Cinema Poetica is a film festival celebrating the intersection of cinema and poetry, an emerging short-film genre. In Cinema Poetica, intrepid poets and filmmakers are encouraged to make films not "polished," but ever more raw, primitive, visceral, surprising, intuitive.
The Challenge
• Make a short film featuring a poem you've written, or one you wish you'd written, and that you have permission to perform and film for this contest. (The lawyers tell us if it’s not your own poem, the permission must be in writing and signed by the author of the poem or the person or entity that has the right to give that permission.) Or maybe just do your own poem, okay?
• Let the poem be your guide. Shoot in real time. Shoot in real locations. Shoot in color. Incorporate location sound into your film. If you’re going to use music, make the music on camera. Use natural lighting. Use a handheld camera.
• Forget about special effects and optical filters, car chases, stunt doubles, FX, studio overdubs, 35 mm stock, or spaceships, unless… no, absolutely no spaceships.
• For basic editing, here’s a good (and free) app designed specifically for mobile devices — Adobe Premiere Clip.
The Main Event
Films will be screened on Friday, November 9, 2018, at [venue to be determined], in Portland, Oregon.
There is no admission fee. All are welcome.
Grand Prize winner in each category receives a cash prize.
All finalists receive recognition and promotion on Cinema Poetica website.
