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."

Comments

Bah!

[chadamir]

the mountain town that is the internet is officially ruined. Damn you robert redford. DAMN YOU!

Ascii Starwars

[rf0]

Do you think they would accept Ascii Star Wars?

Rus

Re:Ascii Starwars

[gokulpod]

what about ascii matrix

Re:Ascii Starwars

[davejenkins]

i doubt it. there are no gender issues, minority ascending, or strongly environmental issues in it.

Flame me if you will, but honestly-- we did a Palm App for Sundance a while back, and there is a definite slant to things there...

Re:Ascii Starwars

[Solokron]

For more great ascii movies including the Matrix check out...http://www.romanm.ch/ascii-movies.htm

Re:Ascii Starwars

[sabinm]

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.

bad timing

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Re:bad timing

[Eric Smith]

I hope the next time somebody makes a "math" movie it has some freg'n chaos theory in it.

Yeah, like the "chaos theory" in the film Jurassic Park. We need more of that. NOT!

Re:bad timing

[Anonymous Coward]

It's the online film festival, not the traditional film festival. A lot of great Flash animations came out of last year's festival. And in regards to your comment, you don't decide to go make a film when someone like Sundance, whom everyone knows has a festival every year, announces the deadline for this year's entries. People have a film they did this year, they find out about the festival, they submit it. :P

Oh no!

[cliffy2000]

No machinima category! Or does that count as animation? Seriously, they're bound to bore /. readers without a machinima category. (Or some sort of IP-related lawsuit to rant about.) But seriously, will the technology ever progress enough to be seriously considered? And MORE seriously, will SOMEONE please come up with a better name than machinima? Gah!

Re:Oh no!

[CB-in-Tokyo]

I don't even know what machenima means.

But then again I get confused whenever I see IANAL.

There is a secret /. goatse consipiracy going on isn't there?

Cool

[hughesey]

I had a bit of a browse last year, and there were some pretty cool flicks. Hopefully this year it is as good. Good for filling in time.

Obvious karma-whoring

[Stephen Samuel]

Obviously, somebody has to point out the Academy Awards Of Halo Videos to them. It may not have the best technical effects, but RvB has a reasonably consistent story line, and it's gotten a good number of long belly-laughs out of me.

sigh.....

[Stephen Samuel]

Sundance Film Festival will not accept entries that are currently available to the public through a website or any other showcase platforms.

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.

Homestarrunner Sundance Special?

[PoisonousPhat]

Sorry, it had to be mentioned eventually. Not that it would actually happen, but it would be amusing to find that a homegrown, word-of-mouth supported creation were to beat out a more highly-funded studio's work.

Comedy is an art form.

Man Getting Hit in Groin By Football

[shoppa]

My nomination is Man Getting Hit in Groin By Football, starring Hans Moleman.

It works on so many levels!, according to reviewer Homer Simpson.