The MadCat Women¹s International Film Festival is looking for submissions for its 8th annual Festival. MadCat seeks provocative and visionary films and videos from around the globe that are original in their use of the medium. The Festival is committed to showcasing women directors who challenge the use of sound and image and explore notions of visual story telling. MadCat screens works of ALL lengths and genres, about any topic and that are produced ANY year. Films can be directed or co-directed by women. MadCat sets itself apart from other women's festivals by curating its programs thematically and thus accepting a range of films about many different issues. MadCat is also committed to finding the most diverse group of filmmakers possible and is doing extensive outreach to international filmmakers and filmmakers of color. Please note international filmmakers do not need to pay any entry fee! Past Filmmakers Include: Su Friedrich, Sarah Jane Lapp, Jane Wong, Alice Guy Blaché, Patty Chang, Eva Aridjis, Louise Bourque, Betzy Bromberg, Jong Lim Ro, Donna Cameron, Abigail Child, Frédérique Devaux, Rita Gonzalez, Jacqueline Goss, Shirley Clarke and the list goes on! MadCat entry forms are now available at http://madcatfilmfestival.org/submissions.html as a word document and a PDF. If you would like to have a hard copy sent to you please email us your mailing address. Thank you for your time. MadCat Film Festival [log in to unmask] http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org LATE BIRD DEADLINE (aka Final Deadline): May 21, 2004 Entry Fee: $10-30 Sliding Scale. Pay what you can afford. No submission fee for international entrants! PREVIEW FORMATS: VHS 1/2" NTSC or PAL; DVD formats. EXHIBITION FORMATS: 35mm, 16mm, Super8, BetaSP, Mini DV, 3/4", SVHS, VHS. MadCat¹s annual Festival takes place throughout the month of September in the San Francisco, Bay Area at select locations. MadCat also tours throughout the US to Art Houses, Museums and Universities. MadCat is currently touring with the program GOTTA GET IT a program of international short films that explore passions and obsessions through documentary, animated and experimental work. Film descriptions for GOTTA GET IT can be found at http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org/programs.html#prog1. The Festival will also tour with the program CUT SNIP OOZE: Contemporary Animated Films by Women. This is a series of films that explore unsolved crimes and medical mysteries. Film descriptions can be found at http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org/programs.html#prog8. Please email us to book the shows or to find out the tour line-up! [log in to unmask] Tour Dates 2004! Date Venue Location Show March 30 Cornell Cinema Ithaca, NY Cut Snip Ooze April 4 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Gotta Get It April 10-15 Olympia Film Society Olympia, WA Gotta Get It April 21 College of the Atlantic Bar Harbor, ME Gotta Get It April 23 Squeaky Wheel Buffalo, NY Gotta Get It April 28 Hartford University Hartford, Conn Gotta Get It April 29 Pratt College Brooklyn, NY Gotta Get It May 7-8 Guild Cinema Albuquerque, NM Cut Snip Ooze May 22 Aurora Picture Show Houston, TX Gotta Get It May 23 Aurora Picture Show Houston, TX Gotta Get It June 2 Girl Fest Hawaii Honolulu, HI Selections from MadCat June 10 Webster University Webster Groves, MO Gotta Get It June 17 Webster University Webster Groves, MO Cut Snip Ooze ³The MadCat Film Festival tests, expands, and evolves the traditional, politically motivated, 20th Century definition of Œthe women's film festival.¹² Independent Film & Video Monthly ³MadCat isn't just a women's film festival - it's an arty showcase of avant-garde experimental shorts that veer far from the traditional modes of storytelling.² Seattle Weekly ³Ben-Dov has become curator par excellence!" Bay Area Business Woman ³As a genre, as a space for talking about, documenting, dramatizing, and inventing ourselves on camera, women's filmmaking can only grow and improve through ambitious events like MadCat. MadCat gets a big, big hand for insight, excellence, attitude, and chic.² Art Papers ³At MadCat, being avant-garde is just as important as being female² - SF Chronicle ³Female filmmakers have evolved, based on the stellar slate highlighted at the MadCat Film Festival, where post-feminism morphs into profound humanism. This is an exciting time for women filmmakers, and for all moviegoers.² - SF Weekly ³MadCat Film Festival selected as one of the Œ101 Reasons Why We Love the Bay Area.¹² - San Francisco Chronicle ³Best Film Festival [That Still Caters to the Underground] You probably won't discover the next big commercial thing at the MadCat International Women's Film Festival. For those of you looking for that kind of relief, MadCat delivers. The films are top-notch; they're so creative, in fact, that you wonder why all movies aren't made for the art of it. Offering content that only women can provide, MadCat takes the show on the road each year, but Ariella Ben-Dov started it all in San Francisco.² SF Bay Guardian MadCat Women's International Film Festival 639 Steiner Street San Francisco, CA 94117 USA Phone: 415 436-9523 Fax: 415 934-0642 [log in to unmask] http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org