OK aspiring filmmakers here's a festival with real connections to the industry. Take FATHER GEEK'S advise this would be a good one to enter and/or attend. See you there!
Director/actress Penny Marshall (A League of Their Own) and director/actor Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)have joined the Hollywood Film Festival as Chairs.
Also, Hollywood Reporter's publisher, Robert Dowling, will be the KEYNOTE SPEAKER, as well as a moderator, at the upcoming HOLLYWOOD FILM CONFERENCE during the 3rd Annual Hollywood Film Festival. August 5-8, 1999.
The Hollywood Film Festival will mark its triumphant return on August 4, 1999, to the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and Paramount Studios for a third annual, weeklong series of screenings, seminars, competitions, awards, and other unique festivities. The announcement was made today by Mr. Carlos de Abreu, Founder and Executive Director of the Hollywood Film Festival.
The Festival's Hollywood Discovery Awards competition will showcase a selection of both domestic and international features, shorts, documentaries and animation. Prizes include financial awards and packages of goods/services valued at over $100,000. Deadline for submissions is March 31, 1999.
This year's Festival includes the first Hollywood Film Market whose Board of Advisors, chaired by entertainment attorney Mark Litwak, includes executives of more than 20 distribution companies including A-Pix/Unapix Entertainment, All Channel Films, Amazing Movies, Bedford Entertainment, Curb Entertainment, Davis Entertainment Classics, Eastman Kodak, Film Arts Foundation, First Look/Overseas Filmgroup, Front Street Productions, Legacy Releasing, Leo Films, New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, Phaedra Cinema, Porchlight Entertainment, Showcase Entertainment, Seventh Art Releasing, Shoreline Entertainment, Strand Releasing and Stratosphere Entertainment.
Last year's festival was a resounding success with more than 400 film submissions, and in the past two years over 250 industry professionals have participated as panelists in the Hollywood Conference, including executives from BBC, Columbia/TriStar, Paramount, Walt Disney, Miramax, New Line, Fox Searchlight, the Samuel Goldwyn Co.,and NBC. Other celebrities who have participated in our festival include David Carradine, Harry Hamlin, Kirstie Alley, Kirk Douglas, Connie Stevens, Barbra Streisand and James Woods among others.
HOLLYWOOD CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: http://hollywoodfestival.com/conference $50 DISCOUNT if you register by February 3, 1999
Hollywood Conference - August 5-8, 1999 At the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Four Intensive Days of Networking with Hollywood Pros
For information and registrations: please call (310) 288-1882, email us, or use our online registration form.
4-Day Conference Pass Discount! If you register by February 3, 1999, the cost is ONLY $245 otherwise the price will be $295.00
