Indie Filmmaking Anyone?

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Hello! We need FULL TIME volunteers for the upcoming 8th Cinemanila
International Film Festival. Experience in events management and
some production exposure would be handy but ENTHUSIASM, COMMITMENT
and AVAILABILITY are also VERY IMPORTANT. Thank you very much.

VOLUNTEER WORK for CINEMANILA
If you want to meet interesting people, see award-winning foreign
films and get your adrenaline pumping from working at a crazy
festival pace, volunteer for the 8th Cinemanila International Film
Festival, to be held this year from November 3-15. We are looking for
bright and mature individuals who don't require a lot of hand-
holding to join this year's team.

We are looking for full-time volunteers and interns.

Interns are responsible for a wide range of clerical/administrative
assisting duties, in addition to a bit of fact checking, online
research, and occasional writing. Because we are a relatively small
organization, interns have the opportunity to get to know all of our
staff, and to really see how a film festival is put together. You
will also get the chance to meet filmmakers from all over Asia and
Europe and see Cinemanila movies for free. We can offer students at
any stage of their college experience academic credit for their
internship. We also accept recent graduates.

Qualifications: Writing, editing, research, interviewing and phone
skills relevant. Basic computer proficiency important.
Internships are available in the following departments: Marketing,
Film Traffic, Guest Services, Theater Coordination, Promotions and
Publicity, Editorial, Creative, Photography and Administration.

Requirements:
To apply, please send your resume with a cover letter specifying
which department you are interested in working as an
intern/volunteer. PLEASE SEND ALL RESUMES DIRECTLY to
miff@cinemanila.com.ph or cinemanila@gmail.com

NOTES: This internship may qualify for academic credit. Please check
with your school. This is a non-paying internship. Small stipends
are available under certain circumstances and for published work.
Inquire for details (through email only, no phone calls please).

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For its 9th anniversary, Pelikula@TitusBrandsma takes pride in presenting its second all-Filipino lineup in support of independent filmmaking. The film-screening and dialogue session is scheduled on Saturday, August 19, starting at 1:00pm.

ADMISSION IS FREE. Venue is at the Audio Visual Room (AVR), 2/F, Teresa of Avila Bldg, 28 Acacia St., Bgy. Mariana, New Manila, Quezon City (right beside Titus Brandsma Center at 24 Acacia Street). For more info, call Bituin (726-6054), Maxie (evenings only, 751-1169), Nerissa (295-332 or Eric (364-7955). E-mail pelikula.tbc@gmail.com.

THE SHORT FILMS:

1. "THE WITNESS" (9 mins.) by Jurly Maloloy-on Jr.
A distraught student reports a crime to the police, leading them to a discovery.

2. "HAUNTED" (2004, 8 mins.) by Jerrold Tarog
Two siblings would rather go out and party than stay at home to look after their autistic sister. But avoiding this boring chore isn't the only reason why they want to get out of the house.

3. "CARPOOL" (2006, 10 mins.) by Jerrold Tarog
The film revolves around two girls, one guy and a referee -- a spinning love triangle with a Darwinian twist.

4. "TAWIDGUTOM" (2005, 3 mins.) by John Torres Somber introspection and rapid fire editing of found and organized footage create one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful video poems about waiting for a loved one. [First episode of the "Otros Trilogy"; winner of Best Short Film, 2005 Cinemanila International Film Festival; official selection, various international festivals.]

5. "LOVE AND GLANCES" (2004, 4 mins.) by Jerrold Tarog The film is a ditty on fickle hearts and the little games that people play.

6. "TIMBANG LATA" (2003, 15 mins.) by Herbert M. Navasca While rehearsing at home, a gay entertainer uncovers a boy hiding inside a cabinet. [In competition, Best Short Feature Narrative, 2003 Eksperimento Film Festival.]

7. "METAMORPHOSIS" (2006, 9 mins.) by Lawrence Fajardo
A group of cross-dressers paint the town red in this latest video exercise from the 2006 Gawad Urian awardee for Best Short Film ("Kultado").

