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Phuket is screening in the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival which runs from January 29 - February 6.  It is the largest short film festival in the world.  People who have been there say that audiences line up for tickets in the snow and the 500-seat cinemas are always filled up.  And these are not film professionals, these are normal Clermont-Ferrandian citizens on a date or a family outing or whatever. 

The festival also includes a film market.  Most places in the world have a hard enough time drumming up interest for a feature film market, but in France, land of Louis Lumiere, people are so film crazy they even buy and sell short films.  So for one week out of every year, freezing Clermont-Ferrand, tucked away in the geographical dead center of France, becomes the world capital of short films.  Ahhh…Les Francais.

Phuket is screening in International Competition program 10:

http://www.clermont-filmfest.com/index.php?m=134&c=178&n1=c&n2=2&n3=%20&annee=0&id_prog=100000040

If anybody happens to be there, you really have no excuse to miss it, because its showing SEVEN times in seven days!  That must be another record.

~ by admin on January 8, 2010.

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