasr El-Nil St.
Cairo, Egypt
Phone: (202) 392-3562
Fax: (202) 393-8979
E-mail: info@cairofilmfestival.com
Web site: www.cairofilmfestival.com
Director/contact: Hussein Fahmi
Location: Cairo, Egypt
International features, tributes and retros, with market. Competitive.
Deadline: Oct. 31
Dates: Nov. 24-Dec. 7
Golden Knight
Intl. Amateur Film & Video Festi-val (38th)
P.O. Box 450
CMR01 Marsa, Malta
Phone: (356) 222-345 or 236-173
Fax: (356) 225-047
E-mail: wool@global.net.mt
Web site: www.global.net.mt/macc
Director: Alfred Stagno Navarra
Programmer: Alfred Buhagiar
Contact: Philip Herrera
Location: Valletta, Malta
Sci-fi, animation and docu shorts. Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: Nov. 25-27
Toronto Reel
Asian Intl. Film Festival (3rd)
P.O. Box 364, Station P
704 Spadina Ave.
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S9, Canada
Phone: (416) 410-0876
Fax: (416) 588-6976
E-mail: admin@reelasian.com
Web site: www.reelasian.com
Director: Anita Lee
Programmer/contact: Shelly Hong
Location: Toronto, Canada
Noncompetitive event showcasing best of Asian features, shorts, docus and
experimental work in both film and video. Also workshops, panels and master
classes.
Deadline: Aug. 2
Dates: Nov. 25-28
EuropaCinema
& TV (16th)
Via XXI Settembre 3
00187 Rome, Italy
Phone: (39-06) 201-1184
Fax: (39-06) 4201-0599
E-mail: europa.cinema@agora.stm.it
Web site: www.agora.it/market/europa.cinema
Director: Monique Veaute
Programmer: Fausto Rizzi
Contact: Armelle Cheminee Kornig
Location: Viareggio, Italy
Competitive for first feature and animated short. Retrospectives, tributes
(this year to Euro cabler Arte and films it produced), themed sections (Cinema
& Art).
Deadline: Oct. 10
Dates: Nov. 27-Dec. 3
Camerimage (7th)
Tumult Foundation
Rynek Nowomiejski 28
87-100 Torun, Poland
Phone: (48-56) 652-2595
Fax: (48-56) 621-0019
E-mail: camerimage@ascomp.torun.pl
Web site: www.camerimage.ascomp.torun.pl
Director: Marek Zydowicz
Contact: Donata Soltyszewska
Location: Torun, Poland
International festival celebrating the art of cinematography. International and
student films, TV section, retrospectives, equipment demonstrations.
Competitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Sept. 30
Dates: Nov. 27-Dec. 4
Taipei Golden
Horse Film Festival (36th)
Floor 7, No. 45, Chilin Road
Taipei 104, Taiwan
Phone: (886-2) 2567-5861
Fax: (886-2) 2531-8966
E-mail: tghffctt@ms14.hinet.net
Web site: www.goldenhorse.org.tw
Director: You-Ning Lee
Programmer/contact: Johnny Yang
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Noncompetitive showcase of films from all over the world.
Deadline: Aug. 31
Dates: Nov. 27-Dec. 17
African Diaspora
Film Festival (7th)
535 Cathedral Parkway, Suite 14B
New York, NY 10025
Phone: (212) 749-6020
Fax: (212) 316-6020
E-mail: artmattan@africanfilm.com
Web site: www.africanfilm.com/festival
Directors/programmers: Reinaldo Barroso-Spech, Diarah N’Daw-Spech
Location: New York, N.Y.
Films that depict the human experience of people of color all over the world.
Features, shorts, docus; panel discussions. Noncompetitive.
Dates: Nov. 28-Dec. 12
The Forum
Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10
1017 RR Amsterdam, Netherlands
Phone: (31-20) 627-3329
Fax: (31-20) 638-5388
E-mail: idfa@xs4all.nl
Director: Jolanda Klarenbeek
Location: Amsterdam
Market.
