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Showtime is OCT. 30, 2009. Tickets sell out in a matter of minutes and the best way to ensure entry is to make a film.
2009 Rules and Regulations
1. Register. Email me your information. Name, email address, phone number, and where you live. feet@heavyhitting.com
2. Make a Horror movie. We’re looking for horror here, b-grade or otherwise. We’re not looking for emotional dramas where someone dies in the end. A couple years ago there was a few mis-interpretations and a few of the movies weren’t horror movies. Lets try to prevent that this year.
3. Make it less than 10 minutes in length. Because we expect so many entries, it’s important to keep you movie under 10 minutes in length. If you go over 10 minutes, we probably won’t show you movie unless it is the best thing we’ve ever seen in our entire lives. Since we live rich and full lives it’s probably best to just keep it under 10minutes.
4. Don’t steal Music. Yeah, I know music is a very important part of Horror movies (Anything is scary when you put the Halloween music behind it) but you can’t just steal other people’s hard work and use it for your self. So get someone you know to compose some music, or get the rights to some music. (If you do this you’ll be asked to fill out a music release form when you hand in your movie) or if you have no other options, get a dj buddy to alter/mix some music in a way that’s so creative and unique we won’t notice that it’s stolen.
If you steal music without licensing it, you will be unable to win the festival, no matter how great your movie is. If you don’t care about winning and really want to use stolen music we’ll probably still show your movie anyhow, but we might make fun of you on the mic.
5. Hand in your movie on Time!!!!!! The deadline for submissions is October 15,2009. yes, that is when you need to hand your movie in by. Email me when it is ready for details on where/how to hand it in.
6. Format. We want quicktime files of your movie and a DVD for backup. So we’ll need a data disc of the .mov file or maybe you can upload to an FTP. Finish the movie first and by then we will have more info.
7. Rules may be added if I forgot anything or problems arise. This is why it’s important to register. That way I can notify you if the rules change or the deadline gets bumped back a few days or whatever.
8. Judging and Screening. Of course, we would like to be able to show all the movies at the festival. However if we get too many movies we will show the best ones and this is where handing you movie in on time is integral.
The judges are Chili Thom , Feet Banks , Travis Tetreault, and Stu MacKay-Smith.
Films will be judged according to Story, Production value, Sound, music, and overall Horrorificness (this is a pretty open category that is like a mix of cool, scary, innovativeness and stuff like that.).
The winner gets to keep the Amazing Skull trophy for one year, and will receive a cash prize. There may be prizes for best actor and actress and whatever else we feel like.
When you hand in a movie you also hand in 30 bucks and you’ll be given Two (2) tickets to the grand Showing. I’m sorry we can’t give free tickets to your whole crew but with the number of movie submissions we receive that would mean the whole theatre would be full of cast and crew with free tickets and since they make us pay for the venue, we need to sell a certain number of tickets.
If you would like to reserve tickets for you crew please let me know asap. They will still have to pay but at least they will have tickets. This event usually sells out in about 35 minutes.
9. Have fun and hand your movie in on time. This festival was started as an excuse for us all to get out there, get our hands bloody and have fun making movies. So just make sure you have a good time making your film and on the night of the event. That’s what it’s all about.
Please fill out a licensing agreement and hand it in with your movie - Download the licensing agreement here
It’s a bunch of legal speak but basically what it means is that you allow us to show your movie at the Festival, on our webpage and we can put it on a DVD compilation of all the movies. Also it says that if anyone complains to us that your movie was too scary or something, we pass them off to you.
If you don’t want your movie added to the dvd or on the web, email me and we can discuss.
Questions/concerns/and registration info should be directed to Feet Banks
Download a .doc file of these instructions
Download the licensing agreement
