FANTASTIC FRENZY
UPDATE, 9/1: The results of the audience award for this Frenzy are in! Team FOGAR! is our grand prize winner, and you can see the whole breakdown of the scoring in our blog. Results of the jury prize winners will be announced at the Awards Festival during Fantastic Fest, and we'll post a recap here.
Last year's Fantastic Fest bumper contest was such a raging success, we simply cannot wait to get moving on the 2009 edition. The runner up film I LOVE YOU JEAN CLAUDE was featured on G4's Attack of
the Show and subsequently went on to become something of a viral video sensation. The winning film REPORT CARD by HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN auteur Jason Eisner still brings a smile to my face with each viewing.
The 2009 competition is very much like last year's contest, but the theme is more narrow in focus. The short still needs to be no longer than 30 seconds long, has to feature a child under the age of 18 in some way, shape or manner, and the last line of your video has to end with the word "fantastic." The refinement this year is that each film must contain.... a monster. Other than that, we want to see anything and everything you can come up with.
The top Fantastic Fest 2009 Frenzy videos we
get will be screened in front of an unsuspecting audience during
Fantastic Fest (September 24-October 1). Each of those audiences will include visiting
filmmakers from around the world, press from the likes of IFC TV,
G4, Fangoria, Film Threat, Spout, Ain’t It Cool News, Variety, and USA Today, plus a legion of the most
devoted and intelligent genre film fans on the planet.
If that isn’t enough for you, there will be other prizes as well:
Our top ten favorite films, as picked by the Fantastic Fest programming
staff, will each win $100 Alamo prize packs that can be redeemed
anytime for movies, merchandise, food or drinks.
And the number one film as picked by the voting members of the
Filmmaking Frenzy community will receive two VIP badges to this year’s
Fantastic Fest – badges that will allow you to meet and mingle with the
stars of Fantastic Fest. These badges sold out before the end of
Fantastic Fest 2008, but we held a couple just for you. If you are a filmmaker outside of Austin who can't make it in for
Fantastic Fest, you can swap out the goodies above for $250 cash. But
you should really just find a way to get here if you win, because it’ll
be soooo worth it.
Fantastic Fest runs from September 24 through October 1, and because
we need time to build DVDs of our preshow reel, your Fantastic Frenzy
films are all due no later than August 16. Anything we get
after that can’t be guaranteed to play during the festival and won’t be
eligible for any prizes.
So take a break from your other projects, find a
kid, dress him up as a flesh-eating mushroom monster and have him or her run amuck in the neighborhood. That sounds
like it will be the kind of movie that’s fun for you to make, and fun
for us to watch, too!
About Fantastic Fest:
Fantastic Fest was founded in 2005 by Tim League (founder of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema) and Harry Knowles (founder of Ain’t It Cool News). The Alamo Drafthouse was named “Best Theater in America” by Entertainment Weekly and Ain’t It Cool News is one of the most popular internet movie sites in the world. Now in our fifth year, we are the largest genre film festival in the U.S., and have hosted a large number of world premieres over the years, including THERE WILL BE BLOOD, APOCAPLYTO, HOSTEL, CITY OF EMBER and many more. Fantastic Fest was named by Variety president Charlie Koones as “one of the 10 festivals we love,” alongside industry heavy-hitters Cannes, Telluride and Toronto. We were also named by MovieMaker Magazine this year as "one of the 25 coolest film festivals."
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