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September 2002:

Ecocinema 
International Environmental Film Festival of Zakynthos

4-8 September 2002
c/o Media Desk Hellas
Vassileos Konstantinou 44
Athens, 11635 Greece
Tel: +30 10 725 4056 7
Fax: + 30 10 729 3776
Email: info@ecocinema.gr lrikaki@otenet.gr
Website: www.ecocinema.gr
Festival director/programmer: 
Lucia Rikaki
Competition

Internationales 
Filmfest Oldenburg
4-8 September 2002
Banhof str. 15, Oldenburg 
26122, Germany
Tel: +49 441 925 0855
Fax: +49 441 925 0856
Email: tnt@filmfest-oldenburg.de
Website: www.filmfest-oldenburg.de
Festival director: Thorsten Neumann
Entry deadline: end of June 2002

The Latin American 
Festival (London)
5-18 September 2002
c/o Eva Tarr Kirkhope, 436 A, New Cross Road, London SE14 6TY
Tel/fax: +44 20 8692 2925
Mobile: +44 778 532 8000
Email: eva@metrocinema.co.uk
Website: 
www.latinamericanfilmfestival.com
Festival director/programmer: Eva 
Tarr Kirkhope
Entry deadline: 20 June 2002

Queerdoc 
Gay and Lesbian Documentary Festival (Sydney)

5-8 September 2002
Suite 10, 94 Oxford Street, PO Box 1081, Darlinghurst, Australia, NSW 
Tel: 61 2 9332 4938
Fax: 61 2 9331 2988
Email: info@queerscreen.com.au
Website: www.queerscreen.com.au
Executive officer: Richard King
Administrator: Brendan Bolger
Entry deadline: 12 July 2002

Toronto International 
Film Festival

5-14 September 2002
2 Carlton St, Suite 1600, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1J3, Canada
Tel: +1 416 967 7371
Fax: +1 416 967 9477
Email: tiffg@torfilmfest.ca
Website: www.bell.ca/filmfest
Festival director: Piers Handling
AGE People’s Choice Award
Previous winner: Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France)
Entry deadline: 7 June 2002 

bfm 
International Film Festival (London, tours Wales, Liverpool, Birmingham)
6-15 September 2002
Suite 13, 5 Blackhorse Lane
London, E17 6DS, UK
Tel: +44 208 531 9199
Fax: +44 208 527 9582
Email: bfm@teleregion.co.uk
Website: www.bfmfilmfestival.com
Festival director/programmer: 
Charles Thompson
Competition
Entry deadline: 19 July for screenplays, 14 July 2002 for short films
Boston Film Festival 
6-15 September 2002
Box 516, Hull, MA 02045, USA
Tel: +1 781 925 1373
Fax: +1 781 925 3132
Email: GEMSAD@aol.com
Website: bostonfilmfestival.org
Artistic director: Mark Diamond
Entry deadline: 1 July 2002

Madcat Women’s 
Int’l Film Festival

6-28 September 2002
639 Steiner Street, Apt. C, San Francisco, CA 94117, US
Tel: +1 415 436 9523
Fax: +1 415 934 0642
Email: alionbear@earthlink.net
Website: www.somaglow.com/madcat
Festival director& programmer: Ariella Ben-Dov
Entry deadline: 20 June 2002
Deauville Festival of American Films
6-15 September 2002
40 Rue Anatole France, 92594 Levallois-Perret Cedex, France
Tel: +33 1 41 34 20 33
Fax: +33 1 41 34 20 77
Email: jlasserre@le-public-systeme.fr
Website: www.festival-deauville.com
Festival director: Bruno Barde
Chairmen: Lionel Chouchan, André Halimi
Festival programmer: Jérôme Lasserre
Competition: Grand Prize for American Independents
Previous winner: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, US)
Entry deadline: 12 July 2002

Alternative Film Festival (Picciano)
7-14 September 2002
Viale dei Pini 17, Picciano (4PE) 65010 Italy
Tel: +39 085 828 5452
Fax: +39 085 828 5453
Email: aff@digitmovies.com
Website: www.digitmovies.com
Festival director: Luca Di Silverio
Festival programmers: Luca Di Silverio, Amedeo Mantica
Competition
Entry deadline: 31 July 2002

