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HypeFest

Drama, Intrigue, Comedy & Cocktails. This is where you come in.

Providing a bridge between content creators in the independent and commercial communities, HypeFest offers a platform for filmmakers to promote their work to the commercial industry. Screening narrative and non-narrative shorts and features, commercials, promos and music videos, and utilizing the current methods of filmmaking including live-action, animation, digital and traditional techniques, HypeFest will also host a screenwriting contest honoring the best and the brightest new voices in cinema.

The festival's premiere event will be held in Hollywood, California, July 25-27, 2003. HypeFest is accepting short films (50 minutes or less), commercials, music videos and promos in all genres (animation, live-action, experimental, documentary etc.) for competition screening. Entrants must send a completed, signed entry form with each submission, which is available online at the HypeFest Website. Only works completed in 2002 or 2003 are eligible. Projects may be submitted for consideration on NTSC VHS or DVD.

Early entry fee: $35; student (w/ID): $20. Early submission deadline: February 15, 2003. Entry Fee: $45; Student (W/ID): $30. Entry Deadline: April 30, 2003. For more information and to download forms, visit the Website.

Dates 
Friday, July 25, 2003 - 11:00am to Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 7:00pm
Submission Deadline 
Friday, May 9, 2003 - 12:00pm
Location 
Hollywood
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