Post by NzoMatrix on May 18, 2004 20:37:07 GMT -5
Ariella Ben-Dov
Festival Director/Curator
MadCat Women's International Film Festival
639 Steiner Street
San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
Phone: 415 436-9523
Fax: 415 934-0642
abendov@madcatfilmfestival.org
www.madcatfilmfestival.org
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Deadline Approaching
May 21st is our deadline BUT – we can extend it a week (or so) for those who need it!
If you have already submitted to MadCat please pass this info on...
The MadCat Women’s International Film Festival is looking for submissions for its 8th annual Festival. MadCat seeks provocative and visionary films and videos from around the globe that are original in their use of the medium. The Festival is committed to showcasing women directors who challenge the use of sound and image and explore notions of visual story telling. MadCat screens works of ALL lengths and genres, about any topic and that are produced ANY year. Films can be directed or co-directed by women. MadCat sets itself apart from other women's festivals by curating its programs thematically and thus accepting a range of films about many different issues. MadCat is also committed to finding the most diverse group of filmmakers possible and is doing extensive outreach to international filmmakers and filmmakers of color. Please note international filmmakers do not need to pay any entry fee!
Past Filmmakers Include: Su Friedrich, Sarah Jane Lapp, Jane Wong, Alice Guy Blaché, Patty Chang, Eva Aridjis, Louise Bourque, Betzy Bromberg, Jong Lim Ro, Donna Cameron, Abigail Child, Frédérique Devaux, Rita Gonzalez, Jacqueline Goss, Shirley Clarke and the list goes on!
MadCat entry forms are now available at madcatfilmfestival.org/submissions.html as a word document and a PDF.. If you would like to have a hard copy sent to you please email us your mailing address. If you are not a filmmaker please pass this onto others you know.
Thank you for your time.
MadCat Film Festival
info@madcatfilmfestival.org
www.madcatfilmfestival.org
LATE BIRD DEADLINE (MadCat can be flexible regarding this deadline – Please send submissions ASAP):
May 21, 2004
Entry Fee: $10-30 Sliding Scale. Pay what you can afford.
No submission fee for international entrants!
PREVIEW FORMATS:
VHS 1/2" NTSC or PAL; DVD formats.
EXHIBITION FORMATS:
35mm, 16mm, Super8, BetaSP, Mini DV, 3/4", SVHS, VHS.
MadCat’s annual Festival takes place throughout the month of September in the San Francisco, Bay Area at select locations. MadCat also tours throughout the US to Art Houses, Museums and Universities. MadCat is currently touring with the program GOTTA GET IT – a program of international short films that explore passions and obsessions through documentary, animated and experimental work. Film descriptions for GOTTA GET IT can be found at www.madcatfilmfestival.org/programs.html#prog1. The Festival also tours with the program CUT SNIP OOZE: Contemporary Animated Films by Women. This is a series of films that explore unsolved crimes and medical mysteries. Film descriptions can be found at www.madcatfilmfestival.org/programs.html#prog8. Please email us to book the shows or to find out the tour line-up!
info@madcatfilmfestival.org
Remaining Tour Dates 2004!
Date Venue Location Show
May 22 Aurora Picture Show Houston, TX Gotta Get It
May 23 Aurora Picture Show Houston, TX Gotta Get It
June 2 Girl Fest Hawaii Honolulu, HI Selections from MadCat
June 10 Webster University Webster Groves, MO Gotta Get It
June 17 Webster University Webster Groves, MO Cut Snip Ooze
“The MadCat Film Festival tests, expands, and evolves the traditional, politically motivated, 20th Century definition of ‘the women's film festival.’”
– Independent Film & Video Monthly
“MadCat isn't just a women's film festival - it's an arty showcase of avant-garde experimental shorts that veer far from the traditional modes of storytelling.”
– Seattle Weekly
“Ben-Dov has become curator par excellence!"
– Bay Area Business Woman
“As a genre, as a space for talking about, documenting, dramatizing, and inventing ourselves on camera, women's filmmaking can only grow and improve through ambitious events like MadCat. MadCat gets a big, big hand for insight, excellence, attitude, and chic.”
– Art Papers
“At MadCat, being avant-garde is just as important as being female”
- SF Chronicle
“Female filmmakers have evolved, based on the stellar slate highlighted at the MadCat Film Festival, where post-feminism morphs into profound humanism. This is an exciting time for women filmmakers, and for all moviegoers..”
- SF Weekly
“MadCat Film Festival selected as one of the ‘101 Reasons Why We Love the Bay Area.’”
- San Francisco Chronicle
“Best Film Festival [That Still Caters to the Underground] You probably won't discover the next big commercial thing at the MadCat International Women's Film Festival. For those of you looking for that kind of relief, MadCat delivers. The films are top-notch; they're so creative, in fact, that you wonder why all movies aren't made for the art of it. Offering content that only women can provide, MadCat takes the show on the road each year, but Ariella Ben-Dov started it all in San Francisco.”
