SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MONDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER
We are delighted to announce a Call for Entries for the 4th Insight Film Festival.
Selected films will be screened at the Insight Festival taking place in Spring 2013, with opportunities to win some fantastic awards and prizes.
Insight wants to encourage film makers to make films about ‘faith’: films which, challenge, explore, critique, reflect, celebrate or question this vital area of contemporary life.
It is our aim to promote discussion and community cohesion through film, and we need your films to do this!
By submitting a film your work could be seen by our high profile judging panel and win one of our prestigious awards.
Previous judges have included Hollywood producer Gary Kurtz (Star Wars, American Graffiti), screenwriter David Weiss, (Shrek 2, The Smurfs), Aaqil Ahmed (Head of BBC Religion), Tina Gharavi (Documentary Film Maker) and many others.
Awards made at the 3rd Insight Festival in December 2011 included £1000 cash, an expenses paid summer workshop at EICAR The International Film & Television School in Paris, and a place on the jury at the Religion Today festival in Italy.
The 4th Insight Festival will take place in spring 2013. We will shortly be announcing judges and awards.
We will also be announcing further Insight Festival events which will take place during 2012. Please keep visiting this web site.
Best of all: ENTRY IS FREE
How to enter
To enter please read our rules & conditions and fill out an online entry form, then send us two copies of your film on DVD.
Deadline
Entries must arrive at the Festival Office by Monday 10th September 2012
Hollywood screenwriter David Weiss (The Smurfs, Shrek 2, All Dogs God to Heaven) gave the Keynote Talk at our Insight Festival New York Screenings event at the Skirball Auditorium of the New York University in March 2012.
David, who was also a member of the judging panel for our 2011 awards, gave an entertaining and challenging over view of his life story - including his journey from the Jewish faith through the Christian faith and back to his Jewish faith again, taking in his experiences of film school, writing for Hollywood. Read more...
The first Insight Festival Lecture was delivered on 3rd December 2011 in Manchester, England by acclaimed screen writer Frank Cottrell Boyce who chose to speak under the title ‘Special Effect: The joy and pain of having a counter cultural set of beliefs.’ Speaking as a practising Roman Catholic, and from his years of work on the [...] Read more...
Angel and Cesar Urbina won the Insight Judges' Award at least years 3rd Insight Festival 2011. Their film was chosen as the best in festival by the judges, and we were delighted to screen such a beautifully crafted and haunting animation.
Angel and Cesar answered our questions from their studio in Spain. Read more...
Click for rules concerning festival entries. It is vital that you read these before entering a film to the festival, please read before you submit your application.
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