April (dates tbc)
3, Vasilievskaya Street, Moscow 123056 Russia
tel: +7-095-254 7056/254 0827
fax: +7-0950 251 0220
Contact: Yevgeni I Zharikov, Ivan Mogovich
The Avignon/New York Film Festival,
at the Angelika 57 Theatre in New York.
It runs from April 10-23.
Contact: Sara Delson
E-mail: sdelson@ftna.com
Baltimore Film Festival
April (dates tbc)
c/o The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218, US
tel: +1-410-889 1993
fax: +1-410-889 2567
Contact: Gabriel Wardell
Competition
Best Film award
Bergamo Film Meeting
16-23 March 1996
Via Pacou 3, I-24121 Bergamo, Italy
tel: +39-35 234011
fax: +39-35 233129
Contact: Angelo Signorelli
Competition
Rosa Camuna d'Oro
Previous winner: Through the Olive Trees by Abras Kiarostami
Black Filmworks Festival of Film and Video
12-14 April, 19-20 April
Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, 405 14th Street, Suite 515, Oakland, California, CA 94612, USA
tel: +1-510-465 0804
fax: +1-510-839 9858
Contact: Beverly Robinson
Competition
Best Film ($1,500)
Previous winner: Black is...Black Aint (Marlon Riggs)
Buzios Cine Diners Club Festival
3-5 April
Rua Frei Leandro, 35, Rio de Janeiro, 22470.210, Brazil
tel: +55-21-246 7791
fax: +55-21-286 1191
Contact: Centro Culture Rio Cine
Chicago Latino Film Festival
12-22 April
c/o Columbia College, 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA
tel: +1-312-431 1330
fax: +1-312-360 0629
Contact: Pepe Vargas
Cognac International Thriller Film Festival
4 days, early April (dates tbc)
Promo 2000, 36 rue Pierret, 92200 Neuilly, Paris, France
tel: +33-1-46 40 55 00
fax: +33-1-46 40 55 39
Contact: Lionel Chouchan
FIFREC (International Film and Student Directors Festival) - Nimes
April (dates tbc)
FIFREC, BP 7144, 30913, Nimes Cedex
tel: +33-66 84 47 40
fax: +33-72 02 20 36
The GEN ART Film Festival 1996, at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall,
April 27 - May 3,
tel: (212) 290-0312
Contact: Paul Gachot (festival director)
email genart@emedia.net
URL: http://www.genart.org
Golden Rose Light Entertainment TV Festival, Montreux
30 April - 6 May
Television Suisse Romande, Quai E Anserment 20, PO Box 234, CH-1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland
tel: +41-22-708 8599
fax: +41-22-781 5249
Contact: Pierre Grandjean, Gabrielle Bucher
Competition
Golden Rose
Grenzland Film Days
April (dates tbc)
PO Box 307, D-95632 Wunsiedel, Germany
tel:+49-923-2 4770
fax: +49-923-2 805 55
Györ MEDIAWAVE
25-30 April
MEDIAWAVE Foundation, H-9028 Györ, Soprani UT 45, Hungary
tel: +39-96-449 444
fax: +39-96-449 445/415 285
Contact: Hartyándi Jenö MEDIAWAVE@arrabonet.gyor.hungary.net
or: zsolt@interlog.com
<"http://www.interlog.com/~filmgyor">Our Web Site
Istanbul International Film Festival
April (dates tbc)
Yildiz Kultur ve Sanat Merkezi, Besiktas 80746, Istanbul, Turkey
fax: +90-212 258 3212
Contact: Hulya Ucansu
Competition
Golden Tulip Award
Laon International Film Festival for Young People
April (dates tbc)
Festival du Cinema, BP 526, F-02001 Laon, Cedex, France
tel: +33-23 20 38 61
fax: +33-23 20 28 99
Lloyds Bank/BAFTA British Academy Performance Awards
April (date tbc)
BAFTA, 195 Picadilly, London W1V 9LG
tel: +44-171-734 0022
fax: +44-171-734 1792
Contact: Harry Manley, Doreen Dean
Los Angeles Animation Celebration
April (dates tba)
5889 Kanan Road, Suite 317, Agoura, CA 91301, US
tel: +1-818-991 2884
fax: +1-818-991 3773
Contact: Terry Thoren
19-24 April
Reed Midem Organisation, 179 avenue Victor Hugo, Paris, 75116, france
tel: +33-1-44 34 44 44
fax: +33-1-44 34 44 00
Contact: André Vaillant
International TV Market
Munich International Documentary Film Festival
April - May (dates tbc)
Troger Strasse 46, D-81675, Germany
tel: +49-89-470 32327
fax: +49-89-470 6611
Conatc: Gudrun Geyer
Rivertown International film Festival (Minneapolis/St Paul)
April 26 through May 4
425 Ontario Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA
