1st Int'l Children's Animation Festival (Nizhnii Novgorod)
2-10 September 1997
12 Akademik Korolyev St, Suite 3-6, Moscow 127000, Russia
Tel: +7-095 217 7109
Tel/fax: +7-095 217 7636
Sarajevo Film Festival
2-10 September 1997
Obala Kulina Bana 10, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia
Tel: +387-71 524 127/ 668 186
Fax: +387-71 664 547
Festival director: Mirsad Purivatra
Festival programmer: Philippe Bober
Competition
Sarajevo Best Film Award
Previous winner: Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)
Entry deadline: 15 July 1997
Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg
3-7 September 1997
Gottorp.str. 6, Oldenburg
D-26122, Germany
Tel: +49-441 25659
Fax: +49-441 26155
Festival director: Torsten Neumann, Thorsten Ritter
Entry deadline: 10 July 1997
Children's Int'l Film Festival (Moscow)
4-15 September 1997
12A Chistoproudny Blvd, Moscow 101000, Russia
Tel: +7-095 925 4827
Fax: +7-095 200 3203
Festival Internacional de Cinema (Figueira da Foz)
4-14 September 1997
Apartado dos Correios 50407,
P-1709 Lisboa Codex, Portugal
Tel: +351-1 812 6231
Fax: +351-1 812 6228
Festival director: José Viera Marques
Competition
Grande premio da Figueira da Foz (trophy)
Previous winner: Ma Sina Saguenail (Saguenail)
Entry deadline: 5 July 1997
Toronto Int'l Film Festival
4-13 September 1997
2 Carlton St, Suite 1600, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1J3, Canada
Tel: +1-416-967 7371
Fax: +1-416 967 9477
e-mail: tiffg@torfilmfest.ca
website: http://www.bell.ca/
toronto/filmfest
Contact: Piers Handling
Audience Award
Air Canada People's Choice Award
Previous winner: Shine (Scott Hicks)
Entry deadline: 11 August 1997
Boston Film Festival
5-18 September 1997
Box 516, Hull, MA 02045, USA
Tel: +1-617 925 1373
Fax: +1-617 925 3132
Festival director: Mark Diamond
Entry deadline: 1 July 1997
Deauville Festival of American Films
5-14 September 1997
36 rue Pierret, F-92200 Neuilly, France
Tel: +33-1 46 40 5500
Fax: +33-1 46 40 5539
e-mail: publics@imaginet.fr
Festival director: Lionel Chouchan, Andre Halimi
Festival programmer: Daniel Benzaksin
Competition
Grand Prix 'Special Deauville'
Previous winner: Daytrippers (Greg Mottola)
Entry deadline: end of July 1997
Festival of Fantastic Films (Manchester, UK)
5-7 September 1997
33 Barrington Road, GB-Altrincham, Cheshire,
WA14 1H2, UK
Tel: +44-161 929 1423
Fax: +44-161 929 1067
Festival director: Gil Lane Young
Festival programmer: Harry Nadler
Competition
Award for the best film
Previous winner: One Dark Night (Davor Dirlic)
Entry deadline: 4 August 1997
Latin American Film Festival (London)
5-18 September 1997
79 Wardour Street, GB-London W1V 3TH, UK
Tel: +44-171 434 3357
Fax: +44-171 287 2112
Festival director: Eva Tarr
Festival programmer: Eva Tarr
Entry deadline: 30 May 1997
The Second Annual Tacoma Tortured Artists Film Festival
6, 12, 13 September 1997
Club Seven Studios, 728A Pacific Ave, Tacoma, WA 98402, USA
Fax: +1-206 627 1525
Festival director: James Hume
Entry deadline: 31 July 1997
Film Festival of the CIS and Balitia 'Kinoshok' (Anapa)
6-14 September 1997
10 Yuzhinsky Perelouk, Moscow 103000, Russia
Tel/fax: +7-095 209 0851
Alexandria Int'l Film Festival
8-15 September 1997
9, Oraby Street, Cairo, 11111, Egypt
Tel: +20-2 574 1112/578 0042
Fax: +20-2 768 727
Festival director and programmer: Ahmad Al-Hadary
Competition
Mermaid award
Previous winner: L'age des possibles (Pascale Ferran)
Entry deadline: 5 August 1997
Fantoche Int'l Animation Film Festival (Baden)
9-14 September 1997
Ottikenrstrasse 53, CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel: +41-1 361 4151
Fax: +41-1 364 0371
Contact: Otto Alder
Competition
Award (tba)
Entry deadline: 15 June 1997
Copenhagen Film Festival
12-18 September 1997
Vesterbrogade 35A, 3, DK-1620 Copenhagen V, Denmark
Tel: +45-33 25 25 01
Fax: +45-33 25 57 56
e-mail: fside@datashopper.dk
Festival director: Jonna Jensen
Festival programmers: Jonna Jensen/Henriette Bendix
Competition
The Asta Award ($14,870)
Previous winner: Zero Kelvin (Peter Moland)
Entry deadline: 15 July 1997
Focus on Asia Fukuoka Int'l Film Festival
12-21 September 1997
1-8-1 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810, Japan
Tel: +81-92 733 5170
Fax: +81-92 733 5595
Festival director and programmer: Tadao Sato
Int'l Broadcasting Convention (Amsterdam)
12-16 September 1997
IBC Office, Savoy Place,
GB-London WC2R 0BL, UK
Tel: +44-171 240 3839
Fax: +44-171 240 3724
e-mail: show@ibc.org.uk
website: http://www/ ibc.org.uk/ibc/
Contact: Joanne Jones
Yugoslav Feature Film Festival (Novi Sad)
12-18 September 1997
Zvezda Film, Trg Slobode 2, 21000 Novi Sad
Tel: +381-21 615 759
Fax: +381-21 613 759
Festival director: Danica Petrovic
Competition
Zlatna Arena
Independent Feature Film Market (New York)
14-21 September 1997
104 West 29th Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10001-5310, USA
Tel: +1-212 465 8200
Fax: +1-212 465 8525
e-mail: IFPNY@ifp.org
Festival director: Valerie Sheppard
Market
Gordon Parks Independent Film Award ($10,000, sponsored by MTV Films)
Entry deadline: early 23 May, final 13 June
NIMA Int'l Annual Meeting & Exposition (San Diego)
14-16 September 1997
NIMA Int'l, 1225 New York Avenue, NW Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20005,USA
Fax: +1-202 682 0603
The Sudbury Film Festival
16-21 September 1997
Suite 218, 40 Elm Street, Sudbury, Ontario, PC3 1S8, Canada
Tel: +1-705-688 1234
Fax: +1-705-688 1351
Festival director/programmer:
Sean Farnel
Competition
Best International/Best Canadian
Previous winners: The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi), Le Confessionnal (Robert Lepage)
Entry deadline: 15 July 1996
Drama Short Film Festival
16-21 September 1997
Ag. Varvaras 9, Drama, Greece
Tel: +30-521 47575
Fax: +30-521 33526
e-mail: http://www. hyper.gr/dramaFest/
Contact person: Antonis Papandopoulos
Competition & market
Grand Prix ($3,550)
Previous winner: Taranshy (Sparrow) (Ernest Abdysabarov)
Entry deadline: 30 June 1997
World Media Expo
(New Orleans)
17-20 September 1997
PO Box 3379, Frederick,
MD 21705, USA
Tel: +1-301 694 5243/
+1-202 429 4194
Fax: +1-301 694 5124/
+1-202 775 2146
Athens Int'l Film Festival
18-25 September 1997
5 Benaki & Ag. Nektariou Str, 152-35 Vrilissia, Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-1 606 1363/606 1428
Fax: +30-1 601 4137
Festival director: George Tziotzios
Festival programmer: George Krassakopouls
Audience Award ($7,100)
Entry deadline: 15 July 1997
Breckenridge Festival of Film
18-21 September 1997
PO Box 718, Breckenridge, CO 80424, USA
Tel: +1-970 453 6200
Fax: +1-970 453 2692
e-mail: filmfest@brecknet.com
Director: Julie Bullock
Programmer: Terese Keil
Entry deadline: 30 June 1997, and 30 June 1998
The British Short Film Festival
18-25 September 1997
Room 313, BBC Threshold House, 65-59 Shepherds Bush Green, GB-London W12 7RJ, UK
Tel: +44-181 743 8000 ext 62222
Fax: +44-181 740 8540
Festival director: Amanda Casson
Festival co-ordinator: Louise Cook
Competition
Awards for Best British + Best Int'l productions ($1,680 each)
Previous winners: Seven (Shona Auerbach), Pin-Up (Mats Olof Olsson)
Entry deadline: 9 June 1997
Forum Festival (Bratislava)
18-25 September 1997
Groesslingova 32, 81109 Bratislava, Slovakia
Tel: 521 5035 (festival director)
Tel/fax: +42-7 37 88 29 0
Festival director: Martin Smatlak
Competition for first feature film
Main prize (3000m of negative film stock)
Entry deadline: tbc
Mostra Rio - Rio de Janeiro Film Festival
18-29 September 1997
Rua Volunt‡rios da P‡tria 97, 22270-000 Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tel: +55-21 539 1505
Fax: +55-21 539 1247
website: http://www.estacao. com.br
Festival director: Adhemar Oliveira
Festival programmer: Marcelo Mendes, Ilda Santiago
Entry deadline: 30 June 1997
San Sebastian Int'l Film Festival
18-27 September 1997
Plaza de Oqendo s/n, E-20004 San Sebastian, Spain
Tel: +34-43-48 12 12
Fax: +34-43-48 12 18
Festival director: Diego Galan
Market & Competition
Golden Shell
Previous Winner: Trojan Eddie (Gilles Mackinnon) and Bwana (Imanol Uribe)
Entry deadline: July 1997
Yugoslav Animated Film Festival (Cacak)
18-21 September 1997
(biennial)
Dom kulture- Foto kino-klub Cacak, 32000 Cacak, Yugoslavia
Tel: +381-32 23508
Contact: Slobodan Pajic
Entry deadline: 1 September 1997
Atlantic Film Festival (Halifax, Canada)
19-27 September 1997
c/o CBC 5600 Sackville St, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3E9, Canada (PO BOX 36139)
Tel: +1-902 422 3456
Fax: +1-902 422 4006
e-mail: aff@screen.com
Festival director: Johanna Montgomery
Festival programmer: Ron Foley MacDonald
Market and Competition
Best film or video 60 mins or over ($2,500)
Previous winner: Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)
Entry deadline: end of June 1997
Helsinki Film Festival - Love and Anarchy
19-25 September 1997
Unioninkatu 10, FIN-00130 Helsinki, Finland
Tel: +358-9-629 528
Fax: +358-9-631 450
e-mail: r&a@cultnet.fi
website: love&anarchy.cultnet.fi
Festival director: Pekka Lanerva
Festival programmers: Jari Makela, Eija Niskanen, Matti Pauunio, Mika Siltala
Entry deadline: end of June 1997
UmeŚ Int'l Film Festival
19-27 September 1997
PO Box 43, 90102 UmeŚ, Sweden
Tel: +46-90 133388
Fax: +46-90 777961
Festival director: Thom Palmen
Entry deadline: tbc
EuropaCinema (Viareggio)
20-26 September 1997
Via 20 Settembre 3, I-00187 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39-6 420 111 84
Fax: +39-6 4201 0599
Festival director: Monique Veaute
Competition
Entry deadline: July 1997
Prix Danube (Bratislava)
21-27 September 1997
Mlynska dolina, Bratislava, Slovakia, 845 45
Tel: +42-7 721 940
Fax: +42-7 729 440
Festival director: Mikulas Gavala
Market & Competition
Prix Danube
Entry deadline: tbc
Sportel (Monte Carlo)
21-24 September 1997
4 Boulevard de Jardin Exotique, MC-98000 Monaco
Tel: +377-93 30 20 32
Fax: +377-93 30 20 33
Festival director: Alexandre de Merode
Market & competition
Golden Podium Trophy ($4,950)
Euro Aim Rendezvous: Finance & Co-production (Luxembourg)
22-25 September 1997
18 Val St-Croix, 1371 Luxembourg
Tel: +352-250393
Fax: +352-250394
e-mail: euroaim@luxembourg.com
Contact: Nicolas Steil
Santa Fe de Bogota Festival
22 September-1 October 1997
Calle 26, No 4-92, Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia
Tel/fax: +57-1 342 2872
Festival director: Henry Laguado
Festival programmer: Camilla Lobo-Guerrera
Entry deadline: 1-15 June 1997
Lucas '97 - Int'l Film Festival for Children and Young People (Frankfurt am Main)
23 September-5 October 1997
Deutsches Filmmuseum, Schaumainkai 41, D-60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Tel: +49-69 2123 88 35
Fax: +49-69 21 23 78 81
Festival director: Prof Walter Schobert
Festival programmer: Petra Diebold, Petra Eggensperger, Christian Exner, Gźnther Kinstler
Competition
Lucas Award ($560)
Previous winner: King of Masks (Wu Tian Ming)
Entry for deadline: June 1997
Riminicinema Mostra Internazionale
23-28 September 1997
Via Gambalunga 27, I-47037 Rimini, Italy
Tel: +39-541 26399/22627
Fax: +39-541 24227
e-mail: riminicinema@comune.rimini.it
Festival director: Gianfranco Miro Gori
Festival programmer: Alberto Farassino, Gianfranco Miro Gori, Fabrizio Grosoli, Roberto Silvestri
Competition
Golden R ($5,750); and Federico Fellini (award for a young director ($11,500)
Previous winner: Super Citizen Koi (Wan Jen)
Entry deadline: tbc
Aspen Film Fest
23-28 September 1997
28 September-1 October 1998
110 E Hallam, Suite 102, Aspen, Colorado 81611, USA
Tel: +1-970 925 6882
Fax: +1-970 925 1967
e-mail: Ithielen@aspenfilm.org
Festival director: Laura Thielen
Entry deadline: 15 July 1997
TV Link 97 (Sao Paolo)
23-25 September 1997
Grupo Brasil Rio/Reed Exhibition Companies, Rua Ministro Nelson Hungria, 239 CJ4, 05690-050, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Tel: +55-11 844 9111
Fax: +55-11 844 5733
e-mail: br.cecilia@csf.com.br
Festival director: Maria Cecilia De Oliveira
Film Camera Festival Manaki Brothers (Bitola)
24-28 September 1997
Vardar-Film 8 Mart 4, 91000 Skopje, Macedonia
Tel: +389-91 117527/116626
Fax: +389-91 211 811/116626
Festival director: Delco Mihajlov
Competition
Golden Camera 300
Previous winner: Maborosi (DOP Masao Nakabori)
Entry deadline: 20 August 1997
Mipcom Junior (Cannes)
24-25 September 1997
Reed Midem Organisation, BP 572, 11 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia, Paris, France F-75726
Tel: +33-1 41 90 45 80
Fax: +33-1 41 90 45 70
Programme director: André Vaillant
Netherlands Film Festival (Utrecht)
24 September-3 October 1997
PO Box 1581, NL-3500 BN Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-30-232 2684
Fax: +31-30-213 3200
e-mail: nedfilmfest@artnet.xshall.nl
Festival director: Jacques van Heyningen
Festival programmer:
Herman de Wit
Market and competition
Golden Calf ($10,000)
Previous winner: Long Live the Queen (Esmé Lammers)
Entry deadline: 1 July 1997
Black Filmworks Festival of Film & Video (Oakland)
25-27 September, 3-4 October 1997
Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, 405 14th Street, Suite 515, Oakland, CA, USA
Tel: +1-510 465 0804
Fax: +1-510 839 9858
Contact: Felix Curtis
Market & Competition
Best Film ($1,000)
Previous winner: One Red Rose (Charlie Jordon & Michelle Barnwell)
Entry deadline: 1 August 1997
FilmFest Hamburg
25 September-2 October 1997
Friedensalee 1, D-22765 Hamburg, Germany
Tel: +49-40 39826 210
Fax: +49-40 39826 211
e-mail: filmfest-hamburg@t-online.de
Festival director: Josef Wutz
Festival programmer: Johannes Wachs
Entry deadline: 1 July 1997
The Int'l Student Animation Festival of Ottawa
25-28 September 1997
2 Daly Ave, Suite 120, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6E2
Tel: +1-613 232 8769
Fax: +1-613 232 6315
e-mail: crobinso@DocuWeb.ca
Festival director: Chris Robinson
Festival programmer: as above
Market and competition
Grand prize
Entry deadline: 1 July 1997
Showbiz Expo East (New York)
25-27 September 1997
383 Main Ave, Norwalk, CT 06951, USA
Tel: +1-203 840 5378
Fax: +1-203 840 9378
Festival Int'l du Film Francophone (Namur)
26 September-4 October 1997
175 Rue des Brasseurs, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
Tel: +32-81 24 12 36
Fax: +32-81 22 43 84
Festival director and programmer: Andre Ceuterick
Competition
Golden Bayard for Best Film ($1,350)
Previous winner: Honey and Ashes (Miel et cindre) (Nadia Fares)
Entry deadline: 15 August 1997
The 8th Oslo Films
september 26 - october 4 1998
Dronningensgt. 16, 0152 Oslo, Norway
Tel: +47 22822480/81
Fax: +47 22822489
email: filmsor@filmenshus.no
Festivaldirector: Dag Asbjørnsen
Festivalmanager: Lasse Skagen
Programmer: Åse Meyer
entry deadline: Early August 1998
The 8th Oslo Films from the South festival is taking place in Norways main city september 26 - october 4, 1998.
It is a competitive 3 continents festival with films from Asia, Africa and Latin-America.
In a period of 10 days about 50 features is screened in 4 venues . This year Sogo Iishi`s "The labyrinth of drams" won "The Oslo films from the South Award 1997" and is by that guaranteed a commercial release in Norwegian Theatres.
"Jury`s special mention" went to Tsai Ming-liangs "The River".
Festival Los Angeles (Short Film Fest)
26-28 September 1997
3-5 October 1998
289 S. Robertson Blvd, #270, Beverly Hills, CA, 90211, USA
Tel: +1-213 221 9247
e-mail: Info@lo-con.com
Festival director: Tammy Glover, Alan Bell, Jeff Stott
Festival programmer: as above
Competition
Winner Award
Previous winner: Paul McCall (Ben Hershleder)
Entry deadline: tbc
Mipcom (Cannes)
26-30 September 1997
BP 572, 11 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia, F-75726 Paris, France
Tel: +33-1 41 90 45 80
Fax: +33-1 41 90 45 70
Market director: André Vaillant
Market
New York Film Festival
26 September-12 October 1997
25 September-1 October 1998
Film Society of Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, USA
Tel: +1-212 875 5638
Fax: +1-212 875 5636
e-mail: www.filmlinc.com
Festival director: Richard Pena
Entry deadline: 13 July 1997
UFVA Student Film & Video Festival (Philadelphia)
26-28 September 1997
(premiere), Int'l tour Oct 97
Department of Film & Media Arts Temple University 011-00, Philadelphia PA 19122, USA
Tel: +1-215 923 3532
Fax: +1-215 204 6740
e-mail: ufva@vm.temple.edu
website: http://thunder.ocis.temple.edu/~ddoyon
Festival director: Denis Doyon
Festival programmer: Denis Doyon & Juan Carlos Rojas
Competition
Entry deadline: 3 May 1998 (for 1998 festival)
Vancouver Int'l Film Festival
26 September-12 October 1997
Suite 410, 1008 Homer St, Vancouver V6B 2X1, Canada
Tel: +1-604 685 0260
Fax: +1-604 688 8221
e-mail: viff@viff.org
website: http://viff.org/viff/
Festival director: Alan Franey
Festival programmer: Po Chu Au Yeung
Audience-generated awards
Previous winner: Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)
Entry deadline: Mid July 1997
Holland Film Meeting (Utrecht)
28 September-1 October 1997
PO Box 1581, NL-3500 BN, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-30 232 2684
Fax: +31-30 213 3200
Festival director: Jacques van Heijningen
Competition and Market
Golden Calf Awards
Holland Meets Ireland (Seminar) (Utrecht)
29-30 September
PO Box 1581, NL-3500 BN, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-30 232 2684
Fax: +31-30 213 3200
ist of all Film Festivals 09/97 Worldwide
1st Int'l Children's Animation Festival (Nizhnii Novgorod)