Deadline: Sept. 17
Dates: Nov. 29-Dec. 1
European Festival
of Film Schools (2nd)
c/o Cineteca di Bologna
Via Galliera 8
40121 Bologna, Italy
Phone: (39-051) 237-088
Fax: (39-051) 261-680
E-mail: cinlum@comune.bologna.it
Director: Guy Borlee
Location: Bologna, Italy
Competition for selected film schools of Europe.
Dates: Nov. 29-Dec. 4
Festival Tous
Courts (Rencontres Cinema-tographiques d’Aix-en-Provence) (17th)
Cite du Livre 8
10 Rue des Allumettes
13090 Aix-en-Provence, France
Phone: (33-4) 4227-0864
Fax: (33-4) 4238-4783
E-mail: aixfilms@club-internet.fr
Director/contact: Catherine Brunet
Programmers: Catherine Brunet, Marc Ripoli
Location: Aix-en-Provence, France
International short film competition. Short to Long section screens first
features from shorts helmers. Also section on a European nation’s cinema.
Deadline: Sept. 25
Dates: Nov. 29-Dec. 4
Bratislava Intl.
Film Festival
Mosovskeho 16
81103 Bratislava, Slovakia
Phone: (421-7) 5441-0673
Fax: (421-7) 5441-0674
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Competitive for first and second features.
Deadline: September
Dates: Nov. 30 Dec. 8
European Short
Film Festi-val
11 Holbein House, Holbein Place
London, SW1 W8NH, U.K.
Phone: (44-171) 460-3901
Fax: (44-171) 259-9278
E-mail: info@pearlproductions.co.uk
Web site: www.pearlproductions.co.uk/festivalf.html
Contact: Fritz Kohle
Deadline: Aug. 31
Dates: November
Festival of
French Cinema
Unifrance
4 Villa Bosquet
75007 Paris, France
Phone: (33-1) 4753-9580/4753-2748
Fax: (33-1) 4705-9655
Contact: Stephan Melchiori
Location: Acapulco, Mexico
Dates: November
Cinewomen
Cinema City
St. Andrews Street
Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 4AD, U.K.
Phone: (44-1603) 622-047
Fax: (44-1603) 767-838
Contact: Jayne Morgan
Presenting films by women filmmakers only. Competitive.
Dates: November
Smokin’ Shorts
(1st)
The Comic Bible
222 W. 233rd St., Suite 4G
Bronx, NY 10463
Phone: (718) 548-7907
Fax: (718) 548-2325
E-mail: comicbible@aol.com
Web site: www.comicbible.com/smokin
Director: MaryAnn Pierro
Programmer: Anna Beans
Contact: Lia Redding
Location: New York City
Short comic films: animation, film, digital, video. Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 15
Dates: November
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New York Exposition
of Short Film & Video (33rd)
163 Amsterdam Ave., PMB 107
New York, NY 10023
Phone: (212) 505-7742
Fax: (212) 586-6367
E-mail: nyexpo@aol.com
Web site: www.yrd.com/nyexpo
Director/contact: Anne Borin
Location: New York, N.Y.
International fiction, animation, docu and experimental film and video under 60
minutes, and digital multimedia works of any length.
Deadline: June 1
Dates: Dec. 1-5
Intl. Festival of
New Latin American Cinema (20th)
Calle 23, No. 1155
Vedado, Havana 10600, Cuba
Phone: (53-7) 552-841
Fax: (53-7) 333-078
Director: Ivan Giroud
Location: Havana, Cuba
Presenting Latin American films and videos, including features and animation,
with a market. Competitive.
Deadline: Sept. 30
Dates: Dec. 1-11
European
Television & Film Forum (11th)
European Institute for the Media
Kaistrasse 13
40221 Dusseldorf, Germany
Phone: (49-211) 901-0457
Fax: (49-211) 901-0456
E-mail: masius@eim.de
Director: Monique Masius
Contact: Monique Masius, Anne Renaudineau
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Forum for media professionals of all audiovisual media organizations in Europe.
