The Festival des 3 Continents is an annual
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon ...
held since 1979 in
Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...
, France, and is devoted to the cinemas of
Asia
Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an area ...
, and
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
and
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
. It was founded by Philippe and Alain Jalladeau.
[Deccan Herald]
, "Films from three continents", Retrieved 12-15-2008 The top award in the festival's competition is the balloon shaped
Montgolfiere d'or.
[ In conjunction with the festival is the Produire au Sud, or Producers of the South, a project that provides funding to independent film productions from Asia, Africa and Latin America.][
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List of Montgolfière d'or winners
Further reading
*''Asia's magic lantern'',
*''Festival of Three Continents''
*''Ain't It Cool'', "Euro-AICN: Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes; PrisonFish; Speed of Light; Bond; Shame'sPhotos; Pinocchio; StarWars"
*''Soul Beats Africa'', "3 Continents Film Festival - Africa, Asia, Latin America"
*''The Cunning Canary'', "International Theatre Festival of Three Continents"
References
External links
Nantes Three Continents Festival
at the Internet Movie Database
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ...
Three Continents Festival Official website
ftvdb.bfi.org
Film festivals established in 1979
Film festivals in France
Tourist attractions in Nantes
Latin American film festivals
1979 establishments in France
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