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ist of all Film Festivals 06/98 Worldwide
The Newport International Film Festival
Festival/event TOWN: Newport, RI
1998 festival/event DATES: June 2nd - June 7th, 1998
Festival HEAD OFFICE address:
19 Oyster Point
town: Warren, RI 02885
country: USA
post code: 02885
office telephone: 401/245-0121
office fax: 401/245-5011
office e-mail address: newportff@aol.com
website: http://www.newportfilmfestival.com
name of festival DIRECTOR: Nancy Donahoe
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Christine Schomer
- market? no
- competition? yes
- deadline for entry: 3/15/98
Value of award: not yet determined
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
Int'l Film Festival of Slavonic & Orthodox Peoples 'Zolotoi Vityaz' (in different Slavonic countries)
24 May-4 June 1998
Vasiljevskaja st 4, ap 174, Moscow, 123056, Russia
Tel: +7-095 254 2646/
117 2264/255 9053
Fax: +7-095 254 2646/
117 2264/255 9053
Festival director: Tatiana Varskaya
Festival programmer: Larisa Solonitsina
Competition
Golden Night Award (diploma, special prizes)
Previous winner: Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Srdjan Dragojevic)
Entry deadline: tbc
Int'l Short Film Festival - Krak-w
29 May-2 June 1998
Ul Pychowicka 7, 30-364 Krak-w, 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 ($3,530)
Previous winner: Fredens Port (Thomas Stenderup)
Entry deadline: 31 January 1998
Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival
31 May-6 June 1998
60 Atlantic Ave, Suite 110, Toronto, Ontario, M6K 1X9, Canada
Tel: +1-416 535 8506
Fax: +1-416 535 8342
e-mail: twsff@idirect.com
Festival director and programmer: Brenda Sherwood
Market & competition
Best Short
Previous winner: Final Cut (Justin Case)
Entry deadline: 1 March 1998
US Int'l Film and Video Festival (Chicago)
3-4 June 1998
841 North Addison Avenue, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126-1291, USA
Tel: +1-630 834 7773
Fax: +1-630 834 5565
e-mail: FILMFESTIVALandMOBIUSAWARD@compuserve.com
Festival director: JW Anderson
Competition
Gold Camera & Silver Screen Awards
Previous winner: Everywhere I Go (Anders Envall)
Entry deadline: 1 March 1998
Human Rights Watch Int'l Film Festival (New York City)
4-17 June 1998
485 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10017, USA
Tel: +1-212 972 8400
Fax: +1-212 972 0905
e-mail: burresb@hrw.org
Festival director: Bruni Burres
Festival programmer: Bruni Burres, Heather Harding
New film dealing with human rights theme ($5,000)
Previous winner: Flame (Ingrid Sinclair)
Entry deadline: 10 January 1998
Prix Jeunesse Int'l (Munich)
4-10 June 1998
c/o Bayerischer Rundfunk,
D-80300 Munich, Germany
Tel: +49-89 59002058
Fax: +49-89 59003053
Contact: Ursula von Zallinger
e-mail: prixjeunesse@papyrus.de
Competition
Prix Jeunesse International
Entry deadline: 31 January 1998
Shots in the Dark, Mystery & Thriller Festival (Nottingham)
4-14 June 1998
Broadway Media Centre, 14 Broad Street, GB-Nottingham, NG1 3AL, UK
Tel: +44-115 952 6600
Fax: +44-115 952 6622
e-mail: broadway@bwymedia.demon.co.uk
Festival director: Gill Henderson
Festival programmer: Gill Henderson
Entry deadline: 27 March 1997
The New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Festival/event TOWN: New York City
1998 festival/event DATES: June 4-14, 1998
1997 festival/event DATES: June 5-15, 1997
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: 47 Great Jones Street, 7th Floor
town: New York
country: USA
post code: 10012
office telephone: 212 254 7228
office fax: 212 254 8655
