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Sundance Online Film Fest Call For Entries
SOFF writes "The Sundance Film Festival is announcing its fourth annual Sundance Online Film Festival, which showcases the most innovative and creative storytellers using new digital technology. We invite all emerging and established digital artists, filmmakers, and storytellers to submit works in the following competitive categories: Animation, Short Subject, New Forms, and Gallery. Deadline: September 12, 2003."
Hey, it's nice to know about this with only 37 days left until the entry deadline. I'm sure that amateur/budding film makers can find the few hundred thousands of dollars in backing they need from investors, gather actors, scripts, props, film crews, arrange permission and licenses to film in necessary areas, chop, process and edit the films, package them up and submit them in just 37 days. No problem!
This is where OSS and Linux tools for video production can REALLY shine. It's free people, completely free. For absolutely no cost y'all have equivalent tools the big boys use for movie production and there's no reason we can't bring out some fantastic productions.
Perhaps it's too late now for entries this year unless you've already been working on them (congrats to those who have) but for next year I'll be sure to be in!
So you have to produce it specifically for the 'net, but you're not allowed to post it on your own website (at least not until after the film festival).
It kinda makes sense, but mostly it just makes me cringe.
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Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees. You're paid to think critcally, right? Did you ever think the reason why there is so many INDEPENDENT films about minorities, gender issues and enviros because the non independent film industry does not release films with those kind of issues???
I mean give me a break. That is the most callous and non-thinking reply i've heard in a long time. Talk about a flawed sense of history.
There was this girl once whom I was crazy about that asked me a similarly stupid question . . . she asked me why blacks had to have an INDEPENDENT black television station like BET (quality issues aside) and always try to make *ourselves* different (as if I had anything to do with the founding of BET or other blacks)!
I told her that the reason that BET existed is that MTV at the time refused to put on black music artists as actually seeing blacks on tv was considered unmarketable (this was the eighties)!
You really need to get out from in front of that dead interface and go outside and see real life, buddy. Inject some new code into that aging architecture. True independence exists because the proper channels are closed to legitimate pursuers.
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In my humble opinion digital "film" looks like crap. If you want to go cheap use 8mm. Digital film looks like video, oddly flat and the motion seems to be happening at a slightly wrong pace. It isn't an issue of resolution. It's probably an issue of color depth, and I don't really know anything about shutter speeds and aperatures or whatever else might be having an effect. All I know is that watching movies shot on digital is a distinctly uncomfortable experience.
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