March 1-8, 1997
CNI Cinema
17 West 67th Street, Apt. 5D
New York, New York 10023
Tel:212.636.9169
Fax:212.787.9397
E-Mail: spyder@escape.com
Contact: Jonathan J. Sarno
Cartagena Film Festival
March 1997 (dates tbc)
Baluarte San Francisco Javier AA 1834, Cartagena, Colombia
Tel: +57-5-660 0966
Fax: +57-5-660 0970
Contact: Victor Nieto
Competition
India Catalina de Oro
"Cine Estudiantil", International Student Film/Video Festival
related to the Latino and Native American experience.
Festival/event TOWN: San Diego, California; Tijuana, Baja California
1996 festival/event DATES: March 10-15
1997 festival/event DATES: March 18-22
Festival HEAD OFFICE address:Centro Cultural de la Raza, 2125 Park Blvd.
town: San Diego, California
country:USA
post code:92101
office telephone:(619)230-1938
office fax:(619)230-1938
office e-mail address: CineEstud@aol.com
website:http://members.aol.com:/cineestud/index.htm
name of festival DIRECTOR: Ethan van Thillo
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Ethan van Thillo and selection panel
- market? yes, Cine Estudiantil travels to other festivals with " The Best of Cine Estudiantil", and is available for educational outreach programs.
- competition? no
- deadline for entry, yes, Nov. 30
- The festival program includes filmmaker and film scholar articles on Latino and Native
American filmmaking, plus an educator's activity guide and resources.
JUIFS D'EUROPE :UN SIECLE DE CINEMA
Festival/event TOWN: BRUSSELS
1996 festival/event DATES: NONE
1997 festival/event DATES: MARCH 12 TO 18
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: IMAJ
AVENUE DE STALINGRAD 74
town: Brussels
country: Belgium
post code: 1180
office telephone: 02/513 2871
office fax: 02/502 OO60
office e-mail address: ubex@innet.be
website:none
name of festival DIRECTOR: AGNES BENSIMON
name of festival PROGRAMMER: ESTHER G. FREIFELD-SZPIRO
- market? no
- competition? no
- deadline for entry
SXSW Film Festival
(South by Southwest Film)
Festival Town: Austin TX
Date: March 7-15, 1997
Address: SXSW Film, PO Box 4999, Austin, TX 78765, USA
Phone: 512/467-7979
Fax: 512/451-0754
E-mail: 72662.2465@compuserve.com and
Website: http://sxsw.com/sxsw/
Director & Programmer: Nancy Schafer
Festival has competition
Deadline for entries: December 13, 1996
Name of Award: The Silver Armadillo
NATO/Showest (Las Vegas)
3-6 March
Suite 708, 116 N Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, US
Tel: +1-310-657 7724
Fax: +1-310-657 4758
Festival director: Herb Burton
Festival programmer: Daniel Wheatcroft
Trade show
Dublin Film Festival
4-13 March
1 Suffolk Street, Dublin, Ireland
Tel: +353-1-679 2937
Fax: +353-1-679 2939
Festival director/programmer: Martin Mahon
Satire & Humour Festival (Aristophanes Award)
Festival/event TOWN: Saint-Vincent (Italy)
1996 festival/event DATES: 27-31 March 1996
1997 festival/event DATES: 11-16 March 1997
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: Promoval, Corso Lancieri 14
town: Aosta
country: Italy
post code: 11100
office telephone: +39 165 23 95 50
office fax: +39 165 23 95 38
office e-mail address: cali@aosta.gvo.it
name of festival DIRECTOR: Claudio Cali, Vincenzo Cali
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Mario Monicelli, Cristiana Caimmi, Vincenzo llica
Deadline for entry 30th january 1997
- market? no
- competition? yes
Name of major award: Aristophanes Award
Value of award: 10,000 $ US
