Call for Film Submissions - Do it!

I don’t know how to write this without being a complete sell-out, but if you’re reading this and you’re a filmmaker, keep reading!  I’m using the IFS blog to push out a very specific agenda, but at the end of the rainbow is $11,500. 

GaiamTV.com is a relatively new streaming video channel that offers tons of films within the conscious media genre.  It was created by Gaiam, Inc., the folks that bring you quality yoga products, fitness videos, and uplifting entertainment and now the Conscious Media Film Festival. 

Being a filmmaker myself, living in very pretty Boulder, Colorado, having very few options for work in my field I did what any normal filmmaker in my position would do. I took the job of producing the festival.  

  

This is the fourth year I’ve run the festival and each year we’ve done it, we’ve given great heaps of cash to filmmakers from all over the world.  It’s a nice feeling to hand a sizable check to filmmakers like Jesse Scolaro, Michael Goorjian, Jamin Winans, Taggart Siegel and John Peterson.  Filmmakers always need money and money helps filmmakers make more films.  It’s a pretty simple equation and one that I’m proud that Gaiam really understands and supports. It’s for that reason that I’m back again: to help support independent filmmakers, to provide a venue for inspirational and uplifting material, and to connect audiences with the festival experience.  This message is coming to you from me and not the company – honestly.

Filmmakers!  The Conscious Media Film Festival is now open for submissions.  Find us at Conscious Media Film Festival or Withoutabox.com and consider submitting your film(s).  We’re looking for films that integrate spiritual, experiential, scientific and contemplative ideas.  You are encouraged to submit films that capture the “bigger picture” and inspire people to make positive change, tell stories that share collective wisdom with the world and promote harmony and peace, and show creative visionaries who are unafraid to follow the truth wherever it might lead.  We won’t consider films that have entire scenes of violence or sexual violence, harsh language or are overtly political or fundamental in nature.

The prizes:

$5,000 for Best Feature

$5,000 for Best Documentary

$1,500 for Best Short

The festival will program and screen two features, two documentaries and four to six shorts.  You do the math on the odds of winning.  I’d say it’s pretty good, if your film gets accepted to the festival.  And here is something I consider really special, we’ll screen films at the Boulder Theater practically in 2.35.  Won’t it be exciting to see your film up there, on that huge screen?  It will be big and beautiful and well, satisfying. There’s nothing like seeing your film go from being in FCP or Premiere on a tiny screen to seeing it blown up.   The magic of a dark room and the light of your film flickering in an audience’s face is incomparable.  I know.  I’ve been there.  

So, submit your film.  Be brave.  Do it.  www.consciousmediafilmfestival.com

I hope you were able to read the interview with  Judson Webb and soon I"ll be posting my recent interview with Azazel Jacobs.  It was great! We talked about Stan, The Clash, his upcoming shows and movies and working with Hollywood and the agents that really run the show.