From: Myron Ort (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Nov 30 2009 - 18:26:53 PST
There is a difference in tone between: (MUST BE TYPED) and (Please
type or print clearly, thank you)
"MUST BE TYPED" suggests that there may be some technological
reason, like insisting on using the "special pencil provided" or the
machine will not read your application and will discard.
I will not feel confident about filling anything in by hand on this
entry form until I hear a statement from Bryan Konefsky , Festival
Director, that this will be acceptable or not in no uncertain terms.
Otherwise I am not going to waste my time and/or money on this
particular festival.
Myron Ort
On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Bart Weiss wrote:
> I don't recall ever rejecting a submission for handwriting
> but it we want to get ahold of you and we can't read your address
> or email or phone number that could be a problem.
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Allen Riley wrote:
>
>> I often wonder this myself. Do festival committees really reject
>> submissions over things like this? If yes, is "something
>> exploitative and sleazy" going on, or do they do it in the name of
>> "narrowing" the entry pool? If they do it in the name of
>> narrowing the entry pool, isn't that exploitative and sleazy? Why
>> aren't festivals responsive to technical questions about their
>> selections process like Myron's?
>>
>> Allen Riley
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Myron Ort wrote:
>>
>>> I downloaded the entry form and printed it out. I had two films
>>> to submit. The entry forms specify (MUST BE TYPED). This is not
>>> convenient and I do not even know how I would do that. So I
>>> started to print very neatly, then I reconsidered, what if these
>>> guys are jerks and will keep my money and my submission dvds and
>>> disregard my entry because I didn't put this form in a typewriter
>>> and hand printed instead. Generally I get a feeling from most
>>> "film festivals" that something exploitative and sleezy is going
>>> on anyway. So I am just going to forget about it.
>>>
>>> Later,
>>>
>>> Myron Ort
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Bryan Konefsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all - our submission deadline is quickly approaching - See
>>>> below - our postmark deadline is December 10-ish... let us know
>>>> if you might need a few extra days for submissions and with a
>>>> hefty bribe (kidding) I'm sure we can accomodate!
>>>> all the best,
>>>> bryan konefsky
>>>> festival director
>>>>
>>>> Experiments in Cinema V5.1 (a Basement Films production in
>>>> collaboration with UNM’s Department of Cinematic Arts) is
>>>> currently seeking submissions for our 5th annual celebration of
>>>> international, cinematic experimentation. This year’s festival
>>>> will take place in Albuquerque April 15-18, 2010. We encourage
>>>> all moving image artists creating unembedded, undependent,
>>>> underground, experimental, personal, and wildly imaginative
>>>> media to submit to our festival (postmark deadline for
>>>> submissions is December 10, 2009… though if materials are dated
>>>> a day or two later we will happily accept your work for
>>>> consideration!!). See www.basementfilms.org and click in
>>>> Experiments in Cinema V5.1 for details.
>>>> Contact festival director Bryan Konefsky at bryank (at) unm.edu
>>>> for more information.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> __________________________________________________________________
>>>> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> __________________________________________________________________
>>> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>>
>>
>> __________________________________________________________________
>> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>
> Bart Weiss
>
> the VideoFest is coming Nov 5-9
> go to videofest.org for more info
>
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
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