Reykjavik Short 
Film Festival

7-10 September 2002
Tungata, 14101 Reykjavik, Iceland
Tel: +354 861 5603/892 2721/
562 3580/551 5603
Fax: +354 552 5154
Email: shortcut@this.is
Website: www.this.is/shortcut
Festival director: Johann Sigmarsson
Festival programmer: Sigfus Sverrisson
Competition
Entry deadline: 30 June

Film by the Sea
9-15 September 2002
Spuikomweg 5, 4381 LZ Vlissingen, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 118 41 24 37
Fax: +31 118 41 60 93
Email: filmbythesea@wanadoo.nl
Website: www.filmbythesea.wanadoo.nl
Festival director: Leo Hannewijk
Entry deadline: 15 July 2002

Channel Islands 
Indie Film Festival 

10-15 September 2002
1106 E. Santa Clara St
Ventura CA 93001, USA
Tel: +1 805 648 4252
Fax: + 805 240 9743
Email: channelislandsindiefilmfest@yahoo.com
Website: 
www.channelislandsfilmfestival.com
Festival director: Phillip Anderson
Entry deadline: 15 June 2002

Short Cuts Cologne
10-15 September 2002
16-21 September 2003
Kölner Filmhaus, Maybachstr. 111, 50670 Köln, Germany
Tel: +49 221 222 71027
Fax: +49 221 222 71099
Email: info@short-cuts-cologne.de
Website: www.short-cuts-cologne.de
Festival director: Stefan Sarasi
Competition: Jury Award (E1500) and Audience Award (E1000)
Previous winner: Freunde (Jan Krueger, Germany)
Entry deadline for films: 2 June 2003

Athens 
International Film Festival

12-19 September 2002
5 Benaki Str, 15235 Halandri
Athens, Greece
Tel: +30 10 606 1363/69
Fax: +30 10 601 4137
Email: festival@pegasus.gr
Website: 
www.pegasus.gr/sinema/festival99
Festival director: Christos Mitsis
Festival programmers: Lefperis Adamidis, Poly Likurgu
Audience Award (GRD2 million) 
Previous winner: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, US)
Entry deadline: 15 July 2002

Breckenridge 
Festival of Film
12-15 September 2002
P.O. Box 718, Riverwalk Center, 
150 W. Adams, Breckenridge
CO 80424, US
Tel: +1 970 453 6200
Fax: +1 970 453 2692
Email: filmfest@brecknet.com
Website: www.breckfilmfest.com
Festival director: Suzanne Burke
Festival programmer: Marty Ferris
Competition
Entry deadline: 30 June 2002

Making Scenes
Queer Film & Video Festival 

12-15 & 19-22 Sept 2002
2 Daly Avenue, Suite 250, Ottawa Ontario, K1N 6E2, Canada
Tel: +1 613 566 2113
Email: scenes@magma.ca
Website: www.makingscenes.ca
Festival director: Daniel Grummisch
Festival programmer: Jose Sanchez
Competition

Silver Lake Film Festival
12-21 September 2002
2658 Griffith Park Blvd., #389 Los Angeles, CA 90039, US
Tel/fax: +1 323 993 7225
Email: info@silverlakefilmfestival.com
Website: www.silverlakefilmfestival.com
Festival directors: Greg Ptacek, Christina Soletti
Director of programming: 
Tiffany Naiman

Umeĺ International 
Film Festival

12-18 September 2002
PO Box 43, 90102 Umeĺ, Sweden
Tel: +46 90 133 388/56
Fax: +46 90 777 961
Email: info@ff.umea.com
Website: www.ff.umea.com
Festival director: Thom Palmen
Entry deadline: 15 July (shorts) 
1 August (features)

