Film & Script Submissions Now Being Accepted
for 13th Edition of the
Hollywood Black Film Festival;
New FILM DIASPORA Sidebar Added
The Hollywood Black Film Festival (HBFF) -- recognized as one of the
leading black film festivals in the world -- is now accepting
submissions for the 2013 festival, to be held October 2-6, 2013 in
Hollywood, CA. Regular feature, short, student and documentary film
submissions, Project Stargazer submissions, and scripts for the
Storyteller Competition will be accepted through June 16. The late
deadline is July 8.
HBFF welcomes narrative features, shorts, student and documentary films
for its competitive program. Animation films and music videos submitted
are accepted for the non-competitive program only. All films submitted
must have been completed after September 1, 2012.
HBFF will introduce a new competitive sidebar this year, FILM DIASPORA
, to showcase independent films and filmmakers from the African
Diaspora. Feature, short and documentary films submitted to compete in
FILM DIASPORA must have been produced by filmmakers residing outside the
U.S. -- in Africa, the Caribbean, Central or Latin America.
HBFF has a history of screening films from throughout the Diaspora. In
addition to opening the 2011 festival with "A Million Colours," a South
African film, HBFF has screened films from Nigeria, Ghana, Central
African Republic, Burundi, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Niger, Haiti, Bahamas,
Jamaica, Brazil, Cuba, and Trinidad and Tobago. Submissions for the
FILM DIASPORA category must have been completed after September 1, 2011.
HBFF accepts film submissions from all filmmakers, however to be
eligible for the festival's competitive program, one of the film's
creative principals, i.e. the writer, director or producer must be Black
or of African heritage. All other films will be considered for our
invitational program. Please notify the festival in your application if
your submission does not meet the requirements for the competitive
program and you wish to be considered for the invitational program.
Films that have screened at HBFF include director John Singleton's box
office blockbuster, "2 Fast 2 Furious," the critically-acclaimed "The
Hurricane" (starring Academy Award(r) winner Denzel Washington),
director Kasi Lemmons' "The Caveman's Valentine" (starring Samuel L.
Jackson), and director Reggie Rock Bythewood's "Dancing in September."
Submissions
for the 2013 HBFF Storyteller Competition are sought from black
screenwriters who are serious about a career as a screenwriter.
Submissions of screenplays of 90-120 pages, on any topic and genre, will
be accepted.
Project
Stargazer, a new partnership with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
is accepting story ideas that clearly feature one or more NASA
technologies as a plot element in the story. Submissions must include a
logline, synopsis, treatment and an artistic statement describing your
creative vision for the project.
All films, scripts and story ideas must be submitted through Withoutabox (WAB) at
https://www.withoutabox.com/login/1175. Submission fees for all categories are detailed on WAB. $15 discount available for student submissions.
Festival Dates: October 2-6, 2013
Call for Entries: April 1 - July 1, 2013
Earlybird Deadline
: May 5, 2013
Regular Deadline: June 16, 2013
Late Deadline: July 1, 2013
WAB Extended Deadline: July 8, 2013
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