Christine Wang: Oberhausen Film Festival Call for Submissions

[anna balint]

[hi, please forward this open call for submissions for
the Oberhausen Film Festival to all the artists +
film makers you think might be interested, the
deadline for submissions is January 15, 2002. more information + history of the festival
attached below. thank you. Christine Wang]

*For Immediate Release*

I am honored to announce my participation in the International Jury at 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
Festival
Director / Managing Director
Internationale
Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen gGmbH
International
Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Grillostr. 34
D-46045
Oberhausen
Germany
Fon +49 (0)208 825-2652
Fax +49 (0)208 825-5413
gass at kurzfilmtage.de
www.kurzfilmtage.de