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FreeNetWorld: Call for entries 2012 EXTENDED

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FreeNetWorld 2012- Call for participation Fifth international film festival FreeNetWorld will be held from 4th till 6th of October 2012. We would like to invite filmmakers from around the world to submit their films. Participation deadline for sending all required information and films is the 15th of August 2012. Ganre: fiction - drama and comedy, documentary, animations, experimental/ music video Theme: Free Choice To be eligible the films must be: ...

FREENETWORLD FILM FESTIVAL

FreeNetWorld 2012- Call for participation
Fifth international film festival FreeNetWorld will be held from 4th till 6th of October 2012.
We would like to invite filmmakers from around the world to submit their films.
Participation deadline for sending all required information and films is the 5th of August 2012.

Ganre:

  • fiction - drama and comedy,
  • documentary,
  • animations,
  • experimental/ music video

Theme: Free Choice
To be eligible the films must be:

  • produced after the 1st of January 2011;
  • less than 30 minutes in length;
  • subtitled in the English language, unless the dialog is in English;

Awards:

  • Free NET World Open Movie Award
  • The best documentary film
  • The best animated film
  • The best fiction
  • The best music video/experimental film
  • Special audience ‘s choise award

Participation procedure:
The entry form with all required information and with copy of the film has to be sent to us until 15th of July 2012. There are no limits for number of films that one author can submit.
Video preview formats are: HDV, DV, mini DV, DVD, mp4, 3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, 3gpp, asf, asx, avi, divx, mts, m2t, m2ts, m2v, m4v, mkv, mov, mp4, mpe, mpeg, mpg, ogg, wmv.
The screening copy of the film that must be made available for the festival must be in PAL standard  in the following formats: HDV, DVCAM, miniDV and DVD.
Selection and Notification:
As we expect to receive several hundred submissions we regret that we can only write to the selected filmmakers. If you do not recieve any feedback from festival ’s coordinator till August 15 2012, that means that you haven’t been successful this time. In that case, we hope that you will participate next year with your new art film.
Costs: The applicant is responsible for the costs of sending copy!
Annotation on the package: "NO COMMERCIAL VALUE; CULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY".
Mail:
Put a link in our online entry form from your hosting service, official servers (rapidshare, sendspace, megaupload, hotfile etc.) or by post mail:
Vladimir Ilic,
FreeNetWorld International Film Festival,
Heroja Pop Mice 8,
18000 Nis, Serbia

Forgive Me and Forget

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Director: Kyung Sun Bea.
After ten years, Shane is fed up with his marriage to Kelly and occasionally daydreams about life without her. One evening, Shane returns to find Kelly on death's door after being attacked during a home invasion. This could be the moment when his dream becomes reality. Shane reflects on a conversation he had earlier that day and considers saving Kelly. He struggles with his decision as he watches her lay dying. Unable to move or speak, Kelly is amazed at Shane's delayed reaction and we watch her eyes as they reveal her pain and frustration. In the end, Shane decides to take his chance; he leaves Kelly to die and walks out the door into his new, single life.

Full Stop

Director: Christon Joseph.
World's hottest news on Laden and Obama are unfolded by Lawrence and Andappan during their bicycle journey to a nearby toddy shop. The story is being reveled through a third standpoint. This short film was made before the actual event.

La petite faute d'un petit homme

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Director: Denis Katin.

Two Short Nights- Call for Entires

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SUBMIT YOUR FILM NOWFollowing last year’s spectacular event we are pleased to invite submissions for 2011’sInternational Open Screening at this year’s Two Short Nights Film Festival. All films accepted for ‘Two Short Nights’ will be automatically nominated for the ‘Two Short Nights Audience Award’ and will be screened at the opening night of the Festival. DETAILS:• Films must be no longer than 10 minutes• Films must be sent as either:- HDV 1080i- DV PAL on Mini DV - QuickTi...

AGAINST THE WIND

Director: SANDRIS JURA.
An affirmative film about the price of risk and patriotism, which is possible only to adventurists. Ivars Beitans and his team do the impossible – in spite of obstacles they build the Latvian pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai, turn on the vertical wind tunnels and fly off in the sight of the whole world. But what is the price of the flight? What one should do not to let his whole life “pass by”?

