Damnationland (0)

Festival start: 13 October 2017      Festival end: 15 October 2017

Now in its 7th year, Damnationland is an invitational Maine-based short genre fest. We work hard to feature the best filmmakers and films from Maine. Our premiere event draws over 800 excited film fans to the beautiful State Theater in Portland every year in early October. The program then tours all over Maine before moving on to festivals and other screenings around the world. Last year, we screened from Ohio to Singapore, with a couple stops between.

This year, we are adding an international film competition to our annual get-down. In 2017, Damnationland will be featuring independent films from across the world for the first time. No longer contained to the borders of Maine, Damnationland is now opening up a few precious slots to filmmakers from around the world.

The highlight of the program will still be the premiere of 7 Maine-made dark genre pieces at the State Theatre. It's a huge event, with over 800 film viewers lining up last year to see Maine's best. But this year we will be supplementing the Maine shorts with additional screenings. All weekend, we hope to show the best dark genre work from around the world.

We want to show filmmakers outside of the state what Maine can do, and expose their films to our own rabid Damnationland audience.

So send us your dark genre films! We are looking for things that are dark, scary, disturbing, seedy, or just downright weird. Take a look at the archive on our website to see what sort of films we feature.

We can promise you great crowds for your screenings and a great time in one of the best small cities in the country. Winners will also receive a travel stipend to attend the festival here in Maine in mid-October. Our primary goal is to get you here. You show us your film, and the we can show you ours!

Visit Damnationland: The Way Film Should Be!

Accepted filmmakers will receive:
• A travel stipend to visit Portland, Maine for their screenings
• 2 copies of the Damnationland 2017 DVD
• A Damnationland 2017 T-shirt
• 2 Festival Passes
• 2 VIP tickets to the Damnationland 2016 Premiere Event, held at the State Theater in Portland Maine in October. Tickets include admission to a filmmakers-only champagne toast before the screening, and admission to the afterparty.

Criteria:

1) Your film is a quality film made with skill, voice, and vision.
2) Your film is dark, darkly funny, sad, scary, moody, eerie, tragic, disturbing, fantastic, or weird.

That is it! if you meet these requirements, send us your film!

Preference will be given to International, US, and Regional premieres. But only good ones.

RULES
Film Requirements:
• Entrant must be 21 years of age to enter a film in the festival
• Must be entered in one of the two (2) length categories
• All accepted films will be considered for Special Awards, to be awarded at judges' discretion
• All finished film/video must be in NTSC Acceptable Submission Formats.
• Playable DVDs should be mailed to: Damnationland c/o Allen Baldwin - The Story Board, 175 Lancaster Street Suite 209, Portand, ME 04101


Term and Conditions: Important, please read closely.


1. By entering a submission to Damnationland, you agree to all of the terms and conditions stated below and herein.

2. You are establishing an enforceable agreement with Damnationland, LLC, and therefore are responsible for understanding all these terms and abiding by them. If you do not understand a term, please contact us.

3. You are giving Damnationland, LLC, its licensees, successors, assigns, and any other parties succeeding or authorized by it (collectively, “Damnationland”) certain rights with regard to intellectual property that makes up your submission.

4. With regard to your submission, you agree to give Damnationland a perpetual, worldwide, nonexclusive license to use, publicly perform, publicly display, copy, distribute, and create derivative works of your submission in connection with the “Damnationland” name.

5. We agree that Damnationland will give all credits that we practicably can, given case-by-case circumstances.

6. You warrant that all copyrighted material--music, pictures, web content, videos, art, graphic design, etc. (this is not an exhaustive list, rather it is exemplary)—is either owned by you, or that you have express written permission to use any copyrighted material found in your submission. No exceptions.

7. You agree, that in the event that the previous bullet point turns out to be not true (you have infringed someone else’s copyrights), to indemnify and hold harmless Damnationland for any claims or threat of claim against the same, and that you will pay for (first), or reimburse (last resort), all costs associated with defending any such claims against Damnationland for violation of another’s copyright as a result of your submission.

8. You warrant that you have full consent and permission from all people who appear in any identifiable manner in your submission to use their persona in your submission, their knowing and understanding that their image or likeness may be used commercially.

9. You agree to hereby release, indemnify, and hold harmless Damnationland from any and all claims, including, without limitation, claims for damages for libel, infringement of rights of publicity, invasion of privacy, portrayal in a false light, or any other claim from any person based on use of your submission.

10. Any and all disputes arising from your submission shall be first attempted to be resolved by a mediator in Maine, in person or through electronic and phone communication.

11. The parties agree Maine law applies to this agreement, and that all federal and state courts of Maine shall have subject matter jurisdiction of this agreement.

12. This is the entire agreement with respect to the parties, and all other communications about this matter are not a part of this agreement.