Festival/event TOWN:Chicago, IL
1996 festival/event DATES:August 14-18
1997 festival/event DATES:August 13-17
Festival HEAD OFFICE address:2501 North Lincoln Ave. Suite 278 Chicago, IL
town:Chicago, IL
country:USA
post code:60614
office telephone:773-866-8660
office fax:773-275-8313
office e-mail address: info@cuff.org
website: http://www.cuff.org
name of festival DIRECTOR:Jay Bliznick
name of festival PROGRAMMER:Bryan Wendorf
- market? no
- competition? yes
- deadline for entry May 15th
Name of major award: Awards for Best feature, short, experimentary, documentary and audience choice
Value of award: varies
Last winning film: Best Feature: THE DELICATE ART OF THE RIFLE, Best Short: KILLING TIME
Director of winning film:Feature: Dante Harper Short: Adam Davis
Out On Screen Queer Film & Video Festival
Festival/event TOWN: Vancouver, BC
1997 festival/event DATES: August 7 -17, 1997
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: Box 521, 1027 Davie ST.
town: Vancouver, BC
country: Canada
post code: V6E 4L2
office telephone: (604)844-1615
office fax: (604)844-1698
office e-mail address: outonscreen@geocities.com
website: http://www.geocities.com/~outonscreen
name of festival DIRECTOR: Ava Samuel
- deadline for entry - not really (before festival starts)
Name of major award:GERRY BRUNET MEMORIAL AWARDS 1997
Value of award: $200.00
Last winning film: n/a
* Director of winning film: n/a
ANIMA MUNDI - International Animation Festival
Festival/event TOWN: Rio de Janeiro
1996 festival/event DATES: 16 to 25 of August
1997 festival/event DATES: 8 to 17 of August
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: Luz Productions - R. marques de Sao
Vicente 124/204 - Gavea
town: Rio de Janeiro
country: Brazil
post code: 22451-040
office telephone: 55-21 511-3294
office fax: 55 21 259-8729
office e-mail address: animamundi@ism.com.br
website: www.animamundi.com.br/
name of festival DIRECTOR: Aida Queiroz, Cesar Coelho, Marcos Magalhaes & Lea Zagury
name of festival PROGRAMMER: all of the above
Deadline for entry: April
- market? no
- competition? yes
Name of major award: Audience Awards for Best anmated Film
Value of award: US $1,000.00
Last winning film: A Close Shave
Director of winning film: Nick Park
Asia Pacific International Film Festival
August (dates tbc)
c/o AFC GPO Box 3984, Sydney NSW 2001, Australia
Tel: +61-2-951 6413
Fax: +61-2-954 4001
Contact: Peter Page
Australian Film Festival
(Canberra, Hobart, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth)
August-October
49 Eastern Road, 3205 South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Tel: +61-3 9696 1844
Fax: +61-3 9696 7972
E-mail: afi@vicnet.net.au
Festival manager/programmer: Lindsey van Niekerk
Competition
AFI Award for Best Film
Previous winner (1995): Angel Baby (Michael Rymer)
Chichester Film Festival
14-31 August
Westlands, Mainroad, Hunston, Chichester, PO20 6AL, West Sussex, UK
Tel: +44-1243-784 881/786 650
Fax: +44-1243-539853
Festival director/programmer: Roger Gibson
The Baltic Pearl International Festival of Film Actors in Riga
August (dates tbc)
3 Vasilievskaya Street, Moscow GSP 123825, Russia
Tel: +7-312-32 0026
Fax: +7-312-21 1918/21 52 01
Children’s International Film Festival in Artek
August (dates tbc)
8 Eisenstein Street, Suite 204, Moscow 129226 Russia
Tel: +7-095-181 0451
Fax: +7-095-181 1841
Contact: Marlen Khutziev
Deauville Festival of American Films
August-September (dates tbc)
36 Rue Pierret, Neuilly 92 200, France
Tel: +33-1-46 40 5500
Fax: +33-1-46 40 5539
E-mail: publics@imaginet.fr
Festival directors: Lionel Chouchan, Andre Halimi
Festival programmer: Daniel Benzakein
