19th February/6th March 2001

The Oporto International Film Festival, now going to its 21st edition, specialised in fantasy and science-fiction films in its Official Competitive section.
This Festival also includes the 11th New Directors Week with an official competition, a Fantasia section dedicated to Eastern films and a Retrospective section. Festival's director, Mário Dorminsky, is preparing, with the help of the Portuguese Film Institute, a programme with Portuguese Films for the benefit of the foreign guests in Fantasporto. The Festival runs now in 8 theatres (2700 seats altogether) and screens nearly 300 feature films each year. The press coverage of the Festival is made by all the portuguese important newspapers, radio stations and television networks and by foreign specialized press. This allows pressdossiers of about 4000 clippings every year and represents a unique media coverage in Portugal for similar cultural events. Almost 100 000 entries, per year is the average of the Festival's past editions.

Contacts:

Mário Dorminsky (Director) and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira (Programming Director)