Emden International Film Festival 2-9 June 1999 Postfah 2343, 26703 Emden, Germany Tel: +49 4921 915 533/35 Fax: +49 4921 915 591 Festival directors and programmers: Rolf Eckard, Thorsten Hecht Competition for German-language films and north-west European feature films Emden Film Prize (DM15,000) Previous winner: Left Luggage (Jeroen Krabbe) Entry deadline for films: 15 March 1999 Troia International Film Festival (Setœbal) 2-13 June 1999 Forum Luisa Todi, Av Luisa Todi 65, 2900 Setœbal, Portugal Tel: +351-65-525 908 Fax: +351-65-525 681 Festival director: M‡rio Ventura Festival programmer: Fernanda Silva Competition Golden Dolphin Previous winner: The Bandit (Yavuz Turzul) Entry deadline: 15 March 1999 Shots in the Dark, Mystery & Thriller Festival (Nottingham) 3-13 June 1999 Broadway Media Centre, 14 Broad Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL, UK Tel: +44-115-952 6600 Fax: +44-115-952 6622 E-mail: broadway@bwymedia. demon.co.uk Deadline for entry: 27 March 1999 Huesca Film Festival 4-12 June 1999 Avda. Parque, 1 piso, 22002 Huesca, Spain Tel: +34-974-212582 Fax: +34-974-210065 E-mail: huescafest@fsai.es Festival director: JosŽ Mar’a Escriche Competition Danzante de oro (Pta1,000,000) Previous winner: The Mirror of the Sky (Carlos Salse) Entry deadline: 1 April 1999 Sydney Film Festival 4-18 June 1999 PO Box 950, Glebe, NSW 2037, Sydney, Australia Tel: +61-2-9660 3844 Fax: +61-2-9692 8793 E-mail: info@sydfilm-fest.com.au Festival director and programmer: to be appointed Sept 98 Competition Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films (A$2,500 for each award) Entry deadline: 19 February 1999 Balticum Film and TV Festival (Gudhjem, R¿nne, Svaneke) 5-11 June 1999 Skippergade 8, Svaneke, DK- 3940 Denmark Tel: +45-70 202002 Fax: +45-70202001 E-mail: balticmediacentre@bmc.dk Festival director: Bent N¿rby Bonde Festival programmer: Tue Steen MŸllen Competition Balticum prize (DKr10,000) Previous winner: Witstock, Witstock (Volker Kšpke) Entry deadline: 15 February 1999 The Princes’ Award 5 June 1999 The Prince’s Award Foundation, c/o European Environment Agency, Kongens Nytorv 6, DK-1050 Copenhagen K, Denmark Tel: +45-33 36 7100/7121 Fax: +45-33 36 7199 E-mail: princes.award@eea.dk Website: http://www.eea.dk/events/pa97 Director of the Awards: Tage Mikkelsen A prize for the producers of the best CD-ROM, video and film on the environment of Europe Deadline for entry: 1 May 1999 US International Film and Video Festival (Chicago) 9-10 June 1999 841 North Addison Avenue, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126-1291 Tel: +1-630-834 7773 Fax: +1-630-834 5565 Festival director: JW Anderson Competition Gold Camera & Silver Screen Awards Previous winner: The Messengers of the Gods’ Butterflies Entry deadline: 1 March 1999 Montreux 1997 International Television Symposium 10-15 June 1999 PO Box 1451, Rue du ThŽ‰tre 5, CH-1820 Montreux, Switzerland Tel: +41-21 963 3220 Fax: +41-21 963 8851 E-mail: message@symposia.ch Florida Film Festival (Maitland) 11-20 June 1999 Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Avenue Maitland, FL 32751, USA Tel: +1-407 629 1088 x 222 Fax: +1-407 629 6870 E-mail address: filmfest@gate.net President: Sigrid Tiedtke Executive director: Melanie Gasper Festival programmer: Matthew Curtis Competition Grand Jury Prize Previous winner: The Headhunter’s Sister (Scott Saunders) Entry deadline: 26 March 1999 Banff TV Festival 13-19 June 1999 1516 Railway Avenue, Canmore, Alberta, Canada, T1W 1P6 Tel: +1-403-678 9260 Fax: +1-403-678 9269 E-mail: info@banfftvfest.com Website: www.banfftvfest.com Festival director: Pat Ferns Festival programmer: Jerry Ezekiel Competition The Banff Rockie Previous winner: Subway Stories Deadline for entry: February 1999 National Cable TV Association 47th Annual Convention & Int’l Exposition (Chicago) 13-16 June 1999 NCTA Convention/Exposition Headquarters c/o Dobson & Associates, Ltd, 1225 19th Street, NW, Suite 310, Washington, DC 20036 USA Tel: +1-202-775 3606 Fax: +1-202 