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From: MadCat Women's Film Festival <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:45:32 -0800
Subject: Seeking Film/Videomakers
To: MadCat Film Festival <[email protected]>
If you received this email more than once please forgive us.
The MadCat Women's International Film Festival is now accepting
submissions for its 9th annual Festival. MadCat seeks provocative and
visionary films and videos directed or co-directed by women. The
Festival is committed to showcasing women directors from around the
globe who challenge the use of sound and image and explore notions of
visual story telling. MadCat screens works of ALL lengths and genres,
about any topic and that are produced ANY year. MadCat sets itself
apart from other women's festivals by curating its programs
thematically and thus accepting a range of films about many different
issues. MadCat is also committed to finding the most diverse group of
filmmakers possible and is doing extensive outreach to international
filmmakers and filmmakers of color.
"At MadCat you too can be treated year after year with Ariella
Ben-Dov's exceptional curatorial savvy, dedication, intelligent
cultural contributions." - Frances Nkara, Independent Filmmaker
Past Filmmakers Include: Christina Battle, Patty Chang, Frederique
Devaux, Valie Export, Beatriz Flores, Su Friedrich, Shumona Goel,
Jacqueline Goss, Sharon Greytak, Sarah Jane Lapp, Marie Losier, Yoko
Ono, Jong Lim Ro, Carolee Schneemann, Phoebe Tooke, Jane Wong and the
list goes on!
MadCat entry forms are now available at
http://madcatfilmfestival.org/submissions.html as a word document and
a PDF.
Please feel free to pass this information onto filmmakers or other
folks who might be interested.
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Thank you for your time.
MadCat Film Festival
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
EARLY BIRD DEADLINE:
March 25, 2005.
LATE BIRD DEADLINE:
May 13, 2005.
PREVIEW FORMATS:
VHS 1/2" NTSC or PAL; DVD formats.
EXHIBITION FORMATS:
35mm, 16mm, Super8, Beta SP, Mini DV, VHS.
For an entry form go to…
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
Entry Fee: $10-30 Sliding Scale. Pay what you can afford.
No submission fee for international entrants!
MadCat's annual Festival takes place throughout the month of
September at select San Francisco, Bay Area locations. Each Spring
MadCat tours throughout the US to Art Houses, Museums and
Universities. MadCat is currently touring with the following programs:
1) THE EXPERIMENTALISTS - Directors manipulate the medium and share
visual delights in this series of gorgeous 16mm contemporary
avant-garde films.
2) THE TRUTH of the MATTER - Using animation, documentary and
experimental filmmaking this series reveals how these artists question
their governments and challenge their actions. This program can be
provided on one mini-dv compilation.
Please email us to book the shows or to find out the tour line-up!
[email protected]
Tour 2005
For updates go to:http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org/festival\_info\_tour.html
March 8 - Univ. Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Milwaukee, WI;
The Experimentalists
March 9 - Alverno College- Milwaukee, WI;
The Truth of the Matter
March 18 - Stetson University - DeLand, FL;
The Truth of the Matter
March 22 - Chico St. University - Chico, CA;
The Experimentalists. Curator in person.
March 28 - Moorehead University - Chico, CA;
The Experimentalists. Curator in person.
April 15 or 22- The New School - NY, NY
The Experimentalists
April 20 - University of Rhode Island - Kensington, RI;
The Truth of the Matter. Curator in person.
April 29 - Squeaky Wheel - Buffalo, NY;
The Experimentalists Curator in person.
Dates TBA
Pratt College, Emory College, College of the Atlantic and the list
continues. For updates and additions go to
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org/festival\_info\_tour.html
PRAISE FOR MADCAT WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL
MadCat Film Festival selected as one of the "101 Reasons Why We Love
the Bay Area." - San Francisco Chronicle
"The MadCat filmgoing experience crosses between a history lesson, a
technical showcase, and a panorama of contemporary film. It has the
feeling of a much older festival, one with an established direction
and a stable mission. The festival devotes its resources to
programming instead of panels, workshops, and parties. The cineaste
nature of the MadCat, where the most important space is the screen,
creates a low-key environment. Shaped by Ben-Dov's commitment to
showing the best work she can find, regardless of age, nationality, or
genre, MadCat consistently presents historically and culturally
relevant programming." - The Independent Film and Video Monthly
"Ben-Dov curates inspired programs that combine both historical (and
historically neglected) films and new works by women." - The
Independent Film and Video Monthly
"At MadCat, being avant-garde is just as important as being
female."- San Francisco Chronicle
"Refreshingly unique!" - Film/Tape World
"MadCat brings a down-home approach to screening with outdoor venues,
barbeques and live musical accompaniment." - Film/Tape World
"Best Film Festival [That Still Caters to the Underground] You
probably won't discover the next big commercial thing at the MadCat
International Women's Film Festival. For those of you looking for that
kind of relief, MadCat delivers. The films are top-notch; they're so
creative, in fact, that you wonder why all movies aren't made for the
art of it. Offering content that only women can provide, MadCat takes
the show on the road each year, but Ariella Ben-Dov started it all in
San Francisco." - SF Bay Guardian
This is excellent work. The programming is elegantly unpredictable in
the best of ways.
- Rick Prelinger, Prelinger Archives
"MadCat isn't just a women's film festival - it's an arty showcase of
avant-garde experimental shorts that veer far from the traditional
modes of storytelling." - Seattle Weekly
"I've rarely ever seen a festival that is as engaging or as well put
together as MadCat."
- Festival goer
"As a genre, as a space for talking about, documenting, dramatizing,
and inventing ourselves on camera, women's filmmaking can only grow
and improve through ambitious events like MadCat. MadCat gets a big,
big hand for insight, excellence, attitude, and chic." - Art Papers
Thank our lucky stars that we live in San Francisco-home of the
MadCat Film Festival. It is chock-a-block with provocative and
artistic films and videos made by women." - SF Reader
"Both the festivals content and concept are radical in a manicured
film landscape where only those marginal makers working in standard
formats and digestible genres can get past the groundskeepers." -
Susan Gerhard, SF Guardian
"I saw notices for MadCat in The Independent, Afterimage, and Release
Print and thought, right on! This is the revolution." - Barbara
Hammer, award-winning filmmaker
"MadCat screens some of the best experimental programming I've ever seen!"
- Festival goer
"MadCat shows women's work from around this great, grand world of
ours. If you tend to poo-poo superfem vaginocentric diatribes, fear
not the MadCat Film Festival – it's primarily about high-quality
experimental shorts by lady-flavored makers. "
- SF Metropolitan
"Female filmmakers have evolved, based on the stellar slate
highlighted at the sixth annual MadCat Women's International Film
Festival, where post-feminism morphs into profound humanism. This is
an exciting time for women filmmakers, and for all moviegoers." - SF
Weekly
"The MadCat Film Festival tests, expands, and evolves the
traditional, politically motivated, 20th Century definition of 'the
women's film festival.'" - The Independent Film and Video Monthly
MadCat Women's International Film Festival
639 Steiner Street
San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
Phone: 415 436-9523
Fax: 415 934-0642
[email protected]
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
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