<a href="http://jaxonfilmfest.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/onceaweekfilmfest.jpg"><img src="http://jaxonfilmfest.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/onceaweekfilmfest.jpg?w=300" alt="" title="OnceAWeekFilmFest" width="300" height="261" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-737" /></a>

The Once a Week Film Fest is a unique entity. An online film fest, it has showcased each week a different independent film short for over a year and half. These shorts are submitted by filmmakers from all over the world. Voted on by viewers, each week a new one ranked best is featured. To date it has showcased over eighty film shorts garnering close to half a million views. Now it is poised for growth. What it needs is a website.

As Mark Thimijan, himself a director/producer/screenwriter, explains "We are raising funds to create a new website where filmmakers can upload or embed their short films whenever they want. By posting their film on our site they will officially be submitted to the festival. Every film will be viewed and rated by our judges, the highest rated film of the week will be showcased on our Youtube channel for one week as it has always been in the past.

"The new website allows us to have an audience award. The submitted films will also be viewed and rated by an interactive audience, the highest rated film of the week as voted by the audience will be showcased on the homepage of the new website for one week. "

With this new addition of a functioning website two films per week will be showcased on the Once a Week Online Film Festival rather than one. One will be chosen by the site's judges and one chosen by the audience.

Continues Thimijan, "Our mission remains the same, we want to give filmmakers the greatest amount of exposure possible. We feel with the addition of the new website and the audience award that filmmakers will have more opportunities for their work to be discovered and a better opportunity to interact with their audience as only an online film festival can give them."

The Once a Week Film Fest has started to accept donations in an Indiegogo campaign. All funds given to the Indiegogo campaign will go to design, webhosting, coding, general maintenance for the new website. As an incentive, depending on the amount given, other than giving with the knowledge that donations will ensure the continued success of this site, a reward is offered.

Please visit our Indiegogo campaign page for ways to donate found here.

?url? http://www.indiegogo.com/onceaweekfilmfest ?/url?

"If you like what we've done in the past please consider giving whatever you can and help us to grow in the future."

Created by a schooled producer/director/screenwriter, with the highest sensitivities of an artist, the Once a Week Film Fest's featured films are some of the best on the internet.

Or please watch this youtube video for information on how the process works.

?url? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhCdszqHV1Y?/url?

About Mark Thimijan
Born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, Cinema (in one form or another) has always been an integral part of Mark Thimijan?s life for many years. His current production company, 600 Films, recently completed production on Barstool Cowboy, Thimijan?s first feature-length film. Mark Thimijan?s experience in moviemaking has taken him to Southern California where he worked as an assistant director on several feature films, gaining valuable experience. Returning to Nebraska to pursue his goal of creating more personal and creative independent films, Mark Thimijan?s third short film, The Girl Who Could Run 600 Miles Per Hour, was shot in 35mm film and screened at over 20 film festivals worldwide since its premiere in 2006. In addition, in 2007, Thimijan became one of the first Nebraska independent filmmakers to receive an Individual Artists? Fellowship in the newly created visual arts category by the Nebraska Arts Council. He is currently in pre-production for his second feature length film.

Barstool Cowboy: 2nd Place Best Narrative Feature Boomtown Film & Music Festival 2009.
5th Place Feature Film Twin Rivers Media Festival 2009
Best Actor, Best Actress: Outhouse Film & Video Festival 2009

The Girl who could run 600 miles per hour: Best of Festival Award Short Feature Berkeley Video & Film Festival
Best of Show 1st Runner Up Cultivate Beauty Art & Film Festival
Open Fiction- 1st Place Kanza Film Festival

Jaxon Film Fest
(south-central Michigan's newest independent film and music fest)