Kid Film Festival (Dallas)
5-18 January 1998
2917 Swiss Avenue, Dallas 75204, Texas, USA
Tel: +1-214 821 6300
Fax: +1-214 821 6364
website: http://www.usafilmfestival.com
Festival director: Ann Alexander
Festival programmer: Alonso Duralde
Entry deadline: 1 October 1997
Nortel Palm Springs Int'l Film Festival
8-19 January 1998
1700 E. Tahquitz #3, Palm Springs, CA 92262, USA
Tel: +1-760 322 2930
Fax: +1-760 322 4087
e-mail: filmfest@ix.netcom.com
Executive director: Craig Prater
Artistic director: Paola Freccero
Market
Entry deadline: 1 November 1997
Berlin & Beyond
Festival/TOWN: San Francisco
1997 festival/DATES: 11-17 January 1997
1998 festival/DATES: 9-15 January 1998
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: Goethe-Insitut, 530 Bush Street, San Francisco
CA 94108
town: San Francisco
country: California
post code: CA, 94108
office telephone:(415)391 0370
office fax: (415) 391 87 15
office e-mail address: gisfprog@pop.sirius.com
website:http://www.goethe.de/uk/saf
name of festival DIRECTOR: Ingrid Eggers
-market? no
-competition? no (we are working on an award for the next Berlin &Beyond in 1999)
-deadline for entry: October 31th
Int'l Film Festival of India (New Delhi)
10-20 January 1998
Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, 4th floor, Lok Nayak Bavan, Khan Market, New Delhi 110 003, India
Tel: +91-11 461 5953/469 49210/ 461 7226
Fax: +91-11 462 3430
Festival director: Malti Sahai
Festival programmer: Shankar Mohan & S Santhanam
Market & competition
Golden Peacock for Best Film by an Asian director ($14,000)
Entry deadline: 15 December 1997
FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels) (Biarritz)
13-18 January 1998
14 Rue Alexandre Parodi, F-75010 Paris, France
Tel: +33-1 44 89 99 99
Fax: +33-1 44 89 99 60
Festival director: Marie-France Pisier
Festival programmer: Pierre-Henri Deleau
Competition
FIPA d'Or
Previous winner: If These Walls Could Talk (Nancy Savoca and Cher)
Entry deadline: 15 November 1997
Sundance Film Festival
(Park City)
15-25 January 1998
PO Box 16450, Salt Lake City, Utah 84116, USA
Tel: +1-801 328 3456
Fax: +1-801 575 5175
Festival director: Nicola Guillemet
Festival programmer: Geoff Gilmore
Competition
Grand Jury Prize (Drama/
documentary) ($5,000)
Previous winners: Sunday (Jonathan Nossiter) (dramatic) & Girls Like Us (Jane C Wagner & Tina DeFeliciantonio) (documentary)
Entry deadline: 10 October 1997 (for features)
Cine Latino (Tuebingen)
16 January-7 February 1998
Osterbergstr. 9, Tuebingen,
D-72074, Germany
Tel: +49-7071 56960
Fax: +49-7071 56 96 96
e-mail: filmtagetuebingen@t-online.de
Festival director: Paolo Robert de Carvalho
Entry deadline: 8 weeks before the festival
New York Festivals (Non-broadcast Media & TV Programming & Promotion)
16 January 1998
780 King Street, Chappaqua, NY 10514, USA
Tel: +1-914 238 4481
Fax: +1-914 238 5040
Festival director: Bilha Goldberg
Competition
Gold, Silver, Bronze World Medals and 4 Grand Awards
Entry deadline: 15 September 1997
Gay and Lesbian Brussels Film Festival
(official name in french : Festival du Film Gay et Lesbien de Bruxelles)
Festival/event TOWN: Brussels
1998 festival/event DATES: 16 january - 25 january
Festival HEAD OFFICE address:
Tels Quels a.s.b.l. rue du Marche aux Charbon, 81
town:Brussels
country:Belgium