tel: +1-612-627 4431
fax: +1-612-627 4111
e-mail: filmsoc@gold.tc.umn.edu
Contact: Bob Strong
Competition
Audience Award
Previous winners: ...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (Severo Perez), Vukovar Poste Restante (Boro Draskov)
National Association of Broadcasters - NAB
April (dates tbc)
1771 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-2891
tel: +1-202-429 5350
fax: +1-202 429 5406
Contact: Lynn McReynolds, Francesca Dea
Oberhausen Short Film Festival
April - May (dates tbc)
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Christian-Steger-Straße 10, D-46042 Oberhausen, Germany
tel: +49-208-825 2652
fax: +49-208-852 591
Contact: Angela Haardt
Saint Louis Film Festival
April 19-21, 1996
560 Trinity Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63130
314-726-6779
fax 314-726-5076
Barbara S. Jones, Executive Director
Patricia A. Scallet, Director, Cinema/Saint Louis (membership society)
San Francisco International Film Festival
18 April - 6 May
1521 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94115, US
tel: +1-415-929 5000
fax: +1-415-921 5032
e-mail: sfiff@sfiff.org
Contact: Peter Scarlet
Competition
Golden Gate Awards ($500)
Singapore International Film Festival
April (dates tbc)
168 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923, Malaysia
tel: +65-738 7567
fax: +65-738 7578
Contact: Teo Swee Leng
Competition
Silver Screen Award for Best Asian Feature
Previous winner: Vive l'amour (Tsai Ming Liang)
USA Film Festival
20-27 April
2917 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, 75204, Texas, USA
tel: +1-214-821 6300
fax: +1-214-821 6364
Contact: Alonso Duralde
Verona Film Festival
Mid-April (tbc)
Via S Giacomo alla Pigna 6, Verona 37121, Italy
tel: +39-45-600 6778
fax: +39-45-59 06 24
Washington DC International Film Festival
April-May (dates tbc)
Box 21396, Washington DC, US
tel:+1-202-727 2396
Contact: Tony Gittens
Worldfest Houston
21-30 April
PO Box 56566, Houston, TX 77246-6566, US
tel: +1-713-965 9955
fax: +1-713-965 9960
Contact: J Hunter Todd
Aspen Shortfest
2-6 April
110 East Hallam Street, Aspen, 81611 Colorado, US
Tel: +1-970-925 6882
Fax: +1-970-925 1967
Festival director: Laura Thielen
Competition
Grand Prize (US$2000)
Previous winner: Strange Habit (Leslie Libman, Larry Williams)
Cognac International Thriller Film Festival (Cognac)
3-6 April
36 Rue Pierret, 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)
3-13 April
4000 MacArthur Blvd, Newport Beach, CA 92660, US
Tel: +1-714-851 6555
Fax: +1-714-851 6460
Festival director: Jeff Conner
Competition
The Jury Award
Chicago Latino Film Festival
4-10 April
c/o Columbia College, 600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605, US
Tel: +1-312-431 1330
Fax: +1-312-360 0629
Festival director: Pepe Vargas
Film Fest New Haven
4-6 April
111 Clinton Avenue, New Haven, CT, 06513, US
Tel: +1-203-865 2773
Fax: +1-203-865 2773
e-mail: film_Fest_New_Haven@compuserve.com
website: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Film_Fest_New_Haven
Festival director/programmer: Wayne Buck
Competition
Worldfest Houston
4-13 April
PO Box 56566, Houston, TX 77256, US
Tel: +1-713-965 9955
Fax: +1-713-965 9960
e-mail: Worldfest@aol.com
Festival director: J Hunter Todd
Festival programmer: Shelagh Conley
Market & Competition
Gold Remi Statuette, Gold Lone Star
Cartoons on the Bay (Amalfi)
5-9 April
SACIS, Via Teulada 66, Rome 00195 Italy
Tel: +39-6-374981
Fax: +39-6-3701343
e-mail: gianandrea@mail.sacis.it
Festival director: Alfio Bastincich
Competition
Golden Pulcinella
Previous winner: Renato Lacroix, Georges Lacroix
National Association of Broadcasters – NAB
6-10 April
1771 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-2891
Tel: +1-202-429 5350
Fax: +1-202 429 5406
President & CEO of NAB: Eddie Fritz
Palm Beach International Film Festival
10-20 April
