Submissions

Deadline: March 15!


Submissions:

  • Entries may be submitted through our Film Freeway page or by filling out the Online Entry Form.

  • Submitted works must have been completed after the 1st of January, 2021.

  • Entry Fee:

    • Regular Entry: $8.00

    • Student entry: FREE

  • Entry fee payment can be made through Film Freeway or through the Paypal link at the end of the online submission form.

  • Students must send a current student ID (photograph OK) or some other proof of current enrollment to: wvmsff@gmail.com.

  • Artists agree to allow festival organizers to use selected works for promotional materials and events.

  • All entry fees are used to help cover festival costs such as awards, printing and facility rentals. Thank You!


Categories:

  • Experimental

  • Short Narrative

  • Documentary

  • Animation

  • Student Work

  • Theme: Indeterminate Self

  • Performance, Video Installation, Expanded Media

Theme: Indeterminate Self

In addition to the standard categories listed, we invite time-based works that center on the theme: Indeterminate Self. In the wake of a global pandemic, and facing an uncertain social future, we’re curious about the impact of recent global events on the way we define ourselves and our boundaries physically, socially, psychologically, and spiritually. How have we been changed? Has the pandemic only hastened the redrawing of boundaries between mind and body brought on by the digital revolution? Do you inhabit your physical body the same now as you did three years ago? Do you dream in Zoom? Or, do you remain, in some fashion, in an Indeterminate space between body and mind, between flesh and technology, between worlds.

Performance and Media Exhibition:

This year we are also excited to accept submissions to a one-day media and performance exhibition to take place in the Falbo Theater of the Canady Creative Arts Center. As we begin to emerge more fully from pandemic restrictions and strive to regain some sense of in-person, corporeal, engagement, the WVM SFF seeks proposals for performance works that interrogate the relationship between the body and technology, intimacy and telepresence. Submissions may include theatre, dance, sound, or other performance works that incorporate audiovisual media. These might include remote, online or otherwise telematic performances. They might include augmented or virtual reality performances. They might include in-person performances involving media. Works may utilize tools like motion sensors, projection, live or fixed media in the engagement with the festival’s theme. Please submit a brief document with your submission describing concept and technical descriptions/requirements. Direct inquiries to wvmsff@gmail.com

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