8. "NXT" (2006, 15 mins.) by Manny Montelibano
A student resorts to dire measures to ease her way through life, even as a blind cousin waits for her.

9. "KULANG" (2006, 9 mins.) by Rodolfo Paclibar Jr.
A man is a silent witness to a hot couple in bed.

10. "{PP1017} LISPONG TERORISTA" (2006, 8 mins.) by Fred L. Rebadulla II
Amid political unrest, a policeman's abused wife suffers from insanity and goes through her mundane routine.

11. "PUTOT" (2006, 20 mins.) by Jeck Cogama
A young boy takes care of his mentally ill father while struggling to make a living selling shellfish at a squatter colony by the sea. [Winner of Best Director/Short Feature Category, 2006 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival.]

12. "THE BALLAD OF MIMIONG'S MINON" (2005, 35 mins.) by Jobin Ballesteros
A burnt out folk singer experiences the streets and its inhabitants when he is displaced from work and home. [Winner of Crystal Piaya Award, 2006 Negros Summer Workshops/Open Competition; in exhibition, 2006 ASEAN Film Festival.]

13. "ORASYON" (2006, 30 mins.) by Rommel 'Milo' Tolentino
A religious widow's vulnerabilities are stirred at the arrival of a nosy, meddling housemaid. [Winner of Best Short Feature, 2006 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival.]

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EARTH VISION (Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival)

TVE Asia Pacific is pleased to share with you information on the latest
"EARTH VISION" (Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival), to be held in
early 2007. We have been associated with this festival for the entire 10
years that our organisation has existed.

This is the 15th anniversary edition of EARTH VISION: it has been held
annually in Tokyo since 1992 'to understand our environment better through moving images'. Each year, Nominated films from all over the world are screened in Tokyo during the festival held in early Spring.

The deadline for entries is 31 August 2006.

For further information on the festival, please visit:
http://www.earth- vision.jp

Entry form and festival rules can be found at:
http://www.earth- vision.jp/ top-e.htm

Please circulate among film-maker contacts and encourage your colleagues to enter their recent films to this festival.


The 3rd Edition of the International Experimental Film Festival Ca˜rbunari 2006’
F.I.F.E. CAËœRBUNARI 2006

The International Experimental Film Festival is dedicated exclusively to sustain and promote the experimental films.

We consider the experimental film one of the most interesting expression form of the contemporary art. The interest brought of the public by the numerous showing of the films on outside of the festival “oblige� us to change the classical approaching point of the experimental film festival and we decided to change the regulation, so that any other compulsion to be eliminated. So, we eliminate the attendance fee for participation and the jury who decide the prizes. Most of the film critics, artists and the normal art consumers considered that are more important the viewing of the creations in the experimental film domain that a subjective top made by awarding. The immixture of a jury in a festival bring automatically an acceptation of a value perception of opera which can be artificial in some cases. Every experimental film has a justification only when is not a subject of an official analyze or any other preset value criteria.

All the films sent to Florean Museum will be the museum’s property, including all copyrights and use, excluding the commercial use.

The Florean Museum’s experimental film collection is a reference point of the contemporary experimental film and is available to everyone to study the phenomenon.

For this reason all the films will be introduced on the museum’s site: http://www.cmc. ro <http://www.cmc. ro/> according to a format which doesn’t permit a commercial exploitation, only the artistic one.

The films will be accompanied by the artist’s CV. There are no enrolling papers needed.

The number of works you can participate with is unlimited.

All the sent films will be projected at the festival.

There there is no preliminary selection, because we consider all preliminary selection a censorship act that is inadmissible in the domain of art.

All the films must arrive to FLOREAN MUSEUM before September 15th, 2006 at the following address:

MUZEUL FLOREAN

P.O. Box 1 Of. Postal 9

430510 Baia Mare

ROMANIA

Films will be accepted only on DVD’s , PAL system (for exceptions please consult the festival’s director Mr. Mircea Bochis at : bochis@cmc.ro <mailto:bochis@ cmc.ro> ).

