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FILMFESTIVALS LAUNCHES THIRD VERSION OF WEBSITES WITH NEW SERVICES.

FilmFestivals websites reorganised around new services offering.

International filmfestivals.com the industry leader since 1995 has focused its mission on independent films from festivals.
A new version of the site went online mid november.
Films from festivals and from the unique database are now showcased and enjoy more visibility on all pages, allowing new entries, films with video presentation to be highlighted.

filmfestivalspro.com the pro destination for festival organisers, filmmakers and media is putting more muscle in its professional targeting tools and promotional vehicles.
Most of them are now accessible from the net.
The audience has doubled the day the new version has been online: a sure sign of interest from our international audiences.

filmfestivals.net the community site has a new look allowing a lot of functionnalities to surface.
Sites from members are displayed, work from the pro members of the communities will be put on line.

The interactive virtual theatre: filmfestivalsTV.com
V3 will offer a revolutionary player that matches the vision we have on the type of film experience that viewers are asking from this new medium.

filmfestivals.fr will be revamped by the end of the year.

NEW SERVICES TO PROFESSIONALS

New direct marketing tools exploiting the unique strengths of our customer and viewer base.

Increased visibility for festival organisers in search for film.
Increased visibility for festival circuit candidates producers, distributors or sales agents.
Bundled web services and promotion : mini sites, viral emailing viral, proprietary free url, …
New inovative international press relation tools.

THE OSCAR PACKAGE

This new package offers a very inovative mix of direct marketing to industry leaders, professionals and voting members, sponsoring, advertorials and international EPK push to televisions from our network.

ONLINE BROADCAST EPK

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.

EPK Oscar: http://www.filmfestivalspro.com/epk/oscar.shtml
EPK Festivals: http://www.filmfestivalspro.com/epk/festivals.shtml
EPK Films : http://www.filmfestivalspro.com/epk/films.shtml

ABOUT FILMFESTIVALS

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 theatre exhibiting independent award winning movies and world premieres with an interactive environment

The feature length movies are shown in an inovative 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.