Africa in the Picture (AITP) is an independent film festival and platform for African and African Diaspora Cinema. Every year AITP organizes a film festival showcasing a unique selection of films from all over the world. AITP wants to contribute to the development of African and African Diaspora Cinema by promoting and spreading films (in the Netherlands, in the rest of Europe and at the African continent) and by offering an international platform for cinematographic professionals. By showing a modern Africa from the perspective of African filmmakers, AITP strives to inspire people in the Netherlands in developing a more complete and realistic world view.

Africa in the Picture (AITP) est un festival de film indépendant ét une plateforme pour le Cinéma de l'Afrique et de la Diaspora africaine. Chaque année AITP organise un festival de film présentant une unique sélection de films de partout dans le monde. AITP veut contribuer au développement du Cinéma de l'Afrique et de la Diaspora africaine par la promotion et la diffusion des films (aux Pays-Bas, dans le reste de l'Europe et sur le continent africain) et en offrant une plate-forme internationale pour les professionnels cinématographiques. En montrant une Afrique moderne du point de vue des cinéastes africains, AITP s'efforce d'inspirer les gens aux Pays-Bas dans l'élaboration d'une vision du monde plus équilibrée et plus réaliste.

The festival's main purpose of existance is create alternative venues for watching South African produced films as well as films from Africa and the world. Use film as tool to empower peoples lives towards nation building and township regeneration. Foster the development of of audiences for the appreciation of independently produced film products. Contribute to the growth of a film industry in Ekurhuleni. Increase an interest for pursuing as a career. Showcase and exhibit films through Ekurhuleni Film Festival. Develop new audiences and create a cinema friendly culture for locally (South African) produced films within Ekurhuleni and the the surrounding areas.

Euroshorts is the only European festival showing both short films and creative commercials. Because short films are the essence of our times. Non-commercial fiction, documentaries, animation and commercial spots, music videos - can be submited. The Festival has published four DVD`s showing the hits of its non-commercial and commercial zones. Come to Warsaw, take part in our competition. Join us on facebook http://www.facebook.com/euroshorts

For the first time in Bangladesh, International Academy of Film and Media is going to organize and launch a big film event to take place at the  longest sea beach in the world, Cox’s Bazar Sea Beach.

It will be a non-competitive festival.  

Launching 2012 

The Arnold Sports Film Festival – hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the world’s leading showcase for sports-themed cinema – is seeking submissions of short films in all categories exploring individual athletic effort. The Film Festival takes place at the same time and adjacent to the main venue of the Arnold Sports Festival – with 18,000 athletes and 200,000 attendees – the largest athletic gathering in the world. For further information, check out www.ArnoldSportsFilmFestival.com and apply now!

 

Presented by and named for Arnold Schwarzenegger, the ASFF is a part of the Arnold Sports Fest, the largest multi-sport event in the world; the event features 18,000 athletes competing in 45 sports and events and attracts more than 200,000 attendees to Columbus, Ohio each year.

 

Filmmakers from around the world are encouraged to submit films running 15 minutes or less that explore the lives, efforts, inspirations, and hopes of people striving for achievement in individual athletic pursuits. From body building to boxing, gymnastics to judo, table tennis to track, and then skiing, skating, cycling, weightlifting – and many , many more – the ASFF seeks to discover and present films that study the journey, perseverance, and triumphs of individuals who participate in athletic expression and competition.

 

The Festival encourages both traditional and alternative storytelling and accepts films in a variety of categories including narrative, documentary, animated and experimental films and also features a section showcasing broadcast projects and packages. Winning films are selected by a jury comprised of renowned entertainment and sports industry figures, including Arnold Schwarzenegger. This season’s top films will be awarded significant prize packages and receive exposure during and after the Arnold Sports Festival. What’s more, the Grand Prize winner will be invited to spend the day on a movie set with Arnold Schwarzenegger and will meet with studio executives.

