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Submit 10 page script + 1 paragraph synopsis by 6pm, Fri, 11/14/08
by CineSource
Win
1 Day HD Camera + crew
This means a Red or HD camera, full lighting kit and a three to five person crew
2nd + 3rd prizes
Will include mix time hotel getaways, tape stock, theater tickets and more.
CineSource takes a special interest in the development of narrative both as an art and a business. Our job - like Godard's and Truffaut's, at Cahiers du Cinema in the 50s - is to stimulate the production of bold new narratives. From Homer's Odyssey through Coppola's Godfather or Rimbaud's Season in Hell to Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise, aggressive storytelling reminds us that stories are our most telling human feature - and every generation and period needs new ones.
Previously, we have sought out and interviewed new narrative makers like Barry Jenkins or Julie Rubio, or older avant-garte ones like Rob Nilsson, but now we are hoping to find you before you even emerge - and find out what you have to say about our society. New narratives are needed in dealing with the Middle East or right here in the Bay Area," we note in Sep08 CS, "Oakland is begging for its version of Singleton's masterful, Boyz n the Hood." In the same issue, Barry Jenkins says, "In San Francisco, here you can just point your camera, and there's a story. It's like the character says: 'Every man with a street corner has himself a view.' It was just a very ready place to be filmed."
Indeed, San Francisco is where the new Vietnamese immigrant and the IT billionaire can believably meet on the BART, where the tribal dumpster diver and the Black Diva opera singer could conceivably be struggling over the same antique mirror in a Mission Goodwill. Do we have other big 'meta-narratives' like the Summer of Love or the Decade of Digital? What are they?
We ask for 10 typed pages, in standard screenplay format, because you may as well learn how to do that and it provides a lot of space you don't have to fill with words (figure about 1 minute screen time per page). Nevertheless, we are searching out new narratives in the mode of Caligari, (see Sep08 CS, 'Predicting the Future Through Film'), hence the best idea will probably win (although precisely what is an artistic Gordian knot is better left to our esteemed judges).
To fertilize the mind a little, however, San Francisco is already a romantic icon and, often, great art is a lot like cliche‚ only done hundreds of times better and with wicked psychological twists (see Caligari again). SF is known for film noire, beatniks and hippies, the Internet and easy liberal living but does any of this have to be mentioned? Of course not! You can shoot Iowa right over the hills in Modesto - if it informs our reality in Oakland.
It is all in the narrative vertigo, to coin an SF cinema archetype, the new places it takes us while speaking freshly to ancient issues, the sheer imaginary.
Questions email Doniphan or call 510 220-2126.
Search it out.
Winner announced at the CineSource Launch Party (better-late-then-never) mid-November, 2008, TBA.
Scripts reviewed by a blue-ribbon panel of Bay Area filmmakers and narrative lauriates, TBA.
Equipmentt, crew and scheduling may vary.
CineSource not liable for any tragedies, lesser problems or successes resulting from this contest.
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 08:43 PM
by CineSource
Win
1 Day HD Camera + crew
This means a Red or HD camera, full lighting kit and a three to five person crew
2nd + 3rd prizes
Will include mix time hotel getaways, tape stock, theater tickets and more.
CineSource takes a special interest in the development of narrative both as an art and a business. Our job - like Godard's and Truffaut's, at Cahiers du Cinema in the 50s - is to stimulate the production of bold new narratives. From Homer's Odyssey through Coppola's Godfather or Rimbaud's Season in Hell to Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise, aggressive storytelling reminds us that stories are our most telling human feature - and every generation and period needs new ones.
Previously, we have sought out and interviewed new narrative makers like Barry Jenkins or Julie Rubio, or older avant-garte ones like Rob Nilsson, but now we are hoping to find you before you even emerge - and find out what you have to say about our society. New narratives are needed in dealing with the Middle East or right here in the Bay Area," we note in Sep08 CS, "Oakland is begging for its version of Singleton's masterful, Boyz n the Hood." In the same issue, Barry Jenkins says, "In San Francisco, here you can just point your camera, and there's a story. It's like the character says: 'Every man with a street corner has himself a view.' It was just a very ready place to be filmed."
Indeed, San Francisco is where the new Vietnamese immigrant and the IT billionaire can believably meet on the BART, where the tribal dumpster diver and the Black Diva opera singer could conceivably be struggling over the same antique mirror in a Mission Goodwill. Do we have other big 'meta-narratives' like the Summer of Love or the Decade of Digital? What are they?
We ask for 10 typed pages, in standard screenplay format, because you may as well learn how to do that and it provides a lot of space you don't have to fill with words (figure about 1 minute screen time per page). Nevertheless, we are searching out new narratives in the mode of Caligari, (see Sep08 CS, 'Predicting the Future Through Film'), hence the best idea will probably win (although precisely what is an artistic Gordian knot is better left to our esteemed judges).
To fertilize the mind a little, however, San Francisco is already a romantic icon and, often, great art is a lot like cliche‚ only done hundreds of times better and with wicked psychological twists (see Caligari again). SF is known for film noire, beatniks and hippies, the Internet and easy liberal living but does any of this have to be mentioned? Of course not! You can shoot Iowa right over the hills in Modesto - if it informs our reality in Oakland.
It is all in the narrative vertigo, to coin an SF cinema archetype, the new places it takes us while speaking freshly to ancient issues, the sheer imaginary.
Questions email Doniphan or call 510 220-2126.
Search it out.
Winner announced at the CineSource Launch Party (better-late-then-never) mid-November, 2008, TBA.
Scripts reviewed by a blue-ribbon panel of Bay Area filmmakers and narrative lauriates, TBA.
Equipmentt, crew and scheduling may vary.
CineSource not liable for any tragedies, lesser problems or successes resulting from this contest.
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 08:43 PM
