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Visit the Short Film Digital Avenue (SFDA)
The SFDA is a place next to the Short Film Corner where technology leaders demonstrate the breakthrough avenues of new windows, new media, new delivery systems, adaptation of old media to new technology in front of the industry leaders and film professionnals gatherered in Cannes from May 11 to 21...

Shorts films will be delivered, bought and seen in new smart media, phones, web platform, set top boxes. Take a look into the very near future where short films will play a LARGER role. Watch them grow.
A NEW AVENUE FOR SHORT FILMMAKERS

Booths, displays, demos, sampling,
The Short Film Digital Avenue is a co production between
CANNES MARKET and FILMFESTIVALS.COM

DETAILS AVAILABLE Download brief outlines for EACH OF THESE
8 NEW WAYS TO MONETIZE YOUR SHORTS
Phones
Portable media players
VOD
IP channels
Digital TV
Networks of new screens
DVD Festival Label
D Cinema

SPONSORING options: Request information

REGISTER FOR THE SFDA Panel
May 14 4pm conference center by the booth 14.01 register

Contact Information:
In Cannes Office 5.11 booth 14.01 Palais Level 01

Paris offices until May 8, 2004

FilmFestivals Entertainment Group
25 Boulevard Malesherbes 75008 Paris
tel : +33 (0)1 72 74 71 79
fax : +33 (0)1 72 74 73 79
info@filmfestivals.com

Management
Malo Girod del'Ain CEO
Bruno Chatelin COO
bruno@filmfestivals.com

http://www.cannesmarket.com
http://www.festival-cannes.com/

SFDA booth 14.01 Palais 01

May 10 in construction one day prior to Fest opening

Map

DO NOT MISS THE OFFICIAL SHORT FILM DIGITAL AVENUE CONFERENCE: in partnership wih Cannes Market
Cannes May 14 4pm to 5pm at the SDFA booth 14.01 Palais 01

8 NEW DIGITAL WAYS TO MONETIZE SHORTS :
A power workshop where industry players will exchange experience, vision, and technological challenges about the new digital avenues for short film revenue and promotion (filmmakers welcome too)

Videophones: 3G, gamepads, online viewing vod, online festivals, festivals for shorts, ip channels and new screen networks.
Prospects, challenges, new filmmaking techniques adapted to smaller screens.
The workshop will be broadcassted every day on the Short Flm Digital Avenue (May 16 to 22) and on filmfestivalspro.com .

The conference will be held in English
Jean-noël Tronc, VP Strategy and Brand, Orange - Directeur de la Stratégie et de la Marque Orange

Richard Titus, president of Schematic, an LA-based company working on next-generation TV systems

Elisabetta Brunella, Director Media salles

Erci Stein, CinemaNow, Director of Acquisitions

Ralph Ackerman, President 304 Digital Entertainment, co-founder Hollywood Digital

Presented by Malo Girod de l’Ain, CEO of Filmfestivals & Bruno Chatelin COO of Filmfestivals.com

Moderated by Frank Rose, Senior Editor of Wired Magazine
sponsored by Orange

Register for the conference
Interested in becoming a panelist: bruno@filmfestivals.com

THE SHORT FILM CORNER

The Short Film Corner launched in May 2004 and was very successful in its first edition.
The Short Film Corner is a new market entirely dedicated to short films.

An overall panorama of short films today
In 2004, the Short Film Corner presented some 450 films, representing over 100 hours of programs, from 40 different countries. Films were viewed more than 5 000 times by buyers and film selectors from all over the world. More than one hundred films were screened as world premieres.

Privileged contacts
At the very heart of the Palais des Festivals, the Short Film Corner is an exceptional occasion for producers to present their films to a large international audience: broadcasters, publishers, film selectors, journalists, producers, agents looking for new talents…

A specialised center
Le Short Film Corner covers a large area and is made up of a screening room, interactive screens, a bar, a conference room, stands. Every evening, the traditional "Happy Hour" means discussions can be continued and new contacts made in a warm and relaxed atmosphere, glass in hand!

Top Visibility
The database of www.shortfilmcorner.com gives you all details regarding companies, films, projects… from all professionals registered to the Marché du Film.

A catalogue and information in the press
The Short Film Corner catalogue lists all the short films and screening times. This information will also be published in the daily editions of the Film Français and Cannes Market News.

Registration benefits
The Short Film Corner includes registration with the Festival de Cannes.
Free access to all exhibition zones of the Festival and the Marché.
Attend screenings of the various other selections.

Exclusive partnerships
You can take part to a competition on line www.silenceoncourt.tv and win a DV Pro camera.
For further information
Your film can also have a free screening in one of the thematic programs, realized in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada.
Your film has the possibility of being selected in one of the thematic programs, realized in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada.
These programs will be presented in the Short Film Corner screening room.
In order to optimize the broadcasting of these films, this selection will have a priority target audience of TV buyers and Festival selectors.
Short films which are not part of another program and which are presented for the first time as a world premiere will be given extra emphasis in this selection.