Saturday, April 14, 2007

Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival


The Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival has become the most important cinema event in the world devoted to short films. In this post, I'll write about this film festival to make people understand more about it and may get involved in this kind of festival.

A. Introduction:
- Clermont-Ferrand is an annual international short film festival taken place in France.
- It has been considered as the most important cinema event in the world dedicated to short films. The great numbers of audience and the professionals’ attendance every year make this the second film festival in France, after Cannes.

some movies in this festival

B. History:
- Sauve qui peut le court métrage (roughly translatable as "Short Film: S.O.S!") association created and organized The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 1979 due to the lack of a major event around short films. However, at that time, only the National Competition was presented.
- Until 1989, the first International Festival was celebrated, contributing to launch it as the major international cinematographic event for short films.
- In 1997, The Auvergne Film Commission was created to help the film crews improve their work and provide them with information on local resources, services and professionals.
- Lately, in 2002, a new competition devoted to digital works has been created.

C. Why both audiences and filmmakers approach Clermont-Ferrand:
* The 1st reason is the festival every year has presented around 400 fiction and animated films, documentaries and experimental films, which together represent the rich diversity of contemporary cinema.
* Next, one of the great opportunities a festival like this provides is the chance to meet other filmmakers and discuss about movies. Funding, technologic advancements, experience and skills are developed during round tables, discussions or workshops.
* Another advantage that Clermont-Ferrand gives not only for the audiences, but also the filmmakers is offering a lot of means to help candidate’s films accessible to audiences.
- The 1st way is to provide exhibition space where the filmmakers promote their business, present their catalogue, form working relationships whilst preparing new projects. That’s also much easy for the audiences to approach the films attending to the Festival.

exhibition hall

- Besides that, all the films and their useful information are referenced in the market catalogue which is bilingual (French & English). Three versions are available: the online version, available from our website through the Pro Services; the interactive version, available at the video library; and lastly, the hardback edition which is on sale.
- Moreover, it provides access to a video library. All the films submitted to the Festival are stored on a server and available for viewing on 35 video units.
- Lastly, the Pro Services will help users fully enjoy all the facilities the Short Film Market has to offer. It means you can easily access to the video library, browse through the online version of the Market Catalogue and fully approach the enriched version of the Festival’s backlog database (information on films, sales and production contacts).

Pro Services online

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