The Festival
The BIG MINIDV FESTIVAL is a two-day event hosted by the Media Arts Department of Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus. The festival will recognize the best documentary, experimental, and narrative long and short form video productions, being created with the MiniDV format, along with three new categories: Super Shorts and Screenplays (short and feature-length).
With our ninth festival we hope to further encourage filmmakers of all genres and technical levels to submit their videos, and again make this year's festival an exciting array of independent video.
This event is supported by a grant from Long Island University's John P. McGrath Fund. Further support is provided by Screenplay.com, Current and Third World NewsReel.
When & Where:
The BIG MINIDV FESTIVAL will take place on Friday, November 12 and Saturday, November 13, 2010 at Long Island University's Downtown Brooklyn Campus (ten minutes from Wall Street and SoHo). All festival screenings will be held in LIU/Brooklyn Media Arts Department’s Spike Lee Video/Film Screening Room (see map).
The festival is free and open to the public, with the entrance through the Paramount Theater entrance of LIU at the corner of DeKalb and Flatbush Avenue Extension.
Details
The 2010 Festival will accept submissions for the following categories: animation, experimental, short narrative (under 30 minutes), and short- and long-form documentary (short is up to 30 minutes, long 30 or more minutes).
This year’s festival is expanding to three new categories: screenplay – short and feature-length – and Super Short Films.
The screenplay category does not have any themes, meaning any submissions are fine. The short category is for works equal to or less than 30 pages. The feature category is of 60 pages or more. Please submit your screenplay on paper (one copy) and in Adobe Reader/PDF format on accompanying CD-ROM. Please include a JPG headshot and a short biography as well as a short description of your project (both in Word format) on the same CD-ROM. All submissions require a US$20 submission fee payable to “LIU Big MiniDV Festival” on personal check, business check or money order. (International submissions may differ.) If submitting more than one work, please submit as separate submission fee and submission form for each work. We cannot guarantee reading for accepted or winning submissions.
Super Short Films are films on any topic (within standards of good taste to show to a general audience) that are 30 seconds or less. These films should be “artistically defined, with social or cultural significance.” The Big MiniDV Festival will accept as many submissions as you would like on one DVD for one US$20 fee (see above for full submission fee requirements) – however, each film submitted MUST have an accompanying submission form. Each set of submissions should have an accompanying CD-ROM containing JPG headshots of producer/director and their short biography as well as a maximum 12-word tag line for each film submitted. Films selected for screening will have to be sent to the Big MiniDV Festival on MiniDV or DVCAM tape.
(Please refer to PDF submission forms downloadable on this page for further information.)
Last year’s winners received Movie Magic Screenwriter software from festival partner Screenplay Systems.
The deadline for submissions to this year’s Big MiniDV Festival is August 8, 2010, with judging to follow shortly after. Winners will be notified in September with screenings at the festival in November.
Be a part of “one of the best digital video festivals in the world,” according to Chris Gore's Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide Fourth Edition: The Essential Companion for Filmmakers and Festival-Goers!
Submission Forms
Questions
Email: associatedirector@bigminidv.com
Phone: (718) 488-1052
