Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival

Time: Oct. 21 – Nov. 3, 2010
Location: Vienna, Austria

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Jul 30th, 2010: Official deadline

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

About: The Viennale is Austria's most important international film event, as well as one of the oldest and best-known festivals in the German-speaking world. It takes place every October in beautiful cinemas in Vienna's historic centre - a festival with an international orientation and a distinctive urban flair. A high percentage of the more than 90,000 visitors to the festival from Austria and abroad is made up of a decidedly young audience.

In its main programme, the Viennale shows a carefully picked selection of new films from all over the globe as well as new films from Austria, a great number of which being international first screenings. The choice of films offers a cross-section of bold filmmaking which stands apart from the esthetics of mainstream conventionality and is politically relevant. Aside from its focus on the newest feature films of every genre and structural form imaginable, the festival gives particular attention to documentary films, international short films, as well as experimental works and crossover films.

The Viennale receives regular international acclaim for its yearly organization of a large-scale historic retrospective in collaboration with the Filmmuseum, its numerous special programs, as well as for its tributes and homages dedicated to prominent personalities and institututions in international filmmaking.

The conclusion of the festival sees the awarding of the FIPRESCI Award of the international Film Critics' Association, the Vienna Film Award of the City of Vienna, plus an award by the DER STANDARD Readers' Jury.

Gala screenings, special events and parties are as much a part of the festival as interviews, animated audience discussions and encounters between international guests of the festival and local visitors.

In recent years, the Viennale has established a secure place for itself on the international festival scene. It has become a festival which offers a program of high quality in a relaxed urban autumn atmosphere, when Vienna is at its most attractive. It presents an exciting array of newest international trends contrasted with selected historical reference points. It is a festival of information, surprises and discoveries.
And above all it is a festival of films.
Awards: The Viennale International Film Festival Vienna - is a NON-COMPETITIVE FILM FESTIVAL .

However there are some awards grant:
- FIPRESCI PRIZE
The renowned International Critic's Award is presented every year to the best first or second feature in the festival.

- VIENNA FILM PRIZE
The Vienna Film Prize is awarded to an outstanding Austrian feature that has been completed after the second-last VIENNALE. The prize includes EUR 7,000 contributed by the Department for Cultural Affairs of the City of Vienna, film material to the value of EUR 7.000 offered by Kodak and services to the value of EUR 3,000 contributed by Listo Film and Video.

- PRIZE OF THE JURY OF THE STANDARD READER'S
The jury comprised of readers of Austrian daily Der Standard awards its prize to a film that has not yet found a distributor in Austria. The prize consists of advertising space for potential distributors.
Submission Formats: DVD NTSC, DVD PAL, VHS NTSC, VHS PAL
Screening Formats: 16 mm, 35 mm, Beta SP PAL, DigiBeta PAL, HD Cam, Super 8mm
Website: http://www.viennale.at/