Are you a filmmaker? Do you need help from the film industry ? The Focus Features Africa First Short Film Program supports films that aspire to artistic excellence and accomplished storytelling, and substantially contribute to the development of local film industries.
Focus Features is pleased to announce a Call for Applications for its Africa First Short Film Program.
The Focus Features Africa First Short Film Program will award up to five (5) emerging African filmmakers $10,000.00 (ten thousand U.S. dollars) each towards the pre-production, production, or post-production of their short film. The postmark deadline for application is August 1, 2009; award recipients will be notified on or about October 1, 2009 of their status.
Applicants must be at least 18 years of age, of African nationality, and must have resided in Africa for a minimum of two (2) years before applying.
Applicants must be independent producers. This means that the individual applicants:
- own the copyright of their production;
- have artistic, budgetary, and editorial control of their project;
- are not regularly employed by a public or commercial broadcast entity.
Applicant/co-applicant must have previous film or television production experience in a principal role (producer, co-producer, director, or co-director) as demonstrated by a sample DVD or videotape of completed work submitted with application.
All projects entered into the Focus Features Africa First Short Film Program must meet the requirements below:
- Produced in continental Africa;
- 5-25 minutes in length with narratives taking place exclusively in Africa. Feature and/or documentary submissions will not be accepted;
- In preproduction, production, or postproduction;
- Project must be filmed in continental Africa and contribute to the development of the local film industry by using local key production staff and using local facilities;
- All Program documents must be written in the English language; however, if the original language of the screenplay was not in the English language, an English-language translation of the screenplay is acceptable;
- Project must be either (i) in the English language or (ii) if not, be delivered with English-language subtitles in 16mm, Super 16mm, 35mm, HDTV, DigiBeta, or Beta format.
The final selection of up to five (5) award recipients will be made by Completion Films and the Focus production team, with the final decision being made by Focus. Projects will be judged by taking into consideration such factors as originality, creativity, quality, and artistic contribution to African filmmaking.
Applications must be fully completed and postmarked by the August 1, 2009 deadline and received no later than August 15, 2009 in order to be accepted.
Please access the film in focus website http://www.filminfocus.com/africafirst/apply.php: for more details about this competition. You need to read the rules carefully before downloading the application package.
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