Here's an opportunity for filmmakers: 10 Minute Film Festival (Cash Prize)
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The past 12 months have been a challenge to say the least, but as a black filmmaker, there has been plenty of material to work with. Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning wants you to use that material to create a film for a chance to win cash prizes. Submissions for The 10 Minute Film Festival are now open, so if you have a short film in the vault or have the time to create one, the time is now.Submit here! (Free)RSVP to view film festival here! (Free)Any film on any subject, in any style, of 10 minutes or less may be submitted to the 10-Minute Film Festival. Submission is free. The festival will premiere exclusively on the JCAL’s YouTube channel in Spring 2021. All NYC-based filmmakers age 13 and up are eligible to submit; Queens-based filmmakers of color receive priority. Ten to 15 films are expected to be selected.Submissions will be judged by a three-person jury. The Grand Prize will be awarded $500. The Second Prize will receive $300. The Audience Prize (chosen by online vote) will receive $300. A public program, including a live online interview on YouTube with each filmmaker, will be held to coincide with the festival.
Meet the JurorsShawn Antoine II is an award-winning filmmaker based in Harlem. His love for filmmaking came about after he created his first short-documentary, The Movement. Since then, he took on the mantra to “Inform and Inspire” through his films. He has now directed nine short films, and produced two. His most recent film, Showtime, had been selected for 47 film festivals and he was named Best New Director by the Hip Hop Film Festival. He is currently an apprentice with NBC's The Blacklist.
Brittany Clemons is a development producer at Jigsaw Productions. Prior to development, Brittany contributed to documentary television as a story producer and associate producer. The majority of her work has been featured on PBS, including Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, and the celebrity genealogy series Finding Your Roots. She has also served as a senior associate producer on NBC’s documentary special Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media, for which she received an Emmy nomination for outstanding research, and as a story producer on the six-part AMC documentary series Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America.
Tyrel Hunt is a writer and filmmaker from Jamaica, Queens. After graduating as a Division One student athlete, he founded Grittyvibes.com, a popular platform for up-and-coming artists. The highly trafficked site features hundreds of interviews and articles, and thousands of readers online. He works full time as Marketing Manager for Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. As a filmmaker, he wrote, edited and directed the award-winning feature film April Again.
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