hi, please forward this open call for submissions for the Oberhausen Film Festival to all the video, film + music video artists you think might be interested, the deadline for submissions is January 15, 2002.
more information + history of the festival attached below. thank you.Title: 48th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen (Germany) May 2-7, 2002
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am honored to announce my participation in the
48th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany: (May 2-7, 2002) Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2002 For applications + information: http://www.kurzfilmtage.de
About the Festival: The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has become one of the world's most respected film events - a place where filmmakers and artists such as Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, David Lynch, Alexander Kluge and Werner Herzog, and more recently Ulrike Ottinger, Romuald Karmakar, Pipilotti Rist, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and François Ozon have presented their first films. Each year the Short Film Festival Oberhausen is able to present numerous world premieres and international first-runs in this context. Among the entries submitted during the course of the nearly 50-year history of this competition one finds names such as Eija-Lisa Ahtila, Doug Aitken, Igor & Gleb Aleinikov, Santiago Alvarez, Lindsay Anderson, Robert Breer, Robert Frank, Michel Gondry, James Herbert, Takashi Ito, Aki Kaurismäki, David Larcher, Spike Lee, Jan Lenica, Chris Marker, Don McKellar, Jonas Mekas, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Roman Polanski, Alain Resnais, Jacques Rivette, Glauber Rocha, Raul Ruiz, Zbigniew Rybczynski, Ousmane Sembène, Jan Svankmajer, István Szabó, Alain Tanner, Johan van der Keuken, Gus Van Sant, Agnes Varda, Gilian Wearing, Krzystof Zanussi, and Zelimir Zilnik.
Film + Video Included: The
equal treatment of video and film in the competitions since the early nineties,
the consistent incorporation of advertising and industrial films, and the
introduction of the world's first festival award for a music video made
in Germany - the MuVi - in the late nineties, are all aspects that place
the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen at the forefront of the
short film scene. Furthermore, in cooperation with its media partners,
Arte, 3sat and more recently MTV, the Festival has helped to open up new
audiences for short films. In their short film programs, Arte and 3sat
have been cooperating with the Festival for years, while in 2001 MTV for
the first time televised 25 short films from the programsof the International
Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Film Market: In addition to the Festival Catalogue, the Short Film Festival also publishes an extensive Film Market Catalogue each year containing crew and genre information, brief descriptions in two languages and production addresses for each film submitted, as well as a separate overview of film schools in Germany. Indexes organized by genre, director and running time facilitate working with the catalogue. The Film Market has established an international reputation as the largest market for German-produced short films, as well as films and videos of the most diverse formatsand genres. Every year buyers from Australia, France, the USA, Austria, Sweden and many other countries purchase on average about 200 festival submissions. In response to this resounding success, the Film Market was expanded in 2000 to include market screenings. In 2000/01 these screenings focussed on films from South East Asia, Australia and South Africa, giving production companies, film schools and national film institutions in these countries the chance to present their current film production to a Western audience of film industry insiders. The Film Market Catalogue was made available online for the first time in 2001. This provides industry repre-sentatives with an opportunity not only to obtain information on available films prior to the festival, but also during the rest of the year. In the Short Film Exchange Section you will find an online catalogue of more around 15,000 short films consisting of the Market Catalogues 1997 to 2001. The Film Market Catalogues of future festivals will be regularly added.
For Further Information about the Festival contact: Dr.
Lars Henrik Gass
Internationale
Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen gGmbH
Fon
+49 (0)208 825-2652
Best Regards, Cristine Wang
48th International Short Film Festival
mobile: 917.318.0081
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