From: DOMINIC ANGERAME (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Sep 22 2007 - 15:41:08 PDT
The SF International Film Festival also has the two
year limitation....
Dominic
--- Roger Beebe <email suppressed> wrote:
> Yeah, the reasons Chris enumerated are precisely why
> FLEX has a
> nominal two-year window, but we also do lots of
> programming that
> features older work (juror screenings, special
> screenings throughout
> the year, memorial shows, etc.). The FLEX
> competitive fest also only
> takes place biennially, so the two-year window means
> that it's a call
> for anything that's been made since our last
> festival. (We have a
> curated/invitational affair in the off years.) And
> it does seem a
> little strange to imagine, say, putting a classic in
> competition with
> something contemporary for the purposes of awards.
>
> But I do agree with Dominic's sense that it's a
> little strange to put
> so much emphasis on the very contemporary and to
> neglect slightly
> older work. If something comes in for FLEX that is
> a few years
> older, we'll still always watch it & will program it
> if it makes the
> grade. I assume most other festivals must do the
> same (except those
> would-be Sundances where it has to be a US premiere
> or something to
> qualify).
>
> From Philadelphia (momentarily),
> Roger
>
>
> On Sep 22, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Chris Kennedy wrote:
>
> > I think there's generally a few reasons for that.
> The more
> > practical one
> > is that a lot of these festivals have no or low
> entry fees and
> > limiting it
> > to the past two years is an arbitrary way to
> control some of the
> > deluge of
> > entries. The second is that these fests are often
> competitive, so that
> > having a two year window is a (again, arbitrary)
> focus for the
> > competition.
> >
> > That said, I'm sure most festivals are flexible
> and welcome "older"
> > work
> > if you contact them. They usually have sidebars
> out of competition
> > or feel
> > open to throwing in an "older" work if it suits.
> >
> > best,
> > Chris
> >
> >>
> >> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:37:02 -0700
> >> From: DOMINIC ANGERAME
> <email suppressed>
> >> Subject: Re: MEDIA CITY 2008
> >>
> >> A general question and observation. Why is it
> that
> >> most International film festivals, including just
> >> about all experimental film festivals have a two
> year
> >> limitation of when a film was released as part of
> >> their regulations. This some how does not seem
> fair
> >> since in reality a filmmaker cannot enter every
> film
> >> festival within this time limitation. It would
> seem
> >> that a true experimental film festival would have
> no
> >> time of release limit....what does it matter if a
> film
> >> is three years old and no one has had the chance
> to
> >> see it.....
> >>
> >> I can understand this with commercial film
> festivals
> >> where they only want new releases however why
> should
> >> the alternative film festivals follow such a
> >> ridiculous regulation....
> >>
> >> Dominic Angerame
> >> --- Brook Hinton <email suppressed> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I figured that's what you meant, just making a
> >>> little joke.
> >>>
> >>> On 9/19/07, Artcite / Media City
> >>> <email suppressed> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Brook & frameworkers,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Perhaps the listserve is not recognizing the
> >>> hyphen?
> >>>> It reads alright on our end.
> >>>>
> >>>> To clarify, MEDIA CITY 14 festival dates: March
> 4
> >>> to 8, 2008
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> MEDIA CITY staff
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> March 48 may prove difficult for some with
> >>> "old-school" calendars.
> >>>>
> >>>> b
> >
> >
> >
>
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