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Author Switches Mediums to Host Virtual Film Festival

MINNEAPOLIS – Acclaimed poet and author David Athey is hosting a virtual Danny Gospel Film Festival in Palm Beach, FL. Participants are welcomed to submit their film interpretations of scenes from all but the last two chapters of Athey’s debut novel, Danny Gospel. 

Entry Guidelines:

• Creatively read or perform a portion of David Athey’s novel, DANNY GOSPEL
• Do not read or perform anything from the last two chapters of the novel
• The video must be between 3-5 minutes long
• Post the video on YouTube.com
• Email a link to your video on YouTube by noon, December 1, 2008, to danny@dannygospel.com
• Winner receives $100; other fun prizes will be awarded.
• There will be a special big screen viewing of submissions (Date TBD)

Visit the Danny Gospel Facebook page for more information.

About Danny Gospel

As a boy he performed concerts singing old-time hymns with his family and got so famous he’s still known around Iowa as Danny Gospel. But since then, things haven’t worked out quite the way he planned. And now Danny prays for just one thing: a normal, happy life.

What he gets instead is a kiss.

He wakes one morning to a perfectly lovely woman dressed in white who leans down, kisses him on the lips … and then disappears. The next moment, Danny finds himself launched into a quest to find this woman he’s sure is his true love. He is an everyday hero on anything but an everyday journey—dreaming impossible dreams and, no matter how much he must suffer, pursuing romance and heavenly glory.

About David Athey

David Athey, a Midwesterner by birth, now teaches English and oversees the literary journal at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Athey has published poems, reviews, and short stories in numerous journals, including The Iowa Review, Oxford Magazine, and Harvard Review, and holds an MFA from Hamline University. He and his wife live in Palm Beach, Florida.

 

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 The Indus Entrepreneur Conference from Santa Clara, CA is holding a video contest.

First prize is $1000. Please go to the following link to read more about the contest and submission rules and tips. This is a great opportunity for film students to get their name out there and also win some money! 

Are you looking for some quick money to fuel your dream/idea? WIN $1000 by simply posting a video to YouTube telling us your story or adventure to becoming an entrepreneur–we are looking for serious, funny or anything in between. Check out the details:

http://www.tiecon.org/TiESVHome/tiecon_2008___8211__contest/videocontest/PageView

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CALL FOR ENTRIES:

EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES FILM FESTIVAL

DIANA OSSANA, JACK SHOLDER, JOAN LESLIE TO JUDGEEastern New Mexico University is launching a new film festival and invites entries which will be reviewed by a distinguished panel of renowned filmmakers and artists.  The initiative follows the 2006 approval of a new degree program in Digital Cinema Arts for the university, and seeks to celebrate the emergence of a statewide film industry in New Mexico.The First Annual High Plains Film Festival is seeking short films (no longer than 10 minutes) in three categories: Animation, Dramatic, and Documentary/Experimental.  The competition will be divided into two divisions: Pre-College, for filmmakers enrolled in K-12 institutions, and College+, for all others. A total of six $500 prizes will be awarded, one Pre-College and one College+ prize in each category.  Winning films will be screened at a festival in Portales on Sunday afternoon, May 4, 2008.  The location of the screening will be announced shortly.The festival’s judging panel includes distinguished and award-winning film artists Diana Ossana, Joan Leslie, and Jack Sholder.  Ossana, who attended ENMU, is a collaborator with author and screenwriter Larry McMurtry, with whom she won both an Oscar and Golden Globe Award in 2005 for Best Screenplay in Brokeback Mountain.  Among her many other projects is the recently-aired miniseries Comanche Moon, another collaboration with McMurtry and a sequel to his previous success Lonesome Dove.  Joan Leslie began her career at a very early age, and by the 1930?s was acting in leading Hollywood films.  She appeared alongside other leading stars of the 1940?s and 1950?s in films such as High Sierra (with Humphrey Bogart), Yankee Doodle Dandy (with James Cagney) and Sergeant York (with Gary Cooper). Jack Sholder, who directs the Motion Picture and Television Program at Western Carolina University, has enjoyed a distinguished career in film direction and editing, winning an Oscar nomination for his work on the documentary King, A Filmed Record: Montgomery to Memphis, and many awards including an Emmy for editing work on 3-2-1 Contact.  His feature directing credits include Renegades, The Hidden, and Nightmare on Elm Street II.Entries must be submitted by March 21 in the form of four DVD copies to:High Plains Film Festival College of Fine Arts
ENMU Station 16, MB 113
1500 S. Avenue K
Portales, NMAdditional information may be found on the festival website at http://www.enmu.edu/filmfest, or by calling 575-562-2373.  There is an entry fee of $20 for the Pre-College division, $30 for College+; multiple entries may be submitted, so long as each entry is accompanied by an entry fee, and group entries are also welcome.  The entry form is available on the website or can be obtained by calling the number above. Plans for a festival screening of winning entries on Sunday afternoon, May 4 will being finalized and the specific location announced soon; for updated information please use the contact information above.

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