ReelHeART Open Call For Films and Screenplays!

**January 15, 2009 Final Deadline Film Submissions**
**December 31, 2008 Final Deadline Screenplay Submissions**

12 EXCITING CATEGORIES OF COMPETITION TO CHOOSE FROM

Feature Film - Narrative Competition
(Any Genre: Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy, Film Noir, etc)
Open to all Narrative Films 80 minutes and over in length. This category is open to directors of all levels.Films in a language other than English must be subtitled. If your film is in French or Spanish you do not have to subtitle if you haven’t done so already for other markets.

Feature Documentary Competition
Open to all documentary films over 80 minutes in length. This category is open to directors of all levels.

Films in a language other than English must be subtitled. If your film is in French or Spanish you do not have to subtitle if you haven’t done so already for other markets.

• 1st Prize $500 Cash
• 2nd Prize $250 Goods or Services
• 3rd Prize $125 Goods or Service

Short or Long Form Film - Narrative Competition
(Any Genre: Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy, Film Noir, etc)
Open to all Short or Long Form Films 79 minutes and under in length. This category is open to directors of all levels, including students.

Films in a language other than English must be subtitled. If your film is in French or Spanish you do not have to subtitle if you haven’t done so already for other markets.

• 1st Prize $250 Cash
• 2nd Prize $125 Goods or Services
• 3rd Prize $75 Goods or Services

Short or Long Form Documentary Competition
Open to all Short or Long Form Documentary Films 79 minutes and under in length. This category is open to directors of all levels, including students.

Films in a language other than English must be subtitled. If your film is in French or Spanish you do not have to subtitle if you haven’t done so already for other markets.

• 1st Prize $250 Cash
• 2nd Prize $125 Goods or Services
• 3rd Prize $75 Goods or Services

Dance, or Music Related Film Competition
(Dance = Any dance form)
(Music Related Film = Bio Pics, Profiles, Docs on music scene/artists, bands, Live Concerts, etc)

Open to all Dance or Music Related Films that are of ANY length. This category is open to directors of all levels, including students.

Films in a language other than English must be subtitled. If your film is in French or Spanish you do not have to subtitle if you haven’t done so already for other markets.

• 1st Prize $125 Cash
• 2nd Prize $75 Goods or Services
• 3rd Prize $50 Goods or Services

Animation or New Media Film Competition
Open to all animated, new media and highly visual films of ANY length.

This category is open to directors of all levels, including students.

Films in a language other than English must be subtitled. If your film is in French or Spanish you do not have to subtitle if you haven’t done so already for other markets.

• 1st Prize $125 Cash
• 2nd Prize $75 Goods or Services
• 3rd Prize $50 Goods or Services

Experimental Film Competition
Open to all Experimental Films that are of ANY length. This category is open to directors of all levels, including students.

Films in a language other than English must be subtitled. If your film is in French or Spanish you do not have to subtitle if you haven’t done so already for other markets.

• 1st Prize $125 Cash
• 2nd Prize $75 Goods or Services
• 3rd Prize $50 Goods or Services

Music Video Competition
This category is open to directors of all levels, including students. Open to all Music Videos of any length. This category is open to directors of all levels, including students. Music Videos in a language other than English must be subtitled. If your film is in French or Spanish you do not have to subtitle if you haven’t done so already for other markets.

• 1st Prize $125 Cash
• 2nd Prize $75 Goods or Services
• 3rd Prize $50 Goods or Services

©ReelHeART Feature Screenplay Competition

**December 31, 2008 is the Final Deadline Screenplay Submissions**

You heard the buzz from the last 2 years. This was a fantastic new addition last season and the excitement still hasn’t stopped. Do NOT miss out on submitting your script for 2009-

This competition is open to screenplay writers of all levels. This competition is open to scripts of ALL genres. Your script must be a “Feature Film” script.

Please try to keep your script length to no longer than 120 pages. We’ll work with you to pare it down. And we do have a margin that it can be over. But the shorter the better for all. A shorter script is more commercially viable. Scripts must be attached with brass brads/fasteners only

You must send 2 hard copies of your script via MAIL or FedEx. We will NOT accept files sent to us via email.

