Sundance Film Festival
(park city)
- most important film festival in the US
- takes place every January
- 2010, introduced a new non-competitive showcase section for ones with micro-budget ('NEXT')
- out of more that 3,700 submissions, 120 are eventually shown at the festival
Toronto International Film Festival
(Toronto, Canada)
- 'charitable cultural organisation'
- sponsored by:
Bell
Visa
L'oreal
Royal Bank
- 40th anniversary
- runs from December not January
South By Southwest
(Austin, Texas, US)
- this is used as the 'post sun dance crowd of films'
- independent western US spirit
- this takes place in Maron for five days starting on the 15th for music
- film usually starts on the 11th of March till the 19th, so lasts much longer than the other events
- sponsors include:
ensurance
monsters
mazda
mcdonalds
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
(The Netherlands)
- this festival usually takes place every year in November
- sponsors include:
oxfam
devolkskrant
vpro
fonds21
- this festival usually focuses on documentaries (international and creative)
IDFA Bertha Fund
Venice Film Festival
(Italy)
- founded in 1932
- in 2015 it showed 100 films
- there are usually 2 awards given:
golden icon
silver icon
- this festival includes separate events:
Art Exhibition
Contemporary Music
Theatre Festival
Architecture Exhibition
Contemporary Dance
International Kids Carnival
Annual Venice Film Festival
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