The festival will take place in Baia Mare between the 15th –17th of october 2006 .

After the festival all the films will be showed weekly for one year at a TV Station which dedicated one of they emission to the experimental film. The films will be itinerated on cultural ways according with the preset projects.

For any kind of information please contact the festival’s director Mr. Mircea Bochis at: bochis@cmc.ro <mailto:Bochis@cmc.ro>

Sending the films in order to attend the festival represents the acceptance of this regulation.

Mircea Bochis,
Director of the festival

The Berlinale Talent Campus

The Berlinale Talent Campus will begin on February 10, 2007 and end on February 15, 2007.

Eligible are young professionals or advanced students in the areas of screenwriting, producing, directing, cinematography, acting, editing, sound design, composing, art direction, and production design.

Application deadline is November 1, 2006. For more information please visit the website: www.berlinale- talentcampus. de.

Final Call for Entries to Stella Artois Film Awards at the 19th Seagate Foyle Film Festival 2006

FRIDAY 8th of SEPTEMBER marks the final deadline date for all entries to the Stella Artois Film Awards at the 19th Seagate Foyle Film Festival, which will run from the 10th – 19th November 2006.

This year the 19th Seagate Foyle Film Festival will host the competition for the prestigious Stella Artois Film Awards in the categories of: Best Irish Short, Best International Short, Best Animation, Best Documentary, and Best Short Feature.

Entries received before September 4th will incur a charge £10. A fee of £20 will be applied to entries received by the extended and final deadline of September 8th.

Short Film and Short Animations must be between 5 – 40minutes duration, while Short Documentaries must be a minimum of 15minutes and a maximum of 30minutes duration. There is no time limit for the categories of Feature Film, Feature Animation and Feature Documentary.

For the selection process acceptable formats are VHS, NTSC and DVD. Successful entries to the competition must be on 35mm format for all categories excluding Documentary, for which 35mm and digital formats (excluding Digibeta and DVCam Pro) are suitable.

To submit your entry to the Stella Artois Film Awards of the19th Seagate Foyle Film Festival log onto www.foylefilmfestiv al.com for entry forms and application information. Contact the Festival Office for any further details on T: (44) 028 7126 7432 E: s.kelpie@nerve- centre.org. uk or write to The Director, Seagate Foyle Film Festival, The Nerve Centre, 7-8 Magazine Street, L’Derry, Northern Ireland BT48 6HJ

2007 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and Competition

Entries to the full length feature category of the 2007 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and Competition are now being accepted. The deadline for submission is on September 7, 2006.

Only entries by Filipino filmmakers who have not yet directed more than three full length commercial feature films will be accepted to the full length feature category.

For the full length feature film category, applicants must submit a duly completed application form, a synopsis of one to three pages in Filipino or English and a treatment of the story in Filipino or English, a brief resume with two 2 x 2 photos, and samples of
previous film/video work in CD/DVD or VHS.

A committee will select twenty semi-finalists for the full length feature category on October 6, 2006. A final group of ten will be selected on December 15, 2006. These ten finalists will each receive a P500,000 seed grant from the Cinemalaya Foundation, Inc. as
investment for the production.

For the short film feature category, the deadline for submission of entries will be on February 7, 2007.

Interested applicants to the short film feature category must submit the final work in DVD format, a duly completed application form, synopsis in Filipino or English, a brief resume and two 2 x 2 photos. The ten best short films will be selected on April 24, 2007.

For both categories, all works must be narrative features in digital format. All films must be strictly independent work and not produced by commercial production companies. All works must not have been
exhibited commercially in any theater. Works in production phase prior to December 15, 2006 are disqualified. Interested parties may submit a maximum of three entries.

