The 25 Top Film Festivals For Documentaries

“You’ve just completed your film. Now it’s time to decide which festivals to target. Maybe all along you were planning on Sundance. Hell, you built your entire post-production schedule around the Sundance deadlines! Maybe you get in. Maybe you don’t. Either way, you’re about to make your next festival decision, and another and another. And beyond the big ticket festivals, the ones where acceptance is supposed to be worth its weight in distribution gold, there’s an endless stream of festivals to navigate. Where should your second screening be? Should you wait to hear from Tribeca? And what about that random festival that you’ve never heard of but assures you a great time and a free ride?”

ATTENTION: ALL WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS/MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISTS

Reel Venus is seeking entries of short films, photography/multimedia slideshow presentations for its 5th Annual showcase which is set to take place October 2,3 & 4 2008.

Reel Venus is an eclectic 3-day showcase of alternative and mainstream film/video shorts (30 minutes or less) photography and multimedia presentations directed/photographed by WOMEN filmmakers, video artists and photographers from the U.S. and abroad. Works must have been completed after July 2007. Go to www.reelvenus.com for more information.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: August 30, 2008 – $20.00.

email: reelvenus.submissions08@gmail.com
phone: 212-714-8375

Melissa Fowler
Reel Venus Film Festival
Founder/Director/Curator

The Blogging Scholarship
Is Your Blog Worthy of a $10,000 Scholarship? Do you maintain a weblog and attend college? Would you like $10,000 to help pay for books, tuition, or other living costs? If so, read on. We’re giving away $10,000 this year to a college student who blogs. The Blogging Scholarship is awarded annually.

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• Your blog must contain unique and interesting information about you and/or things you are passionate about. No spam bloggers please!
• U.S. citizen
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Important Dates:

• Submission Deadline: Midnight PST on Oct. 6th
• 10 Finalists Announced and Public Voting Begings: 9am EST on Oct. 8th
• Public Voting Ends and Winner Declared: Midnight PST on Oct. 28th

‘NYT’ Magazine Launches Essay Contest For College Students
By E&P Staff July 09, 2007
NEW YORK The New York Times Magazine has announced a nationwide essay contest for college students. The winning essay will be published in the magazine’s college issue, due on newsstands on September 30. The essay is to be based upon an article by author and historian Rick Perlstein; the article can be found here. Perlstein argues in his piece that today’s college campuses have relinquished their key role in society; they now tend to mirror the “competitive, market-driven approach to life,” rather than a “break from a young person’s past…with all the freedom and creativity that a fresh start implies.” Since college campuses are no longer the centers for engaged thought and interaction with the world at large, such as they were in the 1960s and 1970s, Perlstein writes that the institutions have lost their influence on the rest of society. The deadline for the essays is Monday, August 6. The winning essay, to be selected by New York Times Magazine editors, will not only be published in the September 30 college issue, but will also be posted on NYTimes.com and mtvU.com, the Web site that accompanies the 24-hour MTV college television station. Additionally, mtvU will air a segment with the winner.