Dates: Dec. 2-4
Cartoombria (5th)
Via Bontempi 25
06122 Perugia, Italy
Phone: (39-075) 572-6764
Fax: (39-075) 572-6768
E-mail: umbspet@krenet.it
Web site: www.awn.com/cartoombria
Director: Moreno Barboni
Contact: Flaminia Antonini
Location: Perugia, Italy
Noncompetitive. Retrospectives, exhibits, workshops, conferences. Focus on the
relationship between music and animation, especially computer animation.
Dates: Dec. 2-5
Telluride
IndieFest (3rd)
P.O. Box 860
Telluride, CO 81435
Phone: (970) 728-2629
Fax: (970) 728-8128
E-mail: indiefest@usa.net
Web site: tellurideindiefest.com
Director/contact: Michael Carr
Programmer: Ben Touren
Location: Telluride, Colo.
Noncompetitive fest/seminar dedicated to the spirit and advancement of
independent filmmaking and screenwriting.
Deadline: Aug. 1
Dates: Dec. 2-5
Cinemagic Intl.
Film Festival for Young People (9th)
4th Floor, 38 Dublin Road
Belfast BT2 7HN, Northern Ireland, U.K.
Phone: (44-1232) 311-900
Fax: (44-1232) 319-709
E-mail: info@cinemagic.org.uk
Web site: www.cinemagic.org.uk
Director: Shauna McCarthy
Programmer/contact: Frances Cassidy
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
International short and feature-length films for young people. Competitive.
Deadline: July 31
Dates: Dec. 2-12
Noir In Festival
(9th)
Via Tirso 90
00198 Rome, Italy
Phone: (39-06) 884-8030
Fax: (39-06) 884-0450
E-mail: noir@noirfest.com
Web site: www.noirfest.com
Director: Giorgio Gosetti
Programmers: Teresa Cavini, Marina Fabbri
Contact: Emanuela Cascia
Location: Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
Film noir and mystery shorts, features and retrospectives. Competitive. This
year’s theme will be the transformation and combining of man with robot on the
eve of the year 2000. Other focuses this year are on Latin America, David Mamet
and European and Italian television.
Deadline: July
Dates: Dec. 3-9
Cinevegas (2nd)
Polo Towers, Polo Plaza, Suite 204
3745 Las Vegas South
Las Vegas, NV 89109
Phone: (702) 477-7530
Fax: (702) 477-7533
E-mail: cinevegas@aol.com
Web site: www.cinevegas.com
Director: Michele LeBlanc
Programmer: Amie Williams
Contact: Amy Carrelli
Location: Las Vegas
Festival of Festivals (acclaimed films from major international festivals),
studio world premieres, indie features, Westerns at High Noon, Midnight
Madness, Youth in Film, Paris on Film, short film competition, Nevada and
student filmmaker showcase.
Deadline: Sept. 30
Dates: Dec. 6-11
Black Nights Film
Festival (3rd)
Nafta 1
10152 Tallinn, Estonia
Phone: (372) 242-5939
Fax: (372) 643-1351
E-mail: bnights@uninet.ee
Director: Endel Koplimets
Programmer/contact: Tiina Lokk
Noncompetitive fest with a focus on Nordic countries, the Commonwealth of
Independent States and Eastern Europe. Features, docs and animation.
Deadline: Nov. 15
Dates: Dec. 6-12
Cine Asia (6th)
244 W. 49th St., Suite 200
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 246-6460
Fax: (212) 265-6428
E-mail: sunshine@maestro.com
Location: Singapore
Convention for cinema owners in the Asia-Pacific region.
