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Call For Entries: Short Doc Competition

Written by TVSA Team from the blog TV Production on 19 May 2009
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The Documentary Filmmakers Association (DFA) has put out a call for entries for a short documentary competition to be screened at the upcoming Encounters Documentary festival.

Here's all the info:

Documentary theme: MY TOWN
Duration: 3 minutes

The town we come from/live in shapes who we are. We occupy its space, it occupies us. In this short 3-minute documentary competition, filmmakers, aspirant filmmakers, artists and students are invited to make a short 3 minute documentary titled “My Town”. You can interpret this brief any way you like – revisit your birthplace, explore your suburb or township and tell your story.

The 8 best films will be chosen by a selection panel appointed by the Documentary Filmmakers Association (DFA).

These 8 films will screen at the Waterfront Nu Metro cinema as part of the Encounters documentary festival (as pre-main feature shorts). The 11th Encounters South African International Documentary Festival will be held in Cape Town from the 2nd to the 19th July 2009.*

One film will be selected as an overall winner by a panel of judges comprising of film as well as arts and broadcast practitioners. The winner will be announced at a function during the Encounters Documentary Festival in Cape Town.

Prizes are still to be announced - as soon as they are we'll keep you posted.

Films will be produced at own expense. The films produced remain the property of the filmmakers. The DFA will endeavor to negotiate broadcast and festival screenings with the filmmakers’ permission.

Selected Filmmakers will benefit from on-screen credits and general media exposure through the project. All filmmakers who enter a film will receive a year’s free membership to the Documentary Filmmakers Association (July 2009 - June 2010).

Delivery and Deadline:
Deliver 3 x copies of your film on DVD (DVD’s must be high quality and viewable on home dvd players)

Films must be delivered by 14h00 on Friday, 12 June 2009.

Deliver to:
7 Glynnville Terrace
Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
For Attention: THERESA MEYER

All films delivered must be accompanied with a signed MY TOWN competition entry form, which will be available for download from the DFA website soon at: http://www.docfilmsa.com

For more information, please mail Miki Redelinghuys on chair@docfilmsa.com



Please note: the festival was going to be held in Johannesburg and Cape Town and has changed to being on in Cape Town only.

Related links: Call For Entries - Encounters 2009.



6 Comments

Tashi
19 May 2009 12:08

Sounds cool - the sort of thing you could make super-tight and interesting.

Toxic
19 May 2009 12:20

where's thabang? he must see this!

Msoe
19 May 2009 12:41

Maybe I should enter.......

Tashi
19 May 2009 12:44

Yes-yeshe must! Thaaaaaaaabaaaaaaang.

No pressure to win, hehe.

Tashi
19 May 2009 12:53

Go for it Msoe!

tha - bang
19 May 2009 15:29

thanks to some lovely friends ive just seen this too.i'm going to enter ,i just need to come up wit an idea.


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