office e-mail address: newfest@idt.net
website: newfestival.com
name of festival DIRECTOR: Wellington Love
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Robin Vachal
- market? NO
- competition? YES
Name of major award: Best Feature
Value of award: TBA for 1998
Last winning film: Chocolate Babies
Director of winning film: Stephen Winter
Troia Int'l Film Festival (Setœbal)
4-13 June 1998
Forum Luisa Todi, Av Luisa Todi 65, 2900 Setœbal, Portugal
Tel: +351-65 525 908
Fax: +351-65 525 681
Festival director: M‡rio Ventura
Festival programmer: Fernanda Silva
Competition
Golden Dolphin
Previous winner: The Father (Majid Majidi)
Entry deadline: 15 March 1998
Bellaria Film Festival
5-9 June 1998
Viale Paolo Guidi 108, I-47041 Bellaria, Italy
Tel: +39-541 347 186
Fax: +39-541 349 563
Festival directors: Enrico Ghezzi, Roberto Silvestri, Antonio Costa, Morando Morandini
Competition
Golden Seagull and Short Video Competition
Previous winner: La mata dei fiori (Roland Stesanelli)
Entry deadline: 15 April 1998
Huesca Film Festival
5-13 June 1998
Avda. Parque, 1 piso, E-22002 Huesca, Spain
Tel: +34-74 212582
Fax: +34-74 210065
e-mail: huescafest@fsai.es
website: http://www.huesca-filmfestival.com
Festival director: JosŽ Mar'a Escriche
Competition
Danzante de oro ($6,620)
Previous winner: Quiet Desperation (David Kost)
Entry deadline: 1 April 1998
The Prince's Award
5 June 1998
The Prince's Award Foundation, c/o European Environment Agency, Kongens Nytorv 6, DK-1050 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Tel: +45-33 36 7100/7121
Fax: +45-33 36 7199
e-mail: princes.award@eea.dk
website: http://www.eea.dk/events/pa97
Director of the Awards:
Tage Mikkelsen
A prize for the producers of the best CD-ROM, video and film on the environment of Europe
Previous winners: Jari Mutanen (Finland), Dmitry Sidorov (Russia), Emanuel HŠgglund (Sweden)
Entry deadline: 1 May 1998
Cologne Conference
First week of June 1998
Adolf Grimme Institut, Im Mediapark 5b, D-50670 Kšln, Germany
Tel: +49-221 454 3280
Fax: +49-221 454 3289
e-mail: 100776.2621@compuserve.com
Festival director: Lutz Hachmeister
Festival programmer: Martina Richter
Market
Entry deadline: 1 March 1998
Balticum Film and TV Festival (Gudhjem, Roenne, Svaneke)
6-12 June 1998
Skippergade 8, Svaneke, DK-3940 Denmark
Tel: +45-70 202002
Fax: +45-70 202001
e-mail: balticmediacentre@bmc.dk
Festival director: Bent Noerby Bonde
Festival programmer: Tue Steen Mueller, Helle Mysjkin,
Andreas Steinmann, Sonja Vesterholdt
Competition
Balticum prize ($1,465)
Previous winner: Wednesday (Viktor Kossakowsky)
Entry deadline: 15 February 1998
Banff TV Festival
7-13 June 1998
1516 Railway Avenue, Canmore, Alberta, T1W 1P6, Canada
Tel: +1-403 678 9260
Fax: +1-403 678 9269
e-mail: info@banfftvfest.com
Festival director: Pat Ferns
Festival programmer: Jerry Ezekiel
Competition
The Banff Rockie
Previous winner: Hillsborough (Charles MacDougal)
Entry deadline: late February 1998
Midnight Sun Film Festival (SodankylŠ)
10-14 June 1998
Malminkatu 36, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
Tel: +358-9 685 2242
Fax: +358-9 694 5560
Festival director: Peter von Bagh
Festival programmer: Gšran Michelsson
Entry deadline: 30 March 1998
Florida Film Festival (Maitland)
12-21 June 1998
Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Avenue, Maitland, FL 32751, USA
Tel: +1-407 629 1088 x 222
Fax: +1-407 629 6870
e-mail address: filmfest@gate.net
President: Sigrid Tiedtke
Executive director: Melanie Gasper
Festival programmer: Mathew Curtis
Competition
Grand Jury Prize
Previous winner:
The Headhunter's Sister
