Film Festival • Directors Contest

Haydenfilms' 2007 Director's Contest is well under way! In conjunction with the SouthSide Film Festival, Haydenfilms is proud to host the 2007 Image over Word competition.

We give you the script, you give us the story

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. As long as you don't change the text of the script (except where noted), artistic license reigns!

To view and vote for this year's submissions, click here:

http://www.haydenfilms.com/iow

For more information about IoW, click here:

http://www.ssff.org/index.cfm?organization_id=7§ion_id=395&page_id=1615