Street Art Collides with Reality

Director: Shafiur Rahman.

Indemnity

Director: David Dietz.
William (David Dietz) thought he’d finally found the love of his life, but something went horribly wrong. Now, he finds himself alone and on the run – pursued across the country by a woman consumed with rage, who now only wishes to see him dead. And heaven help anyone foolish enough to get in her way! Taking refuge in a rural watering hole, William finds an unlikely ally in Joe (Dan I. Radakovich), a bartender battling his own demons. But as William opens up to him over several drinks, Joe begins to wonder if the stranger is simply a victim of circumstance… or if he is hiding a much darker secret…

Coventry

Director: Shawn Cheatham & Jeremy Chandler.

The Line (2010)

Director: José Pedro Lopes.
On a remote road, two friends try out a magic chalk that was bought online. According to the site, if someone crosses a line drawn with that chalk, his head explodes. They draw a line and wait for someone to come by... but are they ready to face the consequences if this turns out to be true?

Incessant Passage

Director: Chady Rizk.
TBA

THAT IS THE PICTURE

Director: Lauma Balode.
A bus with books. Once in a month they are going to different places in country side, but this "different" bus isn't only a library. For these people it means more.

A Devil Of My Own Making

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Director: Kambombo Kalambay.
a young woman comes home from a long day's work to suspicious activities in her apartment. she is determined to get to the bottom of it.

Cubierta de Sombras

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Director: Juan Pablo Roubio.
Captain Cortez must carry, in his warship, an enigmatic and beautiful scientific and transfers a state secret. In the middle of the ocean, a murder and the alarm of an imminent and deadly in the air put the security of a nation. Cortez was in a reckless crossroads between attraction that causes the mysterious passenger and his duty to his crew and their nation. Cover of Shadows is a film that contains all elements of the more classic black cinema. During the 50s, where the main actors of the Cold War established their sources, cover of shadows, who invited the witness to go through the darkest desires of the mind of a man in an age where the truth lay in shadow.

How To Immigrate To Canada

Director: Don Bapst.
The story of one man's immigration experience and the many piles of paperwork along the way. An adventure spanning three continents and countless generations. A step-by-step quest for a home and a country to build it in. The story of a fitted tuxedo for a groom without a groom and his lost Canadian prince. It's also the story of the many legal victories in the GLBT movement and all the tiresome work that still has to be done. It's a celebration of the Great North, where less may be more, and an exploration of the immigrations we are each making every day.

Succession

Director: Lárus Oni Jóhannsson.
A young monk brings his newly written book to his mentor. The mentor clearly sees value in this little notebook.

Mai così...vicini

Director: Emanuele Ruggiero.
Jeanne and Frances are two friends who share a nice apartment in the center of a small town in northern Italy. They are young, pretty, have a great job, a boyfriend, and even a dog ... If it were not for a corpse in the living room which they don't know how to discard, they would really have a perfect life and worthy of being living ....

Dreaming The Night Away

Director: Pierre Jézéquel.
Richard wanders among the lower life of a decadent and neglected city. However, a sudden confrontation with an unpleasant reality will send him on an intense emotional ride, where betrayal and revenge are inescapably tied.

The Tube

Director: Michael Gumnor.

water means life, flow and birth. why androids play with electric sheep. mankind within the matrix.

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HOMELAND

Director: Herve G-WERY.
No one can escape from his destiny, even Mark. Far away from any kind of life fundamental question, Mark will experience chaotic moments until he'll accept to face the truth without any sort of compromise....

FIN

Director: Charlie Ruckus.

Boxworth's Big Idea

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Director: Declan Hannigan.

Unman

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Director: Alexander Martynov.
Story about relationships between two brothers. Where one of them is a monstro man with mind power from the birth. He can see outside world only throuth peephole in entrance door. A woman whom is a wife of drug cartel boss appears at brothers' life and reveals cripple brother's mystery of his unique strength.

For True Movie Buffs

Director: Giuseppe Scavo.
A guy goes to the showing of a masterpiece of cinema. At the beginning he's really excited, but after a while he becomes bored. When he looks at the other people around him, he see their happy and static faces. To have fun, the guy imagines that all the others spectators have a laughing mask on their faces. But in the end, when the guy decides to take away the masks, he discovers something interesting…

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