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List of all Film Festivals 03/99 Worldwide

 


Cairo International Film Festival for Children

March 1999

17 Kasr El Nil Street, 202 Cairo, Egypt

Tel: +202 392 3562/392 3962

Fax: +202 393 8979 Festival director: Saad Eldin Wahba

Competition

Golden Cairo

Entry deadline: tbc


Dublin Film Festival

3-12 March 1999

1 Suffolk Street, Dublin, Ireland

Tel: +353-1 679 2937

Fax: +353-1 679 2939

Festival director and programmer: Aine O’Halloran

Deadline for entry: 22 November 1998


Viewpoint: Documentary Now (Ghent)

3-10 March 1999

Sint-Annaplein 63, Ghent 9000, Belgium

Tel: +32-9-225 0845

Fax: +32-9-233 7522

Festival director: Walther Vander Cruysse

Festival programmer: Cis Bierinckx

Entry deadline: 30 November 1998


Santa Barbara Film Festival

4-14 March 1999

1216 State Street, Suite 710, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA

Tel: +1-805-963 0023

Fax: +1-805-962 2524

E-mail: sbiff@west.net

Festival director: Renée Missel

Festival programmer: Colleen McNichols

Competition

Best of the Fest (plaque)

Previous winner: Friends Like These (Phil Messina)

Entry deadline: 1 December 1998


Bradford Film Festival

5 - 20 March 1999

National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, BD1 1NQ, UK

Tel: +44-1274- 773 399

Fax: +44-1274 770 217

E-mail: c.fell@nmsi.ac.uk

Website: http://www.bradfordfilmfestival.org.uk

Festival director: Bill Lawrence

Festival programmer: Chris Fell

Shine Award (aimed at 1st and 2nd-time European directors)

Previous winner: TwentyFour:Seven - Shane Meadows (UK) My Country - Milos Radovic (former Yugoslavia)

Entry deadline: 7 January 1999


Cinema du Reel (Paris)

5-14 March 1999

BPI- 19 Rue Beauborg, 75197 Paris, Cedex 04, France

Tel: +33-1-44 78 44 21/44 78 45 16

Fax: +33-1-44 78 12 24

Festival director and programmer: Suzette Glenadel

Competition

Prix du cinema du reel (FFr50,000)

Previous winner: Moment of Impact (Julia Loktev)

Entry deadline: 1 November 1998


Fribourg Film Festival

7-14 March 1999

Rue de Locarno 8, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

Tel: +41-26 3222 232

Fax: +41-26 3227 950

Festival director and programmer: Martial Knaebel

Competition

Grand Prix (SFr25,000)

Previous winners: Quien diablo es Juliet? (Carlos Marcovich) & Pizza, birra y faso (Adri‡n Caetano & Bruno Stagnaro)

Entry deadline: 30 November 1998


ShoWest (Las Vegas)

8-11 March 1999

Suite 708, 116 N Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA

Tel: +1-310-657 7724

Fax: +1-310-657 4758

Executive director: Herb Burton

Director: Laura Rooney

Tradeshow


International Festival of Films on Art (Montreal)

9-14 March 1999

640 Saint-Paul Street West, Suite 406, Montréal, Québec, H3C 1L9 Canada

Tel: +1-514-874 1637

Fax: +1-514-874 9929

Festival director and programmer: René Rozon

Competition

Grand Prix (Honorary prize)

Previous winner: The Fundamental Gilbert and George (Gerald Fox)

Deadline for entry: 10 October 1998


San Diego Latino Film Festival

9-13 March 1999

c/o Centro Cultural de la Raza, 2125 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA 92101, US

Tel: +1-619 230 1938

Fax: +1-619-230 1938

E-mail: LatinoFilm@aol.com

Festival director: Ethan van Thilo

Entry deadline: 30 November 1998


Femme Totale Film Festival (Internationales Frauenfilmfestival) (Dortmund)

