For several months, and daily for the past week I have been fielding emails and telephone calls from around the world questioning who is in charge of the Clearwater Film Festival.The answer is Mike Rembis. It is solely owned by me and nobody else.I was asked again today who sponsors The Clearwater Film Festival. The answer is me - Mike Rembis. I invented it and put my life savings into it and I have a few sponsors who have provided me with in-kind advertising and local support in exchange ...
First the good news. our opening night films are
A SOLDIER'S MISSION, 3 minutes, Animation, by Mel K. Lockett, USA
LASTRAIN, 23 minutes, Short Film (Drama), by Tony Lopez, SPAIN
TWENTY TEN, 71 minutes, Feature Film (Comedy), by Byron Kaye, AUSTRALIA.
Congratulations to all those filmmakers who will be screening at our first year festival!
Now for the bad.
It is always a tremendous and excrutiating decision when you make the final tweaks and scheduling of your pr...
Guess it may be time to attempt delivery of a "daily" blog post to let you know what we are doing. First of all, working round the clock to get the program together for publication. Plan to have all films listed on the website tomorrow. So check back for the list of 72 films from around the globe including 6 animated films, 23 documentaries, 32 short films, 2 mini-features and 10 feature films to be shown in 35MM, DV Cam, Blu-Ray and DVD. We have 40 film blocks at 3 theaters an...
The Clearwater Film Festival is pleased to announce that Film Badges are on sale now.
Keep watching our website for updates on our educational panels and our upcoming "HOW TO FEST" page as we get closer to festival time, September 29 - October 3, 2010.
http://www.theclearwaterfilmfestival.com/english/tickets.html
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The Clearwater Film Festival's Summer Film Challenge is please to announce the top three films for this years SFC competitionFIRST PLACEIn The Shadows Comedy Genre by Tom Thompson SECOND PLACEAshes To AnthraxSuspense Genre by Corey HortonTHIRD PLACEPonytailSport Genre by Joe RaditchThanks to all those who entered.In The Shadows will be featured during the festival and other entries are now in consideration.The festival program will be announced in September. Film badges go on sale in early Ju...
The Clearwater Film Festival celebrates Triple-Threat Filmmakers who act, write and direct. Before Orson Welles gave us Citizen Kane and Shakespeare became Hamlet, the Greek poet Thespis got up on stage and shocked the audience by pretending to be somebody else, giving birth to the multi-hyphenate talent, which became the driving force in entertainment for the last 2,600 years.Your challenge is to cram that legacy into 30 seconds of brilliant filmmaking, and show us what you can do with what you...
Join us at System Productions for The Summer Film Challenge on June 25th, 2010 at 8PM Five intrepid filmmakers have stepped forward to compete for a bounty of fantastic prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Filmmakers were assigned a Title, a Genre and Three (3) Random Product Placements.Whose films will win?Corey Horton ASHES TO ANTHRAX SUSPENSEJohn Jones THE HOMECOMING MYSTERYTom Thompson IN THE SHADOW COMEDYDonald E Reynolds JASPER MAN ACTIONJoe Raditch PONYTAIL SPORTFREE ADMISSION ...
TCFF is pleased to announce that we are officially in triple digit territory for the first time since we began our submission process in December 2009. We have received dozens of quality films from all over the world. The majority of films are from the US and we have had a brilliant response from the UK and Canada. We have also received films from Israel, Switzerland, Argentina, South Korea, Ecuador, Belgium, Serbia, Australia, Germany and Italy. our screeners are eager to view more and ...
Get Reeled In!The Clearwater Film Festival celebrates Triple-Threat Filmmakers who act, write and direct. Before Orson Welles gave us Citizen Kane and Shakespeare became Hamlet, the Greek poet Thespis got up on stage and shocked the audience by pretending to be somebody else, giving birth to the multi-hyphenate talent, which became the driving force in entertainment for the last 2,600 years.Your challenge is to cram that legacy into 30 seconds of brilliant filmmaking, and show us what you can do...
The Clearwater Film Festival, set to debut September 29 - October 3, 2010, seeks panelists to join us for a celebration of film.
The Clearwater Film Festival is a platform built to showcase seasoned filmmakers and emerging artists who demonstrate the synergy of the actor, writer and director. When great talents work harmoniously the results may be beautiful, questionable or even shocking. When the talents of the actor, wr...
