Our Launch Event was a huge success!  Over 150 filmmakers, animators, musicians, actors, and other artists and industry professionals showed up to meet each other, network, and learn The Element for this year (“Light”), as well as just to learn more about us and our festival in general. And the enthusiasm from our Teams was infectious to say the least! Pictures from the event are coming soon, stay tuned!

We mentioned this at the Launch Event, but wanted to emphasize it for those who couldn’t make it: our Competition has the standard Awards for “Best Film”, “Best Director”, “Best Acting”, “Best Writing”, “Best Cinematography” and “Best Effects” BUT, the one people don’t expect (and one of the important ones in the grand scheme of things) is the Award for “Best Marketing”. This is the ONLY award that is specifically chosen by the Project Twenty1 Festival Administration (rather than a panel of judges) because we have direct contact to Teams online, through our Myspace, YouTube, Facebook, etc. Project Twenty1 will updating links & information on the 21-Day Competition Teams Page with links to Team-created promotional pages. Team members, if you have created any additional posters/trailers/websites, etc., make sure you send us updates! Audiences, please check back on our site so you can track their progress and see which films to root for during the screenings. After all, there is an “Audience Favorite Award” too! 🙂

Philadelphia Film-A-Thon Submissions

The other half of our Festival, the Philadelphia Film-A-Thon is still accepting submissions! With our new Grand Prize package, we feel like there might be others of you out there eager to submit! We’re receiving a lot of high-quality films, but you never know… yours may be The One the judges are waiting for! Fortunately, the Late Entry Deadline for the Film-A-Thon is now August 9th, but that’s still not far off!

The Film-A-Thon accepts shorts and features, documentaries, narratives, and experimental films, live-action and animation, up to 2 hours long. While the distribution Prize is only for the Winner of “Best Feature” in the Film-A-Thon, all other prizes, including trophy, Toon Boom Storyboard packages, and assorted gifts are still completely available to short film submissions.

Thank You!

We’d like to thank our own Jason Asselta for his diligence and decision to eschew sleep for a week, as well as Danny Rodriguez over at Polychrome Pictures for their combined efforts in setting up the distribution Prize. We’d also like to thank the good folks at ToonBoom for providing the storyboarding software Prizes, International House for once again being a gracious host, Feastivities Catering and Edible Architecture for the amazing spreads at the Launch Event, and lastly the Greater Philadelphia Film Office for providing our Teams with Crew passes to make shooting in Philadelphia even more affordable this summer. For those Team Leaders who were unable to attend the Launch Event but will be attending the Project Twenty1 Film Festival in October, you may pick up your pass at the fest and use it for discounts around Philly while you’re in town that weekend!