ROOFTOP FILMS IS ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS
FOR THE 2005 SUMMER SERIES!
Submit your movies! We are currently accepting films for the 9th annual Rooftop Films Summer Series. The 2005 Summer Series consists of 16 shows, one every Friday night all summer long from June 10th through September 9th plus a special show on Monday, the 4th of July. All shows take place outdoors in New York City?either in parks, along piers, on boats traveling around Manhattan, in historical locations, or--best of all--on rooftops overlooking the city. More people see short films at Rooftop than at the next three largest short film festival programs in New York combined, so if you are interested in having your film shown to large crowds in some of the most spectacular urban open air venues for cinema in the world, submit your films now.
SUBMISSION INFO
? Short film submissions should be postmarked by MARCH 1st, 2005
? Feature submissions or curated programs should be postmarked by by FEBRUARY 1st, 2005.
? We welcome film submissions after these dates, but those who would like to receive equal consideration should submit their films by these dates.
? We screen films of all genres, formats, and lengths
? All works should be submitted on VHS, DVD or Mini DV.
? Please Enclose $7 per program
? Tapes will NOT be returned.
? Please write the film titile, total running time, and the filmmaker?s name and email directly on the tape or DVD.
? Please enclose the recommended submission fee of $7 in cash or as a check made out to Rooftop Films. You can also pay submission fees online (please add $.50 service charge), at: http://rooftopfilms.com/submit.html
? Mail VHS tapes, DVDs or MiniDV tapes to:
Rooftop Films
PMB 401
285 Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
? Required submission forms are available as downloadable .PDF files at:
http://rooftopfilms.com/2005_submission_form.pdf
ABOUT ROOFTOP FILMS
Rooftop Films is committed to providing a venue, an audience and a community for the wide array of short films and feature length documentaries that are under-served by conventional commercial distributors, industry-run festivals, art galleries and repertory theater retrospectives. We show comedies, dramas, experimental shorts, animation, music videos, short and feature documentaries, political exposes, home movies and found footage. We want motion pictures that tell us about where you live and how you live, and we offer our filmmakers an audience in some of the most unique and inspiring open-air theaters to be found anywhere. We seek independent movies with original ideas, regardless of production values, and we screen the work of experienced professionals, long-time amateurs and first-time filmmakers alike. We also strongly encourage submissions by women and people of color. We show films of all genres, formats, and lengths, as long as they're daring, creative and unique?so submit your work now.
Many of our programs are organized around themes, regions, sexual orientation, race and gender. Past programs have included
? New York Non-Fiction
? Home Movies
? Films from the African Diaspora
? Animation Night
? Women Make Movies
? Rural Route
? World Documentaries
? The Un-American Film Festival
? Music-Themed Films
? Youth-Produced Films
? Midnight Movies
? Regional programs from the Midwest, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest.
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Rooftop Films also encourages curators to send entire programs of films. In the past, other festivals, venues and programmers from around the world have hosted nights of their movies as part of the Summer Series. If you have a program of films which demonstrates the work being done in your community?be it regionally-based, ethnically-based, aesthetically-based or thematically-based?send it in. We want to work with other groups who want to show off their unique cinematic visions. Please click here for detailed information about submitting a curated program.
There is a recommended submission fee of $7.00 per filmmaker or curator, so you can submit as many films as you like without paying additional submission fees. The fee can be made in cash or as a check or money order payable to Rooftop Films, or you can pay via PayPal through a link on our website.
If you are sending films from outside the USA, we would very much prefer that you pay online via PayPal. Please do not send us any foreign currency.
Please download a 2005 submission form and include it with your submission along with cast and crew bios and any other information you would like to give us about your film.
If you have any questions regarding submissions, please email Dan Nuxoll, Programming Director, at submit?rooftopfilms.com.
Dan Nuxoll
Program Director
Rooftop Films
dan?rooftopfilms.com
Mail Submissions For the 2005 Summer Series to:
PMB 401 * 285 Fifth Avenue * Brooklyn, NY 11215
