| Klieg Lights & Megabytes: The Festival Moves to an Exciting New Venue -- The Hollywood Athletic Club, and Screenings Return to the Directors Guild of America |
NEW
YORK, NY (Dec. 4, 2000) -- The Yahoo! Internet Life Online Film Festival
returns to Hollywood for its second walk down the red carpet, Wednesday,
March 21 and Thursday, March 22, 2001. The Festival is a two-day
real-world exploration of on and off-line filmmaking that defines the
trends and unveils the future of entertainment. This year's event
goes live from the legendary Hollywood Athletic Club and the prestigious
Directors Guild of America Theater (DGA). Film submissions in all categories
are being taken now at www.yilfilmfestival.com."Last year's
Festival exceeded our expectations on all levels -- the combination of
Hollywood's elite with new media filmmaking created an infectious electricity
and overwhelming attendance," explained Andrew Kramer, Publisher,
Yahoo! Internet Life and Executive Producer, Yahoo! Internet Life Online
Film Festival. "This past year's evolution of the Internet universe
provides us with greater impetus for exploring and understanding entertainment
in the 21st century. Our 2001 forum invites Hollywood leaders and
filmmaking pioneers to meet this challenge with even more zeal than before."
The Festival's mission
is to connect and celebrate the people, companies and technologies in
the film community making significant strides in the ever-changing world
of entertainment. The lineup for the 2-day Yahoo! Internet Life
Online Film Festival follows:
EXHIBITS:
A showcase exhibition in which online film companies, studios, digital
technology companies, and other film-related sites will exhibit their
Web presence and/or innovative technologies in unique "living room" spaces
created by Festival organizers at The Hollywood Athletic Club.
FILM SCREENINGS:
At the DGA, the Festival will screen the innovative work of filmmakers
who were selected from a call of entries and who are creating compelling
entertainment for the 21st Century.
CONFERENCE: The
Showcase Room at The Hollywood Athletic Club will feature the panel discussions
and keynotes where film luminaries and industry influencers discuss the
most current issues in entertainment.
PARTIES:
Numerous events celebrating this unique gathering from impromptu cocktail
parties to the final-night awards ceremony.
The Festival is
now accepting submissions in the following categories; Feature/Fiction,
Feature/Documentary, Feature/Animation, Short/Fiction, Short/Documentary,
Short/Animation and the OFFShort -- new in 2001, the OFFShorts competition
is open to films under 10 minutes that have been developed expressly to
debut at the Festival. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2001.
Complete details and entry forms can be found at www.yilfilmfestival.com.
Selected shorts
will be screened online at Yahoo! Movies, http://movies.yahoo.com,
for a one month pre-festival period. Votes will be cast online nationally
by the public and by the official Festival Jury. The Festival programming
will be a combination of the winning features and shorts chosen from the
competition. Selected OFFShorts will be programmed as a looped series
on screens to be viewed throughout all Festival venues. Prizes will be
awarded on the final night awards ceremony.
Current sponsors
for the Festival include Yahoo! Movies, The New York Times, The Hollywood
Reporter, RES Magazine and FILMMAKER Magazine.
About Yahoo!
Internet Life
Yahoo! Internet
Life (www.yil.com), the world's largest
consumer lifestyle magazine covering the Internet, is a monthly publication
of Ziff Davis Media.