 

The Human Rights International Film Festival’s aim is to present the best movies dealing with every social issue related to the human rights’ and environment’s defense from several and original points of view, promoting in this way a critic cinema that contributes to social change. www.imd.org.ar/festival

The MIX Short Film Awards (for produced shorts and scripts) - Outside of rewarding current projects, The MIX pairs up emerging short film writers and filmmakers for the purpose of producing future high quality shorts in both traditional and non-traditional formats.  This contest helps facilitate the production of short films by pairing up our top winning  screenwriters & filmmakers and offering them cash prizes or production opportunities. Outside of our main categories where we accept all genres and niches, three awards will be given to the most inspiring writer or filmmaker who best utilizes film as a medium to create awareness, social change, or bring a unique perspective to any one topic. The screening events will be held at the historic Byrd Theatre, Feb 17-19, 2012.

The Northern Wave International Film Festival will be celebrated from the 2th to the 4th of March 2012 in Grundarfjörður, Iceland. The philosophy of the festival, upon which its name is based, is Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave. Like Nouvelle Vague, Northern Wave attempts to revive the recognition of film making as an art form and the director as artist/author. An important goal of the festival is to develop relationships between experienced filmmakers and emerging filmmakers in Iceland and other countries. We are a  visionary festival that celebrates artistic and ground braking films by filmmakers who dare to take risks.

Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS is an independent festival of film and audiovisual arts, held annually in Riga, Latvia, and is dedicated to seeking out and presenting innovative modes of visual communication. Born in the 1990s, the festival has grown into an international film event which offers films by professional filmmakers, winners of international festivals, students and graduates of film schools from all over the world. 2ANNAS is a platform which, in addition to the traditional means of filmmaking promotes new forms of content and expression. Our main objective is promote the works of professional filmmakers outside of and as an alternative the mainstream cinema products, both locally and internationally. We especially want to see the development of the Baltic films and their trends within the context of the world, to advertise them by creating appropriate environment for developing new ideas and cooperation projects.  

Every year 2ANNAS offers a range of short film collections – International and Baltic Competition programmes, guest programmes, retrospectives, and others, presenting films of all genres - fiction, animation, documentary, experimental film / video art, etc. In our programmes we seek for the innovative, experimental, unseen or long-forgotten in the film world. No idea or event can last without an inner drive or a wish to express something. Therefore when selecting films for 2ANNAS competition programmes we search for works with an individual and unique signature, creativity, aesthetic and technical performance corresponding to the artistic idea. The festival hosts lectures and photo exhibitions, as well as theater and music performances, “out-of-box events”, and other activities within the rich city environment and the vibrant multi-talented 2ANNAS atmosphere.The festival invites special guests – young film directors, VJs and DJs, lecturers, jury members and collaboration partners – from a number of different countries. 2ANNAS draws large crowds of visitors, most of which are young filmmakers, artists, and students from the Baltic and European countries.

The Forest Park Film Festival promotes independent film makers    Not only are movies featured at the festival, but they are promoted by radio interviews and movie reviews.   With permission from film producers, the film will also air on Springfield's Public Access Television.    Any genre (fiction, documentary, animation) is Eligible for submission.   The Forest Park Film Festival is held at the Bing Arts Center at 716 Sumner Avenue, Springfield, Massachusetts.    The submission fee is $19.95  

 Submission Fee is paid below - mail DVD to David Ewen at 88 Appleton St, Springfield, MA 01108. Send email to Ewenprime@yahoo.com to alert us to watch for DVD.   Go to:  http://epndiscovers.webs.com/filmfestival.htm

Africa's most noteworthy Horror film festival

South Africa's most extreme film festival

SOUND ON SCREEN is the first film festival in South Africa with its focus aimed at music on screen.

 

CELLUDROID is the only South African film festival focussing on Sci-Fi, Anime and Fantasy films, with indie, new and old classics, from short films to feature films. 

A comic book chapter has also been incorporated.

For the 2011 event director Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil) will attend the with some of his classic movies, and introduce his new book, Shadow Of The Grail.

Open for submissions.

Full line-up will appear at http://www.CELLUDROID.net

Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival (TICFF) was founded by Public Television Service (PTS) in 2004. It is the first film and television festival in Asia dedicated to viewers aged 12 and under. TICFF is held biennially, with its 5^th edition scheduled for April 2012 in Taipei. TICFF’s mission is to encourage quality children’s programming worldwide and to engage young local viewers with valuable access to the media. We welcome all types of creative, fun, and multicultural films as well as television programs.

