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THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN STUDIO UNIVERSAL CHANNEL AND THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL “IMMAGINARIA”
 

Bologna (ITALY) - January 20, 2001
The Organization Staff together with the founder Association VISIBILIA is proud to announce the new result reached from the Ninth Edition of the International Lesbian Film Festival “IMMAGINARIA”, which will take place in Bologna from the 22nd to the 25th of February 2001.

The digital satellite and cable TV channel STUDIO UNIVERSAL established the IMMAGINARIA-UNIVERSAL SPECIAL AWARD which will be awarded by the Festival committee to the best short. Besides $1,500 that will be assigned to the Director, STUDIO UNIVERSAL will purchase the satellite and cable TV rights of the winner film and it will screen the film on its channel emphasizing the IMMAGINARIA-UNIVERSAL SPECIAL AWARD.

This is the first important step made in Italy to open a glimmer in the difficult distribution of independent lesbian cinema on TV.

During the Ninth Edition of the International Lesbian Festival IMMAGINARIA, the usual awards will also be assigned:

IMMAGINARIA FESTIVAL PROFILE
“Immaginaria” is a woman’s glance of situations, environments, feelings, cultures and problems of women and lesbians around the world, through the most recent independent film production. “Woman Direction” is the shooting angle, the symbiotic mirror, the observation point. Aim of the Festival is to show, to spread and promote the women’s cinema on lesbian and feminist themes and to counter a self-produced independent cinema with the stereotyped representations of the usual cinema distribution, achieving a reading of the lesbian subject from the self-representation. Women’s glances on women, becoming interwoven in a dimension more and more international. In fact, the selected films come from many Northern countries but significantly, more and more, they come also from Middle East,  South America, Africa and Asia. The Festival Organization is made by a staff of women who share their professional skills for free.

STUDIO UNIVERSAL COMPANY PROFILE
The STUDIO UNIVERSAL channel, delivered by cable and satellite (Eutelstat, 13° East) within the digital bouquet Stream,  belongs to the well known international entertainment group Universal Studios, which also owns the famous Universal Pictures Film Production and Distribution.

NINTH EDITION DETAILS
For its Ninth Edition, “Immaginaria” has received the confirmation of the previous sponsorships, namely the Emilia Romagna Area - Culture Councillorship, the Cabinet Presidency, the Embassy of Canada, the British Council. Together with panels and art exhibitions, the programming includes 80 films (shorts, features and middles-lenghts) organized in fiction, documentary, experimental and animation categories. In year 2000 admissions have increased by 13% reaching 5700 screening tickets.

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