January 10th, 2009

Dear IFFS members,
We would like to inform you about the FICC Jury at the forthcoming juries:
The 12th Kristiansand International Children's Film Festival (KICFF)

Kristiansand, Norway

April 27th May 3rd 2009

Please send your nominations before 10th February 2009

We kindly ask you to INFORM ALL YOUR MEMBER FILM SOCIETIES AND NON PROFIT CINEMAS about this offer within the next days.

For your nomination, please use the attached form which must be filled in completely and send back by your national federation as soon as possible. We can only accept nomination forms handed in by federations. No forms sent by individual film society people will be accepted.

Please consider the following points if you wish to hand in a nomination:

o The nominated person must arrive on the opening day of the festival and must stay until the morning after the closing ceremony. The nominating federation is responsible to find a replacing person in case that the originally nominated person cancels.

o Only federations which have paid their membership fees up to 2008 are entitled to nominate jury members.

o In each jury one invitation is reserved for the delegate from the corresponding national federation(s). Therefore the federation(s) in the country in which the festival takes place must nominate a jury member in due time.

o For your nominations please use the enclosed form and return it to jury administrator:

Website: www.kicff.no

Jury Conditions:
· Jury members (3 – 5) : Jury of 3 persons (one jury member from Norway) for our Youth Programme (aprox. 10 features).

· Working languages: English/Norwegian

· Deadline for Jury nomination: February 10th 2009

· Type of invitation: KICFF especially invite young people (20+) to apply.

· Travel Expenses: : For non-national members KICFF offer a contribution off 200,- Euros for European members and 350,- Euros for Non-European members.

· Hotel and meals: Bed and breakfast in single hotel room+ 2 daily meals

· Date of Arrival: April 26th

· Date of departure: May 3rd

Adittional Information or conditions:
Please notice that Kristiansand Airport – Kjevik (Krs) has international flight connection with Copenhagen (SAS) and Amsterdam (KLM).

The festival needs a high resolution photo and short biography of the jury members not later than 15th February 2009

Homepage Kristiansand Information: www.sorlandet.com

Please send your nominations before the 10th February 2007