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
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
Aspen Shortfest
1-5 April 1998
110 East Hallam, Suite 102, Aspen, 81611 Colorado, USA
Tel: +1-970 925 6882
Fax: +1-970 925 1967
e-mail: lthielen@aspenfilm.org
Festival director: Laura Thielen
Competition
Grand Jury Prize ($2,000)
Previous winner: Two or Three Things but Nothing for Sure (Tina DiFeliciantonio & Jane C Wagner)
Entry deadline: 15 January 1998
Carolina Film & Video Festival (Greensboro)
1-4 April 1998
100 Carmichael Building, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA
Tel: +1-910 334 5360
Fax: +1-910 334 5039
e-mail: akheilsb@hamlet.uncg.edu
Festival directors and programmers: Killian Heilsberg-Mcelrath, Kate Malec
Entry deadline: 10 March 1998
Celtic Film and Television Festival (Tralee)
1-4 April 1998
Annex 3, Radio Tele Fis, Eirgann, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, Ireland
Tel: +353-1 208 4530
Fax: +353-1 208 3483
e-mail: celtic@ste.ie
Contact: Doireann Ni Bhriain
Competition
Awards in 12 categories
Entry deadline: 28 November 1997
Canyonlands Film & Video Festival (Moab)
2-4 April 1998
Canyonlands Film/Video Festival, 435 River Sands Rd, Moab, UT 84532, USA
Tel: +1-801 259 9135
e-mail: cfvf@moab-utah.com
Festival director and programmer: Nicholas Brown
Entry deadline: 1 March 1998
Competition
Best of Festival Award
Cash prize based on amount of gate receipts and fund-raising
Previous winner: Joe's Wedding (Michael Kennedy)
Creteil Int'l Festival of Women's Films
3-12 April 1998
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 ($4,130)
Previous winner: Floating Life (Clara Law)
Entry deadline: 15 December 1997
Hong Kong Film Festival
3-18 April 1998
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 programmer: Li Cheuk-to, Jacob Wong, Law Kar
Entry deadline: mid-December 1997
MIP-TV (Cannes)
3-8 April 1998
Reed Midem Organisation, BP 572, 11 rue du Colonel Pierre Abia, Paris Cedex 15, F-75726, France
Tel: +33-1 41 90 45 80
Fax: +33-1 41 90 45 70
Programme director: André Vaillant
International TV market
Los Angeles Independent Film Festival
16-20 April 1998
Tel: +1-213 937 9155
Fax: +1-213 937 2270
Contact: Robert Faust
Entry deadline: 14 January 1998
Ninth Int'l Animation Film Festival (Stuttgart)
3-8 April 1998
Int. Trick film Festival E.V., Tecker 56, Stuttgart, D-70190 Germany
Tel: +49-711 925 4610
Fax: +49-711 2624 980
Festival director: Albert Ade
Capital Stuttgart Award/State of Baden-Wrttenberg Award
Value of award: $8,370 (each)
Previous winners: Food (for) Thought (Daniel Crooks) and Small Treasures (Sarah Watt)
Entry deadline: 1 December 1997
Film Fest New Haven
4-6 April 1998
111 Clinton Avenue, New Haven, CT, 06513, USA
Tel: +1-203 865 2773
Fax: +1-203 865 2773
e-mail: film_Fest_New_Haven@compuserve.com
website: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/hompages/Film_Fest_New_Haven
Festival director: Wayne Buck
Competition
The Riddle (Evan Brenner)
Entry deadline: 1 February 1998
Int'l Film Festival of Uruguay (Montevideo)
4-19 April 1988
Cinemateca Uruguaya, Lorenzo Carnelli 1311, Montevideo 11 200, Uruguay
Tel: +598-2 495 795/482 460
Fax: +598-2 49 45 72
Festival director and programmer: Manuel Mart'nez Carril
Competition
Gran Premio
Previous winner: Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)
Entry deadline: 10 February 1998
National Association of Broadcasters - NAB
7-10 April 1998
1771 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-2891, USA
Tel: +1-202 429 5350
Fax: +1-202 429 5406
President & CEO of NAB: Eddie Fritz
