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KATHMANDU INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL
(KIMFF) 2002
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DATES, VENUE, SCHEDULE
The Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival will be held
four days running, 5 thru 8 December 2002. The venue is the
Russian Cultural Centre in downtown Kathmandu. The Centre has
two halls, one seating 200 and the other 50. A convenient well-lit
lobby allows for informal meetings and exhibition space. There is a
cafeteria and rooms for workshops.
The festival will open on the evening of 5 December, Friday. Films
will be screened back to back on the following days. Screenings
will be followed by discussions. Time will be set aside for guest
lectures and presentations. The organisers will facilitate maximum
interaction amongst the participants during the festival to provide
an impetus for a qualitative and quantitative improvement of
mountain films.
CRITERIA
Films made after 1 January 1998 are eligible for entry. To ensure
that the full flavour of mountain filmmaking will be available to the
participants and audience of the Kathmandu International Mountain
Film Festival, there is no bar in terms of discipline, genre, length,
and format. The entries can be documentaries, full-length features,
shorts, animation or experimental art forms. The organisers expect
the entries to cover the entire gamut from ethnography to
mountaineering, from the investigative to the abstract, from the
reportial to the introspective.
ENTRY CONDITIONS
Entry is free of cost. Entries without the duly filled-in entry form
will
not be considered. The initial entries will be accepted only in VHS
video format (PAL/ SECAM/ NTSC) and have to be sent by courier
or Speedpost to the Festival Secretariat in Kathmandu Valley. The
entry package should be labelled 'Only for cultural purposes, no
commercial value'. The entrant must handle all costs associated
with the sending of the film. The Festival will not be responsible
for
any loss or damange, and/or delay of films in transit.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE for ENTRY
All entries must reach the Festival Secretariat in Kathmandu by 15
August, 2002.
SELECTION of FILMS
A preview committee will view all entries. The selection process will
be complete by 20 September 2002. Around 40 films will be
selected for screening.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE for FINAL PRINT/TAPE OF
SELECTED ENTRIES
Selected entrants will be notified by 30 September 2002, and
directors/producers will have to send film prints/professional video
format copies for screening at the festival to reach the Festival
Secretariat by 30 October 2002.
FORMAT for FINAL SUBMISSION
Film: 16 mm or 35 mm
Video: Beta-SP/PAL or U-matic Hi Band
PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS
All entries must be accompanied by labelled still
photographs/slides from the film for use in the festival catalogue
and for promotion. The festival may use portions of the film for
promotional purposes.
AWARD
The film voted best by the audience will receive the Kathmandu
International Mountain Film Festival Audience Award.
RETURNING OF ENTRIES
The tapes sent in as entries will not be returned. They will remain
part of the film archive maintained by Himal Association, which
contains, among other things, films screened during previous film
festivals. These copies will not be screened commercially.
The despatching of any film to the festival implies acceptance of the
festival regulations. Filmmakers are encouraged to attend the
festival, and the organisers shall make every effort to help with
travel advisories and subsidised stay in Kathmandu Valley. The
prints screened at the festival will be returned withing a month of
the
festival.
In case of any doubt on a matter not mentioned in the above
regulations, it will be referred to the Festival Director, who will
give a decision in consultation with the Festival Organising
Committee. The Director's word shall be final.
[The Kathmandu Int'l Mountain Film Festival 2002 is organised
by Himal Association, in association with the Austrian organisation,
Eco Himal, and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain
Development (ICIMOD)]
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For entry form (Deadline: Aug 15 2002) and other queries please
write to:
Ramyata Limbu
Festival Director
Kathmandu Int'l Mountain Film Festival
PO Box 166, Lalitpur, Nepal
Tel: +977-1-542544
Fax: +977-1-541196
email:kimff@himalassociation.org
http://www.himalassociation.org/kimff
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