Palm Springs
International Film Festival
January in Palm Springs, California
The Palm Springs Film Fest Gala is held at the beautiful Palm Springs Convention Center.
Announcing 2011
Palm Springs Film Fest Dates:
January 6-17, 2011
Palm Springs Film Festival has announced the dates for the 2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival. The event dates are January 6-17, 2010, in Palm Springs, California.
The upcoming 2011 Palm Springs Film Festival will celebrate its 22snd year for the annual event held in Palm Springs.
According to the film festival's promoters, the world-wide International Palm Springs Film Festival continues to grow in popularity and attendance each year. More than 400 screenings of 200 films from more than 60 countries are planned for the 2010 Festival. The selection of films for screening included a total of 69 premieres (4 World, 40 U.S. and 25 North American).
Also, 55 of the 63 films submitted for consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the Academy Awards will be screened at this year's Festival, held from January 6-17, 2011. The entire run of the Festival setting new records in film screenings, box office and attendance.
The Palm Springs International Festival continues to grow at an impressive pace each year.
A record number of screenings and box office ticket sales puts the Palm Springs International Film Festival in a top box office position among film festivals in the USA.
The twelve-day Palm Springs Film Festival features films from 73 countries and seminars, special events, social gatherings, awards and gala receptions.
According to Palm Springs Film Fest Director Darryl Macdonald, the Palm Springs Film Festival is "positioned on the annual film calendar to be a key promotional platform and an integral indicator of the front runners in the year-end awards sweepstakes. Fully 38 Oscar® nominations went to films and filmmaking guests who were featured at this year's event."
Palm Springs Film Fest Gala Date:
Tuesday, January 5, 2009
The Festival's popular annual celebrity-studded Awards Gala will be held on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, continuing its tradition of being the first awards show of its kind for the year.
Last year's Palm Springs Film Festival awards gala honored the cast of Babel, Adam Beach, Jessica Biel, Cate Blanchett, Alejandro González Iñárritu; Todd Field, Philip Glass, Little Miss Sunshine, Sydney Pollack and Kate Winslet.
Key Dates - Palm Springs Film Fest
Opening Night, Best Of, Closing Night Events
The 2010 Palm Springs Film Festival Opening Night will be held on Thursday, January 7, 2009; Awards Gala on Tuesday, January 5, 2010.
About the Palm Springs Society of Film
The Palm Springs International Film Society Mission Statement
"Palm Springs International Film Society strives for a world in which enlightenment, knowledge and tolerance prevail. We believe film as an art form has the power to bridge cultures and illuminates the universality of the human experience.
The Palm Springs International Film Society is a 501(C)(3) charitable non-profit organization. You can help support the Palm Springs International Film Festival by making a tax-deductible donation to Programs Fund Drive."
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Palm Springs Film Festival
Short Films Festival
Palm Springs Film Fest
Festival of Short Films
Dates for the 2010 Palm Springs Film Festival of Short Films "Palm Springs Shortfest" are June 22-28, 2010 held in Palm Springs, California.
The Palm Springs International Film Festival of Short Films has named award-winning films in categories including best animated, live action and student shorts since its debut in 1995.
In 2000, this popular Palm Springs film festival added a documentary category as well. Two juries of filmmakers and industry types screen all the films and then announce the winners to the anxious short-film auteurs at the end of the festival.
Palm Springs International ShortFest 2010
Dates: June 22 - June 28, 2010
What makes this year's Palm Springs ShortFest extra exciting? The move to June means the Film Festival has been getting a record number of entries - with even more great shorts than usual that are tickling the programmers' fancy!
The Palm Springs Short Film Festival's talented programming team is putting together an amazing selection of more than 320 new short films, programmed in 90-minute packages featuring a splendid array of thematically-linked stories, including a dazzling selection of comedies, thrillers, films noir, dramas, romances, animated shorts and documentaries.
This year's Festival line-up will include an especially exciting showcase of special programs, theme parties, seminars and master classes. An Oscar® qualifying event, in the Festival's first 15 years, 68 short films premiering at ShortFest have gone on to win Academy Award® nominations, including four of this year's nominees.
This world-class Festival is the largest and most celebrated event of its kind in North America, and our acclaimed film selection is only one of the reasons why. Here's your chance to join the more than 20,000 film enthusiasts, filmmakers, industry members and press who attend the Festival each year, and kick off your summer with seven days of exhilarating experiences! For Tickets and more information about the Palm Springs Short Film Festival, phone (760) 322-2930.
Film Festival Categories
The list of festival categories includes: Best Animation, Best Live Action (15 minutes and under), Best Live Action (over 15 minutes), Best Documentary , Best Student Animation, Best Student Live Action (15 minutes and under), Best Student Live Action (over 15 minutes), Best Student Documentary and the Best Of The Palm Springs Film Festival Award.
Entries are required to be available for projection in 35mm, 16mm or Beta SP. A Shorts Market is also held during the festival, consisting of a video library of all the entries for the viewing pleasure of agents and executives.
The Palm Springs Film Festival of Short Films is a key opportunity for aspiring Hollywood filmmakers to get their shorts shown. Accordingly, the competition for entry is steep. This can only mean that the quality of the films screened is higher than at most short film festivals and, of course, it can also be the first important step in a filmmaker's career.
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