Competition
Grand Prix «Special Deauville»
Previous winner (1995): Living in Oblivion (Tom Dicillo)
Diamond Film Experience (Brussels)
August (dates tbc)
Boulevard du Centenaire 20, 1020 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32-2-478 0450
Fax: +32-2-478 7840
Contact: Elisabeth Lens
Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
August (dates tbc)
Film Institute of Ireland, 6 Eustace, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: +353-1-679 5744
Fax: +353-1-677 8755
Festival director: Glenn Hogarty
Edinburgh Film Festival
August (dates tbc)
88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ, Scotland, UK
Tel: +44-131-228 4051
Fax: +44-131-229 5501
E-mail: info@edfilmfest.org.uk
Festival director/programmer: Mark Cousins
Competition and Market
Michael Powell Award Best British Film (£2000)
Previous winner (1995): Small Faces (Gillies MacKinnon)
Edinburgh International Television Festival
August (dates tbc)
2nd floor, 24 Neal Street, London WC2H 9PS, UK
Tel: +44-171 379 4519
Fax: +44-171 836 0702
E-mail: eitf@festival.demon.co.uk
Festival director: Charlotte Ashton
Espoo Ciné
22-31 August
PO Box 95, Ahertajankwa 4, Espoo 02100 Finland
Tel:+358-9-466 599
Fax: +358-9-466 458
Festival director: Timo Kuismin
Festival programmer: Laura Mänki
The Empire State Exhibitions International Independent Film Festival
August and September, 1997
in the Empire State Theatre, and the New York State Fair.
phone: (212) 802-4679,
address: Empire State Exhibitions, P.O. Box 177, Mohawk, NY 13407
information is as follows:
website: http://members.aol.com/empirefilm/festival
E-mail: empirefilm@aol.com
phone: 212-802-4679
managers: Michael J. Zimmerman and Jon Galt
Gramado Film Festival – Latin and Brazilian Cinema
August (dates tbc)
Av. das Hortensias, 2029, Gramado – RS, 95670-000, Brazil
Tel: +55-54-286 2335
Fax: +55-54-286 2335
E-mail: festival@via-rs.com.br
Festival director: Luciano Peccin
Festival programmer: Hiron Cardoso Goidanish
Market & Competition
Kikito
Previous winner (1995): Amnesia (Gonzalo Justiniano)
Gramado International Film, TV and Video Market
August (dates tbc)
Rua Evarista da Veiga, 21/206, Rio de Janeiro, 22031.040 Brazil
Tel: +55-21-537 2898
Fax: +55-21-240 7804
Market coordinator: Antonio Urano
The Jersey Film Festival
St Helier
31st of August - 7th September
The cinecentre cinema
St saviour's road
St helier
Jersey Channel Islands Great Britain
Je2 7la
Tel (44)(0)1534 871611
Fax (44)(0)1534 871611
mobile 0979-717982
E-mail: filmfest@itl.net
web page tba
Festival director / programmer: kevin lewis
non competitive, feature films, retrospectives, special guests.
Locarno International Film Festival
7-17 August
Via della Posta 6, 6600 Locarno, Switzerland
Tel: +41-91-751 0232
Fax: +41-91-751 7465
E-mail: pardo@mnet.ch
Festival director/programmer: Marco Müller
Competition
Golden Leopard (SFr30,000-50,000)
Odense International Film Festival
12-16 August
Vindegade 18, DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark
Tel: +45-6-613 1372 x.4044
Fax: +45-6-591 4318
Competition
Grand Prix (DKr35,000)
Deadline for entry: 1 April
The NC Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Festival/event TOWN: Durham, NC
1996 festival/event DATES: August 2-4
1997 festival/event DATES: August 1-3
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: Carolina Theatre, 309 W. Morgan Street
town: Durham
country: USA
post code: 27701
office telephone: (919) 859-9831
office fax: (919) 233-9299
office e-mail address: NCGLFF@aol.com
website: none
name of festival DIRECTOR: Committee- no director. Steve Scott-Martin is director of the Carolina Theatre.
