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2012 Call For Entries
Fees, Deadlines and Competition Rules
Scriptwriting Fees, Rules and Deadlines
Printable Entry Form
Considered among the
top 100 most popular film festivals
in the world, the 11th annual
Great Lakes International Film Festival has
officially opened its Call for Entries for
the 2012 Festival.
 We
shall accept submissions internationally of
independently produced feature length and
short length films and scripts of all genres
including documentary, horror, experimental,
Religious/Spiritual, animation, and all
genre of music videos and Gay/Lesbian films
for the 2012 festival.
Showcasing the best films of the 2012
season, the Great Lakes International Film
Festival will be held LIVE in the great city
of Erie Pennsylvania in September 2012, with
our online festival taking place September
20th
thru September 30th, 2012.
We shall accept all ranges of music videos,
along with entries of short and feature
length screenplays, stage plays, and
teleplays of all genres and niches.
The 2012 Great Lakes International Film
Festival shall accept Music Videos from
around the world of cross-continent and
cross-genre productions. We shall accept
Music Videos of all Ranges from Pop, Punk,
Rock, Alt-Country, Country-Western, Folk,
Reggae, Hip-Hop to Electronica, Jazz, Blues,
Zydeco, Industrial, Metal, Hardcore, Gothic,
Karaoke, Avant-Garde, World Music, and
Experimental.
The 2012 Great Lakes International Film
Festival will accept all forms of Religious,
Christian, and Spiritual films including
African, African American, Gay/Lesbian,
Black, Hispanic, Islamic, Latino,
Native/Aboriginal and student films from the
United States and around the world.
The Great Lakes International Film Festival
Horror categories for scripts and films will
include Horror, Thrillers, Science Fiction,
Suspense, Supernatural, Grindhouse Horror,
Horror Documentary, Horror Animation, and
student films and scripts.
The annual screenwriting competition is a
way for new and veteran scriptwriters to
possibly get the break they need.
If there is anything as universal as the
ageless storytelling of motion pictures,
it’s the music that makes up life’s
soundtrack.
The Great Lakes International Film Festival,
having produced one successful film festival
after another while showcasing more than a
thousand films has paid out thousands of
dollars in awards and prizes for our
scriptwriting competition, not to mention
the countless films and filmmakers who have
gone on to bigger and better things after
screening at our festival.
Among the many outstanding films we have had
the honor to present are "The Collector
of Bedford Street", which was nominated
for an Academy Award; "The Derby
Stallion", which has been shown on
Stars, Encore and other major networks and
was picked up by a subsidiary distribution
company of Disney and can be found on the
shelves of Wal-Mart and other national
retailers across the country.
Additionally, after screening "The Still
Life", the film was picked up by, and is
now distributed by Warner Brothers and
"South of Heaven, West of Hell" which was
directed by Dwight Yoakam and went on to
screen in theaters grossing more than $4
million dollars in its first weekend and
being picked up by such networks as HBO.
We have also had many, many films that have
screened on the Sundance Channel, IFC, PBS
and HBO along with countless filmmakers who
have received distribution deals after
screening in our festival.
The Great Lakes Film Festival Scriptwriting
Competition offers a $1,500.00 cash award to
our first place winner of the 2012
competition among other prizes. The winning
script will be forwarded to agents and
industry professionals for consideration.
Our LIVE film festival will be held as a
benefit fundraiser for the Second Harvest
Food Bank of Erie, Pennsylvania. There will
be absolutely NO admission fee or ticket
price charged to attendees of the LIVE film
festival event, and the event will
completely be FREE OF CHARGE to attend. All
we ask is that each attendee makes a small
donation of a non-perishable food product or
cash. Moreover, 100% of all food and cash
donations collected at the LIVE event will
go to those of our local community who are
in desperate need. More details will be
announced as they become available.
Our film festival has reached a global
echelon launching our festival interactively
online allowing independent filmmakers and
fans to watch and enjoy the films world wide
on the go, from work and from the comfort of
their own homes. In this technologically
advanced world we live in, where
communication and convenience MUST be at the
tips of our fingers, we knew this was the
next evolution in film festivals.
Since launching our fest online we have
gained even more popularity among the film
viewing public and filmmakers, not to
mention production houses and distributors
because they no longer have to travel to
find the next film that will make Hollywood
sit up and take notice. Currently,
convenience is the name of the game,
especially for the independent film
industry.
Much like most other festivals, ours was
limited by time in how many films we could
screen at the fest. Simply put, if a film is
good, it will be accepted and screened
without time constraints.
Films will not be available for download,
but shall be presented in a video on demand
system that will allow users to watch the
films. The V.O.D. system will be secured and
can be viewed from any computer.
Unlike other festivals streaming films
online, films in this festival cannot be
downloaded, the films HAVE NO EMBEDDING CODE
and our HTML code if copied and pasted, the
films will not play, therefore they CANNOT
be placed on other websites.
The only time and place they can be viewed
is in our festival. In short, we have gone
to great lengths to set this system up to
protect the safety and security of each
filmmaker's film always keeping the
filmmaker in mind. Our festival’s online
screening process is just as secure as a
brick and mortar theater screening, only
much better.
You hear so much about the environment and
global warming it got us thinking. When you
realize how much power is used during the
film fest – electricity for the building,
natural gas for heat and the gasoline the
people use to get to the fest it left one
hell of a carbon footprint. By doing the
whole festival on line it actually helps cut
down on greenhouse gases.
Film and script selections will be announced
no later than August 31st, 2012
Fees, Deadlines and Competition Rules
Scriptwriting Fees, Rules and Deadlines
Printable Entry Form
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