Art Fairs International: How many people attended last year's fair? If you don't have that number, about how many people on average attend?
Lara Dalby: 4000 people
AFI: What did last year's fair gross?
LD: The organizers do not pry into the turnover of exhibitors.
AFI: What can the public look forward to in 2008?
For example, are there any new artists or standout works?
Have any changes been made to the show?
LD: The participation of fourteen new galleries, ensuring 2008 will be a fresh event for new and loyal visitors alike. The exhibitors from last year ...

Throughout its 23 years of existence, the Guadalajara International Film Festival has grown into a world-class event for the showcase of Ibero-American quality films. As Mexico's most important film event, it has developed an environment supportive to the dialogue between artists and the public, and has also been a meeting place for filmmakers, actors, cinematographers, distributors, and critics both from Mexico and abroad. By doing this, the Festival has served as a launching pad for the careers of young artists, while at the same time recognizes and honors noteworthy veterans. The Festival is above all ...

Catherine Yu-Shan Hsieh: The International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) was created in 1981 under the patronage of UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) International Council for Film, Television, and Audiovisual Communication and sponsored by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. What was it that prompted the birth of FIFA?
René Rozon: I created FIFA because I had seen many films on art worldwide in various museums, art fairs, and film festivals. It led to my decision to share these marvellous films with the Montréal public.
CH: How does location, in other words, being ...

With the recent merger of the Feminale and femme totale–the two famous film festivals originally set up in Cologne and Dortmund in the 1980s–one of the most significant women's film festivals in the world has now come into being: the International Women's Film Festival Dortmund|Cologne. Unique in Germany, the IWFF provides a perfect platform for the presentation of the latest film developments and trends as they relate to women working in all areas of film production. Not just women film directors but women cinematographers, film-music composers and other women filmmakers are given an unrivalled opportunity to showcase ...

Last year’s inaugural DC: Dusseldorf Contemporary Art Fair proved so successful that this year marks the second generation of DC.
Yet, with a new year comes a new venue; for the first time in international art fair and festival history, an art fair is utilizing stadium space as the venue in an attempt to encourage a more diverse audience.
While LTU arena is approximately the same size as last year’s forum, a striking 11,000 meters squared and 56—meter high ceiling, the pure architectural construction of the arena prevents the appearance of buttresses or ...

“The documentary maker does not show that which is, but how it was. How it was a second before the camera started rolling. It’s art form is in the imperfect tense. And its imperfection is not knowing how what is filmed is going to evolve. If it’s a true documentarian, he doesn’t know anything. Otherwise, he’s merely a documenter, an archivist, or a researcher. The evolution, that’s the great affair of fiction, when the destiny of things is invented with all swiftness. The documentarian sees things without recoiling, he is only sensitive to their coming ...

Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International, focuses on the increasingly relevant question of what it means to be human in the world today. Foregoing any universal answers to this question, the artists in the exhibition investigate particular aspects of the human condition, moving along paths that are both introspective and worldly while poetically traversing the dramatic spectrum from tragedy to comedy. The question, “Is there life on Mars?” is a rhetorical one, posed in the face of a world in which increasingly accelerating global events—political, social, natural, and economic—seem to challenge and threaten to ...

Kenneth Branagh and Michael Palin headline the 14th Bradford International Film Festival, receiving a BIFF Fellowship Award and BIFF Lifetime Achievement Award respectively, in the latest edition of one of the UK’s most anticipated film festivals.

BAFTA-award winner and four times Oscar nominee, Branagh will be honored with a season of films covering his career as actor and director and will talk about his work during his visit to Bradford. There will also be a Michael Palin retrospective featuring a variety of his writing and acting credits including American Friends, Jabberwocky, the Monty Python films and ...

NY Arts: Does the Baltimore Jewish Film Festival have a special relationship to
Baltimore?
Claudine Davidson: The Festival in fact was created to address and mirror, through films, the diversity of people and cultures in Baltimore as a direct reflection on how diversified and global, the Jewish population is as well.
NA: What is its relationship to both the Jewish and non-Jewish community?
CD: The Festival, celebrating 20 years in 2008, has the mission to bring people together, Jewish and non-Jewish and the relationship is very successful.
NA: Do you have any further plans for BJFF's expansion?
CD: Outreach is one of ...

From March 27 till April 8, the 26th edition of the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic, Thriller, and Science-Fiction Film (BIFFF) will take place at one of the most dynamic cultural hot spots in Europe, Tour & Taxis.

Like every year, some 65,000 people will participate in what is said to be one of the biggest fantastic film festivals in the world, combining movies from a worldwide panorama of recent genres, exhibitions, conferences, body painting, make-up contests, a Vampire Ball, theatrical animations, and signing sessions with its celebratory, surreal, fun, and convivial atmosphere.

Eighty long features, and a lot ...