Festival Town: Carbondale, Illinois
1996 Festival Dates: Feb. 23 to March 3rd
1997 Festival Dates: Feb. 21 to March 2nd
Festival Head Office address: Big Muddy Film Festival (Cinema & Photography ept. )
Mailcode 6610, Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale
Town: Carbondale, Illinois
Country: USA
Zip code: 62901-6610
office telephone: 618-453-1482
office fax number: 618-453-2264
office e-mail: bigmuddy@siu.edu
website: http:/www.siu.edu/~films/
name of festival co-directors: Takae Shimizu and Robert Pickering
name of festival programer: film alternative
non-market
competition-yes
deadlines for entry-Jan. 31
Name of major award: Best of the Fest
Value of awards: $3000.00
last winning film: Walking With Giants
Director of winning film: Gregory Tillman
European Youth film festival Flanders
(Europees Jeugdfilmfestival Vlaanderen)
DATES: 3 till 16 February 1997
HEAD OFFICE address: Prinsesstraat 35,
TOWN: Antwerp (Belgium)
office telephone:+32/3/232.64.09
office fax:+32/3/232.64.09.
office e-mail kidfilm@glo.be
name of festival DIRECTOR and PROGRAMMER: Jan Vandierendonck
competition
deadline for entry: 15 November 1996
Name of major award:
"Jan zonder Vrees I: distribution contract for Belgium for the film"
"Jan zonder Vrees II: TVbroadcast contract from BRTN (Belgian Public TV)"
Value of award: 5000 US$ for the Director
Last winning film: Lazarus (PL)
Director of winning film: Waldemar Dziki
Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film Festival
5-16 February
19 rue de la Rhétorique, 1060 Bruxelles, Belgium
Tel: +32-2-534 4125
Fax: +32-2-534 2279
e-mail: folioscope@skynet.be
Festival director: Doris Cleven
Festival programmer: Philippe Moins
The Mobius Advertising Awards (Chicago)
6 February
841 North Addison Avenue, Elmhurst, 60126-1291 Illinois, US
Tel: +1-630-834 7773
Fax: +1-630-834 5565
Festival director: JW Anderson
Festival programmer: Patricia A Meyer
Competition
Mobius Statuettes
Previous winner: Transformation (Hudson Film Ltd. London)
Fantasporto (Oporto International Film Festival)
7-15 February
Rua Da Constituição 311, P-4200 Oporto, Portugal
Tel: +351-2-550 8990/1/2
Fax: +351-2-550 8210
Web : http://www.caleida.pt/fantasporto
Festival director: Mário Dorminsky
Festival programmer: Beatriz Pacheco-Pereira
Competition
Best film award
Previous winner: Seven (David Fincher)
Monte Carlo Television Festival
7-13 February
Centre de Congress Auditorium, Boulevard Louis II, 98000 Monte Carlo, Monaco
Tel: +377-93 10 40 60
Fax: +377-93 50 70 14
Festival director: Wilfred Groote
Market & Competition
Golden Nymph Awards
Previous winners:
TV Film: Parents a mi-temps
Miniseries: Daichi No Ko
News Reports: BBC News Chechnya
News Features: Nagasaki eizo no shogen
MILIA (Cannes)
9-12 February
Reed Midem Organisation, 179 ave Victor Hugo, F-75116 Paris, France
Tel: +33-1-41 90 44 00
Fax: +33-1-41 90 44 50
e-mail: 100321.1310@Compuserve.com
Programme manager: Laurine Garaude
Competition and Market
Milia d’Or
Mardi Gras Film Festival (Sydney)
12-26 February
Queer Screen, PO Box 1081, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
Tel: +61-2-332 4938
Fax: +61-2-331 2988
e-mail: info@queerscreen.com.au
website: www.queerscreen.com.au/filmfest
Festival co-ordinator: Tony Grierson
Competition
Stephen Cummins Award (A$2,000)
Previous winners: Personals (Jane Shadbolt, Sonja Vivienne) Used by Dates (Deborah Davies)
Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale)
13-24 February
Budapester Strasse 50, D-10787 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49-30-25 48 92 25
Fax: +49-30-25 48 92 49
Festival director: Moritz de Hadeln
Competition
Golden Bear
Previous winner: Sense & Sensibility (Ang Lee)
Deadline for entry: end of November (tbc)
13-24 February
Medien Operative Videofest, Potsdamer Straße 96, D-10785, Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49-30-262 8714
Fax: +49-30-262 8713
Director: Niki Kwella
Portland International Film Festival
13 February-3 March
1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland 97205, Oregon, USA
Tel: +1-503-221 1156
Fax: +1-503-226 4842
Festival director: Bill Foster
Festival programmer: Bill Foster
Competition
Best of Festival
Previous winner: Antonia’s Line (Marleen Gorris)
Academy Award Nominations
14 February
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Tel: +1-310-247 3000
Fax: +1-310-859 9351
Contact: Faye Kanin
International Forum of New Cinema (Berlin)
14-24 February
