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7/7/2004
SALES OFFICE 2004 PRESS RELEASE

The Sales Office at the 52nd San Sebastian International Film Festival will organize the following events:

Focus on Eastern Europe concentrating on the insertion of Eastern European countries to the audiovisual market at production and distribution level. Guest countries: Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Poland and the Czech Republic. This workshop is open to all accredited international industry members attending the Festival.
Organized by Media Antena Euskal Herria under the auspices of the Donostia-San Sebastián Film Commission and the Red Ciudades de Cine backed by Interreg III C.

Film Bridges between Spain and the USA. Independent North-American distributors interested in acquiring marketing rights and producers with Spanish movies made within the year. A workshop at which to discuss and negotiate. Guest distributors: Rebecca Conget from New Yorker Films, Marta Sánchez from Women Make Movies and Raymond Murray from TLA Entertainment Group.

Sales Office Coffee Time from 17-18h every day. Film directors with a movie in one of the Festival sections will show their upcoming projects to members of the international industry with an interest in coproduction and/or distribution.

Sales Office Screenings room. Screening of Spanish movies of the year and others. Exclusive screenings for accredited industry members. Five screenings per day. A total of 32 titles were screened at last year's Festival.

Other activities carried out in close co-ordination with the Sales Office:

Films in Progress 6 for professionals wishing to discover, behind closed doors, a rigorous selection of independent Latin-American and Spanish films on the point of tackling the decisive post-production stage.
III International Film School Meeting: students from around a dozen European and American training centres will defend their work before the public and professionals.
The Film and Regions Day will feature a programme of innovating and ambitious initiatives developed in favour of cinema from European regions.