Category Archives: film festivals

Nikon Film Festival Wants A Hero in 140 Seconds

Written by . Posted on January 7, 2011. No comments.
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Nikon recently launched a European short film festival to promote their latest camera, D7000. The company is calling for submissions that describe a vision of a hero in under 140 seconds. Unfortunately it’s only for EU residents, but still it’s worth checking out some of the current submissions on the festival site (there are a [...]

Vimeo Awards Resnap

Written by . Posted on October 11, 2010. No comments.
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This past weekend I attended the inaugural Vimeo Awards . As a bona fide video nerd, I have to say it was pretty cool.  Lots of camera geeks, filmmakers, plaid shirts, beards, plaid shirts, and booze.  Hightlights included the awards ceremony, which I was lucky enough to snag a ticket to, but was bummed and [...]

Pop Up Film Festival “Special Offer” in NY

Written by . Posted on April 20, 2010. No comments.
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Stop… drop… open up a film festival.  We haven’t heard enough about Damon aka Dame Dash’s Creative Control TV… how is that possible?  Dame typically bangs his self-promo drum pretty loudly.  CreativeControl.tv is his latest (as far as we know) spinoff post HOVA split.  It’s difficult to figure out exactly what it is, but it [...]

Interactive, Location-Based iPhone “Film” entered into Boston International Film Fest

Written by . Posted on April 20, 2010. No comments.
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I don’t quite get how this qualifies as a Film and not some sort of game, but I will definitely grant that it is a complete first, especially for a festival entry. Murder on Beacon Hill, and application based around 43 minutes of video premiered at Boston’s International Film Festival. Viewers experience the film as [...]

LOOSWORLD Presents… Noseferocktu

Written by . Posted on April 13, 2010. No comments.
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It’s actually happening… believe it.  Urgent Content famlay, Looseworld is putting on a pretty uniquely sick event in NYC.  They asked filmmakers to submit their work, and paired them with musicians to score the films and perform live.  Should be a fun event, with the Street Carnage dudes hosting, and apparently Das Racist performing?  Hmmm.  [...]

A Convo w/ Sundance Nominated Max Joseph

Written by . Posted on March 1, 2010. No comments.
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Max is a great example of a creator who’s taken his skills and creativity and leveraged it in the web video space to gain serious recognition as a filmmaker. In a web video less world, Max’s vision would not have had the multimillion view exposure that it has, and he’s managed to take the medium [...]

The nosefeROCKtu

Written by . Posted on February 6, 2010. No comments.
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We don’t know how the fuck you pronounce it, but we do know that this event looks to be fresh.  For all NYC based musicians and filmmakers, LooseWorld is producing what looks to be a very interesting event.  As they describe it:  “nosfeROCKtu is a creative competition that challenges artist to collaborate across mediums to [...]

Slamdance Filmmaker Summit, Live on the Web

Written by . Posted on January 22, 2010. No comments.
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As an avid reader of indie film blogs, I’ve heard a lot of hype about tomorrow Filmmaker Summit at Slamandance, featuring such luminaries as Steven Soderberg, Jon Reiss and a bunch of other people I haven’t heard of. Basically, it’s dope forum on the future of real independent film (as opposed to major studios ‘independent’ [...]

Jonze / Absolut “branded” short premieres at Sundance

Written by . Posted on January 22, 2010. No comments.
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Spike Jonze’ new short I’m Here premiered yesterday at Sundance, which is interesting not because it is a quirky love story starring two robots, but because it was produced for Absolut Vodka. “This isn’t the first time people have created branded content, but it’s never really been accepted on its own merits. That’s the grey [...]

Pomo Short Film Festival Taking Over Digital Billboards

Written by . Posted on January 14, 2010. No comments.
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Art By Chance is a short film festival, of sorts. Instead of screening films in theaters, or even online, the fest screens them on over 7,000 digital display screens across the globe. The screens, which are usually digital billboards displaying advertisements, will be taken over for 30 second intervals to screen the festival’s selected films. [...]