post code:1000
office telephone:32.2.512.45.87
office fax:32.2.512.45.87
office e-mail address:no e.mail
website:http://www.fglb.org
name of festival DIRECTOR: Didier Seynave
name of festival PROGRAMMER: several but mainly Didier Seynave
- market? no
- competition? no
- deadline for entry : it is the deadline allready... but for next year it is november 98
Premiers Plans (Angers)
16-25 January 1998
54 rue Beaubourg, F-75003 Paris, France
Tel: +33-1 42 71 53 70
Fax: +33-1 42 71 47 55
website: http://www.anjou.com/premiersplans/
Festival director/programmer: Claude-Eric Poiroux
Competition
Grand Prix ($16,500)
Previous winner: Lea (Ivan Fila)
Entry deadline: 10 November 1997
Slamdance Film Festival (Park City)
16-23 January 1998
6381 Hollywood Blvd. #520, Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA
Tel: +1-213 466 1786
Fax: +1-213 466 1784
Festival director: Peter Baxter
Competition
Jury prize for best feature and best short
Previous winner: Bible and Gun Club
Entry deadline: 12 November 1997
Golden Globe Awards (LA)
18 January 1998
292 South La Cienega Blvd, Suite 316, Beverly Hills, CA 90211, USA
Tel: +1-310 657 1731
Fax: +1-310 657 5576
Contact: Chantal Dennage
Midem (Cannes)
18-22 January 1998
11 Rue du Colonel Avia, F-75726, Paris, Cedex 15, France
Tel: +33-1 41 90 44 00
Fax: +33-1 41 90 44 50
Chief executive: Xavier Roy
Market
Natpe (National Association of TV Programming Executives) (New Orleans)
19-22 January 1998
2425 Olympic Boulevard, Suite 550E, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
Tel: +1-310 453 4440
Fax: +1-310 453 5258
website: www.natpe.org
Festival director: Nick Orfanopoulos
European offices: 454 Oakleigh Rd North, GB-London N20 ORZ, UK
Tel: +44-81 361 3793
Fax: +44-81 368 3824
Contact: Pam Mackenzie
Market
Solothurn Film Festival
20-25 January 1998
Unt. Steingrubenstrasse 19, PO Box 1030, CH-4502 Solothurn, Switzerland
Tel: + 41-32 625 8080
Fax: +41-32 623 6410
Festival director: Ivo Kummer
Festival programmer: Ivo Kummer
Market
Entry deadline: 31 October 1997
Int'l Film Festival Brussels
21-31 January 1998
30 Chaussée de Louvain, B-1210 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32-2 227 3980
Fax: +32-2 218 1860
e-mail: infoffb@netcity.be
website: http://ffb.cinebel.com
Festival director: Christian Thomas
Festival programmer: Christian Thomas
Competition
Crystal Star ($150,000)
Previous winner: Lea (Ivan Fila)
Entry deadline: 30 October 1997
Troms_ Int'l Film Festival
21-25 January 1998
PO Box 285, Troms_, N-9001 Norway
Tel: +47-55 32 75 90
Fax: +47-55 32 37 40
e-mail: tiff@bgnett.no
Festival director: Hans Henrik Berg
Festival programmer: Tor Fosse
Competition
Audience Award
Previous winner: Palookaville
(Alan Taylor)
Entry deadline: 20 November 1997
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
23-31 January 1998
26, rue des Jacobins, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Tel: +33-473 91 65 73
Fax: +33-473 92 11 93
e-mail: festival@gdebussac.fr
Festival programmer: Roger Gonin, Christian Guinot
Competition
Grand Prix ($3,300)
Previous winner: One Sunday Morning (Manu Kurewa)
Entry deadline: 15 October 1997
Women in Cinema Film Festival (Seattle)
23-29 January 1998
Seattle Int'l Film Festival, 801 East Pine St, Seattle, WA98122, USA
Tel: +1-206 324 9996
