Our Student Award ist the BEST prize to win at box[ur]shorts! Okay, all prizes are pretty sweet... This year we have once again partnered up with awesome sponsors such as Fotokem, Showbiz, SONY Creative Software, Mole Richardson, Cinetyp and many more... that will togehter make available $6,000 for the winner with the best student flick. Great savings for your next movie! Call for entries are still open until September 1, 2011.
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.
Filmmakers can submit their shorts by entering them through withoutabox.com or through our own submission portal. Do it like David Beglin did it in 2011 and pick up our notorious undie-wearing oscar statue along with the $6,000 grant of services and goods. Here's a breakdown of what the winner gets:
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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