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2010 Poster is ready!

mmconti — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:19:13 +0000

Help us get the word out by sharing this year’s awesome poster. Click the link and download the PDF of the Boulder Shoot Out Poster 11×17

Pull a Film Making Contest Team together like spaghetti

mmconti — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:53:34 +0000

Film Making Contest in Boulder is in it’s 7th year! Here are some notes from the First Boulder Filmmaking Contest – also know as “The Shoot Out Boulder” Best Film gets $2000 dollars!

“Do something only you would come up with—that none of your friends or family would think of.”

mmconti — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:51:22 +0000

It is affirmation that The Shoot Out Boulder was creating an interest in community based film-making when international film-making festivals come to Denver such as Film Racing 2010 and The 48 Hour Film Project. Now in their 7th year, The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmmaking Festival Boulder returns for the weekend of September 24-26, 2010.

The Shoot Out Boulder asks filmmakers to trust their courage, imagination and determination by making a 7-minute film in just 24 hours using in-camera editing. The challenge and skill involved becomes evident with the list of required technical, material, and timing ‘rules’ for creating the films.

An unique feature of The Shoot Out Boulder not found in other competitions is the in-camera editing requirement. While this rule may appear to add an unnecessary hardship to the creative process, it is actually a means to level the field for participants. For someone that isn’t familiar with non-linear digital editing (using the computer to cut together scenes), in-camera editing is easier to explain and do. All the director needs to know is how to turn on and turn off the camera, and to shoot in continuity (tell the story as it happens). For the more experienced director, in-camera offers some challenges that require more thought and prep in preparing the storyboard and shot list, but the skills learned may help later to “shoot for the edit”.

The participants in The Shoot Out Boulder are not just film professionals, but come from all walks of life, consisting of friends and families and all age groups. It is from their combined efforts over a short weekend that gives Boulder the freshest and most creative films to behold at the Top 10 Gala screening on Sunday, September 26 at the Boulder Theater. That screening event is probably the number one reason why The Shoot Out Boulder is so much fun to participate in.

The cost per team is $100 which includes two participants and two tickets to the screening event. 17 & under teams are $75. Additional team members are $25 and $20 respectively and includes a ticket to the venue screening. Additional venue tickets can be purchased for $15 each. The screening is open to the public with tickets available at the Boulder Theater Box office.

Call for entries will start on August 4, 2010 online at http://theshootoutboulder.com. Check out the website for new rules for 2010. If you are interested in learning more about in-camera editing, a pre-event all day workshop that is being co-presented with Boulder Digital Arts will occur on September 18th in downtown Boulder. Visit BDA’s website for more details.

Named one of the world’s top 24 events for 2010 by a leading London newspaper

mmconti — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:04:23 +0000

Plan the 2010′s big trip with The Guardian’s month-by-month guide to the world’s hottest tickets and little-known events, compiled by the Frommer’s team at Whatsonwhen.com.

“Bored of Cannes? Sick of Sundance? Then try Shoot Out where filmmakers have just 24 hours to make a seven-minute movie.”

Become A Shooting Star 2009

mmconti — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:50:55 +0000

With the support of our sponsor, StarNow, we are looking to reward the actor that appears in the MOST number of short films within the 24 hour period The Shooting Star Award which will consist of a free one-year membership with StarNow! along with other to be determined prizes. The most number of films an actor has appeared in was 8 in 2004. Last year, we have 53 filmmaking teams competing so there is plenty of great opportunity to get yourself some film time!

After you register online and pay the nominal $45 fee which includes a ticket to the Sunday screening event at the Historic Boulder Theater, you will show up at the kick-off of the event in front of the Boulder County Court House on the 1300 Block of Pearl Street by 6 PM on Friday, September 25, 2009 with copies of your headshot with phone number and a cell phone in your hand as a means for the registered producers to contact you. It is up to your to “sell” yourself to the other teams as you will not be automatically placed by the event organizers.

