cristine_org@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

please forward this open call for submissions for the
Oberhausen Film Festival to all the video, film +
music video artists you think might be interested.
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*For Immediate Release*
I am honored to announce my participation in the
International Jury at the 48th International Short Film Festival
Oberhausen, Germany: (May 2-7, 2002)
Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2002
For applications + information:  http://www.kurzfilmtage.de

About the Festival:
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has become one of the
world's most respected film events - a place where filmmakers and artists
such as Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, David Lynch, Alexander Kluge and
Werner Herzog, and more recently Ulrike Ottinger, Romuald Karmakar,
Pipilotti Rist, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and François Ozon have presented their
first films.
Each year the Short Film Festival Oberhausen is able to present numerous
world premieres and international first-runs in this context. Among the
entries submitted during the course of the nearly 50-year history of this
competition one finds names such as Eija-Lisa Ahtila, Doug Aitken, Igor &
Gleb Aleinikov, Santiago Alvarez, Lindsay Anderson, Robert Breer, Robert
Frank, Michel Gondry, James Herbert, Takashi Ito, Aki Kaurismäki, David
Larcher, Spike Lee, Jan Lenica, Chris Marker, Don McKellar, Jonas Mekas,
Idrissa Ouedraogo, Roman Polanski, Alain Resnais, Jacques Rivette, Glauber
Rocha, Raul Ruiz, Zbigniew Rybczynski, Ousmane Sembène, Jan Svankmajer,
István Szabó, Alain Tanner, Johan van der Keuken, Gus Van Sant, Agnes Varda,
Gilian Wearing, Krzystof Zanussi, and Zelimir Zilnik.

Film + Video Included:
The equal treatment of video and film in the competitions since the early
nineties, the consistent incorporation of advertising and industrial films,
and the introduction of the world's first festival award for a music video
made in Germany - the MuVi - in the late nineties, are all aspects that
place the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen at the forefront of
the short film scene. Furthermore, in cooperation with its media partners,
Arte, 3sat and more recently MTV, the Festival has helped to open up new
audiences for short films. In their short film programs, Arte and 3sat have
been cooperating with the Festival for years, while in 2001 MTV for the
first time televised 25 short films from the programsof the International
Short Film Festival Oberhausen.

Film Market:
In addition to the Festival Catalogue, the Short Film Festival also
publishes an extensive Film Market Catalogue each year containing crew and
genre information, brief descriptions in two languages and production
addresses for each film submitted, as well as a separate overview of film
schools in Germany. Indexes organized by genre, director and running time
facilitate working with the catalogue.  The Film Market has established an
international reputation as the largest market for German-produced short
films, as well as films and videos of the most diverse formatsand genres.
Every year buyers from Australia, France, the USA, Austria, Sweden and many
other countries purchase on average about 200 festival submissions.  In
response to this resounding success, the Film Market was expanded in 2000 to
include market screenings. In 2000/01 these screenings focussed on films
from South East Asia, Australia and South Africa, giving production
companies, film schools and national film institutions in these countries
the chance to present their current film production to a Western audience of
film industry insiders.  The Film Market Catalogue was made available online
for the first time in 2001. This provides industry repre-sentatives with an
opportunity not only to obtain information on available films prior to the
festival, but also during the rest of the year. In the Short Film Exchange
Section you will find an online catalogue of more around 15,000 short films
consisting of the Market Catalogues 1997 to 2001. The Film Market Catalogues
of future festivals will be regularly added.

For Further Information about the Festival contact:
Dr. Lars Henrik Gass
Festival Director / Managing Director
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen gGmbH
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Grillostr. 34
D-46045 Oberhausen
Germany
Fon +49 (0)208 825-2652
Fax +49 (0)208 825-5413
gass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.kurzfilmtage.de

Best Regards,
Cristine Wang
International Jury
48th International Short Film Festival
Oberhausen, Germany
mobile: 917.318.0081
email:   info@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.cristine.org



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