Regular Deadline: October 5, 2020
Submissions now being accepted fo Shortfest 2021!
Student filmmakers receive a special discount – save 25% off the entry fee with the code SrSdSf21
Shortsfest is an Oscar®-qualifying film festival in five categories – animation, comedy, documentary, drama and short short. It is also recognized as one of the premier short film festivals in North America, accepting submissions of live action, documentary and animation from the United States and around the world.
Calling all film students! You are invited to attend IFP Week panels this year to learn ways to jump start your careers and hear from the pros! Go to https://ifpweek.com/conference/talks/ and use the code STUDENTCOMP and attend for free. IFP Week runs September 15th through the 19th.
Hear from filmmakers and creators including Jon M. Chu (In the Heights, CrazyRich Asians), Scott Z. Burns (The Report, The Bourne Ultimatum), Rachel Lears (Knock Down The House), Ira Sachs (Frankie, Love is Strange), Erin Lee Carr (Mommy Dead and Dearest, I Love You, Now Die), Joe Berlinger(Paradise Lost, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes), Joanna Solotaroff (2 Dope Queens), and from companies like National Geographic, TIME, Netflix, Kodak, Sony Pictures Classics, HP, HBO, and Tribeca Film Festival discussing topics including true crime, political documentaries, literary adaptations, podcasts, immersive content, how to’s and so much more.
Please check out our free screenings this year at https://ifpweek.com/conference/events/ and see The Report, Knock Down The House, American Factory and a Netflix shorts program with Q&A afterwards!
9/4, 10 am – 4 pm
IFC Centre
Students of TISCH, you are entitled to FREE TICKETS as part of the IFC Center’s Craft Ed. Seminars series, a program that teaches the craft of storytelling. As part of our Post Production seminar you will dive into the intricacies of B-roll and archival footage, adding animation and VFX, and what you should expect out of a post house and how to score your film, with insights from Jamillah Varias (Vox Media), Prudence Arndt (I Am Not Your Negro) and others.
If you would like to attend either of these sessions just email docnyc@togetherfilms.org for a free pass.
https://www.craftedseminars.org/event/documentary-post-production/
Make Your Mark in the Latinx Community!
Introducing Latinx21, a FREE video-sharing website where anyone can upload and view Latinx-centric videos. Showcase your creative talent/work online and be seen by the Latinx community.
Spread the word by forwarding this email and sharing the excitement of a whole new online destination centered on the Latinx experience.
We have a contest coming in September to award prize money to the best and most liked videos. More info coming soon!
If you would like to know more about this coming platform or be an early contributor, please subscribe to our mailing list.
Through May
7 Ludlow Street, NYC
Sign up for a discounted Metrograph Membership and receive 5 complimentary tickets.
Up until March 30, 2019
Get behind-the-scenes insight into the films and TV shows that you love by reading Backstory Magazine!
Focusing on the art and business of storytelling, Backstory delivers in-depth interviews with top screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, editors, novelists and comic book artists.
We hope you’ll use coupon code NYUBACKSTORY at checkout to save $5 off the regular $24.99 subscription and enjoy a year of Backstory for just $19.99!
Subscribers get access to every single issue ever published, including the newly released 2019 Oscar issue.
Premiere on 11/7
An eye-opening documentary self-portrait. American performance artist Narcissister takes a smart, sassy, spectacle-rich approach to exploring the kinds of sexual fetishism that notoriously fix racial and gender stereotypes.
Film Forum would like to extend their discount rate ($9 tickets as opposed to $15) to the NYU community to see NARCISSISTER ORGAN PLAYER on weekday shows before 5pm.
Enter the code narcissisterfilm18 when checking out online to redeem this discount.
https://filmforum.org/coming_soon
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