TOURISM FILM FESTIVAL TO TAKE PLACE IN SPLIT

( Editorial: --> 6516 ) SPLIT, Oct 10 (Hina) - The international tourism film festival will take place in the Croatian coastal town of Split this year from October 14 to 18. During the five days of the festival, 56 chosen tourism films will be shown from Austria, Cambodia, Croatia, the Czech republic, Finland, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Mauritius, Morocco, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. An international panel of judges will decide on eleven of the most successful films and award one of them the Grand Prix. The organisers of the festival are the Croatian Dalmatian Tourism Promotion Centre (FIS CENTAR). Participants and visitors of the festival will be shown a film about Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac who was recently beatified by Pope John Paul II, and his hometown Krasic, and a film about the Croatian coastal town of Rijeka, one of the candidates for hosting the Mediterranean Games in 2005. (hina) lml 101824 MET oct 98