2013 DIY FILM FESTIVAL CALL FOR
ENTRIES!!!
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| DIY Book and Film winners at the Gala last March |
HOLLYWOOD,
Ca. (Sept. 25, 2013) _ The 2013 DIY Film
Festival is now accepting entries for its 11th annual awards and
screening series, part of the 2013 DIY
Convention: Do-It-Yourself in Film, Music & Books in Los Angeles.
The DIY Film Festival honors the best of independent and self-produced films. Past winners have been able to get their films on Showtime and some have found a theatrical release. Submissions are accepted from countries around the world, culminating in our annual awards in Hollywood at the Roosevelt Hotel, home of the first Academy Awards.
Submissions
to the 2013 DIY Film Festival must have been released after Jan. 1, 2011 and
have been produced without multinational corporate backing.
Categories
include:
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| Cara Feinberg Accepting her award |
Dramatic or
Comedy or Documentary Features (over 30 minutes in length)
Dramatic or
Comedy or Documentary Shorts (under 30)
Animated
features and shorts
Student
films, Experimental Films and/or Mocumentaries.
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| Winner Flavio Parenti accepting from Rome |
Entries will
be judged using the following criteria:
1) The sophistication and potential of the film to reach a larger audience; and
2) The unique use of DIY production tools to tell a compelling (dramatic or comedic) story that perhaps breaks boundaries of traditional story telling.
Information on the event and entry forms can be found at www.DIYConvention.com, www.diyfilmfest.com or submitted through Withoutabox.com
1) The sophistication and potential of the film to reach a larger audience; and
2) The unique use of DIY production tools to tell a compelling (dramatic or comedic) story that perhaps breaks boundaries of traditional story telling.
Information on the event and entry forms can be found at www.DIYConvention.com, www.diyfilmfest.com or submitted through Withoutabox.com
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| Comedian Deep Roy accepting an award |
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| Site of the First Academy Awards |
The films
should follow the paradigm of "Do It Yourself" filmmaking. This means
no film studio or major corporation financed your film. We're a film
festival that highlights and focuses on the ability to tell a good story, a
moving story, an interesting story using the tools that are available to
everyone. That being said, it's up to you how professional your film looks, or
your story is.
We firmly believe in artist Jean Cocteau's maxim "When the
cost of making films is as much as a pencil and piece of paper, then we'll find
true art."
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