Student filmmakers are in for a treat! If you are still looking for a few bucks to make your thesis film, don’t miss this opportunity! box[ur]shorts Film Festival will make available a grant worth $18,000 in goods and services for the winner of the 2011 Best Student Film Award. Many reputable companies sponsor this new prize giving the winner access to goodies from development and production software to film stock, transfer credit, subtitles services and many more tools that are key in the process of getting another movie off the ground. The festival will also continue to give away its main awards: the Gold, Silver and Bronze box[ur]shorts as well as the Audience Choice Award.
box[ur]shorts Film Festival opens up its call for short film submissions on March 1st, 2010. Films can be entered into the upcoming competition by different deadlines throughout the year, with the final call coming to a close on September 1st 2010. A distinguished panel of judges is going to determine the films that will be screened inside the festival’s movie jukeboxes and online at boxurshorts.com - The top-10 short films will be presented on January 8th, 2011 in Los Angeles at Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema and receive their honors, trophies and prizes.
The all-new Best Student Award is now valued at $15,000 and sponsored by Blake Snyder, Write Brothers, Showbiz Store & Cafe, FUJIFILM, Fotokem, Cinetyp, Zac Locke, Film Independent, IMDb, and Baseline. A complete list of sponsors and their contributions can be found on the official festival website.
Miv Evans from Century City News wrote about this year’s festival that "the award ceremony was a huge success, the films better than I have seen at a festival in a long time!" - “We look forward to an even greater lineup of films for our next, 5th film festival edition”, says Giacun Caduff the festival director.
box[ur]shorts Film Festival opens up its call for short film submissions on March 1st, 2010. Films can be entered into the upcoming competition by different deadlines throughout the year, with the final call coming to a close on September 1st 2010. A distinguished panel of judges is going to determine the films that will be screened inside the festival’s movie jukeboxes and online at boxurshorts.com - The top-10 short films will be presented on January 8th, 2011 in Los Angeles at Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema and receive their honors, trophies and prizes.
The all-new Best Student Award is now valued at $18,000 and sponsored by Blake Snyder, Write Brothers, Showbiz Store & Cafe, FUJIFILM, Fotokem, Cinetyp, Zac Locke - Attorney at Law, Film Independent, and Baseline (see details below).
2010 Festival Winners David Green (Meltdown) & Joaquin Baldwin (Sebastian's Voodoo)
Miv Evans from Century City News wrote about this year’s festival that "the award ceremony was a huge success, the films better than I have seen at a festival in a long time!" - “We look forward to an even greater lineup of films for our next, 5th film festival edition”, says Giacun Caduff the festival director.
About box[ur]shorts™
box[ur]shorts™ Film Festival is a yearlong short film exhibition taking place internationally at restaurants, bars, coffee houses and laundromats in cities from Los Angeles and New York to Basel, Switzerland and Hiroshima, Japan, box[ur]shorts is an innovative approach to watching movies that becomes part of viewers’ everyday experiences -- something one can do while waiting for a table at a restaurant or hanging out at a favorite coffee house.
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