7108 Fairway Drive, Suite 235, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, 33 418, US
Tel: +1-407-626 0026
Fax: +1-407-626 9119
Festival director: Mark Diamond
Black Filmworks Festival of Film and Video
11-13 April, 19-20 April
Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, 405 14th Street, Suite 505, Oakland, California, CA 94612, US
Tel: +1-510-465 0804
Fax: +1-510-839 9858
Festival director: Dr Beverly J Robinson
Festival programmer: Felix Curtis
Market & Competition
Best Film (US$1,000)
Previous winner: One Red Rose (Charlie Jordon & Michelle Barnwell)
MIP-TV (Cannes)
11-16 April
Reed Midem Organisation, 11 Rue du Colonel Pierre Abia, Paris 75015, France
Tel: +33-1-41 90 45 80
Fax: +33-1-41 90 45 70
Festival director: André Vaillant
International TV Market
Singapore International Film Festival
11-26 April
29A Keong Saik Road, Singapore, Singapore 089136
Tel: +65-738 7567
Fax: +65-738 7578
e-mail: filmfest@pacific.net.sg
Festival director: Teo Swee Leng
Festival programmer: Philip Cheah
Competition (for Asian features only)
Silver Screen Award for Best Asian Feature
Previous winner: Cardiogram (Dareshan Omirbaev)
German Children’s Film and Television Festival
13-19 April
Stiftung Goldener Spatz, Festivalburo, PF 1606, D-07506 Gera, Germany
Tel: 0365 2 30 63
Fax: 0365 2 60 18
Festival director/programmer: Elke Ried
Market & Competition
Golden Sparrows (six)
Previous winners: Charlie and Louise (Joseph Vilsmaier), Karakum (Arend Agthe)
European Cinema Congress (Wiesbaden)
15-17 April
PO Box 2927, D-65019, Wiesbaden, Germany
Tel: +49-611-723448
Fax: +49-611-723403
Managing director: Wolf Virsthuer
Annual Minneapolis/St Paul International Film Festival
18 April-3 May (tbc)
425 Ontario Street, NE, Minneapolis, MN 55414, US
Tel: +1-612-627 4431
Fax: +1-612-627 4111
e-mail: Filmsoc@gold.tc.umn.edn
Festival director: Al Milgrom
Competition
Emerging Filmmakers’ Award (US$500)
Previous winner: Champagne Safari (George Ungar)
Cape Town International Film Festival
21 April-10 May
University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch 7700, Cape Town, South Africa
Tel: +27-21 238 257/8
Fax: +27-21 242 355
e-mail: filmfest@hiddingh.uct.ac.za
Festival director: James A Polley
Market & competition
Cape of Good Hope Award (US$1000)
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Italian Film Festival (Glasgow/Edinburgh)
21-30 April
32 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9EW, UK
Tel: +44-131-243 3601/668 2232
Fax: +44-131-220 2443/668 2777
Festival director: Richard Mowe
Festival programmer: Allan Hunter
Visions du Réel Festival International du Cinéma Documentaire (Nyon)
21-27 April
5 Rte du Boiron, CH-1260 Nyon 2, Switzerland, CP 2320
Tel: +41-22-361 6060
Fax: +41-22-361 7071
Festival director: Jean Perret
Competition
Visions du Réel prizes (SFr30,000)
Previous winner: De oogst van de stilte (Eline Flipse)
Filmfest DC (Washington)
23 April-4 May
Box 21396, Washington DC 20009, US
Tel:+1-202-274 6810
Fax: +1-202-274 6828
e-mail: FilmfestDC@aol.com
Festival director/programmer: Anthony Gittens
Competition
Audience award (US$500)
Previous winners: Celestial Clockwork (Fina Torres) & WEB du bois (Louis Massiah)
Golden Rose of Montreux
24-29 April
c/o Television Suisse Romande, 1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland
Tel: +41-22-708 8599
Fax: +41-22-781 5249
Festival director: Pierre Grandjean
Festival programmer: Gabrielle Bucher
Competition
Golden Rose Award
Previous winner: In the Fiddler’s House (Itzhak Perlman)
International Electronic Cinema Festival (Montreux)
24-29 April
Rue du Théâtre 5, Montreux CH-820, Switzerland
Tel: +41-21-963 3220
Fax: +41-21-963 8851
e-mail: r.crawford@tvsympo.menet.ch
ph.guillemin@tvsympo.menet.ch
Festival director: Philippe Guillemin/Renee Crawford
Competition
Astrolabium
Previous winner: The Last Bullet
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
24-29 April
