The Fresh Film Fest International Film Festival was a student

film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online. Films may be of recent ...

held annually in August in the

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, between 2004 and 2014.

History

The Fresh Film Fest is a successor of the CILECT festival that took place in

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during the 1980s, initially as an independent festival and subsequently as part of the

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(KVIFF). In 2010, the festival moved from Karlovy Vary to Prague. Over the years the CILECT festival was attended by filmmakers including

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and

Emir Kusturica Emir Kusturica ( sr-cyrl, Емир Кустурица, ; born 24 November 1954) is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, actor, film producer and musician. Kusturica has been an active filmmaker since the 1980s. He has competed at the Cannes ...

. 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

. The organizing team, consisting mostly of students from FAMU, presented public screenings of over 250 mainly student films each year, from various countries and genres. The theme of the 11th event in 2014 was young directors; the event was held in Prague. Having held 11 events, the 12th event, scheduled for summer 2015, was cancelled.

References

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Festival site on myspaceFresh Film Fest on BritfilmsCILECTStudent films on Karlovy Vary International Film FestivalFresh Film Fest on MediaDesk website
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