West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival

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The 3nd Annual West
Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival

The
deadline for submission is April 1, 2012

Submissions
The West Virginia
University Department of Art is pleased to announce a call for entries to the
3rd annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival. We seek independent,
unique and compelling work in film, video and animation. All interested
artists, filmmakers, multimedia enthusiasts are encouraged to submit work for
consideration. Students submissions are also encouraged. Send us your work!

Categories
Works will be considered for five competitive categories:

• Documentary Short
• Narrative Short
• Animation/ Experimental
• Student
• Political Division Theme

The
Political Division Theme
In an effort to draw attention to the increasingly divided and partisan
character of contemporary experience and public discourse, festival organizers
have established a category for works in any genre that explore issues relating
to the extreme polarization in contemporary politics and culture. These works
should strive to recast controversial or divisive issues, revealing a new
perspective or a new way of framing debate, or to focus attention on the
antagonistic character of contemporary politics. How can art reframe and recast
polarizing issues, helping us to see them in a new light? How can art create
space for new conversations about difficult subjects?

No
Entry Fee!!!
There are no rules governing content or artistic approach. There are no entry
fees for submission of work. We only seek to celebrate well-crafted, compelling
or conceptually challenging works in video, film and multimedia. The only
restriction for competitive entries is a 20-minute maximum running time.

Awards
Modest awards have been established by the festival organizers to recognize
work of exceptional accomplishment. They include a $300.00 Best of Festival
award, and five $100 awards in each of the festival categories: Best
Documentary Short, Best Narrative Short, Best Animation/Experimental, Best
Student Production, and Best Political Division Theme.

Location/Dates
The 2012 West Virginia
Mountaineer Short Film Festival will be held on Friday, April 20th in West
Virginia University’s the Gluck Theater and on Saturday, April 21st in the
Bloch Hall Auditorium of the Creative Arts Center.

Jury
Each festival submission will be carefully reviewed by a screening committee of
practicing, professional artists and filmmakers.

Method of Submission
The deadline for submission is April 1, 2012. All entries must be accompanied
by a completed entry form which can be downloaded from the festival website: www.mountaineerfilmfest.org

Entries
may be submitted in one of 4 ways:

1. 1. Send by mail a standard definition DVD (NTSC, any
   region)
2. 2. Send by mail a your video on a data DVD (.mov or .avi)
3. 3. Upload your full resolution video file to Vimeo.com and make the original
   source video available for download (in privacy settings). Email the URL
   link to your video to wvmsff@gmail.com
   along with entry form. You must email your entry within one week of
   uploading your video in order for us to be able to download the original
   file, uncompressed by Vimeo.
4. 4. Upload your full resolution video file (Quicktime or
   .avi) using: dropbox.com. Follow
   uploading and sharing instructions. Send download link in email to wvmsff@gmail.com along with entry
   form.

Works
mailed-in should be sent to:

West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film
Festival
School of Art and Design
College of Creative Arts
West Virginia University
PO Box 6111
Morgantown, West Virginia 26506-6111

Festival
website: www.mountaineerfilmfest.org

For
additional information please contact Gerald Habarth at wvmsff@gmail.com