Grillostrasse 134, D-46045 Oberhausen, Germany
Tel: +49-208-825 2652
Fax: +49-208-825 5413
e-mail: Kurzfilmtage_oberhausen@uni-duisburg.de
Festival director: Angela Haardt
Grosser Preis der Stadt Oberhausen (DM10,000)
Previous winner: Oriental Elegy (Alexandr Sokuvov)
San Francisco International Film Festival
24 April-8 May (tbc)
1521 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94115, US
Tel: +1-415-929 5000
Fax: +1-415-921 5032
e-mail: sfiff@sfiff.org
Festival director: Peter Scarlet
Festival programmer: Rachel Rosen
Competition
Golden Gate Awards (US$500)
Munich International Documentary Film Festival
25 April-4 May
Troger Strasse 46, D-81675, Munich, Germany
Tel: +49-89-470 3237
Fax: +49-89-470 6611
Festival director: Gudrun Geyer
Festival programmers: Gudrun Geyer, Siegfried Daiber, Ulla Webler
Competition
Der Dokumentarfilmpreis (DM20,000)
Previous winner: Salam Cinema (Mohsen Matehmalba)
Showlight 97
An International Colloquium on Entertainment Lighting
28-30 April 1997
7 Highlight House, St Leonards Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN21 3UH, UK
Tel: +44-1323-642 639
Fax: +44-1323-646 905
Contact: Ruth Rossington
Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
30 April-11 May
3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 19104 Pennsylvania, US
Tel: +1-215-895 6593
Fax: +1-215-895 6562
e-mail: pfwc@libertynet.org
Festival director/programmer: Linda Blackaby
Cine Pulse audience award
Györ Media Wave
Last week in April
Mediawave Foundation, H-9028 Györ, Soprani út 45, Hungary
Tel: +36-96-449 444
Fax: +36-96-449 445/415 285
Festival director: Hartyándi Jenö
All Russian Festival (Sozvezdie) in Yaroslavl
April (dates tbc)
3, Vasilievskaya Street, Moscow 123056, Russia
Tel: +7-095-254 7056/254 0827
Fax: +7-0950 251 0220
Contact: Yevgeni I Zharikov, Ivan Mogovich
Baltimore Film Festival
April (dates tbc)
c/o The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218, US
Tel: +1-410-669 1986
Contact: Gabriel Wardell
Competition
Best Film award
Istanbul International Film Festival
April (dates tbc)
Yildiz Kultur ve Sanat Merkezi, Besiktas 80746, Istanbul, Turkey
Tel: +90-212-29331334/5
Festival director: Hulya Ucansu
Competition
Previous winner: Zusje (Robert van Westdyjk)
Golden Tulip Award
Lloyds Bank BAFTA Awards
April (dates tbc) 1997
195 Piccadilly, London W1V 0LN, UK
Tel: +44-171-734 0022
Fax: +44-171-439 0473
Festival director: Harry Manley
Competition
Bafta Awards
Previous winner: Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee)
Madrid International Film Festival (Imagfic)
April (dates tbc)
Gran Vía 62, 8th Floor, 28013 Madrid, Spain
Tel: +34-1-541 3721/541 5541
Fax: +34-1-542 5495
Festival director: Rita Sonlleva
North West Film Festival Southport
April (dates tbc)
33 Barrington Road, Altrincham, GB-Cheshire WA14 1HZ
Tel: +44-161-929 1423
Fax: +44-161-929 1067
Festival director: Gil Lane-Young
Festival programmer: Harry Nadler
Competition
Previous winner: Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
St Barts Caribbean Film Festival
April (dates tbc)
St Barthélémy (in the Caribbean)
Tel/Fax: (St Barts) 590 27 80 11
Tel: (New York) +1 212 989 8004
Fax: (New York) + 212 727 1774
e-mail: jpharris@ritz.mordor.com
USA Film Festival (Dallas)
April (dates tbc)
2917 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, 75204, Texas, US
Tel: +1-214-821 6300
Fax: +1-214-821 6364
Festival director: Ann Alexander
Festival programmer: Alonso Duralde
Competition (only for short films)
National Short Film Video Competition-Grand Prize (US$1000)
Previous winner: Spark (Garret Williams)
Rochester International Film Festival
1-3 May
Box 17746, Rochester, NY, US 14617
Tel: +1-716 288 5607
Fax: +1-716 2713970
Festival president: Josephine Perini
Competition (Movies on a Shoestring)
Shoestring Trophy
Deadline for entry: 1 March
ist of all Film Festivals 04/96 Worldwide
All Russian Festival SOZVEZDIE in Yaroslavl