
CAGE Recommended Festival Calls
These festivals are particularly recommended for UT students, due to factors such as price and location. Click on Film name to go to website. Deadline/ Fee: June 15/ none We Don’t Talk About Chris, A Film Festival From New Milestones Foundation, is a unique film festival to help raise awareness about the stigma and struggle of living with mental illness. Each film’s subject matter should focus on a mental-health topic. The films should expand awareness of mental illness and counter the stigma of those affected by mental illness. The films can be shot on film, video or be any form of animation. The entrants of the top four films, as determined by the festival judges, will be given a cash award of $2,500 per film. The entrants of the next five top films will get $500 per film. stimTVnetwork, On-line (continuous) Deadline/ Fee: none/none Here is how it works; your students submit their films to our network for the following programs. 1. Promos and Station ID’s: We will use your students’ shorts, excerpts of feature films, animations, experimentals or videos as Station ID’s and Promos for the network. A few seconds will stream as part of our regular programming and be discreetly emblazoned with our lovely logo. These segments become “clickable,” enabling users to view a longer form. 2. Stream on Cinema Channel: Your students will also have the opportunity to stream their work as part of our regular programming on our Cinema channel along with films from 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Disney and many independents like Lion’s Gate and Image Entertainment.
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