24 October-4 November 1997
24 October-4 November 1998
48 Princess St, GB-Manchester, M1 6HR, UK
Tel: +44-161 288 2494
Fax: +44-161 237 3423
Festival director and programmer: John Wojowski
Entry deadline: 8 August 1997, 1998
Cinéma Méditérranéen Montpellier
24 October-2 November 1997
6 Rue Vielle-ai Guillerie, F-34000 Montpellier, France
Tel: +33-4 67 66 36 36
Fax: +33-4 67 66 36 37
Festival director: Pierre Pitiot
Festival programmer: Pierre Pitiot
Competition
Antigone d'Or ($20,000)
Previous winner: Miel et cendres (Nadia Fars)
Entry deadline: 31 August 1997
Sixth Annual Short Attention Span Film & Video Festival (San Francisco)
24-25 October 1997 (tour dates tba)
PO Box 460316, San Francisco, CA 94146, USA
Tel: +1-415 576 9335
e-mail: sasfvf@aol.com
Festival director: Elizabeth Hall
Festival programmer: Sarah Anderson
Market & competition
Viewers' Choice Award
Previous winner: Tony and Rachel Go to Tent Rocks Gorge (Anthony Flackett)
Entry deadline: 15 August 1998
Festival du Cinéma International en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Rouyn-Noranda)
25-30 October 1997
215 Mercier Avenue, Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, J9X 5W8, Canada
Tel: +1-819 762 6212
Fax: +1-819 762 6762
e-mail: fciatt@sac.telebec.qc.ca
Festival director: Jacques Matte
Festival programmer: as above
Entry deadline:
1 September 1997
Premio Saint-Vincent Per Il Cinema Italiano
25 October-1 November 1997
Via Giulia 66, I-00186 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39-6 68 75 330
Fax: +39-6 68 75 333
Festival director: Felice Laudadio
Competition
Grolle d'Oro
Entry deadline: tbc
Geneva Film Festival 'Stars for Tomorrow'
28 October-3 November 1997
35, rue des Bains - C.P. 5615, CH-1211 Geneve 11, Switzerland
Tel: +41-22 809 9450
Fax: +41-22 809 9444
Festival director: Gérald Morin
Festival programmer: Gérald Morin
Competition
European Golden Star ($6,750 each)
Previous winners: Jason Flemyng (Indian Summer) and Magdalena Cielecka (Temptation)
Entry deadline: tbc
Int'l Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
28 October-2 November 1997
Box 0940, D-04009 Leipzig, Germany
Tel: +49-341 980 3921
Fax: +49-341 980 6141
Festival director: Fred Gehler
Festival programmer: Fred Gehler
Market & competition
Golden Dove ($5,020)
Previous winner: Better and Better (Alfredo Knuchel & Norbert Wiedmer)
Entry deadline: 1 September 1997
Fort Lauderdale Int'l Film Festival
29 October-16 November 1997
2633 East Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Tel: +1-954 563 0500
Fax: +1-954 564 1206
e-mail: Brofilm@aol.com
website: http://www.vcn.net/
filmfest
Festival director and programmer: Greg von Hausch
Competition
Best Film
Previous winner: Shine (Scott Hicks)
Entry deadline: 1 September 1997
Puerto Rico Int'l Film Festival (San Juan)
29 October-9 November 1997
70 Mayaguez St, Ste B-1, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00911, USA
Tel: +1-787 268 5777
Fax: +1-787 268 5769
Festival director and programmer: Juan Gerard
Fipresci Best Latin American Film
Previous winner: Profundo carmesi (Arturo Ripstein)
Entry deadline: 15 August 1997
Native American Film & Video Festival (New York)
30 October-6 November 1997
Film & Video Center, National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004, USA
Tel: +1-212 825 6894
Fax: +1-212 825 8180
Festival director: Elisabeth Weatherford
Entry deadline: 15 May 1997
San Luis Obispo Int'l Film Festival
30 October-9 November 1997
PO Box 1449, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401, USA
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 ($500)
Previous winner: Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (Todd Robinson)
Entry deadline: 1 August
Virginia Film Festival (Charlottesville, Va)
30 October-2 November 1997
Drama Department, The University of Virginia, Culbreth Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Tel: +1-804 982 5277
Fax: +1-804 924 1447
e-mail: rj.h2s@virginia.edu
Festival director: Richard Herskowitz
Entry deadline: 1 July
Saint Louis Film Festival
Festival/event TOWN: St. Louis, Missouri
1998 festival/event DATES: October 30-November 8, 1998
1997 festival/event DATES: October 30-November 9, 1997
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: 560 Trinity Ave.
