“WE SPEAK HERE” Film Festival CALL FOR ENTRIES | June 2012

WHAT IS “WE SPEAK, HERE” : An event which aspires to bring an intimate view from life of another fellow being, reflecting our own challenges and opportunities for individual transformation - revealing underlying light & shadows of our present existence, and exploring life’s purpose leading to future. Share those stories that moved you and helped you discover views into life of human existence. Enable those life stories to reach global audiences and allow them to reward you for your contribution to their quest in life, with your art of story sharing.

To submit your ?lm, please go through the following information:

CRITERIA:

1) Films on: The beauty & challenge within and its extension into personal relationships; Present viewpoints/values on intimacy, relationships, family structures and new ideas/visions about its evolutionary future; Documented case- studies of expressive art therapy; Individual's bio-psycho-spiritual health challenges (life experienced through or above it) and stories of recoveries, transformation, transcendence.

2) Any form: Films of any length (shorts and features).

3) Film projects that are open to non-exclusive distribution (online/webcast, worldwide).

4) Films which are in English or suitably sub-titled in English (?lms originally produced in regional languages are welcome). Multiple submissions are welcome.

5) Entries for selection are requested to be sent in DVD format only. Due to the volume of entries, the festival will not be able to return the submitted DVDs. To facilitate customs procedures, the entry package from overseas should be labeled "Only for cultural purpose, no commercial value."

6) For festival participation, ?lms must ?t the festival theme and criteria.

7) All ?lms rewarded by the audience are showcased under 'Previous Winners' section of the site. A winning ?lm can be removed upon request after a minimum of two years since the date of winning. As the festival is bound to follow international fund transfer formalities, all requested documents for reward remittance clearance will need to be furnished by all winning ?lms.

SUBMISSION PROCESS:

Please ?ll the form at http://www.cultureunplugged.com/festival/submit.php and mail the DVD.

AWARDS/REWARDS:

PEOPLE'S CHOICE (Most Viewed):
$3000

POPULAR (Runner Up) :
$1000

PRAISED (Second Runner Up) :
$1000

UNDISCOVERED (Must View) :
$1000

FILM-MAKER'S CHOICE (Conscious Art) :
$3000

FESTIVAL LAUNCH DATE: JUNE 2012

Submission Date: To participate in this festival, please send the DVD latest by 7th MAY, 2012.
You can also send it later than the above-mentioned date, to participate in future festivals.

FESTIVAL VENUE: www.cultureunplugged.com
(At present, this venue is running the ?lm festival: Spirit Enlightened - the festival to explore the spirit, the consciousness, the divine - the creative and healing journey of human soul)

Culture Unplugged Studios has now begun to organize the next film festival, ‘Spirit Enlightened’, which aspires to trace the spirit that has led the humanity through centuries & civilizations and is in the making of our future. The festival hopes to explore with you, ‘That’ which envelops to infuse & evolve the individual as well as collective being, expands our vision of time as well as place, enlivens our hearts, and enlightens our species to transcend the present state of being for the mystical new – the next state of supramental self. Lets observe & feel this divine/enlightened spirit in the moment of its performance, in the midst of humanity now and forever, through film-media.

CRITERIA:
1) Films on : Evolution of Consciousness; New Spirituality; Culture of Religion; Present Evolutionary Impulse; Emergent Scientific Perception; Vision/Ideas on New Being - Feminine, Masculine, Superhuman; Transcendent & Transformative Practices; Transpersonal/Gnostic Perception & Action; Integral Philosophies & Wisdom, Intimate Spiritual Experiences & Expressions; The New Pursuit - Love; The Powers - Within & In Cosmos; Enlightened Leaders, Systems & Designs.

2) Any form : films of any length (shorts and features)

3) Film projects which are open to non-exclusive distribution (online and/or broadcast worldwide).

4) Films which are in English or suitably sub-titled in English (films originally produced in regional languages are welcome). Multiple submissions welcome.

5) Entries for selection are required to be sent in DVD format only. Unfortunately, the festival will not be able to return the submitted DVDs. To facilitate customs procedures, the entry package from overseas should be labeled "Only for cultural purpose, no commercial value."

6) For festival participation, films must fit the festival theme and criteria.

7) All winning films are showcased under "Previous Winners" section of the site. A winning film can be removed after a minimum of two years since the date of winning, upon request. As the festival is bound to follow international fund transfer formalities, all requested documents for reward remittance clearance will need to be furnished by all winning films.

SUBMIT BY: October 31, 2011

SUBMISSION PROCESS: http://www.cultureunplugged.com/festival/submit.php