775 1028 International Hamburg Short Film Festival 15-20 June 1999 Kurtzfilmagentur, D-22765 Hamburg, Germany Tel: +49-40-398 26 122 Fax: +49-40 398 26 123 Festival director: Astrid KŸhl Competition Hamburg Short Film Prize (DM5,000) Entry deadline: 1 March 1999 Norwegian Short Film Festival (Grimstad) 15-20 June 1999 Filmens Hus, Dronningens Gate 16, N-0152 Oslo, Norway Tel: +47 22 47 46 46 Fax: +47 22 47 46 90 Website: http://www.nfi.no/krtf/ welcome.html Festival director: Torunn Nyen Competition (Norwegian films only) Previous winner: Benny (PŒl Jackman) Entry deadline: 15 March 1999 Midnight Sun Film Festival (SodankylŠ) 16-20 June 1999 Malminkatu 36, 00100 Helsinki, Finland Tel: +358-9-685 2242 Fax: +358-9-694 5560 Festival director: Peter von Bagh Festival programmer: Gšran Michelsson Entry deadline: 30 March 1999 San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 17-27 June 1999 346 Ninth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA Tel: +1-415 703 8650 Fax: +1-415 861 1404 E-mail: info@frameline.org Festival director: Michael Lumpkin Festival programmer: Jennifer Morris Competition Audience award Previous winner: Lilies Entry deadline: 15 February 1999 Art Film Festival (Trencianske Teplice) 18-25 June 1999 Konventna 8, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 81103 Tel: +42-17 531 9479/ 531 9480/ 531 9481 Fax: +42-17 531 1679/ 531 9372 E-mail: festival@artfilm.sk Festival director: Peter Hledik Festival programmer: Vladimir Stric Market & competition Golden Key Award ($3,000) Previous winner: Knoflikari (Petr Zelenka) Entry deadline: 9 April 1999 Cinema Expo International (Amsterdam) 21-24 June 1999 244 West 49th Street #200, New York 10019, USA Tel: +1-212-246 6460 Fax: +1-212-265 6428 Contact: Jun Margolis Entry deadline: n/a International Advertising Film Festival (Cannes) 21-26 June 1999 Woolverstone House, 61/62 Berners Street, London W1P 3AE Tel: +44-171-636 6122 Fax: +44-171-636 6086 Website: http:/www.canneslions.com Festival president: Roger Hatchuel Market & Competition Lions Award Previous winner: Rolo-Nestle Netherlands Entry deadline: 23 March 1999 Festival of Festivals (St Petersburg) 23-29 June 1999 10 Kamennoostrovsky Ave, St Petersburg, 197101, Russia Tel: +7-812-237 0304 Fax: +7-812-237 0304/ 394 5870 Festival director: Alexander Mamontov Market & competition Grand Prix Previous winners: Of Freaks and Men (Alexei Balabanov) Entry deadline: 1 May 1999 Hong Kong International Film Market 23-25 June 1999 38th Floor, Office Tower Convention Plaza, 1 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong Tel: +852 2584 4333 Fax: +852 2824 0249 E-mail: ernest.chan@tdc.org.hk Festival director: Jenny Koo Market Showbiz Expo West (Los Angeles) 25-27 June 1999 383 Main Ave, Norwalk, CA 06851, US Tel: +1-203 840 5945 Fax: +1-203 840 9945 E-mail: ibogardus@reedexpo.com Festival director: Dave Bonaparte Entry deadline: tbc Filmfest MŸnchen 26 June-3 July 1999 Internationale MŸnchen Filmwochen GmbH, Kaiserstra§e 39, D-80801 Munich, Germany Tel: +49-89 38 19 040 Fax: +49-89 38 19 04 27/26 Festival director: Eberhard Hauff No competition, but special awards given Top TV Award, Media Net Award Entry deadline: 1 May 1999 Adriaticocinema End of June 1999 (Bellaria, Rimini, Catolica) Via Gambalunga 27, 47900 Rimini, Italy Tel: +39-541-226 27/26 399/52 038 Fax: +39-541-24 227 Festival director: Marco Bellocchio Organising director: Gianfranco Miro Gori International competition only for film schools Deadline for films: end of April Bradford AnimationFestival (BAF!) June 1999 National Museum of Photography, film & TV, Pictureville, Bradford, BD1 1NQ, UK Tel: +44-1274 725 347 Fax: +44-1274 723 155 E-mail: c.sawhney@nmsei.ac.uk or c.fell@nmsi.ac.uk Festival programmer: Chris Fell Competition Charlotte Film & Video Festival Early June 1999 Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte, NC 28207 Tel: +1-704 337 2019 Fax: +1-704 337 2101 Festival director: Robert West Competition Entry deadline: 1 March 1999 Cologne