town: St. Louis, MO
country: USA
post code: 63130
office telephone: 314-726-6779
office fax: 314-726-5076
office e-mail address: slffmo@aol.com
website: www.stlfilmfestival.com
name of festival DIRECTOR: Pat Scallet/Janet Herrmann
name of festival PROGRAMMER: Audrey Hutti
Deadline for entry August 15, 1998
- market? no
- competition? yes
Name of major award: Fox Theatre Emerging Filmmaker Award
Value of award: $2500 USD plus Kodak film stock and film processing costs
Last winning film: The Deli
Director of winning film: John Gallagher
Internationaal Speelfilmfestival (Ghent)
31 October-2 November 1997
Patijntjesstraat 150, Gent, Belgium, B-9000
Tel: +32-0 9 245 10 71
Fax: +32-0 9 245 10 71
e-mail: pin00974@ping.be
website: http://www.ping.be/ film/dedrake.html
Festival director: Wolfgang Freier
Festival programmer: De Drake-Gent
Entry deadline: 15 September 1997
Competition
Cape Town Int'l Film Festival
October 1997
University of Cape Town, Michaelis, Private Bag, Rondebosch, Cape Town 8001, South Africa
Tel: +27-21 238 257
Fax: +27-21 242 355
e-mail: filmfest@hiddingh.uct.ac.za
Festival director: James Polley
Festival programmer: Mignon Coetzee
Entry deadline: September 1997
Peachtree Int'l Film Festival (Atlanta)
1-8 November 1997
Metropolitan Film Society, 2180 Pleasant Hill Rd, #A-5221, Duluth Georgia, 30136, USA
Tel: +1-770 729 8487
Fax: +1-770 263 0652
e-mail: metro@ilcnet.com
website: http://www. ilcnet.com/~metro
Festival director: Michelle Forren
Festival programmer: Michelle Forren
Entry deadline: 1 September 1997
Tokyo Int'l Film Festival
1-10 November 1997
4F Landic Building No. 2, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104, Japan
Tel: +81-3 3563 6305
Fax: +81-3 3563 6310
Festival director: Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Competition
Tokyo Grand Prix - International Competition
Tokyo Gold Prize - Young Cinema Competition ($258,000 for the director)
Previous winner: Kolya
(Jan Sverak)
Entry deadline: tbc
Worldfest-Charleston Int'l Film Festival
1-9 November 1997
PO Box 838, Charleston, 29402 South Carolina, USA
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 & competition
Golden Palm
Previous winner: Kablounak (Claude Massot)
Entry deadline: end of August 1997
1st Moscow Ecological Film Festival
2-7 November 1997
2 Aivazovskogo St, Suite 88 Moscow, 117593, Russia
Tel/fax: +7-095 426 1038
Film Art Fest (Ljubljana)
3-16 November 1997
Presernova 10, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel: +386-61 176 7150
Fax: +386-61 22 42 79
Festival director: Jelka Stergel
Entry deadline: 15 September 1997
OFF (Ourense Film Festival)
4-10 November 1997
Apartado 664, Ourense E-32003, 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 ($9,930)
Previous winner: Camping Cosmos (Jan Bucquoy)
Entry deadline: tbc
The 14th Israel Film Festival
5-20 November 1997 (Los Angeles), 9-23 December 1997 (New York)
6404 Wilshire Blvd, #1240, Los Angeles, CA 90048, US
Tel: +1-213 966 4166
Fax: +1-213 658 6346
Festival director: Meir Fenigstein
Festival programmer: Amy Haberland
Competition
Audience Award for most popular feature film ($5,000, sponsored by Nu Image)
Entry deadline: 26 September 1997
Film Arts Festival (San Francisco)
5-9 November 1997
346 Ninth St, 2nd floor, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Tel: +1-415 552 8760
Fax: +1-415 552 0882
Festival director: Mark Taylor
Entry deadline: 20 June 1997 (fee $10) and 11 July 1997 (fee $15)
Heartland Film Festivals (Indianapolis)
5-9 November 1997
613 N East Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Tel: +1-317 464 9405
