All Entries Tagged With: "film festivals"
Texas Filmmakers Win Nikon Fest
In search of the next great online video talent, Nikon Inc. announced the winners of its Nikon Festival, launched in November to celebrate, inspire and harness the current popularity of D-SLR video creation and social media.
The Nikon Festival Judges’ Award Winner is Marko Slavnic, a 2006 graduate of the University of Texas Austin, and [...]
Texas Represents at This Year’s Sundance!
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 21st and several filmmakers who are alumni of the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund (and even an AFS staff member) have been invited to screen films at the festival:
Two TFPF alumni will screen films in the US Dramatic Competition: Ryan Piers Williams’ THE DRY LAND, starring America [...]
Fantastic Fest 2010
Fantastic Fest has officially opened the submission season for the 2010 Festival. The largest genre film festival in the U.S., Fantastic Fest showcases horror, fantasy, sci-fi, animation, action and just plain fantastic movies from all around the world. For additional information, or to submit your short or feature-length production for consideration, you may [...]
Grappell’s QUADRANGLE To Premiere at Sundance
AFS Filmmaker member Amy Grappell’s short documentary, QUADRANGLE, will be making its world premiere in the Shorts Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2010 and having European premiere at the Rotterdam Int. Film Festival.
Grappell, a director, writer, producer, actress, and casting director, has been active in the Austin film community for the last decade. Grappell [...]
Silverdocs Festival
Deadline: January 15 ($35), March 12 ($45), March 19 ($55)
Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival is a six-day international film festival and conference that honors the creativity and passion of independent, non-fiction filmmakers and the power of the moving image to alter our perspective and expand our world-view. Anchored in the Nation’s Capital, where important global and [...]
Poyser’s LOVERS OF HATE Premieres in Sundance Film Fest U.S. Dramatic Competition
The Austin Film Society is proud to announce that Bryan Poyser’s newest film, LOVERS OF HATE, has been selected for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Competition. Poyser serves as Director of Artist Services, administering the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund and other programs that help Texas filmmakers, while pursuing his own filmmaking. He wrote [...]
Noise Pop Film Festival
Deadline: December 18 ($20), January 11 ($25)
The Noise Pop Film Festival began in 2000 to expand the week-long Noise Pop Music Festival which began in 1993 in San Francisco. The Film Festival accepts any kind of film or video narrative feature, documentary, short, animation, experimental or music video, that explores a connection to music, either [...]
Hill Country Film Festival
Deadlin January 5 ($20), February 5 ($25), March 5 ($40)
The Hill Country Film Festival’s mission is to celebrate independent film and filmmakers in the Texas Hill Country, while showcasing it’s host city of Fredericksburg. The festival welcomes films in the form of features (between 90-120 minutes) and shorts (under 20 minutes), along with documentaries in [...]
Santa Barbara Minute Film Fest
Deadline: November 30 ($15), January 30 ($20), February 15 ($30)
The Santa Barbara Minute Film Festival’s goal is to provide a showcase for a wide spectrum of filmmakers to exhibit very short form video and film works. Both experienced and novice directors, writers, animators, artists, designers and producers are encouraged to submit 60-second films and [...]
LIGHT FROM THE EAST Premieres In Europe
Member Amy Grappell just let us know that her film, LIGHT FROM THE EAST, will have its European premiere at The Second Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film at the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge in London, England.
From their program, “Featuring two prominent UK premieres as well as a selection of [...]
