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of all Film Festivals 03/98 Worldwide
Portland Int'l Film Festival
12 February-1 March 1998
1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland 97205, Oregon, USA
Tel: +1-503 221 1156
Fax: +1-503 294 0874
e-mail: piff@NWfilm.org
website:http://www.nwfilm.org/~nwfilm
Festival director: Bill Foster
Festival programmer: Bill Foster
Competition
Best of Festival
Previous winner: Kolya (Jan Sverak)
Entry deadline: 30 November 1997
Brussels Cartoon and Animated Film Festival 17 February-1 March 1998
19 rue de la Rhétorique, B-1060 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32-2 534 4125
Fax: +32-2 534 2279
e-mail: folioscope@skynet.be
Festival director: Doris Cleven
Festival programmer: Philippe Moins
Entry deadline: 30 November 1997
American Film Market (AFM) 26 February-6 March 1998
10850 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Tel: +1-310-446 1000
Fax: +1-310-446 1600
e-mail: info@afma.com
Market director: Brady Craine
Market
NatFilm Festival (Copenhagen) 27 February-14 March 1998
Store Kannikestraede 6, DK-1169 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Tel: +45-33 12 0005
Fax: +45-33 12 7505
Festival programmer: Kim Foss
Competition
Natsvaermerprisen: Prize for young, local film talent
Entry deadline: September 1997
Green Screen (London) February-March 1998
Festival tours seven UK cities and seven foreign capitals
45 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, GB-London WC2H 9JH, UK
Tel: +44-171 379 7390
Fax: +44-171 379 7197
Festival director: Victoria Cliff Hodges
The Bill Travers Award ($1,675)
Previous winner: The Mahogany Trail & Undercurrents
Entry deadline: 30 November 1997
Cairo Int'l Film Festival for Children 1-8 March 1998
17 Kasr El Nil Street, 202 Cairo, Egypt
Tel: +202-392 3562/392 3962
fax: +202-393 8979
Festival director: Saad Eldin Wahba
Competition
Golden Cairo
Entry deadline: tbc
Fribourg Film Festival 1-8 March 1998
Rue de Locarno 8, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Tel: +41-26 3222 232
fax: +41-26 3227 950
Festival director: Martial Knaebel
Festival programmer: Martial Knaebel
Competition
Grand Prix ($16,870)
Previous winner: In Expectation (Zhang Ming)
Entry deadline: 31 December 1997
Chicago Film Critics Awards 2 March 1998
1152 North LaSalle Street, Building B, Chicago, IL 60610-2695, USA
Tel: +1-312 509 8155
fax: +1-312 664 2925
Dublin Film Festival 3-12 March 1998
1 Suffolk Street, Dublin, Ireland
Tel: +353-1 679 2937
fax: +353-1 679 2939
Festival director and programmer: Aine O'Halloran
Entry deadline: 22 November 1997
San Diego Latino Film Festival 3-7 March 1998
c/o Centro Cultural de la Raza, 2125 Park Blvd, San Diego,
CA 92101, USA
Tel: +1-619 230 1938
fax: +1-619 230 1938
e-mail: LatinoFilm@aol.com
Festival director: Ethan van Thilo
Entry deadline: 15 November 1997
San Diego Film Festival 3 February-3 June 1998
Dept 0078, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Golla, CA92093-0078, USA
Tel: +1-619 534 0497
Fax: +1-619 534 7665
e-mail: rbaily@nesdedn
Festival director: Ruth Baily
Festival programmer: Ruth Baily and rotating selection committee
Competition
Previous winner: The Blue Villa (Alain Robbe-Grillet) & Antonia's Line
(Marleen Gorris)
Entry deadline: 30 November 1997
Imagina (Monaco) 4-6 March 1998
4 avenue de l'Europe, Bry-Sur-Marne, F-94366, France
Tel: +33-1 4983 2693
fax: +33-1 4983 3185
e-mail: Imagina@imagina.ina.fr
Festival director: JM Villaret