Fax: +1-317 635 4201
e-mail: hff@inquest.net
Festival director: Jeffrey L Sparks
Festival programmer: Jeffrey L Sparks
Competition
Crystal Heart Award ($100,000)
Entry deadline: tbc (July)
Foyle Film Weekend (Derry)
6-10 November 1997
2nd Floor, Northern Counties Building, 8 Custom House Street, GB-Derry, Northern Ireland, UK
Tel: +44-1504 267 432
Fax: +44-1504 371 738
e-mail: shona@iscm.ulst.ac.uk
Festival director and programmer: Shona McCarthy
Competition
Award: $1,670
Previous winner: The Eliminator (Enda Hughues)
Entry deadline: October (tbc)
London Film Festival
6-23 November 1997
National Film Theatre, South Bank, Waterloo, GB-London SE1 8XT, UK
Tel: +44-171 815 1320
Fax: +44-171 633 0786
e-mail: jane.ivey@bfi.org.uk
Festival co-directors: Adrian Wootton & Mark Adams
Festival programmer: Sandra Hebron
Entry deadline: 15 August 1997
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival (New York)
6-12 November 1997
American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street at Central Park West, New York, 10024 NY, USA
Tel: +1-212 769 5305
Fax: +1-212 769 5329
e-mail: meadfest@amnh.org
Festival director: Elaine Charnov
Entry deadline: 3 May 1997
News World Int'l Forum for Broadcast News (Berlin)
6-8 November 1997
39 St James' Street, GB-London SW1A 1JD, UK
Tel: +44-171 491 0880
Fax: +44-171 491 0990
Managing director: Kerry Innes
Nordic Film Days (Lubeck)
6-9 November 1997
Senat der Hansestadt Lubeck, Schleswig-Holstein, D-23539 Germany
Tel: +49-451 122 4102
Fax: +49-451 122 4106
Festival director: Andrea Kunsemuller
Competition
NDR Promotion Prize ($13,950)
Previous winner: The Eighteenth (Anders R¿nno-Klaruund)
Entry deadline: tbc
Northampton Film Festival
6-9 November 1997
351 Pleasant St Suite 137, Northampton, MA 01060, USA
Tel: +1-413 586 3471
Fax: +1-413 584 4432
e-mail: filmfest@nohofilm.org
Festival director: Howard Polonsky & Dee DeGeiso
Festival programmer: as above
Competition
Northern Arts Entertainment Best of Fest Award ($500)
Previous winner: The Blinking Madonna & Other Miracles (Beth Harrington)
Northwest Film & Video Festival (Portland)
6-10 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 co-ordinator: Lisa Pearson
Competition
Best of Festival ($10,000 in awards)
Entry deadline: 1 August 1997
Amiens Int'l Film Festival
7-16 November 1997
36 rue de Noyou, F-80000 Amiens, France
Tel: +33-322 91 01 44
Fax: +33-322 92 53 04
Festival director: Jean-Pierre Garcia
Festival programmer: as above
Competition - fiction and documentary Grand Prix
Previous winners: Village of Dreams (Yoishi Higashi)
Entry deadline: early September 1997
Banff Festival of Mountain Films
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
website: http://www. banffcentre.ab.c
Festival director: Bernadette McDonald
Festival programmer: Lisa Brent
Market & competition
Grand Prize ($9,070)
Previous winner: The Tsaatan - The Reindeer Riders
Entry deadline: 19 September 1997
Children's Film Festival (Augsburg)
7-16 November 1997
6-15 November 1998
Schroeckstr. 6, D-86152 Augsburg, Germany
Tel: +49-821 153077
Fax: +49-821 349 5218
Festival director and programmer: Ellen Gratza
Entry deadline: 10 September 1997
Hawaii Int'l Film Festival (Honolulu, neighbouring islands)
7-14 November 1997 in Honolulu/14-20 November on neighbouring islands
700 Bishop Street, Suite 400, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, USA
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: A Hot Roof (Lee Min-Yong)
Entry deadline: 30 June 1997
Latino Film Festival of Marin (Larkspur)
7-9 November 1997
3100 Kerner Blvd, Suite G, San Rafael, CA 94901, USA
