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Vail Film Festival (0)

Deadlines

19 Jun 2014
Call for entries

31 Jul 2014
Early deadline

30 Aug 2014
Standard deadline

30 Sep 2014
Late deadline

30 Sep 2014
Festival closed

01 Feb 2015
Notification date

26 Mar 2015
29 Mar 2015

Address

P.O.Box 747, 81658, Vail , Colorado, United States

Festival description

Short film festival 30'<

Feature film festival 130'<

Festival requirements

Film festival

Fiction

Documentary

Animation

Fantastic

Terror

Experimental

Music Video

Other

Any Genre

Any Theme

Has submission fees

International Festival

Physical Location

Production date: Any

Production countries: Any

Shooting countries: Any

Director nationalities: Any

Debut Films

School projects

Short Films 30'<

Feature Films 130'<

Any language

Subtitles
English

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Festival description (Edition: 0)

Festival start: 26 March 2015 Festival end: 29 March 2015

The 12th annual Vail Film Festival, set in Vail, Colorado, America's top ski resort, will be held March 26 - 29, 2015. The Vail Film Festival has been named "One of the Top 10 Destination Film Festivals in the World" by MovieMaker magazine.
The 2015 festival will screen Feature Films, Shorts, Documentaries, Family Films, and Student Films. The festival fosters filmmakers through Panel Discussions, a daily Hospitality Lounge, Nightly Parties, and networking opportunities with leading film industry professionals.
Past Vail Film Festival tribute recipients and attendees include Kate Bosworth, Allison Janney, Josh Lucas, Zach Braff, Tate Taylor, Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Zach & Miri, Cop Out), Michael Imperioli, Jane Seymour, Fred Schepisi, Krysten Ritter, Michelle Monaghan (Trucker, Mission Impossible III, Gone Baby Gone), Luke Wilson (Old School, Legally Blonde, The Royal Tenenbaums), Adrian Grenier (HBO's Entourage), Harold Ramis (Stripes, Caddy Shack, Ghostbusters, Groundhod Day, Analyze This), Tricia O'Kelley (The New Adventures of Old Christine), Kaitlin Olson (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Tim Daly (NBC's Private Practice), Olivia Wilde (Turistas, FOX's House, Fix, The Year One, Tron: Legacy), Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan, ABC's Lost), Jesse Eisenberg (The Hunting Party, The Squid and the Whale), Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill, The Hitcher), Hayden Panettiere (Heroes), Kip Pardue ("Remember The Titans", "Driven") and Edward Pressman (Producer; Wall Street, American Psycho, Das Boot, The Cooler, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps).
Past premieres and highlights include "Enemy" starring Jake Gyllenhaal, "Locke" starring Tom Hardy, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" starring Jason Siegel, Kristen Bell, "The Guitar", directed by Amy Redford, "In Search of a Midnight Kiss", "Knocked Up", Judd Apatow's follow up to "The 40 Year-Old Virgin", "Snow Cake" starring Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman, the Cannes Award-winning "Red Road", "The Oh in Ohio" (starring Paul Rudd, Parker Posey, Mischa Barton and Danny DeVito), "American Dreamz" (starring Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore), "The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang" (from the filmmakers of "Napoleon Dynamite"), Luke Wilson's "The Wendell Baker Story", Tiffani Thiesen's "Just Pray" and David Duchovny's "House of D".

Prizes and qualifications

The Vail Film Festival offers the following awards:  Best Feature  Best Documentary  Best Short Film  Best Student Film  Audience Award
Award details: Designated Vail Film Festival Press Release to national media announcing the Film Competition Winners, and listing the film as the best film winner in that category for the 2015 Vail Film Festival. Announcement at the Official Awards Ceremony covered by national media. Announcement in festival newsletter and listing on festival website and in Official festival program guide. 2 Filmmaker Passes to the 2016 Vail Film Festival. Award presented at Awards Ceremony .

Rules

Filmmakers must have the rights to their films, and through submitting thereby grant the Vail Film Festival the right to screen their film. All films must be in English or subtitled in English.
Digital submissions only. We don't accept physical submissions. All films must be viewable as online screeners.

Feature Films

Fee

-8%

Early 55$ 50.6$ 31 Jul 14

Standard 60$ 55.2$ 30 Aug 14

Late 65$ 59.8$ 30 Sep 14

Submissions deadline
30 Sep 14

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4.8$

Submit

Feature Films in all genres are accepted. Minimum run time of 50 minutes. Digital submissions only. We don't accept physical submissions. All films must be viewable as online screeners. All films must be in English, or with English subtitles, or dubbed in English.

Documentary Films

Feature Films

Fee

-8%

Early 55$ 50.6$ 31 Jul 14

Standard 60$ 55.2$ 30 Aug 14

Late 65$ 59.8$ 30 Sep 14

Submissions deadline
30 Sep 14

Save up
4.8$

Submit

Documentary Films must be at least 50 minutes long. Digital submissions only. We don't accept physical submissions. All films must be viewable as online screeners.

Short Films

Fee

-8%

Early 45$ 41.4$ 31 Jul 14

Standard 50$ 46$ 30 Aug 14

Late 55$ 50.6$ 30 Sep 14

Submissions deadline
30 Sep 14

Save up
4$

Submit

Short Films must be no longer than 30 minutes. Digital submissions only. We don't accept physical submissions. All films must be viewable as online screeners.

Student Films

Short Films

Fee

-8%

Early 40$ 36.8$ 31 Jul 14

Standard 45$ 41.4$ 30 Aug 14

Late 50$ 46$ 30 Sep 14

Submissions deadline
30 Sep 14

Save up
3.6$

Submit

Student Films must be no longer than 30 minutes. Digital submissions only. We don't accept physical submissions. All films must be viewable as online screeners.

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