ATTN: Composers, Film Composers, Directors, Producers, and Filmmakers
The 5th Annual Park City Film Music Festival (PCFMF5) will be running January 17-27, 2008 in Park City (the same time as Sundance).
The 2008 Park City Film Music Festival is announcing its call for entries. Filmmakers will be able to submit their films via Withoutabox.com (http://www.withoutabox.com/login/4173) or by visiting the 5th annual Park City Film Music Festival website, http://www.parkcityfilmmusicfestival. The remaining deadlines are the Earlybird Deadline, November 9, the Regular Deadline, November 20, The Late Deadline, December 7, and the Withoutabox Extended Deadline, December 20, 2007. No deadline will prohibit films from being considered fairly for inclusion in the festival and the competition. The Park City Film Music Festival is a film festival and competition specifically for film composers, directors, and producers, celebrating the art of music for film. It is the first film festival in the Americas centered around recognizing the art of film music.
Competition categories are:
Best Use of Music in a Feature Film
Best Use of Music in a Short Film
Best Use of Music in a Documentary Film
Best Film on a Music Subject
Deadlines:
Earlybird Deadline, November 9, 2007
Regular Deadline, November 20, 2007
The Late Deadline, December 7, 2007
WAB Extended Deadline, December 20, 2007
We are still planning the masterclasses and seminars for the 2008 PCFMF. In 2005, a masterclass was presented by film composer Mark Northam of the Film Music Institute (LA). In 2006, the masterclass was presented by world-renowned film composer, orchestrator, and arranger Conrad Pope (orchestrator and arranger for John Williams, among many others), and seminars and roundtable discussions were headed by Emmy award-winning composer Kurt Bestor (2002 Olympics), award-winning film composer Vincent Gillioz, award-winning film composer Jeffrey Gold, award-winning sound editor and sound designer Jim LeBrecht, and music supervisor and writer for Film Music Magazine, Michael Rogers. In 2007, a masterclass was presented by Emmy award-winning film composer Hummie Mann, and seminars were presented award-winning film composer Vincent Gillioz, award-winning film composer Jeffrey Gold, award-winning composer/guitarist/author Vince Lauria, award-winning film composer Dennis Dreith, singer/songwriter/author Gilli Moon, and music supervisor and member of Live, Chad Gracey.
To visit the 2008 Park City Film Music Festival website - http://www.parkcityfilmmusicfestival.org
To submit your film directly via Withoutabox.com
http://www.withoutabox.com/login/4173
About the Festival
The Park City Film Music Festival (PCFMF 2008) is pleased to announce its fifth call for entries from filmmakers and film composers. The Park City Film Music Festival is a film festival competition for composers, directors, and producers.
The 5th ANNUAL PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL (PCFMF) will be held in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, January 17-27, 2008. This is one of the first film festivals in the world recognizing the contributions of composers and their music to film, and the first of such festivals in the Americas. Awards are given in the categories of Best Use of Music in a Feature Film, Best Use of Music in a Documentary Film, Best Use of Music in a Short Film, and Best Film on a Music Subject. The first major film festival to recognize film music as part of the awards lineup since 1985 is the Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent, which currently draws over 80,000 devotees.
Film music, whose broad appeal continues to gain prominence in the music marketplace, has stood for a long time recognized only at the very highest levels: the Academy awards, the Emmys, the Grammys, and a few others. The growing stature of film music is exemplified in the announcement in 2005 of the Pulitzer prizes qualifying film music for the first time after over 60 years.
The PCFMF burst on the scene with a landmark 33 films in 2004, 50 films in 2005, 102 films in 2006, 205 films in 2007, and is the brainchild of Ms. Leslie Harlow who has been operating the Park City International Music Festival for over 21 years. A Juilliard graduate, she and her husband, Russell Harlow, a member of the Utah Symphony, are both prominent classical artists.
Ms. Harlow is driven to propel the PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL to international prominence, and has received encouragement from the Utah Film Commission, original founder of the Utah/United States Film Festival (now called Sundance Film Festival). Leslie has already spoken with esteemed film composer, John Williams, who is very excited at the prospect of this new festival. As this festival grows in scope, we will be inviting John Williams and other prominent film composers to celebrate the art of film music through performance and master classes. For 2008, we are currently choosing the seminars and masterclasses we will be offering.
The 2005 Park City Film Music Festival masterclass was presented by film composer and educator Mark Northam of the Film Music Institute (LA).
The 2006 Park City Film Music Festival masterclass was presented by world-renowned composer, orchestrator, and arranger Conrad Pope (Pavilion of Women, Munich, Memoirs of a Geisha, Star Wars Episodes I,II, III), and seminars and a panel were conducted by Emmy award-winning composer Kurt Bestor (2002 Winter Olympics), award-winning film composer Vincent Gillioz, award-winning film composer Jeffrey Gold, award-winning sound designer and sound editor Jim LeBrecht of Berkeley Sound Artists, and Music Supervisor and writer for Film Music Magazine, Michael Rogers.
The 2007 Park City Film Music Festival masterclass was presented by Emmy award-winning film composer Hummie Mann, and seminars were presented by award-winning film composer Vincent Gillioz, award-winning film composer Jeffrey Gold, award-winning composer/guitarist/author Vince Lauria, award-winning film composer Dennis Dreith, singer/songwriter/author Gilli Moon, and music supervisor/member of Live, Chad Gracey.
Present and past sponsors of the festival include Summit County Recreation, Arts, and Parks Tax Fund, Summit County Transient Room Tax Fund, Park City Chamber of Commerce, Klipsch Audio Technologies, Mackie, Michael Wiese Productions, Performance Audio, Filmacre, Corpus Polymedia, indivisiblePR.com, Cambridge Films, Berkeley Sound Artists, Disc Makers, Film Music Institute, Film Music Magazine, Film Score Monthly, Park City Stock Photography, Westminster College, Utah Contemporary Theatre, Pure Volume, Knock on Wood Film Productions, Rico Brand, Sunnybay, Inc., and the Utah Wind Power Campaign.