The 2007 Cinemalaya will be held on July 20-29, 2007 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). The twenty films selected as finalists in both categories will be screened during the Festival. Awards for all categories will be given on July 29, 2007 at the CCP.
The Best Full Length Feature film will receive an additional grant of P200,000 and the Balanghai Trophy. The Best Short Feature film will receive a grant of P100,000 and a Balanghai Trophy.

Cinemalaya was established in 2005 for the purpose of giving recognition to the best short film and full length feature film in digital video format. The competition seeks to discover, encourage and honor the cinematic works of Filipino filmmakers that boldly articulate and freely interpret the Filipino experience with fresh
insight and artistic integrity.

Cinemalaya is a project of the Cinemalaya Foundation Inc., in partnership with the CCP, University of the Philippines Film Institute, Philippine Multi-Media Systems Inc. and Dream Satellite TV.

Entries to 2007 Cinemalaya are being accepted at the CCP Media Arts Division, 4th Floor, Tanghalang Pambansa Building (CCP Main Building), CCP Complex, Pasay City. For more information, call the CCP Media Arts Division at tel. no. 832-1125 local 1704/05 or visit www.cinemalaya. org

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CINEMANILA 2006 opens competition for local digital filmmakers

The 8th Cinemanila International Film Festival is now accepting entries for the festival's second local digital film competition. Cinemanila runs from November 3 to 15 this year.

According to festival director Tikoy Aguiluz, Cinemanila 2006 will continue to have a strong local counterpart. The festival still follows its objectives of promoting Filipino films to world cinema audiences and world cinema to Filipino audiences and of developing new and independent filmmakers.

Cinemanila will carry on its tradition of screening both Filipino and foreign films that can eventually make significant impact
abroad. Once again, local productions would be given more encouragement and focus thus continuing the local digital film competition.

To participate, the film must be produced after January 2006 and must fulfill the following conditions: it must be in digital format either DV, HD, 24P or HDV; the film must be directed by a Filipino citizen; it must not have been exhibited commercially, locally or internationally and any screening that involves ticket selling; it must not have been exhibited as an entry in prior local festivals; the film should at least be 80 minutes or up to a maximum of 130 minutes in length including credits; the film may be in Filipino or any regional dialects with English subtitles.

The Entry Selection Committee will choose ten (10) local digital full-length features from among the qualified entries to participate in the Digital Festival Competition. The selected films will be screened in Metro Manila during the festival.

Deadline of entry forms (with the entry form filled and signed) with a documentation, short synopsis, biography and filmography of the director, cast and crew list, director's statement, and producer's intent is set on September 21 while the preview tapes (VHS NTSC format, VCD, or DVD) of films with English subtitles must be submitted before October 1.

All entries must use the official standard entry forms provided by the Cinemanila secretariat or can be downloaded from the official website www.cinemanila. com.ph.

A maximum of two entries per producer will be allowed to compete. Only one film per director will be allowed to compete. Only one film per lead actor/actress will be allowed to compete.

In the event that one of the ten (10) official entries chosen by the Entry Selection Committee backs out or is disqualified for failure to comply with the guidelines set by the Executive Committee, such entry shall be replaced by the next highest ranking film.

The ten (10) official entries to the filmfest competition will be announced on October 4.

29th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival (France)
We remind you that online submissions to the 29th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival (France) are open
on www.shortfilmdepot. com.

Please note that films that were already submitted to Clermont-Ferrand last year cannot be submitted again.

FESTIVAL DATES : 26 January – 03 February 2007

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Registration Deadline: October 16, 2006
Registration fee: no fee
Requirements:
1) Films completed after: January 1, 2005
2) Maximum Running Time: 40 minutes
3) Origin : Worldwide, France excepted
4) Festival screening format: 16 mm, 35 mm, Beta SP
Pal or Digital Betacam Pal

NATIONAL COMPETITION
Restricted to French films

SHORT FILM MARKET
Registration Deadline: November 15, 2006
Registration fee: no fee
Requirements:
1) Only films entered at the 2007 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival can be registered at the 22nd Short Film Market
2) A specific Market copy must be sent to us in addition to the Festival preview copy

PREVIEW COPY: VHS or DVD
Please send the DVD’s or VHS’s of your film(s) (1 for the Festival + 1 for the Market) right after finishing online
submission, along with your signed entry form (pdf printed version), to the following address:

Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
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6 place Michel-de-L' Hospital
63058 Clermont-Ferrand cedex 1 - FRANCE

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Wow...I didnt know that there are so many film festivals open for amateur but legit films/shortfilms.

