Fresh Film Festival

This article is about the international student film festival. For the Irish film festival, see Fresh Film Festival (Ireland).

The Fresh Film Fest International Film Festival is an international student film festival held annually in August in Prague, Czech Republic, first held in 2004.

Fresh Film Festival

Location	Prague, Czech Republic
Established	2004

History

The Fresh Film Fest is a successor of the CILECT festival that took place in Karlovy Vary during the 1980s, initially as an independent festival and subsequently as part of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF). In 2010, the festival moved to Prague.^[1] Over the years the CILECT festival was attended by filmmakers including Jan Svěrák and Emir Kusturica.^{[citation needed]}

Fresh Film Festival was founded in 2004 by Martin Posta and three students from the Film and TV School of The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), as a competitive showcase of student films in the Czech Republic.^[2][3] The organizing team, consisting mostly of students from FAMU, presents public screenings of over 250 mainly student films each year, from various countries and genres.^[4]

References

1. Velinger, Jan (2010-08-26). ""Heroes" the theme of 7th annual Fresh Film Fest". Radio Prague International. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
2. Frankova, Ruth (2007-08-21). "Focus on student films in Karlovy Vary's other festival". Radio Prague International. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
3. Pohorela, Monika (2009). "Institut dokumentarniho filmu Subvencni strategie IDF a jejich vliv na rozvoj dokumentarni kinematografie v CR" (PDF). Masaryk University. Retrieved February 1, 2024.
4. "Festival Fresh Film Fest dává i letos prostor osvěžujícím designovým hrátkám - Design portál" (in Czech). 2015-03-28. Retrieved 2024-02-01.

External links

• Official website
• Festival site on myspace
• Student films on Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

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