Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 09:57:07 -0800
From: Queer Short Movie Awards <movieawards@planetout.com>
Subject: Filmmakers!  Win $10,000 in the Queer Short Movie Awards

http://movieawards.planetout.com/

Dear film/video maker:

The First Annual Queer Short Movie Awards presented by PlanetOut
(www.planetout.com) and IFILM (www.ifilm.com) seeks films and videos by,
for, about, or of-interest to gay, lesbian, bi, or transgender
audiences.  Cash awards include: one (1) Grand Prize of $10,000 and five
(5) First Prize awards of $1000 in each of the following categories:
drama, comedy, documentary, animation, and experimental.  Twenty five
finalists (five in each of the above-mentioned categories) will have
their films screened by our distinguished jury: actress/writer Guinevere
Turner (American Psycho, Go Fish), queer indie producer/distributor
Marcus Hu (co-president, Strand Releasing), and Sundance
programmer/filmmaker Shari Frilot.  Finalists will also be showcased on
PlanetOut throughout the month of June for an Audience Awards
competition -- offering gay, lesbian, bi, and transgender film and video
makers the opportunity to reach an enormous worldwide audience.

Awards will be announced and presented at a special Queer Short Movie
Awards ceremony and program at Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian
Film Festival (July 6-16,
2000). The prizewinning filmmakers will be flown to Outfest for the
awards ceremony, where they will participate in the largest film
festival of any kind in Southern California. All finalists will also be
previewed by SND Films, an international sales company specializing in
gay and lesbian shorts, for a possible international distribution deal.

Submissions must be 20 minutes or under and are limited to legal
residents of the U.S. and Canada. Previews: VHS NTSC format only.
Complete rules, guidelines, and entry forms are available online at:
http://movieawards.planetout.com/. Or, email us at
movieawards@planetout.com.  Send submissions to Movie Awards c/o
PlanetOut, 657 Harrison St., San Francisco, CA 94107.   But you MUST
read the complete rules and guidelines before submitting your film.
Earlybird deadline: May 5 ($10). Final deadline: May 19 ($15).

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ALL THE QUEER FILM AND VIDEO MAKERS YOU KNOW!

(If you've received this notice more than once, we're very sorry.)

All the best,

Ariella Ben-Dov
Director, Queer Short Movie Awards

Jenni Olson
Producer, PopcornQ

http://movieawards.planetout.com/