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The HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL needs your movies now!
OK geeks and other aspiring film maker types, you want Debra Hill to see your work, or what about Norman Jewison, Richard Donnor, or maybe even James Cameron? Well then, FATHER GEEK has a solution for you. Enter the 4th annual Hollywood Film Festival, send them a print of your stuff. The worst that can happen is they'll tell you it stinks and then you'll know and can get on with your life, buuuut maybe... just maybe they'll love it and your foot will finally be in the door and you'll be on the road to fulfilling all those dreams. People are going to be selected, some are going to earn awards, and some will actually sell their projects. Why not You? All the info is right below, and if you happen to hit a home run just remember ol' FATHER GEEK is who told you about it right here at Aint It Cool News.
CALL FOR ENTRIES: http://www.callforentries.com
4th ANNUAL HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL(R) - Aug. 3 to 7, 2000
Access to Agents, Distributors, Executives and Financiers.
Conferences - Screenings - Market - Parties - Gala Ceremony
http://www.hollywoodfestival.com - DEADLINE: MARCH 31st - SUBMIT NOW!
Our finalist films have been picked up by companies such as HBO, Miramax,
Indican Pictures, Seventh Art Releasing and Starz among others. HFF's
Special Issue in the Hollywood Reporter is sent to 125,000 industry
professionals.
http://www.submitfilms.com
We showcase domestic and international feature films, shorts, documentaries
and animation. Our program consists of Children Cinema, Digital Cinema,
European Cinema, Latin Cinema, Online Cinema and Young Filmmakers Cinema.
Prizes include financial awards and packages of goods and services.
The Hollywood Film Festival gives you the opportunity to access potential
buyers/partners for your project(s). During the Festival the Hollywood Film
Conference(TM) includes more than 100 panelists from the Hollywood
community - agents, directors, producers, studio executives,
cinematographers, distributors, casting directors, editors, etc. Last year
25 presidents of studios, production companies and agencies participated in
our panels. The trade paper "Daily Variety" calls the Hollywood Film
Conference(TM) "Second to none." We have 20 executives from distribution
companies on our Board of Advisors. We believe that if your film is
selected by us, a lot of distributors, agents and executives will become
aware of your work.
The Festival chairs and co-chairs include Tony Bill, John Briley,James
Caan, James Cameron, Martha Coolidge, Wes Craven, Richard Donner,
Moctesuma Esparza, Laifun Chung, Gene Hackman, Debra Hill, Arthur Hill,
Peter Hyams, Norman Jewison, Val Kilmer, Ted Kotcheff, Martin Landau,
Mimi Leder, Jack Lemmon, Penny Marshall, Paul Mazursky, David Permut, Fred
Roos, Mark Rydell, John Schlesinger, Tom Schulman, Quentin Tarantino,
Irwin Winkler, and James Woods among many other Hollywood notables.
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: MARCH 31, 2000. SUBMIT NOW!
http://www.callforentries.com
For more information visit our website at:
http://www.hollywoodfestival.com or send a SASE to the Festival at :
Hollywood Film Festival(R)
433 N. Camden Dr., Ste. 600,
Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
awards@hollywoodawards.com
Fax 310.475.0193
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Is there a cash prize of some sort? How about an entry fee? This sounds pretty damn cool. Will there be any public screenings. Somebody let me know.
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like I said, I'm a genious but I can't come up with a script within two months. Is this event coming up every year? If so I've got 14 months to come up with briliant and sick scripts coming to a theatre near you soon!!! I'm not kidding, I'm just stupid and sad. Cheers
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Father Geek, you mentioned sending prints in, but will they also accept video copies? My short film did originate on 16mm film but due to the outrageous expense of getting a film print made I cut it electronically and got my final film on Beta SP video tape. Will they still accept it? (and for all you who are gonna go on about "Beta?", its and industry standard.)
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Aw,geez,how embarassing!I don't have any movies.Well,there is that sequel to "Showgirls",but that probably should be kept personal...ok,it's not a movie.I went to a cabaret with a Kodak camcorder.Ya happy?!?
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Sheesh. Talk about your oxyMORONS.
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Um, hello people. Did you not notice that several URLs were given where you could actually LOOK UP THE ANSWERS to those questions instead of being explicitly told? Genius. Hmm . . .
In any case, I'm a kind soul (I am a Metallica fan, after all), so I will attempt to answer whichever ones I can remember right here.
1) Cash prizes are given, but the website does not state how much.
2) You can (and must) submit your entries on VHS, but (depending on which contest you enter) if you win you may have to submit a print of it.
3) It's called the ANNUAL Hollywood Film Festival. I'm guessing that the likelyhood of them having one next year is pretty high.
That's all the questions I remember. If you have any others, the internet is at your fingertips.
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Yahoo film festival is cool
but the site that really
helps indie filmmakers
is http://www.ReelUniverse.com.
They build you webpage, stream
your trailer, and dont make
any money when you sell
VHS and DVDs of your film to
their visitors. They are
working with Rob Nilsson
and other great indie filmmakers.
All the other sites either suck
or help filmmakers that make
shorts. This is the only site
that helps true indie filmmakers.
They have my vote for the
"mp3.com of movies."
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But maybe I can put together a script and film it in time for next years festival. I could finance the film by making some amateur porn. Maybe Alexandra Dupont would like to costar in it with me. Huh?
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Feb 07, 2000 3:20:17 PM CST
Scooby Doo and the strange case of the disappearing Talkback Pos
by narf
I noticed that this column of talkbacks has actually gotten shorter over the last few hours. I posted a comment yesterday about my wacky 3 and a half hour opus (which got edited down to 20 minutes) and now it's gone! Somebody else's went bye-bye too. I didn't read it, but the heading was something to the effect of "Any livelier around here and a funeral's gonna break out" (thank you Rodney Dangerfield). So what's going on? Is big brother filtering out Talkbacks that he doesn't like? Should I stick a "Darth" in front of my name? I thought that around here we were ALL geeks equally, now bully geeks are choosing what gets read and what doesn't. Man, it's that high school shit all over again. No wonder everybody in this world hates each other.
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Hmm,
Interesting festival. The ditial competition only supports VHS? Hollywood is more scared of computers than I thought.
-Stew
Dialog from a crazy militant filmmaker:
"Okay, you, you and you, plant these napalm canisters over there,...you and you, place these plastic explosives underneath the welcome mat. Okay,.....Let the festival begin!!
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please stop being a grubby bastard and be nice. If everybody was serious all the time this world would be....well....ehr.. a serious place. Cheerst to you
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of course its cheers to you, and not cheerst to you (whatever the hell that means)
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