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The Northwest's Premier
Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
Fandance Film Festival
Norwescon 33
The Shine
Forget about the tuxedo, the parachute, and the collagen injections
– this is a film festival you can have fun at!
Welcome to the Eleventh Annual Fandance Film festival, hosted at
Norwescon 33! Eleven years of madness, eleven years of filmmaking,
eleven years of seeing all the latest and the greatest and the
funniest and the weirdest and the most bleeding, squealing, giant
smashing roboting edge entertainment still available without
extensive tipping (mind you, we're not saying "no"...). The
Festival is a celebration of low- and no-budget cinema, brought to
wondrous lurching life by amateur filmmakers from all around the
Pacific Northwest.
More than just the movies, this 120-minute extravaganza of
entertainment will also include the filmmakers who will regale you
with terrifying tales of their productions. Be there or be a
regular
right quadrilateral!
The Fandance Film Festival is the final phase of the Let's Make a
Movie Workshop. The Workshop walks participants through every step
of making a movie, from conception to the premiere of the finished
product. This year at Norwescon also marks the eleven-year
anniversary of the Let's Make a Movie Workshop!
The Pitch
The integral part of this is, of course, the movies. We need 'em!
The shorter, the better (ten minutes maximum length – no minimum
length) and any genre is fine (but if you're smart, you'll realize
that this is a sci-fi/fantasy type convention) but the judges
reserve the right to be way grossed out by what they see. We reserve
other rights as well, but we can't spell them out here and if you
tried pronouncing them your tongue would become a macramé Klein
bottle and there's no two ways about that!
Some sort of prizes will be awarded. Perhaps handsome certificates
Suitable For Framing. Perhaps solid gold figurines custom sculpted
by Ancient Artisans. (plan for the former, in case the Artisans get
finicky)
The Rules
1. It really ought to be ten minutes or less. We're flexible about
this, but it's got to be good. "Long" is not a synonym for "good."
2. Send a DVD copy of your short. Something that can be played in an
ordinary DVD player -- and check it before you send it, to make sure
it's readable. We're not responsible.
3. You must be a member of Norwescon, and preferably at the
convention that weekend. We'll probably call you out or call you up
for a Q&A at the end of your movie and/or an intro. Plan ahead.
4. Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for us to contact you,
as well as your email and other contact info. If we don't have your
contact info, we can't contact you.
5. Include a signed and dated statement declaring "I release all
rights to broadcast/display/present this movie to Norwescon for the
purposes of the Fandance Film Festival and other supporting
situations/advertisement ONLY, including the right to duplicate it
for mechanical/projection purposes."
6. There is no entry fee for the film festival, but you DO have to
be at the convention legally, so that costs a little.
7. Submission deadline is March 15, 2010, which is cutting it kind
of tight for us, but we're flexible. If you can't make the
deadline, at least contact us. Maybe we can work something out.
8. The "Fan" refers to Fandom and such -- not to big air-moving
tools. In other words, we won't do a fan dance on stage. Besides,
you don't want that anyway.
Send submissions to:
The Fandance Film Festival
c/o Guerrilla Productions
11105 SW Cottonwood Lane
Tigard, OR 97223
If you have any questions, please write to FFF + "at" symbol +
Guerrilla-Productions.org
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