This profile is an extension of our portal www.filmfestivals.com whose festival directory has been serving the community since 1995.
ATTENTION! ALL FILMMAKERS INTERESTED IN THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT WILL BE WELCOME AS FRIENDS ON
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Hi I am the COO and co founder of FilmFestivals.com a subsidiary of MM2 Editions. Welcome to our new festivals club on myspace. This is festivals only profile. We only accept friends that run festivals, film events. Filmmakers are welcome to join us on my other fest21.com profile.
We are still new here with over 200 festivals friends, far from the 4000 that are listed on filmfestivals.com directory or the 450 listed on our new blog platform fest21.com.
MM2 Editions parent company to both sites hosts the number one portal site for festivals and film news
Filmfestivals.com 's mission is to be the premiere .. entertainment destination dedicated to showcasing film festivals around the world and fostering new film and filmmaking talent.
Contact info
New York Office 212 202 49 77
New European Headquarters +331 72 74 71 79 Fax +331 72 74 73
79 Postal adress 22 Rue d'Athenes 75009 Paris France
The company was founded in 1995 and first produced a CD-Rom on the Cannes Film Festival as well as created 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!
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 MM2 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.
FilmFestivals.com audience is linked to the sucess of festivals in achieving
an attractive line up. The company achieved a record audience in may 2003 with
9 million pages and 890 000 visitors, aimed at both movie buffs
and professionals, focusing on film festivals and motion picture events. The
site content is bilingual, English and French. Average audience in 2005-2006
is 3 M pages a month with 400 000 unique visitors in average.
Last October 6th record for a single day with 335 000 pages viewed.
Fest21.com audience is doubling every fourtnight. December was cloise to half
a million page views. Target for end of 2007 is 3 million pages after the launch
of the blog platform early 2007.