Last winning film: no competition in 1996
Tampere Short Film Festival
5-9 March
Box 305, 33101 Tampere, Finland
Tel: +358-31-213 0034 (from 12/10 +358-3-213 0034)
Fax: +358-31-223 0121 (from 12/10 +358-3-223 0121)
e-mail: film.festival@tt.tampere.fi
Festival director: Pertti Paltila
Festival programmer: Raimo silius
Market and competition
«The Kiss» (Fmk25,000)
Previous winner: Cicha Przystan/The Quiet Harbour (documentary) (Mariusz Malec) Poland
Viewpoint: Documentary Now (Ghent)
6-12 March
Sint-Annaplein 63, B-Ghent 9000, Belgium
Tel: +32-9-225 0845
Fax: +32-9-233 7522
Festival director: Walther Vander Cruysse
Festival programmer: Cis Biernickx
Bergamo Film Meeting
8-16 March
via G. Reich, 49
24020 Torre Boldone (Bg) - Italia
tel. + 39 35 363087
fax. + 39 35 341255
e mail: bfm@alasca.it http://www.alasca.it/bfm
Festival directors: Sandro Zambetti, Emanuela Martini
Competition
Rosa Camuna d’Oro
Previous winner: Terra estrangera (Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas)
Bradford Film Festival
7-22 March
National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Pictureville, Bradford, BD1 1NQ
Tel: +44-1274 727 488
Fax: +44-1274 723 155
Contact: Bill Lawrence
Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Films
7-22 March
Ave de la Reine 144, B-1030 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32-2-201 1713
Fax: +32-2-201 1469
website: http://www.concentra.be/fantasy
Festival directors: Georges & Guy Delmote
Festival programmers: Annie & Freddy Bozzo, Gigi Etienne
Competition
Le Corbeau (BFr1,000,000)
Previous winner: El dia de la bestia (Alex de la Iglesia)
Cinéma du Reel (Paris)
7-16 March
BPI-CNAC G. Pompidou, 19 Rue Beauborg, 75197 Paris, Cedex 04, France
Tel: +33-1-44 78 44 21/44 78 45 16
Fax: +33-1-44 78 12 24
Festival director/programmer: Suzette Glenadel
Competition
Prix du cinéma du reel (Fr50,000)
Previous winner: Shtetl (Marian Marzynski) US
Santa Barbara Film Festival
7-16 March
1216 State Street, Suite 710, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, US
Tel: +1-805-963 0023
Fax: +1-805-962 2524
e-mail: sbiff@west.net
Festival director: Diane M Durst
Festival programmer: Phyllis de Picciotto
Competition
Dame Judith Anderson Award Best Feature Length Film
Previous winner: Sicario (Jose Novoa)
University Art Museum Film Festival
Festival/event TOWN:Long Beach, California, USA
1996 festival/event DATES:
1997 festival/event DATES:March 21-23, 1997
Festival HEAD OFFICE address:UAM, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840
country:USA
post code:90840
office telephone:(562) 985-5761
name of festival DIRECTOR:Kirsten Schmidt
name of festival PROGRAMMER:(same)
- market? no
- competition? no
- deadline for entry passed
Local Heroes International Screen Festival
Festival/event TOWN: Edmonton, Alberta Canada
1996 festival/event DATES: March 3-9
1997 festival/event DATES: March 9-15th
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: 3rd floor, 10022-103 St.
town: Edmonton
country: Canada
post code: Alberta T5J 0X2
office telephone: +1-(403) 421-4084
office fax: (403) +1-(403) 425-8098
office e-mail address: filmhero@nsi-canada.ca
website: http://www.nsi-canada.ca
name of festival DIRECTOR: Jan Miller
name of festival PROGRAMMER: see above
- market? yes/no NO
- competition? yes/no NO
- deadline for entry December 13/96 for Canadian Independent Shorts under
60 minutes / International Feature Length films.
