Festival start: 24 September 2016
Festival end: 24 September 2016
What do Ron Howard, Christine Lahti, Spike Lee and Steven Spielberg have in common? Their film directing careers were launched from a short film.
Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival is looking for future Academy Award winning film directors by giving aspiring film makers their break. We will showcase their work before a live audience, which will provide feedback and the opportunity to have audience reaction. The film festival takes place in the center of Roselle Park, New Jersey,
Take a look at our Welcome to the Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival video by TV Host Bobby Rivers and learn more about our what makes our Short Film Festival special: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI5ICEQ3SOgakRgbN8rNEDw
Roselle Park Loves Shorts! welcomes the breakout artist as well as the seasoned professional to screen their best, edgy, thought provoking, colorful and inspiring work of art. Special emphasis is placed on newcomers in the field of film and the teenage filmmaker looking for an arena in which to showcase their art.
The Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival prefers short films 20 minutes or less, but will consider films up to 40 minutes in length, inclusive of title and credits. Special recognition will be given for submissions which use iPhone, iPad, or Android as their central means of film making. As a special feature of the Film Fest, we encourage teenagers to submit their original work.
An added bonus THIS YEAR WE HAVE WAVED ANY FEES: there will be no submission fee for this year's Short Film Festival. It is our way of celebrating our Inaugural Short Film Festival year.
The Short Film Festival is part of RP Loves Arts! annual day long celebration of all the arts featuring local, statewide and professional artists in a variety of media! Touted by Roselle Park News as the #1 event in 2015, RP Loves Arts! fest welcomed visitors to outdoor showcases of artists, Master Classes, discussions of film, animation, gaming, dance, music, and ending with an evening of Jazz.
Roselle Park Loves Shorts! was created from a desire of artists and volunteers from various professions looking to host a diversity of newcomers and professionals in the field of film making so they may network and build their portfolio.
The Film and Arts festival is a part of the ongoing efforts to promote the growing Arts community and diversity in Roselle Park, New Jersey, part of the New York City
metropolitan area. Visitors are a mere 20 minutes from downtown Manhattan by car and there is easy accessibility by New Jersey Transit train or bus. Roselle Park Loves Shorts! and Roselle Park Loves ARTS! are only minutes by foot from either the NYC bus or train.
P.S. - If you are wondering which short films our notables directed - Howard directed "Cards, Cads, Guns, Gore and Death"; Lahti directed "Lieberman in Love"; Lee directed "Joe's Bear Stay Barbershop: We Cut Heads"; Spielberg directed NBC's "Night Gallery segment "Eyes." So will you be the next on the list?
Shorts chosen for the Film Fest will be recognized as an "Official Selection" of the Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival. Selections will be welcomed to a "meet and greet" networking event where you will meet other film makers and notable special guests.
Judges' selection of awardees will receive the one of a kind, official Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival trophy and will be announced during the day-long Roselle Park Loves ARTS! festival. Winners will also be interviewed by local news outlets and placed on RP Loves ARTS! social media and website.
Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival Rules and Terms:
Submit your movie via Festhome.com.
Short films of all genres are accepted. The Festival prefers short films to be no longer than 20 minutes in length, but will consider films up to a maximum up to 40 minutes including title and credits.
For pre-screening the Festival prefers film submissions on via Festhome.com.
Films can be with dialogs, silent or without dialogs. Films in languages other then English require English subtitles and should retain the original language audio.
If selected for the Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival, films must be submitted on DVD, labeled with Festhome Tracking ID, Film Title, Contact Information and email. Entries will not be returned.
Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival reserves the right to select entrants based on scheduling and other factors. Films that trivialize or glorify violence or weapons will not be considered.
Student films must be produced by a student enrolled in an accredited school (junior high school, high school, college, or graduate school), including teenage filmmakers. Proof will be required. To be considered under student or teenage category, the film-maker must be a student or teenager at the time of the film submission. Homeschooled teenagers will be accepted with proof of age and homeschool status.
Multiple entries will be accepted as long as they are submitted separately. There is no time frame restriction on the year of the production of the film and entries to Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival are open to all international, national, regional, or local filmmakers.
After an acceptance email has been sent, filmmakers are responsible for sending the Festival a DVD disk that has been pre-tested for imperfections. If an exhibition disk freezes or doesn't launch in judges' machines, the Festival reserves the right to reject the submission on such grounds alone. Disks handed to event managers at the venue will not be screened.
Deadlines
Final Deadline
MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE ADDRESS ABOVE BY AUGUST 1, 2016 TO BE CONSIDERED BY JUDGES
Extended Deadline - AUGUST 15, 2016, however, only a few, if any, will be selected.
Films not in English MUST submit one version of the film with English subtitles
If selected, please have photo stills of the short film including a still of the director, writer, and film stills, and include a synopsis, production credits to send to us immediately after being notified. Any press, film description, and writer and director's bio must be sent upon festival selection notification. Photos should be in JPEG format at least 300 dpi.
Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival reserves the right to secure substitute materials from other sources.