Atlantic Film 
Festival (Halifax)
13-21 September 2002
PO Box 38139, 220-5800 
Sackville Street, Halifax
Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 3S9
Tel: +1 902 422 3456
Fax: +1 902 422 4006
Email: festival@atlanticfilm.com
Website: www.atlanticfilm.com
Festival director: Lia Rinaldo
Executive director: Gregor Ash 
Market and competition: People’s Choice Award
Previous winner: Rare Birds (Sturla Gunnarsson, Canada)
Entry deadlin Website: www.haifaff.co.il
Festival director: Pnina Blayer
Competition: Golden Anchor award for Mediterranean films ($11,000)
Israeli Film Competition (total awards $60,000)
Previous winners: Je rentre a la maison (Manoel de Oliveira, France/Portugal)
Entry deadline: 30 July 2001

International Festival of New Film (Split)
21-28 September 2002
Kralja Tomislava 15, PO Box 244 HR-21000 Split, Croatia
Tel: +385 21 348 001
Fax: +385 21 348 002
Email: split.filmfest@st.tel.hr
Website: splitfilmfestival.hr
Festival director: Branko Karabatic
Festival programmer: Josko Jeroncic
Competition: Sculpture “The Tail” (Grand Prix) special money prizes
Previous winner: Viena (Audrius Stonys, Lithuania)
Entry deadline: 1 June 2002

Manhattan Short Film Festival (New York)
22 September 2002
Venue: Union Square Park NYC
c/o The Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th St, New York, NY 10016 US
Tel: +1 212 684 8374
Fax: +1 212 684 5546
Email: msfilmfest@aol.com
Website: wwww.msfilmfest.com
Festival director/programmer: Nicholas Mason
Competition and market

Int’l Festival of Alpine Films (Les Diablerets)
23-29 September 2002
PO Box 3, CH-1865 Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Tel: +41 24 492 2040 
Fax: +41 24 482 2041
Email: info@fifad.ch
Website: www.fifad.ch
Festival director: Jean Bovon
Competition: Grand Prix des Diablerets
Entry deadline: 19 June 2002

MilanoFilmFestival
13-22 September 2002
Via V Monti, 32 I-20123, Milan, Italy
Tel: +39 02 713613 
Fax: +39 02 70005404
Email: info@milanofilmfestival.it press@milanofilmfestival.it
Website: www.milanofilmfestival.it
Festival coordinator/programmer: Lorenzo Castellini, Beniamino Saibene
Competition: Best feature award, best short award, Aprile award
Previous winner: Fotograf (Kazim 
Öz, Turkey)
Entry deadline: 1 July 2002 (features)

 




Int’l Festival Women in Cinema (Bordeaux)
23-29 September 2002
9 Rue du Hameau
75015 Paris, France
Tel: +33 1 5636 1501
Fax: +33 1 5636 1791
Email: s.wiemann@cinemafeminin.com
Website: www.cinemafeminin.com
Festival director: Philippe Galland
Festival programmer: Sonja Wiemann
Market and competition

FilmFest Hamburg
23-29 September 2002
Friedensalee 44, D-22765 
Hamburg, Germany
Tel: +49 40 399 19000
Fax: +49 40 399 190010
Email: office@filmfesthamburg.de
Website: www.filmfesthamburg.de
Festival director: Josef Wutz
Festival programmer: Katarin Kohlstedde, Dr. Gisela Schmalz, Jenny Maruhn
Entry deadline: 15 July 2002

Lucas 2002 - Int’l Children Film Festival (Frankfurt am Main)
23-29 September 2002
Deutsches Filmmuseum, Schaumainkai 41, D-60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Tel: +49 69 2123 8833/212 333 69
Fax: +49 69 2123 7881
Email: schobert@deutsches-filmmuseum.de
Website: www.deutsches-filmmuseum.de/lucas
Festival director: Prof Walter Schobert
Festival programmer: Günther 
Kinstler Competition: Lucas Award (E2500 each)
Entry deadline: 30 June 2002

Prix Danube (Bratislava)
24 September–1 October 2003 (bi-annual)
Festival Secretariate, Mlynská dolina, Slovak Television, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 845 45
Tel: +421 2 6061 2498/2491
Fax: +421 2 6542 8609/ 6542 5600
Email: prixdanube@stv.sk
Website: www.stv.sk/prixdanube
Festival director: Jozef Filo
General secretary: Jela Kezmanová
Competition: Prix Danube award in four categories
Entry deadline: 15 May 2003

