INVITING:

1. film works by film makers with a disability
2. film works on a theme of disability

WHAT KIND OF FESTIVAL is Picture this…Film Festival?

Picture this... festival is a competetive festival held in the month of February in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Entries are judged by a panel of diverse, volunteer judges. Awards are presented at the gala evening during the festival. Winning entries are screened on a large screen with theatre style seating for our audience. Other entries are also selected for screening .

Picture this... is also an exhibition festival. A rather unique element is that we will have a private viewing area. Attendees may request to view any of the entries. All entries will be listed in our program which will be distributed to all those who attend. Our website will have information on all the entries for that year.

WHAT IS THE COST OF ENTERING?

There is NO entry fee to submit your work to Picture this... film festival.

WHAT IS THE ENTRY DEADLINE?

Picture this... entries are accepted all year round, with no entry fee!
The deadline for each year's festival is POSTMARK September 30.
We really want to see your work, so send it to us!

DO PRODUCERS RECEIVE AN EXHIBITION FEE IF THEIR ENTRY IS SCREENED?

No, not in currency anyway. We promote your entry on our website by listing your entry, with a picture and the text description, along with your contact information. This is also printed in our program. That way, people who are interested in acquiring a copy of your production can contact you directly. So, in a sense we are doing some advertising for you. And if you win an award, you receive extra promotion. Our philosophy is that we want your good works on disability, and works by film makers with disabilities, to find a larger potential audience by attending our festival and visiting our website. We simply can't afford to pay you an exhibition fee, and keep the costs of admission affordable to all. If you don't agree with our philosophy, we understand. Production costs are not cheap. We produce videos as well, and know what it takes to produce a good work. Perhaps in the future we will be able to afford to pay you an exhibition fee. This will likely be in a situation where we have an abundance of sponsorship money to cover all our costs. We are not there yet.

WHAT ARE THE PRODUCTION AND/OR RELEASE DATE RULES?

Productions from any year are accepted.

WHAT ARE THE PRIZES?

Award statues and honorary mention certificates: click on thumbnail at right to see a larger picture of our Awards Statue.

WHAT ARE THE CATEGORIES FOR THE AWARDS?

Please visit Jury Info for updated details.
The categories are:

• Documentary,
• Drama,
• Performance,
• Animation,
• Educational

WHY SHOULD I ENTER THIS FESTIVAL?

Good film created by disabled film makers, and works that enlighten, provoke, entertain and inform people about issues involving the disability community should be recognized and seen by as wide an audience as possible. Our festival wants to help do that.

WHERE ARE ENTRY FORMS AVAILABLE?

1. Right here on the website (more info as well)
2. email: director@ptff.org (please state 'request for entry form' in the subject field, and tell us in the body of the message which format: text format, MS Word format, or Adobe Acrobat format.)
3. Contact us for a faxed, or postal mailed form.

WHAT DO WE SEND?

1. A completed entry form.
2. Preview video - VHS or SVHS videotape (ntsc, pal or secam), Beta SP, DV, D8 (NTSC only), DVD (playable in North America - Region 1) quicktime, windows media, mpeg, realvideo CD-rom.
3. Production picture for use in the printed program. (You can e-mail us one instead - .tif format preferred for better quality - to director@ptff.org

WHAT ABOUT THE PICTURE THIS... LIBRARY?

This is a year-round addition to the activities of Picture this...film festival. Our library consists of works that have been submitted to Picture this over the years, and we have the film makers permission to loan the film to individuals and organizations for educational purposes who also don't charge an admission fee.

We ask that entrants consider donating their submission to our library. There is a place on our entry form to do this. From time to time we also have a bit of money to acquire some of the submissions to Picture this... Our library is just another way (along with our annual festival and our website) that we make submitted works available to be experienced by a wider audience.

WHO ORGANIZES PICTURE THIS…FILM FESTIVAL?

This is a non-profit event organized through Calgary SCOPE Society, a registered non-profit society (# 1182 4135 RR0001) in Canada. SCOPE works with persons with disabilities. (Their mission statement is on their website http://www.calgscope.org)

 

PLEASE HELP: We're now working on our next festival... we are very eager to reach as many potential entrants as possible. Please tell anyone you know who might have a film about our festival.

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