Dates: Dec. 7-9
Mip Asia (6th)
Reed Midem Organization
11 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia
75018 Paris, France
Phone: (33-1) 4190-4576
Fax: (33-1) 4190-4570
Web site: www.mipasia.com
Director: Rene Peres
Programmer: Andre Vaillant
Location: Singapore
International TV program market for the Asia-Pacific region.
Dates: Dec. 8-10
First Light Maui
(1st)
P.O. Box 669
Paia, HI 96779
Phone: (808) 579-9996
Fax: (808) 579-9552
E-mail: firstlight@mauifilmfestival.com
Web site: www.mauifilmfestival.com
Director/programmer: Barry Rivers
Contact: Donne Dawson
Location: Maui, Hawaii
Noncompetitive curated exhibition of studio and indie features,
foreign-language films, docs and silent films.
Dates: Dec. 26-Jan. 1
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Reading 2: January
2000 Film Festivals
Flickerfest
Intl. Short Film Festival (9th)
1/21 Gould St.
Bondi Beach, NSW 2026, Australia
Phone: (612) 9365-6877
Fax: (612) 9365-6899
E-mail: flickerfest@bigpond.com
Web site: www.flickerfest.com.au
Director/programmer: Bronwyn Kidd
Location: Bondi Beach, Australia
International shorts: fiction, docus, animation. Competitive. Tours Australia
after January event.
Deadline: Oct. 1
Dates: Jan. 2-8
San Francisco
IndieFest (2nd)
530 Divisadero St., #183
San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 929-5038
E-mail: sfindie@sirius.com
Web site: www.i.am/indie
Director/programmer: Jeff Ross
Location: San Francisco
Feature-length film and video; short animation. Competitive.
Deadline: Oct. 1 (early); Oct. 22 (late)
Dates: Jan. 6-10
Portland Reel
Music Festival (17th)
Northwest Film Center
1219 SW Park Ave.
Portland, OR 97205
Phone: (503) 221-1156
Fax: (503) 294-0874
E-mail: info@nwfilm.org
Web site: www.nwfilm.org
Contact: Bill Foster
Location: Portland, Ore.
Exploring the intersection of film and music in all forms. Features, docus,
shorts, archival programs, live events. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: Nov. 1
Dates: Jan. 8-28
Rennes Travelling
Film Festival (11th)
6 avenue Gaston Berger
F-35043 Rennes Cedex, France
Phone: (33-2) 9914-1143
Fax: (33-2) 9914-1145
Web site: www.uhb.fr/culture/travelling
Director/programmer: Hussam Hindi
Location: Rennes, France
Competitive for features and shorts. The fest deals with a different city each
year; in 2000 it will be Cairo.
Deadline: Dec. 10
Dates: Jan. 10-17
Intl. Film
Festival of India (31st)
Directorate of Film Festivals
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Government of India
4th floor - Lok Nayak Bavan
Khan Market
New Delhi 110003, India
Phone: (91-11) 461-5953
Fax: (91-11) 462-3430
E-mail: dffiffi@bol.net.in
Director: Malti Sahai
Programmers: Shankar Mohan, S. Santhanam, K.S. Sahni
Location: New Delhi, India
Competitive for Asian film directors. Also sections on Cinema of the World,
Indian Panorama, Mainstream, plus retrospectives and tributes.
FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Nov. 15
Dates: Jan. 10-20
KidFilm Festival
(16th)
6116 N. Central Expressway, Suite 105
Dallas, TX 75206
Phone: (214) 821-6300
Fax: (214) 821-6364
Web site: www.usafilmfestival.com
Director: Ann Alexander
Location: Dallas, Texas
The largest children’s media arts event in the U.S. Contemporary and classic
films from around the world, plus presentations by guest filmmakers.
Noncompetitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Oct. 18
Dates: Jan. 10-23
Sarasota Film
Festival (2nd)
1365 Fruitville Road
Sarasota, FL 34236
Phone:(941) 364-9514
Fax: (941) 364-8411
E-mail: sarasotafilmfest@msn.com
Web site: www.sarasotafilmfest.com
Director/contact: Jody Kielbasa
Location: Sarasota, Fla.
