Festival/event TOWN: PORTIMAO (Algarve, Portugal)
1996 festival/event DATES: 22/26 May
1997 festival/event DATES: 19/25 May
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: FESTUIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA DO ALGARVE
town: LISBOA
country: PORTUGAL
post code:1801 LISBOA CODEX
office telephone: 351.1.851 36 15
office fax: 351.1.852 11 50
name of festival DIRECTOR: Carlos Manuel
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Jose Barbosa
- market? no
- competition? yes: short films Documentary, Fiction, animation
- deadline for entry : for 1997: March 31, for 1998 March 31
Name of major award: THE FESTIVAL BIG PRIZE, awarded to a film which was admitted to any of the two sections (pros & independent and cinema schools)
Value of award: Trophy and 300.000 portuguese escudos
Total prizes: 2.500.000 pte
Last winning film: "La pendule de Mme. Foucault"- 35 mm/fiction
Director of winning film: Jean-Marc Vervoort (Belgium)
3-11 May
SFB, Berlin 14046, Germany
Tel: +49-30-30 31 1610
Fax: +49-30-30 31 1619
Festival director: PL Braun
Festival programmer: Susanne Hoffmann
Competition
Prix Futura (DM10,000)
Previous winner: Grossesse Nerveuse (D Ratzaglia), Totsehweigen (Eduard Herne)
Brighton Arts Festival
3-25 May
21-22 Old Steine, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1EL, UK
Tel: +44-1273-713 875
Fax: +44-1273-622 453
Festival director: Christopher Barron
Cannes International Film Festival
7-19 May
99 Boulevard Malesherbes, 75008 Paris, France
Tel: +33-1-45 61 66 00
Fax: +33-1-45 61 97 60
E-Mail: festival@cannes.bull.net
Festival director: Pierre Viot
Festival programmer: Gilles Jacob
Market and Competition
Palme d’Or
Previous winner: Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)
Animation and Special Effects Conference & Expo (Los Angeles)
8-11 May
2425 Olympic Blvd, # 550E, Santa Monica, CA 90404, US
Tel: +1-310-453-4440
Fax: +1-310-453 5258
Festival director: Nick Orfanopoulos
Competition
Seattle International Film Festival
15 May-8 June
801 East Pine Street, Seattle, WA 98122, US
Tel: +1-206-324 9996
Fax: +1-206-324 9998
E-Mail: mail@seattlefilm.com
Festival director: Darryl Macdonald
Festival programmers: Darryl Macdonald, Carl Spence
Competition
American Independent Director Award (US$40 000 in production goods & services)
Previous winner: The Whole Wide World (Dan Ireland)
Balticum Film and TV Festival (Bornholm)
17-23 May
Baltic Media Centre, Svaneke, DK- 3740, Denmark
Tel: +45-70 202002
Fax: +45-70202001
E-Mail: baltipro@pip.dhnet.dh
Festival director: Bent Nørby Bonde
Festival programmer: Tue Steen Müllen
Competition
Balticum prize (DKr10,000)
Previous winner: Sergei Eisenstein – An Autobiography (Oleg Kovalov)
Inside/OUT Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival of Toronto
22 May-1 June
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 216, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 1X3
Tel: +1-416-977 6847
Fax: +1-416-977 8025
Contact: Joanne Cormack
Competition
Best Canadian Film or Video
ResFest Digital Film Festival
Festival/event TOWN: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, London, Orlando
1996 festival/event DATES: August 23 - LA, Oct. 4-5, 9 - SF, Oct. 16-19 - NY, Nov. 4 - London
1997 festival/event DATES: May/June - Chicago, August - LA, September - SF, October - NY, November - Orlando
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: 109 Minna St., Suite 390
town: San Francisco
country: USA
post code: 94105
office telephone: 415/567-9052
office fax: 415/567-9056
office e-mail address: resfest@resfest.com
website: www.resfest.com
name of festival DIRECTOR: Jonathan Wells
name of festival PROGRAMMER:
- market? yes/no NO
- competition? yes/no NO
- deadline for entry VARIES
Royal Television Society Awards
22 May
Holborn Hall, 100 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 1AL, UK
Tel: +44-171-430 1000
Fax: +44-71-430 0924
Contact: Nicky Harlow
Troia International Film Festival (Setúbal)
29 May-7 June
Forum Luisa todi, Av Luisa Todi 65, 2900 Setúbal, Portugal
Tel: +351-65-525 908
Fax: +351-65-525 681
Festival director: Mário Ventura
Festival programmer: Fernanda Silva
Competition
Golden Dolphin
Previous winner: Cold Fever (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson)
International Short Film Festival-Kraków
30 May-3 June
Ul Pychowicka 7, 30-364 Kraków, Poland
Tel: +48-12-67 13 55/67 23 40
Fax: +48-12-67 15 52
Festival director: Wit Dudek
Festival programmer: Renata Puchacz-Kuszaj
Market & Competition
Grand Prix – The Golden Dragon Award (US$5,000)
Previous winner: Schastje
(S Dvorcevoy)
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
FIFREC (International Film and Student Directors Festival)-Nimes
May (dates tbc)
FIFREC, BP 7144, 30913, Nimes Cedex, France
Tel: +33-72 02 20 36
Festival director: Jean Sondel
Competition
Crocodil d’Or
Los Angeles Asian Pacific American Film and Video Festival
May (dates tbc)
Visual Communications, 263 South LA Street, Suite 307, Los Angeles, CA 90012, US
Tel: +1-213-680 4462
Fax: +1-213-687 4848
E-Mail: viscom@vc.apnet.org
Festival director: Abraham Ferrer
National Educational Media Network (Oakland)
Late May (dates tbc)
655 13th Street, Oakland, CA 94612, US
Tel: +1-510-465 6885
Fax: +1-510-465 2835
E-Mail: NEMN@AOL.COM
Festival programmer: Joanne Parsont
Market and competition
Gold Apple
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
US International Film and Video Festival (Chicago)
4-5 June
841 North Addison Avenue, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126-1291
Tel: +1-630-834 7773
Fax: +1-630-834 5565
Festival director: JW Anderson
Festival programmer: Patricia A Meyer
Competition
Gold Camera & Silver Screen Awards
Previous winner: Beams and Dreams (Anders Envall)
Deadline for entry: 1 March 1997
Festival/event NAME: WE Festival
Festival/event TOWN: Wilmington, NC
1996 festival/event DATES: May 23 -May 29
1997 festival/event DATES: May 22 - May 28
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: PO Box 2071
town: Wilmington , NC
country: USA
post code: 28402-2071
office telephone: 910-256-3791
office fax: 910-256-3791
office e-mail address: WEFestival@aol.com
website: http://www.smellygig.com/wefest/
name of festival DIRECTOR:Kenyata Sullivan
name of festival PROGRAMMER:Alex DeVito
Deadline for entry April 1
- market? yes
- competition? no
ist of all Film Festivals 05/97 Worldwide
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