This is primarily of interest to festival geeks such as myself but believe me when I say this is good news. One of the things that comes up from time to time when doing festival programming here in North America is the lack of a local equivalent to the European Federation of Fantastic Film Festivals, an organization that pools the resources of several festivals to help operate the festivals efficiently, give them a collective pull with distributors that they may lack individually and give film makers a central organization that can help them navigate the submission process to get their films seen. Well, it's lacking no more, with Fantasia, the Fantastic Fest and San Francisco's Dead Channels banding together to launch the North American Fantastic Festival Alliance. You can read on for the full press release or visit the website here.
Film festivals in Montreal, Austin and San Francisco partner to form the North American Fantastic Festival Alliance
www.FantasticAlliance.org
July 11th, 2007
For Immediate Release:
Three film festivals that showcase and celebrate provocative, intelligent and entertaining fantastic filmmaking have joined forces to create the North American Fantastic Festival Alliance.
NAFFA's expanding list of partners currently consists of Montreals FanTasia -- North Americas premier genre film festival -- along with the Alamo Drafthouses Fantastic Fest in Austin and Dead Channels: the San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film.
The North American Fantastic Festival Alliance is a network designed to support the exhibition and distribution of excellent international fantastic filmmaking in North America. NAFFA can assist neophyte filmmakers to navigate the chaotic, and often overwhelming, film festival submission process by providing useful information and invaluable networking opportunities. Our website provides emerging and established imaginative artists with access to an Alliance of acclaimed festivals that actively support the discovery and promotion of challenging independent work.
NAFFA affiliates:
· provide professional presentations of short and feature-length 35mm and 16mm films,
· provide excellent venues for video projection,
· provide potential for coverage by national and international media,
· may provide limited festival and marketing consultation for NAFFA programmed films (on request).
NAFFA is comprised of professional North American festivals dedicated to presenting the best new independent and international fantasy, science fiction, horror, animation, exploitation, experimental and cult movies, as well as selected retrospective programs. Member festivals are committed to the aesthetics (and history) of 35mm and 16mm film presentations and will present film prints whenever possible. NAFFA festivals are run by people who like to have a good time in a movie theatre.
The North American Fantastic Festival Alliance is recognized by the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation: www.melies.org
FanTasia: July 5 23, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
www.fantasiafestival.com
Dead Channels: August 9 16, 2007, San Francisco, California, USA.
www.deadchannels.com
Fantastic Fest: September 20 27, 2007, Austin, Texas, USA
www.fantasticfest.com
