Odessa International Film Festival
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| Location | Odessa, Ukraine |
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| Founded | 2010 |
| Awards | Grand Prix "The Golden Duke" |
| Festival date | second half of July |
| Language | Ukrainian, Russian, English |
| Website | www |
The Odessa International Film Festival (Ukrainian: Одéський міжнарóдний кінофестивáль) is an annual film festival held in the middle of the July in Odessa, Ukraine. It was held for the first time 16 – 24 July 2010.
The festival is young. However, the organizers set before themselves a rather ambitious goal: to develop it into one of the leading film forums in Eastern Europe – The Cannes of Eastern Europe.
The President of the festival is Viktoriya Tigipko.
The first Odessa International Film Festival was held from the 16th to 24 July 2010. It offered to its audiences a competition program of 16 films and over 50 films out of competition. The "Rodina" theater served as the main venue for the festival as well as the festival center. It screened all films in the competition program as well as hosting special festival events. Other screening took place all around Odessa in many city theaters. One of the most outstanding architectural monuments in all of Ukraine, the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater, served as the venue for the opening and closing festival ceremonies.
The first festival was attended by over 40 thousand audience members. In the following year, this number increased almost by a factor of 2 – over 70 thousand viewers attended and over 5 thousand guests graced the festival with their presence. Over 450 journalists from Ukraine, Russia, Germany, United States, Romania, Italy and other countries received festival accreditation.
The festival also includes a dynamic special project entitled Summer Film School): a series of master-classes, taught by noted festival guests to film students and general film fans.
During the second festival a new project was added to the Summer Film School – a "script Workshop" - a series of workshops and seminars for a select group of screenwriters chosen by a strict selection process. New opportunities for film professionals also arose in the second year of the Odessa Film Festivals – a film market and a pitching contest.
In 2011, on its closing day, the festival received a high recognition form one of the leading press associations in the world – the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (the producers of the Golden Globes.) Gabriel Lerman, representative of HFPA delivered the honorary token to the festival.
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