Popular Movie Festivals

Movies or films are the stuff that dreams are made of. Movie goers flock to the halls to view the movies of their choice. The film makers make the films to put forth their creative energies. The way they view the world, the way they put forth their idea on a certain topic, or the way they view a certain work of literature, all go into the making of a movie. Movie Festivals are a cinema lover's delight. Movie Festivals are the platforms where film directors big and small put forth their creativity in the form of the movies that they have directed or produced. There are various categories like art films, action films, and so on.

A large number of films are screened under each category. The movie buffs or the film buffs flock to the venues of the film festivals, to see the movies of their choice. Usually, movie festivals are venues where multiple films are screened at the same time. The movie fans, the media, and the movie critics have a tough time which venue they would visit, and which they would leave out.

There are number of important film festivals like the Cannes Film Festival. The Cannes Film Festival was started in Cannes, way back in the year 1939. The town Cannes is a French resort town, in the southern part of France. The sixty first annual Cannes Film Festival will be organized in the month of May, in the year 2008. The tentative period for this movie festival is between the fourteenth of May, and the twenty-fifth of May. The Palme d'Or or the Golden Palm is the coveted prize of the Cannes Film Festival. This is a most revered movie festival. This is an international film festival, and films from all over the world are screened at this movie festival.

The Locorno Film Festival is another major movie festival. This popular international movie festival is held in the town of Locorno, in Switzerland. Locorno is located in the canton named Ticino. The Locorno Movie Festival was founded a long time ago, not long after the Second World War, in the year 1946. The Padro d'Oro or the Golden Leopard is the coveted trophy of the Locorno movie festival.

The Oscar Award or the Academy Award may be also be considered a film festival of sorts, though technically it is not a film festival. It has a special section on foreign films. This is an annual film awards ceremony organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, of the United States of America. The Oscar statuette is a coveted by film makers. The first Academy Award was held, way back in the year, 1929. On the twenty fifth of February, 2007, the seventy ninth Academy Awards ceremony was held at the venue of the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. On 24th February, 2008, the eightieth Academy Awards are scheduled to be held. The event is telecast live all over the world. In that sense it may be considered a movie festival of sorts.