Terra di Siena Film Fest 
This year’s theme - Women in Film
24-27 September 2003
Tel/fax: +39 0577 222 999
Mobile: +39 335 5628 221
Email: libera@dada.it
Website: www.sienafilmfestival.it
Festival directors/programmers: Giovanni Bogani, Stefania Casini
Entry deadline: end of July

Aspen Film Fest
25-29 September 2002
110 E Hallam, Suite 102, Aspen, Colorado 81611, USA
Tel: +1 970 925 6882
Fax: +1 970 925 1967
Email: filmfest@aspenfilm.org
Website: www.aspenfilm.org
Festival director: Laura Thielen
Entry deadline: 1 July 2002

Film Camera Festival Manaki Brothers (Bitola)
25-29 September 2002
Vardar-Film 8 Mart 4, 91000 
Skopje, Macedonia
Tel/fax: +389 2 211 811
Email: ffmanaki@unet.com.mk
Website: www.manaki.com.mk
Festival director: Tomi Salkovski
Festival programmer: Blagoja Kunevski
Competition: Golden Camera 300
Previous winner: Last Resort (DOP Ryszard Lenczewski)

Netherlands Film Festival (Utrecht)

25 September-4 Oct 2002
PO Box 1581, 3500 BN Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 30 230 3800
Fax: +31 30 230 3801
Email: info@filmfestival.nl
Website: www.filmfestival.nl
Festival director: Doreen Boonekamp
Festival programmer: Herman de Wit
Market and competition: Golden 
Calf ($10,000)
Previous winner: Nynke (Pieter Verhoeff, The Netherlands)
Entry deadline: 15 June

Planet in Focus
Toronto Int’l Environmental Film 
and Video Festival

25-30 September 2002
24-29 September 2003
581 Markham Stret, 3rd floor, Toronto, Ontario M6G 2L7, Canada
Tel: +1 416 531 1769
Fax: +1 416 531 1612
Email: piffest@hotmail.com
Website: www.planetinfocus.org
Festival director: Mark Haslam
Festival programmers: Mark Haslam, Michelle van Beusekom
Entry deadline: 1 May 2002 
and 2003

Doclands (Dublin)
26-29 September 2002
26 Eustace St, Temple Bar
Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: +353 1 670 8177/679 5800
Fax: +353 1 670 7575
Email: ion@indigo.ie
Website: www.doclands.ie
Festival director: Sara Corcoran
Festival programmer: Gemma Dolan
Festival and market

Outfest San Diego
26-29 September 2002
4149 Utah Street, San Diego
CA 92104 US
Tel: +1 619 269 5636
Email: joeferrelli@cox.net
Website: www.outfest.org
Festival director: Joe Ferrelli

Rio de Janeiro 
Film Festival

26 September-10 Oct 2002
Rua Arnaldo Quintela 62, 22280-070 Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tel/fax: +55 21 2543 4968/2295 1060
Email: films@festivaldoriobr.com.br 
Website: www.festivaldoriobr.com.br
Festival directors: Ilda Santiago, Walkiria Barbosa
Entry deadline: 15 August 2002

Vancouver Int’l 
Film Festival

26 September-11 Oct 2002
Suite 410, 1008 Homer St., Vancouver V6B 2X1, Canada
Tel: +1 604 685 0260
Fax: +1 604 688 8221
Email: viff@viff.org
Website: www.viff.org
Festival director: Alan Franey
Audience-generated awards 
Previous winner: Divided We Fall (Jan Hrebjek, Czech Republic)
Entry deadline: 12 July 2002

Festival Int’l du Film Francophone (Namur)
27 September-4 Oct 2002
175 Rue des Brasseurs, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
Tel: +32 81 24 12 36
Fax: +32 81 22 43 84
Email: fiff@skynet.be
Website: www.fiff.namur.be
Festival director/programmer: Dominique Jamar
Market and competition: Golden Bayard for Best Film
Previous winner: L’afrance (Alain Gonis, Senegal/France)
Entry deadline: 15 June (shorts and documentaries) 15 July 2002 (features) 

Holland Film 
Meeting (Utrecht)

