FILMFESTIVALS TO LAUNCH MAJOR ONLINE FILM SPACE
AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2001

Daily World Premieres Online, Interactive Features, Interviews,
Digital Movies and Award Winners

     LOS ANGELES, April 26, 2001 -Filmfestivals Entertainment Group, the world's largest online film festivals server, will be at this year's Cannes Film Festival with a team of more than thirty people to introduce the biggest online film space ever assembled at a festival, it is announced by FFEG president Malo Girod de l'Ain and coo Bruno Chatelin.

     The Cannes online film space will include world premieres of fifteen new films, the Cannes Digital Lab showing new films shot digitally, screenings online of a selection of award-winning films from different festivals, a joint promotion with Kodak to stream short films by emerging filmmakers, films selected by a jury of film critics, and coverage of the Cannes festival through interviews, news, nightlife, etc.

     Filmfestivals will also stream three classics, Orson Welles' The Stranger, Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much and George A. Romero's The Night of the Living Dead.

     Malo Girod de l'Ain stated: "Filmfestivals started in Cannes by creating the first Cannes official web site in 1995. Today, at Cannes, we launch the largest online film space and the first interactive film platform worldwide with a new way to experience movies with online interactivity. What a development!"

     Bruno Chatelin added: "The broadband tidal wave is coming with just over seven million U.S. homes subscribing to broadband Internet access. We have recognized their need for quality content.

     "We also believe that film will no longer be experienced on the Internet in the way it was traditionally seen in other media. We are thrilled with the prospect of helping write film history for the filmmakers we have discovered on the festival circuit."

Daily World Premieres

     The feature movies will be shown in an innovative Interactive environment that allows viewers to discover more information about the films and filmmakers and interact with the filmmakers and other viewers. The server's broadband portal, filmfestivalsTV.com, is netcasting a wide range on online tools and related content t enhance this experience. Films can be accessed in streaming, downloading or delivered by CD-ROM.

Cannes Digital Lab

     The Filmfestivals Cannes Digital Lab will have world premieres of new interactive movies, shot with interactivity integrated into the film from the script stage.

Festival Award Winners

     Filmfestivals will show a selection of award-winning films from such festivals as the Cinema Shorts International Film Festival, Brooklyn, the Streaming Cinema Film Festival, the Zoie International Film Festival, and the Shadowline Salerno Film Festival.

Kodak Best Shorts

     Short films by emerging international filmmakers, selected jointly by Kodak and Filmfestivals, will be streamed on the site and will also be screened for the first time in the Kodak Pavilion in Cannes.

Critics' Choice

     A selection of web films, the choice of a prestigious jury of film critics, will offer recognition to all web film creators. There will be an opportunity to vote for these films online at the web site through a partnership with the french website Monsieur Cinema.

Complete Daily Coverage of Cannes

     Filmfestivals will produce in-depth coverage of the festival online, including information on the films, news, interviews, coverage of night life in Cannes, and Jury members. This coverage will be delivered on more than 20 partner sites worldwide (portals, television outlets, brand sites, etc.) as well as on Palm, pocket pc's and telephones.

Filmfestivals' online premieres at Cannes will include the following films:

TAX DAY, a comedy that is also an ode to the pleasures of leisure and is the first feature by Laura Colella, one of the Sundance Institute's eight Directing Fellows for 2000. The film won the Breakthrough Award at the New England Film/Video Festival; the Best Narrative at the Convergence Film Festival; and the Best First Feature at the Long Island Film Festival.

TRIP TO AUSTRALIA, a movie about two 10-year-old children who run away in Greece and their sudden awakening when they are caught by the police, directed by Lucia Rikaki. The film was screened at IFP and has been selected for a number of festival including San Sebastian and Hamburg.

BABY LUV, directed by Robert Martin Carroll, is the story of an unusual relationship between a young Los Angeles artist-poet and a nineteen-year-old girl haunted by her past. The film won the Best Film awards at the New York International Independent Film Festival and at the Telluride Independent Film Festival.

MYSTERY PLAY, an upbeat comic drama set in London about a mysterious company that intervenes in people's lives at times of crisis, directed by Sean Martin. The film was presented in last year's Cannes market.

WAITING FOR THE GIANTS, directed by Phillip Lacy, is about fear and prejudice using a fantasy to symbolize Giants, those people who dare to be different and thus become suspect by society. The film was premiered at the Louisville Film Festival.

DOGS' HOME, directed by Stephan Komandarev, a young Bulgarian filmmaker, explores the extravagant world of a famous old opera singer who now shares her loneliness with an old friend and some dogs. The film won the Debut Prize at the "Golden Rose" 2000, Varna in Bulgaria.

     Filmfestivals.com, the world's largest film festival server with offices in France, the USA, UK and Italy, was founded by Malo Girod de l'Ain, president, in 1995 when it created the first web site for the Cannes International Film Festival. The site now lists more than 1,500 film festivals worldwide, and has extensive online tools to help festival organizers, filmmakers, producers, and distributors I such areas as marketing, film registration, web presence and ticket sales. FilmfestivalsTV was launched at last year's Berlin Film Festival with video coverage of major festivals. FilmfestivalsTV produces a monthly television show, Non Stop Film Festivals, for worldwide syndication.