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Well, it´s been a week since we closed our call for entries. The selection committee has been working hard because 1354 filmmakers from 80 different countries have helped us break our record with the largest number of entries the festival has ever had.

We wish you all the best of luck. We will be publishing results for the official selection on our website at the beginning of july. Please be patient… 🙂

Thanks to all of the filmmakers that sent us their films and please come back soon for more news about the Monterrey International Film Festival.

Today we´ve come to the last day of our call for entries. There have been many more submissions than any other year. Today we´ve had repeat visits from the mailman, DHL, Fedex, UPS, and other national and international couriers. We´ll soon have a full report on how many films and from how many countries. It is always exciting to open a package from a country half a way around the world and be able to see what a filmmaker saw and fixed upon celluloid or video. It really helps you to not forget the real sense of a film festival: the coming together of images, thoughts, ideas and minds.

This has been our motto at the Monterrey International Film Festival for the last few years and we´re very happy to be able to continue saying that the world´s images come together in Monterrey. Filmmakers from over 75 different countries have registered their films, and there´s still five days more to the final deadline.

So if you haven´t sent your film yet… send it today!

We´ve received films from all the regions highlighted in red in the following map:

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or vertaling Duits Nederlands

We´re a week away from our final deadline and very happy with the materials that we´ve received and keep receiving every day. We´re close friends with our postman and all the major and minor courier service delivery men now. We´re getting close to 900 entries. Today we counted over 60 different countries. Including some first timers, like Kirgistan. It still amazes us to see the world map and tag all the countries from which we´ve received films.

If you haven´t sent your film yet… do it now! Close this blog, get your tapes or DVD´s and rush out to send them. A week from the deadline, you´ll be better off using a courier service… It takes about two weeks to get a package that was sent from the United States, Canada or Europe. The rest of the world is at least three weeks by ordinary mail away. If you do send your films, don´t forget to register online at www.ficmty.org.

So we´re watching a lot of films… and a lot of good films… so this year is going to be a tough competition. Best of luck to all of you participating, with 900 films we know that at least ten times as many people participated in making them, and thats a lot of friends to have. We´ll keep in touch!