Tel: +1-415 459 3530
Fax: +1-415 456 0560
e-mail: sperel@linex.com
Festival director: Sylvia Perel
Festival programmer: S Stalman
Entry deadline: 7 July 1998
Start 97 Moving Image Festival (Plymouth)
7-9 November 1997
51 Amherst Rd, GB-Plymouth, PL3 4HJ, UK
Tel: +44-1752 265 562
Fax: +44-1752 265 562
e-mail: start@sundog.zynet.co.uk
Festival director: Stuart More
Festival programmer: Kayla Parker
Entry deadline: 15 September 1997
Stockholm Int'l Film Festival
7-16 November 1997
Po Box 3136, Stockholm, 10362 Sweden
Tel: +46-8 677 5000
Fax: +46-8 200590
e-mail: filmfestivalen@cinema.s
website: http://www.filmfestivalen.s
Festival director: Git Scheynius
Festival programmer: Petter Mattsson
Competition
The Bronze Horse
Previous winner: Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Srdjan Dragojevic)
Entry deadline: 12 September 1997
Duisburger Filmwoche (Duisburg)
10-15 November 1997
Am Kšnig-Heinrich-Platz, D-47049 Duisburg, Germany
Tel: +49-203 283 4171
Fax: +49-203 283 4130
Festival director: Werner Ruzicka
Competition
German Film Critics' Prize ($5,580)
Previous winner: Poussier d'amour (Werner Schršter)
Entry deadline: 1 September 1997
London Programme Market
10-12 November 1997
23-24 George Street, GB-Richmond, Surrey TW9 1HY, UK
Tel: +44-181 948 5522
Fax: +44-181 332 0495
Market director: Jonathan Bainbridge
Rassegna Citta di Palermo/ Int'l Sport Film Festival
10-14 November 1997
Via Notarbartolo 1/G, I-90141 Palermo, Italy
e-mail: sporfife@mbox.vol.it
Festival director and programmer: Vito Maggio
Competition
Premio Paladino d'Oro & $2,870
Previous winner: Transcontinental Groeland (R Verdina)
Cinanima - Int'l Animated Film Festival (Espinho)
11-16 November 1997
Apartado 43, P-4501 Espinho Codex, Portugal
Tel: +351-2 724 611/721 621
Fax: +351-2 726 015
Festival director: Antonio Gaio
Festival programmer: Organising Committee Cinanima
Competition
Grand Prize
Previous winner: L'anne du daim (Georges Scwhizgebl)
Entry deadline: August 1997
Southern African Int'l Film & Television Market (Cape Town)
3-7 November 1997
PO Box 1563, Parklands, 2121, South Africa
143 Oxford Road Rosebank, Johannesburg, 2196, South Africa
Tel: +27-11 442 4790/788 7864
Fax: +27-11 447 2111
Market director: Dezi Ršrich
Int'l Film Festival in Munich
12-15 November 1997
Bonner Platz 1/V
D-80803 Munich, Germany
Tel: +49-89 307 992 20
Fax: +49-89 307 992 22
Entry deadline: 15 August 1997
Int'l Biennale Film+Arc Graz
12-16 November 1997
Hallerschloszstrasse 21, A-8010 Graz, Austria
Tel: +43-316 35 6155
Fax: +43-316 356156
Festival director and programmer: Charlotte Pšchhacker
Competition
Grand Prix film+arc.graz ($7,930)
Previous winners: City of the Steppes (Peter Brosens, Odo Halflans)
Entry deadline:
10 July 1997
Mediterranean Film Festival (Tubingen)
12-16 November 1997
Osterbergstr. 9, Tubingen,
D-72074, Germany
Tel: +49-7071 56960
Fax: +49-7071 56 96 96
e-mail: filmtage-tuebingen@t-online.de
Festival director: Dieter Betz
Entry deadline: eight weeks before the festival
Verzaubert, Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart)
12 November-3 December 1997
November 1998
Rosebud Entertainment, Herzog Wilhelm str 27, D-80331 Munich, Germany
Tel: +49-89 260 22 838
Fax: +49-89 260 22 839
e-mail: rosebud-entertainment@t-online.de
Festival directors and programmers: Schorsch Muller, Rainer Stefan
Entry deadline: 1 October 1997
Festival de Cine de Alcala de Henares
13-21 November 1997
Plaza del Empecinado 1, Alcala de Henares, E-28801, Spain
Tel: +34-1 881 3934
Fax: +34-1 881 3906
Festival director: Pedro Medina
Competition
Primer premio nacional ($5,300)