(Scott Saunders)
Entry deadline:
27 March 1997
London Jewish Film Festival
12-22 June 1998
93 Cinema House, Wardour Street, GB-London W1, UK
Tel: +44-171 815 1320
Fax: +44-171 633 0786
e-mail: jane.ivey@bfi.org.uk
Festival director: Davina Stanley
Festival programmer: as above
Entry deadline: 1 March 1998
Showbiz Expo West
(Los Angeles)
12-14 June 1998
383 Main Ave, Norwalk,
CA 06851, USA
Tel: +1-203 840 5945
Fax: +1-203 840 9945
e-mail: ibogardus@reedexpo.com
Festival director: Dave Bonaparte
Entry deadline: tbc
Cinema Expo Int'l (Amsterdam)
15-18 June 1998
244 West 49th Street #200, New York 10019, USA
Tel: +1-212 246 6460
Fax: +1-212 265 6428
Contact person: Jun Margolis
Norwegian Short Film Festival (Grimstad)
16-20 June 1998
Filmens Hus, Dronningens Gate 16, N-0152 Oslo, Norway
Tel: +47-22 47 46 46
Fax: +47-22 47 46 90
website: http://www. nfi.no/krtf/welcome.html
Festival director: Torunn Nyen
Competition (Norwegian films only)
Previous winner: Man (Eva Dahr)
Entry deadline: 15 March 1998
Pesaro Film Festival
Mid June 1998
Via Villafranca 20, I-00185 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39-6 445 66 43/49 11 56
Fax: +39-6 491 163
e-mail: pesarofilmfest@mclink.it
Festival director and programmer: Adriano Aprˆ
Entry deadline: 31 March 1998
Vue Sur les Docs: The Int'l Documentary Film Festival
16-21 June 1998 (tbc)
3 Square Stalingrad, F-13001, Marseille, France
Tel: +33-491 84 40 17
Fax: +33-491 84 38 34
Festival director: Brigitte Rubio
Competition
Grand Prix ($8,260)
Entry deadline: 15 March 1997
Int'l Festival of Animated Film, Zagreb
17-21 June 1998
Koncertna Direkcija Zagreb, Animafest, 41000 Zagreb, Kneza Mislava 18, Croatia
Tel: +385-1 410 134/410 128
Fax: +385-1 410 134/443 022
e-mail: kdz@zg.tel.hr
Festival director: Margit Antauer
Festival programmer: Josko Marusic
Contact: Sanja Borcic Toth
Competition
Grand Prix ($3,330)
Previous winner: 1895 (Priit PŠrn)
Entry deadline: 1 February 1998 (tbc)
Int'l Hamburg Short Film Festival
17-21 June 1998
Kurtzfilmagentur, D-22765 Hamburg, Germany
Tel: +49-40 398 26 122
Fax: +49-40 398 26 123
Festival director: Markus Schaefer
Competition
Hamburg Short Film Prize ($2,790)
Previous winner: Flatworld (Daniel Greaues)
Entry deadline: 1 March 1998
Nantucket Film Festival
17-22 June 1998 (tbc)
PO Box 688, Prince Street Station, New York, USA 10012
Tel: +1-212 642 6339
e-mail: acktfest@aol.com
website: http://www.nantucketfilmfestival.org
Festival director: Jonathan Burkhart & Joy Huang
Festival programmer: Jill Goode
Competition
Tony Cox Award for Screenwriting ($5,000)
Previous winner: Kabi (screenwriter Fredrick Rendina)
Entry deadline for screenplays: 10 April 1998
Art Film Festival (Trencianske Teplice)
19-26 June 1998
Konventna 8, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 81103
Tel: +42-17 531 9479/531 9480/531 9481
Fax: +42-17 531 1679/531 9372
e-mail: festival@artfilm.sk
Festival director: Peter Hledik
Festival programmer: Vladimir Stric
Market & competition
Golden Key Award ($3,000)
Previous winner: Shine (Scott Hicks)
Entry deadline: 1 April 1998
NettWerk bps
Festival/event TOWN:Taos, NM
1998 festival/event DATES:June 21 1998
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: 142 Kristine Selph Rd
town:Ranchos de Taos, NM
country:USA
post code:87557
office e-mail address: 7thsense@earth-station.com
website:http://www.earth-station.com/nettwerkbps.html
name of festival DIRECTOR: Tosca Teran
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Gerd Bianga
Deadline for entry February 1998
Does the festival/event have either of the following?
