Pre History of filmfestivals.com
The company was founded in 1995 began its festival involvement with the production of a CD-Rom on the Cannes Film Festival and the creation of their first official website. This successful experience developed into a focus on film festivals all over the world. Filmfestivals.com was registered on July 26, 1995. Yes, you read it right, 95!
Below is a tour of our homepages!
1996: The first homepage!
1997
1998
1999
2000 The new design
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Facts now:
1996 - coverage of the major international film festivals in partnership with Moving Pictures International, a British film industry magazine.
1997 - creation of the worldwide festival directory and a monthly bulletin board
1998 - Expanded to include films reviews, pertinent articles…
1999 - Launched the film and festival databases, a weekly news edition and services to festival organizers and filmmakers.
2000 - Launch of pro site and new version of french and Internatonal sites.
2001 - Launch of the film interactive experience at Sundance. Company has built a catalogue of 50 films and 150 shorts.
2002 - Launch of the Festival Circuit.
2003 - Launch of the Buyers Lounge for Cannes Market
2004 - Partners with Hollywood Europan Awards to promote european film through Hollywood European Award
Partnership with Cannes, Los Angeles Festival, Karlovy Vary, Venice, IFP Market, MIFED...
2005 - Partners with 2005 Cannes Market to promote the Short Film Digital Avenue showcase and panel on convergence and new media digital rights management. Partnership with Cannes,Satis, SIL 2005 Roma Independent Film Festival, Dubai...
2006 - Filmfestivals and M21 Editions launch www.fest21.com at Cannes new video blog platform for festival, film professionnals and film fans at large. Free storage of 500M allow for blog streaming at state of the art conditions.
2007 - M21 Editions introduces the first digital library bundle, including an e-Book reader and a selection of 24 books dedicatd to prospective management and technology.
2008 Cannes Future of Cinema Salon goes to Cannes and Locarno (as official partner)
2009 Launch of fest21 new version with improved search and new festival Directory merged with filmfestivals.com The company partners with Cannes for the fith year. The company publishes "A festival Wife" by episodes on fest21.com with a reveal inCannes of the last chapter of th efestival thriller by Rex Weiner (former Journalist with Variety)