10-14 March 1999

Femme Totale, c/o Kulturbüro der Stadt Dortmund, Germany 44122

Tel: +49 - 231 - 50 25 162

Fax: +49 - 231 - 50 25 734

E-mail: femmetotale@compuserve.com

Website: http://www.femmetotale.de

Festival director: Silke Johanna Räbiger

Market

Entry deadline: end of Nov 98


The New York Underground Film Festival

10-14 March 1999

225 Lafayette St, Ste. 401, New York, NY 10012 USA

Tel: +1-212 925 3440

Fax: +1-212 925 3430

E-mail: festival@nyuff.com

Festival director: Ed Halter

Competition

Festival Choice Award ($750)

Previous winner: Jefftown (Dan Kraus)

Entry deadline: the late deadline mid January 1999


Nordic Film Festival (Rouen)

10-21 March 1999

22 rue de la Champmesié, Rouen 76000, France

Tel: +33-235 98 28 46

Fax: +33-235 70 92 08

Festival director: Jean Michel Mongredien

Festival programmers: Jean Michel Mongredien & Isabelle Dueult

Competition

Grand Jury award

Previous winner: Wolf Teeth Necklace (Algimantas Puipa)

Entry deadline: end of December 1999


Tampere Short Film Festival

10-14 March 1999

Box 305, 33101 Tampere, Finland

Tel: +358-3-213 0034

Fax: +358-3-223 0121

E-mail: film.festival@tt.tampere.fi

Festival director: Pertti Paltila

Festival programmer: Raimo Silius

Market and competition

Grand Prix FMk25,000 and ‘Kiss’ statuette

Previous winner: Un Jour (Marie Paccou)

Entry deadline: 5 January 1999


The Television Show (London)

10-12 March 1999

33-39 Bowling Green Lane, London, EC1R 0DA, UK

Tel: +44-171-505 8014

Fax: +44-171-505 8020

E-mail: julian-graves@theframe.com

Show director: Tim McPhearson

Conference director: Helen Golde


Ethno Filmfest Berlin

10 - 20 June 1999

Museum für Völkkerkunde Berlin, Arnimallee 2, Berlin, Germany D-14195

Tel: +49 - 30 - 8301-1

Fax: +49 - 30 - 8410 8469

E-mail: beckmann@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Festival director Wolfgang Davis

Festival programmer: Wolfgang Davis

Competition

Jury award

Previous winners: Madame E by Lasse Naukkarinnen (Finland) and Fading Raindeer Bell by Sun Zengtin (Taiwan)

Entry deadline : 1 April 1999


Ffilm Aberystwyth

11 - 14 March 1999

13 Skinner Street, Aberystwyth, Wales SY23 2JU, UK

Tel: +44 (0)1970 611257

Fax: +1 310 589-0852

E-mail: ffilm.aberystwyth@virgin.net

Website: http://freespace.virgin.net/pam.palmer3/index.htm

Festival director: Pam Palmer

Festival programmer: Phil Moran

Competition

Ffilm Aberystwyth Video Award

Entry deadline : 15 Feb 1999



San Francisco International Asian-American Film Festival

11-18 March 1999

NAATA, 346 Ninth Street,

2nd Floor, San Francisco,

CA 94103 US

Tel: +1-415 957 1205/863 0814

Fax: +1-415 957 1520/863 7428

E-mail: naata@sirius.com

Festival director and programmer: Corey Tong

Entry deadline: early deadline 18 September 1998, final deadline 2 October 1998


Creteil International Festival of Women’s Films

12-21 March 1999

Maison des Arts, Place

Salvador Allende, 94000

Creteil, France

Tel: +33-1-49 80 38 98

Fax: +33-1-43 99 04 10

Festival director: Jackie Buet

Festival programmers: Jackie Buet, Nicole Fernandez

Competition

Jury Prize (FFr25,000)

Previous winner: V toi stranie (Lidia Bobrova)

Entry deadline: 10 December 1998


Guadalajara Film Festival

12-18 March 1999

Griegos 120 Col. Altamira, Zapopan, Halisco Mexico, 45 160

Tel: + 523 812 1523/811 2882

Fax: +523 811 1882

Festival president: Raul Padilla

Festival director: Susana Lopez

Entry deadline: tbc


Minimalen Short Film Festival

12-14 March 1999

Box 10830, Innherredsk 73, N-7002 Trondheim, Norway

Tel: +47-73 52 27 57

Fax: +47-73 53 57 40

E-mail: minimalen@mail.link.no

Festival director and programmer: Per Fikse

National competition

The Minimalen Festival Award (NKr5,000)

Entry deadline: 15 December 1998


South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival

12-20 March 1999 (festival)

12-16 March 1999 (conference)

PO Box 4999, Austin,

TX 78765, US

Tel: +1-512 467 7979

Fax: +1-512 451 0754

E-mail: sxsw@sxsw.com.

Website: www.sxsw.com

 

International Film Festival Skopje

12 - 21 March 1999

Naroden Front 23 - 6 / 13, Skopje, Macedonia 91000

Tel: + 389 91 133 356

Fax: + 389 91 133 357

E-mail: trotoar@mol.com.mk

Festival director: Dejan Pavlovich

Festival programmer: Tatjana Janevska

Entry deadline : 1 Feb 1999



Bergamo Film Meeting

13-21 March 1999

Via Giovanni Reich 49, Torreboldone, Bergamo, Italy, 24020

Tel: +39-35-36 30 87

Fax: +39-35-34 12 55

E-mail: bfm@alasca.it

Festival directors and programmers: Emanuela Martini & Angelo Signorelli

Competition

Rosa Camuna d’Oro

Previous winner: Knoflikari (Petr Zelenka)

Deadline for entry: 20 January 1999


The Kino Festival of New Irish Cinema (Manchester) & The Irish World Heritage Film Awards

14-21 March 1999 (tbc)

48 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6HR, UK

Tel: +44-161 288 2494

Fax: +44-161 237 3423

Festival director: John S Wojowski

Competition

Previous winner:

Entry deadline: 15 January 1999


Ann Arbor Film Festival

16-21 March 1999

PO Box 8232, Ann Arbor, MI 48107, USA

Tel: +1-734-995 5356

Fax: +1-734-995 5396

E-mail: vicki@honeyman.org

Festival director and programmer: Vicki Honeyman

Competition

Best of Festival ($2,500)

Previous winner: Hauling Toto Big (Robert Nelson)

Entry deadline: 1 February 1999


Diagonale-Festival of Austrian Films (Graz)

16-21 March 1999

Diagonale, Obere Augerterstrasse 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria

Tel: +43-1-216 1303

Fax: +43-1-216 1303200

E-mail: wioen@diagonale.at

Festival directors: Christine Dollhofer & Constantin Wulff

Competition

Grosser Diagonalepreiss (DM30,000)

Previous winner: Suzie Washington (Florian Flicker)

Entry deadline for films: 1 December 1998


Carolina Film & Video Festival

17 - 20 March 1999

100 Carmichael Building, P.O. Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402 USA

Tel: +1 336.334.5360

Fax: +1 336.334.5039

E-mail: cfvf@uncg.edu

Website: http://cfvf.cjb.net

Festival director: Jenny Resigno

Festival programmer: Jeremy Modjeska

Competition

Entry deadline : 15 Jan 1999


Cleveland International Film Festival

18-28 March 1999

1621 Euclid Avenue, #428, Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2107, USA

Tel: +1-216-623 0400

Fax: +1-216-623 0103

E-mail: cfs@clevelandfilm.org

Website: www.clevefilmfest.org

Festival director and programmer: David W Wittkowsky

Competition

Roxanne T Mueller Award

Previous winner: Karakter (Mike Van Diem)

Entry deadline: 30 November 1998


African Film Festival (Milan)

19-25 March 1999

Via Lazzaroni 8, 20124 Milano, Italy

Tel: +39-2 66 96 258

Fax: +39-2 6671 4338

E-mail: coe@iol.it

Festival directors: Annamaria Gallone and Alessandra Speciale

Competition

1st Premio Agip (L15 million)

Previous winner: Kini & Adams (Idrissa Ouedraogo)

Entry deadline: 25 February 1999


Festival de Jóvenes Realizadores de Granada (International Short Film Festival of Granada, Spain)

