Filmmakers Invited to Create and Submit for
Free a Two-Minute Film Shot in One Week While Social
Distancing
Entertainment Industry Jury to Select Five
Winners for Cash Prizes, with their Films Featured on the Homepage
of IMDb, and Receive a One-Year Membership to IMDbPro
Women In Film LA, ReFrame and IMDbPro (http://www.imdbpro.com),
the essential resource for entertainment industry professionals,
today announced the CURBSIDE SHORTS Two-Minute Film
Challenge, inviting female and non-binary filmmakers from North
America to create and submit for free a short film inspired by life
while sheltering in place. What have you discovered about yourself,
home, or neighborhood? How do you envision the future coming out of
this pandemic? Have you imagined a new character or superhero? Or
perhaps been inspired by a real life hero working on the front
lines? The contest launches Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at NOON PDT at
https://audpop.com/womeninfilm/curbsideshortsfilmchallenge and all
submissions must be received by Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at NOON
PDT.
“The filmmaking community was hit immediately, and hard, by the
COVID-19 crisis, with the loss of thousands of jobs in the first
week due to halted productions, and job losses are ongoing,” said
Kirsten Schaffer, Executive Director, Women In Film Los Angeles.
“In the spirit of keeping filmmaking alive, and to capture this
moment of profound interconnectivity, the CURBSIDE SHORTS
Two-Minute Film Challenge supports female filmmakers during this
crisis by providing an opportunity to stay productive, creative and
inspired in this time.”
The MPA has stepped up with $10,000 which will go directly to
COVID-19 charities. Commenting on their support, John Gibson, Vice
President, External and Multicultural Affairs said: “During these
challenging times, it’s important that we keep the fire of
creativity burning – and we’re grateful for the opportunity to
partner with Women In Film and ReFrame to support efforts providing
much needed relief to creators until the industry gets back to
work.”
Audiences will have one week to vote for their favorites on the
submission platform, AudPop, a video network that connects diverse
filmmakers to opportunities to help change the world. Audience
voting opens May 26, 2020 at NOON PDT and closes June 2, 2020 at
NOON PDT. Registration is required to vote and there is no
cost.
The finalists will then be reviewed by a jury of ReFrame
Ambassadors and established industry professionals including
Maria Bello (actress/”NCIS”), Cara Buono
(actress/“Stranger Things”), Marta Cunningham (director,
actress), Nisha Ganatra (director/LATE NIGHT), Catherine
Hardwicke (director/TWILIGHT), Barbara Kopple
(director/AMERICAN DREAM), Col Needham (founder and
CEO of IMDb), Tanya Saracho (writer, director/”Vida”), and
Kim Yutani (Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival)
who will vote for one grand prize-winning film to get a $5,000 cash
prize, a first runner-up to get a $2,000 cash prize and three
additional films to each receive a $1,000 cash prize. The five
winning films will be featured on the homepage of IMDb, the world's
most popular and authoritative source for information on movies, TV
shows, and celebrities, and receive a one-year membership to
IMDbPro, the essential resource for entertainment industry
professionals, to help filmmakers continue achieving success in
their careers.
Filmmakers will have one week to write, shoot, and edit a
two-minute short video following social distancing guidelines. All
genres are welcome: drama, comedy, horror, animation, documentary
or a hybrid. Filmmakers can employ smart phones and/or DSLR
cameras, animation, lighting, camera equipment, and editing tools
as available “at home” to create a short film. There is no cost to
submit.
Click here for more information and to submit your short film:
https://audpop.com/womeninfilm/curbsideshortsfilmchallenge
About Women In Film, Los Angeles
Women In Film, Los Angeles (WIF L.A.) advocates for and advances
the careers of women working in the screen industries—to achieve
parity and transform culture. Founded in 1973, Women In Film
supports all women working in film, television, and digital media,
from emerging to advanced career. Our distinguished programs
include: mentoring, speaker and screening series, a production
training program, writing labs, film finishing funds, legal aid,
and an annual financing intensive. Women In Film advocates for
gender parity through research, education, and media campaigns.
Women In Film honors the achievements of women in Hollywood through
the Legacy Series, annual Emmy and Oscar parties, and our signature
event, the Women In Film Annual Gala. Membership is open to all
media professionals, and more information can be found on our
website: www.womeninfilm.org.