Reproduction acknowledgement
Film entrants gives Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival and its affiliates full rights to have work exhibited, photographed, locally telecast, posted on Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival and Roselle Park Loves ARTS! website and Facebook page, reproduced in part of promotional purposes.
Term & Conditions
All decisions are final.
Roselle Park Loves Shorts is hereby granted the right to utilize an excerpt from any film submitted and accepted for exhibition at the Festival for promotional purposes.
Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival's cancellation policy:
The Festival reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel any event due to storm, power outage, flood, war, civil unrest, fire, earthquake or any other circumstance deemed beyond the Festival's control. Our policy is to cancel all movie screenings during severe storms and power outages until electrical power is stable and restored in order to protect projection and audio equipment from potentially permanent damage.
Submission a film, by the Filmmaker hereby irrevocably offers to Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival the right to screen the film, at the 2016 Roselle Park Loves Arts! festival at times to be determined by the Festival in its sole discretion. Filmmaker understands and agrees that once Festival accepts Filmmaker’s offer by selecting the Film for the Festival, Filmmaker shall have no right to remove the Film from the Festival, If Festival selects the Film for the Festival, Festival shall have the irrevocable right, but not the obligation, to screen the film at the 2016 Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival, in Festival’s sole discretion.
The individual or corporation submitting the film hereby warrants that it is authorized to commit the film for screening, and understands and accepts these requirements and regulations. The undersigned shall indemnify and hold Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival, Roselle Park Loves Arts, and the Borough of Roselle Park, its employees and volunteers harmless from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees, and costs of the court) which may be incurred by reason of any claim in connection with the Film involving copyright, trademark, credits, publicity, screening, and loss of or damage to the screening videos entered. In particular the Filmmaker expressly warrants it has obtained all necessary copyright clearances for original works of authorship used in the film.
If accepted, the contact person must respond to all requested items by the deadline given in the acceptance email or risk being rejected from the festival.
Roselle Park Loves Shorts! Film Festival reserves the right to cancel or change screening dates without prior contact.
Questions can be directed to RoselleParkLovesShortsFilmFest@gmail.com and note in the title RP Loves Shorts Question.
We encourage the film makers to enjoy the film fest, love the opportunity to show film and network, and enjoy the Arts Festival and all the Roselle Park has to offer.
Narrative Shorts
Short Films 40'<
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01 Aug 16
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Narrative filmmaking refers to the types of short films that tell a story. The terms “fictional cinema” and “narrative cinema” carry the understanding that the filmmaker has the freedom to create storylines and alter historical facts as he or she sees fit. This freedom allows the director to shape the movie and perfect the story. A Student Category will be considered dependent upon the number of entrants. Students are defined as individuals currently in study at the secondary, undergraduate or graduate level of education. Entrants need to make note of their status at the time of submission to be considered as such.
Documentary Shorts
Short Films 40'<
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"Documentaries bring viewers into new worlds and experiences through the presentation of factual information about real people, places, and events, generally -- but not always -- portrayed through the use of actual images and artifacts. But factuality alone does not define documentary films; it's what the filmmaker does with those factual elements, weaving them into an overall narrative that strives to be as compelling as it is truthful and is often greater than the sum of its parts." --Sheila Curran Bernard, Author of Documentary Storytelling A Student Category will be considered dependent upon the number of entrants. Students are defined as individuals currently in study at the secondary, undergraduate or graduate level of education. Entrants need to make note of their status at the time of submission to be considered as such.
Experimental Shorts
Short and Feature Films
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01 Aug 16
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"Experimental film, experimental cinema or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms and alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. Many experimental films, particularly early ones, relate to arts in other disciplines: painting, dance, literature and poetry, or arise from research and development of new technical resources. - Wikipedia A Student Category will be considered dependent upon the number of entrants. Students are defined as individuals currently in study at the secondary, undergraduate or graduate level of education. Entrants need to make note of their status at the time of submission to be considered as such.
Animation
Short and Feature Films
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Submissions deadline
01 Aug 16
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An animation is a motion picture created by means of the rapid display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other. The animation category includes all stop-motion pictures, computer animated films, mechanical (puppetry, robotics), and others. Animations may not exceed 20 minutes in length including credits. A Student Category will be considered dependent upon the number of entrants. Students are defined as individuals currently in study at the secondary, undergraduate or graduate level of education. Entrants need to make note of their status at the time of submission to be considered as such. a way of making a movie by using a series of drawings, computer graphics, or photographs of objects (such as puppets or models) that are slightly different from one another and that when viewed quickly one after another create the appearance of movement.
Teen Age Film Maker
Short Films 40'<
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01 Aug 16
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A special teen category has been created to encourage teenager filmmakers from the aspiring to the curious young person. The used of video, computer generated film, Ipad, Iphone or Android are welcomed. Just do your own thing and put it on film! Submission my include a statement that film maker is a teenager, 19 years or younger, at the time of entry. Dependent upon the number of entries, teenaged flim makers may also be considered under the other categories as a student.
