Attention Filmmakers!
The time is here again for the 3rd Annual National Film Challenge! The National Film Challenge http://www.filmchallenge.org/ is the latest filmmaking competition from KDHX-TV www.kdhxtv.org - a non-profit community media arts organization in St. Louis. The National Film Challenge is the ultimate stepping-stone for filmmakers, providing an opportunity for first hand filmmaking experience! Also, there lies potential for your film to be seen by thousands of people in our on-line screening room - http://www.filmchallenge.org/view2004.htm. Register now, and accelerate your filmmaking career!
Here are the details:
WHAT IS THE NATIONAL FILM CHALLENGE?
It's your chance to stop talking and start filming! The premise? Filmmaking teams have just one weekend to make a short film. All creativity - writing, shooting, editing and adding a musical soundtrack - must occur beginning Friday evening at 7 p.m. on October 21, 2005 and ending Monday October 24, 2005. On Friday, to make things interesting, each team is emailed a genre for its film, a character, a prop and a line of dialogue that must appear in each team?s movie. Then the film must be sent to National Film Challenge Headquarters with a postmark no later than Monday, October 25. In the following weeks the top films (determined by a panel of judges) will be available for viewing (and voting!) on our website http://www.filmchallenge.org/. There will be two big winners this year ? The Grand Prize Winner (determined by judges) and The Audience Award Winner (determined by the online voting.) Both films will screen with the 48 Hour Film Project City Winners at this year?s Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California ( http://www.cinequest.org). And last but not least, the Grand Prize Winner gets a free trip to Cinequest to see their film on the big screen!
HOW DO I SIGN UP MY TEAM?
Starting THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2005 you will be able to register your team at http://www.filmchallenge.org/. This is going to be the largest Film Challenge ever ? 250 teams will be selected to compete this year! Registration is on a first come first served basis. The registration deadline is October 21st, 2005, and the registration fee is $125. Teams can be anywhere from 1 person to 30 or more people. Read all of the rules of the contest here: http://www.filmchallenge.org/rules.htm
Do you have any questions about the National Film Challenge? Please check our FAQ and then use our Bulletin Board to post questions you need answered: http://www.filmchallenge.org/faq.htm
The National Film Challenge is being produced by KDHX, Community Media for Saint Louis, MO. http://www.kdhxtv.org/ and http://www.kdhx.org/
Thanks,
Didier
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Didier Sylvain
Assistant Producer, National Film Challenge
KDHX Community Media
625 N. Euclid Avenue, Suite 100
Saint Louis, Missouri 63108
314-361-8870 x229
didier?kdhx.org
www.kdhxtv.org / www.filmchallenge.org