- market? yes
- competition? no
Int'l Advertising Film Festival (Cannes)
22-27 June 1998
Woolverstone House, 61/62 Berners Street, GB-London W1P 3AE, UK
Tel: +44-171 636 6122
Fax: +44-171 636 6086
website: http://www. caneslions.com
Festival director: Charles Sciberras
Festival programmer: as above
Market & competition
Lions Award
Previous winner: Rolo - Nestle
Entry deadline: 23 March 1998
Festival of Festivals
23-29 June 1998
10 Kamennoostrovsky Ave, St Petersburg, 197101, Russia
Tel: +7-812 237 0304
Fax: +7-812 237 0304/ 394 5870
Festival director: Alexander Mamontov
Market & competition
Grand-Prix
Previous winners: Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier) & Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Svankmajer)
Entry deadline:
1 May 1998
Int'l Animation Festival (Cardiff)
23-28 June 1998
18 Broadwick Street, GB-London, W1V 1FG, UK
Tel: +44-171 494 0506
Fax: +44-171 494 0807
Festival director: Jane Williams
Entry deadline: tbc
Hong Kong Int'l Film Market
24-26 June 1998
38th Floor, Office Tower Convention Plaza, 1 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Tel: +852-2584 4333
Fax: +852-2824 0249
e-mail: ernest.chan@tdc.org.hk
Festival director: Jenny Koo
Market
La Rochelle Int'l Film Festival
26 June -6 July 1998
16 rue Saint Sabin, F-75011 Paris, France
Tel: +33-1 48 06 16 66
Fax: +33-1 48 06 15 40
Festival director: Jean-Loup Passek
Festival programmer: Sylvie Pras-Pruneengler
Market
Entry deadline: 15 May 1998
Filmfest MŸnchen
27 June-4 July 1998
Internationale MŸnchen Filmwochen GmbH, Kaiserstra§e 39, D-80801 Munich, Germany
Tel: +49-89 38 19 040
Fax: +49-89 38 19 04 27/26
Festival director: Eberhard Hauff
No competition but special awards are given
Top TV Award, Media Net Award
Entry deadline: 1 May 1998
Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Libero/Il Cinema Ritrovato
27 June-4 July 1998
Via Galliera 8, I-40121 Bologna, Italy
Tel: +39-51 237 088
Fax: +39-51 261 680
Festival director: Gianluca Farinelli
Entry deadline: n/a (festival of film restoration from the archives from all over the world)
Bradford Animation Festival (BAF!)
