YoungCuts Film Festival Deadline Extension
News and Notes from the YoungCuts Film Festival
At the request of many schools, institutions, students and young
filmmakers, we are extending the YoungCuts Film Festival deadline until July 2nd.
This year, the YoungCuts Film Festival (est 2001) celebrates 11 years of presenting Great Short Films by the World's Best Young Filmmakers. Every year, we watch more than 1,000 films from over 30 countries to pick our Top 100 International Short Films - which we present in Montreal at the end of September.
One of our key objectives is to help young filmmakers develop their filmmaking careers. In addition to showcasing their films at the YoungCuts Film Festival, we have helped place filmmakers with major studios and television broadcasters, landed them gigs filming major feature films, had their films broadcast on television (and on planes!), helped them get selected in partner film festivals, and engaged them to work in more than 500 film and television productions across North America.
If you need to jump start your filmmaking career, we are an excellent place for them to start. At the very least, since many festival professionals regard us as the source of the best short films by young filmmakers, submitting to the YoungCuts Film Festival often results in the films being selected by other international film festivals.
REMINDER: We added a "Masterclass" section this year for filmmakers 26-29, meaning that we program films by any young filmmaker 29 years old or under.
Contact us for more details at
514-285-4591 or
festivaldirector@youngcuts.com
Here is information about how to submit individual films:
http://www.youngcuts.com/static/how_to_submit_to_the_2012_youngcuts_film_festival
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Sweet Tooth Wins the YoungCuts Film Festival Studio Technique Animation Prize
We are pleased to announce that Audrey Meubus, director of
Sweet Tooth, has been chosen as the winner of the YoungCuts Film Festival Studio Technique Animation Prize. This means that Audrey won a free seat in the
one day Studio Technique intensive animation course given by legendary Disney Animator Andreas Deja (designer of Scar amongst many other accomplishments).
Audrey (and her film) were chosen from amongst 50 short animated films submitted to the contest. We are also pleased to make
Sweet Tooth the first film chosen to be amongst our Top 100 International Short Films at the 2012 YoungCuts Film Festival.
The 50 short animated films (and more than 150 live action films) are available to watch on the YoungCuts web-site for subscribers (and film submitters)
http://www.youngcuts.com/static/festival_audience_subscription_payment
Use YCNL5 as a coupon to get $5 off the cost of a subscription.
You can also use that coupon to reduce the cost when you submit your short film (animated or live action) to the YoungCuts Film Festival.
SUBMIT TODAY!
You can watch Sweet Tooth for free on the YoungCuts web-site here:
http://www.youngcuts.com/sweet_tooth
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