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WriterDirector.com Film Festival Spring 2000 Winners Announced
WriterDirector.com Announces the Launch of the First Online Film Festival for Writer-Directors
Winter festival deadline is December 20, 2000.
October 3, 2000 -- Summer and Fall winners will be announced shortly.
Spring 2000 WriterDirector.com Film Festival Winners Announced
May 23, 2000 -- For Immediate Release
The WriterDirector.com Film Festival today announced the Winners and Merit Awards for the Spring 2000 festival competition. Winners and Merit Awards were chosen from among all entries received prior to March 20, 2000.
As the inaugural session for the WriterDirector.com festival, we were pleased with the number and caliber of entries from talented writer-directors throughout the U.S. The winners and merit awards are listed online at www.writerdirector.com. Information about the films and filmmakers, including bios, synopses, stills and clips are available on the site.
Following are the Spring 2000 festival winning films and writer-directors.
Narrative Feature: "Enough Already" (Tom Keenan.)
Narrative Featurette: "I Am" (Joseph H. Biancaniello.)
Experimental Short: "Fortune City" (Nick Jameson.)
Merit Award winners include "Mr.Vincent" (Robert Celestino/John Millica); "Underdogs" (Glenn Friedel); "Running Lights" (Michael Kennedy); "Our Hero" (Glenn McCabe/James McCauley); and "The Night Ferris Bueller Died" (Dan Settani).
Open only to films and videos with a hyphenate creator -- writer-directors -- the festival chooses winners in three length categories each season: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. The length categories include feature (60 minutes or longer), featurette (15 to 59 minutes) and short (under 15 minutes). Entrants are accepted for works produced on either film or video, and in narrative, documentary, animation, experimental and music video categories. Entry fees range from $15 to $30, depending on length.
The deadline for submissions for the Summer awards is June 20. Complete rules and entry form are available online at http://www.writerdirector.com/.
The WriterDirector.com festival television show will go into production in late June, and will showcase the winning films. Check this site in July 2000 for more information and clips from the show. (Broadcast, cable and internet outlets interested in distributing the television show in their markets should contact info@writerdirector.com.)
On behalf of writer-directors everywhere, thanks to all the entrants to the WriterDirector.com Film Festival. Keep writing and shooting!
WriterDirector.com Announces the Launch of the First Online Film Festival for Writer-Directors
January 17, 2000 -- For Immediate Release
WriterDirector.com announced today the creation of the WriterDirector.com Film Festival, the first online-based film festival showcasing the best work from today's writer-directors.
Open only to films and videos with a hyphenate creator -- writer-directors -- the festival will choose winners in three length categories each season: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. The length categories include feature (60 minutes or longer), featurette (15 to 59 minutes) and short (under 15 minutes).
Films made at any time in the past and produced on film or video are eligible the first year, according to festival rules. Beginning in year 2001, entries must have been produced within the last two years.
"This is a great opportunity for writer-directors to showcase their work and gain the recognition they deserve," stated festival director Peter Bohush, himself a writer-director. "It's designed for those moviemakers who express their creative visions from the page to the screen."
Since the festival is ongoing, with new awards every season, filmmakers no longer will feel the anxiety of trying to complete their work to meet an annual festival's deadline or wait another year for submission.
Entrants are accepted for works produced on either film or video, and in narrative, documentary, animation, experimental and music video categories. Entry fees range from $15 to $30, depending on length.
"The festival celebrates the writer-director, not the form or media on which the movie was produced," added Bohush. "The form should follow the function of telling the writer-director's story, and shouldn't be judged on whether it's a documentary or narrative or experimental film. We will judge on how the writer-director's vision is articulated through the medium and form they choose to produce on."
Winners receive award certificates, prizes, broadcast on the WriterDirector.com Film Festival television show and promotion to industry professionals through the WriterDirector.com electronic festival newsletter.
The deadline for submissions for the Spring awards is March 20. The Summer awards deadline is June 20. Complete rules and entry form are available online at http://www.writerdirector.com/.
WriterDirector.com provides film and video writing, directing and editing services for entertainment, advertising and corporate projects. Peter Bohush, Supreme Commander of WriterDirector.com, recently completed work on a digital movie, "Geezers," and has worked in film, television, radio and theater for more than 20 years. He is preparing to direct his feature-length screenplay, "Joy."
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