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The
Silicon Alley Film Festival is totally platform independent
presenting the highest quality cinema in the world, regardless
of budget, national origin or format - celluloid or electronic,
digital or analog, - and the films are considered equally
in the main competiton. The films are vying for one of three
prizes: Warner Bros. Award for Best Film in Festival, PitchTV
Award for Best Special Effects, and Filmfestivals.com Award
for Best Short Film. The screenings are to take place at Cineplex
Odeon Worldwide Theatre in New York City from 18 - 27 February
2000. Also on the program, tributes to new media savvy filmmakers
Jan Kounen, Dogme95's Lars van Trier and Thomas Vintenberg
and David Cronenberg, filmmakers leading the way into the
future of filmmaking.
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A
two-day executive conference will present panel discussions
of the latest technologies and exhibitions by new media and
internet companies in Silicon Alley. Silicon Alley is located
below 59th Street and stretches to the south tip of Manhattan
Island, and is considered a region of boundless economic opportunity.
Selected filmmakers with films screening in the festival and
business plans with an internet strategy will be invited to
present their upcoming film productions for investment to
an audience of accredited investors and venture capitalists
at the Venture Capital Forum during the New Media Conference
on 23 - 24 February. Conference attendees are also invited
to join the Silicon Alley Internet and Wall Street Financial
community at the Internet IPO Ball on February 25, 2000 at
the Regent Wall Street Hotel Grand Ball Room, 55 Wall Street.
The Silicon Alley Festival is a production of Webcinema -
NYC, the New York City regional network of Webcinema, the
online international community of filmmakers, with a mission
"to use new media/Internet technologies to create, produce,
market, distribute and exhibit cinema."
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