Attention filmmakers! Two calls for submissions from festivals up north... The
Vancouver Asian Film Festival is Canada's oldest festival dedicated to exhibiting films and videos by North American artists of Asian heritage. VAFF invites submissions for its 13th annual festival, happening November 5-8, 2009. Read on for details on how to submit:
2009 Call for Entries
The Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) is Canada's oldest festival dedicated to exhibiting films and videos by North American artists of Asian heritage. It is committed to supporting both emerging talent and established filmmakers. Visiting artists have included Jessica Yu, Justin Lin, and Michael Kang, as well as BC filmmakers Mina Shum, Julia Kwan, Nilesh Patel, Eunhee Cha, and Jeff Chiba Stearns.
VAFF invites submissions for its 13th annual festival, November 5th-8th, 2009. Early bird deadline is April 30th; final closing deadline is May 31st (postmarked - no exceptions).
All films in the Open Call must include a North American Asian in a key creative role (writer, director, producer). Earlybird entry fee: $10 (CDN or US); Regular entry fee: $20 (CDN or US). Entry fee is non-refundable.
Genres for consideration include narrative, documentary, animation, and experimental. Exhibition formats accepted are 35mm, Beta SP (NTSC), and DigiBeta (NTSC) and preview screeners may be submitted as VHS tapes or DVDs. No materials or screeners will be returned.
Awards include a juried award for Best Canadian Short. Programming includes Q & A sessions, panel discussions, a Filmmakers Luncheon, and special gala events.
All screenings take place at Cinemark Tinseltown, a multiplex theatre within the city's Chinatown and Downtown districts. For more information and submission guidelines, visit www.vaff.org or email us.
VAFF is a not-for-profit organization that provides a forum for independent North American Asian filmmakers to showcase their work to both Asian and non-Asian audiences. The society endeavours to represent the often ignored North American Asians caught between two cultures. It provides a cultural bridge between the Asian and non-Asian communities as well as within the Asian community themselves.
The good people of the
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is also currently looking far and wide across Canada, North American and around the world for the best new independent East Asian films and videos showcase at the upcoming festival, happening November 11-15. Some more information:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
THE 13TH ANNUAL TORONTO REEL ASIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 11 to 15, 2009
Reel Asian is Canada's largest and longest-running showcase dedicated
to contemporary Asian cinema and media arts from Asia, North America
and all over the world. Annually, the festival attracts thousands of
attendees to five frenetic days of screenings, industry events and
galas. We invite you to submit new independent films and videos by
and/or about East and Southeast Asians of all genres.
See SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES and ONLINE SUBMISSIONS at http://www.reelasian.com
EARLY DEADLINE: FRIDAY MAY 15, 2009 (NO SUBMISSION FEE)
FINAL DEADLINE: MONDAY JUNE 15, 2009 (SUBMISSION FEE $20 CAD)
Email questions to Artistic Director, Heather Keung at
programming@reelasian.com with subject 'submission 2009' or contact
the festival office at 416.703.9333
The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival gratefully
acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the
Arts, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Ontario Arts Council,
Toronto Arts Council, Telefilm and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
All right, filmmakers. You've made your film. Canada wants to see it. But you gotta act quick because both deadlines are coming up fast. Don't you want to show your film and party with the good people in Vancouver and Toronto? Yes you do.
