Nashville Film Festival: call for entries

Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) has announced its call for entries for the 37th Annual event April 20-26, 2006, at the Regal Green Hills Stadium 16.

Prizes include the Regal Cinemas/Nashville Film Festival Dreammaker Award, which entitles the winning feature film to a week's run in a Los Angeles County Regal Cinemas theater. The L.A. screening qualifies the 35mm film for Academy Award consideration. (Films must not have acquired U.S. distribution to qualify for this award.) The Festival highlights music films through its Music Films in Music City section sponsored by Curb Entertainment. This section includes two special awards: Best Music In A Feature Film to go to a feature film's composer, director, music supervisor, and/or producer for innovative use of music, whether through the original score, imaginative musical arrangements, or songs; and Impact of Music Award, given to a feature or documentary that most effectively explores or celebrates music's role in the human experience. Other music awards include Best Music Video and Best Nashville Music Video. Also included in our awards are short narrative, animation, experimental, Tennessee filmmaker and young filmmaker categories. NaFF is an Academy Award qualifying festival for narrative and animated shorts. Audience awards are given for narrative and documentary features.

NaFF also will feature workshops, panel discussions, live music showcases, and guest appearances by nationally recognized figures in the film and music worlds. Nearly 15,000 filmgoers attended the 2005 edition­ -- a 14 percent increase from 2004­ -- that featured 231 features, documentaries and shorts from 37 countries.

Call for Entry forms may be obtained through withoutabox.com or by downloading from the Festival's web site. For more information, call 615-742-2500 or email the Festival at info@nashvillefilmfestival.org.

Genres
• Feature Narrative (60 min. and over)
• Documentary Feature (40 min. and over)
• Documentary Short (under 40 min.)
• Short Narrative (under 60 min.)
• College Student Short Narrative
• Animation
• College Student Animation
• Experimental
• Music Video
• Young Filmmaker (18 and under)

Submission Deadlines & Entry Fees:

Early Deadline: Sept. 9, 2005
Under 40 min…………….…..$35
40 min. and over……………..$50

Regular Deadline: Nov. 4, 2005
Under 40 min…………..……$40
40 min. and over………..……$55

Extended Deadline: Dec. 2, 2005
Under 40 min…………….…..$45
40 min. and over……………..$60

All Deadlines:
Young Filmmaker…………...$15
Music Video ..…………….…$20