Festivals and Distribution

Print

Buy it!	Coe, Michelle. 2001  The AIVF Guide to International Film & Video Festivals. New York: Foundation for Independent Video and Film.
Buy it!	Langer, Adam. 2000. The Film Festival Guide: For Filmmakers, Film Buffs, and Industry Professionals. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press.
Buy it!	Stolberg, Shael, ed. 2000. International Film Festival Guide (International Film Festival Guide, 3rd Ed). hushion House.
Buy it!	Gore, Chris. 2001. Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, Second Edition. Hollywood, CA: Lone Eagle Publishing Co.

Film Festival Server

Some Festival Listings

Berlinale: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin is a prestigious competitive festival and host to the European Film Market. Berlinale: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Budapester Strasse 50, 10787 Berlin, Germany. Phone 011 49-30 254-890, fax 011 49-30 254-89-249. E-mail info@berlinale.de.

Docfest, New York Documentary Center, Inc., 159 Maiden Lane, New York, NY 10038. Phone 212-668-1100, fax 212-943-6396. E-mail: mail@docfest.org.

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, 517 College Street, Suite 420, Toronto, Ontario M6G 4A2, Canada. Phone 416-203-2155, fax 416-203-0446. E-mail pgrove@hotdocs.ca.

Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute, 819 Central Avenue, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas 71902-6450. Phone 501-321-4747, fax 501-321-0211. E-mail hsdff@DocuFilmInst.org.

Rotterdam International Film Festival and Cinemart, the festival's market. Rotterdam International Film Festival, P. O. Box 21696, 3001 AR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Phone 011 31-10 411-8080, fax 011 31-10 413-5132. E-mail iffr@luna.nl, www.iffrotterdam.nl. Cinemart, P. O. Box 21696, 3001 AR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Phone 011 31 10 4118080, fax 011 31 10 4135132. E-mail iffr@luna.nl.

San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco Film Society, 39 Mesa Street, Suite 110, The Presidio, San Francisco, CA 94129-1025. Phone 415-561-5000, fax 415-561-5099.

South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, P.O. Box 4999, Austin, Texas 78765. Phone 512 467-7979, fax 512 451-0754. Nancy Schafer. E-mail sxsw@sxsw.com.

Sundance Film Festival, P. O. Box 16450, Salt Lake City, UT 84116. Phone (801) 328-3456, fax (801) 575-5175. E-mail sundance@xmission.com.

Sunny Side of the Doc is an international documentary market, Sunny Side of the Doc, 23, rue François Simon, 13003 Marseille France. Tél 33 (0)4 95 04 44 80, fax 33 (0)4 91 84 38 34. E-mail: @sunnysideofthedoc.com.

Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival Group, 2 Carlton Street, Suite 1600, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1J3, Canada. Phone 416-967-7371, fax 416-967-9577.

Distribution

Print

Buy it!	Bowser, Kathryn. 1996. The AIVF Guide to Film and Video Distributors. New York: Foundation for Independent Video and Film.
Buy it!	Warshawski, Morrie, ed. 1995. The Next Step: Distributing Independent Films and Videos. New York: Foundation for Independent Video and Film.

Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) is the nation's largest noncommercial media arts center dedicated to providing access to media, education, and technology. BAVC includes an annual list of video distributors in their newsletter, Video Networks. Bay Area Video Coalition, 2727 Mariposa Street, Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110. Phone 415-861-3282, fax 415-861-4316. E-mail bavc@bavc.org.

Online

There are hundreds of Web sites of distributors and directories online. Use your favorite search engine.

National Educational Media Network, 510-465-6885.

Rotterdam Market for Educational Programs and Multimedia

Docos.com is an online documentary information system listing buyers and sellers from around the world. Docos.com, 14 Buxton Road, Brighton BN1 5DE, UK. Fax 44 1273 508 841. E-mail info@docos.com.

Self-Distribution

Buy it!	Mookas, Ioannis, ed. The AIVF Self-Distribution Toolkit. New York: Foundation for Independent Video and Film.
	Directory of Media Funding Sources/Mediamaker Handbook, published by Bay Area Video Coalition, 2727 Mariposa Street, Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110. Phone 415-861-3282, fax 415-861-4316. E-mail bavc@bavc.org.

UC Media Center Director Gary Handman's Distributor List

Media Market distributor list and profile from the National Educational Media Network, 510-465-6885.