The International Film Festival Summit (IFFS) announces the Certified Film Festival Professional (CFFP) Program, a two-day course that provides a comprehensive training curriculum for film festival professionals, will take place this December 4-5, 2009 in Las Vegas.
The CFFP Program is a two-day course that provides a comprehensive training curriculum covering the most important elements involved in film festival work. The course content for each section is developed by a ...
Chrystèle Bazin Silhouette, with fest21.com Bruno Chatelin
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2009 IFFS Europe Opening Keynote Presentation
Marco Müller
Director
Venice International Film Festival
Since 1980, he has worked as a film critic and historian, creating and directing several series of books on the cinema for a number of publishers, has personally curated some monographic publications and has regularly written essays and articles on cinema. Since 1978, his new role as "festival maker" has progressively established itself. From 1989 to 1991, he was dir...
The Workshop of Workshops
Developing unique programs to set your festival apart and educate the filmmaker can be a key component to any festival. What can and should you do to properly enhance the filmmaker experience? Hear from established fests how year after year they continue to create an exceptional filmmaker experience.
Moderator: Phyllis Mollet, Consultant, International Film Industry
Ginnie Atkinson, Managing Director, Edinburgh Int'l Film Festival
Presentation at...
Cinekid Project Manager Monique Ruinen speaks about Cinekid Studio
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Biennale Marketing Sponsoring Manager Francesco di Cesare speaking at the summit
April 7th panel 11:15 am - 12:15 pm Creating Value for Festival Sponsors & Supporters
Wondering how you can ink more sponsorships, sign multi-year deals or just trying to solidify your selling strategy? If you answered yes to any of these questions your festival can't afford to miss this panel. Hear proven strategies to target, pitch, contact and retain sponsors year after year.
Mo...
There are so many different definitions of success and “bigness.” There are film festivals that attract hundreds of thousands of people, and yet are not on the mainstream radar, and festivals which show only a few dozen films that are world famous. This session will address considerations and metrics for success including: number of films, number of acquisitions, celebrities, size of audience, longevity, number of impressions and reach? Most notably, these different metrics have differing ...
Chrystèle Bazin
Silhouette outdoor festival in Paris (Buttes Chaumont) Director speaks about her work with associations to bring local crowd of 20 000 at the oudoor screenings of short films
Final conclusion of the two day event at the luxurious but loud Saint James & Albany Hotel in Paris
Program of the afternoon sessions:
The Workshop of Workshops
Developing unique programs to set your festival apart and educate the filmmaker can be a key component to any festival. What can and should you do to properly enhance the filmmaker experience? Hear from established fests how year after year they continue to create an exceptional filmmaker experience.
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Thank you all for attending our drinks party and wine tasting on April 7th
Delegates shared with us some very good and tasty moments.
These were followed by a diner with "strangers" that were no longer strangers at a typical Basque restaurant next ...
Social networking and digital media: what tools are out there and how can your festival leverage these assets? Don't miss this cutting edge panel discussion addressing the latest tools that can help propel your festival forward.
Moderator: Bruno Chatelin, COO, Filmfestivals.com
Git Scheynius, Festival Director, Stockholm Int'l Film Festival
Kate Burns, Managing Director, Bebo.com
Anthony Zameczkowski, Strategic Partnerships Manager, You Tube, EMEA
I will introduce the dis...
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm M21 EDitions: Filmfestivals.com/fest21.com offices 89 passage Choiseul, a mere 7 minutes walk from the convention.
Cocktail Reception Hosted By Filmfestivals.com/fest21.com
You won't want to miss this year's opening cocktail reception. More networking and additional meeting time with your peers and colleagues will make this reception time well spent.
Wine tasting in our offices offering a choice of red and white wines from the main french wine regions : Alsac...
2009 IFFS Europe Opening Keynote Presentation
Marco Müller
Director
Venice International Film Festival
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
8:30 am Registration Opens
9:15 am Opening Remarks by Conference Chair
Christian Gaines
Director of Festivals
Withoutabox, a division of IMDb
9:30 am - 10:30 am Dynamic Programming
Year round programming, migrating content to the web and extending audience reach are all critical programming issues. Once your festival has t...
Research & Choices: Festival Selection and Programming
Throughout its 62 year history, the Locarno International Film Festival has occupied a unique position in the landscape of the major film festivals. Every August, around 180,000 cinema-goers, 1,100 journalists, and 3,400 professionals converge on the small Swiss-Italian town of Locarno, right in the heart of Europe, which becomes the world capital of auteur cinema for eleven days.
During the day, a demanding selection of fe...
3rd Annual International Film Festival Summit Europe :April 7-8, 2009 ParisOpening Keynote Presented by Marco Müller, Director of theVenice International Film Festival Since 1980,he has worked as a film critic and historian, creating and directing severalseries of books on the cinema for a number of publishers, has personallycurated some monographic publications and has regularly written essays andarticles on cinema. Since 1978, his new role as "festival maker" hasprogressively estab...
2009 IFFS Europe Opening Keynote Presentations
Marco Müller
Director
Venice International Film Festival
Wieland Speck
Director of Panorama
Berlin International Film Festival
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
8:30 am Registration Opens
9:15 am Opening Remarks by Conference Chair
9:30 am - 10:30 am Dynamic Programming
Year round programming, migrating content to the web and extending audience reach are all critical programming issues. Once your festival ha...
THE PANEL: Filmmaker Professional Development and the Festival Experience
Developing programs to set your festival apart and educate the
filmmaker can be a key component to any festival. What can and should
you do to properly enhance the filmmaker experience? Hear from
established fests how year after year they continue to create an
exceptional filmmaker experience.
Moderator: Mike Jones, Managing Editor, Fi...
5th Annual International Film Festival Summit
December 7-9, 2008 Las Vegas
Congratulations to the 2008 Excellence Award Honorees
The Excellence Awards are the only awards that honor and pay tribute to the dedicated professionals and executives managing film festivals. Festivals continue to provide a vital intersection where the major stakeholders in the entertainment industry converge. For decades the tireless work of the film festival professional has made monumental impacts on the indus...
Pictures from the Summit
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