Flipside Film Festival

Flipside Film Festival’s Open Call for Film Entries is now closed. Details of successful open call film entries selected for inclusion in the festival can be found here.

Open Call film entries could be of any genre or film-making style, although to qualify for consideration for the 2008 festival the film entries had to explore / embrace one or more of the following thematic areas:

 

Films which provide the viewer with the opportunity to literally ’see’ our world from different and unfamiliar visual perspectives, achieved by manipulating ‘the real’ with various alchemic cinematic techniques & technological trickery!

 

Films which celebrate non-mainstream / non-traditional and minority viewpoints and experiences of our world (especially political / spiritual / ideological viewpoints and experiences that are under-represented by mainstream broadcast media): A thematic celebration of the diversity of experience in our world and a challenge to the institutional shortcomings of ‘broad’ cast media.

 

Films which creatively embrace ‘endangered’ media practices, processes and technologies, featuring everything in the 4:3 aspect ratio, from Super8, Standard 8, & Standard 16mm film, to analogue video. This is the thematic antidote to HDTV, where the focus is the celebration and exploration of the gloriously rarefied, rather than the aggressive product-profit driven ‘technical redundancy & replacement’ industry model!

All Open Call entrants were required to complete an Application Pack (requires Adobe Reader):

Open Call Application Pack - Part A

Open Call Application Pack – Part B

Film entries were accepted for consideration in the following media formats:VHS / miniDV / DVCAM / HDV / DVD-video (Region 2 or Region 0) / standard 8mm/ super8 / standard 16mm / super16. (Other media formats can be accommodated by special arrangement). We would particularly welcome super8 originated entries for our 2008 festival and all entries in this film gauge will be screened as part of the festival!

Successful Open Call film entries will be screened in Plymouth College of Art & Design’s Viewpoint Gallery (Tavistock Place, Plymouth) from Weds 28- Fri 30^th May and in Flipside’s Flatpack Cinema (New George Street, Plymouth) on Fri 30^th May.

UPDATE: OPEN CALL IS NOW CLOSED FOR FLIPSIDE 2008