* Friday, February 4 - Saturday, February 12, 2000. Clermont-Ferrand, France.
This year, Clermont-Ferrand Short Films Festival will be featuring its 12th
international competition and 22nd French competition. The festival will
highlight animated films based off of comic strips. Filmmakers and buyers
can take advantage of the short film market, which attracted more than 50
TV channels, 50 distributors, and 60 international festival organizers last
year. German filmmaker Jochen Kuhn of the Stuttgart Film School will
present a program of his animated work along with films created by his
students. Other programs will showcase SODEC (Societe de Developpement des
Entreprises Culturelles di Quebec), education films, and children's
animation. For more information contact Festival du Court Métrage at: 26,
rue des Jacobins, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France; Tel.: ++ 33 473 91 65 73;
Fax: ++ 33 473 92 11 93; E-mail: festival@gdebussac.fr; or Web: