April 28 is the Deadline for Submitting Your Short Film to the New FFILMM Festival
Don't Miss Your Opportunity to Be in Fresno's Own Sundance
by Jaguar Bennett
April 25, 2006
April 25, 2006
We're quickly coming to the deadline for applications to the Fresno Films Involving Local Movie Makers Festival (FFILMM), Fresno's newest film festival.
To present your short film or poem to the FFILMM Festival, you must send in your entry by this Friday, April 28, by 5 p.m.
FFILMM is Fresno's new Sundance-style film festival, created in order to promote the work of local San Joaquin Valley filmmakers.
The FFILMM Festival will premiere at the Tower Theatre on May 20, 2006.
For more information, contact Jaguar Bennett at jagbennett@sbcglobal.net, or Adrian Johnson at (559) 681-3388 or ffilmm2006@yahoo.com
How to enter FFILMM:
Films: Junior and Adult Short Films, any length from 2 to 20 minutes. Films must be submitted on DVD format only. Entry fee per film: $30
Poetry: Must be typed on 8½ by 11 paper. Each poem must be on a separate page. Entry fee per poem: $20
Deadline: 5:00 p.m., Friday, April 28, 2006.
Send submissions and entry fees to:
FFILMM Festival
PO Box 9531
Fresno, CA 93792
Awards: First place winners in each of three categories will receive special awards.
Judging:
Finalists in both short films and poetry will be notified by e-mail or postal mail on or before May 6, 2006 and will be shown at the FFILMM Festival at the Tower Theatre. Poetry finalist will present their poems in person at the festival. Criteria for the panel of five local judges will be:
Short films: Creativity, storyline, originality, cinematography, audio/musical score and editing style.
Poetry: Creativity, originality and style.
Rules and Regulations:
No explicit or extreme violence. No nudity. Only films with English-language dialogue or English subtitles will be accepted. Film projects cannot have been opened theatrically or produced or financed by a major motion picture studio. Junior Films must be produced, filmed and edited by a youth age 16 or younger (as of May 20, 2006). Films and poetry must have been created within the last two years.
For an entry form and other information, contact FFILMM at (559) 681-3388 or ffilmm2006@yahoo.com
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There are a lot of festivals where the submission rates are more expensive...but there are also bigger festivals. I worked on a festival committee in San Francisco with a much larger audience...nationwide recognition, and a smaller entry fee. Even more ideally...there's the Channel 101 monthly film festival at Cinespace in Los Angeles which not only has a free submission policy, but charges nothing whatsoever for admission to the festival itself.
Granted...that's crazy, and extremely hard to do. My point is...I so very much want to see a festival like this prosper here, but i think one should be willing to eat the cost of an upstart for the first year or two in exchange for a plentiful group of submissions...hopefully translating into some quality stuff.
Making films is expensive enough, and the more that's added onto that, the worse.
Perhaps seperate entry fees for shorts under 2 minutes...under 5 minutes...under 30 minutes...and features should be implimented. A smaller fee for the shorter submissions would definitely bring more to the table. Speaking for myself...i'd definitely submit.
Is it really too high?
Do you really think the fees are too much? To me, $30 seems ultra-reasonable. The festivals I'm familiar with charge $100-300 for entries.
I think a festival is a great idea...but if you have no sponsors, starting smaller might not be a bad idea.
Yeah, I take issue with that as well. Apparently it's because they have no sponsors and are funding this out of their own pockets.
But I say hey, try a bit harder and you'll find sponsors. Because at 30 bucks a pop, I can't imagine them getting many entries.
a bit pricey? (and by a
a bit pricey? (and by a bit, i mean way way way way way toooo much!)
...especially for a startup festival.
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