Budapester Strasse 50, D-10787 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49-30-254 89246
Fax: +49-30-261 5025
e-mail: forum@forum-ifb.b.shuttle.de / 10024.327@compuserve.com
internet: http://www.b.shuttle.de/forum-ifb
Festival director: Ulrich Gregor
Festival programmers: Erika & Ulrich Gregor, Sylvia Anderson, Dorothee Wenner, Peter B. Schumann, Erika Richter, Klaus Dermutz
Non-competitive, but awards are given
Wolfgang-Staudte-Preis (DM20,000)
Imagina (Monaco)
19-21 February
4 avenue de l’Europe, Bry-Sur-Marne, F-94360, France
Tel: +33-1-4983 693
Fax: +33-1-4983 3185
e-mail: Imagina@imagina.ina.fr
Festival director: Yves Louchez
Competition
Previous winner: Toy Story (John Lasseter)
PanAfrican Film and TV Festival of Ouagadougou (Fespaco)
22 February-1 March
Secretariat Général Permanent du Fespaco, 01BP-2505 Ougadougou 01, Burkina Faso
Tel: +226-30 7538
Fax: +226-31 2509
Festival director: Filippe Sawadogo
Competition
Etalon de Yennega (CFA 5m)
Green Screen (London)
Festival tours seven UK cities and seven foreign capitals
24-28 February
45 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JH, UK
Tel: +44-171-379 7390
Fax: +44-171-379 7197
Festival director: Victoria Cliff Hodges
Celebration + Children’s Film Competition
The Bill Travers Insight Award (£1000)
Previous winner: Bakun Dam (Sue Lloyd-Roberts)
Cine Showcase and Awards
26-27 February
1001 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 638, Washington, DC 20036, US
Tel: +1-202-785 1136
Fax: +1-202-785 4114
Festival director: Joy Parisi
Deadline for entry: 1 August and 1 February
American Film Market (AFM)
27 February-7 March
10850 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024, US
Tel: +1-310-446 1000
Fax: +1-310-446 1600
e-mail: afma.com
Market director: Brady Craine
Market
Southampton Film Festival
27 February - 3 March
Harbour Lights Cinema, Ocean Village, Southampton, SO15 2RZ, UK
Tel: +44-1703-635 335
Fax: +44-1703-234 444
Festival director/programmer: Rod Varley
Cairo International Film Festival for Children
February 1997
17 Kasr El Nil Street, 202 Cairo, Egypt
Tel: +202 3923562/3923962
Fax: +202 393 8979
Festival director: Saad Eldin Wahba
Competition
Golden Cairo
Previous winner: The Nutty Nutty Boy (Helvecio Retton)
Cine Estudiantil
February (dates tbc)
2125 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA 92101-4792
Tel: +1-619-235 6135
Fax: +1-619-595 0034
e-mail: CentroSD@aol.com
Edinburgh Fringe Film and Video Festival
February (dates tbc)
29 Albany Street, Edinburgh EH1 3QN, Scotland, UK
Tel: +44-131 556 2044
Fax: +44-131 557 4400
e-mail: ffvf@cityscape.co.uk
Contact: David Cumings
Competition
Post Office Best Short Film (£500)
Previous winner: El Hombre de la luna (Luke Watson)
Tokyo Video Festival
1 February
c/o Victor Building, 7-1 Shinbashi, 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105, Japan
Tel: +81-3 3289 2815
Fax: +81-3 3289 2819
Contact: Masayuki Yasumoto
Competition
Video Grand Prize
IVCA Awards 1997 (London)
February (dates tbc)
IVCA, Bolsover House, 5-6 Clipstone Street, London W1P 8LD, UK
Tel: +44-171-580 0962
Fax: +44-171 436 2606
Festival director: Martin Walter
Competition
Grand Prix
Previous winner: If Only We All Played Cricket (Andreas Misller-Morrell)
Oslo Filmdager
February (dates tbc)
PO Box 1584, Vika, N-0118 Oslo, Norway
Tel: +47-22 42 71 54
Fax: +47-22 33 39 45
Contact: Guttom Petterson
Fribourg Film Festival
2-9 March
Rue de Locarno 8, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Tel: +41-37-222 232 (from 1/11 +41-26…)
Fax: +41-37-227 950 (from 1/11 +41-26…)
Festival director/programmer: Martial Knaebel
Competition
Grand Prix (SFr25,000)
Previous winner: No te mueres sin decirme a donde vas (Eliseo Subiela)
Queer Articulations
Festival/event TOWN: Princeton, New Jersey
1996 festival/event DATES: February 29 - March 2, 1996
1997 festival/event DATES: February 27 - March 1, 1997
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: c/o Lesbian Gay Bisexual Alliance
306 Aaron Burr Hall
Princeton University
country: USA
post code: 08544
office telephone: (609) 258-4522
office fax: (609) 258-3831
office e-mail address: lgba@phoenix.princeton.edu
website: http://www.princeton.edu/~lgba/Archives/QueerArticulations/
name of festival DIRECTOR: Michelle Amt
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Thomas Forget
Deadline for entry December 15, 1996
- market? no
- competition? no
ist of all Film Festivals 02/97 Worldwide
The 19th Annual Big Muddy Film Festival