I just found this film festival Web site at: http://www.rug.ac.be/filmfestival/ Info on the festival follows... Jeremy Butler > What is the Flanders International Film Festival - Gent? > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The Flanders International Film Festival, which started in 1974 as a > student's film festival, has developed into one of Europe's foremost > film events. Every year in October, the Decascoop multiplex, Studio > Skoop art-house and Sphinx cinema present some 100 films from all > over the world in various sections of the Ghent Festival to an > audience of some 60,000 spectators. > > The Flanders Film Festival is recognized by the IFFPA as a > competitive festival, focusing on "The Impact of Music on Film" at > which some 13 films compete for two prizes. Music is the festival's > main theme, with musical films, films on music and concerts of film > music, presentations of silent films with live musical accompaniment > etc. Renowned film composers such as Ennio Morricone, Georges > Delerue, Nicola Piovani, Stanley Myers and Michael Nyman attended > the festival to perform some of their music. > > The Flanders Film Festival is a festival for the public: the > audience are given an occasion to see and appreciate films which > did, for some reason, not manage to find a distributor for Belgium. > The festival's aim is to help create a climate that enables more > difficult films to find their way to the public. It is therefore > always useful for professionals to see what happens in Ghent, > because they might do business. The Ghent festival differs from the > other Belgian festivals not only because of its main theme (music), > but also because of its professionalism. Its aim is to give each > film and filmmaker what he deserves: promotion of his film to the > press, the public and the profession. The festival exerts itself to > offer its guests a comfortable and pleasant stay. > > As a contribution to the support of the art film, the festival > organizes a special competition urging the distributors to buy films > and venture a release of one of the successful festival films. > Furthermore, Belgian Television acquires some titles for broadcast > after the festival. > > The Flanders Film Festival also does special efforts to launch and > support filmmaking in Belgium. Every year, it presents important new > Belgian productions and it tries to create a national climate of > confidence and self-respect by organizing the annual Night of the > Film, at which the Belgian profession hands out awards to Belgian > filmmakers: the Joseph Plateau Awards. Furthermore, the festival > organizes a competition for new Belgian short films. > > The Flanders Film Festival could not be organized without financial > support from various sources. European, national and local > authorities such as the Commission of the European Community, the > Flemish Culture Ministry, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the > Province of Eastern Flanders and the City of Ghent are most helpful. > Furthermore, the Festival raises funds from sponsoring, enabling the > organisation to work professionally. The revenue from the box office > amounts to about 25% of the global budget. ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]