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Lawrence Ferber
- market? no
- competition? no
- deadline for entry early: April 10, 1997 Final: June 5, 1997
Norwegian International Film Festival (Haugesund)
15-24 August
PO Box 145, 5501 Haugesund, Norway
Tel: +47-52 73 44 30
Fax: +47-52 73 44 20
E-mail: haugesund@telpost.np
Festival director: Gunmar Johan Loevvik
Festival programmer: Vigdis Lian
Market
Montreal World Film Festival
21 August-1 September
1432 De Bleury, Montreal H3A 2JI, Canada
Tel: +1-514 848 3883
Fax: +1-514 848 3886
E-mail: ffm@interlink.net
Website : www.ffm-montreal.org
Festival director: Serge Losique
Festival programmer: Daniele Cauchard
Market and Competition
Grand Prix of the Americas
Previous winner (1995): Georgia (Ulu Grosbard)
Telluride Film Festival
29 August-1 September
53 South Main Street, Suite 212, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, US
Tel: +1-603-643 1255
Fax: +1-603-643 5938
E-mail: Tellufilm@aol.com
Festival directors: Bill Pence, Tom Luddy
Montreal Film TV and Video Market
August (dates tbc)
1432 De Belury Street, Montréal, Ouébec H3A 2J1, Canada
Tel: +1-5514-848 7171
Festival director: Jill Beriault
Mostra Internazionale d’arte Cinematografica (Venice)
August-September (dates tbc)
Ca Giustinian, S Marco 1364A, I-Venice 30124, Italy
Tel: +39-41-521 8711/520 7983
Fax: +39-41-522 7539
Festival director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Competition
Golden Lion Award
Previous winner (1995): Cyclo [Xich-lo] (Tran Ahn Hung)
Palm Springs Int’l Short Film Festival
August 6 - 10
PO Box 2230, Palm Springs, CA 92263, US
Tel: +1-619-322 2930
Fax: +1-619-322 4087/322 3615
E-mail: filmfest@ix.netcom.com
Festival director/programmer: John Paul Allen
Market and Competition
Golden Palm Award (US$2,500)
Previous winner: Mon papa d’amerique (Daniel Hiquet)
Summer Shorts: Short Film Series
Festival/event TOWN:East Hampton, New York
1997 festival/event DATES:August 13 and 14 1997
Festival HEAD OFFICE address:367 Windsor Hwy. Rm 502
town:New Windsor, New York
country:USA
post code:12553
office telephone:914 496 4324
office fax:914 496 4324
E-mail: JStarace@Dragonfighters.com
website: http://www.summershorts.com
name of festival DIRECTOR:John Starace
name of festival PROGRAMMER:John Starace
- market? no
- competition? no
- deadline for entry: June 7 1997
Weiterstadt Open Air Filmfest
Festival/event TOWN: Weiterstadt
1996 festival/event DATES: 15.8.-19.8.1996
1997 festival/event DATES: 14.8.-18.8.1997
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: Bahnhofstr. 70
town: D-64331 Weiterstadt
country: Germany
office telephone: +49-6150-12185
office fax: +49-6150-14073
office e-mail address: sfk@hrzpub.th-darmstadt.de
website: www.th-darmstadt.de/hg/sfk/weiterstadt/welcome.html
name of festival DIRECTOR: Jochen Pollitt
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Mario Rempp
Deadline for entry June 15th (every year!)
- market? No
- competition? No
Window Into Europe in Vyborg
August (dates tbc)
15 Druzhinnikovskaya Street, Moscow 123242 Russia
Tel: +7-095-255 9647
Contact: Marlen Khutziev
WINE COUNTRY FILM FESTIVAL
Festival/event TOWN: Napa & Sonoma Valleys, Northern California
1996 festival/event DATES: July 18 -August 11, 1996
1997 festival/event DATES: July 17 - August 10, 1997
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: 12000 Henno Road; Box 303
town: Glen Ellen, CA
country: USA
post code: 95442
office telephone: 707-996-2536
office fax: 707-996-6964
E-mail: wcfilmfest@aol.com
website: http://www.winezone.com
name of festival DIRECTOR: Stephen Ashton
name of festival PROGRAMMER: (same)
- market? no
- competition? yes
- deadline for entry May 1st
Name of major awards: Best First Feature Award
David Wolper Documentary Film Prize
Blockbuster Short Film Prize
Value of award: Production services $5,000.
Last winning film: TOLLBOOTH
Director of winning film: Salem Breezier
ist of all Film Festivals 08/97 Worldwide
Chicago Underground Film Festival