– SF Bay Guardian
MadCat Women's International Film Festival
639 Steiner Street
San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
Phone: 415 436-9523
Fax: 415 934-0642
info@madcatfilmfestival.org
www.madcatfilmfestival.org
Festival Director/Curator
MadCat Women's International Film Festival
639 Steiner Street
San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
Phone: 415 436-9523
Fax: 415 934-0642
abendov@madcatfilmfestival.org
www.madcatfilmfestival.org
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Deadline Approaching
May 21st is our deadline BUT – we can extend it a week (or so) for those who need it!
If you have already submitted to MadCat please pass this info on...
The MadCat Women’s International Film Festival is looking for submissions for its 8th annual Festival. MadCat seeks provocative and visionary films and videos from around the globe that are original in their use of the medium. The Festival is committed to showcasing women directors who challenge the use of sound and image and explore notions of visual story telling. MadCat screens works of ALL lengths and genres, about any topic and that are produced ANY year. Films can be directed or co-directed by women. MadCat sets itself apart from other women's festivals by curating its programs thematically and thus accepting a range of films about many different issues. MadCat is also committed to finding the most diverse group of filmmakers possible and is doing extensive outreach to international filmmakers and filmmakers of color. Please note international filmmakers do not need to pay any entry fee!
Past Filmmakers Include: Su Friedrich, Sarah Jane Lapp, Jane Wong, Alice Guy Blaché, Patty Chang, Eva Aridjis, Louise Bourque, Betzy Bromberg, Jong Lim Ro, Donna Cameron, Abigail Child, Frédérique Devaux, Rita Gonzalez, Jacqueline Goss, Shirley Clarke and the list goes on!
MadCat entry forms are now available at madcatfilmfestival.org/submissions.html as a word document and a PDF.. If you would like to have a hard copy sent to you please email us your mailing address. If you are not a filmmaker please pass this onto others you know.
Thank you for your time.
MadCat Film Festival
info@madcatfilmfestival.org
www.madcatfilmfestival.org
LATE BIRD DEADLINE (MadCat can be flexible regarding this deadline – Please send submissions ASAP):
May 21, 2004
Entry Fee: $10-30 Sliding Scale. Pay what you can afford.
No submission fee for international entrants!
PREVIEW FORMATS:
VHS 1/2" NTSC or PAL; DVD formats.
EXHIBITION FORMATS:
35mm, 16mm, Super8, BetaSP, Mini DV, 3/4", SVHS, VHS.
MadCat’s annual Festival takes place throughout the month of September in the San Francisco, Bay Area at select locations. MadCat also tours throughout the US to Art Houses, Museums and Universities. MadCat is currently touring with the program GOTTA GET IT – a program of international short films that explore passions and obsessions through documentary, animated and experimental work. Film descriptions for GOTTA GET IT can be found at www.madcatfilmfestival.org/programs.html#prog1. The Festival also tours with the program CUT SNIP OOZE: Contemporary Animated Films by Women. This is a series of films that explore unsolved crimes and medical mysteries. Film descriptions can be found at www.madcatfilmfestival.org/programs.html#prog8. Please email us to book the shows or to find out the tour line-up!
info@madcatfilmfestival.org
Remaining Tour Dates 2004!
Date Venue Location Show
May 22 Aurora Picture Show Houston, TX Gotta Get It
May 23 Aurora Picture Show Houston, TX Gotta Get It
June 2 Girl Fest Hawaii Honolulu, HI Selections from MadCat
June 10 Webster University Webster Groves, MO Gotta Get It
June 17 Webster University Webster Groves, MO Cut Snip Ooze
“The MadCat Film Festival tests, expands, and evolves the traditional, politically motivated, 20th Century definition of ‘the women's film festival.’”
– Independent Film & Video Monthly
“MadCat isn't just a women's film festival - it's an arty showcase of avant-garde experimental shorts that veer far from the traditional modes of storytelling.”
– Seattle Weekly
“Ben-Dov has become curator par excellence!"
– Bay Area Business Woman
“As a genre, as a space for talking about, documenting, dramatizing, and inventing ourselves on camera, women's filmmaking can only grow and improve through ambitious events like MadCat. MadCat gets a big, big hand for insight, excellence, attitude, and chic.”
– Art Papers
“At MadCat, being avant-garde is just as important as being female”
- SF Chronicle
“Female filmmakers have evolved, based on the stellar slate highlighted at the MadCat Film Festival, where post-feminism morphs into profound humanism. This is an exciting time for women filmmakers, and for all moviegoers..”
- SF Weekly
“MadCat Film Festival selected as one of the ‘101 Reasons Why We Love the Bay Area.’”
- San Francisco Chronicle
“Best Film Festival [That Still Caters to the Underground] You probably won't discover the next big commercial thing at the MadCat International Women's Film Festival. For those of you looking for that kind of relief, MadCat delivers. The films are top-notch; they're so creative, in fact, that you wonder why all movies aren't made for the art of it. Offering content that only women can provide, MadCat takes the show on the road each year, but Ariella Ben-Dov started it all in San Francisco.”
– SF Bay Guardian
MadCat Women's International Film Festival
639 Steiner Street
San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
Phone: 415 436-9523
Fax: 415 934-0642
info@madcatfilmfestival.org
www.madcatfilmfestival.org