Website: TransparentFilmFestival.com
YouTube: Youtube.com/TransparentFilmFestival
Facebook: Facebook.com/TransparentFilmFestival
Cable: Every Friday Night at Midnight in Manhattan Ch. 33 (Fios), 34 (Spectrum) 82 (RCN)
Our commitment to watching every film and providing our review notes on Facebook is something frankly EVERY FESTIVAL should do if they're accepting a submission fee.
Our reach and engagements have exploded on Facebook. Our viewership is up for our Friday night TV show in NYC, and we streamed the entire event live on our new YouTube channel with 80 unique attendees (which isn't bad for a channel that was set up one week prior to the festival). You see we're all about the data, and we notice everything. Which is this festival is shaping up to be even bigger, and better.
We're starting to add original content, script contests, readings here in NYC, filmmaker spotlights and more.
The 4th Transparent Film Festival will take place live Thursday Night May 12th and Friday Night May 13th at the Theater Under St. Marks in New York City's funky & fun East Village.
As with everything during the pandemic, we have to be ready for anything.
If a filmmaker requests to know why they were accepted or rejected, it shouldn't be too hard to provide a reason. That is what makes us different than most festivals, and why our first year was a HUGE success. The past two seasons, we screened every frame of every film and returned our detailed notes. Please see our screening receipts at http://Facebook.com/transparentfilmfestival.
We're not a money making outfit with 38 categories, with ridiculous fees and monthly "film awards" that no one attends. We do this once a year and have a weekly cable show in Manhattan New York City every Friday night (see www.transparentfilmfestival.com), where we show clips from some of the best submissions. Our activity on Facebook speaks for itself.
Some important things you should know.
No one can "walk a friend's project in". Preference is not given to local filmmakers.
Your film will be watched, and the time your film was screened posted on Facebook at http://facebook.com/transparentfilmfestival. NO FORM LETTERS. Our ratings will be sent to every filmmaker. While we screened every frame of every film last season, we cannot guarantee to do so this year as we expect many times the amount of submissions. If your film holds our interest we will watch it until the end.
Films submitted by any friends, family members or acquaintances related to festival staff, and or judges will be referred to qualified judges without a conflict of interest.
Our goal is simply to find unknown filmmakers and help them get exposure. If we send a request for download it means we would like to spotlight a clip from your film on our cable show and possibly on our streaming channel.
Some of our celebrity judges have either an Emmy and/or a Grammy award or nomination. They will be given a small amount of films that make it through the initial screening process.
If you are tired of spending hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on submission fees, and never hearing why you’ve been rejected, please consider submitting to the first-ever Transparent Film Festival.
Best Short
Best Foreign Film
Best Feature
Best TV Pilot
Best New York Film
Best Documentary
Best Mobile Film
Best Musical Video/Performance
Best Faith Based
Best 1 Minute Film Challenge
Young Filmmaker Award
Due to the pandemic, there will unfortunately be no cash prizes this year as patrons and sponsors have dried up. However, we may pull out some surprises.
If there are less than 3 submissions in a category, we may at our discretion move films that are selected to a different category for competition. Further we may add any selection to another category at our discretion.
IMPORTANT:
Winning filmmakers MUST BE IN ATTENDANCE in order for their films to screen live unless selected for and competing in the Foreign Film category. This does not mean your film cannot win Best in Category. Just that it wouldn't be screened live in order to make room for other selected films, for which the filmmakers can attend.
We will provide a hi-res Laurels Image for ALL SELECTED FILMS UPON REQUEST including for films selected but that are screened online.