Conference June 1999 (tbc) Adolf Grimme Institut, Im Mediapark 5b, 50670 Kšln, Germany Tel: +49-221-454 3280 Fax: +49-221-454 3289 E-mail: 100776,2621@compuserve.com Festival director: Lutz Hachmeister Festival programmer: Martina Richter Market Entry deadline: 1 March 1999 European TV Sports Conference (London) June 1999 (tbc) Kagan Seminars Int’l, 524 Fulham Rd, London SW6 5NR, UK Tel: +44-171 371 8880 Fax: +44-171 371 8715 Contact: Alex Guthrie Fantafestival (Rome) June 1999 Viale Gioachino Rossini 9, Rome, 00198 Italy Tel: +39-6 807 6999 Fax: +39-6 807 7199 Festival directors: Adriano Pintaldi & Alberto Ravagioli Entry deadline: tbc Festival of European Cinema (La Baule) 1999 dates tbc 97 rue Raumur, F-75002 Paris, France Tel: +33-1 40 41 04 54 Fax: +33-1 40 26 54 78 Festival director: Robert Parienti Festival programmer: Andre Halimi Competition Prix Europe/Europa Festival of Film Schools (Munich) June 1998 Kaiser Str. 39, Munich 80801, Germany Tel: +49 89 381 9040 Fax: +49 89 381 90426 Festival director: Prof Wolfgang LŠngsfeld Competition Entry deadline: end of April 1998 French-American Film Workshop (New York/Avignon) Late June 1999 10 MontŽe de la Tour, 30400 Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France Tel: +33-490 25 93 23 Fax: +33-490 25 93 24 Festival director: Jerome Henry Rudes Or Tel: +1-212-343 2675 Fax: +1-212-343 1849 Competition Tournage Awards ($20,000) Previous winner: Le Jone du chaaba Entry deadline: April 1999 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (New York City) Mid June 1999 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor, New York, NY, 10118 USA Tel: +1-212-216 1264/ 216 1235 Fax: +1-212-736 1300 E-mail: burres b@hrw.org Festival director: Bruni Burres Festival programmers: Bruni Burres, Heather Harding New film dealing with human rights themes ($5,000) Previous winner: An Ordinary President (Yuri Khashchevatsky) Entry deadline: 10 January 1999 International and Open Russian Film Festivals Kinotavr (Sochi) June 1999 35 Arbat, Moscow 121835, Russia Tel: +7 095 248 0911/248 9187 Fax: +7 095 248 0966 Festival director: tbc Int’l Film Fest Cinematograph (Innsbruck) June 1999 CineVision, c/o Cinematograph, Museumstrasse 31, Innsbruck, Austria 6020 Tel: +43-512-580723 Fax: +43-512-581762 E-mail: cinema@nomad.transit.or.at. Programme director: Dr Helmut Groschup Entry deadline: tbc ‘Message to Man’ Int’l Documentary, Short & Animated Film Festival Late June 1999 Karavannaya 12, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191011 Tel: +7-812 235 2660/230 2200 Fax: +7-812 235 2660/235 3995 Festival director: Mikhail Litviakov Festival programmer: Victor Semenyuk Competition Colden Centaur Award ($5,000) Previous winner: Bread Day (Sergei Dvordsevog) Entry deadline: 1 May 1999 Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Libero/Il Cinema Ritrovato (Festival of film restoration from the archives from all over the world) Late June 1999 Via Galliera 8, I-40121 Bologna, Italy Tel: +39-51-237 088 Fax: +39-51-261 680 Festival director: Gianluca Farinelli Entry deadline: n/a Pesaro Film Festival Mid June 1998 Via Villafranca 20, 00185 Rome, Italy Tel: +39-6-445 66 43/49 11 56 Fax: +39-6-491 163 E-mail: pesarofilmfest@mclink.it Festival director and programmer: Adriano Aprˆ Entry deadline: 31 March 1998 La Rochelle International Film Festival June 1999 (tbc) 16 rue Saint Sabin, 75011 Paris, France Tel: +33-1-48 06 16 66 Fax: +33-1-48 06 15 40 Festival director: Jean-Loup Passek Festival programmer: Sylvie Pras-Pruneengler Market Entry deadline: 15 May 1999 Potsdam Film Fest June 1999 (tbc) Dianastr. 21, 14482 Potsdam, Germany Tel: +49 331 706 0369 Fax: +49 331 706 0339 Festival director: Heidrun Podazus Festival programmer: festival team Entry deadline for films: tbc World Animation Celebration June or July 1999 (tbc) 30101 Agoura Court, Suite 110, Agoura Hill 91301, California, USA Tel: +1-818-991 2884 Fax: +1-818-991 3773 Festival director: Dan Bolton Competition The Grand Prize Entry deadline: tbc