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The Directors Circle Festival Of Shorts has officially opened our call for entries and will accept submissions internationally of short length films and feature and short length scripts in any and all genres including documentary, horror, experimental, animation, Religious/Spiritual, Gay/Lesbian and all genre of music videos for our 2010 festival.

The Directors Circle Festival Of Shorts is internationally recognized as a premiere showcase for creative, inspiring, and influential films of all types receiving more than 2,500 submissions annually from more than 40 countries.

We will accept all forms of religious, Christian, and spiritual films and scripts including African, African American, Gay/Lesbian, Black, Hispanic, Islamic, Latino, Native/Aboriginal and student films from the United States and around the world. 

Our Festival horror categories for scripts and films will include Horror, Thrillers, Science Fiction, Suspense, Grindhouse Horror, Horror Documentary, Horror Animation, and student horror films and scripts.

Film Festival shall accept music videos from around the world of cross-continent and cross-genre productions. We shall accept music videos of all ranges from pop, punk, rock, alt-country, country-western, folk, reggae, hip-hop to electronica, jazz, blues, Zydeco, industrial, gothic, karaoke, avant-garde, world music, and experimental.

Bold visions, adventurous Ideas, Skillfully crafted, Artistically inspired, projects  are the kinds of films and scripts we are looking for. 

The Director's Circle Scriptwriting Competition offers a $5,000.00 cash award to our first place winner of the 2010 competition among other prizes. The winning script will be forwarded to agents and industry professionals for consideration.

ALL competition winners, runners-up, and finalists will earn the chance to have their scripts and films reviewed by established production companies and agents in LA and NY.

Our festival reaches a global echelon interactively online allowing filmmakers and fans world wide to not only enjoy the films, but communicate with each other in real time as though they were together in the same room via online chat and web cams.

Our festival is presented in a video on demand system that will allow users to watch the films while remaining completely safe from download or reproduction.

Films in this festival cannot be downloaded, the films  HAVE NO EMBEDDING CODE and our HTML code if copied and pasted, the films will not play, therefore they CANNOT be placed on other websites.  The only time and place they can be viewed is in our festival.  In short, we have gone to great lengths to set this system up to protect the safety and security of each filmmaker's film always keeping the filmmaker in mind. Basically, it is just as secure as a brick and mortar theater screening, only much better.

We made the decision to screen films exclusively online because of two reasons, first we understand that filmmakers around the world pour not only all of their time and heart into their work but also most of their money.  Because of financial and time constraints independent filmmakers most times find it difficult to attend the screenings of their film.  Now not only can the filmmaker attend, but all of their friends and family members can as well.  In addition, the number of attendees to the festival is literally limitless giving the filmmaker much more exposure for their work.

In addition, you hear so much about the environment and global warming it got us thinking. When you realize how much power is used during the film fest – electricity for the building, natural gas for heat and the gasoline the people use to get to the fest it left one hell of a carbon footprint. By doing the whole festival on line it actually helps cut down on greenhouse gases.

Our festival will take place November 08, 2010 to November 12, 2010

All Films Entered Must Be No Longer Than 50 Minutes in Total Run Time

No Film Will Be Considered That is Longer Than 50 Minutes

FEES and DEADLINES:

• Short Length Film:
  $25.00 ($20.00 Student) if postmarked by January 09, 2010             (U.S. Currency only)
  $35.00 ($30.00 Student) if postmarked by May 08, 2010                   (U.S. Currency only)
  $45.00 ($40.00 Student) if postmarked by August 07, 2010                 (U.S. Currency only)
  $55.00 ($50.00 Student) if postmarked by September 04, 2010              (U.S. Currency only) Withoutabox entries ONLY

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• Short Length Script:                                                                               $25.00 if postmarked by January 09, 2010 (U.S. Currency only)
  $35.00 if postmarked by May 08, 2010 (U.S. Currency only)
  $45.00 if postmarked by August 07, 2010  (U.S. Currency only)
  $55.00 if postmarked by September 04, 2010 (U.S. Currency only) Withoutabox entries ONLY
   

• Feature Length Script:
  $35.00 if postmarked by January 09, 2010 (U.S. Currency only)
  $45.00 if postmarked by May 08, 2010 (U.S. Currency only)
  $55.00 if postmarked by August 07, 2010 (U.S. Currency only)
  $65.00 if postmarked by September 04, 2010 (U.S. Currency only) Withoutabox entries ONLY

ABSOLUTELY NO INTERNATIONAL CHECKS, WIRE TRANSFERS, OR MONEY GRAMS WILL BE ACCEPTED. For all entries submitted outside the United States, we will only accept payment for submission fees in the form of INTERNATIONAL POSTAL MONEY ORDERS.

Film and script selections will be announced

no later than October 2, 2010

All entrants will receive confirmation of receipt of entry via email and all entrants will notification of acceptance or non-acceptance to the festival. 

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