Previous winner: Esposados (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
Entry deadline: 30 September 1997
Mar del Plata Int'l Film Festival
13-22 November 1997
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: INCAA@MICROSTAR.COM.AR
Festival director: Julio Maharbiz
Festival programmer: Oscar Barney Finn
Market & competition
Golden Ombœ ($625,000)
Previous winner: El perro del hortelano (Pilar Mir-)
Entry deadline: 1 September 1997
Brynmawr Film Festival
14-20 November 1997
Blaenau Gwent Arts Development Office, Beaufort Theatre, Beaufort, GB-Ebbw Vale, Gwent, South Wales, NP3 5QQ, UK
Tel: +44-1495 308996
Fax: +44-1495 308996
Festival director and programmer: Geoff Cripps
Oslo Int'l Film Festival
14-23 November 1997
Ebbellsgate 1, N-0183 Oslo, Norway
Tel: +47-22 20 07 66
Fax: +47-22 20 18 03
e-mail: filmfestival@login.eunet.no
website: http://wit.no/filmfestival
Festival director and programmer: Tommy L¿rdahl
Entry deadline: mid-October
Turin Int'l Film Festival
14-22 November 1997
Via Monte di Piet‡ 1, Turin,
I-10121, Italy
Tel: +39-11 562 3309
Fax: +39-11 562 9796
e-mail: ficg@webcom.com
Festival director and programmer: Alberto Barbera
Competition
Best Film ($20,000)
Previous winner: In Expectation (Zhang Ming)
Entry deadline: 31 August 1997
Welsh Int'l Film Festival (Aberystwyth)
14-23 November 1997
6G Park Gwyddoniaeth, Cefn Llan, GB-Aberystwyth, SY23 3AH, UK
Tel: +44-1970 617995
Fax: +44-1970 617942
e-mail: wff995@aber.ac.uk
Festival director: Berwyn Rowlands
Festival programmers: Berwyn Rowlands, Diane Davies
Competition
DM Davies Award ($50)
Previous winner: Life in the Bus Lane (Justin Kerrigan)
Entry deadline: first week of September 1997
Encontros Internacionais de Cinema Documental (Odivelas)
15-23 November 1997
Centro Cultural Malaposta, Rua Angola, Olival Basto, P-2675 Odivelas, Portugal
Tel: +351-1 938 8407/938 8570
Fax: +351-1 938 9347
Festival programmer and programmer: Manuel Costa e Silva
Competition
Best Feature Film
Previous winner: Scavengers (Hiroshi Shinomiya)
Entry deadline: 23 September 1997
4º FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE ESCUELAS DE CINE / 4º International film school festival
IMPORTANT : SHORT FILMS ONLY
Festival/event TOWN: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
1998 festival/event DATES: ----- (Fourth EDITION 1999)
1997 festival/event DATES: 15 - 20 NOVEMBER
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: Universidad del Cine - Pje. Giuffra 330
town: Buenos Aires
country: Argentina
post code: 1064
office telephone: (54 1) 300 8193 / 8190 Ext 119
office fax: (54 1) 300 0674
office e-mail address: ucine@sminter.com.ar
website: http://universidaddelcine.com
name of festival DIRECTOR: MARIA MARTA ANTIN
name of festival PROGRAMMER: HERNAN MUSALUPPI
Deadline for entry september 1999
- market? NO
- competition? YES
Value of award: USD 3000
Last winning film: Negocios (Universidad del Cine)
Director of winning film: Pablo Trapero
Oulu Int'l Children's Film Festival
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 ($3,300)
Previous winner: Loch Ness (John Henderson)
Entry deadline: 15 October 1997
Birmingham Int'l Film & TV Festival
19-30 November 1997
9 Margaret Street, GB-Birmingham
B3 3SB, UK
Tel: +44-121 212 0777
Fax: +44-121 212 0666
Festival director: Sarah McKenzie
Festival programmer: David Sin
Entry deadline: end of August
Action and Adventure Film Festival (Antwerp)
19-25 November 1997
1104 Kortrijksesteenweg, Ghent, B-9051, Belgium
Tel: +32-9 221 8946
Fax: +32-9 221 9074
e-mail: filmfestival@infoboard.be
www page: http://www.rug.ac.be/filmfestival/Welcome.html
