1-14 December 1997
17th Kasr El Nil Street, Cairo, 202 Egypt
Tel: +202-392 3562
Fax: +202-393 8979
Festival director: Saad Eldin Wahba
Competition
Golden Pyramid
Previous winner: The Girl Called Apple (Raafad Lelmaihi)
Entry deadline: mid-September 1997
The Forum (Amsterdam)
1-3 December 1997
Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10,
NL-1017 RR Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-20 627 3329
Fax: +31-20 638 5388
e-mail: idfa@xs4all.nl
Market director: Jolanda Klarenbeek
Market
Entry deadline: 19 September 1997
Int'l Festival of New Latin American Cinema (Havana)
2-12 December 1997
Calle 23, No 1155, Vedado, Havana 10600, Cuba
Tel: +53-7 34169/36072
Fax: +53-7 334 273/ 333 048
Festival director: Alfredo Guevara
Festival programmer: Ivan Giroud
Competition & market
Coral Prizes
Previous winner: Profundo Carmesi (Arturo Ripstein)
Entry deadline: 30 September 1997
Noir In Festival (Courmayer, Italy)
3-9 December 1997
Via Tirso 90, Rome I-00198, Italy
Tel: +39-6 884 8030
Fax: + 39-6 884 0450
Festival director: Giorgio Gosetti
Festival programmer: Maria Teresa Cavina
Competition
Mystery Award
Previous winner: Albino Alligator (Kevin Spacey)
Entry deadline: 15 November 1997
Cine Asia (Singapore)
3-5 December 1997
244 West 49th Street #200, New York 10019, USA
Tel: +1-212 246 6460
Fax: +1-212 265 6428
e-mail: sunshine@maestro.com
CineAsia Conference & Exhibition Secretariat Pte. Ltd. 103 Sophia Road, Singapore 228168
Tel: +65-337 3476
Fax: +65-337 0694
e-mail: ces83@singnet.com.sg
Contact: Jonathan Wachs
Washington Jewish film festival: An exhibition of International cinema
Festival/event TOWN: Washington, DC
1998 festival/event DATES: December 3-13, 1998
1997 festival/event DATES: December 4-14, 1997
Festival HEAD OFFICE address: District of Columbia Jewish Community Center
1529 16th Street NW
town: Washington, DC 20036
country: U.S.A.
office telephone: 202-518-9400 ext. 248
office fax: 202-518-9420
name of festival DIRECTOR: Miriam Morsel Nathan
Deadline for entry August 15, 1997
- no market
- no competition
Cinemagic Int'l Film Festival for Young People (Belfast)
4-14 December 1997
4th Floor, 38 Dublin Road, Belfast BT2 7HN, Northern Ireland, UK
Tel: +44-1232 311 900
Fax: +44-1232 319 709
Festival director: Shauna McCarthy
Festival programmer: Frances Cassidy
Competition
Cinemagic Young Jury Award ($1,670)
Previous Winner: Bonjour Timothy (Wayne Tourell)
Entry deadline: 12 August 1997
MIP-ASIA (Hong Kong)
4-6 December 1997
Reed Midem Organisation, 11 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia, F-75015, Paris, France
Tel: +33-1 41 90 45 80
Fax: +33-1 41 90 45 70
Programme director: André Vaillant
Market
PIA Film Festival (Tokyo)
Early December 1997 (tbc)
5-19 Sanban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102, Japan
Tel: +81-3 32 65 14 25
Fax:+81-3 32 65 56 59
Festival director: Keiko Araki
Festival programmer: Keiko Araki
Competition
Grand Prize ($8,620)
Previous winner: A Cockroach Man (Hiroshi Fukutsu)
Entry deadline: 18 July 1997
European Film Awards (European Film Academy) (Berlin)
6 December 1997
Segitzdam 2, D-10969 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49-30 615 3091
Fax: +49-30 614 3131
Chairman of the European Film Academy: Nik Powell
Previous winner: Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
Rencontres d'Annecy du Cinema Italien
6-16 December 1997
Bonlieu Scene Nationale, 1 rue Jean Jaures, BP 294, Annecy
F-74007, France
Tel: +33-450 33 44 00
Fax: +33-450 51 82 09
Festival director: Salvador Garcia
Festival programmer: Pierre Todeschini
Competition
Grand Prix des Rencontres
Echo Television & Radio Awards (Luxembourg)
9 December 1997
Echo Awards Secretariat, 26-34 Emerald Street, GB-London WC1N 3QA, UK
Tel: +44-171 312 0034
Fax: +44-171 312 0039
e-mail: medianatura@gn.apc.org
Festival director: Amanda Duncan-Smith
Entry information: Flora Whitbread
Entry deadline: 23 September 1997
Moscow Int'l TV Market Teleshow
10-12 December 1997
12 Korolyeva St, Moscow 129301, Russia
Tel/fax: +7-095 217 9243/217 9885/969 7137
Teleshow director: Alexander Maximov
MECLA (Havana)
December 1997 (tbc)
Calle 23, No 1155, Vedado, La Habana 10600, Cuba
Tel: +53-7 333 862/304 666
Fax: +53-7 333 3032
MECLA director: Francisco Leon
Market
33rd Chicago Int'l TV Festival (Chicago)
20 December 1997
20 December 1998
32 West Randolph Street, Suite 600, Chicago, Illinois 60601, USA
Tel: +1-312 425 9400
Fax: +1-312 425 0944
e-mail: filmfest@www.com
Festival director: Michael Kutza
Festival programmer: Jim Haley & Helen Gramates
Competition
The Gold Hugo Statue
Previous winner: Best TV Commercial 'Clydesdale' Anheuser Busch Beer
Entry deadline: December 1997
ist of all Film Festivals 12/97 Worldwide
Cairo Int'l Film Festival