Independent and commercial features, shorts, docus, student films.
Noncompetitive.
Deadline: Nov. 22; Dec. 7 (late)
Dates: Jan. 12-16
IFFCON: Intl.
Film Financing Conference (7th)
360 Ritch St.
San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone: (415) 281-9777
Fax: (415) 495-2381
E-mail: info@iffcon.com
Web site: www.iffcon.com
Director: Wendy Braitman
Contact: Jerry Heppler
Location: San Francisco
Forum for the financing of independent film. Sixty selected producers with
projects in development meet with buyers for panels, sessions, private meetings
and receptions.
Deadline: Oct. 15
Dates: Jan. 13-16
Nortel Palm
Springs Intl. Film Festival (11th)
1700 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, Suite 3
Palm Springs, CA 92262
Phone: (760) 322-2930
Fax: (760) 322-4087
E-mail: info@psfilmfest.org
Web site: www.psfilmfest.org
Director/contact: Craig Prater
Programmer: Jennifer Stark
Location: Palm Springs, Calif.
Emphasis on foreign-language films (especially Oscar contenders), seminars and
awards gala honoring industry greats. Also hosts Intl. Cinematographers’ Day.
Noncompetitive. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Nov. 1
Dates: Jan. 13-24
Berlin &
Beyond (5th)
Goethe-Institut
530 Bush St.
San Francisco, CA 94108
Phone: (415) 263-8760
Fax: (415) 391-8715
E-mail: gisfprog@sirius.com
Web site: www.goethe.de/uk/saf
Contact: Ingrid Eggers
Location: San Francisco
New independent, dramatic and documentary features and shorts produced in the
German-speaking countries of Europe. 16mm and 35mm films.
Deadline: Oct. 15
Dates: Jan. 14-20
Alpe Adria Cinema
(11th)
(Meetings with Central & Eastern European Cinema)
Via San Rocco 1
34121 Trieste, Italy
Phone: (39-040) 311-153
Fax: (39-040) 311-993
E-mail: aac@spin.it
Web site: www.spin.it/alpeadriacinema
Director: Annamaria Percavassi
Programmers: Annamaria Percavassi, Sergio Grmek Germani, Mila Lazic
Contact: Elena Giuffrida
Location: Trieste, Italy
Independent films emerging from Central and Eastern Europe. Competitive for
features and shorts; noncompetitive for docus and videos. Retrospective
section.
Deadline: Nov. 15
Dates: Jan. 15-22
FIPA — Intl.
Festival of Audiovisual Programs (13th)
14 Rue Alexandre Parodi
75010 Paris, France
Phone: (33-1) 4489-9999
Fax: (33-1) 4489-9960
E-mail: mf.pisier-fipa@wanadoo.fr
Web site: perso.wanadoo.fr/fipa/
Director: Marie-France Pisier
Programmer: Pierre-Henri Deleau
Location: Biarritz, France
Fiction, series, documentary, news, music and short films made for television.
Competitive.
Deadline: Nov. 15
Dates: Jan. 18-23
Solothurn Film
Festival (35th)
P.O. Box 140
CH-4504 Solothurn, Switzerland
Phone: (41-32) 625-8080
Fax: (41-32) 623-6410
E-mail: filmtage@cuenet.ch
Web site: www.filmtage-solothurn.ch
Director/programmer: Ivo Kummer
Location: Solothurn, Switzerland
Films and videos by Swiss filmmakers and non-Swiss residents of the country.
Also Swiss co-productions. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: Oct. 31
Dates: Jan. 18-23
Tromso Intl. Film
Festival (10th)
P.O. Box 285
9253 Tromso, Norway
Phone/fax: (47-77) 605-150
E-mail: festival@tromsokino.no
Director: Hans Henrik Berg
Programmer: Ola Lund Renolen
Contact: Martha Otte
Location: Tromso, Norway
Focusing on contemporary art films and docus from all continents. Competitive.
