1-16 March
National Musuem of Photography, Film and Television, Pictureville, Bradford, BD1 1NQ
tel: +44-1274-727 488
fax: +44-1274 723 155
Contact: Bill Lawrence
Fribourg Film Festival
3-10 March
Rue de Locarno 8, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
tel: +41-37-222 232
fax: +41-37-227 950
Contact: Martial Knaebel
Competition
Grand Prix (Sfr 25,000)
Previous winner: Madagascar (Fernando Perez), Quiereme y verás (Daniel Diás Torres)
NATO/Showest (Las Vegas)
4-7 March
Suite 708, 116 N Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
tel: +1-310-657 7724
fax: +1-310-657 4758
Contact: Herb Burton
Tampere Short Film Festival
6-10 March
PO Box 305, SF-33101 Tampere, Finland
tel: +358-31-213 0034/219 6149
fax: +358-31-223 0121
Contact: Mikko Rahikka
Market and competition
Grand Prix (FIM 25,000)
Previous winner: Quelque chose de different (Bruno Rolland)
Nordic Film Festival
6-17 March
22 rue de la Champmesié, Rouen 76000, France
tel: +33-35 98 28 46
fax: +33-35 70 92 08
Contact: Jean Michel Mongredien
Competition
Grand Jury award
Previous winner: Cross my Heart and Hope to Die (Marius Holst)
Muestra de Cine Mexicano
8-14 March
Av Vallarta 2181 SJ, Guadalajara, Jalisco 44140, Mexico
Tel/fax: +52-3-616 4438/615 0332
Contact: Mario Aguiñaga
Cinema du Reel (international festival of Anthropology)
8-17 March
Bureau du Festival, Cinema du Reel, Bibliotheque Publique d'Information, 19 Rue Beauborg, 75197 Paris, Cedex 04, France
tel: +33-1-44 78 45 16/44 78 44 23
fax: +33-1-44 78 12 24
Contact: Suzette Glenadel
Santa Barbara Film Festival
8-17 March
1216 State Street, Suite 710, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
tel: +1-805-963 0023
fax: +1-805-962 2524
e-mail: filmfest@rain.org.
Contact: Diane M Durst
Competition
Brussels Festival of Fantasy, Thriller & Science Fiction Films
8-23 March
Ave de la Reine 144, B-1210 Brussels, Belgium
tel: +32-2-201 1713
fax: +32-2-201 1469
Contact: Guy Delmote
Competition
Le Corbeau (BEF200,000 to producer, BEF 1.2m to distributior)
Previous winner: Accumulator 1 (Jan Sverak)
the ACCBank 11th Dublin Film Festival
March 5th - 14th 1996
1 Suffolk Street, Dublin, Ireland
tel: +353-1-679 2937
fax: +353-1-679 2939
Contact: David McLoughlin
Ann Arbor 16mm Film Festival
12-17 March
207 East Ann Street, MI 48104, USA
tel: +1-313-995 5356
fax: +1-313-995 5396
Contact: Vicki Honeyman
International Festival of Films on Art
12 - 17 March
640 St Paul Street West, Suite 406, Montreal H3C 1L9, Canada
tel: +1-514 874 1637
fax: +1-514 874 9929
Contact: Rene Rozon
Competition
Grand Prix (honorary award)
Nadar, Photographer by Stan Neumann
Local Heroes International Screen Festival
12-18 March 1996
3-9 March 1997
National Screen Institute, 3rd Floor, 10022 103rd Street, Edmonton, AlbertaT5J 0X2, Canada
tel: +1-403-421 4084
fax: +1-403-425 8098
Contact: Jan Miller
Market
The Television Show (London)
13-15 March
Institute of International Research, 2nd Floor, Market Towers, 1 Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5GQ, UK
tel: +44-171-344 3811
fax: +44-171-344 3829
Contact: Caryl Williams
Bergamo Film Meeting
16-23 March
Via Pascoli 3, 24121 Bergamo, Itlay
tel: +39-35-234 011
fax: +39-35-233 129
Contact: Sandro Zambetti
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
18-31 March
National Film Theatre, South Bank, London SE1 8XT, UK
tel: +44-171-815 1323/815 1324
fax: +44-171-633 0786
Contact: Jane Ivey
Creteil International Festival of Women's Films
22-31 March
Maison des Arts, Place Salvador Allende, 94000 Creteil, France
tel: +33-1-49 80 38 98
fax: +33-1-43 99 04 10
Contact: Jackie Buet
Competition
Jury Prize (FF25,000)
Previous winner: Eden Valley (Amber)
