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 Mnchen
27 June-4 July 1998
Internationale Mnchen Filmwochen GmbH, Kaiserstrae 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)
Age d'Or Prize/Prizes for the distribution of quality films in Belgium (Cinedecouverts) (Brussels)
1-15 July 1998
Royal Film Archive, Ravenstein st. 23, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32-2 507 8370
Fax: +32-2 513 1272
Festival director and programmer: Gabrielle Claes
Competition
The Age d'or prize ($6,750)
Previous winner: Comedia de deus (Cesar Montero)
Entry deadline: 1 June 1997
Int'l Short Film Festival of Vila do Conde
First week of July 1998
Auditorio Municipal - Praga da Republica, P-4480 Vila do Conde, Portugal
Tel: +351-52 641 644
Fax: +351-52 642871
Festival director: M Dias,
M Micaelo, R Maia, D Oliveira,
J Rodrigues
Festival programmers: as above
Market & competition
Great Prize City of Vila do Conde ($3,310)
Previous winner: One Sunday Morning (Michael Dwass)
Entry deadline: 18 April 1998
'Message to Man' Int'l Documentary, Short & Animated Film Festival
1-8 July 1998
Karavannaya 12, Saint-Petersburg 191011, Russia
Tel: +7-812 235 2660/ 230 2200
Fax: +7-812 235 2660/ 235 3995
Festival director: Mikhail Litviakov
Festival programmer: Victor Semenyuk
Competition Colden Centaur Award ($5,000)
Previous winner: Black Ashes (Shukhrat Makhmudov)
Entry deadline: 1 May 1998
ITVF Market '98: Int'l Television Festival and Market of India '98 (Bombay)
2-4 July 1998
148 Admiralty House, Near Colaba Bus Station, Mumbai-400 005, India
Tel: +91-22 215 1396
Fax: +91-22 215 1269
Festival director: Kavita Meer
Market & competition
Silver Trophy
Entry deadline: 15 May 1998
Galway Film Fleadh
Early July 1998
Cluain Mhuire, Monivea Road, Galway, Ireland
Tel: +353-91 751655
Fax: +353-91 770746
e-mail: galfilm@iot.ie
Festival manager: Deborah McVey, Muioinn Lane Kelly
Programme director:
Anthony Sellers
Market
Outdoor Short Film Festival (Grenoble)
7-11 July 1998
4 rue Hector Berlioz, F-38000 Grenoble, France
Tel: +33-476 54 0025
Fax: +33-476 51 2443
Festival director: Michel Warren
Festival programmer: Michel Warren
Competition
Grand Prix ($2,500)
Previous winner: Les vacances (Emmanuelle Bercot)
Entry deadline: 30 May 1998
Cairo Festival for Radio
& TV Programmes
10-16 July 1998
IV Bldg Kornish El Nil, Masparo, Cairo Festival Management, Cairo, Egypt, 11515
Tel: +202-760 454
Fax: +202-578 7010
Festival director: Abdel Rahman-Hafez
Festival programmer: Hamdi Al Konayessy
Competition
Festival Golden Award (US$ 5,900)
Previous winner: On Love and Migration (Hani Lasheen)
Entry deadline: 1 June 1998
Int'l Film Festival for Children & Young People (Montevideo)
14-28 July 1998
Lorenzo Carnelli 1311, 11200 Montevideo, Uruguay
Tel: +598-2 495 795/482 460
Fax: +598-2 404 572
e-mail: cinemuy@chasque.apc.org
Festival director and programmer: Ricardo Casas
Competition
Guri Award
Previous winner: Charlie et Luise (Joseph Vilsmaier)
Entry deadline: 15 May 1998
Giffoni Film Festival
19-26 July 1998
Piazza Umberto 1, I-84095 Giffoni Valle Piana, Salerno, Italy
Tel: +39-89 868 544
Fax: +39-89 866 111
e-mail: gilfonif@ mcorrino.peoples.it
Festival director and programmer: Claudio Gubitosi
Competition
Silver Gryphon Award
Previous winner: The Whole of the Moon (Ian Mune)
Entry deadline: 20 June 1998
Rio Cine Int'l Festival
23-30 July 1998
Mahatma Gandhi 2, gr. 402 Rio De Janeiro, 20018-900, Brazil
Tel/fax: +55-21 240 2262/262 8870