June 1998
National Museum of Photography, Film & TV, Pictureville, GB-Bradford, BD1 1NQ, UK
Tel: +44-1274 725 347
Fax: +44-1274 723 155
e-mail: c.sawhney@nmsei.ac.uk or c.fell@nmsi.ac.uk
Festival director: Cary Sawhney
Festival programmer: Chris Fell
Competition
French-American Film Workshop (New York/Avignon)
Late June 1998
10 MontŽe de la Tour, F-30400 Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France
Tel: +33-490 25 93 23
Fax: +33-490 25 93 24
Festival director:
Jerome Henry Rudes
Tel: +1-212 343 2675
Fax: +1-212 343 1849
Competition
Tournage Awards ($20,000)
Previous winner: ABC Manhattan (Amir Nadiri) & La vie de Jesus (Bruno Dumont)
Entry deadline: late April 1998
FCMM (Montreal Int'l Festival of Cinema & New Media) Montreal
June 98 (tbc)
3668 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec H2X 2V4, Canada
Tel: +1-514 843 4725
Fax: +1-514 843 4631
e-mail: montrealfest@fcmm.com
Festival director and programmers: Claude Chamberlan & Bernard Boulad
Entry deadline: tbc
European TV Sports Conference (London)
June 1998
Kagan Seminars Int'l, 524 Fulham Rd, GB-London SW6 5NR, UK
Tel: +44-171 371 8880
Fax: +44-171 371 8715
Contact person: Alex Guthrie
Fantafestival (Rome)
June 1998
Viale Gioachino Rossini 9, I-00198 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39-6 807 6999
Fax: +39-6 807 7199
Festival directors: Adriano Pintaldi & Alberto Ravagioli
Entry deadline: tbc
Festival of European Cinema (La Baule)
June 1998 (tbc)
97 rue Raumur, F-75002 Paris, France
Tel: +33-1 40 41 04 54
Fax: +33-1 40 26 54 78
Festival director: Robert Parienti
Festival programmer: Andre Halimi
Competition
Prix Europe/Europa
Entry deadline: tbc
Int'l and Open Russian Film Festivals Kinotavr (Sochi)
June 1998
35 Arbat, Moscow 121835, Russia
Tel: +7-095 248 0911/248 9187
Fax: +7-095 248 0966
Contact: Valentina Mihalova
Int'l Film Festival Cinematograph (Innsbruck)
June 1998
CineVision, c/o Cinematograph, Museumstrasse 31, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Tel: +43-512 580723
Fax: +43-512 581762
e-mail: cinema@nomad.transit.or.at
Programme director: Dr Helmut Groschup
Entry deadline: tbc
Int'l French Film Festival (TŸbingen)
June 1998
Frierichstrasse 11, D-72074 TŸbingen, Germany
Tel: +49-70 71 56960
Fax: +49-70 71 59 96 96
e-mail: filmtage.tuebingen@t-online.de
Festival director: Dieter Betz, Stefanie Schneider
Festival programmer: as above
Competition
Flying Camera ($5,580)
Previous winner: La mŽmoire est - elle soluble dans l'eau (Charles Najman)
Entry deadline: eight weeks before the beginning of the festival
Mystfest-Int'l Mystery Film Festival
June 1998 (tbc)
Pza Nettuno 1, I-47033 Cattolica, Italy
Tel: +39-541 968 214
Fax: +39-541 958137
e-mail: mystfest@cattolica.net
Festival director: Prof. Paolo Fabbri
Competition
Best Film Award
Previous winner: Little Boy Blue (Antonio Tibaldi)
Entry deadline: tbc
Newark Black Film Festival
June 1998
The Newark Museum, 49 Washington St, PO Box 540, Newark, New Jersey 07101-0540, USA
Tel: +1-201 596 6550
Fax: +1-201 642 0459
Festival co-ordinator: Jane Stein
Biannual competition
Best Feature Documentary
Entry deadline: 1 March 1998
San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
June 1998
346 Ninth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Tel: +1-415 703 8650
Fax: +1-415 861 1404
Festival director: Michael Lumpkin
Competition
Audeince award
Previous winner: Lilies
Entry deadline: February 1998
Sunny Side of the Doc (Marseille)
June 1998
3 Square Stalingrad, 13001 Marseille, France
Tel: +33-491 08 43 15
Fax: +33-491 84 38 34
e-mail: 100560.1511@compuserve.com
Market director: Olivier Masson
Market
Entry deadline: tbc
Sydney Film Festival
June 1998
PO Box 950, Glebe, NSW 2037, Sydney, Australia
Tel: +61-2 9660 3844
Fax: +61-2 9692 8793
Festival director and programmer: Paul Byrnes
Competition
Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films ($1,920 for each award)
Entry deadline: 20 February 1998
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