2010 Newport Beach Film Festival: Call for entries

[newport]

2010 NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES CALL FOR ENTRIES!
Celebrating its 11th year, the Newport Beach Film Festival is open for
submissions. Take advantage of our Early Bird Deadline and save.
The 2010 Newport Beach Film Festival will spotlight over 350 films from
around the world, including feature length narrative, documentary, short,
animated and student films that will compete for a series of Jury,
Festival Honors and Audience Awards. The 2010 NBFF will host red carpet
Opening and Closing Night Gala Celebrations, International Spotlight
events, an Action Sports Film Series, an Environmental Film Series, a
Family Film Series, a Collegiate Showcase, a Youth Film Showcase and a
free Seminar Series.
The Festival runs from April 22nd to April 29th, 2010.
Newport Beach Film Festival
April 22 - 29, 2010
NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS.
SUBMIT NOW AND SAVE!
www.NewportBeachFilmFest.com

2010 NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL EARLY BIRD DEADLINE OCT 23!

Early Bird Deadline approaching!

SUBMIT NOW AND SAVE

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE:
OCTOBER 23
Features $35
Shorts $30

Newport Beach Film Festival
April 22-29, 2010

For more information on submitting, visit www.NewportBeachFilmFest.com

2010 NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL THANKSGIVING SPECIAL
Submit your film now and save!
The deadline is NOVEMBER 20-
Features $45
Shorts $40
Submit on the web with Withoutabox.com and receive a discount! You can
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2010 Newport Beach Film Festival
April 22-29th, 2010

2010 NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING!
Friendly reminder that the regular deadline to submit your film to the
Newport Beach Film festival is DECEMBER 18, 2009.

Check out our festival on YouTube at:
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Newport Beach Film Festival runs April 22-April 29, 2010
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[slowtiger]

This is one of the festival which requires you to pay before they would even watch your film. If you're happy with paying money just to get your film shown, go on.

[madriver]

Show me a decent film festival that doesn't require a fee upfront.

Unfortunately, they all do.

[slowtiger]

No, that's not true. It seems to be an american (north and south) specialty to charge filmmakers. In Europe it is quite different.

If you care to look for yourself: britfilm provides a great list of festivals worldwide: http://www.britfilms.com/festivals/brow ... on&skip=50

[dueyftw]

In Europe and other parts of the world, governments and corporations subsidize the arts. To put on a Film Festival cost money, don’t matter where you live, but in the US most get a good portion of that amount from entry fees. With out them their would be very few if any in the North America.

Dale

[super8mm]

That is just so ass backwards.

Here it is, I worked a million hours on this animation project! OK! Now pay us to show it... WUT?

[jwlane]

For the personal experience, I entered a little project of mine in about 20 - 25 festivals around the world. The biggest like Hiroshima and Ottawa don't charge, but that changes very quickly when the scale of the festival changes. It's not just in the US. I drew the line on what I thought were exorbitant fees. Sundance is pricey. There's an animation festival in Cannes and a few others in Europe that have ridiculous fees.

The thing is most of us won't make the cut, or have the connections to get selected at a huge event like Annecy. However, we could be showing anywhere on the planet at a smaller venue. We have to weigh the odds and decide if we're paying for reasonable handling fees, or are we paying to stuff an organizer's pocket.

Also, and this is important, will a festival keep their promise to return reels. I had an organizer in Denver, CO (US) add my digi-beta reel to his personal tape stock supply, breaking his contractual obligations and giving me the finger. The lesson is don't send expensive show reels to new festivals, unless they are 'in reach'. That can be a more expensive mistake than an entry fee.

I look forward to reading more comments on this topic. It might be an interesting category for the forum.

[hien.henryn@gmail.com]

I am new to ASP, and I have been enjoying it so much for the last 8 days.
I kinda wondering how would you even show your film (made from ANS) as a "film". By that I meant to show it in big screen.
I can see ASP "clips" be exported to Youtube or DVD (with lots of effort), but from PC to big screen, is'nt there lots of mountains to climb? I would like to know that too.