The Reel East Film Festival is seeking exciting, uncompromising and unique visions from around the world to present at our Second Annual event at the historic Ritz Theatre in Oaklyn, NJ on August 21-23, 2015. We are looking for short films in the following categories: Narrative, Documentary, Experimental, Student and Animated. All short films must be less than 40 minutes to qualify. This year, we are also accepting feature films of 60 minutes or longer in two categories: Independent Feature Film and Regional Independent Feature Film. Featured guests will soon be announced.
To submit your film, visit www.filmfreeway.org/festival/ReelEastFilmFestival.
DEADLINES:
All Short Films excluding Student Shorts:
Early Deadline: May 8, 2015
Regular Deadline: July 17, 2015
Better-Late-Than-Never Deadline: July 31, 2015
Student Short Film:
Early Deadline: May 8, 2015
Regular Deadline: July 17, 2015
BetterLateThanNever Deadline: July 31, 2015
Independent Feature Film:
Early Deadline: May 8, 2015
Regular Deadline: July 17, 2015
BetterLateThanNever Deadline: July 31, 2015
Regional Independent Feature Film:
Early Deadline: May 8, 2015
Regular Deadline: July 17, 2015
BetterLateThanNever Deadline: July 31, 2015
About the Festival:
In its second year, the Real East Film Festival (directed by Interview Editor Matthew Sorrento, among others) is committed to providing a forum for both established and up and coming filmmakers to showcase their work. Last year, famed director, John Sayles (Return of the Secaucus 7, The Brother From Another Planet, Passion Fish and Matewan) screened his film, Go For Sisters, which was followed by a post-screening Q&A. The festival also featured many documentaries that pertained to film and comic book history, such as Inda Reid’s Brotherhood of the Popcorn, April Wright’s Going Attractions and Robert A. Emmons Jr’s Diagram for Delinquents. Sponsored by Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Rutgers-Camden Digital, and Rutgers-Camden Department English-Film Studies, the festival screens independent films from around the world while also focusing on the work of local filmmakers in the Camden County and Southern New Jersey area. The Reel East Film Festival will be held August 21st to August, 23rd, at the Ritz Theatre in Oaklyn, NJ.
Festival Prizes:
The Reel East Film Festival’s prizes reflect New Jersey’s deep cinematic roots and history. Our top three prizes are named for inventors and filmmakers whose work played an integral role in the creation of cinema.
- Edison Prize – The festival’s top prize. The invention of cinema was a global effort. On American shores, particularly in the Garden State, no name is more synonymous with film’s birth than Thomas Alva Edison. With the critical assistance of early film pioneers and technicians like William Dickson, Edison presented the world with the kinetoscope and the Black Maria Studio. And soon the world was captured by the magic of motion pictures.
- Porter Prize – An employee of Edison’s, Edwin S. Porter directed over 250 films throughout his career as a writer, director, cinematographer, and producer. Porter was an innovative and inventive filmmaker. His most well known film, The Great Train Robbery (1903), is a critical American film that pioneered new techniques in production and editing that we still see in today’s movies.
- Goodwin Prize – Hannibal Goodwin is a largely forgotten but crucial name in American film history. In a modest house in Newark, NJ, Reverend Goodwin invented transparent flexible celluloid film for roller cameras. Goodwin’s patent application was submitted in 1887, two years before George Eastman’s celluloid film patent, but remained
unissued as it underwent several amendments. Goodwin died in 1900, but in 1913 he was posthumously vindicated when it was ruled that Goodwin’s patent had been infringed upon by Eastman.
Achievement in Student Filmmaking Prizes:
- Audacity Prize – Awarded to the student film that demonstrates a unique vision and a willingness to take risks in order to further film as an art form.
- Jury Prize – Awarded to the student film that demonstrates extraordinary achievement in film.
For more information, please visit our website: www.reeleastfilm.org.