CATHODE FILMS NYC PRESENTS:
CATHODE ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL / EMPIRE CINEMA FESTIVAL 2005
http://www.cathodefilms.com
The Cathode Online Film Festival is intended as a 'borderless' forum for emerging and established filmmakers, animators, and media artists generally working in digital formats. In addition to supporting filmmakers by providing a venue for their work, the on-going online festival broadcast specifically seeks to create an alternative community for international discourse between filmmakers/ artists and viewers alike, as well as to explore and encourage paths to distribution for digital media in cinemas, for TV broadcast, on the internet, DVD, and alternative channels.
The Empire Cinema Festival 2005 is a series of showcase screenings of winning films from the Cathode Online Film Festival; Screenings will take place at several 'art-house' theaters and clubs in the East Village of New York City in October - November 2005. (Venues and screening dates to be announced in August 2005.) A special screening series of selected short films will be distributed.
The Digital Revolution
The Digital Film Revolution is driven by the invention of consumer video cameras and inexpensive digital non-linear editing systems that rival and match professional standards. Digital filmmaking is swiftly revolutionizing film and television. To the digital documentary filmmaker or journalist, digital technology gives a more intimate, and unparalleled access to their subjects allowing for a more character driven form of storytelling. For narrative filmmakers, the digital format allows the filmmaker to work with small budgets in small crews on locations, often with multiple cameras, allowing for a more immediate and spontaneous kind of film and television. Digital technology is allowing film and television to grow into a truer art form than ever before as more and more storytellers have access to the tools of filmmaking.
The Venues:
www.cathodefilms.com
The Cathode Online Film Festival leverages contemporary design, technological innovation, and the vast reach of the internet to bring the festival experience to the personal computers of a vast cross-section of people around the world.
Theaters in New York City's Lower East Side.
The Cathode / Empire Cinema Festival 2005 intends to make the East Village of New York City its permanent home. The East Village is the home of countless independent production companies and boutique digital post-production houses. It is also home to filmmakers and artists of all stripes, attracted to this neighborhood for its diversity and unique flavor.
International Feature Film Competition
This category is open to feature films completed after January 1st, 2001.
Feature films must run 45 minutes in length or longer.
International Documentary Competition
This competition will highlight original feature length documentary films produced in the digital format. Films must have been completed after January 1st, 2001.
Films From Countries Not Frequently Represented in Festivals Will receive special consideration from the jury.
International Short Film Competition
This new competition is open to international productions, not exceeding 40 minutes and completed after January 1st, 2001. Videos that utilize the cinematic medium in fresh, creative ways will be highlighted in the festival. Any kind of film may be submitted, whether experimental, narrative, short documentary, video-journalism, music video, cartoons, Flash animations, video poems.
In addition to short live action films created in the digital format, we will seek to highlight work that is driven by animation. Animated submissions should not exceed 26 minutes in length.
International Music Video Competition
This new competition is open to international music video productions, not exceeding 12 minutes and completed after January 1st, 2001. Videos that utilize unorthodox techniques, animation, innovative motion-graphics, broadcast design will be featured.
In addition to short live action films created in the digital format, we will seek to highlight work that is driven by animation. We encourage submissions of cartoons, animations, conceptual works, and any work that extends the parameters of the world of animation. Animated submissions should not exceed 26 minutes in length.
Industrial and commercial films will not be considered.
Eligibility for the Cathode Online Film Festival Competition
- Films/works may be submitted on DVD, Mini-DV, or VHS tape (NTSC format) for consideration.
- If accepted to the Empire Cinema Festival (theatrical screenings) applicants must provide the festival with a Mini-DV (NTSC) video dub.
- Please do not submit works-in-progress.
- Only films without major distribution will be considered. Work that has previously broadcast on a major television network or premiered in a commercial theatrical venue will not be considered.
-You must have the legal right to submit any and all materials, including the soundtrack!
-You mst agree to grant Cathode Films a non-exclusive right to screen, stream on the internet, broadcast and/or dissemenate your film in process of conducting and promoting the films, the festival and website.
- Industrial or commercial films are not eligible for submission.
