The Staten Island Film Festival ( http://siff.nyc ) will be presenting the Lady Liberty Awards given for exceptional, timeless filmmaking classics. Innovative and emerging filmmakers are equally invited, providing the film shows the ability to become a classic or cult classic. This award shall be complete with a red carpet event (@ St. George Theatre - September 23 & 24, 2020) with screenings, professional and public panel discussion, social & music events, special industry appearances, and last but not least, some noteworthy Staten Island eateries.
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We'll gather together over two nights to honor and celebrate local, city-wide, national and international, original & classic outstanding FILMMAKERS on this planet.
All FILM SUBMISSIONS 🧡
are automatically celebrated upon entry. We will put ALL FILM SUBMISSIONS right through all our Social Media to help get exposure to your film. Give us a day or two.
FILMMAKERs don't just need awards and prizes. They need CA$H. We get it. We got you.
Cash awards are given on a lottery basis. This means that the more people that SUBMIT, the larger the cash prize. The amount of the prize will be a healthy percentage of the total submission fees that have been received.
This is how we do it here in Staten Island. We love money but we love sharing money too. The filmmakers want money so we thought this would be a great way to 'pay it forward.'
Our Instagram account is featured on the homepage of the http://siff.nyc website. There you can find our other Social Media (SM) channels and where your film is going to appear on all of the SM offered.
siff.nyc seeks to promote FILMMAKERS, first and foremost. This is something extra special we do for filmmakers because we care. We get it.
We know that you:
1) want your film titles to be seen by as many people as possible,
2) want your films to be watched by qualified judges,
3) want to be in front of the industry people who make decisions, who want to buy your film, scripts, story, and plots.
4) will want to include your Social Media name, hashtags, and tagging the film and its staff.
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The Lady Liberty Awards MMXX are:
• The Luxe Award (for best animation)
• The Heart Award (for best stop motion)
• The Empire Award (for best fiction short)
• The Family Award (best nonfiction short)
• The Freedom Award (for best American film)
• The People Award (for best drama) *
• The US Award (best American Director)
• The Planet Award (best International filmmaker)
• The Striking Reality Award (best doc. short)
• The Benefit Award (best doc. feature)
• The Excel Award (best Fiction feature) *
• The Excellent Award (best NonFiction feature) *
• The Empath Award (best film Direction short) *
*indicates awards that are Audience Voted.đź—˝
None of the other film festivals, we know of are doing a lottery-based award system, as far as we know. For this reason, we hope to disrupt the norm and affect a lasting change for the benefit of filmmakers worldwide.