Competition
Grand Prix Imagina
Previous winner: Joe's Apartment 'Funky Towel' (Jon Payson)
Entry deadline: 15 December 1997
Tampere Short Film Festival 4-8 March 1998
Box 305, 33101 Tampere, Finland
Tel: +358-3 213 0034
fax: +358-3 223 0121
e-mail: film.festival@tt.tampere.fi
Festival director: Pertti Paltila
Festival programmer: Raimo Silius
Market and competition
Grand Prix $4,730 and statuette, 'Kiss'
Previous winner: Many Happy Returns (Marjut Rimminen)
Entry deadline: 5 January 1998
Viewpoint: Documentary Now (Ghent) 4-11 March 1998
Sint-Annaplein 63, Ghent B-9000, Belgium
Tel: +32-9 225 0845
fax: +32-9 233 7522
Festival director: Walther Vander Cruysse
Festival programmer: Cis Biernickx
Entry deadline: 30 November 1997
San Francisco Int'l Asian-American Film Festival 5-12 March 1998
346 Ninth Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Tel: +1-415 863 0814
fax: +1-415 863 7428
e-mail: maata@sirus.com
Festival director: Corey Tong
Festival programmer: Corey Tong
Entry deadline: mid-October 1997
Santa Barbara Film Festival 5-15 March 1998
1216 State Street, Suite 710, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
Tel: +1-805 963 0023
fax: +1-805 962 2524
e-mail: sbiff@west.net
Festival director: Diane M Durst
Competition
Dame Judith Anderson Award Best Feature Length Film
Previous winner: Just Write (Andrew Gallerani)
Entry deadline: 1 December 1997
Bradford Film Festival 6-21 March 1998
National Musuem of Photography, Film and Television, GB-Bradford, BD1 1NQ,
UK
Tel: +44-1274 727 488
fax: +44-1274 723 155
Festival director: Bill Lawrence
Festival programmer: Chris Fell
Audience award
Previous winner: Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen)
Entry deadline: 31 December 1997
Istanbul Int'l Film Festival 7-22 March 1998
Istiklal Cad: 146 Luvr Apt., 80070, Istanbul, Turkey
Tel: +90-212 293 3133
(ext. 20, 21)
fax: +90-212 249 7771
e-mail: film@istfest-tr.org
Festival director: Hulya Ucansu
Competition
Golden Tulip Award
Previous winner: King of Masks (Wu Tianming)
Entry deadline: 1 January 1998
Local Heroes 8-14 March 1998
3rd Floor, 10022 103rd Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 0X2, Canada
Tel: +1-403 421 4084
fax: +1-403 425 8098
e-mail: filmhero@nsi-canada.ca
Festival director: Jan Miller
Festival programmer: Tony King
Market
Entry deadline: 10 December 1997
MID-TV (Media Int'l Dubai Television) 8-10 March 1998
Al Fajer Information & Services, PO Box 11183, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tel: +971-4 621 133
fax: +971-4 622 802
e-mail: ALFAJER@emirates.net.ae
Festival director: Fayez Ahmed
Market
Entry deadline: tbc
NATO/Showest (Las Vegas) 9-12 March 1998
Suite 708, 116 N Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
Tel: +1-310 657 7724
fax: +1-310 657 4758
Festival director: Herb Burton
Festival programmer: Daniel Wheatcroft
Trade show
5th Short Film Festival
Festival/event TOWN: Granade, Andalucy, Spain
1998 festival/event DATES: from the 8th to the 14th of March
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: Centro de Información Joven
C/ Varela 14
Town: Granada
Country: Spain
Post Code: 18009
Office Telephone: 34-58-22 49 63 / 22 20 53
Office Fax: 34-58-22 21 83
Office E-mail address: cijayugr@eldorado.es
Website: www.filfestgranada.com *We are creating it right now*
Name of festival Director: Alberto Matrán
Name of festivla Programmer: Jose Luis Chacón
Francisco Higueras
Deadline for entry: 14:00 a.m. , 31st of January 1998
