03.15 deadline for Cliffhanger Film Festival, Ft. Lee
03.15 - Posted by Editor
From the official announcement:
The Fort Lee Film Commission Celebrates Asian-American Filmmakers at April 3 Cliffhanger FilmFest
The Fort Lee Film Commission, celebrates Fort Lee's diversity and honors its role as birthplace of the American motion picture industry in this Cliffhanger Film Festival salute to Asian-American filmmakers.
On April 3, 2005 at 1pm at the newly restored auditorium of the Fort Lee Historic Park, the Film Commission will screen a number of Asian American films. Fort Lee's diverse population includes Korean-Americans and this film festival seeks to inspire young Korean-American students, and students of all nationalities, in Fort Lee to pursue a career in film.
Formats: VHS (can be projected on our digital projector) / 35mm / 16mm
Entry fees: None
Press Kit must be included with entry
Send entries / films / videos and press kits to:
Fort Lee Film Commission
c/o Tom Meyers - Executive Director
309 main Street
Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2005
Mission Statement:
The Fort Lee Film Commission celebrates Fort Lee's role as Birthplace of the American Motion Picture Industry. Studios such as Universal, 20th Century Fox and Paramount have their roots in Fort Lee. In addition, pioneer African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux shot many films in Fort Lee as an independent filmmaker from 1920 through 1948. Alice Guy Blache, the first woman film director, built her Solax Studio in Fort Lee and directed many of her films in Fort Lee. Today we celebrate independent filmmakers through our Cliffhanger Film Festivals. The term "CLIFFHANGER" was coined in Fort Lee when one of the first film stars, Pearl White, shot her "Perils of Pauline" movie serials atop the cliffs of the Palisades. Today we hold our "Cliffhanger" film festivals in a theater atop the Palisades not far from where Pearl White dangled from the cliffs in the early 1900s. We hope to encourage young filmmakers to shoot and screen their films in Fort Lee. We celebrate the diversity in film today and we hope to make this first Cliffhanger Asian-American Film festival an annual event.
