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ACTION/CUT 2010

SHORT FILM COMPETITION


Action/Cut Filmmaking launches its seventh annual International Short Film Competition in 2010. 


"Action/Cut: Top 10 Shorts Festival in the World - 
for filmmakers looking to showcase their talent!" 

MovieMaker Magazine

OVER 125 ONE-OF-A-KIND PRIZES
VALUED AT $50,000 INCLUDING 
THE PANAVISION PRIZE!


CONGRATS...you've gone from idea to page to shoot 
to finished film!  
Now what?

Now enter your work in this unique Hollywood
competition that provides indie filmmakers worldwide the festival opportunity to show their work at this
industry-driven Action/Cut Short Film Competition.

Action/Cut celebrates talented filmmakers by opening career doors
and offering invaluable prizes of networking access meetings including 
over 125 Cash and Sponsored Prizes to the winners valued at over $50,000 
including the
Panavision Award...the most number of prizes of any shorts festival in the world!


"The Action/Cut Short Film Competition is sure to become one of the premier contests worldwide
to discover the next generation of great filmmakers." 

Scott Billups - Digital Guru & Author of
DIGITAL MOVIEMAKING I & 2                      

This unique, industry-based, Los Angeles competition will showcase filmmakers
from across the world, recognize the most talented, and honor their work
by bringing them to the attention of the Hollywood film industry.


ACTION/CUT GRAND PRIZE SHORT FILM AWARD WINNER

“WHEN JESSE
WAS BORN"


Directed by
Christopher Petry
Vancouver, Canada
"I highly recommend entering this competition as it offers the most extensive prize package of any other festival…not even Sundance offers what Action/Cut provides its shorts winners.  Winning the Action/Cut Grand Prize changed a part of my life…between actual meetings with agents, producers, lawyers, pro filmmakers, and the cash awards, and all the software and so many other prizes which are all geared towards furthering your career.  

This is a major shorts competition and it gave such great recognition to everyone who worked on this film to win such an important competition in this country that it put our film in a completely different light, and we immediately received distribution offers.  It is an awesome feeling to win Action/Cut!"


ACTION/CUT GRAND PRIZE AWARD WINNERS

2009
 
“realTIME - it's just a game"
Directed by
Steffen Mueller (Munich, Germany)

2008
 
“RABIA”
Directed by Muhammad Ali Hasan (Avon, CO)

2007
 
“ANIMAL DECAY”
Directed by Jeffrey Durkin (San Diego, CA)

2006
“LIVE FROM DEATH ROW”
Directed by Alexis Ferrebeuf (Marly le Roi, France)

2005 
“WHEN JESSE WAS BORN"

Directed by Christopher Petry (Vancouver, Canada)

2004 
“THE 17th MAN”
Directed by
Yimeng Jin (Tallahassee, FL)

 

FIVE
CATEGORIES: 
FICTION LIVE ACTION - DOCUMENTARY - ANIMATION
STUDENT FILMS - MUSIC VIDEOS
AWARDS: THE ACTION/CUT GRAND PRIZE SHORT FILM AWARD WINNER
AND
FIRST PLACE - BEST OF EACH CATEGORY SHORT FILM AWARD WINNERS (5)

Additional SPECIAL AWARDS OF MERIT may be granted by the Juries as they
were in previous years including Special Jury, Best Foreign, and Youth Awards.
PRIZES: $50,000 in Hollywood Career Access Meetings, Cash, and Sponsor Valued Prizes
Over 125 Prizes to the Winners including the Panavision Prize 
The most prizes awarded of any
shorts film festival or competition in the world.
GRAND PRIZE - ONE WINNER
OVER 30 PRIZES AWARDED TO THE 2010 GRAND PRIZE SHORT FILM AWARD WINNER
FIRST PLACE - BEST OF EACH CATEGORY WINNER
OVER 100 TOTAL PRIZES - MULTIPLE PRIZES TO EACH OF THE BEST OF CATEGORY 2010 SHORT FILM WINNERS
PLUS
ADDITIONAL SPECIAL AWARDS OF MERIT AS GRANTED BY OUR INDUSTRY JURIES IN EACH CATEGORY
FOR SPECIAL JURY AWARDS, BEST FOREIGN FILM AWARDS, AND YOUTH AWARDS.

NEXT CALL FOR ENTRIES: JANUARY 15, 2010
Early Deadline: March 15 - Late Deadline: May 15
Final Deadline: June 15


To submit directly to The Action/Cut Short Film Competition

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS FILL-IN & PRINT ENTRY FORM
and send it by mail with your film entry.

You may also submit electronically through our partner Withoutabox.com below.

CALL FOR ENTRIES:  
Action/Cut Short Film Competition prefers paperless entries submitted via The International Film Festival Submission System on the Web at Withoutabox.com <http://withoutabox.com/>. Withoutabox provides cost-saving, online entry to film festivals around the world, with one master entry form, allowing you to enter your film more quickly and with greater accuracy. 

This method is free and easy. Withoutabox users enjoy the advantages of high-quality online film submissions, Extended Deadlines and Online Press Kit submissions and filmmakers with an upgraded project on Withoutabox receive discounts on their Entry Fees.

Good Luck To All Entrants
If you wish to read Film Festival Today's Interview with Guy Magar about the founding of
the Action/Cut Short Film Competition and its intentions for filmmakers and their work CLICK HERE. Back to Top

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