Los Angeles Office to be Next Move:
LONDON, OCT. 27, 2000 – FilmFestivals.com, the world’s largest film festival server, has opened a U.K. office in London as part of a major expansion into the U.K. by the Paris-headquartered company, it is announced by Malo Girod de l’Ain, President of FilmFestivals.com. The new office is headed by Nic Wistreich and Tom Fogg.
FilmFestivals.com has already opened offices in New York and Seattle, and has plans to open a Los Angeles office as the next expansion.
The new office will increase U.K. film and festival coverage, as well as adding British short films and features to the new FilmFestivalsTV video-on-demand channel which is operated in partnership with Cable and Wireless.
Nic Wistreich and Tom Fogg are joint-founders of Netribution.co.uk, which launched in February this year and has quickly risen to become the net’s most extensive resource for the U.K. film industry. Nic Wistreich, former director and film industry analyst, will head the office. Tom Fogg, who worked as a documentary producer and freelanced for Channel 4 Press, will be in charge of content on the new U.K. focused site: FilmFestivals.com/uk.
Malo Girod de l’Ain stated: “It is a great pleasure to open our U.K. office with Nic and Tom. We want both to offer the U.K. viewers a better coverage of the U.K. events and to offer those events a worldwide exposure. On top of that, British cinema has always been one of my favorites.”
Added Bruno Chatelin, Filmfestivals.com COO; “Going global requires going local. This move in England is one of the important steps we are taking to expand our global leadership.”
Nic Wistreich said: “FilmFestivals.com offers an incredible range of services for filmmakers, film lovers and festivals, and it’s great to be able to bring that to the U.K.”
Tom Fogg added: “The U.K. is right in the middle of its festival season, so this couldn’t be a more opportune time.”
FilmFestivals.com was founded in 1995 when it created the first website for the Cannes International Film Festival. The site now lists more than 1,000 film festivals worldwide, and has extensive online tools to help festival organizers in such areas as marketing, film registration, web presence and ticket sales. During this year’s Cannes Festival, daily news bulletins were sent by WAP to attendees’ mobile phones.
Press Contacts: in the UK Nic Wistreich/Tom Fogg on 020 7253 ****/7251 ****, or in the US Michael Dalling/Torry Bel Bruno at Rogers & Cowan