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@stevieboy, independent filmmaking is now a worldwide phenomenon... a rave of renaissance where art and technology emulate life or provide an escape from it.

Catch my good friend Jerrold Tarug's creative creatures featured on ABC 5's SHORTS tonight Thursday September 7, 2006.

HAUNTED, CARPOOL and LOVE & GLANCES

Please disregard the inteview scenes na parang Koreannovela raw.

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THE Executive Committee of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) has launched a digital documentary competition dubbed “Evolution … Revolution ng Pelikulang Pilipino.�

The contest has two categories, tackling two topics: history of Philippine cinema and history of the MMFF.

In a letter addressed to media, Bayani Fernando, chair of the Metro Manila Development Authority which runs the MMFF, said the competition’s goal is “to increase the level of public awareness on the MMFF and Filipino movies in general.�

Tasked as project implementers are representatives of the original beneficiaries of the film festival: Ric Camaligan, president of Movie Industry Anti-Piracy Organization; Leo Martinez, director general of Film Academy of the Philippines; and Boots Anson-Roa, executive director of Movie Workers Welfare Foundation (Mowelfund).

In a phone interview, Roa told Inquirer Entertainment that the contest is Fernando’s brainchild.

“This was made possible through his initiative. He wants to make the MMFF open to independent filmmakers and documentarians by encouraging them to participate in the annual December event. At the same time, we are highlighting the histories of the MMFF and local movie industry,� Roa said.

The new contest aims to “promote independent short films and documentaries alongside the mainstream and commercial fare usually seen during the MMFF,� Roa added.

The contest is open to all Filipinos, except to Execom members and their relatives (first degree of consanguinity). The digital filmmakers can submit entries in the following formats: straight documentary, docu-drama or docu-musical (music video), with maximum running time of 20 minutes.

Among the requirements are: list and profile of the artistic team; synopsis; copy of script or sequence treatment; budget breakdown; technical and creative staff/cast information; distribution or dissemination plan.

Deadline for submission of requirements is last week of September. Winners are to be announced in the MMFF awards show on Dec. 29.

Roa said Fernando had suggested that the grand prizes for each category be increased from P500,000 to P800,000.

“We will also be awarding four honorable mention prizes that come with P50,000 each for the two categories. That’s P2 million in total. As bonus, the two winning docus will be blown up to 35mm film, to be shown in theaters along with the MMFF entries,� she said.

From 1993 to 1994, the MMFF similarly came out with a short-film component, under the auspices of Mowelfund. Among the short films produced then were: Emanuel Davidas’ “Anak Maynila,� Nick Deocampo’s “Isaak,� Luis Quirino’s “Pasakalye,� Joey and Roby Agbayani’s “Ang Bantay.�

Online Source:
http://showbizandstyle.inq7.net/ente...ticle_id=20840

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just helping out a friend here


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3rd Annual SF Women's Film Festival (April 2007)

San Francisco Women's Film festival is a community for advancement, celebration and representation of women filmmakers. Our films and screenings are selected and hosted by filmmakers, professors, and other notable figures in the world of film.

San Francisco Women's Film Festival accepts films and video of all lengths and genres:narrative, documentary, music video, experimental and animation. Films and videos must be directed by or co-directed by women.

All Submissions should include an entry form. No entry fee required.

For more information or to request an entry form

email:scarlett@womensfilm festival. us
www.sfwff.com or call 415-820-1500.
http://myspace. com/sf_wff