The HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL® – DEADLINE TO SUBMIT IS APRIL 30, 2012, HOLLYWOOD DISCOVERY AWARDS®, and HOLLYWOOD FILM AWARDS® were created to bridge the gap between established Hollywood and the global creative community, as well as to honor excellence in the art of filmmaking. This year will be our 16th anniversary and the HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL® will take place from Oct 18 to 22, 2012, at the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood. “The ultimate networking opportunity for filmmakers looking for a break,” says Variety. SCROLL DOWN – SCROLL DOWN
The HOLLYWOOD FILM AWARDS® launches the awards season and recognizes excellence in the established Hollywood community and celebrates both in front and behind the camera talent. “The first mandatory stop in the awards season,” says The New York Times. In the last 9 years, a total of 85 Oscar nominations and 32 Oscars were given to films showcased and/or to the honorees of the Hollywood Film Awards®.
HOLLYWOOD DISCOVERY AWARDS®: The “Hollywood Discovery Awards” honor the winners of the Hollywood Film Festival’s selected finalists in the categories of Features, Documentaries, and Shorts. The finalists are culled from films from the global creative community.
Criteria:The awards’ criteria is based on the quality of filmmaking in all of its different disciplines.
Selection Protocol: Winners are selected by HFF’s in-house team.
Venue: The Hollywood Film Festival® screenings and the Hollywood Discovery Awards® presentation take place at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood.
BE DISCOVERED: “For up-and-coming filmmakers looking for a break the festival is the ultimate networking opportunity”, said Daily Variety. Some of our film finalists have been acquired by HBO, Miramax, IFC, and Starz among other distributors, and filmmakers have secured agents, managers and jobs.
SUCCESS STORIES: HFF is proud to announce that their winner Craig Brewer, director of “Hustle and Flow,” “Black Snake Moan” and “Footloose,” was discovered by the Hollywood Film Festival® with the world premiere of his first film “Poor and Hungry.” Another HFF winner, director Robert DeFranco, sold his film “Telling You” to Miramax. Our winner Zoe Clarke-Williams got a directing job for an MGM film after we honored her. In addition, our winning documentarian Janine Hoskins sold her documentary “My Khmer Heart” to HBO.
The festival program includes screenings of both domestic and international films. All screenings and premieres take place at the state-of-art ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood.
We offer beginning filmmakers what they need most: highlighting their films in Hollywood.
Hollywood Film Festival®
Executive Director: Carlos de Abreu
Director of Programming: Janice Pennington
Festival Director: Michael Barber
Festival Coordinator: Linelle Schultz
TO BE ELIGIBLE: To be eligible for the Hollywood Film Festival® competition, submit a completed FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY, or SHORT SUBJECT. Submissions are accepted monthly. SUBMIT TODAY.
DEADLINE: MARCH 30, 2012
Hollywood Film Festival® – Oct 18 to 22, 2012:
CALL FOR ENTRIES
DEADLINE: EXTENDED MAY 31, 2012
The Hollywood Film Festival® prefers paperless entries submitted via The International Film Festival Submission System (BrigitFest) – on the Web at Withoutabox.com.
Withoutabox provides cost-saving online entry to major film festivals throughout the U.S. and in Europe with one master entry form, allowing you and us to enter your film more quickly and with greater accuracy. This method is free and easy.
Withoutabox users enjoy the advantages of Extended Deadlines and Online Press Kit submissions and filmmakers with an upgraded project on Withoutabox receive $5.00 off their Entry Fees.
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IMPORTANT: If you cannot apply online, CLICK here to download or print the HFF paper entry form, then mail it in.
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“The first mandatory stop … in the awards season” – The New York Times
“The Hollywood Film Festival has become a pre-Oscar showcase”
- The Los Angeles Times
“The Race Is On! The Hollywood Awards Launch the Push toward Oscar” – AP
“The ultimate networking opportunity for filmmakers looking for a break” – Variety
In the last 9 years, a total of 85 Oscar nominations and 32 Oscars were given to films showcased and/or to the nominees and honorees of the Hollywood Film Awards®.
MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: Other important components of our awards ceremony include our domestic, national and international media coverage, both online and offline, which last year generated more than 300,000,000 media impressions in a mix of broadcast and cable/network television, Internet, and print.
The national contributing media outlets include ABC, “Access Hollywood,” “Angeleno Magazine,” CBS, CNN, “Daily Variety,” E Entertainment, Eonline.com, “Entertainment Tonight,” “Entertainment Weekly,” Extra, “Filmmaker Magazine,” Fox News, “The Hollywood Reporter,” Hollywood.com, IndieWIRE.com, “Inside Edition,” “In Touch,” “Los Angeles Confidential,” “LA Daily News,” Movie City News, MSNBC, NBC, “Newsweek,” “The New York Times,” “People Magazine,” “Playbill,” PRNewswire, Reuters, “Star Magazine,” Starz, “USA Today,” “US Weekly,” “Vanity Fair,” VH1, “VLife,” WireImage.com, Yahoo.com, and Yahoo Movies, among many others.
Hollywood Film Festival®
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