| The
company was founded in 1995 begab its festival involvement with
the production of a CD-Rom on the Cannes Film Festival and the creation
of their first official website. This successful experience developed
into a focus on film festivals all over the world. Filmfestivals.com
was registered on July 26, 1995. Yes, you read it right, 95!
1996
- coverage of the major international film festivals in partnership
with Moving Pictures International, the (ex) British film industry magazine (transformed recently).
1997 - creation of the worldwide festival directory and a monthly
bulletin board
1998 - Expanded to include films reviews, pertinent articles…
1999 - Launched the film and festival databases, a weekly news edition
and services to festival organizers and filmmakers.
2000 - Launch of pro site and new version of french and Internatonal
sites.
2001 - Launch of the film interactive experience at Sundance. Company
has built a catalogue of 50 films and 150 shorts.
2002 - Launch of the Festival Circuit.
2003 - Launch of the Buyers Lounge for Cannes Market
2004 - Partners with Hollywood Europan Awards to promote european
film through Hollywood European Award
Partnership with Cannes, Los Angeles Festival, Karlovy Vary, Venice,
IFP Market, MIFED...
2005 - Partners with 2005 Cannes Market to promote the Short Film
Digital Avenue showcase and panel on convergence and new media digital
rights management. Partnership with Cannes,Satis, SIL 2005 Roma
Independent Film Festival, Dubai...
2006 - Filmfestivals and M21 Editions launch www.fest21.com
at Cannes new video blog platform for festival, film professionnals
and film fans at large. Free storage of 500M allow for blog streaming
at state of the art conditions.
2007 - M21 Editions introduces the first digital library bundle,
including an e-Book reader and a selection of 24 books dedicated
to prospective management and technology.
2008 - Cannes Future of Cinema Salon (4th edition of our prospective panels) goes to Cannes and Locarno (as an official partner)
2009 - 2011- Launch of fest21 new version with improved search and new Festival Directory merged with filmfestivals.com.
The company partners with Cannes for the seventh year. The company publishes "A festival Wife" by episodes on fest21.com with a reveal in Cannes of the last chapter of the festival thriller by Rex Weiner (former Journalist with Variety) April 21th, 2009 fest21.com established the highest audience record of its short life with 110 000 pages views in one day.
FilmFestivals.com
achieved a record audience in may 2003 with 9 million pages and
890 000 visitors, aimed at both movie buffs and professionals, focusing
on film festivals and motion picture events. The site content is
bilingual, English and French. Average audience in 2005-2006 is
3 M pages a month with 400 000 unique visitors in average.
Last October 6th record for a single day with 335 000 pages viewed.
fest21.com audience is growing extremely fast, the audience has
doubled from august (50 000 unique vistors) to November (110 000
unique vistors)
TEAM
The filmfestivals.com team has 5 staffers and a large network of
correspondants around the world who cover actively around 100 festivals with dailies, and many more with ambience pieces. |
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