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CANNES: The first edition of Rated SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York was a huge success with the screening of 55 films from 18 countries and exciting opening and closing night celebrations.
 

“Amy Goodman provided a rousing keynote address to a festival that will hopefully last well into the future.” Wrote The Huffington Post.

Festival Founding Artistic Director Nora Armani will attend the Cannes Film festival to presents the winning documentaries: Small Small Thing, directed by Jessica Vale, and Not Who We Are, directed by Carol Mansour, from the festival’s slate at the Cannes Film Festival Doc Corner, May 14-23rd, along with Coal Rush, Coney Island: Dreams for Sale, Orphans of the Genocide, From the Black You Make Color, Stable Life and Born in Adana. To arrange for a meeting and for details visit: www.cinando.com/SquareMangoFilms 
 

Grand Prize Winner, Small Small Thing, will also have its New York City theatrical premiere at The Quad Cinema, from June 6–12, 2014. This week–long run is offered by Rated SR Film Fest as the Grand Prize, courtesy of the QuadFlix Select program.

In New York, a new partnership with IndiePix http://www.indiepixfilms.com will see six short films from the festival’s slate released on DVD and VOD under the heading: Rated SR Films. New sponsorship and partnership opportunities are available at Rated SR that is already the talk of the media with a reach over 1M followers & likes. : [email protected] for information.

Sponsor Presentation: http://youtu.be/gx7colpL9K0 // Opening Night: http://dai.ly/x1kg777  

Closing Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN3VcWdi1KM

Like Rated SR on Facebook and follow it on Twitter.

Submissions for 2015 (the 2nd edition) of Rated SR Film Festival open in June 2014. Main sidebars are: Women Filmmakers of the Middle East and The Forgotten Genocide 100 years later. More information may be found on the festival’s website: www.ratedsrfilms.org.

To arrange for a meeting with Ms. Armani in Cannes call: +33 6 51 61 19 62 or email: [email protected]
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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CANNES: The first edition of Rated SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York was a huge success with the screening of 55 films from 18 countries and exciting opening and closing night celebrations.
 

“Amy Goodman provided a rousing keynote address to a festival that will hopefully last well into the future.” Wrote The Huffington Post.

Festival Founding Artistic Director Nora Armani will attend the Cannes Film festival to presents the winning documentaries: Small Small Thing, directed by Jessica Vale, and Not Who We Are, directed by Carol Mansour, from the festival’s slate at the Cannes Film Festival Doc Corner, May 14-23rd, along with Coal Rush, Coney Island: Dreams for Sale, Orphans of the Genocide, From the Black You Make Color, Stable Life and Born in Adana. To arrange for a meeting and for details visit: www.cinando.com/SquareMangoFilms 
 

Grand Prize Winner, Small Small Thing, will also have its New York City theatrical premiere at The Quad Cinema, from June 6–12, 2014. This week–long run is offered by Rated SR Film Fest as the Grand Prize, courtesy of the QuadFlix Select program.

In New York, a new partnership with IndiePix http://www.indiepixfilms.com will see six short films from the festival’s slate released on DVD and VOD under the heading: Rated SR Films. New sponsorship and partnership opportunities are available at Rated SR that is already the talk of the media with a reach over 1M followers & likes. : [email protected] for information.

Sponsor Presentation: http://youtu.be/gx7colpL9K0 // Opening Night: http://dai.ly/x1kg777  

Closing Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN3VcWdi1KM

Like Rated SR on Facebook and follow it on Twitter.

Submissions for 2015 (the 2nd edition) of Rated SR Film Festival open in June 2014. Main sidebars are: Women Filmmakers of the Middle East and The Forgotten Genocide 100 years later. More information may be found on the festival’s website: www.ratedsrfilms.org.

To arrange for a meeting with Ms. Armani in Cannes call: +33 6 51 61 19 62 or email: [email protected]
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As ambitious as it is unforgettably bold, shnit International Shortfilmfestival unfolds simultaneously in multiple cities on five continents, bringing together more than 30,000 filmmakers and film lovers in ways rarely experienced elsewhere on the festival circuit. Over its 12 days, shnit celebrates more than 200 short films of all genres and styles and gives away US$100,000 in cash prizes.  1g372

Information, registration and regulations:

www.shnit.org 

The 4th Annual McMinnville Short Film Festival (MSFF) will be held on Saturday, October 11, 2014, in McMinnville, OR. This festival is open to amateur and professional filmmakers alike. The goal of the MSFF is to provide a venue where short filmmakers can have their films viewed by an audience and to provide a networking opportunity to filmmakers in order to learn and share with each other.