L'Aquila International Film Festival is open to feature and short movies. The Festival is held in L'Aquila, Italy, during the first week of November

ANNOUNCEMENT OF  COMPETITION

II edition  of

Filmfestival sul Paesaggio

Filmfestivl about Landscape

“We capture and relate the essence of a country. The landscape is a common good to be preserved. The human face as a landscape tells a tale of encounters”.

Since 22 to 29 May 2011

at Polizzi Generosa (Palermo)

 

        Aims of The Film festival about Landscape

Landscape is also a primary good that  the very Constitution safeguards; that’s why by cinematographic art, with the “Filmfestival sul Paesaggio / Filmfestival about Landscapes” the “G. A. Borgese Foundation” intends to exploit this resource and this function it plays, and at the same time to describe the human aspect as a landscape.

Under these circumstances, without forgiving that landscape is able to recall an atmosphere, a dream, a fantasia, the storyline of a tale and some romancing, by carrying out a “Filmfestival sul Paesaggio / Filmfestival about Landscapes” we want weave the perfect development to narrate the reality of the world with his human and cultural weight by enhancing his real dimension.

Beyond words and perhaps even more than words images communicate through an universal, immediate and direct language that perceive and catch the very strength of

landscape. Our eyes capture the images of the reality through objectivity, or thanks to  photography and cinematography we can catch them indirectly.

Through an image we can contemplate a panorama, and at the same time we are allowed to see and interpret a region, to observe and interpret the signs stuck that express the development of nature and the creative strength from our hand, to elevate more and more our spirit and enjoy the beauty spread through a wide range of landscapes.

The “Filmfestival sul Paesaggio / Filmfestival about Landscapes” wants to function as a situation that gathers several visions of a place and of life, to direct the different evocative facets that the mastery and the creative fantasy of participants want propose in the most independent way with the aim to propose this resource as a common good that everyone can enjoy and understand thanks to the heterogeneous and polychrome colors of his panorama, and that with the details of his peculiarity and identity belong permanently to the cultural horizons of everyone.

In this way by experiencing the gratuitousness with a conscious look and observation we achieve a best quality of life for everyone, including ourselves, that states a right for each of us to improve the quality of life when we get harmony and happiness.

CONTEST SECTIONS D

                            

I) “Landscape is a common good to be preserved”

The section is reserved to videos that pay attention to places and communities and that convey the universally spread right to beauty that should be peculiar to every human being and implied in every landscape.

Preserved landscapes that transmit  emotions, feelings, tales, myths and stories that mould the cultural identity of a  population and others one usurped and disfigured that affect human and cultural development attest that it is  common good to preserve and to hand down for the next generations.

Artists can develop subjects as: safeguard of landscape, biodiversity, the pastoral and

agrarian societies and the medieval castles and villages, water, the cementification of the region, landscape in connection with ceramic, sacred, writing, tales.

We accept fiction and animation footages,  documentaries and docufictions whose duration doesn’t exceed 15 minutes for the animations one and thirteen minutes

for the others one. We don’t accept any video but these ones sent on support DVD.

I

II)“The human face as a landscape tells a tale of encounters"

 “Our landscape is what we eat, produce, build, breathe and meet”

Every day we encounter faces: on the street, on train, on workplaces. Often we don’t pay attention to these familiar faces that diary become for us a geographic landscape, although they bear  personal and collective histories, as well as ideas, projects, whose cultural identity is strong. To widen our horizons and “to see the others” as point of

departure to elaborate a new ethical vision and a  paradigm for a new social and political conviviality. This other can be the foreigner whose rights aren’t very much or absolutely preserved because we see him as a danger for our identity and for our  well-being, or also someone we won’t ever meet because he died in a desperation trip, or he  returned just to these countries from which he tried to escape,

in violation of that right of asylum that should constitute one cornerstone of

the European juridical culture and that the Italian constitution (Art.10) safeguards as a fundamental human right.

To narrate the landscape of faces underlying when we meet them, to tell their histories, means to draw a panorama of a renewed human geography opened to  comprehension and sharing.

We accept fiction and animation footages, documentaries and docufictions whose duration doesn’t exceed 15 minutes.

We don’t accept any video but these ones sent on support DVD.

 

PARTICIPATION  RULESP

We don’t accept any video but these ones sent on support DVD. You can’t send more than a fiction footage for every DVD, and as concerned as fiction footages each of them can’t exceed 30 minutes; as concerned as documentaries and docufictions

presented in the first concourse section, as well as the animation ones presented in the same section and each of them presented in the other contest sections, they can’t exceed 15 minutes.

