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DECISIONS ALREADY MADE
• This event has already made decisions and notified
submitters for the current cycle. Submissions are no longer being
accepted.
MISSION & OBJECTIVE
The Crested Butte Film Festival (CBFF) is an international film festival dedicated to providing an annual forum that celebrates the art of film and the power of storytelling.
Our mission is to inspire and educate our audience through films and discussions that spark creativity, cultural awareness, and personal, social, and environmental change.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Crested Butte Film Festival welcomes you to submit your film to our 2nd Annual festival. Held in the high mountains of Colorado just as the aspens are turning, CBFF showcases the best of American and international cinema in what is known as "America's last great ski town."
Ours is an intimate festival, with all our venues within short walking and biking distance to each other. We seek the best in narrative, documentary, foreign language, social action, outdoor adventure, and children's films. Come discover the Butte, and have an amazing Fall weekend of film. This year's dates are September 27 - 30, 2012.
For more information visit cbfilmfest.org
"CBFF was a joy to attend. It took on big films and big ideas, and was by far the most fluid, easy going festival that I have been to. And it doesn't hurt that CBFF happens to take place during perhaps the most beautiful week of the year in Colorado."
-Eliza Slayman, Film Representative, 'American Outrage', 'From the Ground Up'
ORGANIZERS
Jennifer Brody
GENERAL RULES
Dear Filmmaker,
Thanks so much for considering your film for our festival. We’d love to see it. A quick blast of info. below will hopefully answer most of your questions.
FESTIVAL DATES
September 27 - 30, 2012
ABOUT CRESTED BUTTE FILM FESTIVAL
The Crested Butte Film Festival is really excited for its second year. Last year we screened over 50 films to a combined audience of 1500 during our four day festival. Award-winning films such as Marwencol, Revanche, If A Tree Falls, Fuel, Here and others played to enthusiastic crowds, hungry to see films from the world around them.
Our goal is to bring the best of world cinema home to our mountain town. We’re also excited to discover new films from unknown talents, and, we like to have a good time. Hopefully, you’ve already heard of Crested Butte: the skiing, the mountain biking, the music and arts festivals, the laid back, fun-loving lifestyle. But really, the only thing you need to know about Crested Butte is that everyone who comes to Crested Butte loves Crested Butte. We look forward to you being a part of it.
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
AND FEES
Features Shorts
Earlybird: March 10, 2012 $40 $30
Regular: May 1, 2012 $45 $35
Late Deadline: May 31, 2012 $50 $40
Extended Deadline: June 9, 2012 $65 $55
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
For our 2012 season, we are open for submissions from January 1 through June 9, 2012. Before filling out the submission form, please be prepared to provide the following:
Contact information
Full film information including a short synopsis
Entry fee (credit card)
A link to an online screener OR 2 DVDs
Acceptance of Rights and Releases
FILMMAKER NOTIFICATION
The Festival program will be announced on July 17th, 2012. All submitting filmmakers will be notified on July 17th, by the email provided with your submission. Please add ‘cbfilmfestival@gmail.com’ to your email address book to ensure receipt of notification.
AWARDS
For the first time, CBFF will be bestowing two awards on our filmmakers. The first is our Audience Choice Award that goes to the film voted “best” by our audience. All films at the festival will be considered for this award. The second is our ACT Now Award. This is a cash award that goes to a nonprofit organization linked to a documentary film. If your film has a call-to-action component to it, it will be considered for this award.
SUBMISSION MATERIALS
We highly encourage you to submit ALL submission materials online, including the film itself. Online entries can be made via Withoutabox’s Secure Online Screener platform. If online entry is not possible, please submit 2 DVDs (any region, NTSC encouraged). Please do not include any promotional materials in your submission. We will collect high-resolution photographs of official selection films once they have been accepted into the festival.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Film entries may be of any subject, from any country, and of any length. Submitted films should either be in English or include English subtitles. If the film is selected for the Festival, it is the responsibility of the filmmaker to provide the Crested Butte Film Festival with three exhibition copies by August 7, 2012.
SHIPPING INFORMATION
If you chose to submit your film by mail you are responsible for all shipping charges to CBFF and for any customs clearances and/or associated fees and taxes. Entry materials will not be returned.
PLEASE NOTE: We encourage all applicants to use FedEx or UPS.
SEND ENTRIES TO:
Crested Butte Film Festival
PO Box 1256
Crested Butte, CO 81224 USA
QUESTIONS?
Call 303.204.9080 or email us at cbfilmfestival@gmail.com
THANK YOU
We really appreciate you sending your work to us and giving us the opportunity to program it for our festival. Obviously, films are the foundation of our festival, and we appreciate the vision, creativity, time, commitment, and money that went into your work. Thank you.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Terms and Regulations:
If selected for the Crested Butte Film Festival, the entrant is responsible for providing two Blu-ray and one DVD copies of the film for public screening purposes. If Blu-ray is not available, three DVD copies will be accepted.
By entering into the festival, the entrant represents and warrants that:
a) it has the authority to enter the film in the festival and to grant to the festival the rights granted in the entry form, these procedures and regulations;
b) it owns all right, title and interest, including the copyright and all intellectual property rights, in and to the film being submitted to the festival and has the right to distribute, exhibit and promote the film in or through all media formats now known or hereafter devised, including, but not limited to, the Internet throughout the universe; and
c) no material in the film being submitted by the entrant to the festival is libelous or defamatory or violates any right of privacy or publicity of any person and the full use of rights in such film will not violate any rights, including copyright or moral rights, of any person, firm or corporation.
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