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LA Shorts Fest CALL FOR ENTRIES
RegularDeadline - April 2, 2010
Final Deadline - May 14, 2010
14thannual LA Shorts Fest The largest short film festival in the world. Academyof Motion PicturesArts & Sciences accredited. In past years, 33 participants have earned Academy Award nominationsincluding 11 Oscar winning short films!The festival annually attracts more than 8,000 moviegoers, filmmakers and entertainment professionals looking for the hottest newtalent.
Submit online www.LAshortsFest.com
Deadline: April 6th
We are excited to announce that we are taking the Good Pitch - our one-day live event bringing together foundations, NGOs, social entrepreneurs and broadcasters to maximize the impact of social-issue documentary - back to SILVERDOCS! Eight filmmaking teams will pitch their project and its associated outreach campaign on Wednesday, June 23, 2010.
We're very excited about this event, and expect creative results that will combine filmmaking with an appreciation for the environment.
To learn more about Rainforest Partnership, the film challenge, or to register, please visit RainforestPartnership.org.
Eric Lyman
Rainforest Partnership
Eric@RainforestPartnership.org
RainforestPartnership.org
The Producers Guild of America is proud to announce its producing
workshop, "The Power Of Diversity." This workshop will draw upon a wide
range of seminars and perspectives designed to foster the development
of diverse voices in Television Comedy, One Hour Drama, Reality
Television Motion Pictures, Documentaries and Web series.
Up to ten (10) participants will be encouraged to explore, create and refine creative visions and stories that reflect our diverse culture. Applicants may be emerging creative voices or those well-established in their careers.
This year's program will focus on participants' projects helping them move their work forward through seminars and master classes with some of the top professionals working in film, television, and non-traditional media supported by one-on-one mentoring work with a member of the Producers Guild. Topics to be addressed include: story development, pitching, packaging, financing, marketing, and new media. Every session will be tailored to our participating producers and their projects.
Workshop call for entries is now open and closes on April 9th 2010 at 5:00 pm.
Applicants will be notified by May 14th, 2010
Workshop
sessions will take place between May 24th and July 31st. If selected,
participants must be available to attend the duration of the program.
Workshop sessions typically will be held weekday evenings from approximately 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. with a few sessions on Saturday mornings at The Producers Guild of America offices at 8530 Wilshire Blvd., Ste 450, Beverly Hills.
More info and application forms at the link below.
Producers Guild of America
8530 Wilshire Blvd. Ste 450
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Independent Exposure 2010 is the 14th annual showcase for contemporary, progressive, artistic, and culturally relevant short films and videos by some of the most compelling artists and filmmakers from around the globe.
To date, Independent Exposure has featured over 1,000 artists and filmmakers and been presented hundreds of times in 44 countries including Palestine, Antarctica, and at base camp on Mt. Everest.
Independent Exposure invites you to your submit short video, film, and digital-media submissions of 15 minutes or less.
Independent Exposure is seeking narrative, artistic, humorous, dramatic, animation, documentary, experimental, alternative, avant-garde, ambient, music videos, and underground works of all genres, formats, and styles.
Participants of all nationalities are welcome to submit their works by April 30, 2010. Entrance fee is $5 USD.
Prizes include Panasonic AG-HSC1U 1/4" 3-CCD High Definition Video Camera and Selected works from the MicrocinemaDVD.com Catalog.
For full program information, rules, selection criteria, prizes, and how to submit please visit www.independentexposure.com
Since 2005, Independent Exposure has teamed up with a partner to curate the screening programs and select prize winners and a "best-of" selection. Recent partners include Addictive TV, Hal Hartley, and Asthmatic Kitty Records. This year we are pleased to partner with Academy Award-Nominated Animator Bill Plympton.
"From the earliest screenings of Independent Exposure, animated film and video have played a central role in our program," says founder Patrick Kwiatkowski. "Bill Plympton is going to attract world class animators and we are very excited about our program this year."
Bill Plympton, best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated short Your Face, joins Microcinema to curate and judge this year's Independent Exposure.
In addition to two Academy Award-nominations, Plympton's illustrations and cartoons have been published in The New York Times and weekly newspaper The Village Voice, as well as in the magazines Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Penthouse, and National Lampoon. His political cartoon strip Plympton, which began in 1975 in the Soho Weekly News, eventually was syndicated and appeared in over 20 newspapers. His distinctive style is easily recognized.
Microcinema's first activity was producing Independent Exposure. From our activities in presenting this program a film distribution business was born.
Microcinema International is now a leading specialty distributor of the moving image arts. Microcinema International specializes in the acquisition, exhibition, and distribution of independently produced works of an artistic and socially-relevant nature. Microcinema's mission is to seek out, curate, exhibit, promote, and distribute compelling works to a broad audience via existing and emerging mediums. Through Microcinema's own DVD label Blackchair Collection and Microcinema International DVD, a unique and diverse catalogue of international DVD titles are distributed into retail, wholesale, online, and institutional sales channels worldwide.