Total duration must include the titles.

Every artist can’t send more than a piece of work for contest section.  

Foreign footages must be subtitled.

We won’t take in consideration any industrial, publicity and advertising film, as well as these ones produced by national networks.

Send your DVD with your entry form and with your consent to the treatment of your personal datas (a confirmation that your  personal datas can be processed into our data system, as it prescribes the Italian law) by letter, parcel or express courier, within and not beyond the 20th of April 2011 to:

Fondazione “G. A. Borgese” - Via Garibaldi, 13 - 90028 Polizzi Generosa (PA).

You can download the documents in www.madonie.info

Furthermore, please send a copy by email to:fondazioneborgese@libero.it

Delivery costs will be in our charge.

Applications must be postmarked by this date, and any video sent after this deadline won’t be considered. No exceptions will be made. Please when you complete your participation report take the precaution to write in a readable way and to firm your authorization to process your personal details. Please have also the courtesy to send an high-definition image (300dpi) to this E-mail address: press@comunisolidali.org.

The subscription to the Festival is free. The artistic direction of the Festival will select, to his unquestionable judgment, the works selected to participate. At the end of the pre-selection winners will be informed by phone or by E-mail. Moreover works and artists selected will be published on the site www.madonie.info Given that artists by their application to participate to the contest and by the sending of their  work authorize  the “G.A. Borgese” Foundation to project their footages for promotional or study reasons that can take place in a different situation, without purpose of profit, any footage or work whether or not selected won’t be returned and will be in the archives and at a free disposal of “G.A. BORGESE” Foundation. Any footage delivered at the screening evening won’t be accepted.

The cash prizes will be paid as soon as possible in connection with the time of public

contributions.

INFO: www.madonie.info - e-mail: fondazioneborgese@libero.it

 

 

The Wild Rose Independent Film Festival will be held November 3-10, 2011 at the Fleur Cinema and Café in Des Moines. This artsy, hip and indie -friendly theatre/coffee house/bar/cafe has proven to be a fun and convenient venue also allowing attending filmmakers and audience close proximity to a wide variety of shops, restaurants, bars and music. Just 5 minutes from both the Des Moines International Airport and Downtown Des Moines, the Fleur has proven to be a very popular location!

The Belarus’ largest and most prestigious public film festival Listapad annually takes place at the beginning of November. The main purpose of the festival is to offer a wide selection of highly acclaimed feature films, documentaries from all over the world as well as new productions from Belarus. It screens recent titles and retrospectives.

The Minsk International Film Festival program has three sections - feature, documentary and children and youth film festival Listapadzik. During a week cinema goers have a possibility to watch more than 100 movies in 5 venues. Also, special programs in focus, master-classes, seminars and other related events are presented annually. Filmmakers, actors and supporters have the opportunity to network at various events. Q&A sessions with directors and actors follow every screening giving moviegoers first-hand access to the filmmaking process.

Around 12 outstanding films for the last two years from Russia, the Central and Eastern Europe, Baltics and Central-Asian countries comprise in Main competition.

No less than 8 most notable first and second feature films for the last two years from all over the world comprise in Young Directors competition "Youth on the march".

Documentary competition includes the main competition and young directors documentary film competition. No less than 20 full-length and short critically acclaimed films for the last two years are in the main program. Over 15 prominent filmmakers’ current films inspired by the idea of freedom and tolerance comprise in young directors documentary film competition.

No less than 6 competing full-length feature films for Children and Youth for the last two years and non-competitive special programs including features, shorts and animation films from all over the world take part in the Children and Youth Film Festival Listapadzik.

The out-of-competition programs present more than 50 titles of genre and independent movies made by cult filmmakers from all over the world.

The last Festival edition was held on November, 5-12th in Belarus. The last year the Festival appeared in a completely updated format. For the first time the Festival competition program was as follows: 
- The Main competition, which was presented 12 feature films made in the former Soviet Union and the former socialist countries; 
- Young Directors’ competition (“Youth on the March”), which included 9 most notable feature debuts of emerging directors from all over the world; 
- Documentary films competition, which presented to the jury and the public 23 films created in the former Soviet Union and the former socialist countries; 
- Young Directors’ documentary films competition, which included the most notable debuts in documentary from all over the world. 

