| Cherbourg
- Octeville Festival of Irish & British Film
April 5 - 12, 2005
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Festival Chairman : Anne-Marie GROLLEAU
Coordinator
: Stephanie LEGRAND
Contact
: Association Travelling,
15, passage Digard,
50100 Cherbourg-Octeville, France
Tel
: 00(33-2) 33 93 38 94
Fax : 00 (33-2) 33 93 38 24
Email : travelling.cherbourg@wanadoo.fr
Website : festivalcherbourg.com |
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Founded in 1985, Association Travelling organises each
year a film festival to promote British cinema. Since 1997 Travelling
has enlarged it’s cinematographic panorama by introducing
the Irish cinema to it’s festival which is now entitled «
Festival of Irish and British Film ».
The festival lasts eight days and consists of recent productions,
avant-premières and a competition. The history of Irish and
British cinema is largely evoked during it’s tributes and
retrospectives.
Since 1993 the festival organises a competition of fiction feature
films by directors that yet have to be distributed in France, giving
a Jury and Audience Prize. The competition is open to Irish and
British films from first or second-time directors with the aim of
encouraging young film makers in the industry.
With the same aim in mind, a competition of short films has been
organised since 2002. This competition, which was originally reserved
for British cinema schools, has now extended submission to other
nationalities, notably French schools.
The festival celebrates it’s 20th edition in April 2005. For
this occasion the association hopes to expand it’s horizons
and give a new vigour to the festival while keeping, on the one
hand, the main themes of its programme and on the other, the convivial
atmosphere that is much appreciated by all those who attend.
The Cherbourg Film Festival with its tributes and retrospectives
dedicated to various members of the British and Irish film industries
has become a must for those interested in the discovery and promotion
of films from Ireland and Great Britain.
During a one-week period, the Festival brings together
directors, producers and distributors, centred around a jury comprised
of celebrities from the film industry. Last year the Festival was
attended by 7000 people who participated in the debates at the end
of the projections.
- La compétition des jeunes réalisateurs
- La compétition des écoles
- L'hommage
- Rétrospective
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