Depending upon the pool of actors competing for the Shooting Star, we will organize some other opportunities for exposure as the time draw nears. Stay tuned!

The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival Boulder (September 25-27, 2009) asks filmmakers to trust their courage, imagination and determination by making a 7-minute film in just 24 hours. The challenge and skill involved becomes evident with the list of required technical, material, and timing ‘rules’ for creating the films.

Visit StarNow for more details

The Shoot Out Newcastle takes a break after 10 years

mmconti — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:03:44 +0000

There will be no The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival in Newcastle in 2009 with the announcement by festival directors Teresa Conicella, Craig Foot and Kristi Street that they are taking a year off. After 10 years of blood, sweat and tears the hard working trio have decided to declare this a holiday year and are treating themselves to a few work free weekends.

“Organising and staging The Shoot Out requires a huge personal commitment from each of us and we’ve decided to take a year out to focus on other projects and interests.”

Kristi Street, Director.

While there will be no event in Newcastle in July, The Shoot Out flag will be flying high over Boulder Colorado in September, 25-27, 2009 and planning has already begun for The Shoot Out Newcastle 2010.

“We don’t want our filmmakers to stop making films. In fact we’ll be using this time to think up new and exciting ways to challenge them in the future.” Craig Foot, Director

Since 1999 The Shoot Out team has challenged over 20,000 filmmakers to make over 3,000 short films in 6 different territories; Newcastle, Geelong(VIC), Toowoomba(QLD), New Zealand, Boulder USA and The Hague (Netherlands).

“The Shoot Out has become so much more than just a one off event, it is now a community of filmmakers who have all been inspired by their experiences at the festival.“

Teresa Conicella, Director

The Shoot Out Filmmaking Festival challenges it’s filmmakers to a 24 hour race against time to make the best 7 minute, or less, film they can. The result is a weekend long festival that The Shoot Out filmmakers and audiences alike describe as exhilarating, fast paced and most importantly FUN!

Best Local Film Festival by Westword 2009

mmconti — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:47:19 +0000

Best Local Film Festival

The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival

www.theshootoutboulder.com

Readers’ Choice: Starz Denver Film Festival

Who says making movies is a long process? Participants in the Shoot Out in Boulder have a single day to assemble a masterpiece (or a facsimile thereof), and most of them manage to do so. Not all, though: Last year, 53 teams began the competition, but seven of them vanished along the way. Even so, the contest is a great way to get young people interested in making movies, as opposed to simply watching them — and in 2008, members of nineteen teams were under eighteen. The future of film is in good hands.

Best of Westword 2009

Code of Best Practices for Sustainable Filmmaking

mmconti — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:19:36 +0000

While some of these requirements for the Code of Best Practices for Sustainable Filmmaking won’t necessarily relate to our filmmaking festival, but this year, The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival Boulder 2009 will look for ways to reduce our carbon foot print and hopefully the filmmakers will discover alternative ways to reduce their own foot print with their future productions.

The Center for Social Media at the American University recently put together a code and associated materials which were reviewed for scientific validity by experts in the field of climate change, carbon reduction, and sustainability. In addition, filmmakers from around the world reviewed it to ensure the information was both clear and relevant.

“Filmmakers historically have played an important role in raising critical issues for society, including environmental threats from climate change and over-exploitation of resources. Increasingly, filmmakers have adopted pro-environmental practices in their own production. This code provides tools for filmmakers to measure whether their practices are as sustainable as they can be throughout the production process. Accompanying online checklists, trackers, and Web resources provide a summary of current approaches that implement that rationale…”

If you have any comments or suggestions on how The Shoot Out Boulder can do a few of these suggestions, please feel free to share them here.

Foxmark of Fast Filmmaking Festivals

mmconti — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:02:06 +0000

After searching wide and far, here are the fast filmmaking festivals. Add something if missing.

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