During the Festivalfour Juries worked:

- the InternationalJury of the Main competition (Grand Jury):

Head of Jury

Sharunas Bartas(Lithuania) - director, scriptwriter, director of photography, member ofEuropean Motion Picture Academy, international film festivals prize-winner

Jury

Janusz Kijowski(Poland) - director, scriptwriter 

Elena Koreneva(Russia) - actress, writer 

Tatiana Loginova(Belarus) - director of photography, laureate of State Prize of USSR,international film festivals prize-winner

Kirill Razlogov(Russia) - director of Russian Institute for Cultural Research, programdirector of Moscow International Film Festival

- the InternationalJury of Young Directors competition ("Youth on the March"):

Head of Jury

Ludmila Saenkova(Belarus) - film critic, candidate of philology science, head of literary andart criticism chair of Journalism Institute of Belarusian State University

Jury

Rodion Ismailov(Azerbaijan) - director 

Natalya Vorozhbit(Ukraine) - scriptwriter 

- the InternationalJury of Documentary films competition: 

Head of Jury

Victor Asliuk(Belarus) - director, scriptwriter, member of European Film Academy, nationaland international film festivals prize-winner 

Jury

Sergey Bukovsky(Ukraine) - director, People's Artist of Ukraine, laureate of National TarasShevchenko Award, international film festivals prize-winner 

Svetlana Bychenko(Russia) - director of documentary and animation films, scriptwriter,international film festivals prize-winner

Veslav Romanovski(Poland) - director, scriptwriter, literary, deputy director of PolishInstitute in Minsk

Anna Yerzinkyan (Armenia)- film critic, professor, pro-rector of Yerevan State Theatre and FilmInstitute

- the InternationalJury of Young Directors documentary films competition:

Head of Jury

Aleksandr Kuprin(Russia) - director, scriptwriter, international film festivals prize-winner

Jury

Sergey Rybakov(Belarus) - director, international film festivals prize-winner, "For SpiritualRenovation" Award owner, laureate of national award "Televershyna"

Toms Trеibergs (Latvia) - film critic, filmsubeditor of the newspaper "Cultural Forum"

Also festival audiencecould participate in the viewer's jury. Everyone had possibility to rate foreach feature. Festival preferences rating was generated according to theresults of viewer's votes

The Grand Jury awardedthe following nominations:

- Grand-Prix For TheBest Film

"My Joy",Ukraine-Germany-The Netherlands, director Sergey Loznitsa

- Special Jury Award

The Light Thief,Kyrgyzstan-France-Germany-The Netherlands, director Aktan Arym Kubat

 

The Jury of the Youthon the March competition awarded:

- Best Film Awardnamed after the people`s artist of USSR V. Turov

"October", Peru,directors Daniel Vega, Diego Vega 

- Prize "For the dancewith reality"

"You Are All TheCaptains", Spain, director Oliver Laxe 

- Prize "For therealization of the freedom's theme"

"Udaan", India,director Vikramaditya Motwane 

 

The Jury ofDocumentary films competition awarded:

- Grand-Prix for theBest Film

"The Woman With FiveElephants", Switzerland-Germany, director Vadim Jendreyko 

- Best Full-LengthFilm Award

"The Last Rope-WalkerOf Armenia", Armenia, directors Arman Eritsyan, Inna Saakyan 

- Best Short FilmAward

"The Backwoods 35х45", Russia, director Evgeny Solomin

 

The Jury of Youngdirectors documentary films competition awarded:

- Best Full-LengthFilm Award

"The Last Train Home",Canada-China, director Lixin Fan 

- Best Short FilmAward

"The World Champion",Estonia, director Moonika Siimets 

- Prize "For thecreative search and active political fences"

"Make Tea",Russia-Great Britain, director Olga Korotkaya 

- Prize "For theuniversality of director's profession"

"Kill the Day",Belarus-Poland, directors Andrei Kutilo, Aleksandr Nalivaiko 

- Prize "For thesearch of new cinematographic language"

"In Case Of LossPressure" (Belgium, director Sarah Moon Howe)

 

The festival alsoestablished the following prizes: 

