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-The
Goal of the International Festival of Cinema and Technology:
to Discover the Undiscovered...
-Though
IFCT has a strong focus on new and emerging technologies the festival
is actually open to most film and video formats (including Digital
Video, 35mm, 16mm etc.), and all are considered equally for festival
acceptance.
-Past
International Festival of Cinema and Technology events have taken
place in:
Los
Angeles- The Sony Studios Ince Theatre
New
York- The Tribeca Grand
Toronto-
The Ontario Science Centre- Compaq Theatre
The
Maple Leaf Theatre. CN Tower
Canadian
Broadcast Centre Conference Centre (CBC)
London-
The Cinema at Regent's Conference Centre
Paris-
The CNIT- (Centre National des Industries et Techniques)
35
Countries Have Been Represented at IFCT Screenings
The
festival has screened over 48 European Premieres
Mission
Statement: As a non-profit company, IFCT's goal is to find the best
undiscovered and overlooked projects and screen them to industry
professionals. IFCT volunteers, drawing on industry connections,
send award winning projects to agents and distributors for acquisition
consideration. (This policy is unique to IFCT.) In short, the festival's
goal is to gain exposure for the "undiscovered film."
-IFCT
seeks to present a wide range of content which explores all types
of independent film from the microbudget to the moderately budgeted
film. The technology involved in the festival is based on the way
selected projects are showcased, the themes of the films do not
have to involve technology. Films in the festival do not need to
be created using advanced technologies.
The International
Festival of Cinema and Technology echoes philosophies of HDFEST,
our sister festival, now in its fifth year. This festival has become
the primary screening platform for High-Definition content and is
tagged "the world's only high-definition film festival."
The International Festival of Cinema and Technology continues the
standards set by our sister festival as we seek to showcase new
technologies, while also highlighting some of the best new undiscovered
projects. Unlike our sister festival, projects screened at IFCT
originate in a variety of film and video formats.
In the
past, our sister festival has worked in conjunction with CBS, Disney,
Panasonic, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Dolby, Digital Projection (an
IMAX Corporation), Avid, Tribune Entertainment, Salter Street Films,
Alliance Atlantis, Pitch TV, Talisman Films, The Artist Colony,
the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Steeplechase Media,
and Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts at USC. Awardees have
had their content viewed and considered for distribution by New
Line Cinema, Screen Gems, Artisan Entertainment, Buena Vista, Troma,
Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, Myriad Pictures, Lifetime, The Oxygen
Network, New Concorde Pictures, and many others.
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