1-12 May
International House, 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104, US
tel: +1-215-895 6593
fax: +1-215-895 6562
e-mail: pfwc@libertynet.org
Contact: Linda Blackaby
Competition
Set in Philadelphia Screenwriting Award (US$3,000)
Brighton Arts Festival
4-16 May
21-22 Old Steine, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1EL, UK
tel: +44-1273-713 875
fax: +44-1273-622 453
Contact: Christopher Barron
National Cable TV Association Annual Convention
9-12 May (tbc)
National Cable TV Association, Industry Affairs Department, 1724 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036 US
tel: +1-202-775 3669/3550
fax: +1-202-775 3692/1025
Contact: Bobbie Boyd
Cannes Film Festival
9-20 May
99 Boulevard Malesherbes, 75008 Paris, France
tel: +33-1-42 66 92 20/45 61 66 00
fax: +33-1-45 61 94 94
Contact: Gilles Jacob, Pierre Viot
Market and Competition
Palme d'Or
Previous winner: Underground by Emir Kusturica
New England Film and Video Festival
9-11 May
Boston Film/Video Foundation, 1126 Boylston St, Boston MA 02215, USA
tel: +1-617 536 1540
fax: +1-617 536 3576
Contact: Cherie Martin
Competition
Technicolor Best of Festival Award (US$1,000)
Previous winner: 730 Grove Street (Benjamin Goldman)
Golden Prague International TV Festival
16-21 May
Czech TV, International Relations, Kaveci Hory 140 70, Prague 4, Czech Republic
tel: +42-2-6121 2882
fax: +42-2-6121 2891
Contact: Blanka Pavelkova
Competition
Golden Prague (DM 10,000)
Previous winner: Outside In by Margaret Williams
Electronic Cinema Festival (Chiba, Japan)
20 May - June 3
PO Box 1451, Rue du Théâtre 5, CH-1820 Montreux, Switzerland
tel: +41-21-963 3220
fax: +41-21-963 8851
Contact: Renée Crawford, Philippe Guillemin, Paolo Zaccarian
Competition
Astrolabium Award
International Short Film Festival - Kraków
31 May-4 June
c/o Apollo Film, ul Pychowicka 7, 30-364 Kraków, Poland
tel: +48-12-67 13 55/67 23 40
fax: +48-12-67 15 52
Contact: Renata Puchaez
Competition
Grand Prix (PLZ7,000)
Previous winner: Wszyztko moze sie przyytratic (Marcel Lozinski)
Balticum Film and TV Festival - Gudhjem
May - June (dates tbc)
Baltic Media Centre, Ronnevej 1, 3720 Aakirkeby, Denmark
tel: +45-56 97 3737
fax: +45-56 97 37 36
Contact: Lene Koefoed
Cape Town International Film Festival
May (dates tbc)
c/o University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch 7700, Cape Town, South Africa
tel: +27-21 238 257/8
fax: +27-21 242 355
Contact: James A Polley
Market
Ethnogenre African American Film Festival
May (dates tbc)
55 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, New York, 14614, US
tel: +1-716-232 7100
fax: +1-716-258 2487
Contact: Robin Wilson Glover
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival
May (New York), June (Los Angeles) (dates tbc)
485 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10017, US
tel: +1-212-972 8400
fax: +1-212-972 0905
Contact: Bruni Burres, Heather Harding
Inside/OUT Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival of Toronto
May (dates tbc)
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 216, Toronto, Canada M5V 1X3
tel: +1-416-977 6847
fax: +1-416-977 8025
Contact: Joanne Cormack
Los Angeles Asian Pacific American Film and Video Festival
May (dates tbc)
Visual Communications, 263 South LA Street, Suite 307, Los Angeles, CA 90012
tel: +1-213-680 4462
fax: +1-213-687 4848
Contact: Abraham Ferrer
New England Film & Video Festival
May (dates tbc)
Art Extension Service Division of Continuing Education
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
tel: +1-413-545 2360
fax: +1-413-545 3351
Contact: Pam Korza
Open Russian Film Festival Kinotaur (Sochi)
May - June (dates tbc)
35 Arbat, Moscow 121835, Russia
tel: +7-095-248 0911
fax: +7-095-248 0966
Contact: Alfred Eshtrem
Prix Danube
May - June (dates tbc)
Mlynská dolina, 845 45 Bratislava, Slovakia
tel: +42-7-727 448
fax: +42-7-729 440
Contact: Dusan Lechan, Mikulás Gavala
Royal Television Society Awards
May (date tbc)
Holborn Hall, 100 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 1AL, UK
tel: +44-171-430 1000
fax: +44-71-430 0924
Contact: Nicky Harlow
Seattle International Film Festival
May 16 - June 9, 1996
801 East Pine Street, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
tel: +1-206-324 9996
fax: +1-206-324 9998
Contact: Jim Gibbs
URL: http://www.seattlefilm.com
Slavic and Orthodox People Film Festival in Moscow
May (dates tbc)
17 Vasiilyevskaya Street, Moscow 123825 Russia
tel: +7-095-254 2646
fax: +7-095-177 2264
Contact: Nikolai Burlyaev, Tatyana Varskaya
TV-QUIP East (Lithuania)
May (dates tbc)
3 rue Herni Martin, 92100 Boulogne, France
tel: +33-46 20 17 30
fax: +33-46 21 14 14
US International Film and Video Festival - Chicago
May - June
The US Festivals Association, 841 N Addison Avenue, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126-1291
tel: +1-708-834 7773
fax: +1-708-834 5565
Contact: JW Anderson
International Electronic Cinema Festival
May 29th - June 3rd
Kay Kimura at SogoVision
4F, Akasaka Nihon Bldg, 5-24, Akasaka 9-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107, Japan
Phone: 81-3-3408-4111
Fax: 81-3-3408-4112
e-mail: tatiana@hi-vision.nhk.or.jp
ist of all Film Festivals 05/96 Worldwide
Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema