1-3 November 1996
7-9 November 1997
PO Box 1020, Stn.38, Banff, Alberta T0L 0C0, Canada
Tel: +1-403-762 6125
Fax: +1-403-762 6277
E-mail: DebSmythe@banffcentre.ab.ca
Festival director: Bernadette McDonald
Festival programmer: Lisa Brent
Market & Competition
Grand Prize (C$2,000)
Previous winner: Behind the Ice Wall (Harriet Gordon, Peter Getzels)
Northwest Film & Video Festival (Portland)
1-10 November 1996
7-16 November 1997
1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97205, USA
Tel: +1-503-221-1156
Fax: +1-503-226 4842
e-mail: nwfc.org
Festival director: Bill Foster
Competition
Best of Festival (US$10 000 in awards)
Peachtree International Film Festival (Atlanta)
1-7 November 1996
1-8 November 1997
Metropolitan Film Society, 2180 Pleasant Hill Rd, #A-5221, Duluth Georgia, 30136, US
Tel:+1-770-729 8487
Fax: +1-770-263 0652
E-mail: metro@ilcnet.com
website: http://www.ilcnet.com/~metro
Festival director/programmer: Michelle Forren
Saint Louis Film Festival
1-10 November
560 Trinity Avenue, Saint Louis, 63130 Missouri, US
Tel: +1-314-726 6779
Fax: +1-314-726 5076
E-mail: pscallet@aol.com
Festival director/programmer: Barbara S. Jones
Competition
Juried Best of Fest (US$2500)
Previous winner: Trahir (Betrayal) (Radu Mihaileanu)
San Luis Obispo International Film Festival
1-10 November 1996
1-9 November 1997
PO Box 1449, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, US
Tel: +1-805-546 3456
Fax: +1-805-781 6799
E-mail: slofilmfest@slonet.org
Festival director: Mary A. Harris
Festival programmer: Catherine Peacock
Competition
George Sydney Award (US$500)
Worldfest-Charleston Int’l Film Festival
2-10 November 1996
3-12 November 1997
PO Box 838, Charleston, 29402 South Carolina, US
Tel: +1-803-723 7600
Fax: +1-713-965 9960
E-mail: worldfest@aol.com
Festival director: J Hunter Todd
Festival programmer: Shelagh C. Conley
Market and Competition
Golden Palm
Previous winner: The Journey of August King (John Duigan)
Augsburg Children’s Film Festival
3-16 November 1996
Filmbüro Augsburg, Schroeckstr.6, D-86152 Augsburg, Germany
Tel: +49-821-153079
Fax: +49-821-349 5218
Festival directors/programmers: Ellen Gratza, Annette Eberle
Competition
Dragons of the Augsburg Children Juries
Previous winners: Die Schelme von Schelm (Albert Hanan Kaminski) & Allen Deutschen schlafen (Frank Beyer)
Duisburger Filmwoche (Duisburg)
4-10 November 1996
10-15 November 1997
Am König-Heinrich-Platz, D-47049 Duisburg, Germany
Tel: +49-203-283 4171
Fax: +49-203-283 4130
Festival director: Werner Ruzicka
Competition
German Film Critic Prize (DM10,000)
Previous winner: Gratian (Thomas Ciulei)
Film Art Fest (Ljubljana)
4-17 November
Presernova 10, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel: +386-61-176 7150
Fax:+386-61-22 42 79
Festival director: Jelka Stergel
Competition
The Kingfisher award statue and 10,000 DEM
OFF (Ourense Film Festival)
4-10 November
Apartado (PO Box 664), Ourense, E-32080, Spain
Tel: +34-88 215885
Fax: +34-88 215885
E-mail: rey@bitmailer.net
Festival director: Eloy Lozano
Festival programmer: Jorge Maroyo
Competition
Gran Premio del Festival (Ptas3,000,000)
Cinanima, International Animation Film Festival (Espinho)
5-10 November
Apartado 43, Rua 62, 251 4501 Espinho, Portugal
Tel: +351-2-724 611/721 621
Fax: +351-2-726 015
Festival director/programmer: Antonio Gaio, Adao Peixeira
Competition
Grand Prize (ESc500,000)
Previous winner: Nyurka’s Bath (Oxana Cherkasova)
European Television and Film Forum (Amsterdam)
7-9 November
c/o European Institute for the Media, Kaistraße 13, D-40221 Düsseldorf, Germany
Tel: +49 211 9010 457
Fax: +49 211 9010 456
E-mail: 100443.1705@comupserve.com
Forum coordinator: Monique van Dusseldorp
Festival Internacional de Cine e Artes Audiovisuales de Buenos Aires
7-16 November
c/o INCCAA, Lima 139, 1073 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fax: +541-3 831698
Fax: +541-3 811776
Festival director: Julio Maharbiz
Heartland Film Festivals (Indianapolis)