Deadline: Nov. 1
Dates: Jan. 18-23
San Antonio
CineFestival (23rd)
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
1300 Guadalupe St.
San Antonio, TX 78207-5519
Phone: (210) 271-3151
Fax: (210) 271-3480
E-mail: guadarts@aol.com
Web site: www.guadalupeculturalarts.org/media.html
Director/programmer: Ray Santisteban
Location: San Antonio, Texas
International Chicano/Latino film/video fest. Competitive for narrative,
experimental, docu and first work. Themes this year are Mexican cinema and new
technology.
Dates: Jan. 19-23 and 28-30
Florida Gulf
Coast Jewish Film Festival (1st)
P.O. Box 271786
Tampa, FL 33688
Phone: (813) 961-5177
Fax: (813) 962-4072
E-mail: fgcjff@aol.com
Director/programmer: Ann Regina Miller
Location: Tampa and Clearwater, Fla.
Features and shorts with Jewish themes. Docus, fiction, comedy, drama and a
children’s program.
Deadline: Oct. 1
Dates: Jan. 20-23
Brussels Intl.
Film Festival (27th)
30 Chaussee de Louvain
B-1210 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: (32-2) 227-3980
Fax: (32-2) 218-1860
E-mail: infoffb@netcity.be
Web site: ffb.cinebel.com
Director/contact: Christian Thomas
Programmer: Christian Thomas, Tinne Bral, Jan Vandierendonck
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Competitive for European films of general interest, about 100 features and 100
shorts. Sections include America Meets Europe, Belgian Focus, Tribute to Andre
Delvaux. FIAPF-recognized.
Deadline: Oct. 31
Dates: Jan. 20-29
Sundance Film
Festival (17th)
225 Santa Monica Blvd., 8th floor
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Phone: (310) 394-4662
Fax: (310) 394-8353
E-mail: institute@sundance.org
Web site: www.sundance.org
Directors: Nicole Guillemet, Geoffrey Gilmore
Programmer: Geoffrey Gilmore
Location: Park City, Utah
Showcase for American independent films in dramatic and docu categories, with
emphasis on the discovery of new talent. Also shows foreign films. Competitive
and noncompetitive sections.
Deadline: Oct. 1 (shorts); Oct. 8 (features)
Dates: Jan. 20-30
Premiers Plans
d’Angers (12th)
54 rue Beaubourg
75003 Paris, France
Phone: (33-1) 4271-5370
Fax: (33-1) 4271-4755
Web site: www.anjou.com/premiersplans/
Director/programmer: Claude-Eric Poiroux
Location: Angers, France
Showcase for European films by first-time directors. Competitive.
Deadline: Nov. 10
Dates: Jan. 21-30
Slamdance Film
Festival (6th)
6381 Hollywood Blvd., #520
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Phone: (323) 466-1786
Fax: (323) 466-1784
E-mail: mail@slamdance.com
Web site: www.slamdance.com
Director/contact: Peter Baxter
Programmers: committee of filmmakers
Location: Park City, Utah
Indie features, focusing on first-time helmers. All lengths, formats, genres.
Competitive.
Deadline: Oct. 13 (early); Nov. 10 (final)
Dates: Jan. 22-29
NO DANCE Film
& Multimedia Festival (3rd)
703 Pier Ave., #675
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
Phone: (310) 939-6269
Fax: (310) 374-0134
E-mail: boyd@6161.com
Web site: www.6161.com
Director/contact: James Boyd
Location: Park City, Utah
A DVD-projected alternative film fest, with an emphasis on new filmmakers and
digital technology. Competitive. Also script competition.
Dates: late January
Midem (34th)
11 Rue du Colonel Avia
75726 Paris, Cedex 15, France
Phone: (33-1) 4190-4400
Fax: (33-1) 4190-4450
Contact: Xavier Roy
Music industry market.