20-27 March 1999

Festival de Jóvenes Realizadores de Granada, Centro de Información Joven, C/ Varela 14, 18009 Granada, Spain

Tel: +34 958 22 49 63

Fax: +34 958 22 21 83

E-mail: cijayugr@eldorado.es

Website: www.filmfest-granada.com

Festival director: Alberto Matrán

Festival programmer: Francisco Higueras, "Ficus"

Entry deadline : 19 Feb 1999



Academy Awards (Los Angeles)

21 March 1999

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Tel: +1-310-247 3000

Fax: +1-310-271-3395

Academy Awards

Previous winner (Best Picture): Titanic (James Cameron)

Entry deadline for main categories: 31 December 1998



Deutsches Kinder-Film & Fernseh-Festival (Gera)

21-26 March 1999 (biennale)

Stiftung Goldener Spatz, Amthorstrasse 11, D-07545 Gera, Germany

Tel: +49-365-800 4874

Fax: +49-365-800 1344

E-mail: gold-spa@gera-web.de

Festival director and programmer: Margret Albers

Market & competition

Goldener Spatz (Golden Sparrow) award

Previous winner: My Friend Joe (Chris Bould)

Entry deadline: 15 December 1998


International Film Festival For Young People (Laon)

22 March-1 April 1999

BP 526, 8 rue Cereurier, Laon, France Cedex 02001

Tel: +33-3-23-79 39 37/26

Fax: +33 3 23 793 932

Festival president and programmer: Raymond Lefevre

Competition

Grand Prix (FFr50,000)

Previous winner: Wide Oak (Paulo Bianchini)

Entry deadline: 10 February 1999


SporTel (Miami)

22-25 March 1999

4 Boulevard de Jardin Exotique, MC-98000 Monaco, Monaco

Tel: +377-93-30 20 32

Fax: +377-93-30 20 33

President: Alexandre de Merode

Executive vp: David Tomatis

Market & Competition

Golden Podium Trophy


Cognac International Thriller Film Festival

24 - 28 March 1999

36 rue Pierret, 92200 Neuilly, France

Tel: +33-1-41 34 20 00

Fax: +33-1-47 58 77 77

E-mail: publics@imaginet.fr

Website: http://www.cognac-france.com

Festival director: Lionel Chouchan

Festival programmer: Daniel Benzakein

Competition Grand Prix

Previous winner: Face (Antonia Bird)

Entry deadline: tbc


Celtic Film and Television Festival (Portree, Skye)

24-27 March 1999

1 Bowmont Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland G12 9LR

Tel: +44-141 342 4947

Fax: +44-141 342 4948

E-mail: mail@celticfilm

Festival director: Mark McLachlan

Competition

Spirit of the Festival

Previous winner: Cameleon (Ceri Sherlock)

Entry deadline: 27 November 1998


Festival of Yugoslav Documentary & Short Film (Belgrade)

25-29 March 1999

Jugoslavia Film, Makedonska 22/VI, 11000 Beograd, Yugoslavia

Tel: +381-11 324 8554/324 8282

Fax: +381-11 324 8659

Contact: Vojislav Vucinic

Competition

Grand Prix

Previous winner: Tamo gde smo se rastali (Dubravko Batalica)

Entry deadline: 15 February 1999


Newport Beach International Film Festival

25 March-4 April 1999

4000 MacArthur Blvd, 5th floor, Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA

Tel: +1-949-851 6555

Fax: +1-949-851 6556

Festival director: Jeff Conner

Festival programmer: Joseph Mahoney

Competition & Market

The Jury Award

Previous winner: Love Stories (Jerszy Stuhr)

Entry deadline: 1 January 1999


Dallas Video Festival

25 - 28 March 1999

1405 Woodlawn Ave, Dallas, Texas 75208, USA

Tel: +1 214.999.8999

Fax: +1 214.999.8998

E-mail: bart@videofest.org

Website: http://www. www.videofest.org

Festival director: Bart Weiss

Festival programmer: Bart Weiss

Competition

Lathem Award ($1200)