We are pleased to announce that the MSFF is a fundraiser for the McMinnville Sunrise Rotary Foundation, and all entry fees and sponsorships are tax deductible. Sunrise Rotary will use the funds to provide scholarships to those going into a filmmaking program.

For the past four years, Northside Film has partnered with organizations to present some of the best Brooklyn Premieres, repertory picks, documentaries and independent narratives at five unique venues in North Brooklyn: Nitehawk Cinema, Union Docs, Videology, indieScreen and the Wythe Hotel. Past curatorial partners include Magnolia Pictures, IFC, Rooftop Films, Hammer to Nail, IFP, Oscilloscope, Filmmaker Magazine and BAM, among others. Northside Film also includes a DIY Competition in of local and international independent filmmakers.

As a component of a premier discovery festival, Northside Film provides a platform for both emerging voices in the filmmaking community and established filmmakers who contribute an innovative vision to the craft. We present films in the following buckets: Documentary, Local Filmmakers and Brooklyn Premieres (this includes foreign films and independent narratives making their Brooklyn debut). We place a special emphasis on showcasing the work of LGBTQ filmmakers and incorporating music-centric films into our program.

In 2010 Northside Film introduced the Northside DIY Film Competition for short and feature films. The 2014 Winners will receive a prize package totaling over $10,000 in value, including: complimentary filmmaker services at DCTV, a six-month community hip at the Made in NY Media Center, one year of IFP hip (including access to IFP's resources and a subscription to Filmmaker Magazine), as well as a week to the 5-day Filmmaker Conference during Independent Film Week, a cash prize
and special event to celebrate the winning short and feature hosted by Northside.

2014 jurors include: Jury Chair Joana Vicente (Executive Director, IFP), Parker Posey, Ira Sachs (Love Is Strange, Keep the Lights On) Matthew Grady (Founder, Factory 25) and Kentucker Audley (Actor, Ain't Them Bodies Saints and Sun Don't Shine, Founder, NoBudge Films)

Past jurors have included: Rosie Perez, Rajendra Roy (Chief Curator of the Department of Film, MoMA), Patricia Kaufman (Executive Director of the New York State Governor’s Office for Motion Picture and Television Development), Todd P. (DIY Music Curator), Ted Hope (Producer), Ramin Bahrani (Director), Scott Macaulay (Editor, Filmmaker Magazine), Alex Karpovsky (Actor and Director), Terence Nance (Director), Miriam Bale (Critic and Founder, La Di Da Film Festival) and more!

ORGANIZERS
Danielle DiPaolo (Director of Business Development) ; Sarah Lerner (Northside Film Producer)

GENERAL RULES
*Online submissions are preferred
*Mailed in screener format must be DVD. Preview DVD’s should be clearly labelled with the title, running time and information (name, phone number, mailing address, e-mail.)
*Mailed in submissions should be post-dated March 1, 2014

Please send any related press materials, including electronic press kit, and photos to [email protected].

Our Submissions Address is:
Northside Film
Attn: Sarah Lerner
45 Main Street #806
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA

& CONDITIONS

Although due care will be exercised, Northside Film cannot assume any liability for damage to entries. All mailed in film submissions must be submitted on DVD to be considered for selection. Photos will not be returned & may be used for any festival promotions. Films with distribution are not eligible for any competition. Non-English language produced films must have English subtitles or be dubbed in English. Jury Award and audience award winners will be announced at Northside Film Closing Night. Prizes will be given out at our special Northside Film Screening event. One award or prize will be given to the individual designated on the official entry form.

FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS
The Festival welcomes submissions for feature films in narrative and documentary categories. All selected features will participate in the festival’s MAIN EVENT competition. We strongly believe that a film from any category could take the Festival’s 2014 Best Feature award, be it Darkest Before the Dawn, Cinema Mavericks, the Dockect or any category. Entering all films into the MAIN EVENT puts everyone on an even playing field in the completion and recognizes the best from across all different styles and genres in the independent film community.

In addition, however Mirage International Film Festival offers filmmakers several competitive sub-categories designed specifically to recognize excellence within various genres and help promote the various styles, methods and techniques that populate the ever expanding world of cinema.

• Main Event  -  main competition program for all eligible feature-length films
• Darkest Before the Dawn  -  dedicated to showcasing feature-length genre films
• Cinema Mavericks  -  feature-length films with budgets less than $1.5 million USD
• Newcomer  -  available exclusively for first-time, feature-length directors
• WorldCine  -  feature-length films which were financed and filmed outside of North America
• The Dockect  -  non-fiction feature-length documentary films

SHORT-LENGTH FILMS
The Festival offers a robust competition program for short films, divided into institutional and non-institutional categories.