7-10 November 1996
6-9 November 1997
613 N. East Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, US
Tel: +1-317-464 9405
Fax: +317-635 4201
E-mail: hff@inquest.net
Festival director/programmer: Jeffrey L. Sparks
Competition
Crystal Heart Award (US$100,000)
Previous winner: Frailejon (Joshua Yeldnam)
London Film Festival
7-24 November
National Film Theatre, South Bank, Waterloo, GB-London SE1 8XT, UK
Tel: +44-171-815 1323/815 1324
Fax: +44-171-633 0786
E-mail: jane.ivey@bfi.org.uk
Festival director/programmer: Sheila Whitaker
Market
Mar del Plata International Film Festival
7-16 November
Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, Fundacion Cine Argentino, Lima 319 Piso 10, 1073 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel: +54-1-383 2622
Fax: +54-1-383 9091
E-mail: info@incaa.com
website: http://www.incaa.com
Festival director: Julio Maharbiz
Festival programmer: Oscar Barney Finn
Competition
Golden Ombú (US$625,000)
Previous winner: Macunaima (Pedro de Andrade)
Amiens International Film Festival
8-17 November
36 rue de Noyou, F-80000 Amiens, France
Tel: +33-22 91 01 44
Fax: +33-22 92 53 04
Festival director/programmer: Jean-Pierre Garcia
Competition, fiction and documentary Grand Prix
Previous winners: Visiblement je vous aime (Jean-Michel Carre)
European Festival of Young Computer Graphics Artists (Milan)
8-9 November 1996
Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, 4 avenue de l’Europe, F-94366 Bry-sur-Marne Cedex, France
Tel: +33-1-49 83 26 71
Hawaii International Film Festival
8-15 November 1996
7-14 November 1997
700 Bishop Street, Suite 400, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, US
Tel: +1-808-528 3456
Fax: +1-808-528 1410
E-mail: hiffinfo@hiff.org
Festival director: Christian Gaines
Festival programmer: Jeannette Paulson
Competition
Golden Maile Award
Previous winner: Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
International Thessaloniki Film Festival
8-17 November
36 Sina Street, 10672 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-1-361 0418
Fax: +30-1-362 1023
E-mail: filmfestival@compulink.gr
Festival director: Michel Demopoulos
Festival programmer: Dimitri Eipides
Competition
Golden Alexander (US$50,000)
Previous winner: The Postman (He Jian Jun)
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival (New York)
8-14 November
American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street at Central Park West, New York, 10024 NY, US
Tel: +1-212-769 5305
Fax: +1-212-769 5329
E-mail: meadfest@amnh.org
Festival director: Elaine Charnov
Stockholm International Film Festival
8-17 November 1996
7-16 November 1997
Po Box 3136, Stockholm, 10362 Sweden
Tel: +46-8-677 5000
Fax: +46-8-200590
E-mail:
website: http://www.filmfestivalen.s
Festival director: Git Scheynius
Festival programmer: Petter Mattsson
Competition
The Bronze Horse
Previous winner: Institute Benjamenta (Brothers Quay)
Welsh International Film Festival (Aberystwyth)
8-17 November 1996
14-23 November 1997
6G Park Gwyddoniaeth, Cefn LLan, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AH, Wales, UK
Tel: +44-1970-617995
Fax: +44-1970-617942
E-mail: wff995@aber.ac.uk
Festival director: Berwyn Rowlands
Festival programmer: J. Berwyn rowlands, Diane Davies
Competition
DM Davies Award (£25,000)
Previous winner: Up the Valley (Sara Sugerman)
Rassegna Citta di Palermo/International Sport Film Festival
11-15 November 1996
10-14 November 1997
Via Notarbartolo 1/G, 90141 Palermo, Italy
Tel: +91-611 4968/625 1858
Fax: +91-611 4986/625 6256
E-mail: sporfife@mbox.vol.it
Festival director/programmer: Vito Maggio
Competition
Premio Paladino d’Oro (L5 million)
Previous winner: Transcontinental Groeland (R. Verdina)
Puerto Rico International Film Festival
13-24 November
70 Calle Mayaguez Box B-1, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918, US
Tel: +1-809-763 4997/764 7044
Fax: +1-809-753 5367
Festival director: Juan Gerard
Sarasota French Film Festival