27-30 September 2002
PO Box 1581, 3500 BN
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 30 230 3800
Fax: +31 30 213 3801
Director: Elles Dreissen

Independent Feature Film Market (NY)
27 September-4 Oct 2002
104 West 29th Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10001-5310, USA
Tel: +1 212 465 8200
Fax: +1 212 465 8525
Email: marketinfo@ifp.org
Website: www.ifp.org
Market director: Patricia Finneran
Market 
Entry deadline: 7 June 2002

New York Film Festival
27 September-13 Oct 2002
Film Society of Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Plaza, New York, 10023, USA
Tel: +1 212 875 5638
Fax: +1 212 875 5636
Email: sbensman@filmlinc.com
Website: www.filmlinc.com
Festival director: Richard Peńa
Entry deadline: 10 July 2002

The Panorama of European Cinema (Athens)
27 September-10 Oct 2002
Minoos 10-16, 11743 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30 1 92 96 001/864 7730
Fax: +30 1 902 0311/864 7730
Email: ninos@enet.gr
Director: Ninos Mikelides
Competition: Panorama award
Previous winner: One of the Hollywood Ten (Karl Francis, UK)
Entry deadline: 30 August 2002

Tinklai (Net)
27 September-13 Oct 2002
Architektu 28-26, 2043 Vilnius, Lithuania
Tel: +370 2 764 218
Fax: +370 2 763 463
Email: tinklai@tinklai.net info@kino.lt
Website: www.tinklai.net www.kino.lt
Festival director: Arturas Jevdokimovas
Festival programmer: Grazina Arlickaite

Valdivia International Film Festival
28 September-4 Oct 2002
Universidad Austral de Chile, Cine Club, Isla Teja sin numero, Valdivia, Chile
Tel: +56 63 21 5622
Fax: +56 63 22 1209
Email: cineclub@uach.cl 
Website: www.festivalcinevaldivia.com
Festival director: Lucy Berkhoff Steinert
Entry deadline: 12 August 2002

Int’l Human Rights Film Festival
Jedan Svet (One World, Belgrade)
30 September–4 Oct 2002
Rige od fere 4, 11000 
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Tel: +381 11 660 365
Fax: +381 11 334 0843
Email: jedansvet@sezampro.yu
Website: www.oneworld.org.yu
Festival director: Bojana Andric
Entry deadline: 20 August 2002

Int’l Panorama of Independent Directors of Film & Video
30 September-6 Oct 2002
Cinema Club of Trade Unions Centre of Thessaloniki, 32 Aristotelous str. TK 54631, Greece
Tel: +30 932 766 373
Fax: +30 310 264 281
Email: cineek@comvos.net
Website: www.cineek.gr/panorama
Art director: Panayiotis Chionidis

SporTel (Monte Carlo)
30 September-3 Oct 2002
4 Boulevard de Jardin Exotique, MC-98000 Monaco, Monaco
Tel: +377 93 30 20 32
Fax: +377 93 30 20 33
Email: info@sportelmonaco.com
Website: sportelmonaco.com
Executive VP: David Tomatis
Market and competition: Golden Podium Award (five categories)

Euro Underground
(Paris, Berlin, Antwerp, Sarajevo)

September-November 2002
1658 Milwaukee Ave, Suite 142, Chicago, IL 60647 US
Tel: +1 312 437 2237
Email: info@eurounderground.org
Website: www.eurounderground.org
Festival director: Mark Siska
Festival programmer: Gunther Stolatz
Competition
Entry deadline: 10 September 2002

Festival of 
Slovenian Film 

September 2003
Miklosiceva 38, Sl-1000 Ljubljana
Tel: 386 1 434 7618
Fax: 386 1 306 250
Email: info@film-sklad.si
Competition only for Slovenian films
Grand Prix

Matita Short Film Festival (Guardiagrele)
End of September 2002
Cultural Assn. Ex Novo, Via dei Crociferi 44, 66100 Chieti, Italy
Tel/fax: +39 0871 321 160
Email: info@matitafilmfestival.org
Website: www.matitafilmfestival.org
Festival director/programmer: 
Camillo D’Alessandro
Competition
Entry deadline: 30 July 2002


 

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