AddAMovie Film Festival 2021 - The day Of The Dead, November

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There is no doubt that last year brought on many challenges, but perhaps also a deeper sense of understanding, or relating to the realm of death and the dead.

We wanted to take this opportunity to address this, for many subjects, by dedicating our film festival this year to exploring our relationship to it.

On November 2nd, we’ll take a moment to reconnect with the ones we’ve lost or better yet, with whom we’ve parted in this lifetime, but also honoring the time we’ve had together.

In many traditions it is believed that the walls between the living and the dead are believed to be particularly thin on Day of the Dead, . Perhaps we can use this festival to have these two worlds reunite for the evening.

We invite filmmakers to reflect on this idea in whichever way they feel appropriate.

We also invite composers, to write an original score for string quartet, to a unique movie collage created by our director, Dejan Kovačević specifically for this occasion.

Thank you for taking the time to participate and good luck with the competition.

Chosen by a professional jury, up to ten films will be screened at our with the AddAMovie Award for the their films, and their creators will

be invited to attend the AddAMovie Film Festival The Day Of The Dead festival presented in person (venue TBA) and online,  on November and 2021. 

The official selection of the movies will be announced by Monday Oct 11th 2021.

The jury and our live audience  will choose 3 winners of the selected/screened films; The winners will be announced at the event.

In addition, the first place winner will receive a commitment to have their next film scored by one of our residents composers free of charge.

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Film-makers - short:

Submit a recent short (2 – 10 minutes long) film in any of the categories:

-  Narrative

- Documentary

-  Animation

-  Abstract

-  Experimental

The movie needs to be between 2 and 10 minutes in length and created in the last 5 year

You must have all the rights cleared and also be willing to grant us permission to use portion of the movie in our PR campaign leading up to the festival. You must also grant us the rates to keep the movie presence on our website for the next five years.

Film-makers - Feature:

The movie needs to be between between 50 and 90 minutes in length and created in the last 5 year.

ou must have all the rights cleared and also be willing to grant us permission to use portion of the movie in our PR campaign leading up to the festival. You must also grant us the rates to keep the movie presence on our website for the next five years.

Composers:

The rules will be announced by July 30th.

All submissions will have automatically entered the competition. The prices are not transferable and are redeemable within the calendar year 2021 and 2022.

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Coming soon

we have a 10 week accelerated summer course in film scoring email us to be a part. Signing up automatically enters you to win a composition competition!

Suzana Peric returns in an extended capacity! Stay tuned for details.

Any questions email us at: help@paracademia.org

REGISTER AT: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/addamoviefilmfestival-tickets-143792873355

The focus of the festival , this classic work has been scored by our composers for Quartet Metadata 

Erik Ingalls, first prize

Adrian Bawtree, second prize

Juli Aoyama, third prize

Our first prize winner, Erik Ingalls, receives a performance and a recording of his quartet.

Our second and third prize winners, Adrian Bawtree and Juli Aoyama receive an honorable mention, a short online interview and a phone consultation!

Once again, congratulations and many thanks for participating!

We have chosen Distorted Souls by Sophie E. Dunér as part of our official selection.

A little birdie tells us that Sofie will compose a brand new score for her movie for this particular occasion.

Once again, congratulations and many thanks for participating!

All submission information can be found on our "Submit to the Festival" page

 Why do we choose this date for this particular theme?  follow the blogs and articles below...

Outcry in Iran at nine-year sentence for man who beheaded daughter

https://www.rainn.org/articles/self-harm

The 2018 theme was Immigration. We screened films about and by Immigrants.

Gallery MC

at 545 West 52nd St. 

8th floor

Manhattan, NYC

4:30 PM - door/registration/cocktails/network 

5 PM - Screening: Music, Art and Shorts

5:30 PM -Screening, The Immigrant with the original live score byAddAMovie Composers, played by  pianist Ilya Laskin 

6 PM - conversations with filmmakers, composers and the pianist

6:30 PM - break - dinner (surprise immigrant food available for purchase)

7 PM - Panel: Immigration through the film lens; panelists Patricia Shih, Musician and Filmmaker, Linda Mason, Artist, Gene Pritsker, composer
Moderated by Milica Paranosic
7:45 PM - Awards

 8 PM - Feature Presentation, Undocumented by Patricia Shih

9:15 PM Q and A with Patricia Shih, Greg Blank and if we're VERY LUCKY

Dr. Harold Fernandez

9:45 PM - Network 

General seating/cash bar

Mulled wine, surprise immigrant food and $1 Pop-Corn!!!