International Film Festival Guide [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

~ Shael Stolberg (Editor)

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Product Description

This guide offers a wide range of unique information on over 500 film festivals around the world. Excellent for anyone involved in the film industry at any level. Attorney John Sloss writes its foreword. He is according to the Hollywood Reporter " the quintessential indie lawyer [whose] projects are quality all the way". The guide also has feature articles which include the making of "Cuba 15" an award-winning short film by its creator Elizabeth Schub, the benefits of travelling festivals and first hand coverage of different festivals throughout the world. It also includes a listing of producers and distributors, and film schools. Produced in association with the Kodak Emerging Filmaker Program.

There is a brief description of each film festival, with festival dates, addresses, number of attendees, type of film accepted, languages and country restrictions, entry fees, email and website information, contact person and awards. Each entry is separately indexed alphabetically, by month, genre, country and submission date to make searching as easy and quick as possible.

Product Details

• Paperback: 325 pages
• Publisher: Festival Products; 3 edition (February 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1896909043
• ISBN-13: 978-1896909042
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,426,285 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating, June 16, 2003

By A Customer

With online listings readily available, the listings in this and other film festival books are not particularly relevant. This one in particular, since it is three years old.

The value of these books, then, is the commentary. IFFG has some good stuff, specifically the first-hand accounts, by filmmakers, of their experiences at many different festivals (though sadly they too often consist of reviews of the movies that played at these festivals, which is especially irrelevant four years after the fact). Overall, it is a useful tool for filmmakers trying to decide which festival to attend, though I would say it is inferior to the Gore book in this regard, and quite dated.

Unfortunately, it is marred by absolutely the worst editing I've ever seen. Every page has numerous typographic and grammatical errors, something that is especially ridiculous considering that this is a 3rd edition. The mistakes are consistent across the many different authors who contributed to the book, so these are errors of commission, not omission.

My favorite is the use of an enye (n with a tilde over it) for the word "in", which is particularly incomprehensible in a book with no spanish language content. My current theory is that the text was handwritten, then OCR'd into the computer and rushed to print.

I can't recommend it.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful, organized and useful, August 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: International Film Festival Guide, 1998 (Paperback)

The best of the bunch. Excellent online suppport for updates

4.0 out of 5 stars Essential reference guide for confused indie filmmakers!, December 1, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: International Film Festival Guide (Paperback)

There are many upsides to this fest guide book, the contact information is first rate and the AMOUNT of international festivals blew me away! First of all as a low-budget filmmaker I had no idea there were that many festivals out there for me! I also liked the articles from other filmmakers and I'm hoping the author will have more of that in the next edition. The guide could do with a blast of color but really that's just minor. As a reference guide, I've recommended it to my colleagues.