Tampere Film Festival thanks!
The Little Snow Animal (2009)
The 40th anniversary year of Tampere Film Festival was a great success. The box office kept busy and the total of guest and audience members peaked a little over 31 000.
On top of the competition screenings, the ¡Viva el corto! programme screenings drew full venues of cinema-goers. Also the Trash Film Festival and the Friday and Saturday after screen parties at Tullikamari and Klubi were sold out. There were a total of 15 sold out events and numerous screenings were full apart from a couple of seats.
The spectacular anniversary screening of City Lights at Tampere Hall drew a massive crowd of over 1400 attendees. The showing received a standing ovation from the audience. The classic film received a worthy accompaniment from Tampere Chamber, led by Kimmo Tullila.
The Finns received a staggering ending when the International Competition’s Grand Prix was won by Miia Tervo with her film The Little Snow Animal (2009). The film also took the Tampere EFA nomination and the main prize of the National Competition under 30 minutes' category. The Awarded Films screenings were very popular and two of them were sold out.
Awarded short films of Tampere Film Festival will be screened at the theatre of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki on 20th March at 2pm. The 41st International Tampere Short Film Festival will take place from March 9th to 13th 2011.
Tampere Film Festival would like to thank everyone for a great festival!
