Halloween Film Festival- Call to Film Makers

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"Halloween Film Festival" Competition Announced by
Production Services Association of Northwest Florida​

September 22, 2009-- Fort Walton Beach, FL-- Northwest Florida filmmakers are invited to participate in a "Halloween Film Festival" competition sponsored by the Production Services Association of Northwest Florida.

Filmmakers of all ages and skill levels are encouraged to produce a short film in the "fright" genre (being horror, suspense thriller, science fiction/fantasy, scary comedy, or Halloween themed. The deadline for submission is October 28, 2009. All movies that meet requirements will be screened on Halloween Day (Saturday, October 31st) at the Cinema Plus theater in downtown Fort Walton Beach. The submission requirements are:

• No entry fee required
• Participants do not need to be members of the PSA of NWF to compete.
• The finished movie must be between 2 ? 9 minutes in length, including opening titles and closing credits
• The movie must be in 16:9 widescreen format and submitted on DVD or as a video file (AVI, MOV, or MPEG format) on disc or flash drive
• No copyrighted materials can be used without proof of ownership or letter of permission (buy-out music or stock footage/graphics is permitted)
• Submissions must include talent and location releases
• The movie must be rated between "G" and "PG-13", based on www.MPAA.com guidelines
• The PSA of NWF reserves the right to refuse an entry for poor production values (lighting, audio, script, editing, continuity, etc?)

Judging will be handled in three tiers. Moviegoers will participate in the judging at the Halloween Day screening. The movies will then be available for online judging from November 1-10, 2009. A panel of PSA members who are not participants in the competition will provide the final judging round. The winners will be determined from the results from all three judging rounds. Winners will be announced on November 11, 2009, at the public meeting of the Production Services Association of NW Florida, held at Fokker?s Pizza & Sports Pub in downtown Fort Walton Beach, starting at 6pm. Along with bragging rights, prizes will be awarded for first, second, and third place winners as well as honorable mentions.

Filmmakers of all ages and skill levels are encouraged to participate. "This is going to be a great event," said RJ Murdock, president of the PSA of NWF. "I?m looking forward to seeing what kind of talent the Emerald Coast has to offer."

For more information about the "Halloween Film Festival" competition, please contact RJ Murdock at 850-244-7100 or info@psanwf.com. For more information about the Production Services Association, visit our website at http://www.PSAnwf.com.