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CATHODE ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL / EMPIRE CINEMA FESTIVAL 2005
http://www.cathodefilms.com
The Cathode Online Film Festival is intended as a 'borderless' forum for emerging and established filmmakers, animators, and media artists generally working in digital formats. In addition to supporting filmmakers by providing a venue for their work, the on-going online festival broadcast specifically seeks to create an alternative community for international discourse between filmmakers/ artists and viewers alike, as well as to explore and encourage paths to distribution for digital media in cinemas, for TV broadcast, on the internet, DVD, and alternative channels.
The Empire Cinema Festival 2005 is a series of showcase screenings of winning films from the Cathode Online Film Festival; Screenings will take place at several 'art-house' theaters and clubs in the East Village of New York City in October - November 2005. (Venues and screening dates to be announced in August 2005.) A special screening series of selected short films will be distributed.
The Digital Revolution
The Digital Film Revolution is driven by the invention of consumer video cameras and inexpensive digital non-linear editing systems that rival and match professional standards. Digital filmmaking is swiftly revolutionizing film and television. To the digital documentary filmmaker or journalist, digital technology gives a more intimate, and unparalleled access to their subjects allowing for a more character driven form of storytelling. For narrative filmmakers, the digital format allows the filmmaker to work with small budgets in small crews on locations, often with multiple cameras, allowing for a more immediate and spontaneous kind of film and television. Digital technology is allowing film and television to grow into a truer art form than ever before as more and more storytellers have access to the tools of filmmaking.
The Venues:
www.cathodefilms.com
The Cathode Online Film Festival leverages contemporary design, technological innovation, and the vast reach of the internet to bring the festival experience to the personal computers of a vast cross-section of people around the world.
Theaters in New York City's Lower East Side.
The Cathode / Empire Cinema Festival 2005 intends to make the East Village of New York City its permanent home. The East Village is the home of countless independent production companies and boutique digital post-production houses. It is also home to filmmakers and artists of all stripes, attracted to this neighborhood for its diversity and unique flavor.
International Feature Film Competition
This category is open to feature films completed after January 1st, 2001.
Feature films must run 45 minutes in length or longer.
International Documentary Competition
This competition will highlight original feature length documentary films produced in the digital format. Films must have been completed after January 1st, 2001.
Films From Countries Not Frequently Represented in Festivals Will receive special consideration from the jury.
International Short Film Competition
This new competition is open to international productions, not exceeding 40 minutes and completed after January 1st, 2001. Videos that utilize the cinematic medium in fresh, creative ways will be highlighted in the festival. Any kind of film may be submitted, whether experimental, narrative, short documentary, video-journalism, music video, cartoons, Flash animations, video poems.
In addition to short live action films created in the digital format, we will seek to highlight work that is driven by animation. Animated submissions should not exceed 26 minutes in length.
International Music Video Competition
This new competition is open to international music video productions, not exceeding 12 minutes and completed after January 1st, 2001. Videos that utilize unorthodox techniques, animation, innovative motion-graphics, broadcast design will be featured.
In addition to short live action films created in the digital format, we will seek to highlight work that is driven by animation. We encourage submissions of cartoons, animations, conceptual works, and any work that extends the parameters of the world of animation. Animated submissions should not exceed 26 minutes in length.
Industrial and commercial films will not be considered.
Eligibility for the Cathode Online Film Festival Competition
- Films/works may be submitted on DVD, Mini-DV, or VHS tape (NTSC format) for consideration.
- If accepted to the Empire Cinema Festival (theatrical screenings) applicants must provide the festival with a Mini-DV (NTSC) video dub.
- Please do not submit works-in-progress.
- Only films without major distribution will be considered. Work that has previously broadcast on a major television network or premiered in a commercial theatrical venue will not be considered.
-You must have the legal right to submit any and all materials, including the soundtrack!
-You mst agree to grant Cathode Films a non-exclusive right to screen, stream on the internet, broadcast and/or dissemenate your film in process of conducting and promoting the films, the festival and website.
- Industrial or commercial films are not eligible for submission.
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