Winter International Film Festival of Antarctica 2009

Posted by Anthony and Christine Powell at 7/27/2009 10:01 AM
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Tags: winter international film festival Antarctica 2009 48 hour film making competition
It's that time of the year again for the Winter International Film Festival of Antarctica (or WIFFA for short).
It looks like we will probably have about double the number of entries we had last year.

So far we have the following stations taking part in the Film Festival:
McMurdo Station (US),
Scott Base (New Zealand),
South Pole (US)
Palmer Station (US),
Syowa Station (Japan),
Maitri (India)
Rothera (UK),
Jubany Station (Argentina),
Casey Station (Australia)
Troll Station (Norway),
Bird Island (UK),
Bellingshausen Station (Russia)
Halley Station (UK),
Neumayer (Germany)
 
The film festival is open to anyone wintering-over in Antarctic to enter.
There will be two categories of movies:
 
The Open Category:
Can be any film on any subject, but the total running time needs to be kept to about 5 minutes maximum
 
The 48 Hour Film Making Category:
This will take place over the first weekend in August
On Friday list of required items to be included in each film will be announced. These will be things like a line of dialogue, props to include, a character, a sound etc. Each of the bases that took part last year will pick one item each.
Competitors then have the weekend to make a film of up to 5 minutes in length, and begin uploading it on Monday for the other stations to view.
 
Voting will take place over the next week across the continent to decide the winners.

The films from last year can be found on line here...
http://cid-f32c1f3f4fb6d9e5.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Antarctic%20Movies/2008%20Winter%20Antarcrtic%20Film%20Festival

This is the film 48Hr film I did back in 2006 that won best picture.
The required items were a bowl, and ice cream cone, a sleeping person, the sound of a phone, and the line "We've lost another one"...


 

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