- Audience ChoiceAward

"Brother", Venezuela,director Marcel Rasquin 

- Special Prize of thePresident of the Republic of Belarus "For Humanism and Spirituality incinematography"

"Brother", Venezuela,director Marcel Rasquin 

- Special Prize"Together" of The Standing Committee Of The Union State

"The Brest Fortress",Russia-Belarus, director Aleksandr Kott 

- Special Prize ofMinsk City Executive Committee for the Moral Ideals Embodyment

"Street Days",Georgia, director Levan Koguashvili

 

Prizes of the Guild ofscholars and critics of Belarusian cinematographers union 

- Best Fiction FilmAward

"Street Days",Georgia, director Levan Koguashvili 

- Best Non-Fictional Film Award

"Kill the Day",Belarus, directors Andrei Kutilo, Aleksandr Nalivaiko 

March 9-19, 2011

This season, the Globus Film Series presents the Japanese gangster movie genre through its various avatars, transformations and contradictions, from 1960s productions featuring chivalrous kimono-clad, sword-wielding gangsters and gamblers to today's ruthless gun-toting villains dealing in debt, hustling hardcore porn and scheming and scamming in dark trades and deeds. Over the past 50 years, they've remained snarling, swaggering, tattooed and inexplicably sexy. In the line-up, there will be blood and broken bones, hookers and hopheads, and plenty of juicy political blackmail… in 15 films that rack up the stiffs like Jacobean tragedies and show grand visions of manly amity and betrayal: classics and lesser known titles by Kinji Fukasaku, Takashi Miike (Dead or Alive), Hideo Gosha (The Wolves), Takeshi Kitano (Outrage), Rokuro Mochizuki (A Yakuza In Love, Onibi: The Fire Within) and Sydney Pollack (The Yakuza), among other offerings you can't refuse.

The violent romantic world of the yakuza (the Japanese mafia) steeped in cryptic ritual and customs involving full-body tattoos and missing digits, has long excited the imagination, decades before viewers started existing on a diet of Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire melodrama, and has been one of the mainstays of the Japanese film industry since the 1960s. Harking back to the days when samurai still embodied traditionalist values of honor, selfless duty (giri) and the noble warrior spirit (ninkyo) on the silver screen, the shadowy demimonde of organized crime (which included wandering gamblers and lowly peddlers) rivaled with the noble swordsmen as the representatives of honor and heroism, in the context of a rapidly changing society trying to come to terms with a shameful defeat. In the darkness of movie theaters, they became the very picture of superhuman macho cool and reptilian menace.

The only annual festival of its kind, the New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival has become one of the largest Sephardic Jewish film festivals in North America, attracting over 30,000 guests to a major cultural event that calls New York its home.

The 15th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival will take place March 10-16 at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York. Presented by the American Sephardi Federation (ASF) in association with Yeshiva University Museum (YUM), the slate of films includes five U.S. premieres and six New York premieres, as well as critically acclaimed and award-winning films and classic feature films and documentaries presented by filmmakers with differing global perspectives.

Ronit Elkabetz, acclaimed Sephardi actor/filmmaker, will be recognized with ASF's Pomegranate Lifetime Achievement Award at the Opening Night Gala on March 16. Elkabetz has won three Ophir Awards (the Israeli equivalent of the Oscars), the 2010 France Culture Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israeli Film Academy.

This year's themes include a special focus on the Jews of Morocco as part of ASF's year-long series, "2,000 Years of Jewish Life in Morocco: An Epic Journey." The series is being presented under the High Patronage of His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, and made possible through the generous support of the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation.

The American Sephardi Federation is committed to exhibiting a select international slate of feature films and documentaries specifically chosen for their thought-provoking examination of the past and exploration of contemporary Sephardic issues and identity.

A full listing of films and ticket information is available at sephardicfilmfest.org. All screenings will take place at the Center for Jewish History (except where noted). Group sales discounts are available (excluding the Opening and Closing night receptions). Information about the American Sephardi Federation is available by visiting americansephardifederation.org.

The Festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and the New York State Council on the Arts. Special thanks goes to the Brenner Family Foundation, the Kumble Cultural Fund, and the Selz Family Cultural Fund for their generous contributions in support of the program.

Further information about the festival and ASF is available by contacting Lynne Winters at 212.294.8350 x.2 or lmwinters@.cjh.org.