Contact: Jacques Dubrulle, Walter Provo, Peter Bouckaert, Marian Ponnet
Entry deadline: 15 September 1997
2nd Festival of French Cinema (Acapulco)
20-23 November 1997
Unifrance, 4 Villa Bosquet,
F-75007 Paris, France
Tel: +33-1 47 53 95 80/ 47 53 27 48
Fax: +33-1 47 05 96 55
Contact: Stephan Melchiori
Entry deadline: early October 1997
Brief Encounters (Short Film Festival) (Bristol)
20-30 November 1997
PO Box 576, GB-Bristol BS99 2BD, UK
Tel: +44-117 922 4636
Fax: +44-117 922 2906
e-mail: brief.encounters@dial.pipex.com
Contact: Andrew Kelly
Entry deadline: 15 September 1997
Int'l Festival of Authorial Film (Belgrade)
20-27 November 1997
Jugoslavija film, Makedonska 22/VI, 11000 Beograd, Yugoslavia
Tel: +381-11 324 8554/324 8282
Fax: +381-11 324 8659
Contact: Vojislav Vucinovic
Competition
Aleksandar Petrovic Award
Previous winners: Krima Karima (Herbert Curiel), Drzi se mene (Jana Druz)
Entry deadline: 15 October 1997
The Ohio Independent Film Festival
20-23 November 1997
2258 West 10th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44113, USA
Tel: +1-216 781 1755
e-mail: OhioIndieFilmFest@juno.com
Festival directors and programmers: Bernadette Gillota, Annetta Marion
Entry deadline: 15 October 1997
Vevey Int'l Comedy Film Festival
20-23 November 1997
La Grenette CP 421, CH-1800 Vevey, Switzerland
Tel: +41-21 922 2027
Fax: +41-21 922 2024
Festival director and programmer: Yves Moser
Competition
Golden Cane ($4,050)
Previous winner: Kauas pilvet karkavat (Aki KaurismŠki)
Entry deadline: 1 September 1997
French Film Festival (Edinburgh/Glasgow)
21-30 November 1997
20-29 November 1998
French Institute, 13 Randolph Crescent, GB-Edinburgh, EH3 8TX, UK
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: Les trois freres (Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan)
Entry deadline: 30 September
Gijon Int'l Film Festival for Young People
21-28 November 1997
Po. Bego-a No 24 entlo, E-33205 Gijon, Spain
Tel: +34-8 534 3739
Fax: +34-8 535 4152
e-mail: festcine@airastuz.es
Festival director and programmer: Jose Luis Cienfuegos
Competition
Principado de Asturias
Previous winner: Floating Life (Clara Law)
Entry deadline: 15 September 1997
Int'l Thessaloniki Film Festival (Thessaloniki)
21-30 November 1997
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 ($50,000)
Previous winner: Brothers in Trouble (Prasad Udayan)
Entry deadline: October 1997
Festival of Film Schools (Munich)
22-29 November 1997
Kaiser St. 39, Munich, D-80801, Germany
Tel: +49-89 381 9040
Fax: +49-89 381 90426
Festival director: Prof. Wolfgang LŠngsfeld
Competition
Six material prizes
Entry deadline: 1 October 1997
Festival dei Popoli International Review of Social Documentary Film (Florence)
22-27 November 1997
Borgo Pinti 82R, Florence,
I-50121, Italy
Tel: +39-55 244 778
Fax: +39-55 241 364
e-mail: fespopol@dada.it
Festival director: Mario Simondi
Contact: Patricia Baroni
Competition
Award for best documentary film
Previous winner: When Mother Comes Home for Christmas (Nilita Vachani)
Entry deadline: beginning of September 1997
IberoAmerican Film Festival (Huelva)
22-29 November 1997
Casa Colon, Plaza del Punto,
E-21003 Huelva, Spain
Tel: +34-59 21 0170
Fax: +34-59 210173
Festival director: Jose Luis Ruiz
Festival programmer: Jose Luis Ruiz, Julia Marquinez
Competition
Colon de oro by the jury ($19,870)
Previous winner: Como un lerampago (Miguel Hermoso)
Entry deadline: October 1997
Junior Dublin Film Festival
23 November-5 December 1997
c/o Irish Film Centre, Eustache Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: +353-1 671 4095
