Cassowary Coast Short Film Competition
Cassowary Coast Short Film Competition Results:
- Gold Prize Winner
Julia Summerling for THE HUNGRY TURTLE - Silver Prize Winner
Peter Matthews for MARCH OF DA FLIES - Highly Commended Prize Winner
12 year old Eva Blakemore for SUSTAINABILITY.
Imagine your film up on the big screen at the Mission Beach Film Festival!
You are invited to submit a short film – no longer than 3 minutes – on the theme of sustainability. Your film must be shot in the Cassowary Coast Regional Council area and can illuminate the audience about a whole range of issues regarding the environment. Stories can be as varied as you want them to be and can be personal journeys, stories of great beauty, a warning for future generations, reflective and sentimental or shocking and hard hitting. You are free to use any storytelling technique you choose; drama, documentary, animation or a combination of all.
Don’t be restricted by format, you can adopt any film or digital format as long as it can be screened on DVD and is no longer than 3 minutes duration.
DVD’s with your short film need to be submitted to the Mission Beach Film Festival by Friday 23th October. A judging panel will select the best short films to be screened before the first feature film at Castaways Resort and Spa on Saturday 7th November. Awards for best films in age categories will be presented.
ALL shorts (time dependent) will be screened during the day on Saturday 7th November, giving you the opportunity to display your talents AND imagination to family and friends.
DVDs must be submitted with the application form available here and remember to keep your own copy!
Please send your DVD and Application Form to:
Mission Beach Film Festival
PO BOX 352
Mission Beach QLD 4852.
General enquiry to:
e: info@missionbeachfilmfestival.com.au
Entrants' Enquiries to:
Amy Mauric, Short Film Festival Co ordinator
e: mauric.amy@gmail.com
m: 0407 773 813
Madman are providing DVD packs to winners of the Cassowary Coast Short Film Competition.
www.madman.com.au
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
There are strict licensing laws regarding the use of popular music and licensed images. If you use any images, sound or video in your story that does not belong to you, it is essential that you get written permission from the rightsholder.
For copyright reasons, you cannot copy music from a popular CD and put it in your story without permission. There are many sites that offer content under Creative Commons licenses. Under these licenses, creators put their works online and specify how other people can use them. A good starting point is the web site: http://creativecommons.org
If you interview anybody for your story, it is important that you get a written clearance to use the sound or video recording of them.