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How
to become a Festival MEMBER
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Festival Members attend FREE screenings each month as well as programs
and receptions with our filmmaker guests.
Or just send us an email at usafilmfestival@aol.com
and request membership info.
(Please include your physical mailing address so we can send you
a brochure!)
Festival members received over 30 FREE screenings last year
(and your membership contribution is tax-deductible!).
Recent and UPCOMING Member Screenings:
- Juno
- Romance & Cigarettes (with writer/director John Turturro in attendance)
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
- No Country For Old Men
- Gone Baby Gone
- Reservation Road (with director Terry George in attendance)
- Things We Lost in the Fire
- Feast of Love
- 3:10 to Yuma (with actor Peter Fonda in attendance)
- As You Like It
- Rescue Dawn
- Talk to Me
- No Reservations
- Goya’s Ghosts (with director Milos Forman in attendance)
- Stardust
- Death at a Funeral (with director Frank Oz and actor Alan Tudyk in attendance)
- Reign Over Me
- Pride
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Dreamgirls
- Little Children
- Copying Beethoven
- Perfume
- A Good Year
- The Queen with Michael Sheen in attendance.
- Catch a Fire with Director Phillip Noyce in attendance.
- Hollywoodland with Director Allen Coulter in attendance.
- The Illusionist, with Writer/Director Neil Burger in attendance
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Devil Wears Prada
- Over the Hedge with Wanda Sykes and Jeffrey Katzenberg in attendance
- Akeelah and the Bee with actress Keke Palmer and writer/director Doug Atchison in attendance
- Tsotsi
- The New World
- Fun with Dick & Jane
- Glory Road with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, actors Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Mehead Brooks and Al Shearer in attendance
- Dreamer with Dakota Fanning in attendance
- Pride & Prejudice with director Joe Wright in attendance
- The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio with Director Jane Anderson in attendance
- The Greatest Game Ever Played with director Bill Paxton actor Shia LaBeouf & writer/producer Mark Frost in attendance
- In Her Shoes
- Lord of War with writer/director Andrew Niccol in attendance
- Red Eye
- The Constant Gardener
- Happy Endings with writer/director Don Roos in attendance
- Hustle and Flow
- Millions with director Danny Boyle in attendance
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Program Dates
(Partial listing; additional programs added throughout the year, click the below listed to see more information)
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 24th Annual KidFilm® Festival: January 7-20, 2008 :The oldest and largest Family Film Festival in the United States. Film and video are our most accessible art forms (and one of our most valuable teaching/learning tools), and KidFilm® gives audiences of all ages an important opportunity to see (and discuss) great films together! Please continue to check any of the links below for more details.
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February 24, 2008: Oscar Night® America Dallas, Officially sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this annual Awards-watching event is Dallas' only offical program, and serves as a fundraiser for the USA Film Festival as well as 50 nonprofit organizations across the U.S. So join us for a BIG SCREEN at the New Dallas Studio Movie Grill view of all the nominees, Hollywood hairdos and don'ts, fashion fabulous and faux pas!
Party-goers will receive the same official 80th Academy Awards® program books as those handed out at the actual Awards ceremony and this year's official commemorative poster.
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April 21 - April 27, 2008: 38th Annual USA Film Festival – Eight-day curated program featuring the best new American and foreign films, the Academy-qualified 30th Annual National Short Film and Video Competition and special tributes.
Accomplished directors and actors appear with their new films (50+ visiting filmmakers in attendance with 75+ films) in a setting designed to bring artists together with audiences. Other program highlights include Tribute programs recognizing master artists (directors, actors, writers, composers, cinematographers, etc.). The honoree participates in the program which includes screenings and discussions of the artist's work.
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To receive a flyer/invitation for any of the above programs, just send us an email at usafilmfestival@aol.com.
Remember to specify the program in which you are interested and include your physical mailing address so we can mail you the flyer.
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To submit a film or video, please see the following:
April Festival Week (2008) – Accepting Submissions now – features (US shorts see below). No entry form or fee. Non-competitive program. Send VHS screener tape or DVD with any info. you wish us to have to the address below. Final submissions deadline = March 10, 2008 (*Please send earlier if possible to increase your chance of inclusion.)
Academy-Qualified® 30th Annual National Short Film & Video Competition - -- Accepting entries NOW – shorts (under 60 minutes). You will need an Official Entry Form to enter. To have an Entry Form mailed to your physical address, please send us an email at usafilmfestival@aol.com and remember to specify Entry Form Request and include your physical mailing address).
The Competition is open to US made works only, bestows several cash awards (no trophies, plaques, etc.), is administered by an independent national jury of film experts, and is an Academy-qualified program (in the fiction, animation and experimental categories). ( Note: Most questions will be answered in the Entry Form, so please wait to ask us anything until after you receive and review the Entry Form.) And yes, your short film/video entry can ALSO be considered for regular play within the Festival week (non-competitive) by just checking the appropriate box on the Entry Form. Final submissions deadline = March 1, 2008.
If NO part of your short film was shot or produced in the US, there is no form or fee needed because it is NOT ELIGIBLE for the competition. However, you can submit for regular play consideration. Just send a VHS screener or DVD (non-pal format please) along with any info. you wish us to have to the address below.
You can also submit your film via www.WithoutABox.com
Send all Entries and film/video submissions to:
Program Coordinator
USA FILM FESTIVAL
6116 N. Central Expressway, Suite 105
Dallas, Texas 75206
USA
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The Festival could not exist without its Sponsors.
To discuss sponsorship levels for any of the programs noted above,
please contact the Festival at 214-821-6300
so that we may send you appropriate benefits, etc. for same.
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