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Focfest is a festival for peace and freedom through the art of video and film. It aims to promote the use of moving image involving broad audiences in an open debate about the challenges facing humanity.

The Freedom of Choice International Video and Film Peace Festival (FocFest) is committed to bringing to the public quality creative art movies with civic and intervention assent. It seeks to promote the ideals of peace, freedom, open society, tolerance, political and cultural pluralism within a global context as well as fight and expose the cases of violation of those commitments throughout
the world.
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So the festival goes offline, but where and when?During the festival in October 2008, ArtiKraak and the Streaming Festival will organise a screening exhibition. This offline event will take place in one of the ArtiKraak spaces in The Hague - The Netherlands.

We have always claimed that an online broadcast, through streaming servers, is what we want to explore and make accessible to an international public. Viewing online means that the festival is close to an individual experience. From any location in the world, viewers can plug into a streaming server by clicking a button and start watching films. Even though that's exactly how we like it, we realized that sooner or later offline locations would be our next step in exploring these possiblities.

Some films are made for the big screen, others are made to be presented on smaller remote screens. The viewer is compelled to appreciate the work in the manner they choose; individually, together with friends, colleagues or other film enthusiasts, occasionally in situations where they can collectively view the film in a cinema situation as an audience.

By expanding the festival to have physical locations along with the personal online theaters, we want to create this contrasted opportunity for both the public and artists.

In this adventure we collaborate with ArtiKraak, a foundation for contemporary art based in The Netherlands. Artikraak organizes art events in disused buildings. They are actively looking for new encounters, cross-overs and energy which they provide space for, thereby stimulating and encouraging creative works.

Visit the website of Artikraak www.artikraak.org



]]> http://www.streamingfestival.com/news/readmore.php?id=102 http://www.streamingfestival.com/news/readmore.php?id=101 We would like to express our condolences and sympathy to his wife Dawn, his son Patrick, friends and family.

Patrick Donald William Power, II died on October 16, 2007. Patrick and his family were living in Alfred, NY where he was a Professor with the SUNY State University at Alfred, NY in their College of Technology.

Patrick was born in Williamsburg, VA in 1969 and later received a degree in Cinematography from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. He began his academic career there teaching Web Design in the Communication Arts Department of the School of the Arts and in 2007 he received his Masters of Fine Arts in Electronic Integrated Art from Alfred University in Alfred, NY. He was an innovative Photographer and experimental Filmmaker. One of his latest endeavors included the majority of photos for Alfred Universitys award-winning 2007 annual yearbook. An extensive collection of Patrick' s work can be seen on his website patrickpower.com

Patricks marriage to Dawn Bennett in Alfred, NY this past summer and the birth of his son, Patrick Donald William Power III, were among his greatest joys. He photographed his family extensively and leaves that legacy.

In addition to his wife and five-month-old son, he leaves his mother and step- father, Patricia and William Rash of Hampton, VA, his father and step-mother, Patrick and Lori Power of Vero Beach, FL, his brother Kevin Power and wife Meg of Richmond, VA, his sister Kathleen and her husband Shannon Derr and their daughter Victoria Viale-Derr of Hampton, VA, and his brother David Rash of Las Vegas, NV. He is also survived by his father-in-law Wayne Bennett and his wife Ok from Brentwood, TN and brother-in-law Shawn Bennett of San Jose, CA.

A memorial service will be held on Friday, November 2 at 6pm at The Bike Lot in Richmond, VA. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking for donations for Patricks son.

Visit the site : www.forp3.com


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3rd edition starts in October 2008. (exact date will be announced).
No entry fee for submissions.
Deadline for submissions is 01 September 2008.
Selected artists will receive an email between 15 and 30 September 2008.

Send submissions through postal service, or provide a website link to preview the submission.

Postal address :
Streaming Festival (3rd Edition)
Mauritskade 47 E
2514 HG
The Hague
Netherlands


]]> http://www.streamingfestival.com/news/readmore.php?id=100 http://www.streamingfestival.com/news/readmore.php?id=52 Well, the interviews from the first edition in 2006 are back online.
It took us this long to put the interviews back together because of technical difficulties right after the first edition. Most interviews came unscratched out of the mayhem, however some turned indefinitely to dust.
Nonetheless, there are still more than 90 interviews available.

What about interviews with artists from the second edition in 2007? No worries, we are currently working hard on finishing those, as well as some other new features on the website. This is scheduled to go live somewhere between half December 2007 and January 2008.]]> http://www.streamingfestival.com/news/readmore.php?id=52