CALL FOR ENTRIES ISSUED FOR WORLDWIDE FILM FESTIVAL

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — The U.S. International Film And Video Festival has opened its 2005 competition. The festival drew more than 1,500 entries from 27 countries in 2004. The deadline for 2005 is March 1. Productions created or released up until that date are eligible.

Entries are invited in 52 categories or sub-categories of Business, Television, Documentary, Entertainment, Industrial, and Informational projects.

Once again a panel of members of The International Quorum of Motion Picture Producers (IQ), a global peer network of production company owners, will select a Grand Prix winner in the competition. The panelists will come from four different continents, according to Lee Gluckman, CEO of the film and video festival.

“Coral Reef Adventure,” an IMAX film produced by MacGillivray Freeman Films, Laguna Beach, Calif., won the Best of Festival (Grand Prix) award in 2004 from among nominees that included “Faces of Life” by Gehrisch & Krack Filmproduktions AG., Dusseldorf, Germany.

IQ also presents the “One World Award” to the production that best promotes international cooperation and understanding. Barth van Doorn of Momentum NL, Amstelveen, The Netherlands, received the 2004 One World Award for his ‘Walk the World’ film, which promoted a company’s fund-raising walk for the United Nation’s School Feeding Programme.

Sixty-five Gold Camera awards and 82 Silver Screen awards were given in the 2004 competition. German companies captured seven Gold and seven Silver awards.

German winners were:

Red Orange, Stuttgart, Gold for “Mitsubishi Colt” and two silver for “7 G-Tronic Automatic Transmission” and “Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren”

Westdeutscher Runkfund, Cologne, Gold in Children’s Programming for “A Slippery Tale”

tvt postproduction, Frankfurt, Gold in Public Relations for “Communicating German Design”

Studio Reinhard Klein GmbH, Stuttgart, Gold in Manufacturing, Engineering, Industrial & Technical Processes for “BASF “Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives”

Clariant GmhH, Sulzbach am Taunus, Silver in Safety for “DMS Partnership”

MKK Werbeagentur GmbH, Hamburg, Silver in Advertising-Sales for “The new Caddy.”

Additional competition information and entry forms for 2005 are available at filmfestinfo@filmfestawards.com. Entry kits are mailed in December. The awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles in early June 2005.

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