Channels

    4500 Digital Video Competiton

This competition is so-named because teams of students were given three days, or around 4,500 minutes, to complete their own movie.

There were a few stipulations, though. Groups were comprised of two to five students, and they randomly picked a genre on which to focus.

Also, the students were all given a few items that had to be featured in the film. Each had to feature a suitcase, a character named Marsilia Ringler, and a specific line of dialogue. While including all of these elements, the film also had to be no longer than five minutes.

As daunting as this task might seem, every entry has been completely original and well executed. In fact, the high quality of the entries has led to some unexpected problems in judging the films.



    Image Over Word 2007

IoW is an exercise to hone filmmaking skills. We give you the challenge of creating compelling stories using our unremarkable script. The script is intentionally difficult and frustrating to see how creative you are at making something out of nothing. This exercise forces you to explore, learn and experiment with the other tools cinema provides the storyteller: composition of frame, camera movement, lighting, sound, color, props, etc. IoW is intended as a springboard for amateur and student filmmakers to have their work seen by industry professionals and for audiences to be able to subjectively compare one filmmaker's skills over another's since you all have to tell your story using the same script.

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    SouthSide Film Festival

The SouthSide Film Festival (SSFF) is a non-competitive, not-for-profit festival that views works of cinema as art, not as a commercial enterprise. We enjoy putting the filmmaker first, above all else, in our grass-rooted festival on the south side of Bethlehem, PA, USA. We look for storytellers! To date we have screened films from 45 countries and 28 States in only four years.

Archived here is a small selection of films from past festivals. Many more are to come, so keep checking back.