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Upcoming poetry film festival deadlines

On 25 May, 2013 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - calls for work, contests, festivals and other screening events

2013 may be an off-year for ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, but that doesn’t stop them from promoting other people’s festivals on their Facebook page. A recent posting listed all the upcoming deadlines for submission — something we should do here more often, as well:

The first of these, you may recall, I have some connection to as one of the directors, and I will be attending the festival in August. More about that at a later date. For now, I just want to stress that filmmakers should read the guidelines carefully. Unlike many other festivals, we only consider submissions sent via post: on a DVD, CD or memory stick, and only in .mov or .m4v form. Alastair Cook says: “We’re receiving some great poetry-film from all corners of the world. And we are so pleased to be able to screen it! Now organising the events and workshops for the festival, so pleased to have such an amazing historic venue in such a beautiful town.”

For a more comprehensive list of regular and recent poetry film festivals, see the Moving Poems Links page.

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Call for submissions: Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition 2013

On 9 May, 2013 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - calls for work, contests, festivals and other screening events

Ó Bhéal (Irish for by word of mouth) is a weekly poetry event in Cork which, since 2010, has also been sponsoring an annual screening of poetry films and videopoems from around the world. This year they’re taking it to the next level, associating with the IndieCork festival of independent cinema in October and holding a poetry-film competition. View the complete guidelines at their website. Here’s the meat of it:

We are now open for submissions. Thirty films will be shortlisted and screened during the IndieCork festival. One winner will be selected by the Ó Bhéal jury.

Deadline for submissions is the 15th of September 2013.

Entry is free to anyone, and should be made via email to poetryfilm [at] obheal.ie – including the following in an attached word document:

    • Name and duration of Film
    • Name of director
    • Country of origin
    • Contact details
    • Name of Poet
    • Name of Poem
    • Synopsis
    • Filmmaker biography
    • and a Link to download a high-resolution version of the film.

Films must interpret or be based on a poem, and have been completed no earlier than the 1st August 2011. They may not exceed 10 minutes in duration. Non-English language films will require subtitles.

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