Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival
21st Annual Festival
May 19-29, 2011
Inside Out, presenter of the Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival, invites you to join us for the 21st annual celebration of Canada’s pre-eminent exhibition of queer film and video from around the world. Inside Out hosts one of the largest queer film festivals internationally, highlighting the diversity of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and transgendered film and video making in documentary, shorts, features and installations.
Our 2010 Festival screened 200 works from 30 countries, with sold-out screenings daily. We had more than 150 guest filmmakers and artists attend the Festival from all over the world. Programming highlights included many Canadian, North American and World premieres, including Howl (USA) and The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (UK).
Industry came out to the Festival in greater numbers with Showcase, CBC Television, BRAVO, the Independent Film Channel, Out TV, Mongrel Media, CFMDC, VTape, MTV Logo and other distributors all sending buyers and distribution representatives to look at our selections and secure work for theatrical distribution and broadcast. As well, representatives from more than 40 Canadian and international festivals attended Inside Out to seek out new works for their programming.
Toronto is a major film centre and home to one of the most vibrant queer communities in the world. Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival is renowned for its innovative programming, enthusiastic audiences, comprehensive media coverage and hospitality. Our venues offer state-of-the-art exhibition facilities in the heart of downtown Toronto, making the Festival an ideal place to launch new work. Inside Out hosts numerous parties, receptions and special events that provide excellent opportunities to network with industry professionals and other independent film and video makers.
Media coverage of the Festival has included features, festival round-ups, cover stories, previews, reviews and artist profiles in: Variety, IndieWire, Canadian Press, The Toronto Star, The Globe And Mail, The National Post, The Toronto Sun, Fab, Xtra, Now, Eye Weekly, CTV, City TV-Movie Television, CBC Television’s The Hour, Sing Tao Daily, The Independent Film Channel, OUT TV, Film Festival Channel, MTV Canada, CFRB, Le Métropolitain, L’Express, Radio-Canada and CBC Radio.
The Festival is produced by Inside Out, a non-profit charitable arts organization dedicated to showcasing the best and most diverse film and video work produced by and about the lives of queers in Canada and around the globe.
AWARDS
Inside Out has the most extensive awards program of any queer film festival in Canada, honoring work in many categories. Juried awards are given for both Canadian and international work. Our three audience awards are open to all works presented at the Festival and are chosen by post-screening balloting. In all, more than $5000 in cash and prizes is awarded annually.
For more detailed information about what Inside Out does in the community, please visit www.insideout.ca
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
1. Only DVD (All regions) will be accepted for preview. DO NOT send master tapes or film prints for preview screening. Please ensure that DVDs submitted are not defective, and are labeled correctly including: title, running time and contact information (including name, address, phone number and email), you will not be contacted to resubmit a new DVD. Please email jason@insideout.ca with questions.
2. Works submitted in languages other than English must be subtitled or accompanied by an English transcript.
3. Works-in-progress and rough cuts can be submitted only if a completed exhibition copy will be available for final approval by March 15, 2011.
4. Inside Out reserves the right to excerpt programmed works (up to 3 minutes) along with photographic stills for promotional and marketing purposes.
5. All submissions must be received by either December 17, 2010 or January 31, 2011* (Please email jason@insideout.ca with questions. You will be notified of programming decisions by April 1, 2011)
6. *If submitting to the second deadline of February 21, 2011, please make the $25 submission fee payable by cheque to Inside Out.
7. All preview DVDs will be added to the Inside Out archives unless accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope (for submissions from outside Canada please use International Postal Coupons) and a request for return.
8. Please make a copy of this submission form for each entry, if submitting multiple works.
9. If you are sending work from outside Canada, please indicate on the package, for festival preview only, no commercial value or you may be required to pay customs duties. Declared value should be $0 on the package. (Inside Out will not pay customs fees).
10. Acceptable screening formats at the Festival are 35mm, 16mm, BetaSP and DigiBeta.
Inside Out does not screen DVDs at the Festival.
PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING WITH EACH SUBMISSION:
DVD (All regions)
Completed and signed submission form.
B&W and/ or colour stills. (Images on CD and emailed stills are acceptable. If emailing, please send to submissions@insideout.ca in the following format: eps, tiff or jpg files with a dpi of 300 or higher. Good stills can make a difference in press coverage and festival prominence).
Synopsis/ press kit. (If it is a non-english language film, please send press materials in original language as well, if available).
Note: If you are sending work from outside Canada, please indicate on the outside of the package for festival preview, no commercial value and declare less than $20 in value.
SEND TO:
Inside Out
Attn.: Jason St-Laurent, Director of Programming
401 Richmond St. West, Suite 219
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 3A8 CANADA
Tel: 416.977.6847
Fax: 416.977.8025
For submission extensions, please contact jason@insideout.ca
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