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."

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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

[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: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?

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.