-Market? No
-Competition? Yes
Name, value of the awards:
Int'l Festival of Films on Art (Montreal) 10-15 March 1998
640 Saint-Paul Street West, Suite 406, Montréal, Québec,
H3C 1L9 Canada
Tel: +1-514 874 1637
fax: +1-514 874 9929
Festival director and programmer: René Rozon
Competition
Grand Prix (Honorary prize)
Previous winner: Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (Isaac Julien)
Entry deadline: 10 October 1997
The Television Show (London) 11-13 March 1997
33-39 Bowling Green Lane, GB-London, EC1R 0DA, UK
Tel: +44-171 505 8014
fax: +44-171 505 8020
e-mail: julian-graves@ theframe.com
Show director: Jon Baker
Conference director: Mike Jones
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 12-26 March 1998
South Bank, Waterloo, GB-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: Adrian Wootton
Festival programmer: Briony Hanson, Robin Baker
Entry deadline: 2 December 1997
Newport Beach Int'l Film Festival 12-22 March 1998
4000 MacArthur Blvd, 5th floor, Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA
Tel: +1-714 851 6555
fax: +1-714 851 6556
Festival director: Jeff Conner
Festival programmer: Joseph Mahoney
Competitive
The Jury Award
Previous winner: Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (Todd Robinson, William
Wellman Jr)
Entry deadline: 1 January 1998
Brussels Int'l Festival of Fantasy Films 13-28 March 1998
Ave de la Reine 144, B-1030 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32-2 201 1713
fax: +32-2 201 1469
Festival director: Georges & Guy Delmote
Festival programmer: Annie & Freddy Bozzo
Competition
Le Corbeau ($27,000)
Previous winner: El dia de la bestia (Alex de la Iglesia)
Entry deadline: December 1997
Cinema du Reel (Paris) 13-22 March 1998
BPI- 19 Rue Beauborg, F-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: Suzette Glenadel
Festival programmer: Suzette Glenadel
Competition
Prix du cinema du reel ($8,260)
Previous winner: No 16 Barkhor Street South (Duan Jinchuan) China
Entry deadline: 1 November 1997
Minimalen Short Film Festival 13-15 March 1998
PO Box 1083, Lademoen, N-7030 Trondheim, Norway
Tel: +47-73 52 27 57
Fax: +47-73 53 57 40
e-mail: perf@interlink.no
Festival director: Karine Kristiansen
Festival programmer: Karine Kristiansen
Entry deadline: 15 December for int'l films
Bergamo Film Meeting 14-22 March 1998
Via Giovanni Reich 49, Torreboldone, I-24020 Bergamo, Italy
Tel: +39-35 36 30 87
Fax: +39-35 34 12 55
e-mail: bfm@alasca.it
Festival director: Sandro Zambetti
Festival programmer: Angelo Signorelli
Competition
Rosa Camuna d'Oro
Previous winner: Touch Me Not (Dimitrios Yatzouzakis)
Entry deadline: 20 January 1998
The Kino Festival of New Irish Cinema (Manchester) & 14-21 March 1998
48 Princess Street, GB-Manchester M1 6HR, UK
Tel: +44-161 288 2494
Fax: +44-161 237 3423
Festival director: John S Wojowski
Competition
Previous winner: six awards given in 1997
Entry deadline: 30 January 1998
Sportel (Miami) 16-18 March
4 Boulevard de Jardin Exotique, MC-98000 Monaco
Tel: +377-93 30 20 32
Fax: +377-93 30 20 33
President: Alexandre de Merode
Executive vp: David Tomatis
Market & competition
Golden Poldium Trophy
Ann Arbor Film Festival 17-22 March 1998
PO Box 8232, Ann Arbor, MI 48107, USA
Tel: +1-313 995 5356
Fax: +1-313 995 5396
e-mail: vicki@honeyman.org
Festival director: Vicki Honeyman
Festival programmer: Vicki Honeyman
Competition
Best of Festival ($1,500)
Previous winner: Hardwood Process (David Gatten)
Entry deadline: 15 February 1998
