CALL FOR ENTRIES:

2010 Princeton Student Film & Video Festival

Deadline for submissions:

June 21, 2010

HOW TO SUBMIT FILMS:

The Princeton Student Film & Video Festival is seeking films for this 7th annual event. The festival is sponsored by the Princeton (NJ) Public Library, high school and college students (or home-schooled, unschooled or not in school) ages 14-24 from any location are eligible to enter. Please submit by June 21, 2010. No cost to enter. All entries must be on DVD and accompanied by a completed entry form, available with guidelines and more information at:
http://www.princetonlibrary.org/teens/media/index.html

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:

The films selected for the Princeton Student Film & Video Festival will be screened over 2 nights, Wednesday July 21 & Thursday July 22, 2010, at the Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, New Jersey. The filmmakers with selected films will be invited to introduce their films and provide post-screening Q&A, with custom festival t-shirts to all selected filmmakers. All filmmakers, whether they have films selected or not, and family, friends and anyone interested in film and filmmaking are invited to attend. The screenings are intended for a teen and adult audience. Admission is free.

ADDED THIS YEAR:
This year a selection of films from the Princeton Student Film & Video Festival will also screen at Artist Visions Film Festival, a new, first-year festival in nearby Lambertville, New Jersey, on July 22 & 24, 2010. They are seeking to also show original short films from students in Hunterdon County, NJ and Bucks County, PA. They are suggesting an additional theme that is open to all festival entrants: “Where I’m From” to show local culture and community and landscape about the student filmmaker’s life and where they live. Filmmakers are also free to submit in other genres too, please read our entry form and guidelines for more details. All films for consideration (for both events) should be submitted to the attention of “Princeton Student Film & Video Festival”.

Read articles about the 2009 Princeton Student Film & Video Festival:

"Library Student Film and Video Festival to Showcase a Variety of Young Talent." -- TOWN TOPICS, July 15, 2009: http://www.towntopics.com/jul1509/other3.php

"Love and Loss: The Princeton Student Film and Video Festival Has It All."  --TIMEOFF, Packet Publications, July 10, 2009: http://www.princetonlibrary.org/teens/media/doc4a54b61d0ca5d519969525.prt.htm

GETTING THE WORD OUT THIS YEAR:

The success of our festival depends upon getting lots of submissions, which depends on getting the word out. Please feel free to share this message and about this opportunity widely, and wildly!

Printed postcards (few or many) for circulation and posting are available on request.

My apologies for any cross or duplicate postings.

For more information:

Please contact me at (609)924-9529 ext. 247 or send e-mail to:

...@princetonlibrary.org">scon...@princetonlibrary.org. 

Thanks! Susan Conlon, Coordinator for the Princeton Student Film & Video Festival

& librarian at the Princeton Public Library

65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 08542