Hosting TFSA 2007

The TFSA ’08 package comes with the 13 films in professional-quality Mini-DV tapes or DVDs, TFSA posters and the touring festival catalogues. The festival package can be hosted by any organisation with the ability to organise a venue, do effective publicity and bring an audience of size and quality to do justice to the film package. The organisers insist that the TFSA package be shown through high-quality video projection systems. The 13 films, which vary significantly in length, are ideally screened over three consecutive afternoons-evenings, though a more flexible schedule may be considered. Together, the documentaries in the TFSA ’08 package add up to a little over 14 hours of viewing time.

Please note that the festival will only travel to cities where host organisations are willing to take full responsibility for publicity, screenings and all associated logistics. As per FSA’s agreement with the individual filmmakers and production houses, the screenings may only be non-commercial. This means that entry fees at TFSA may at best be used to offset screening costs, and no profits are to be generated for the host organisation.

Costs

There is no charge levied on hosts and venues within Southasia. In order to defray all TFSA-related costs, an all-inclusive charge of USD 800 per venue is levied by the FSA Secretariat to all organisers overseas. (Any amount left over from the fee collection will go to the organisation of FSA ’09, slated for October 2009). The FSA Secretariat allows the package to remain with one host for a maximum of three weekends.

The levy for academic institutions interested in keeping the package beyond the three-week period is USD 1200 all inclusive. The local host (whether in Southasia or overseas) takes the responsibility, at its own cost, of dispatching the package to the next venue as directed by the FSA Secretariat.

Budget allowing, the TFSA host may want to invite the individual filmmakers to attend their festival. The contact details are available in the catalogue, or you can take help from the FSA Secretariat. Especially within Southasia, the host may also consider inviting an FSA official from Kathmandu, who will be able to introduce the festival before the local audience and also help promote the agenda of ‘more and better’ non-fiction film in our region.