Film Festivals

Sundance Film Festival


The Sundance Film Festival, which takes place in Utah, is the largest independent film festival in the USA.  It is a programme introduced by the Sundance institute and is to present new work from international filmmakers, which can be long or short films, dramatic or documentary.  Films such as A Streetcar Named Desire have been featured in the festival, and the growth of this festival meant that a  low-profile venue for 'small-budget, independent creators from outside the Hollywood system to a media extravaganza for Hollywood celebrity actors, paparazzi' was created.
Toronto Film Festival

Held each September, the Toronto film festival in 2012 had an audience of
400,000 attendees.  Famous films like, The Silver Linings Playbook and the 127 hours have had their premiere here as well as Black Swan.  Its highest amount of films showed there was a huge 460 films, making it second to Cannes Film Festival in terms of high profile market activity.

Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival is said to be apart of the 'Big Three' film festivals in the world and is the oldest running film festival.  Being one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world it takes place in venues such as Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi. This year was the 72nd Venice film festival, which took place from the 2 to 12th of September. 

Berlin Film Festival

Also said to be part of the Big Three, along side Canne and Venice, Berlin film, Festival is said to be largest attended film festival with 500,000 admissions.  Up to 400 films are shown each year, and in early February this year they celebrated they're 65th year of the Berlin Film Festival.

Seattle International Film Festival

This festival is considered one of the top film festivals in the US, and has been running annually since 1976.  Each year the popularity rises, and in 2006 it had 160,000 attendees.  Films such as the Illusionist and The Notebook have appeared at the Seattle International Film Festival Gala Events.