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Let’s Make a Movie Workshop

Fandance Film Festival

The Shine

Forget about the tuxedo, parachute, and collagen injections—this is a film festival you can have fun at!

Welcome to the Twelfth Annual Fandance Film Festival, hosted at Norwescon 34! Twelve years of madness, filmmaking, and of seeing all the latest, greatest, funniest, weirdest, and 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 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 twelve-year anniversary of “Let’s Make a Movie!”

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 convention). 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. Check it before you send it, to make sure it’s readable. We’re not responsible for unreadable discs.
  3. You must be a member of Norwescon, and preferably be at the convention. We’ll probably call you out or call you up for an intro and/or a Q&A at the end of your movie. Plan ahead.
  4. Include a self-addressed stamped envelope for us to contact you, as well as your email, phone, 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 have a convention membership, so that costs a little.
  7. Submission deadline is April 1, 2011, 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) Guerrilla-Productions (dot) org