13-17 November
PO Box 908, Sarasota, FL 34230-0908, USA
Tel: +1-941-351 9010 ext 4300
Fax: +1-941-351 5796
E-mail: FFN2ZASM@aol.com
Southern African International Film & Television Market (Cape Town)
13-17 November
PO Box 3832 Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa
Tel: +27-11 714 3215/714 3229
Fax: +27-11 714 3275
Market director: Dezi Rorich
Verzaubert, Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Munich, Cologne, Stuttgart)
13 November-4 December 1996
12 November-3 December 1997
Herzog Wilhelm str 27, D-80331 Munich, Germany
Tel: +49-260 22 838
Fax: +49-260 22 839
Festival directors/programmers: Schorsch Müller, Rainer Stefan
Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares
14-22 November 1996
Plaza del Empecinado 1, Alcalá de Henares 28801, Spain
Tel: +34-1-881 3934
Fax: +34-1-881 3906
Festival director: Pedro Medina
Competition
Festival de cine (Ptas600,000)
Previous winner: Solo amor (Jose J Rodriguez)
ITVF Market ‘96: International Television Festival and Market of India ‘96 (Bombay)
14-16 November
148 Admiralty House, Near Colaba Bus Station, Mumbai-400 005, India
Tel: +91-22-215 1396
Fax: +91-22-215 1269
Contact: Kavita Meer
15-20 November
Blaenau Gwent Arts Development Office, Beaufort Theatre, Beaufort, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, South Wales, NP3 5QQ, UK
Tel: +44-1495-308996
Fax: +44-1495-308996
Festival director/programmer: Geoff Cripps
Turin International Film Festival
15-23 November 1996
14-22 November 1997
Via Monte di Pietá 1, Torino, Italy, 10121
Tel: +39-11-562 3309
Fax: +39-11-562 9796
E-mail: ficg@webcom.com
Festival director/programmer: Alberto Barbera
Competition
Best Film (US$ 20,000)
On the Beat (Ning Ying)
International Festival of Film Schools (Munich)
16-23 November
c/o IMF GmbH, Kaiserstraße 39, D-80801 Munich, Germany
Tel: +49-89-38 19 04/0
Fax: +49-89-38 19 04 27
Rendez-vous: Finance & Co-production
16-19 November 1996
Euro Aim, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, L-1370
Tel: +352-250393
Fax: +352-250394
E-mail: euroaim@pophost.evnet.be
Festival director: Nicolas Steil
Market
London Programme Market
18-20 November
23-24 George Street, Richmond, Surrey TW9 1HY, UK
Tel: +44-181-948 5522
Fax: +44-181-332 0495
Market director: Tim Etchells
Oulu International Children’s Film Festival
18-24 November 1996
17-23 November 1997
Torikatu 8, 90100 Oulu, Finland
Tel: +358-8-881 1293
Fax: +358-8-881 1290
E-mail: ku-kejonen@ouka.fi
Festival director: Pentti Kejonen
Festival programmer: Eszter Vuojala
Competition
Star Boy Award (Ecu3,000)
Previous winner: Sarahsarà (The Waterbaby) (Renzo Martinelli)
19-30 November 1996
c/o Central Television, Broad Street, GB-Birmingham B1 2JP, UK
Tel: +44-121-634 4213
Fax: +44-121-634 4392
Festival director: Sarah McKenzie
Festival programmer: David Sin
Festival des Trois Continents (Nantes)
19-26 November
19a Passage Pommeraye, BP 3306, F-44033, Nantes Cedex 01, France
Tel: +33-40 69 74 14
Fax: +33-40 73 55 22
Festival directors/programmers: Alain Jalladeau, Philippe Jalladeau
Competition (only for feature films)
Montgolfiere d’Or (FFr30,000)
Previous winner: Sin Remitente Carlos Carera
Action and Adventure Film Festival (Antwerp)
20-26 November 1996
19-25 November 1997
1104 Kortrijksesteenweg, Ghent, Belgium, B-9051
Tel: +32-9-221 8946
Fax: +32-9-221 9074
E-mail: filmfestival@infoboard.be
website: http://www.rug.ac.be/filmfestival /Welcome.html
Contact: Jacques Dubrulle, Walter Provo, Peter Bouckaert, Marian Ponnet
New York Expo and Video
21-23 November
532 La Guardia Place, Suite 330, New York, NY 10012, US
Tel: +1-212-505 7742
Fax: +1-212-873 1353
E-mail: rswbc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Contact: Robert Withers
French Film Festival (Edinburgh/Glasgow)
22 November-1 December 1996
21 November-3 December 1997
French Institute, 13 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, UK EH3 8TX
Tel: +44-131-243 3601/225 5366
Fax: +44-131-220 2443