The New York Underground Film Festival 18-22 March 1998
225 Lafayette St, Ste. 401, New York, NY, 10012 USA
Tel: +1-212 925 3440
Fax: +1-212 925 3430
e-mail: festival@nyuff.com
Festival director: Ed Halter
Competition
Festival Choice Award ($750)
Previous winner: Fame Whore (Jon Moritsugu)
Entry deadline: 7 January, late deadline 1 February 1998
Nordic Film Festival (Rouen) 18-29 March 1998
22 rue de la Champmesié, Rouen F-76000, France
Tel: +33-235 98 28 46
Fax: +33-235 70 92 08
Festival director: Jean Michel Mongredien
Festival programmer: Jean Michel Mongredien & Isabelle Dueult
Competition
Grand Jury award
Previous winner: Hamsun (Jan Troell)
Entry deadline: end of January 1998
Cleveland Int'l Film Festival 19-29 March 1998
The Cleveland Film Society, 1621 Euclid Avenue, #428, Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2107,
USA
Tel: +1-216 623 0400
Fax: +1-216 623 0103
website: www.clevefilmfest.org
Festival director and programmer: David W Wittkowsky
Competition
Roxanne T Mueller Award
Previous winner: Shall We Dance? (Masayuki Suo)
Entry deadline: 30 November 1997
African Film Festival (Milan) 20-26 March 1998
Coe-Centro Orientamento Educativo, Via Lazzaroni 8, I-20124 Milan, Italy
Tel: +39-2 66 96 254
Fax: +39-2 6671 4338
e-mail: coe@iol.it
Festival director: Francesco Pedretti
Festival programmer: Alessandra Speciale, Annamaria Gallone
Competition
I Premio ($8,620)
Previous winner: Les cheveaux de Fortune (Feratmi)
Entry deadline: tbc
New Directors/New Films (New York City) 20 March-5 April 1998
The Film Society of Lincoln Centre, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York,
NY 10023, USA
Tel: +1-212 875 5638
Fax: +1-212 875 5636
website: www.filmlinc.com
Contact: Richard Pe-a
Entry deadline: 16 January 1998
Days of Independent Film (Augsburg) 23-30 March 1998
Schroeckstr. 6, 86152 Augsburg, D-86152 Germany
Tel: +49-821 153077
Fax: +49-821 349 5218
Festival director: Harald Munding
Festival programmers: Sabine Samm, Harald Bann, Barbel Mauch
Entry deadline: 1 December 1997
Academy Awards (Los Angeles)
23 March 1998
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly
Hills,
CA 90211, USA
Tel: +1-310 247 3000
Fax: +1-310 271 3395
Contact: Arthur Hiller (president)
Academy Awards
Prevous winner (Best Picture):
The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
Entry deadline: 1 November 1997
Diagonale-Festival of Austrian Films (Graz) 24-29 March 1998
Mariahilfe strasse 45 4 85,
A-1060 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43-1 587 3705
Fax: +43-1 587 3705
Festival director: Christine Dollhofer & Constantin Wulff
Competition
Kodak and Titra Audience Award ($15,870)
Previous winner: Emmigration New York (Egon Humer)
Entry deadine for films: end of January 1998
It's All True - Int'l Documentary Film Festival (Sao Paulo/Rio De Janeiro)
24 March-5 April 1998
R. Christiano Viana 907, Sao Paulo, Brazil 05411 001
Tel: +55-11 852 9601
Fax: +55-11 852 9601
e-mail: itstrue@ibm.net
Festival director: Amir Labaki
Competition
Best documentary
Noel Fieldi (Werner Schwizer)
Entry deadline: 16 January 1998
Festival of Yugoslav Documentary & Short Film (Belgrade) 26-29 March 1998
Jugoslavia Film, Makedonska 22/VI, 11000 Beograd, Yugoslavia
Tel: +381-11 324 8554
/324 8282
Fax: +381-11 324 8659
Contact: Vojislav Vucinic
Competition
Grand Prix
Previous winner: Kolateralna greska (Miroslav Nikolic)
Entry deadline: 15 February 1998
2nd Annual Women's Film & Art Blow-Out Extravaganza!