Festival director: Walkiria Barbosa
Festival programmer: Vilma Lustosa
Market & competition
Golden Sun Award ($50,000)
Previous winner: A Very Short History of the People of Santos (Andr Klotzel)
Entry deadline: May 1998
Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Association Show (Nashville)
23-25 July 1998
225 Reinekers Lane, Suite 600, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA
Tel: +1-703 549 6990
Fax: +1-703 549 7640
Contact: Mary Beth Meikle
Taormina Int'l Film Festival
23-29 July 1998
Palazio dei Congressi, I-98039 Taormina, Italy
Tel: +39-942 21142
Fax: +39-942 23348
Festival director: Enrico Ghezzi
Festival programmer: Carmelo Marabello
Competition
Cariddi d'oro & d'argento - Premio Marco Melani ($43,100 in total)
Previous winner: Golubinyi Zvonar (Amir Karakulov)
Entry deadline:
20 June 1998
Int'l Film Festival (Palic)
24 July-1 August 1998
Otvoreni Univerzitet, Trg Cara Jovana Nenada 15. 24000 Subotica, Yugoslavia
Tel: +381-24 554 726
Fax: +381-24 37116
Festival director: Radoslav Zelenovic
Festival programmer: Dinko Tucakovic
Competition
Alexandar Lifka Award
Previous winner: Burnt by the Sun (Nikita Mihalkov)
Entry deadline: 24 June 1998
Asian American Int'l Film Festival (New York)
July 1998
32 East Broadway 4th Floor, New York, NY 10002, USA
Tel: +1-212 925 8685
Fax: +1-212 925 8157
e-mail: acvinnyc@aol.com
Festival director: Bill Jee
Entry deadline: March 1998
Auckland Int'l Film Festival
July 1998
PO Box 9544, Wellington, 6035 New Zealand
Tel: +64-4 385 0162
Fax: +64-4 801 7304
e-mail: enzedff@actrix.gen.nz
Festival director: Bill Gosden
Festival programmer: Bill Gosden & Sandra Reid
Entry deadline: 30 April 1998
Australian Film Festival (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Canberra)
July-September 1998
AFI, 49 Eastern Road, South Melbourne VIC 3205, Melbourne, Australia 3205
Tel: +61-3 9696 1844
Fax: +61-3 9696 7972
e-mail: afi@vicnet.net.au
Festival manager: Lindsay van Niekerk
AFI Award for best film
Previous winner: Shine
(Scott Hicks)
Entry deadline:
end of June 1998
Brisbane Int'l Film Festival
July-August 1998 (tbc)
GPO Box 909, Brisbane, 4101 Australia
Tel: +66-7 3220 0333
Fax: 66-7 3220 0400
e-mail: brisfilm@thehub.com.au
Festival director: Anne Demy-Geroe
Festival programmer: Rhonda Clark
Entry deadline: April/May 1998 (tbc)
Cairo Exhibition for Electronic Communications
July 1998
IV Bldg Kornish El Nil, Masparo, Cairo Festival Management, Cairo Egypt, 11515
Tel: +202-760 454
Fax: +202- 578 7010
CAMAR TV 98 (Cairo Market for Radio & TV Programmes)
July 1998
IV Bldg Kornish El Nil, Masparo, Cairo Festival Management, Cairo Egypt, 11515
Tel: +202-760 454/ 574 6841
Fax: +202- 578 7010/ 773 441
Contact: Maha Darwish
Market
Cambridge Film Festival
July 1998 (tbc)
8 Market Passage, GB-Cambridge CB2 3PF, UK
Tel: +44-1223 578 944
Fax: +44-1223 578 929
e-mail: festival@cambarts.co.uk
Festival administrator: Franois Ballay
Entry deadline: tbc
Ecran Total (Brussels)
July/August 1998
Galerie de la Reine 28, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32-2 511 6515
Fax: +32-2 502 5285
e-mail: cindeit@skynet.be
Festival director: Eliane Du Bois
Jerusalem Film Festival
July 1998
PO Box 8561, Derech Hebron, Wolfson Gardens, Jerusalem 91083, Israel
Tel: +972-2 672 4131
Fax: +972-2 673 3076
e-mail: jer-cine@inr.net.il
Festival director: Lia van Leer
Festival programmer: Avinoam Harpak, Lia van Leer
Competition
Israeli Cinema Awards
Entry deadline: 23 April 1998
Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival
July 1998 (tbc)
Panska 1, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Tel: +420-2 24 23 54 12 3
Fax: +420-2 24 23 3408
e-mail: iffkv@tlp.cz
Festival president: Jiri Bartoska
Festival programmer: Eva Zaoralova
Competition
Grand Prix Crystal Globe ($20,000)
Previous winner: Prisoner of the Mountain (Sergei Bodrov)
Entry deadline: 30 April 1998
Melbourne Int'l Film Festival
July-August 1998
1st Floor, 207 Johnston Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia 3065
Tel: +61-3 9417 2011
Fax: +61-3 9417 3804
e-mail: miff@netspace.net.au
Festival director: Sandra Sdraulig
Festival programmer: Sandra Sdraulig and Brett Woodward
Competition (short films only)
City of Melbourne Award for best film ($3,680)
Previous winner: Baka (Thierry Knauf)
Entry deadline: April 1998
Monitor Awards
(Los Angeles [tbc])
July 1998
2230 Gallows Road, Suite 310, Dunn Loring, VA 22027, USA
Tel: +1-703 641 8770
Fax: +1-703 641 8776
Contact: Julie Chung
Entry deadline: February 1998 (tbc)
Moscow Int'l Film Festival
July 1998
Khokhlovski Pereulok 10/1, Moscow 109028, Russia
Tel: +7-095 917 8628
Fax: +7-095 916 0107
Festival president: Sergei Soloviev
Festival programmer: Miron Chernenko
Competition
Statuette of Saint George
Previous winner: A French Woman (Regi Varnie)
Entry deadline:
20 June 98
Outfest: Los Angeles
July 1998
8455 Beverly Blvd, Ste 309, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
Tel: +1-213 951 1247
Fax: +1-213 951 0721
e-mail: outfest@aol.com
Festival director: Morgan Rumpf
Festival programmer: John Cooper
Competition
Grand Jury Narrative/Documentary ($2,000)
Previous winner: Celestial Clockwork (Fina Torres) (Narrative) & Shinjuku Boys (Kim Longiotto & Jano Williams) (Documentary)
Entry deadline: April 1998
Pula Film Festival
Last week in July 1998
Matka Laginje 5, Istarsko Narodno Kazaliste, Pula 52100, Croatia
Tel: +385-52 22380
Fax: +385-52 214 303
Festival director: Davorka Lovrincic
Festival programmer: Mato Kukuljica
Competition
Golden Arena Award
Previous winner: Kako je poceo rat na mom otoku (Vinko Bresan)
Entry deadline: end of June 1998
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
July 1998
346 Ninth St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Tel: +1-415 621 0556
Fax: +1-510 548 0536
e-mail: jewishfilm@aol.com
Festival director: Janis Plotkin
Festival programmer: Janis Plotkin, Samuel Ball
Entry deadline: 15 March every year
Sopot Film Festival
July 1998
Centar za kulturu Sopot, Kosmajski trg 7, 11450 Sopot, Yugoslavia
Tel: +381-11 825 1238
Fax: +381-11 825 1315
Contact: Rade Vicentijevic
Entry deadline: tbc
Wine Country Film Festival
17 July-10 August 1998 (Napa, Sonoma, Glen Ellen)
PO Box 303, Glen Ellen, CA 95442, USA
Tel: +1-707 996 2536
Fax: +1-707 996 6964
e-mail: wc.filmfest@aol.com
Festival director and programmer: Stephen Ashton
Competition
First Feature Award, Blockbuster's Film Competition
Entry deadline: 31 March 1998
Wellington Film Festival
July 1998
PO Box 9544, Wellington 6035, New Zealand
Tel: +64-4 385 0162
Fax: +64-4 801 7304
e-mail: enzedff@actrix.gen.nz
Festival director: Bill Gosden
Festival programmer: Bil Gosden, Sandra Reid
Deadline: 30 April 1998
Film Festival "The Amber Panther" (Kaliningrad)
July 1998 (tbc)
1 Ploshchad Pobedy, Kaliningrad 236000, Russia
Tel: +7-0112 21 8926
Fax: +7-0112 21 1677
ist of all Film Festivals 07/98 Worldwide
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