Ann Arbor Film Festival
11-16 March
PO Box 8232, Ann Arbor, MI 48107, US
Tel: +1-313-995 5356
Fax: +1-313-995 5396
e-mail: vicki@honeyman.org
Festival director/programmer: Vicki Honeyman
Competition
Best of Festival (US$1,500)
Previous winner: 50 Feet of String (Leighton Pierce)
International Festival of Films on Art
11-16 March
640, Saint-Paul Street West, Suite 406, Montréal, Québec, H3C 1L9, Canada
Tel: +1-514-874 1637
Fax: +1-514-874 9929
Festival director/programmer: René Rozon
Competition
Grand Prix
Previous winner: Umbrellas (Albert Maysles, Henry Corra, Graham Weinbren)
Web server www.maniacom.com/fifa.html
e-mail fifa@maniacom.com
Femme Totale Film Festival (Dortmund)
12-16 March
Kleppingstr. 21-23, 44122 Dortmund, Germany
Tel: +49-231-50 25 162
Fax: +49-231-50 22 497
Festival director: Silke Johanna Räleiger
Festival programmer: Helga Wittenberg, Dora Scott
Market
Nordic Film Festival
12-23 March
22 Rue de la Champmesié, Rouen 76000, France
Tel: +33-35 98 28 46
Fax: +33-35 70 92 08
Festival director: Jean Michel Mongredien
Festival programmers: Jean Michel Mongredien, Isabelle Duault
Competition
Grand Jury award
Previous winner: The Last Wedding (Marakku Polonen)
Web server www.crihan.fr/cinemanordique
Email : Festival.Nordique@crihan.fr
The Television Show (London)
12-14 March
11R Exhibitions, 2nd Floor, Market Towers, 1 Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5NQ, UK
Tel: +44-171-344 3849
Fax: +44-171-344 3890
e-mail: julian-graves@theframe.com
Festival director: Caroline Eden
Festival programmer: Rhona Greenhill
Cleveland International Film Festival
13-23 March
The Cleveland Film Society, 1621 Euclid Avenue, #428, Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2107, US
Tel: +1-216-623 0400
Fax: +1-216-623 0103
website: http://www.clevefilmfest.org
Festival director/programmer: David W Wittkowsky
Competition
Roxanne T Mueller Award
Previous winner: Fiddlefest (Allan Miller)
Creteil International Festival of Women’s Films
14-23 March
Maison des Arts, Place Salvador Allende, F-94000 Creteil, France
Tel: +33-1-49 80 38 98
Fax: +33-1-43 99 04 10
Festival director: Jackie Buet
Festival programmer: Jackie Buet, Nicole Fernandez
Competition
Jury Prize (FFr25,000)
Previous winner: Xiatian De Xue (Ann Hui)
National Cable TV Association 46th Annual Convention & Int’l Exposition (New Orleans, Louisiana)
16-19 March
NCTA Convention/Exposition Headquarters c/o Dobson & Associates, Ltd, 1225 19th Street, NW, Suite 310, Washington, DC 20036, US
Tel: +1-202-775 3606
International Film Festival for Young People (Laon)
17-27 March
BP 526 Maison des Arts, Laon, France 02001
Tel: +33-23-20 38 61 (from 18/10, 03 after 33)
Fax: +33-23-20 28 99 (from 18/10, 03 after 33)
Festival president: Raymond Lefevre
Festival programmer: Marie-Thérese Chambon
Competition
Grand Prix (FFr50,000)
Previous winner: More Time (Isaac Mabhikwa)
International Celtic Film and Television Festival
19-23 March
Office 1, Camelot Court, Alverton Street, Penzance TR 18 2QN, UK
Tel: +44-1736-333 151
Fax: +44-1736-333 153
Festival director: Steven Hall
Competition
Spirit of the Festival Award
Previous winner: The Making of Maps (Endaf Emlyn)
Montevideo Film Festival
22-30 March 1997
Cinemateca Uruguaya, Lorenzo Carnelli 1311, Montevideo 11.200, Uruguay
Tel: +598-2-495795/482460
Fax: +598-2-49 45 72
Festival director/programmer: Manuel Martínez Carril
Competition
Gran Premio
Previous winner: Atraves de los olivos (Abas Kiarostami)
Deadline for entry: 30 January 1997
Days of Independent Film (Augsburg)
