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Reel Facts Productions accepting short video submissions
SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO – CHANGE THE WORLD – ONE FRAME AT A TIME Reel Facts Productions (RFP) is accepting submissions of short videos, up to FIVE MINUTES in length, depicting social, political and environmental matters that affect our lives. Issue examples include: Health Care Reform, Oil Crisis, Water Crisis, $$ in Politics, Immigration Reform, Media [...]
Fantastic Fest Needs Volunteers
Fantastic Fest is looking for volunteers (18 years and older, please) for the 2009 festival. We need you to stand face to face with the celebs and the fans alike to make sure everyone has a rip-roarin’-Austin-Texas-Alamo-Drafthouse-good-time. This year’s festival takes place September 24th – October 1st No other festival draws so many eclectic directors, [...]
ART FROM THE STREETS wins Lights.Camera.Help Jury Award
On August 2nd, Layton Blaylock’s award-winning documentary ART FROM THE STREETS won the Lights.Camera.Help Film Festival‘s Jury Award. For winning, all of the proceeds from the festival will go to Art From the Streets, the art program for homeless people that is the subject of the film. Art from the Streets is a feature length [...]
Bicycle Film Festival Needs Volunteers
The Bicycle Film Festival is coming to Austin August 5 – 9 and they are in need of volunteers! Bicycle Film Festival needs volunteers to work between Friday, August 7, and Sunday, August 9, to staff film venue doors, and work alley cat race check points. Volunteers will earn tickets to screenings based on the [...]
IDA Documentary Awards 2009
Deadline: June 11 ($80), June 23 ($95), June 30 ($120), July 7 ($150) The IDA Documentary Awards is the foremost event dedicated to the art of documentary film. All winners will be announced at the IDA Documentary Awards in Los Angeles on December 4, 2009. IDA Distinguished Award main categories include: Feature, Short, Limited Series, [...]
Sheffield Doc/Fest: MeetMarket
Deadline: September 4 (FREE!) This year, MeetMarket will select 50-60 projects to pitch, all of whom will have one-to-one meeting with key funders and decision-makers match-made and scheduled. Projects can be at any stage from early development to rough cut, and don’t need to have financing secured. Producers can be from anywhere in the world [...]
DiverseArts Culture Works: Facing East
Deadline: July 7 ($15) DiverseArts Culture Works’ New East Gallery is looking for photography and film/video entries to be exhibited in “Facing East: 48 Hours in the life of East Austin,” an annual documentation of Central East Austin’s culture-rich community that reflects diverse views of rapidly changing – or unchanged – aspects of East Austin [...]
Telluride Film Festival
Deadline: Shorts/Student – July 1 ($35-$85), Feature – July 15 ($95) Telluride Film Festival – “The Filmmaker’s Festival.” Professional and amateur filmmakers working in all aesthetic disciplines and genres are welcome. Shorts, features, documentaries, animation, film, and video — all are welcome submissions. The only prerequisite is that your movie hasn’t been shown around the [...]
Lights. Camera. Help!
Deadline: June 30 (Free!) Lights. Camera. Help. is an annual film festival dedicated to telling the story of non-profit and grass roots organizations through the use of film and video. Through this event, films and videos with a cause directly related to a non-profit or grass roots organization will be subject to a rigorous criteria by [...]
P.O.V. Call for Entries
Deadline: June 30 (Free!) P.O.V., public television’s premier showcase for independent, nonfiction film seeks programs from all perspectives to showcase in its annual national PBS series. All subjects, styles and lengths are welcome. All submissions must arrive by Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Please note: This is an arrival deadline, not a postmark deadline. All submissions [...]