Dates: Jan. 23-27
NATPE — National
Assn. of TV Programming Executives (37th)
2425 Olympic Blvd., Suite 550E
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone: (310) 453-4440
Fax: (310) 453-5258
Web site: www.natpe.org
Director: Nick Orfanopoulos
Contacts: Deanna Varscsak (registration), Nick Orfanopoulos
(exhibition), Susan Davis (speakers)
Location: New Orleans, La.
Market for international and domestic TV program buyers and sellers.
Deadline: Nov. 12 (early)
Dates: Jan. 24-27
Filmfestival Max
Ophuls Preis (21st)
Mainzerstr. 8
66111 Saarbrucken, Germany
Phone: (49-681) 39452
Fax: (49-681) 905-1943
E-mail: Filmhaus@aol.com
Web site: www.saarbruecken.de/filmhaus.htm
Director: Christel Drawer
Contact: Gabrielle Bandel
Location: Saarbrucken, Germany
Focuses on German-language features and shorts from new directors. View Across
the Border showcases one country’s film product (1999: Great Britain).
Competitive.
Deadline: Nov. 15
Dates: Jan. 25-30
Rotterdam Intl.
Film Festival (29th)
P.O. Box 21696
3001 AR Rotterdam, Netherlands
Phone: (31-10) 890-9090
Fax: (31-10) 890-9091
E-mail: tiger@iffrotterdam.nl
Web site: www.iffrotterdam.nl
Director/programmer: Simon Field
Contact: Mirjam Klootwijk
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
International showcase of independent film, incorporating CineMart, an
international co-production market. Features, creative docus, experimental
films, shorts and innovative visual productions for digital media (CD-ROMs, Web
sites, etc.) This year offers a focus on Japanese cinema, in honor of the 400th
anni of Japanese-Dutch trade relations. Competitive.
Deadline: Oct. 1 (shorts); Nov. 1 (features)
Dates: Jan. 26-Feb. 6
Internationale
Filmwochenende
Gostbertsteige 2
D-97082 Wurzburg, Germany
Phone: (49-931) 414-098
Fax: (49-931) 416-279
E-mail: ifw24@aol.com
Director: Berthold Kremmler
Location: Wurzburg, Germany
Competitive.
Deadline: Nov. 15
Dates: Jan. 27-30
Belgrade Intl.
Film Festival (28th)
Sava Centar
Intl. Film Festival
Milentija Popovica 9
11070 Novi Beograd, Yugoslavia
Phone: (381-11) 311-4961 or 609-463
Fax: (381-11) 311-3210
E-mail: film@scentar.co.yu
Director: Nevena Djonlic
Programmers: Dinko Tucakovic, Miroljub Vuckovic, Dragan Jelicic
Contact: Biljana Parlic
Location: Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Feature-length films. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: late December
Dates: Jan. 28-Feb. 5
Goteborg Film
Festival (23rd)
Box 7079
S-40232 Goteborg, Sweden
Phone: (46-31) 410-546
Fax: (46-31) 410-063
E-mail: goteborg@filmfestival.org
Web site: www.goteborg.filmfestival.org
Director/programmer: Gunnar Bergdahl
Contact: Agneta Green
Location: Goteborg, Sweden
The official national film festival of Sweden, with international and Swedish
programs. Competitive for new Nordic film. Focus on a different country’s films
each year (in 2000, Iceland).
Deadline: Nov. 1
Dates: Jan. 28-Feb. 6
Sun Valley
Documentary Film Festival (2nd)
Sun Valley Center for the Arts
P.O. Box 656
Sun Valley, ID 97205
Phone: (208) 726-9491
Fax: (208) 726-2344
E-mail: mwitt@micron.net
Web site: www.sunvalleyid.com/svcenter
Director/programmer: Michelle Witt
Location: Sun Valley, Idaho
Noncompetitive.
