Thomas Edison Film Festival

About

Thomas Edison Film Festival has been to celebrate and recognize diverse independent shorts up to 1 hr. or shorter and made within 3.5 years of the submission date. We conduct a juried annual competition with awards to 40 to 60 works chosen for the tour to 60 or more host venues per season. It is the tradition of lively inquiry, innovation, open artistic exploration, independent vision, and illumination of the human condition in all of it's manifestations that motivates the festival's work on behalf of contemporary film and video.

Today the works exhibited by the Thomas Edison Film Festival represent a mosaic of diverse film and video forms (documentary, experimental/alternative, animation, fiction, and hybrid forms) with an emphasis on personal, poetic, human interest and otherwise insightful, creative and varied approaches to any given subject or genre. The Festival Tour exhibits the winning works in various thematic and artistic configurations tailored to diverse audiences at venues which are conducive to the genuine appreciation of the work.

Moviemaker's Spring 2010 issue lists the Thomas Edison Film Festival as one of "25 Film Festival Worth the Entry Fee in 2010."

Program

Categories:

• Narrative,
• Experimental,
• Animation,
• Documentary.

Awards

Special Jury Awards - for films in each category.

Rules

Restirctions

Thomas Edison Film Festival is primarily a showcase for short works. We do not accept any films over 60 minutes in length. If you have a feature length film you wish us to consider, you MUST be prepared to provide a cut with a maximum running time of 60 minutes 

Documents and Other Requisite Items

• Fill out entry form,
• Pay entry fees,
• Send DVD with submitted film by mail.

Selection Media Type

• Blu-Ray
• DVD NTSC

Screening Media Type

• Blu-Ray
• DVD NTSC

Audio language:

original

Subtitles language:

english

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

John Columbus (Festival Director).