Int'l Film Festival for Young People (Laon) 30 March-9 April 1998
BP 526 Maison des Arts, Laon,
F-02001 France
Tel: +33-3 23 20 38 61
Fax: +33-3 23 20 28 99
Festival president: Raymond Lefevre
Festival programmer: Marie-Thérese Chambon
Competition
Grand Prix ($8,260)
Previous winner: Santa Clara (Ori Sivan & Ari Folman)
Entry deadline: 7 February 1998
IVCA Awards 1998 (London) 30 March 1998
IVCA, Bolsover House, 5-6 Clipstone Street, GB-London W1P 8LD, UK
Tel: +44-171 580 0962
Fax: +44-171 436 2606
Chief executive: Wayne Drew
Competition
Grand Prix
Previous winner: It'll Never Happen
Entry deadline: 1 December 1997
Cartagena Film Festival March 1998
Baluarte San Francisco Javier AA 1834, Cartagena, Colombia
Tel: +57-5 660 0966
Fax: +57-5 664 2345
Contact: Victor Nieto
Competition
India Catalina de Oro
Entry deadline: tbc
Cognac Int'l Thriller Film Festival (Cognac) Late March 1998
36 rue Pierret, F-92200 Neuilly, France
Tel: +33-1 46 40 55 00
Fax: +33-1 46 40 55 39
e-mail: publics@imaginet.fr
Festival director: Lionel Chouchan
Festival programmer: Daniel Benzakein
Competition
Previous winner: The Last Supper (Stacy Title)
Entry deadline: tbc
Framed III: Architecture on Film (London) March 1998
66 Portland Place, GB-London W1N 4AD, UK
Tel: +44-171 307 3699
Fax: +44-171 307 3703
Contact: Andrew Moffet
Entry deadline: mid-December 1997
Guadalajara Film Festival March 1988
Griegos 120 Col. Altamira, Zapopan, Halisco Mexico, 45 160
Tel: + 525 659 1096/ 659 1765
Fax: as above
Tel: +523 6337946/ 633 2670
Festival president: Raul Padilla
Festival director: tbc
Entry deadline: January 1998 (tbc)
Contact: Maria Ines Contreras
Jewish and Israeli Film Festival (Montpelier) March 1998
500, Boulevard d'Antigone, Montpelier F-3400, France
Tel: +33-467 15 08 76
/67 72 32 63
Fax: +33-467 15 08 72
/67 72 32 62
Festival director: tbc
Competition
Levy Award
Previous winner: Tears of Stone (Ilmar Otson)
Entry deadline: tbc
Mons Int'l Short Film Festival March 1998
106 rue des Arbalestriers, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
Tel: +32-65 31 81 75
Fax: +32-65 31 30 27
Festival director: Alain Cardon
Competition
Deadline: early February 1998
New England Film and Video Festival March 1998 (tbc)
1126 Boylston St, #201, Boston MA 02215, USA
Tel: +1-617 536 1540
Fax: +1-617 536 3576
e-mail: bfvf@aol.com
Festival director: Cherie Martin
Competition
Best of Festival ($1,000)
Entry deadline: (tbc)
Seoul Cable and Satellite Festival March 1998
Korea Exhibition Centre, 159 Samsung-Dong, Kangham-gu, Seoul 135-731, Korea
Tel: +82-2 551 1147
Fax: +82-2 551 1259
e-mail: chonsh@star.koex.co.kr
Festival director: Sang Hwi Chon
Las Vegas Film FestivalFestival/event TOWN: Las Vegas, Nevada
1996 festival/event DATES: NA
1997 festival/event DATES: NA
1998 festival/event DATES: March 1998
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: 1350 East Flamingo Road, Suite 542; 9
town: Las Vegas, Nevada
country: USA
post code: 89119
office telephone:
office fax:
office e-mail address: johnt@lasvegasfilm.com
website: http://www.lasvegasfilm.com
name of festival DIRECTOR: John Tidwell
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Richard Padilla
- market? yes/no: Yes
- competition? yes/no: Yes, however our first annual event will not be
acompetition. Beginning in 1999 the entries will compete.
- deadline for entry: Not for our 1998 event. In 1999 there will be a deadline
The Kids' Film Festival of VirginiaFestival/event TOWN: Richmond
1997 festival/event DATES: N/A
1998 festival/event DATES: March 27 - 29, 1998
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: 507 North 24th Street, Suite 1
town: Richmond, Virginia
country: U.S.A.
post code: 23223-7213
office telephone: 804-342-0456
office fax: 804-649-2998
office e-mail address: kidfilm@aol.com
website: N/A
name of festival DIRECTOR: Lynn Powers
name of festival BOARD PRESIDENT: Kendal Thompson
- market? yes
- competition? yes
- deadline for entry December 1, 1997
Name of major award: Kids' Film Festival of VA 1998 Award
Value of award: TBD
Last winning film: N/A
Director of winning film: N/A