Entry deadline : 30 Nov 1998


Midwest Filmmakers Conference

26-28 March 1999

Cleveland Filmmakers, 1621 Euclid Avenue, #428, Cleveland, Ohio 44115-2107, USA

Tel: +1 216 623 0400

Fax: +1 216 623 0103

Website: www.clevelandfilm.org

Festival programmer: Frank O’Grady


Cape Town International

Film Festival

27 March-17 April 1999

University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa, 8001

Tel: +27 21 4238 257

Fax: +27 21 4242 355

E-mail: filmfest@hiddingh.uct.ac.za

Festival director: James A Polley

Festival programmer: Mignon Coetzee

Entry deadline: 30 November 1998


International Film Festival of Uruguay (Montevideo)

27 March-11 April 1999

Lorenzo Carnelli 1311, Montevideo 11 200, Uruguay

Tel: +598-2-408 2460/409 5795

Fax: +598-2-409 45 72

E-mail: cinemuy@chasque.apc.org

Festival director: Manuel Mart’nez Carril

Festival programmer: Manuel Mart’nez Carril, Ricardo Casas

Competition

Gran Premio de Montevideo

Previous winner: Career Girls (Mike Leigh) & Mother and Son (Aleksander Sokurov

Entry deadline: 25 February 1999


Hong Kong International Film Festival

31 March-15 April 1999 (tbc)

Level 7, Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Tel: +852-2734 2903

Fax: +852-2366 5206

Festival director: Lo Tak-Sing,

Festival programmers: Li Cheuk-to, Jacob Wong, Law Kar

Entry deadline: December 1998


Days of Independent Film (Augsburg)

March 1999

Schroeckstr. 6, 86152 Augsburg, Germany, 86152

Tel: +49-821 349 1060

Fax: +49-821-349 5218

E-mail: filmbuero@t-online.de

Festival director: Harald Munding

Festival programmers: Sabine Samm, Harald Bann, Barbara Mauch

Deadline for entry: tbc



Chicago Film Critics Awards

March 1999

1152 North LaSalle Street, Building B, Chicago, IL 60610-2695, USA

Tel: +1-773 509 8155

Fax: +1-773 664 2925


IVCA Awards 1999 (London)

March 1999

IVCA, Bolsover House, 5-6 Clipstone Street, London W1P 8LD, UK

Tel: +44-171-580 0962

Fax: +44-171 436 2606

Chief executive: Wayne Drew

Competition

Grand Prix

Previous winner: D-code (John Worth)

Entry deadline: 1 December 1998


Jewish and Israeli Film Festival (Montpellier)

March 1999

500, Boulevard d’Antigone, Montpellier 3400, France

Tel: +33-467 15 08 76/72 32 63

Fax: +33-467 15 08 72/72 32 62

Festival director: tbc

Competition

Levy Award

Previous winner: Tears of Stone (Ilmar Otson)

Entry deadline: tbc


New Directors/New Films (New York City)

End of March 1999

The Film Society of Lincoln Centre, 70 Lincoln Centre Plaza, New York, NY 10023, US

Tel: +1-212-875 5638

Fax: +1-212-875 5636

Website: www.filmlinc.com

Contact: Sara Bensman

Entry deadline: 15 January 1999


Royal Television Society Awards

March 1999

Holborn Hall, 100 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 1AL, UK

Tel: +44-171 430 1000

Fax: +44-171 430 0924

Contact: Nicky Harlow

Deadline for entry: tbc


Seoul Cable and Satellite Festival

March 1999

Korea Exhibition Centre, 159 Samsung-Dong, Kangham-gu, Seoul 135-731, Korea

Tel: 822 551 1147

Fax: 822 551 1259

E-mail: chonsh@star.koex.co.kr

Festival director: Sang Hwi Chon


!Viva! Spanish Film Festival (Manchester)

March 1999 (tbc)

70 Oxford Street, Manchester, UK MI 5NH

Tel: +44-161 228 7621

Fax: +44-161 200 1506

Festival programmer: Linda Pariser

Entry deadline: 30 December 1998