EARLY & LATE DEADLINES IN FEBRUARY

For more listings, check out http://www.insidefilm.com/calendar.html

Frameline28 (June 17-27, CA)
Deadline: Feb. 2, 2004 (late)
Web site: http://www.frameline.org/
Fee: $35

The 28th San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

The Method Fest (April 2-9, CA)
Deadline: Jan. 23, 2004 / Feb. 3, 2004 (late)
Web site: www.methodfest.com
Fee: student $20/$25

The Method Fest is looking for story-driven films (narrative), featuring strong acting performances. The Method Fest Independent Film Festival prides itself in being the only film festival in the world that acknowledges the actor's contribution to independent films and has screened new works of new artists, as well as career-defining performances of name actors.

New York Lesbian And Gay Film Festival (June 3-13, NY)
Deadline: Dec. 19, 2003 / Feb. 16, 2004 (late)
Web site: www.newfestival.org
Fee: $20/$25

Committed to presenting diverse & culturally inclusive programs, fest showcases all genres of film, video & new digital media.

Asian Film Festival of Dallas (May 28-29, Dallas TX)
Deadline: Feb.1, 2005 (or later)
Web site: www.affd.org
Fee: $15 (early)/ $20 (late)

To be eligible, short or feature productions must be made by Asian-Americans or Asian-International filmmakers, or with subject matter concerning Asian issues from any year, country, state, age, category, and serving any theme. The categories this year include narrative, documentary, experimental, and animation. All films submitted should be under 70 minutes in length.

Rooftop Films (Summer, Brooklyn NY)
Deadline: Feb.1, 2005/ March 1, 2005
Web site: www.rooftopfilms.com
Fee: $7 donation

The 2005 Summer Series consists of 16 shows, one every Friday night all summer long from June 10th through September 9th plus a special show on Monday, the 4th of July. All shows take place outdoors in New York City—either in parks, along piers, on boats traveling around Manhattan, in historical locations, or, best of all, on rooftops overlooking the city. People see more short films at Rooftop than at the next three largest short film festivals in New York combined, so if you are interested in having your film shown to large crowds in some of the most spectacular urban open air venues for cinema in the world, submit your films now.

Frog Baby (Apr 9, IN)
Deadline: Feb.18, 2005
Web site: www.bsu.edu/web/cardinalfilm/
Fee: $10 (early)/ $15 (late)

sehsüchte (Apr 26- May 1, Germany)
Deadline: Feb.1, 2005
Web site: www.sehsuechte.de
Fee: free, but you gotta pay to ship it to Germny

sehsüchte is the biggest festival of its kind in Europe. We show films from student and amateur filmmakers from all over the world.

Harry Warner (Apr 21-22, PA)
Deadline: Feb.1/ March1, 2005
Web site: http://academics.sru.edu/warner/entries.htm
Fee: $15/$25

Striving to connect the traditions of film with the medium’s continuing evolution, the festival seeks to represent the myriad of artistic visions and methods of production employed by time-based artists and filmmakers.  All genres will be considered for exhibition.

Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22, Cannes)
Deadline: Feb. 18, 2004
Web site: http://www.festival-cannes.org

The Board of Directors chooses and invites the films which will be presented in Competition or Out of Competition. Only the films that meet the following conditions may be chosen for invitation in the Official Selection:

1. Films that have been produced during the twelve months preceding the Festival;
2. Films whose exhibition has been limited only to their country of origin;
3. Films that have not been presented in any other international motion picture event;
4. Films that have not been exhibited on Internet;
5. Films that respect the aims of the Festival as defined in Article 1;
6. Short films that do not exceed 15 minutes in length.

Northwestern University's 9th Annual Flicker Film Festival (May 6-8, Chicago)
Deadline: Feb.20/ March 19, 2005
Web site: http://groups.northwestern.edu/flicker
Fee: $15/$20

The Flicker Film Festival showcases student films.