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[MRFilm]

Hey there,

With some of the crew from work I was going to shoot a piece to enter in another contest which has a 4-5 minute time range.
It would be easy enough to expand to 6 minutes and tell a better story.
IF we did this and our shorter piece was posted on the other contest's website - and we DIDN'T promote it here, would we be violating the rules for Drama-Fest?

Our director knows more of the particulars on the other contest. Basically the piece (for them) is an audition piece for a reality show where the various entrants get "voted out of competition" then finally the winner gets to produce a film (short or feature I don't know). Which as I understand is the reality show portion, a la project greenlight.

I don't think they will show the original clips on television but they may post them all on the web. . .

I'd love make it: "two birds, one stone. . ."

Thanks,

MR

[Jason Ramsey]

If you enter a film in a DVX Fest, you may not promote it on any other website, than DVXUser until said festival is over.

You also, may not post any footage of your film anywhere, including here.

You may post stills on dvxuser, but again, no outside promotion is aloud.

Hope this helps. Just pick the one you want to competein the most, and go for it. Or make 2 films :)

[MRFilm]

It looks like the other contest has now pushed their timetable back. So, they wouldn't post anything after the DramaFest deadline.

We would actually do two different edits anyway as they want 5 min. max. including an intro by the filmmaker. So we'd only have 4 mins. or so whereas for Drama fest we'd use closer to the full 6 mins.

We'd probably do alternate takes anyway since one would have to be more "to the point" and realistically would be more like a trailer than a linear piece.

Right now we're just trying to get our script together and see what we're ready for.

After all: "the play is the thing. . ."

Without a story, it doesn't really matter what the deadlines are. . .

BTW Jason, I'm originally from Birmingham. Always good to see other Alabama Film Makers. Have you had anything show at SideWalkFest in Birmingham?

I've only missed two of the 8 years they've been around. A couple of friends of mine started it.

Thanks,

MR

[Jason Ramsey]

No. I just got these cameras, so I haven't made anything to enter yet. This will be the first. I have heard of the fest though. I know a few folks from Birmingham. It's about 3 hours from me though.

Jason

[MRFilm]

It's about 3 hours for me as well.

I don't have as much family there now but I still try to get down periodically, to see friends, take my daughter to see her other Grandmother. . .

I do try to make it a point to get to the festival, and I will be entering a short I shot for the 48Hour Film Project this past summer. It'll be nice to have something to enter, it's been a while.

If we get this Drama fest film going I will probably try to enter it as well. I believe entries start next spring.

http://www.sidewalkfest.com/ & http://www.sidewalkfilm.org/

Have a great weekend!

MR

[bgilfilmlover]

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