Hey doc filmmakers! This is for You!: PUMACreative Impact Award launches at Sundance - Open Call

PUMACreative
Impact Award

The PUMA.Creative Impact Award is a major new annual award to honour the documentary film creating the most significant impact in the world. This 50,000 Euro award acknowledges the film’s makers and will help the continuation of the film’s campaign work.

Our aim is to draw attention to the finest social justice filmmaking in the world, with a prize that underlines the role and importance of documentary film in society; a prize that encourages best practice in the filmmaking community, to collect and communicate relevant data on these films. Click here for full press release on the launch of the PUMACreative Impact award.

As individuals and as organisations, we are faced with some serious challenges today such as ongoing conflict, climate change, loss of biodiversity. None of these issues will solve themselves without intervention. We, at PUMA, have chosen to intervene through film because it is the most powerful medium to reach mass audiences and influence opinion formers and will contribute to leaving a better world for generations to come.
Jochen Zeitz, Chairman & CEO of PUMA

 

The PUMA.Creative Impact Award will be selected by a jury which includes Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan; Morgan Spurlock, Academy Award nominated Director of Super Size Me; Orlando Bagwell, Director of the Ford Foundation Social Justice Media Initiative; and Emmanuel Jal, musician and activist.

The call for the PUMA.Creative Impact Award opens on January 21 during the Sundance Film Festival. Anyone can put a film forward from any country—filmmakers, distributors, film festivals, partner organisations including NGOs and Foundations, film critics and journalists. Films can be put forward any time up to three years after release (where the release is defined as first film festival screening, TV broadcast, cinema release or internet release).

Submissions close on April 1, 2011 when Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation will assess applications and produce a shortlist to be assessed by an international Peer Review Committee including: Carol Cone, Executive Vice President of Cone@Edelman; Diana Barrett, President and Founder of Fledgling Fund; Yvette Alberdingkthijm, Executive Director of WITNESS; Pat Aufderheide, Director of Center for Social Media, American University; Isabelle Schwarz, Head of Strategic Programmes at European Cultural Foundation; Heidi Gronauer at EsoDoc; Sarah Hunter, Head of UK Public Policy at Google; Sally Ann Wilson, Secretary-General at Commonwealth Broadcasting Association; Isabel Arrate, Fund Manager at the Jan Vrijman Fund; and Karolina Lidin, Documentary Consultant at the Nordisk Film & TV Fond and Sheffield Doc/Fest.

 

Find out more about our friends at Puma:

The Film Collaborative Update on Guiding Features to Sundance > SydneysBuzz

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Excerpt:

"Happy New Year from The Film Collaborative!

The Film Collaborative has already been guiding 3 feature filmmakers and are also going to assist a short and probably add a 4th of 5th feature. Sundance filmmakers benefit from our distributiion education because we’re helping them navigate distribution and avoid the pitfalls of excessive middlemen or not-so-ideal companies who are pursuing them. We’re helping them choose wisely and sometimes also directly representing their films on the sales side. And of course we educate and guide them on the DIY side. It’s still early in the process to see exactly how much we’ll end up doing per film (in terms of sales and/or direct distribution) but already we’re helping filmmakers sift through all their options and all the entities approaching them.

With regard to We Were Here, David Weissman signed up to TFC months ago and we’re handling grassroots outreach for him as well as our usual distribution advising and of course working with Jonathan Dana, who’s awesome.

And the other films at Sundance we are working with are:

Shut Up Little Man by Matthew Bate (though we’ve just started dealing and only giving them advice so far)....

Todos tus muertos (All your Dead Ones) by Carlos Moreno....

and Lord Byron by Zack Godshall...."

read the full post on indiewire.com

Indie Film needs $ for Sundance! Pariah the Movie by Dee Rees — Kickstarter

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HELP US PREMIERE PARIAH AT THE 2011 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL!

Dear Friends, Family, and Fans,

I know you have busy lives and tons of things to do especially with the holidays coming up and we want to thank you SO much for taking the time to watch our kickstarter video. We sincerely believe that PARIAH is a film that will touch audiences and open minds in a meaningful way, and we hope you’ll be a part of helping us bring it to the big screen!

Making this film over the past five and half years has been a labor of love and a true testament to independent spirit and it’s only fitting that we finish the film in the same fashion. We’re standing on a lot of shoulders and couldn’t have made it this far without an amazing team of artists, filmmakers, and fans surrounding us and holding us up. We’re almost there and just need to pay for our music clearances, sound mix, and help bring some of our fabulous cast out to the festival to help in the effort to bring the film to a theater near you. You’ve help us make it this far, please help us go a bit further and make our dreams come true.

I know it sounds corny, but the power really is in your hands, and you can make a huge difference in the life and success of this film no matter what your contribution level. Your voice counts and your support of this film matters. Thank you for supporting Pariah and thank you for being a part of bringing this story to life.

Kind Regards,
Dee