The essential festival guide for filmmakers, producers, journalists, festival pros, and fans--from "Variety", the preeminent trade journal for the movie business.

To garner the attention and recognition that will get a film distributed, entering film festivals is a must. With more than 500 festivals worldwide, each listing features detailed information, including contact names, addresses, Web sites, entry materials, entry deadlines, and fees. Insider information for each festival is also included, such as what types of features are shown most frequently, festival reputations, noteworthy celebrity sightings, location details, and more than a dozen interviews with festival industry professionals. It includes a listing of the 16 best festivals including the hugely diverse Berlin International Film Festival, the revamped and vastly improved Chicago International Film Festival, and the Valladolid International Film Festival, where A Clockwork Orange premiered. This book also includes a handy guide for film buffs who want to plan a vacation around an interesting festival in a marvelous setting, as well as film house listings for a great escape into the dark for a movie fix.

Chris Gore reveals how to get a film accepted and what to do after acceptance, from putting together a press kit to putting on a great party.

Movies, stars, auteurs, and critics come together in film festivals as quintessential constellations of art, business, and glamour. Yet, how well do we understand the forces and meanings that these events embody? This work offers an overview of the history, people, films, and functions of the festival world.

Variety is the showbusiness bible and its International Guide is indispensable to industry insiders and fans alike. Now in its 39th year, the Variety International Film Guide is the world's most respected annual on global film-making. With lavishly illustrated reports from more than 70 countries, the Guide offers a unique survey of trends, achievements, and personalities during the past year. As usual the Guide selects five Directors of the Year. The World Box Office Survey lists the top ten most popular films in 45 countries. Further updated sections devoted to Film Festivals, Film Schools, Film Archives, and Film Music make this an indispensable source for reading and reference.

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 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 traveling festivals and first-hand coverage f different festivals throughout the world. It also includes a listing of producers, distributors and film schools. Produced in association with the Kodak Emerging Filmaker Program. Following the enthusiastic reception accorded it's last two editions; the 1999 IFFG has expanded its coverage once again. The first-hand coverage of festivals now includes Sundance, the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (LAIFF), Toronto, Edinburgh, Nantucket and many more. 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.

"The world's most respected movie annual" Now in its 33rd year, the Variety International Film Guide is the world's most respected movie annual, covering all aspects of the cinema in some 60 countries. The all-new 1996 edition contains articles by more than 50 contributors, all film experts in their respective countries. This indispensable World Production Survey, which forms the core of the book, contains assessments of the year just past and the year to come in both artistic and movie industry terms and includes a valuable checklist of new and forthcoming films, producers, distributors, useful addresses and stills from the latest films. Other essential sections of the Guide include Awards, Festivals, Film Archives, Film Schools, Film Bookshops and Memorabilia, Film Books, Film Magazines, and Laser discs. The book also features illustrated articles on five directors of the year. Peter Cowie is International publishing Director of Variety and author of numerous books on the cinema, including Ingmar Bergman, Coppola, and the recently-published World Cinema: Diary of a Day.

As the digital revolution has democratised film production, a new hybrid model of distribution is the way independent filmmakers can take control of their own distribution. This approach is not just DIY or Web-based - it combines the best techniques from each distribution arena, old and new. In Think Outside the Box Office, Reiss explains audience identification and targeting, negotiating split-rights agreements, the new role of film festivals and more.