Fax: +1-206 324 9998
e-mail: mail@seattlefilm.com
Festival director: Darryl Macdonald
Festival programmer:
Kathleen McInnis, Carl Spence
Market & competition
Entry deadline:
15 November 1997
Tokyo Video Festival
24 January 1998
c/o Victor Building, 7-1 Shinbashi, 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105, Japan
Tel: +81-33 28 92 815
Fax: +81-33 2 89 28 19
Contact: Atsuko Hayakawa
Travelling - Rennes Film Festival
26 January - 3 February 1998
Université Renes 2, 6 avenue Gaston Berger, F-35043 Rennes Cedex, France
Tel: +33-299 141143
Fax: +33-299 141145
e-mail: hussam.hindi@uhb.fr
Festival director: Hussam Hindi
Festival programmer: as above
Competition
The Jury Prize ($4,950)
Previous winner: Another Mother (Paula von der Oest)
Entry deadline: 10 December 1997
Max Ophuls Preis Film Festival
27 January - 1 February 1998
Filmfestival Max Ophuls Preis, Mainzer Str 8, D-66111 Saarbrucken, Germany
Tel: +49-681 39452
Fax: +49-681 905 1943
e-mail: Filmhaus@aol.com
Festival director: Christel Drawer
Festival programmer: Christel Drawer
Competition
Max Ophuls Preis ($16,740 award and $16,740 support for the distributor)
Previous winner: Mude WeggefŠhrten (Zoran Solomun)
Entry deadline: 15 November 1997
Gerardmer Fantastic Arts
28 January-1 February 1998
36 rue Pierret, F-92200 Neuilly, France
Tel: +33-1 46 40 5500
Fax: +33-1 46 40 5539
e-mail: publics@imaginet.fr
Festival director: Lionel Chouchan
Festival programmer: Daniel Benzakein
Competition
Grand Prix Gerardmer Fantastic Arts
Previous winner: Scream (Wes Craven)
Entry deadline: tbc
Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam
28 January - 8 February 1998
Kruiskadehof 36b, NL-3002 EJ Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-10 411 8080
Fax: +31-10 413 5132
e-mail: iffr@luna.nl
Festival director: Simon Field
Festival programmer: Simon Field
Market and Competition
Tiger Awards (3 x $10,000)
Previous winners: Last Holiday (Amir Karakulov), The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (Hong Sang Soo) Robinson in Space (Patrick Keiller)
Entry deadline: 7 November 1997
Networks in the Studio Seminar (Geneva)
28-30 January 1998
Ancienne Route, 17A (European Broadcasting Union) Grand Saconnex (Geneva), Switzerland 1218
Tel: +41-22 717 2721
Fax: +41-22 717 2749/ 10
e-mail: peters@ebu.ch
Festival director: Jean-Jacques Peters
Cinequest Film Festival
(San Jose)
29 January-4 February 1997
PO Box 720040, San Jose, CA 95172-0040, USA
Tel: +1-408 995 6305
Fax: +1-408 995 5713
e-mail: SJFilmFest@aol.com
Festival director: Halfdan O Hussie
Festival programmer: Mike Rabehl
Competition
Maverick Spirit Award
Previous winner: The Closest Thing to Heaven (Dorne Penres)
Entry deadline: 10 October 1997
Göteborg Film Festival
30 January-8 February 1998
Box 7079, S-402 32 Göteborg, Sweden
Tel: +46-31 410 546
Fax: +46-31 410 063
e-mail: goteborg@filmfestival.org
Festival director: Gunnar Bergdahl
Festival programmer: Cia Edstršm
Entry deadline:
1 November 1997
Miami Film Festival
30 January-8 February 1998
Suite 229, 444 Brickell Avenue, Miami, FL 33131, USA
Tel: +1-305 377 3456
Fax: +1-305 577 9768
Festival director: Stephanie Martino
Festival programmer: Nat Chediak
Entry deadline:
1 November 1997
ist of all Film Festivals 01/98 Worldwide
Kid Film Festival (Dallas)