MFVA announces $500 prize for all 48 hour film projects in state ...

JANS ? The Mississippi Film and Video Alliance is now offering up to $500 for each Mississippi-based team for finishing a film through the newly launched Jackson 48 Hour Film Project to be held August 17-19, 2012. Through a generous grant from the Mississippi Film Office, MFVA wants to support your filmmaking efforts through the Jackson 48 Hour Film Project and the Emerging Mississippi Filmmakers Grant Program. The 48 Hour Film Project is an international competition entering its twelfth year, but this is the first time it will be available to filmmakers in Mississippi. The competition will take place over the weekend of August 17 and all films submitted will be screened August 25th at Millsaps College in Jackson. Films must be screened at the August 25th screening to qualify for the $500 funding. The winner of the Jackson competition may go on to compete internationally. Prizes include a screening at Cannes Film Festival, a screening at NAB, professional screenwriting software, and $5,000. The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie?write, shoot, edit and score it?in just 48 hours. On Friday night, teams are given a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in their movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be complete. The competition is open to all ages globally. Anyone can participate statewide and beyond (they just have to have someone in Jackson to pick up their chosen prop/line/name/etc. and then drop off the finished film by the 48 hour deadline). Registration and more information is available at http://www.48hourfilm.com/en/jackson/ MFVA continues to help filmmakers with its Emerging Mississippi Filmmakers Grant Program which offers up to $2,500 for each project and $500 for each student project. Projects requiring less than $2,500 will also be considered. The program was created to help develop Mississippi?s film and video artists as the next generation of Mississippi?s legacy of storytelling. The grant is available to working and emerging Mississippi filmmakers. The program is open to legal residents of Mississippi, 18 years of age and older. MFVA has helped fund over 40 projects in its twelve years as an organization. Applications and supporting material must be mailed to MFVA postmarked on or before August 15, 2012. Applications received via e-mail will NOT be accepted. For details, please visit: http://msfilmandvideoalliance.org/grants/grants.html

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Source: http://www.jacksonadvocateonline.com/?p=9885

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