About ReFrame
Founded and led by Women In Film, Los Angeles and Sundance
Institute, ReFrame is an initiative that employs a unique strategy,
a peer-to-peer approach, in which ReFrame Ambassadors engage with
senior industry decision-makers at over 50 Partner Companies to
implement ReFrame programs. The initiative’s goals are to provide
research, support, and a practical framework that can be used by
Partner companies to mitigate bias during the creative
decision-making and hiring process, celebrate successes, and
measure progress toward a more gender-representative industry on
all levels. For more information download the ReFrame Culture
Change Handbook or visit ReFrameProject.org.
ReFrame is made possible by support from The David and Lura
Lovell Foundation; The Harnisch Foundation; Hulu; IMDbPro; Mercer;
the Women at Sundance Leadership Council: Ruth Ann Harnisch, Katy
Drake Bettner, Barbara Bridges, Abigail Disney, Suzanne Lerner,
Cristina Ljungberg, Ann Lovell, Pat Mitchell, Susan Bay Nimoy,
Patty Quillin, Brenda Robinson, Kimberly Steward, Lynda Weinman,
Jenifer Westphal, and Jacki Zehner; Delta Air Lines; Pritzker
Pucker Family Foundation; and an anonymous donor.
About IMDbPro
IMDbPro (http://www.imdbpro.com) is the essential resource for
entertainment industry professionals. This membership-based service
includes comprehensive information and tools that are designed to
help entertainment industry professionals achieve success
throughout all stages of their career. IMDbPro offers members the
following: detailed contact and representation information; tools
to manage and showcase their IMDb profile, including the ability to
select their primary images and the credits they are best “known
for”; exclusive STARmeter rankings that are determined by page
views on IMDb; the IMDbPro app for iPhone and Android; IMDbPro
Track, which empowers members using the app to receive personalized
entertainment industry news and notifications on the people and
film and TV projects they want to follow; and a convenient tool
that generates custom digital assets to promote their work on
social media and other platforms. Additional IMDbPro services
include Box Office Mojo (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/), the
leading online source of box-office data. IMDbPro is a division of
IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/), the #1 movie website in the world
with a combined web and mobile audience of more than 200 million
monthly visitors. Follow IMDbPro on Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/imdbpro/), Instagram
(https://www.instagram.com/imdbpro/) and Twitter
(https://twitter.com/imdbpro).
About IMDb
IMDb is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for
information on movies, TV shows and celebrities. Products and
services to help fans decide what to watch and where to watch it
include: the IMDb website for desktop and mobile devices; apps for
iOS and Android; and IMDb X-Ray on Fire TV devices. IMDb also
offers a free streaming channel, IMDb TV, and produces original
video series. For entertainment industry professionals, IMDb
provides IMDbPro and Box Office Mojo. IMDb is an Amazon company.
For more information, visit www.imdb.com/press and follow
@IMDb.
About the Motion Picture Association
The Motion Picture Association, Inc. (MPA)
www.motionpictures.org serves as the global voice and advocate of
the film, television, and streaming content industry. It works in
every corner of the world to advance the creative industry, protect
its members’ content across all screens, defend the creative and
artistic freedoms of storytellers, and support innovative
distribution models that bring an expansion of viewing choices to
audiences everywhere and on any screen.
The association’s members are: Walt Disney Studios Motion
Pictures; Netflix, Inc.; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Sony
Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Universal City Studios LLC; and Warner
Bros. Entertainment Inc. Charles Rivkin is Chairman and CEO.
About AudPop
AudPop is the video network for brands. We provide brands a way
to easily obtain the video they need and increase digital marketing
ROI. We offer an engaging video marketing platform powering
turn-key video. Brands use AudPop to crowd-source addictive,
gorgeous video content at scale from our award-winning diverse
global filmmaker collective. Submissions are juried by the brand,
entertainment industry, and voted on by the world. We democratize
entertainment by connecting our filmmakers to fans and brands and
providing opportunities such as cash, prizes, distribution and
festival screenings. AudPop has worked with many brands including
Southwest Air, GoDaddy, Hilton Worldwide, Better Business Bureau,
SONY, KODAK, and DELL. AudPop has a community of 70K global
filmmakers, 10K short films on platform, and has operated over 500
online film festivals, video contests, and film challenges.
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