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Friday, April 8, 2011

Locarno Film Festival

Locarno Film Festival

Filmbudget.com the international leader in worldwide film budget and schedule services presents an introduction to the Locarno Film Festival.

Every year in August the medieval, Swiss-Italian town of Locarno hosts an eleven day event in tribute to art-in-film for movie enthusiasts and industry professionals. This event is known as the Locarno International Film Festival, or LIFF.

The magnificent setting put forth by the Piazza Grande, the venue for the LIFF, accommodates up to eight thousand filmgoers on a nightly basis. Located in the geographical crossroads of the German, Italian, and French regions makes the LIFF a prime location for maximizing exposure of a filmmakers work to a diverse culture base.

The festival will be commencing on August 3 through the 13, 2011. You can order your tickets and check available screenings at the official site of the festival on their ticket page.

Recipients of last year’s 63rd Annual LIFF Leopard of Honour Award was split two ways by Chinese filmmaker JIA Zhang-ke and Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner. The Leopard of Honour Award (Pardo d’onore) is the LIFF’s most honorary award.

For submitting your film in the 2011 festival you can go to their website and go over the specifics and download the rules and regulations.

The submission deadline is June 1 There is a 100CHF fee for entry fees on films exceeding 40 minutes in length. There is no charge to enter your short film in the Locarno International Film Festival.

In today's markets for a movie with a tight film budget and international appeal the Locarno film festival welcomes artistic faire as well as large film budget productions of conceptual merit.

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