Days of Independent Film (Augsburg)
24-31 March
Filmbüro Augsburg, Schroeckstr.6, 86152 Augsburg, Germany
tel: +49-821-153077
fax: +49-821-349 5218
Contact: Franz Fischer, Dieter Rieken
Competition
Mercedes-Benz-Grand for up-and-coming young talent (DM 15,000)
previous winner Jedna Setina (Tomas Hejtmanek)
Academy Awards (Los Angeles)
25 March
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
tel: +1-310-247 3000
fax: +1-310-271-3395
Contact: Faye Kanin
Academy Awards
Prevous winner (Best Picture): Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
Hong Kong Film Festival
25 March - 9 April
Festivals Office, Level 7, Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
tel: +852-2734 2900-6
fax: +852-2366 5206
Contact: Angela Tong
International Animated Film Festival Stuttgart
29 March - 3 April
Stuttgarter Trickfilmtage, Teckstraße 56, Kulturpark Berg), 70190 Stuttgart, Germany
tel: +49-711-262 2699
fax: +49-711-262 4980
Montevideo Film Festivall
30 March -7 April
Cinemateca Uruguaya, Lorenzo Carnelli 1311, Montevideo 11.200, Uruguay
tel: +598-2-48 24 60/49 57 95
fax: +598-2-49 45 72
Contact: Manuel Martínez Carril
Competition
Gran Premio
Previous winner: Rouge (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Annual Television Festival USA
March (dates tbc)
25 West 52nd Street, New York, NY 10019, US
tel: +1-212-621 6600
fax: +1-212-621 6700
Contact: Brendon O'Malley
Cine Showcase and Awards
March (dates tbc)
1001, Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 638 Washington, DC 20036, US
tel: +1-202-785 1136
fax: +1-202-785 4114
Contact: Joy Parisi
Cleveland International Film Festival
March 21 - 31 1996.
The Cleveland Film Society, 1621 Euclid Avenue, Number 428
Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2107US
tel: +1-216-623 0400
fax: +1-216-623 0103
Contact: David W Wittkowsky
Competition
Deutsches Kinder-Film & Fernseh-Festival (Gera)
March (dates tbc)
Postfach 166, D-07052 Gera, Germany
tel: +49-365-230 63
fax: +49-365-260 18
Contact: Elke Ried
Femme Totale Women's Film Festival (Dortmund)
March (dates tbc)
Kultubüro der Stadt Dortmund, Kleppinstraße 21-23, 44122 Dortmund, Germany
tel: +49-231 5 02 51 62
fax: +49-231 5 02 24 97
International Documentary Festival (Sheffield)
March (dates tbc)
The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX, UK
tel: +44-114-276 5141
fax: +44-114-272 1849
Contact: Paula Shirley
International Festival of Films on Art
March (dates tbc)
640, Saint-Paul Street West, Suite 406, Montréal, Québec, H3C 1L9 Canada
tel: +1-514-874 1637
fax: +1-514-874 9929
Contact: René Rozon
Minimalen Short Film Festival
15-17 March 1996
PO Box 1083, N-7002 Trondheim, Norway
tel: +47-7352 2757
fax: +47-7353 5740
e-mail: perf@interlink.no
Contact: Per Fikse
New Directors/New Films
March - April (dates tbc)
The Film Society of Lincoln Centre, 70 Lincoln Centre Plaza, New York, 10023
tel: +1-212-875 5610
fax: +1-212-875 5636
Contact: Richard Peña
Prix Futura Berlin
March 1997
SFB, Maurenallee 8-14, D-14057 Berlin, Germany
tel: +49-30-30 31 1610/1620/1630
fax: +49-30-30 31 1619
Contact: Susanne Hoffman
Competition
Prix Futura Berlin (DM10,000)
San Francisco Asian-American Film Festival
March (dates tbc)
346 Ninth Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103, US
tel: +1-415-863 0814
fax: +1-415-863 7428
Contact: Paul Yi
"Satire and Humour Festival" of Saint-Vincent (Italy).
27-30 March 1996
Corso Lancieri 14, 11100 Aosta, Italy
Tel: +39-165-239 550
Fax: +39-165-239 538
Contact: Vincenzo Call
e-mail: cali@aosta.gvo.it
The VI African Film Festival of Milan
March 22nd to 28th.
Contact: Stelio Spadaro
e-mail: stelio@www.mediapolis.it
ist of all Film Festivals 03/96 Worldwide
Bradford Film Festival