*I am interviewing Carlos Steward, the festival director, this Friday at 2pm via phone call to get specific details on the Twin Rivers Multimedia Festival.
Who’s in charge?
Who’s in charge?
The
festival is run by Cynthia Porter, the festival coordinator, and Carlos
Steward, the festival director.
Mission:
TRMF Offers the community a chance to view outstanding films from around
the world, enjoy good food and drink, and mingle with special guest filmmakers
all in one weekend. All events are free and open to the public.
(jackmoe.blogspot.com)
The Twin Rivers Media Festival supports independent media
artists, audio artists, and writers by exposing their work to the artistic
community of Asheville, NC throughout the year (withoutabox.com)
“This festival is a great way to bring the community together. …
There’s also opportunities to meet some local and national filmmakers” (Cynthia
Porter, festival coordinator).
Programming:
The festival seems to open itself
to a vast array of media. I assume this openness is why the festival is called
a multimedia festival, as it includes not just feature and short films but also
commercial works and music. The festival also shows an initiative to
appreciating international film, awarding films made outside the United States,
but, from what I can see, they prefer more palatable western films. However,
this year the TRMF will be highlighting Iranian filmmaking. This could be an
attempt to evolve out of cushy western cinema and into a more “foreign,” realm.
Location:
Courtyard
Gallery, Asheville, NC (http://ashevillecourtyard.com/gallery.html)
Date:
The event is held in Mid-late May.
This festival seems to happen in two sections, one for film viewing, and another,
a couple of days later, for multimedia screening and awards.
There are two apparent methods for
submission
-Withoutabox
-snail mail to coordinators
There
was some discrepancy between the website and withoutabox in regards to when submissions
were due.
Early
- April 5th Dec
31st (withoutabox)
Late
– May 6th, 13th
Cost of entry:
Student 29.00
+ 22.00/ea additional entry
Non-student 39.00
+ 19.00/ea addition entry
Distributor 49.00/ea
entry
College
on behalf
of
students 100.00/20
entries (twinriversmediafestival.com)
Foreign +10.00
From
what I can see, this festival welcomes any and all comers. Student,
undergraduate or graduate, non-students, distribution companies, etc. There is
a student “division,” but apparently not a student category.
“All
lengths and formats are eligible (withoutabox).”
16mm 8mm 35mm DVD VHS”
According
to withoutabox, they accept any and all formats for exhibition and screening
from DVD to blu-ray to film gauges.
The
festival hosted roughly 50 films in 2013 (Twin Rivers brochure).
TRMF
screens shorts amidst longer format pieces in blocks specific to the works’
genre or mode. For example, rather than have several “shorts blocks” there are
just blocks divided by category, i.e. experimental, animation. So, shorts and
features both play in the same block if they share a category.
If
my numbers are right, Twin Rivers screens about 10 films per block.
-Animation 7
-Experimental
12
-Reception
6
-Doc 6
-Drama
18 (twinriversmediafestival.com)
There
doesn’t appear to be any cost to attend the event as a guest. I’d assume the
gains from submissions go to renting the venues for the actual event, for
passersby and walkers-through to view the work at their leisure. Also http://blogs2.citizen-times.com/carol/2013/05/09/20th-annual-twin-rivers-media-festival-opens-may-17/
says the festival is “free.”
I
plan on asking Carlos Steward more on this, but this is what I’ve found:
Daniel Delaverne
Media Arts Advantage Fund, grant, $1000.00
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find
anything on insentives for donors, and there was not a crowd-fund campaign that
I could find like indiegogo or kickstarter.
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