Florida Supercon: South Florida's Comic, Animation, Anime, Video Game, Fantasy and Sci-Fi Festival

The Florida Supercon Film Festival is a festival dedicated to films that would be appreciated by our diverse genre audience. We are looking for Animation, Horror, Horror Comedy, Documentary (about genre subjects), Comedies with a genre twist, Fantasy, Magic Realism, Science Fiction and Spoof. American films will be screened side by side with international entries the weekend of June 18-20, 2010 in Miami, FL. at Florida Supercon: South Florida's festival of Comic Books, Anime, Animation, Sci-Fi and Video Games.

Films will be judged in the following specific categories:
1)  Feature Films (over 50 minutes)
2)  Short Films (under 50 minutes)
3) Internet / Web Based Short (Short Made for Internet distribution and exhibition)
4) Documentary Film (Full Length or Short Format Documentary Film)
5)  Student Competition (Films made by students who are either enrolled in a school, or were enrolled during the films’ production.)
 This section will be broken into the following categories
(a)  High School: Films directed by students attending high school, generally stretching from ages 15-18
(b) Undergraduate: Films directed by students enrolled in a college level program
Graduate students may enter in the regular Feature Film or Short Film categories

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW WHEN SUBMITTING YOUR FILM:
•Deadline for entry forms and preview copies: May 5, 2010
•Only films that were completed after January 1, 2008, are eligible.
•Filmmakers are encouraged, but not required, to reserve a Filmmaker / Artist table at the show to promote the film over the course of the weekend to our 5,000+ attendees.
•Each submission must have an entry form. Submissions without entry forms will not be considered
•Entries must be submitted on DVD in NTSC format. Foreign-language work must be dubbed or subtitled in English.
•You need not attend the convention to participate.
•Director's photograph (300 dpi), biography and 3 stills from the film (300 dpi) are required.
•DVDs submitted for selection will not be returned.
•If your film is selected, you can choose to have your film screened on DVD, Blue Ray or digitally. You must have your "ready to screen" copy of the film in our hands by May 21. We can use your submission DVD if you wish.
•Filmmakers that are accepted into the festival will receive 2 badges to the full 3 day event
•All submissions will be examined by our selection committee and you will be notified if your film has (or has not) been chosen to be screened during the Festival via email between May 5-15, 2010
•Selected films are screened throughout the three-day event.  We may screen your film more than once
•This is a juried festival. All selected films will be evaluated by our panel of judges
•All screeners must be sent to: Florida Supercon Film Festival, PO Box 4012, Fort Lauderdale FL. 33338
•Filmmakers attending the event may elect to participate on panels geared for independent filmmakers. If you are interested in appearing on panels, please contact Mike@FloridaSupercon.com [1] This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it as soon as possible, as we only have a limited number of panelist slots
 
When submitting your film, please include the following information
(a) Film Title
(b) Director
(c) Run Time
(d) Date Completed
(e) Contact Name
(f) Company Name
(g) Company Address
(h) City, State, Zip
(i) Telephone
(j) Email
(k) Submission Category
(l) Does your submission currently have distribution? If so, who is the distributor.
(m) Will this screening be a premiere?

All submissions must be clearly labeled and in a DVD case. All entries selected grant Florida Supercon the right to use still photos, video, images, and sound
of films for promotional purposes.

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at mike@floridasupercon.com [2]