New York Film & TV Festival (0)

Festival start: 03 December 2016      Festival end: 04 December 2016

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Each winner receives a free copy ($249 value).

Join our powerful slate of international film and television entries at the Summer 2016 New York Film & Television Festival

Now accepting submissions:

* Short Films
* Feature Films
* Short Screenplays
* Feature Screenplays
* Teleplays
* TV Pilots
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We will be holding live screenings of feature films and shorts, and readings from our award-winning screenplays on September 12, 2016
at The Secret Theatre located at 44-02 23rd St
Long Island City, NYC, NY 11101-5000

We will open our festivities with live readings, then segue into short screenings and feature film screenings, culminating in a filmmaker Q&A, awards ceremony and afterparty (location to be announced).

About The Venue

The Secret Theatre is a custom built theatre and rehearsal rooms facility in the heart of LIC’s artist’s quarter. Resident Company The Queens Players and visiting NY theatre companies can comfortably seat 99 people and the space has a flexibility which allows us to produce shows either as thrust, proscenium, transverse or other styles of theatre. There are three separate clean restrooms, a box office, a gallery/foyer, and a dressing room for the artistes. Our second performance and rehearsal room POCO Space also has two dedicated restrooms and is suitable for small and workshop style shows and rehearsals.

* Founded by Joe Hodge, celebrity cinematographer and winner of the 2011 Rhode Island International Screenplay Competition and the 2011 American International Screenplay Competition.

Joe launched a successful Kickstarter campaign for Departed Harvest with the actor Luis Guzman (Anger Management, Boogie Nights).

www.DepartedHarvest.com

Awards & Prizes

Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated Judges will choose the winners.

Winning scripts will be read by producers for a possible film/TV production deal.*

Each winner receives a copy of Final Draft screenwriting software.

Grand Prize (For Films and Scripts):

1) Winner will receive a full scholarship to our 2017 Vermont Film School ($2500 Value)

2) Various surprise prizes from our sponsors ($2400 Value)

3) Winning scripts read by producers.

* Disclaimer: Producers/festival staff/employess/assigns/heirs are not obligated to produce or critique any screenplays/teleplays submitted to the New York Film & Television Festival.

Screenplay/Teleplay © Copyright remains 100% property of its writer(s).

Rules & Terms

Official New York Film & Television Festival Rules & Terms:

* More than one entry may be submitted. However, each entry must be accompanied by a separate entry form and entry fee.

All submitted films and/or screenplays/music/treatments must comply with the Submissions Guidelines including deadlines, exhibition format, entry material, etc.

Please upload a secure online screener and/or screenplay/music/treatments. The film and/or screenplay must be uploaded by the submission deadline in order to be considered. Your submission application will not be processed otherwise. If you are accepted into the festival, a DVD or Blu-ray screener must be submitted.

We will email you when we receive your submission. If you do not receive an email, we did not receive your submission.

The New York Film & Television Festival is not accepting works-in-progress.

Films and/or screenplays submitted must be available in English or in the original language with English subtitles.

Entry fees are payable by PayPal to Vermont Film School LLC.

Entrants are responsible for obtaining any necessary licenses, royalties, release forms, clearances and permits necessary to present their work. The New York Film & Television Festival is not responsible for any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits or royalty infringement related to the work.

If your film is selected, you will be asked to provide either a print or digital press kit which includes: headshot and brief bio of director, color and/or B&W stills from the film, screeners for press, and a video trailer (cleared for use on the Festival website).

The date, time and location of the screenings of films are solely at the discretion of The New York Film & Television Festival.

The Festival will award up to six additional screenings to the top three features and top three short films. These screenings will take place throughout New York and New England. The Festival requires that the filmmaker allow these additional screenings of his/her work.

All film and screenplay entries selected for the festival grant the The New York Film & Television Festival the rights to use footage, stills, titles and information from the film for promotional purposes.

All filmmakers will be notified via email regarding their acceptance into the Festival.