From: DOMINIC ANGERAME (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Sep 22 2007 - 20:19:51 PDT
That is true Chris....however, normally when I see the
two year restriction, I just do not send the film in
for consideration (because it may be three years old),
not necessarily for an award, but even for
consuderation of a screening at the Festival.
Being a filmmaker it is almost impossible to enter all
of the most important film festivals within that time
limit of two years...Logisitcally one would have to
spend most of their time filling out forms, mass
producing dvds and mailing and not making films.
There are very few film festivals that charge a fee
here in the US, in Europe they are more tolerable.
Perhaps a solution is to allow older films as entries
without an entry fee however they would not be
eligible for an award....this way the programmers
could see the work and consider the possibility of
screening it.....this sounds more fair to me.
For me getting the work shown is the most important
part...
Dominic
Many film festivals in the past used to have no time
limitations of completion and the only rule was that
you could not have previously entered the film in the
festival.
--- Chris Kennedy <email suppressed> 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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