23-30 March
Filmbüro Augsburg, Schroeckstr. 6, 86152 Augsburg, Germany
Tel: +49-821-153077
Fax: +49-821-349 5218
Festival director: Karl Heinz Hiesinger
Competition
Mercedes-Benz-Grand for up-and-coming young talent (DM15,000)
Previous winner: Tomorrow We Will Build a House (Sergei Losnica & Marat Magambetov)
Academy Awards (Los Angeles)
24 March
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211, US
Tel: +1-310-247 3000
Fax: +1-310-271-3395
Contact: Faye Kanin
Academy Awards
Previous winner (Best Picture): Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
World Animation Celebration
24-30 March
30101 Agoura Court, Suite 110, Agoura Hill 91301, California, US
Tel: +1-818-991 2884
Fax: +1-818-991 3773
Festival director: Lesley Sullivan
Competition
The Grand Prize
Hong Kong Film Festival
25 March-9 April (tbc)
Festivals Office, USD, Level 7, Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel: +852-2734 2903
Fax: +852-2366 5206
Festival director: Lo Tak-Sing
Festival programmers: Li Cheuk-to, Jacob Wong, Law Kar
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
March (date tbc)
The Chicago Film Critics Association, 1152 North LaSalle Street, Building B, Chicago, IL 60610-2695, US
Tel: +(312) 509 8155
website: http://www.ChicagoFilm.org/cfca
Previous winner: Apollo 13
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
Diagonale-Festival of Austrian Films (Salzburg)
March (dates tbc)
Stiftgasse 6, A-1070 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43-1-526 3323
Fax: +43-1-526 6801
e-mail: AFILMCO@PING.AT
Managing director: Martin Schweighofer
Competition
Kodak and Titra Audience Award (Sch200,000)
Previous winner: Emigration New York (Egon Humer)
Guadalajara Film Festival
March (dates tbc)
Imcine, Colonia roma Sur, 06760 Mexico
Tel: +525 574 2144
Fax: +525 688 8814
Contact: Mario Aguinaga
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
March (dates tbc)
South Bank, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT, UK
Tel: +44-171-815 1323/815 1324
Fax: +44-171-633 0786
e-mail: jane.ivey@bfi.org.uk
Executive director: Sheila Whitaker
Festival programmers: Briony Hanson, Robin Baker
New Directors/New Films
March-April
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
New England Film & Video Festival
March March 31 to April 5, 1997
1126 Boylston St, #201, Boston MA 02215, US
Tel: +1-617 536 1540
Fax: +1-617 536 3576
e-mail: nefvfest@aol.com
Festival director: Cherie Martin
Competition
1997 Best of Festival ($2500 Technicolor stock) "Squeeze" (Robert Patton-Spruill)
Previous winner: The Gate of Heavenly Peace (Richard Gordon & Carma Hinton)
San Francisco Asian-American Film Festival
March (dates tbc)
346 Ninth Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103, US
Tel: +1-415-863 0814
Contact: Paul Yi
Asia Computer Animation Festival
Festival/event TOWN:Singapore
1997 festival/event DATES: 15th - 23 March, 1997
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: Asia Computer Animation Festival Co.
1631 F. Marina Court
town: San Mateo, Ca.
country: U.S.A.
post code: 94403
office telephone: 415-987-7883
office fax: 415-577-9580
office e-mail address: rayneoh@acaf.com
website: http://www.acaf.com
name of festival DIRECTOR: Raymond D. Neoh
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Josse Tan
Deadline for entry Jan. 30, 1997
- market? yes
- competition? yes
Name of major award: See Prize at ACAF site
Value of award: See Prize at ACAF site
ist of all Film Festivals 03/97 Worldwide
The Cartagena Film Festival,