JiFFest opens film competition

JiFFest opens film competition

For the first time since it was established five years ago, the
Jakarta International Film Festival (JiFFest) is holding a short
documentary film competition for local filmmakers.

JiFFest has become the alternative venue for movie buffs, with
the festival annually screening dozens of quality movies from
around the globe that never made it into local cinemas.

Now in its fifth year, the committee of JiFFest is calling for
Indonesians to take part in the competition. Entries will be
closed on July 31.

To enter, films must be between 15 minutes and 30 minutes in
length and they must have been made between January 2001 and July
2003.

The films should be in VHS format and sent in a sealed
envelope with the words "short documentary film competition"
written in the upper left-hand corner. Also, a completed form
downloaded from http://www.jiffest.com/competition must be
included in the envelope.

Entries should be sent to JiFFest at Jl. Sutan Syahrir 1C,
Blok 3-4, Menteng, Jakarta 10350.

Finalists will be selected by a three-person jury: Visual
anthropologist Tanete Adrianus Pong, the head of the Trans TV
news department, Riza Primadi, and the director of the Singapore
International Film Festival, Philip Cheah.

The films that make it past the first stage of selection will
be announced during a media conference on Sept. 10. The nominees
will then go through another selection stage during JiFFest 2003
from Oct. 8 to Oct. 20.

The winners will be announced on the closing night of JiFFest
on Oct. 20.

For more information call Roisamri or Rizhka at (021) 9238364,
fax at (021) 325360 or email at film_competition@cbn.net. id.
--JP