Dates: Jan. 28-31
Tokyo Video
Festival (22nd)
Victor Blvd.
1-7-1 Shinbashi
Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-0004 Japan
Phone: (81-33) 289-2815
Fax: (81-33) 289-2819
E-mail: jvd-tvf1@mb.kcom.ne.jp
Web site: www.jvc-victor.co.jp/tvf/
Location: Tokyo
Open to professionals and amateurs from around the world. Competitive,
including 20th Century Award, for video that creatively captures experiences
and discoveries in the 20th century and the challenges of the new age.
Deadline: Oct. 5
Dates: Jan. 30
Imagina
4 avenue de l’Europe
Bry-Sur-Marne 94366, France
Phone: (33-1) 4983-2693
Fax: (33-1) 4983-3185
Contact: Jean-Michel Blottiere
Location: Monaco; Paris
Competitive.
Dates: Jan. 31-Feb. 2 (Monaco); Feb. 2-4 (Paris)
Gerardmer
Fantastic Arts (7th)
40 rue Anatole France
92594 Levallois-Perret Cedex, France
Phone: (33-1) 4134-2033
Fax: (33-1) 4134-2077
E-mail: jlasserre@le-public-systeme.fr
Web site: www.gerardmer-fantasticart.com
Director: Lionel Chouchan
Programmer: Bruno Barde
Location: Gerardmer, Lorraine, France
International fantasy, sci-fi, psychological thriller and horror films, as well
as French shorts plus videos, comics and other art forms. Competitive.
Deadline: early January
Dates: end of January
Chicago Intl. TV
Competition
32 W. Randolph St., Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: (312) 425-9400
Fax: (312) 425-0944
E-mail: filmfest@suba.com
Director: Michael Kutza
Location: Chicago
Competitive.
Deadline: Nov. 20
Dates: January
Moondance Film
Festival (1st)
970 Ninth St.
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: (303) 545-0202
E-mail: mermaid7cs@aol.com
Director/contact: Elizabeth English
Programmers: Elizabeth English, Linda Kelsay
Location: Boulder, Colo.
International film festival for women screenwriters and filmmakers. Independent
films in any genre, including features, animation, docus, shorts. Competitive.
Deadline: Oct. 1
Dates: January
Portland Jewish
Film Festival (6th)
Northwest Film Center
1219 SW Park Ave.
Portland, OR 97205
Phone: (503) 221-1156
Fax: (503) 294-0874
E-mail: info@nwfilm.org
Web site: www.nwfilm.org
Contact: Howard Aaron
Location: Portland, Ore.
Showcase celebrating the Jewish experience. Noncompetitive.
Deadline: Nov. 1
Dates: January
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Assignment: Festival
Research
Using the lists
provided above, find the number of festivals in:
1) North America
____
2) South America
____
3) Western Europe
____
4) Eastern Europe
____
5) Australasia (includes Asia, Australia, and New
Zealand) ____
6) Africa ____
Now get in-depth
information for one festival from each of the regions listed above. Use this information to fill in the form
below. Since many of the festivals have
web sites, use those URLs to do your research.
Please do not
investigate Cannes, American Film Market, Deauville, Venice, Sundance, or
Mifed. Info on these festivals is
readily available. I will post your information into the list, making it more
valuable and complete.
Informational
form to report on the festivals investigated:
1) Name of festival
2) Address of festival headquarters
3) Phone # of fest
4) URL of festival
5) Date of festival
6) Contact person for festival
7) Focus of the festival (what genres, lengths, formats
may be submitted)
8) Entry fees
9) Submission date
10)
Winners of last
year’s festival that were later picked up for distribution.
11)
Is there a market
that runs in parallel with the fest?
12)
Try to find a
review of the festival in a newspaper or magazine (that also maintains a web
site) and supply a link to it. Copy the
review into the body of the report as well.
13)
Your evaluation
of the festival’s importance or significance.
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