Fax: +353-1 677 8755
Festival director and programmer: Alan Robinson
Entry deadline: 6 October 1997
Int'l Festival of Documentary and Short Films (Bilbao)
24-29 November 1997
C/Col-n de Larreategui, n1/4 37-41/4 drch, E-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 ($2,650)
Previous winner: Von Sohnen (Antoni Lew)
Entry deadline: 15 October 1997
Nature Film Festival Valvert (Brussels)
24-29 November 1997
E. Facto S.A. - Rue Masui 45, Brussels, B-1000, Belgium
Tel: +32-2 203 4363
Fax: +32-2 203 4294
Festival director: Sebastian Lob
Festival programmer: Claudine Brasseur
Competition
Aigle de cristal ($2,700)
Previous winner: Lions Pride in Peril (Owen Newman)
Entry deadline: July 1997
Festival des Trois Continents (Nantes)
25 November-2 December 1997
19a Passage Pommeraye, BP 43302, F-44033, Nantes Cedex 1, France
Tel: +33-240 69 74 14
Fax: +33-240 73 55 22
Festival directors: Alain Jalladeau, Philippe Jalladeau
Festival programmers: as above
Competition (only for feature films)
Montgolfiere d'Or ($4,950)
Previous winner: True Story (Abolfazl Jalili)
Entry deadline: 15 October 1997
TV Movie Script Workshop (Girona)
25-29 November 1997
C/Pau Claris 115, 5, 4a, E-08009 Barcelona, Spain
tel: +34-3 487 3773
fax: +34-3 487 3952
Festival director: Pere Fages
Int'l Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
26 November-4 December 1997
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10, NL-017 RR Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-20 627 3329
Fax: +31-20 638 5388
e-mail: idfa@xs4all.nl
Festival director: Ally Derks
Competition
Joris Ivens Award ($12,500)
Previous winner: Atman (Pirjo Honkasalo)
Entry deadline: 25 August 1997
Canadian Int'l Annual Film/Video Festival (Campbell River, British Columbia)
27-29 November 1997
25 Eugenia St, Barrie, Ontario, L4M 1P6, Canada
Tel: +1-705 737 2729
Fax: +1-705 737 2729
e-mail: ciaff@iname.com
Festival director: Ben VW Andrews
Festival programmer: Kevin Harrison
Competition
Best Amateur Entry Award
Previous winner: Tabula Rasa (Rolf Mandolesi)
Entry deadline: 15 June 1997
Golden Knight Int'l Amateur Film and Video Festival (Valletta-Malta)
27-29 November 1997
Malta Amateur Cine Circle, PO Box 450, Valetta CMR 01, Malta
Tel: +356-222345
Fax: +356-225047
website: http://www.global/ net.mt/amacc
Festival director: Alfred Stagno Navarra
Festival programmer: Vincent Lungaro Mifsud
Competition
Golden Knight
Previous winner: Must Have Artifact (Alejandra Siquot)
Camerimage (Torun)
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 programmer: Remigiusz Zawadzki, Voitek Warszewski, Marek Zydowicz
Competition
The Golden Frog Award
Previous winner: The Seventh Room (Marta Meszaros)
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
29 November-13 December 1997
Floor 7, No 45, Chilin Road, Taipei, 104 Taiwan ROC
Tel: +886-2 567 5861/523 2195
Fax: +886-2 531 8966/521 6311
e-mail: tghff@email.gen.net.tw
Festival director: You-ning Yu
Festival programmer: Jane HC Yu
Entry deadline: 1 August 1997
New York Short and Video Expo
November 1997
532 La Guardia Place, Suite 330, New York, NY 10012, USA
Tel: +1-212 505 7742/873 1353
Fax: +1-212 724 9172
e-mail: rswbc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Contact: Robert Withers
Entry deadline: 14 July 1997
First Look (New York, Los Angeles)
November 1997 - July 1998
Tribeca Film Center, 375 Greenwich St, New York, NY
Tel: +1-212 941 4011
Fax: +1-212 941 2032
Website: TRIBECAFILM.COM
Festival director: Harlene Freezer
Entry deadline: rolling submissions
ist of all Film Festivals 11/97 Worldwide
Kinofilm '97 (Manchester)