February 14, 2007
The Second Annual Let's Film Festival
Top three things to do with the state-of-the-art video camera you bought in Japan:
3. Leave it in the box and wait for obsoleteness to increase its value as a kitsch item.
2. Make a sex tape in hopes that you’ll become famous and need it as an internet-exposure boosting PR stunt.
1. Join the 2nd Annual “Let’s Film Festival” in Fukuyama on April 22 and make a movie you can refer to anecdotally for the rest of your life!
Now, should you have already been through the box and sex-tape options, and are ready to put some serious mileage on your camera by, say, entering a film festival, here’s what you need to know:
Content
Entrants must produce one of the following:
A) a 30-second commercial for a product or service of your own creation
B) a five-minute film featuring three “ingredients”: a line, a prop and a location. These elements will be universal to all the movies entered and determined by way of a semi-democratic process. As for the rest of your film, the sky’s the limit.
Format
All films must be in digital format, burned to DVD and readable by common software programs (Windows Media Player or Quicktime).
Entrants
ANYONE is eligible to enter the Let’s Film Festival, be ye JET, NOVA, AEON, GEOS or otherwise acronym enabled, and whether you’re English or Japanese-speaking. Films in either language are welcome and make for a much more interesting playbill.
Timeframe
1) The deadline to announce your intent to participate is March 8. Please write us at letsfilmfestival@gmail.com with a team name and contact information for at least one of the participants. Teams may be of any size and you may enter as many times as you wish in as many different incarnations as you wish. Once you’ve signed up, we’ll send confirmation along with this year’s three ingredients.
2) The deadline to submit your finished film (and the event itself) is April 22.
Judging
Let’s Film Festival winners are determined by audience vote so it’s in your best interest to stock the place with friends, family and co-workers.
Details
Date: April 22, 2007
Time: From 4 pm til it ends
Place: Otagai-sama Yokocho, 1-11-20 Minami Miyoshi-cho, Fukuyama. (Close to Ito Yokado/Happy Town)
Contacts: Grahaeme Cowie or Natasha Mekhail at letsfilmfestival@gmail.com
Fee: Registration is free but there will be a small door fee to cover costs. All profits go to charity.
Inspiration: Check out last year’s films on the links below.
Hope you can make it. Now dust off your camera and Let’s Film Festival!
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