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Telemarktips To Partner
With New England Telemark in Sponsoring the 2007 NET International
Tele Film Festival
As a result, the top prize will rise
to $500 cash, with quality additional quality prizes to be announced...
by Mitch Weber
April, 2007-- It's time to get your video footage
downloaded onto your computer and to fire up the old editing
program: this year's NET International Tele Film Festival promises
to be bigger and better than ever. As a result of a new partnership
between NET and Telemarktips.com, the first prize winner will
pocket $500 cash, more than twice last year's top award. We are
working on some incredibly cool additional prizes as well, so
stay tuned, we'll have more prize details to announce very shortly,
but don't wait to get started, trust me on this, if $500 cash
doesn't get you amateur tele and backcountry skiing filmmakers
psyched and motivated, these additional prizes we have in mind
almost certainly will.
In it's fourth year, the
NET Tele Film Festival has the distinction of having introduced
the world to the Powderwhores, first prize winners of the inaugaral
event. The rest is history now as brothers Noah and Jonah Howell,
along with Andy Jacobson, Andy Rosenberg and the rest of their
crew, went on to form the highly successful Powderwhore Productions,
producing and distribuiting two best selling and critically acclaimed
feature length tele films, PW05 & PW06, with a third currently
in production. The Powderwhores credit the exposure they received
in winning the NET Film Festival, along with the reception their
first short film received here on Telemarktips, as being the
key to their successful launch of Powderwhore Productions.
"Our experience at
the NET festival, and then reading the comments from viewers
of our film on Telemarktips, is what gave us the courage to take
the plunge and begin work on our first feature film," said
Noah Howell in a recent interveiw before setting off on a month-long
Alaska filming expedition. "Not only did the exposure and
reaction give us the confidence to proceed, it also helped us
lineup a few initial sponsors and to get the word out that we
were up and running and that we were capable of delivering the
goods to an already enthusastic audience," continued Howell.
Once again, judges will
pick five finalists from among the entries and all five films
will be shown at the festival, and all five finalists will also
be made available for download here on Telemarktips as well.
The Fourth Annyal NET International Tele Film Festival will take
place at Bowdoin College's Kresge Auditorium in association with
the Bowdoin Outing Club, of Brunswick, Maine. The event will
take place on November 7th, 2007 at 7:00 pm, admission is free.
In addition to the five finalist films, a feature length video
(TBA) will be shown as well.
Entry into the contest
portion of the festival is open to all amateur filmmakers. Films
must be no longer than 10 minutes and the theme should be telemark
skiing related. The entry fee is $10. Further details can be
found on the NET Web site Film
Festival page.
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