MetaFest 2008: Open Call for Online-Offline Film Festival

Juried film fest is looking for innovative, creative, entertaining shorts that bridge the best of the online and offline worlds...

Show us what you've got!

WHAT:                

MetaFest 2008 - a short-film festival that combines the best of the online and offline worlds.

MetaFest-worthy films will be 10 minutes or less and narrative, humorous, artistic, dramatic, animated, documentary, mockumentary, music, experimental, alternative or avant-garde in any genre, format or style.

WHO:                  

Metacafe, one of the world's largest video entertainment sites, and Microcinema International , a leading international exhibitor and specialty markets distributor of the "moving image arts", have teamed up to create and curate the festival.

Hillman Curtis, an award-winning filmmaker, designer and author, and Glenn R. Phillips, the senior project specialist and consulting curator of contemporary programs for the Getty Research Institute, are members of the jury.

 WHEN:               

The call for submissions is open NOW - through September 10, 2008.  Filmmakers can upload their work at www.metacafe.com/metafest.

Selected films will have a theatrical premiere in San Francisco in November 2008, will be showcased on Metacafe.com for six months, and will be screened at dozens of "microcinema" events across the U.S. and around the world through the first half of 2009.

 WHY:                   

There are a lot of creative people out there making some great short films.  We want to help them get exposure.  And we're offering some pretty cool prizes - more than $10,000 worth.