Festival director: Richard Mowe
Festival programmer: Allan Hunter
Hennessy Audience Prize
Previous winner: Consentement Mutuel (Bernard Stora)
Gijon International Film Festival for Young People
22-29 November
Po. Begoña No 24 entlo, E-33205 Gijon, Spain
Tel: +34-8-534 3739
Fax: +34-8-535 4152
E-mail: festcine@airastuz.es
Festival director: Jose Luis Cienfuegos
Festival programmer: José Luis Cienfuegos
Competition
Principado de Asturias
Previous winner: Heavy (James Mangold)
IberoAmerican Film Festival (Huelva)
23-30 November 1996
Casa Colon, Plaza del Punto, 21003 Huelva, Spain
Tel: +34-59 21 0170
Fax: +34-59 210173
Festival director: José Luis Ruiz
Festival programmer: José Luis Ruiz, Julia Marquinez
Competition
Colon de oro by the jury (3 mill. ptas)
Previous winner: Sicario (Jose Ramon Novoa) Venezuela
Jewish and Israelian Film Festival (Montpellier)
23 November-1 December
500, Boulevard d’Antigone, Montpellier 3400, France
Tel: +33-67 15 08 76/67 72 32 63
Fax: +33-67 15 08 72/67 72 32 62
Festival director: Corine Rouffi
Competition
Levy Award
Previous winner: Sc’chur (Shmuel Hafari)
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
23 November-6 December (dates tbc)
Floor 7, No 45, Chilin Road, Taipei, Taiwan ROC
Tel: +886-2-567 5861
Fax: +886-2-531 8966
Festival director: Tain-Dow Lee
Festival programmer: Jane H.C. Yu
Competition (only for Chinese-language films)
Golden Horse Award
Previous winner: Summer Snow (Ann Hui)
Junior Dublin Film Festival
24 November-6 December
c/o Irish Film Centre, Eustache Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: +353-1 671 4095
Fax: +353 1 677 8755
Festival director/programmer: Alan Robinson
International Festival of Documentary and Short Films (Bilbao)
25-30 November
C/Colón de Larreategui, nº 37-4º drch, 48009 Bilbao, Spain
Tel: +34-4-424 8698/424 5507/424 7860
Fax: +34-4-424 5624
Festival director: Luis Iturri
Festival programmer: Maria Angeles Olea
Competition
Grand Prize (Ptas400,000)
Previous winner: Fridge (Peter Mullan)
Deadline for entries: 15/9/96
Golden Knight International Amateur Film and Video Festival (Malta)
28-29 November
Malta Amateur Cine Circle, PO Box 450, Valetta CMR 01, Malta
Tel: +356-222345/236173
Fax: +356-225047
Festival director: Alfred Stagno Navarra
Festival programmer: Vincent Lungaro Mifsud
Competition
Golden Knight
Previous winner: Dog Walk (Johannes Borg)
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
28 November-5 December
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10, NL-017 RR Amsterdam
Tel: +31-20-627 3329
Fax: +31-20-638 5388
E-mail: idfa@xs4all.nl
Festival director: Ally Derks
Competition
Joris Ivens Award (G25,000)
Previous winner: Délits flagrants (Raymond Depardon)
Festival dei Popoli International Review of Social Documentary Film (Florence)
29 November-7 December
Via Castellani 8, I-Firenze 50122, Italy
Tel: +39-55-294 353
Fax: +39-55-213 698
Festival president: Franco Lucchesi
Festival director: Mario Simondi
Competition
Award for Best Documentary Film (L20 million)
Previous winner: Middle of the Moment (Nicolas Humbert & Werner Penzel)
Camerimage (Torun)
30 November-7 December 1996
29 November-6 December 1997
Rynek Nowomiejski 28, 87-100 Torun, Poland
Tel: +48-56-24879/10019
Fax: +48-56-27595
Festival director: Marek Zydowicz
Festival programmers: Remigiusz Zawadzki, Voitek Warszewski, Marek Zydowicz
Competition
The Golden Frog Award
Previous winner: The Seventh Room (Marta Meszaros)
Carthage International Film Festival
November (dates tbc)
c/o The JCC Managing Committee, P.O.Box 1029-1045, Tunis RP, Tunisia
Tel/Fax: +21-61 260323
Northampton Film Festival, Massachusetts
November 1996 (dates tbc)
26 Crescent St., Suite 101, Northampton, MA 01060, USA
A MONTREAL, CINEMANIA
November 4 to 11 november 1996
Contact: Chantale Lavoie
tel : (514)288-0181
fax : (514)288-0182
E-mail: cinemania@cinaman.ems.net
ist of all Film Festivals 11/96 Worldwide
Banff Festival of Mountain Films