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Cinema Studies Links:
Film Festivals
- Animafest.
Animafest (The World Festival of Animated Film), located in Zagreb, Croatia, the second oldest animation festival in Europe, is built on the tradition of the Zagreb School of Animation and is oriented towards auteur films.
- Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
The oldest international festival of animation in the world and the largest in Europe.
- Arizona International Film Festival.
The REEL FRONTIER Film & Video Competition,presented by the Arizona Media Arts Center, celebrates the excellence and innovation in independent media arts expression.
- Athens International Film & Video Festival.
A project of the College of Fine Arts, at Ohio University, the Festival started in 1974, highlighting new international cinema and independently produced short films and remains essentially the same: a week-long celebration of independent, "outsider" cinema, video, and digital/multi-media.
- Austin Film Festival.
Dedicated to the writer as the heart of the creative process of filmmaking, the the Festival runs concurrently with a Writers Conference and also supports a screenplay competition.
- Big Muddy Film Festival.
Affiliated with Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and in its third decade, the Big Muddy is coordinated by Film Alternatives and partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Arts council, an Illinois state agency.
- Cannes Film Festival. This site includes reports from previous festivals back to 1997 and lists of winners from all past festivals.
- Carolina Film and Video Festival. This festival expanded its call for entries to even high school students for 2001. The festival has a particular theme for each year, as described on its site.
- Chicago International Film & Video Festival. Founded in 1964, the Festival’s goals are to discover and present new filmmakers from around the world to Chicago and to acknowledge them for their artistry.
- Chicago Underground Film Festival. An annual event showcasing independent, experimental and documentary films from around the world.
- The Columbus International Film Festival.
Founded in 1952 in Columbus, Ohio, the Festival is intended to encourage and promote the use of 16mm motion pictures and video in all forms of education and communication, not only in the local community but throughout the world.
- Durango Film Festival. This relatively young festival in Durango, Colorado, is dedicated to encouraging and empowering artists, through a competitive showcase of diverse and provocative independent feature films, documentaries, shorts, animations and new media works.
- Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival. A Special Event of the College of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, this festival presents films deemed by critic Roger Ebert to be overlooked in some way (including special formats and silent classics). Ebert introduces each film and conducts post-screening discussions with the filmmakers or experts on the particular film. The festival also includes anels on various overlooked aspects of the film industry.
- Eilat International Film Festival. This international competitive film festival includes feature films, children's films, humor films, gay and lesbian films, documentaries, made for TV movies and scuba diving and marine films.
- Flicker Film Festival. Northwestern University's film and video festival is one of the largest intercollegiate student film/video festivals in the country. Keynote speakers are acclaimed independent filmmakers.
- Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. This 28-day festival screens over 100 films and is the longest film festival in the world. The Festival is committed to first-time filmmakers and innovative programming.
- Heartland Film Festival. This Indianapolis festival. founded in 1991, seeks "to recognize and honor filmmakers whose work explores the human journey by artistically expressing hope and respect for the positive values of life."
- Hiroshima International Animation Festival.
Asia's most prominent animation festival.
- Humboldt International Film Festival.
Humboldt is the oldest student-run film festival in the world, featuring Super-8mm and 16mm films.
- Illinois International Film Festival.
This eclectic young festival aims to present a wide spectrum of filmmaking - feature films, documentaries, animation, short films, experimental student work, big budget, micro budget, and so on.
- Indiefest. Chicago's independent film festival and market.
- Kissimmee Film Festival.
This relatively young Florida festival for student and independent features and shorts presented its 2000 award for Best Actor in a Feature to UIUC Cinema Studies grad Jeffrey Wolinski
for his work in After School Special.
- Long Beach International Film Festival.
The festival helps clebrate the role Long Beach played in early twentieth century film with its Balboa Studio. The festival itself is held on the Queen Mary ocean liner docked in the harbor.
- Marco Island Film Festival.
The annual Marco Island Film Festival showcases and promotes film projects developed by independent film makers and creates opportunities for students pursuing a career in the film industry.
- Maui Film Festival. This annual festival at Wailea features major and mini-major studio releases along with independently-produced and distributed films, all presented in outdoor screening venues.
- New Jersey International Film Festival. This festival, sponsored by the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, showcases independent film and video as well as presenting seminars, panel discussions, and guest appearances by recognized film and video makers.
- Newport Beach Film Festival.
This California festival features films from around the world and representatives from major studios looking for new talent.
- Northampton Film Festival.
This festival in Northampton, Massachusetts, focuses on doumentaries, animation, abstract and experimental films.
The site includes last year's program and an entry form for this year.
- Ottawa International Animation Festival.
The oldest and largest animation festival in the Western Hemisphere and the second largest in the world, full of retrospectives of the aniamted works of studios, countries, and individual artists in addition to a treasure trove of films in competition from around the world.
- Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. This festival in Palm Springs, California, now in its ninth year, is North America's largest showcase of short films, typically screening over two hundred films from more than forty countries in eight competition categories, with a Market component of nearly two thousand films.
- Renaissance City Film Festival. This Providence, Rhode Island, festival honors films from both the Hollywood and the independent sectors and also includes question and answer sessions, workshops, and panel discussions.
- San Francisco Black Film Festival. The festival's stated goal is to heighten awareness of black culture while promoting the visionary work of independent filmmakers.
- Sarah Lawrence College Experimental Film and Video Festival. The festival searches for movies made from intense personal commitment, which express the aesthetic, philosophical, or political view of the filmmaker without recourse to traditional narrative conventions.
- Slamdance Film Festival. Begun in 1995 to run in opposition to the Sundance festival, Slamdance is a festival run by filmmakers for filmmakers, especially those just starting out. A screenplay writing competition is also part of the festival's activities.
- Stuttgart Film Festivals.
The Film- and Mediafestival Company organizes the Filmfest Stuttgart/Ludwigsburg, the FMX - congress for digital media-production, and the International Festival of Animated Films Stuttgart. Links to these three events can be found on the main site.
- Sundance Film Festival. The site also contains much information about the Sundance Institute and about films which have screened at the festival.
- Telluride Independent Film and Screenwriters Festival.  Information on the Festivals dating back to 1997, including winners; entrance forms and information on the next Festival as deadlines approach.
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