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First Run Festival 2010

Each Spring, the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television proudly presents the First Run Festival to showcase over 120 advanced projects in film, video, and animation. This annual week-long festival begins with the Craft Awards Ceremony and Wasserman Finalists Announcement and culminates with the Wasserman Awards Ceremony featuring the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation Awards. Presented by the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television. All festival screenings will be held at the Cantor Film Center located at 36 East 8th Street.  Note that each film will be screened only once and all screenings are held in Room 200 of the Cantor Film Center. 

Rules and regulations are below followed by the festival application.

2010 FIRST RUN FESTIVAL - RULES AND REGULATIONS
 
Application & Entry Procedures
Application and registration for First Run is online only.  From this year on, the first round of festival judging will be completed with DVD copies of your project.  Please note that the DVD copies you provide are for judging only.  You must later submit the festival screener of your project on either of the following formats:  35mm, Digibeta, Mini DV, or DVCam.
 
•Deadline to register for festival online is midnight on Tuesday, December 1, 2009.
•Deadline to submit judging DVD copies is 5 pm on Friday, December 18, 2009.
•You must submit seven DVD copies of your film; each copy should be labeled with your name and project title.  Please check each disc.
•Deadline to submit festival screener copy is Monday, March 22, 2010.

All festival screeners must have school/departmental recognition as part of the credits.  An example of how this credit can read is as follows:

Year Produced
New York University
Tisch School of the Arts
Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
Graduate Film/Undergraduate Film & TV
Name of Class, Name of Professor


Festival Acceptance, Judging & Awards
The first round of festival judging ends in January of 2010.  You will be notified of festival acceptance status by February 1, 2010.  Your film may be IN-COMPETITION, screened at the festival and eligible for awards and prizes or OUT-OF-COMPETITION, showcased in-house after the festival as a side bar to the festival screenings.

Recipients of craft and excellence awards in producing, editing, screenwriting, etc., as well as guest awards in acting will be announced at the head of each festival screening.

Wasserman Finalists will be announced on the closing night of the festival and an announcement and screening of the top three Wasserman/King Award winners in Graduate Film and Undergraduate Film & TV will follow.

Wasserman Finalists will be comprised of 90 minutes of work from Graduate Film and 90 minutes of work from Undergraduate Film and Television.  A jury composed of outside industry professionals selects the top three winners in each department.  The Wasserman Finalist films will also be exhibited at our West Coast industry showcase, the Haig P. Manoogian Screenings in Los Angeles.

Project Eligibility and Length Requirements
Submissions exceeding curricular time limits for their categories will not be eligible for festival competition.  Misrepresentation of length information disqualifies the applicant.

Undergraduate Project Lengths, maximum including titles & credits:


Animation:                         15 minutes
Narrative Workshop:         15 minutes
Narrative Television:          25 minutes produced before 2009 / 15 minutes as of 2009
Advanced Production:       30 minutes before 2008 / 25 minutes produced before 2009 /
                                          20 minutes as of 2010
Advanced Experimental:   30 minutes produced before 2009 / 20 minutes as of 2009
Broadcast Documentary:   30 minutes

*Intermediate projects are not eligible for First Run.


 
Graduate Project Lengths, maximum including titles & credits:

Thesis:                                 30 minutes
3rd Year Collaboration:        20 minutes
3rd Year Documentary:        20 minutes
2nd Year:                             15 minutes
*First Year films are not eligible for First Run.
**Graduate Feature films are not eligible for Wasserman Finalist consideration, but will be considered for craft awards.


Festival Publicity
A director’s photograph and a still image from the project should be emailed at the time of registration.  These materials will be used on a festival webpage and may be used for festival publicity.  All submissions should be digital and may be either jpeg or tiff, and high resolution (at least 300 dpi).  The Special Events Office will provide printed festival schedules, however, all other information about the films, filmmakers & festival will be posted on our interactive festival website.

First Run 2010 Application

Please note, the information below will be published online. If you would like any portion of this information to remain private, please email your request to jm8@nyu.edu
Director First Name *
Director Last Name *
Preferred Email Address *
Preferred Telephone Number *
Title of Project *
Length (or estimated length) *
Synopsis (brief one-liner for program, limit 60 words/400 characters) *
Project Information
Project / Class *
Format of Project *
Type of Project *
Genre: For programming, please select up to two descriptions
Genre 1 (Required) *
Genre 2 (Optional)
Supervising Professor *
Budget *
Screenwriter *
Producer *
Editor *
Cinematographer *
Sound Location *
Sound Design *
Art Direction *
Check if NYU Student *
None
Screenwriter
Producer
Editor
Cinematographer
Sound Location
Sound Design
Art Direction
List of Actor Names and their Roles *
Please write the actor name followed by the role in quotes. For example Jane Doe as "Annie".
Original Score? *
Yes
No
If yes, name of composer
Director Biography (limit 800 characters) *
I understand the registration deadline is Tuesday, December 1, 2009. *
Yes
I understand that 7 (seven) DVD copies for judging are due by 5 pm on Friday, December 18, 2009. *
Yes
I have read the guidelines & misrepresentation (such as false running times) on this form will result in disqualification. *
Yes
I understand that production stills may be printed in festival publications and I hereby give my permission for such use. *
Yes
A director’s photograph and a still image from the project should be emailed at the time of registration. These materials will be used on a festival webpage and may be used for festival publicity. All submissions should be digital and may be either jpeg or tiff, and high resolution (at least 300 dpi). We accept both color and black & white images. The Special Events Office will provide printed festival schedules, however, all other information about the films, filmmakers & festival will be posted on our interactive festival website.
Please email one still photo & one director's photo to jm8@nyu.edu. Make sure that your files are titled with a combination of your last name and the type of image you are sending, for example if your name is John Smith, your files should be titled "Smith_John_Still" and "Smith_John_Director".