by Shannonn Kelly
Advance ticket sales have already begun for the 2008 season of the ReelHeART International Film Festival (RHIFF), June 16-21, 2008.
With 9 categories of competition this year, it’s hard to pick just one film bloc to go see. So why not see them all! Continue reading »
by Shannonn Kelly
Before we get to our Top 3 Scripts who win rehearsed and cast-to-type Live Reads during ReelHeART, we have to read through a lot of feature length entries from around the world to find out who our finalists will be-
In our inaugural season of the ReelHeART Screenplay Competition 2007, we were delighted to have a bit of drama. Screenwriter Joe Acton, wrote two of the top three winning scripts; which were polar opposites of each other in terms of character, theme, tone and plot line. He won 1st and 3rd place honors at ReelHeART 2007. Continue reading »
ReelHeART Screenplay Semi-Finalists Will Be Announced Tomorrow! Our screenplay competition is extremely busy in only it’s 2nd season.Root on the semi-finalists and see who makes the Top 6 and then the Top 3 for 2008!The Top 3 Screenplays win rehearsed Live Reads during the ReelHeART Lunch n Learn Series. One of those winners goes on to enjoy a one-on-one lunch with a top literary agent-Keep up on ReelHeART News right here!
Look for a flurry of Press Releases announcing the film line-ups, special events and more for ReelHeART 2008.The Official Program will be on line April 20, 2008. Advance Sales start April 21!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day From ReelHeART! Slainte!
Look for a flurry of announcements from all over the globe, as ReelHeART has notified more than 115 filmmakers submitting from over 35 countries about their acceptance into ReelHeART 2008.Films from as far away as Austria and Beijing, to Canadian and Toronto filmmakers having hit an all-time high in acceptances this year. Look for some great home-grown films right here in our own backyard.Spread the word about ReelHeART! Advance Sales start online April 21, 2008!
Special Report by GG Gianfranco
This week, starting March 01, 2008, the notifications begin for filmmakers for the ReelHeART International Film Festival (RHIFF)
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ReelHeART runs its 4th season June 16-21 in Toronto, Canada, screening 100+ films submitted from over 35 countries. This season their are 9 categories of competition for films ranging from Music Video, Animation, Experimental, Dance, or Music Related, Short or Long Form Documentary, Short or Long Form Film, Feature Documentary, and Feature Films.
A new category was introduced this season called “Off the Shelf”, for films that are 5 years or older. This category was initiated to “breath new life into overlooked films”, says ReelHeART Director, Shannonn Kelly. She goes on to explain, “Every season, during our pre-submission research, we were finding great films and documentaries that had never really seen the light of day. We wanted to give those films some more exposure and hopefully give their filmmaker another shot at finding either a new audience or distribution interest.”
Another category of competition is the ReelHeART Screenplay Competition, which was launched in 2007, to great success. This year is “bigger and better”, according to Kelly, “last year two of the top 3 screenplays were so vastly different yet were submitted by the same writer! It was a fun kind of drama befitting our screenplay category; so I think we might have some more interesting developments this year. I think other writers were hoping to meet that challenge this season, because we had a few multiple submissions this year as well. I’m looking forward to it.” Announcements for this category begin at the end of March.
With 6 days of parties, a “Lunch n Learn” series with film industry professionals and filmmakers, dinners, daily meet and greets, late night networking and of course films, the ReelHeART International Film Festival (RHIFF) has the feel of a “filmmakers boot camp”, says Carl Liberman, literary agent of The Characters Talent Agency where both audience members and filmmakers get down to the business of making films and are having a ton of fun while they’re doing it.
Advance online ticket sales for ReelHeART begin April 15, 2008.
The first group of filmmakers notified via a Category Group Email will be those who went into final rounds and did not make it into either program — We will then notify in the following order throughout the week via HIGH PRIORITY email in their category group:
Late March we will make several announcements with respect to the ReelHeART Screenplay Competition 2008
We will announce in the following time frames and order:
March 31, 2008 or sooner we will announce
April 7, 2008 or sooner we will announce
April 14, 2008 or sooner we will announce
Mid-May we will announce
Please Note We do not announce Order of Winners until all scripts have gone through their Live Reads and their votes from the Live audience are tallyed along with the votes from ReelHeART and our Agency
You’ve made our jobs delightfully hard this season. Thank you Filmmakers and Screenwriters for your entries and your support. You’ve worked hard on your craft and it shows…
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Shannonn Kelly, Director RHIFF
ReelHeART International Film Festival (RHIFF)
“The Filmmakers Film Festival”
June 16-21, 2008, Toronto, Canada
ReelHeART Says Happy Valentine Day!Have a great day and love yourself
We end our submission season January 15, 2008, so I wanted to publish a note to filmmakers and screenwriters all over the world that have been submitting to ReelHeART International Film Festival (RHIFF).
We have an exceptional bunch of screeners this year. They are tough, fair and extremely well versed in film. Their enthusiasm for films coming to ReelHeART is clearly evidenced in each scorecard they turn in. Whether they love your film or hate your film, rest assured, our screeners are watching and studying your films and giving them the attention they deserve.
The overall quality of films this year again has hit a benchmark and is up at least another 10% in scoring round quality. We have you, the Filmmaker to Thank.
Screenplay submissions are up way beyond last season as well, the number of screenplays short listed.
The screenplay competition was such fun and a great success in our inaugural season that word must’ve spread as we had hoped. However, a little web campaigning didn’t hurt either.
We also had the pleasure of articles written by our 2nd Place ReelHeART Screenplay Competition Winner Jason Coleman (WILLING), who, on his own initiative graciously covered and wrote about his experiences while at ReelHeART 2007, that added to the web interest for the ReelHeART Screenplay Competition.
Jason’s articles are published below for your reading convenience-
I want to say Thank You to all the hardworking men and women, established and student filmmakers who dedicate much of their lives, resources, bank accounts and creative spirit to making film and writing screenplays.
On behalf of the ReelHeART Team, I want to extend much Good Luck to all entrants.
Thank you for choosing ReelHeART!
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