BC’s first disability media festival
Kickstart is excited to announce the Wide Angle Media Festival (WAM), the inaugural disability media festival featuring commissioned shorts, feature length films and workshops. Mark your calendar for March 22-25 2012!
The theme of the Festival – “wide angle” – refers to the spirit of expansiveness and inclusion that lies at the core of disability arts, and to the widest range of media genres and formats. The intent is to broaden audiences for works by media artists with disabilities; to celebrate the spectrum of genres, styles and vision of those artists; and, to support the creation of new works.
Audiences will enjoy a privileged glimpse of the world through the lens of the disability experience. The themes of these works will be unlimited – they are not necessarily films about issues of disability; they will be about anything under the sun, as seen by filmmakers with disabilities.
We are presently putting a call out to all Canadian and International filmmakers with a disability to submit their films of any length, genre or topic, by the following deadlines:
SUBMISSIONS OPEN: August 15, 2011
EARLY BIRD: September 25, 2011 (discount on application)
SHORT FILM: December 1, 2011
FEATURE FILM: December 15, 2011
LATE FILM: January 20, 2012
WAM COMMISSIONING PROJECT!
Kickstart’s WAM Festival is excited to commission 5 short films made by Canadian filmmakers with a disability. Each filmmaker must provide a package with the film’s synopsis, draft of the script, director’s vision, production team and their bios, preliminary budget and action plan. Five selected filmmakers will receive a $1,500 cash prize from WAM an equipment loan package from William F. White International, valued at $10,000 and an insurance package from Front Row Insurance. The commissioned films will be screened at the WAM Festival in Vancouver, March 2012.
Commission Proposal Deadlines:
EARLYBIRD: September 11, 2011
REGULAR: September 15, 2011
LATE: October 1, 2011
WAB EXTENDED: October 7, 2011
Result Notification Date: November 1, 2011
PLEASE NOTE: All submissions for the Festival and for the Commission will only be accepted through the Withoutabox website. Acceptable formats are Microsoft Word, text files or PDFs. Nominal submission fees will apply.
For more information or to be a part of the Festival as a featured filmmaker, volunteer or audience member, please contact:
S. Siobhan McCarthy, Festival Producer
Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture
Phone: (604) 681 5788
Email: programs@kickstart-arts.ca
WAM is proudly supported by:
