Fylmz Festival
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The Fylmz Festival has made its mark as a new independent film festival out of Nashville, TN, offering distribution and a $100,000 prize for Best Feature Film. A $3,500 prize for Best Short Film will also be awarded, according to Fylmz.com. The first annual Fylmz Festival is 8 February-10, 2007 at the Belcourt Theatre.
"Fylmz was the brainchild of Tony Vidmer, writer-director of High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story, a 2003 feature that played at 12 festivals but did not secure a distribution deal with New Line until it got a special screening in Los Angeles," says Patrick McGavin of Screen International. The story goes on to say that Vidmer launched the Fylmz Festival and Fylmz.com to offer filmmakers a chance to find distribution for their independent films. Vidmer also says that Fylmz.com is a resource where filmmakers can find editorial content, and a community of peers who are encouraged to collaborate.
"Users are invited to rank their [favorite films] and the list of completed works is reduced to approximately 60 titles," says McGavin. "Those films are then shown to a jury which selects anywhere from 20 to 60 to be shown at a festival."
Julie Washington of The Cleveland Plain Dealer also wrote about the Fylmz Festival in October 2006. She said, "Filmmaker Tony Vidmer has created Fylmz, based in Nashville, as an alternative to conventional film festivals. He wanted filmmakers to have another avenue for finding distributors."
The Fylmz Festival is a good reason to get off the couch and start shooting the movie you've been talking about, says Jennifer M. Wood in MovieMaker Magazine. "Fylmz.com has a hundred [reasons to get off the couch], starting with a $100,000 grand prize winner for the winner of their upcoming film festival, plus a guaranteed distribution deal."
The Fylmz Festival and the launch of Fylmz.com is making a splash in Nashville, TN, where A.W. (Tony) Vidmer lives and is planning the Fylmz Festival.
References:
"Just Do It" by Jennifer M. Wood, MovieMaker Magazine, July 2006
"The Indies' Guide to the Internet" by Patrick Z. McGavin, Screen International, August 4, 2006
"Web Contest Seeks Submissions" by Julie E. Washington, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 21, 2006
"The Big Picture" by Bill Ditenhafer, Nashville Lifestyles, May 31, 2006
"Nashville filmmaker launches new site" by Ron Wynn, The City Paper, April 19, 2006