INTERCOM 98 Film & Video Festival (Chicago)
10-12 April 1998
32 West Randolph Street, Suite 600, Chicago, Illinois, USA 60601
Tel: +1-312 425 9400
Fax: +1-312 425 0944
e-mail: filmfest@wwa.com
Festival director: Michael Kutza
Festival programmer: Jim Healy
Competition
Gold Hugo Statues
Previous winner: Basquiat (Julian Schnabel)
Entry deadline: 1 March 1998
St Barts Caribbean Film Festival (Gustavia, St Barth)
16-20 April 1998
410 West 24th Street, 16 K, New York, NY 10011, USA
Tel: +1-212 989 8004
Fax: +1-212 727 1774
e-mail: jpharris@interactive.net
Festival director: Ellen Lamper-Greaux, Joshua Harrison
Festival programmer: Joshua Harrison
Entry deadline: 15 March 1998
Taos Talking Picture Festival
16-19 April 1998
216M North Pueblo Road, #216, Taos, NM 87571, USA
Tel: +1-505 751 0637
Fax: +1-505 751 7385
e-mail: ttpix@taosnet.com
web site: http://www. taosnet.com/ttpix/
Festival director: Joshua Bryant
Festival programmer: Kelly Clement
Competition
The Taos Land Grant Award
Previous winner: Green Chimneys (Constance Marks)
Entry deadline: 15 January 1998
USA Film Festival (Dallas)
16-23 April 1998
2917 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, 75205, Texas, USA
Tel: +1-214 821 6300
Fax: +1-214 821 6364
website: http://www.usafilmfestival.com
Festival director: Ann Alexander
Festival programmer: Alonso Duralde
Competition (only for short films)
National Short Film Video Competition - Grand Prize ($1,000)
Previous winner: The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 (Sam Green)
Entry deadline: 2 March 1998
Chicago Latino Film Festival
17-27 April 1998
600 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA
Tel: +1-312 431 1330
Fax: +1-312 360 0629
Festival director: Pepe Vargas
Festival programmer: Michele Johnson
Competition
Kodak Emerging Filmmaker Award ($25,000)
Previous winner: Dying to Go Home (Carlos Da Silva & George Sluizer)
Entry deadline: 1 February 1998
Italian Film Festival (Glasgow/Edinburgh)
17-26 April 1998
Italian Institute, 82 Nicolson Street, GB-Edinburgh, EH8 9EW, UK
Tel: +44-131 243 3601
Fax: +44-131 220 2443
Festival director: Richard Mowe
Festival programmer: Allan Hunter
Entry deadline: 30 January 1998
Palm Beach Int'l Film Festival
17-26 April 1998
7108 Fairway Drive, Suite 235, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, 33 418, USA
Tel: +1-561 626 1345
Fax: +1-561 626 9119
Festival director: J Kerth Waters (ceo)
Festival manager: Mark Diamond (artistic director)
Entry deadline: 15 March 1998
Singapore Int'l Film Festival
17 April-2 May 1998
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 (Asian features only)
Silver Screen Award for Best Asian Feature
Previous winner: Gabbeh (Mohsan Makhmalbas)
Entry deadline: 30 January 1998
Worldfest Houston
17-26 April 1998
PO Box 56566, Houston, TX 77256, USA
Tel: +1-713 965 9955
Fax: +1-713 965 9960
e-mail: Worldfest@aol.com
Festival director: J Hunter Todd
Market & competition
Gold Remi Statuette, Gold Lone Star
Entry deadline: mid February 1998
Visions du Reel Festival International du Cinema Documentaire (Nyon)
20-26 April 1998
18 rue Juste-Olivier, CP 593,
CH-1260 Nyon, Switzerland
Tel: +41-22 361 6060
Fax: +41-22 361 7071
website: http://www. webdo.ch/visions_97.html
Festival director: Jean Perret
Competition
Grand Prix Vissions du Réel
Previous winner: Nobody's Business (Alan Berliner)
Entry deadline: 30 January 1998
European Cinema Congress (Wiesbaden)
21-23 April 1998
Forum Film Mediengesellschaft m.b.H., D-65205 Wiesbaden, Germany
Tel: +49-611 723448
Fax: +49-611 723403
e-mail: HDFeV@aol.com.
