Fest Market News

– Edmonton’s 10th annual Local Her’es International Screen Festival will be held March 3-9. A highlight of the non-competitive festival will be Declarations of Independents, a showcase for Canadian indie tv and film. Seventeen short films, including Jean-Marc Valee’s Les Fleurs Magiques, winner of best Canadian short film at the Genies, and the filmmakers will be featured during the screenings.

Information on Local Her’es can be accessed on The National Screen Institute’s new home page at //www.ffa.ucalgary. ca/nsi. Send e-mail to deb-nsi@supernet.ab.ca.

– Mibe ’97, the first Hispano-American tv market, will be held in Havana in June 1997. For info, call +34.3.416-0091;e-mail to org.seg@servicom.es