Please use ‘WARNER BROTHERS’ style set up in your Final Draft or script writing software. If not using software, please format your script using the guideline for script formatting at American Screenwriters Association and for a formatting sample please use the NICHOLLS FELLOWSHIP SAMPLE, where you can copy and paste the formatted text and use for your own setup - Oscars.org

• The Top 3 Winners will get a full rehearsed and cast to type script read with critique and Q & A in front of a live film festival audience.
• 1st Place script will win a one-on-one lunch with a top agent in Toronto to discuss possible representation
• 1st Place script will also receive an award, full script coverage, (possibly goods) and possible representation by a respected Canadian agent
• 2nd Place script will receive an award (and possibly goods) and full coverage of their script
• 3rd Place script will receive an award (and possibly goods) and full coverage of their script

©ReelHeART “Off The Shelf” Competition
The ©ReelHeART “Off The Shelf” Category was introduced in 2008 for films of all genres that never saw the light of day, or never reached an audience shortly after the film was completed. Your film has to be more than 5 years old to be eligible-

Over the past 5 seasons, ReelHeART has been impressed with the number of films we come across during our research that are quality films but we’ve never heard of before. Art House films, documentaries, experimental films and animation- We’ve seen a quite a few and liked them.

Whether your film was created on a student/no/lo/moderate/or big budget we’d like to see it. If your film passes our criterion for all of our other categories, we’ll put it thought the same screening and scoring process as our other submissions.

We know there are quite a few experimental films out there that their loving filmmakers ‘tweaked for years’ only to be beat out by time, technology or money to market and screen their film.

We also know there are genre specific “blaxplotation”, “avant-garde”, “queer” “b-movie” and “underground” films that never got through the doors of very many theaters if at all. We know there’s tons of documentaries, quirky profiles, garage music videos, x-rated animation and experimental mixed media out there. If your film is one of these, we want to see it.

If your film is over 5 years old and you’d like to see how it matches up to its contemporaries, we urge you to submit your film today. We’re excited about this addition to ReelHeART. We hope you will be too!

• Prize Best Of “Off The Shelf”

Off The Shelf Winner will receive an award or medallion AND possibly a ‘collectible’ work of ART or a certificate to exchange for filmmaking goods with CODES PRO MEDIA. In the event of a TIE, the prize value will be divided equally-
Sponsor: ReelHeART
Value of Cash or Goods or Services: $125 Canadian Dollar
This prize is NOT shared with other categories

ReelHeART has decided to introduce web videos to its film festival audience to see if filmgoers are willing to see something on the big screen they can see anytime they want on the Internet.

The criterion for getting in this category is fairly simple. We ask that you DO NOT SUBMIT ANY unauthorized clips from television shows, films and music videos.

We also ask that you DO NOT SUBMIT videos containing pornography, nudity, defamation, harassment, commercial advertisements and material encouraging criminal conduct. Your video has to be all original with only “fair use” of material (i.e. music, an image, a quote).

Your video has to have production values, i.e. Clear Video, Clean Audio and a STORY. This category also includes cinéma vérité. Other than that, absolutely anything goes!

The Top Winner will be awarded a “Best of Prize” honor and that my friend, you can submit to other film festivals and eventually shop around to Hollywood…

• Prize Best Of “ReelTube”

©ReelHeART Thesis Film Competition NEW for 2009
Calling all Thesis Filmmakers! Ok, so what have you done lately with that thesis film of yours?

Spike Lee’s thesis film was called Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads. Since then he’s made over 35 films. So, have you got a thesis film we should see before you make it big?

Where has it screened? If it hasn’t screened in Toronto, Canada, we may be interested in seeing it.

Your thesis film has to have production values, i.e. Clear Video, Clean Audio and a STORY. This category also includes cinéma vérité.

The criterion for getting in the category is fairly simple. We ask that you DO NOT SUBMIT ANY unauthorized clips from television shows, films, books, magazines and music videos.

We also ask that you DO NOT SUBMIT videos containing defamation, harassment, commercial advertisements and material encouraging criminal conduct.

Your thesis film has to be all original with only “fair use” of material (i.e. music, an image, a quote).

Narrative, Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Underground - This category is wide open. Whatever you made as your thesis film, it’s eligible in this category. Prizes in this category are 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place as well as in competition for Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Venue.

You’ll need to write a brief cover letter that gives us details about you, your school program, the year you graduated (we don’t care even if it was in the 40s), the mark you got (high or low doesn’t matter it’s the content we’re interested in), and what you’ve done since making your thesis film.

If you haven’t made it to a film festival yet, why not make it one with ReelHeART…

Sponsor: ReelHeART
Value of Cash or Goods or Services: $125 Canadian Dollar
This prize is NOT shared with other categories