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First Electronic Press Kit for a Film Festival available online for TV broadcast

FilmFestivals the leading link between festivals, filmmakers produces for Festival des 3 continents
(Nantes France November 20/27) the first Broadcast EPK Service for Televisions.
Highlights of Festival key events, graphic elements, poster, press dossier, compressed and available in broadcast standards.

Online access from http://www.filmfestivalspro.com/epk/festivals.shtml

This new service from FilmFestivals allows every TV from the world and members of the FilmFestivals network to download broadcast quality images from major festivals.
Their simple access to content fit for a quality coverage of the event.
The free service includes

Graphic elements: poster, stills in high definition,
The press dossier,
Video elements : 5 segments of 4 minutes max with interview of the festival directors, ambiance, red carpet and one on one interviews.
All videos are compressed in Divx and MPEG2 and available in broadcast standards.

In addition FilmFestivals reports all the Festival events in a dedicated minisite accessible from the Portal homepage as well as in the sites of the filmFestivals network .

Electronic Press Kits for Films available online for TV broadcast

FilmFestivals takes advantage of the audience from International TV programmers and puts online Films EPK for TV and websites

This service is accessible online and fro free from
http://www.filmfestivalspro.com/epk/3continents.shtml

The content from independent filmmakers and mini studios include

Graphic elements: poster, stills in high definition,
The press dossier,
Video elements : trailers and excerpts
All videos are compressed in Divix and MPEG2 and available in broadcast standards.

About FilmFestivals Entertainment Group

Filmfestivals.com, the world's largest film festival server with offices in France and in the USA, was founded by Malo Girod de l'Ain, president, in 1995 when it created the first website for the Cannes International Film Festival.

THE FILMFESTIVALS MAGAZINES
The bouquet of websites now lists more than 1,500 film festivals worldwide, 4000 films from the festival circuit, and has extensive online tools to help festival organizers, filmmakers, producers, distributors in such areas as marketing, film registration, web presence and ticket sales.

FILMFESTIVALS NEWS AGENCY
Filmfestivals produces and sells content to the web companies and to televisions.
Web channels for entertainment portals and leaders Yahoo CNN IFC Bravo…
And TV documentaries around key festivals.
Filmfestivals produces a monthly TV show: Non Stop Film Festivals
as well as Best from Fest: short episodes from 40 key festivals.

FILMFESTIVALS INTERACTIVE FILM PLATFORM
FilmfestivalsTV was launched early 2001 at Sundance.
The first interactive theater exhibiting independent award winning movies and world premieres with an interactive environment

The feature length movies are shown in an innovative Interactive environment where five spaces around the film allow the viewer to discover the film, interact with viewers, with the film team… and continue afterwards the film atmosphere.

The server's broadband portal, filmfestivalsTV.com, is netcasting a wide range of online tools and content related to the films to enhance the interactive screening experience. These will include for each film background interviews with stars and filmmakers, stills, festival track records, dedicated forum, chat rooms, film quiz, and film soundtrack elements. Films can be accessed in streaming, downloading or delivered by CD-ROM.