Managing director: Wolf Virsthuer
New York Int'l Independent Film & Video Festival
22 April-5 May 1998
873 Broadway, Suite 303, Ney York, NY, 10003 USA
Tel: +1-212 777 7100
Fax: +1-212 473 6443
Festival director: Stuart Alson
Competition
Previous winner: No Deposit, No Return (Chris & Derek Partridge)
Entry deadline: tbc
Washington DC Int'l Film Festival (Filmfest DC) (Washington)
22 April-3 May 1998
Box 21396, Washington DC 20009, USA
Tel:+1-202 724 5613
Fax: +1-202 724 6578
e-mail: FilmfestDC@aol.com
Festival director and programmer: Anthony Gittens
Competition
Audience award
Previous winners: Shall We Dance? (Masayuki Suo)
Entry deadline: 15 January 1998
Int'l Short Film Festival Oberhausen
23-28 April 1998
Grillostrasse 34, D-46045 Oberhausen, Germany
Tel: +49-208 825 2652
Fax: +49-208 825 5413
e-mail: kurzfilmtage-oberhausen@ani-duisburg.de
Festival director: Angela Haardt
Grosser Preis der Stadt Oberhausen ($5,580)
Previous winner: Crystal Aquarium (Jayne Parker)
Entry deadline: 1 February 1998
Golden Rose of Montreux
23-28 April 1998
c/o Television Suisse Romande, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 20/CP,
CH-234/1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland
Tel: +41-22 708 8599
Fax: +41-22 781 5249
e-mail: gabrielle.bucher tsr.srg.ssr.ch
Festival director: Philippe Guillemin
Secretary general: Pierre Grandjean
Competition
Golden Rose Award
Previous winner: Cold Feet (Granada)
Entry deadline: 30 January 1998
Oslo Animation Festival
23-26 April 1998
PO Box 867, Sentrum, N-0104 Oslo, Norway
Tel: +47-22 47 80 50
Fax: +47-22 47 80 60
e-mail: oaf@manelyst.filmenshus.no
Festival director: Vibeke Christensen
Managing director: Kristine Kjżlleberg
Competition
Grand Prize ($2,550)
Previous winner: Apricots (Wotta og Uzi Geffenblad)
Entry deadline: 15 January 1998
San Francisco Int'l Film Festival
23 April-7 May 1998
1521 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Tel: +1-415 929 5000
Fax: +1-415 921 5032
e-mail: sfiff@sfiff.org
Artistic director: Peter Scarlet
Festival programmers: Rachel Rosen, Marie-Pierre Macia, Brian Gordon
Competition
Golden Gate Awards ($500), Sky Prize ($10,000)
Entry deadline: 7 January 1998
Turin Int'l Gay & Lesbian Film Fest 'From Sodom to Hollywood'
23-29 April 1998 (tbc)
Via Tasso 11, Turin, I-10122, Italy
Tel: +39-11 534 888
Fax: +39-11 535 796
e-mail: ayfilmfest@assioma.com
Festival director: Giovanni Minerba
Festival programmer: Angelo Acerbi
Competition
Three jury awards (feature, short and documentary) and three audience awards
Previous winners: Like Grains of Sand (Riosuche Hashiguchi)
Entry deadline: 31 January 1998
Vue d'Afrique (Montreal)
23 April-3 May 1998
Les Journées du Cinema Africain et Creole, 67 rue Ste. Catherine Ouest, 5eme étage, Montreal Quebec, Canada H2X 1Z7
Tel: +1-514 284 3322
Fax: +1-514 845 0631
Festival director: Gerard Lechene
Competition
Le Prix
Previous winner: The Hamlet Sisters (Abdelkrim Bahloul)
Entry deadline: late February 1998
Munich Int'l Documentary Film Festival
24 April-3 May 1998
Trogerstrasse 46, D-81675, Munich, Germany
Tel: +49-89 470 3237
Fax: +49-89 470 6611
Festival director and programmer: Gudrun Geyer
Competition
Der Dokumentarfilmpreis ($11,160)
Previous winner: Amsterdam Global Village (Johan van der Keuken)
Entry deadline: 21 February 1998
Trento Int'l Festival of Mountain & Exploration Films
24 April-2 May 1998
Via S. Croce 67, I-38100 Trento, Italy
Tel: +39-461 98 61 20
Fax: +39-461 23 18 32