• Institute Of Cinema   -  highlighting the very best in student produced short films
• School Of Hard Takes  -  giving independently produced short films a voice of their own

Mirage International Film Festival's New Media Marvels competitive program is designed to bring attention to the emerging world of new media. With the growing prevalence and wide reach of online streaming video sites, the internet is providing filmmakers with an easy and affordable avenue to present their alternative media to a global audience.

New Media Marvels is designed to recognize and reward exceptional work in the expanding new media landscape. With the increasing number of success stories of TV series, films and documentaries being developed and produced based on new media content, the Festival's New Media Marvels program provides a solid forum for these new age filmmakers to showcase their stories and network with distributors, producers and industry executives.

All epic projects start with a vision. And like the building of monolith skyscrapers that dot the city landscape, the first step in realizing that vision is putting your ideas on paper... as blueprints. This concept resonates strong in Mirage International Film Festival’s Original Screenwriting competition Film Blueprint.

We believe that all great films started as great scripts! Film Blueprint seeks to discover the next generation of great writers and provide a forum to highlight and recognize their scripts. This competitive category is judged by a distinguished comprised of top literary agents, screenwriters and development executives.

The Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival now in its sixth year takes place annually over the last weekend in May. It is an 'up close and personal' festival. Filmmakers, directors, producers and invited guest speakers, all share the same space. Schull doesn’t have a Cinema, so we invite attendees to explore alternatives. Screenings, Q&As, Premieres, Workshops and Discussions are held in all sorts of weird and wonderful locations, throughout the village of Schull. “Distributed Cinema” is Schull’s very own dedicated server for short films. Anyone with a smartphone, laptop or tablet can access the submitted films through Wi-Fi, anywhere on Main Street during the festival. You can watch any of the past 5 years winning films, archived workshops and interviews 24 hours a day 365 days a year here in Schull.

Our server is also used alongside HD media players, to screen films in a number of smaller venues throughout the locality. From a bookshop or an Art Gallery to Marquees, pubs and restaurants, The Long Island Cinema and our main Venue the refurbished Village Hall. Many of the premises in town take on the identity of a film, decorating their premises accordingly.

We endeavor to screen each and every film submitted to our competition. It is difficult for filmmakers to reach large audiences and have their work appreciated. Our workshops attempt to provide very high quality hands on experiences for filmmakers and this year this element is our area of special focus. We are also fortunate to live in the most beautiful place in the world. When the sun shines there is no better place to be at any time.

The Festival Fringe Events

At the Fringe, we provide high quality activities for families with children, from Puppet Shows, Rod Puppet Making Workshops, Tee-shirt Painting, Children’s Cinema, Storytelling, Drama workshops, Cycle Cinema, children’s filmmaking workshops and much more for all ages Most of our children’s activities do not carry a cover charge.

Please keep an eye on our website for updates

www.fastnetshortfilmfestival.com

www.facebook.com/fastnetshortfilmfestival

Narrative Feature

Narrative Short

Music Video

Student Short

Documentary Feature

Documentary Short

Comedy Short

Comedy Feature

Animated Short

Loch Ness Film Festival (SCIO) is a small and independent grassroots film festival held at loch ness near Inverness in Scotland from July 25-27h 2014. The Festival is a ed Scottish Incorporated Charity, Charity Number SC042926. All screening and events taking place during the festival are free entry.

www.lochnessfilmfestival.co.uk

This is a fun and friendly film festival and there will be no competitions or awards at this,it is the chance for filmmakers of all ages and background to meet each other and network and also the chance for film enthusiasts and the local community and tourists to get involved and enjoy the event and friendly atmosphere.

Submissions are open and seeking for short films from length of 1 minute to a maximum of 15 minutes, entry fee is £10 paid via paypal from our official website www.lochnessfilmfestival.co.uk where we have our guidelines highlighted on our submission page with paypal link and a one page pdf entry form to fill in post along with your film on dvd for us to watch. The deadline is MAY 16TH.

About the format of the festival is we screen short film blocks, one on the Friday night at the Loch Ness Backpackers Lodge from 7pm til 8.30pm then a feature film and feature short from 9pm. On the Saturday at the Craigmonie Theatre we screen 2 short film blocks, one at 3pm-5pm and one at 7-9pm.

On the Sunday and last day of the 3 day festival we host a guerrilla filmmaking day in the hills of loch ness at the Abriachan Hall aimed mainly at kids and families where we teach and try and make short fun films by the children attending from 12-3pm, a good old fashioned scottish barbecue from 3-4pm and then screening in the hall from 4-5pm a series of shorts made by children from loch ness, inverness and surrounding areas.