Artistic director: Gian Luigi Bozza
Competition
Gran Premio
Entry deadline: March 1998
Gyr Media Wave
Last week of April 1998
Mediawave Foundation, H-9028 Gyr, Soprani t 45, Hungary
Tel: +36-96 449 444/328 888
Fax: +36-96 415 285
Festival director: Hartyndi Jen
Entry deadline: 5 January 1998
Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
29 April-10 May 1998
3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 19104-3195 Pennsylvania, USA
Tel: +1-215 895 6593
Fax: +1-215 895 6562
e-mail: pfwc@libertynet.org
website: http://www/ libertynet.org/~ihouse
Festival director and programmer: Linda Blackaby
Entry deadline: 12 January 1998
Minneapolis/St Paul Int'l Film Festival
30 April-20 May 1998
2331 University Ave. SE, suite 130B, Minneapolis, 55414, USA
Tel: +1-612 627 4431
Fax: +1-612 627 4111
e-mail: Filmsoc@gold.tc.umn.edu
website: www.umn.edu/ nlhome/g023/filmfoc/
Festival director: Albert Milgrom
Festival programmer: Albert Milgrom, Bob Strong
Competition
Emerging Filmmakers' Award (no cash value)
Previous winners: Champagne Safari (George Ungar)
The Ohio Independent Film Festival
30 April-3 May 1998
2258 West 10th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44113, USA
Tel: +1-216 781 1755
e-mail: OhioIndieFilmFest@juno.com
Festival directors and programmers: Bernadette Gillota, Annetta Marion
Entry deadline: 15 March 1998
Arizona State University Art Museum Annual Outdoor Film Festival (Tempe, Arizona)
April 1998
ASU Art Museum, Tenth Street and Mill Avenue, Tempe, AZ 85287-2911, USA
Tel: +1-602 965 2787
Fax: +1-602 965 5254
e-mail: spiak@asu.edu
Festival director: John D Spiak
Festival programmer: Bob Pece
Entry deadline: tbc
Avignon/New York Film Festival
Late April 1998
Alliance Franaise/French Institute
22 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10013 or 198 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013, USA
Tel: +1-212 343 2675
Fax: +1-212 343 1849
Entry deadline: late February 1998
Bafta Awards
April 1998 (tbc)
195 Piccadilly, GB-London W1V 0LN, UK
Tel: +44-171 734 0022
Fax: +44-171 439 0473
Festival director and programmer: Harry Manley
Competition
Bafta Awards
Previous winner: The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
Cartoons on the Bay (Amalfi) - Int'l Fest of Animation
April 1998
SACIS, Via Teulada 66, Rome
I-00195 Italy
Tel: +39-6 37498279
Fax: +39-6 3701343
e-mail: cartoonsbay@sacis.it
Festival director: Alfio Bastiancich
Competition
Golden Pulcinella
Previous winner: Rothen Ralph
Entry deadline: 31 December 1997
Gen Art Film Festival (New York City)
April 1998
145 W 28th Street, Suite 116, New York, NY, USA 10001, USA
Tel: +1-212 290 0312
Fax: +1-212 290 0254
e-mail: genart@emedia.net
Entry deadline: tbc
April 1998 (tbc)
Gran V'a 62, 8th Floor, E-28013 Madrid, Spain
Tel: +34-1 541 3721/541 5541
Fax: +34-1 542 5495
Festival director: Rita Sonlleva
Entry deadline: tbc
North West Film Festival Southport
April 1998 (tbc)
33 Barrington Road,
GB-Altrincham, Cheshire WA14 1HZ, UK
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
Entry deadline: tbc
Showlight 2001: An Int'l Colloquium on Entertainment Lighting
April 1998 (tbc)
7 Highlight House, St Leonards Road, GB-Eastbourne, East Sussex BN21 3UH, UK
Tel: +44-1323 642 639
Fax: +44-1323 646 905
Contact: Ruth Rossington
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
ist of all Film Festivals 04/98 Worldwide
It's All True - Int'l Documentary Film Festival (Sao Paulo/Rio De Janeiro)
