[spectre] Call for Submissions and Touring Info

[MadCat Women's Film Festival]

The MadCat Women's International Film Festival is looking for submissions
for its 8th annual Festival. MadCat seeks provocative and visionary films
and videos from around the globe that are original in their use of the
medium. The Festival is committed to showcasing women directors who
challenge the use of sound and image and explore notions of visual story
telling. MadCat screens works of ALL lengths and genres, about any topic and
that are produced ANY year. Films can be directed or co-directed by women.
MadCat sets itself apart from other women's festivals by curating its
programs thematically and thus accepting a range of films about many
different issues. MadCat is also committed to finding the most diverse group
of filmmakers possible and is doing extensive outreach to international
filmmakers and filmmakers of color. Please note international filmmakers do
not need to pay any entry fee!

Past Filmmakers Include: Su Friedrich, Sarah Jane Lapp, Jane Wong, Alice Guy
Blaché, Patty Chang, Eva Aridjis, Louise Bourque, Betzy Bromberg, Jong Lim
Ro, Donna Cameron, Abigail Child, Frédérique Devaux, Rita Gonzalez,
Jacqueline Goss, Shirley Clarke and the list goes on!

MadCat entry forms are now available at
http://madcatfilmfestival.org/submissions.html as a word document and a PDF.
If you would like to have a hard copy sent to you please email us your
mailing address.
Thank you for your time.
MadCat Film Festival
info at madcatfilmfestival.org
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org


LATE BIRD DEADLINE (aka Final Deadline):
May 21, 2004

Entry Fee: $10-30 Sliding Scale. Pay what you can afford.
No submission fee for international entrants!

PREVIEW FORMATS:
VHS 1/2" NTSC or PAL; DVD formats.

EXHIBITION FORMATS:
35mm, 16mm, Super8, BetaSP, Mini DV, 3/4", SVHS, VHS.

MadCat's annual Festival takes place throughout the month of September in
the San Francisco, Bay Area at select locations. MadCat also tours
throughout the US to Art Houses, Museums and Universities. MadCat is
currently touring with the program GOTTA GET IT - a program of international
short films that explore passions and obsessions through documentary,
animated and experimental work. Film descriptions for GOTTA GET IT can be
found at http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org/programs.html#prog1. The Festival
will also tour with the program CUT SNIP OOZE: Contemporary Animated Films
by Women. This is a series of films that explore unsolved crimes and medical
mysteries. Film descriptions can be found at
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org/programs.html#prog8. Please email us to
book the shows or to find out the tour line-up!
info at madcatfilmfestival.org

Tour Dates 2004!
Date                Venue                Location               Show
March 30        Cornell Cinema          Ithaca, NY             Cut Snip Ooze
April 4        University of Michigan    Ann Arbor, MI         Gotta Get It
April 10-15     Olympia Film Society    Olympia, WA            Gotta Get It
April 21       College of the Atlantic  Bar Harbor, ME         Gotta Get It
April 23    Squeaky Wheel                Buffalo, NY           Gotta Get It
April 28    Hartford University          Hartford, Conn        Gotta Get It
April 29    Pratt College               Brooklyn, NY           Gotta Get It
May 7-8     Guild Cinema                Albuquerque, NM        Cut Snip Ooze
May 22    Aurora Picture Show            Houston, TX           Gotta Get It
May 23    Aurora Picture Show            Houston, TX           Gotta Get It
June 2    Girl Fest Hawaii               Honolulu, HI         Selections
from MadCat
June 10   Webster University             Webster Groves, MO     Gotta Get It
June 17   Webster University             Webster Groves, MO     Cut Snip
Ooze
"The MadCat Film Festival tests, expands, and evolves the traditional,
politically motivated, 20th Century definition of 'the women's film
festival.'"
- Independent Film & Video Monthly

"MadCat isn't just a women's film festival - it's an arty showcase of
avant-garde experimental shorts that veer far from the traditional modes of
storytelling."
- Seattle Weekly

"Ben-Dov has become curator par excellence!"
- Bay Area Business Woman
"As a genre, as a space for talking about, documenting, dramatizing, and
inventing ourselves on camera, women's filmmaking can only grow and improve
through ambitious events like MadCat. MadCat gets a big, big hand for
insight, excellence, attitude, and chic."
- Art Papers

"At MadCat, being avant-garde is just as important as being female"
- SF Chronicle

"Female filmmakers have evolved, based on the stellar slate highlighted at
the MadCat Film Festival, where post-feminism morphs into profound humanism.
This is an exciting time for women filmmakers, and for all moviegoers."
- SF Weekly

"MadCat Film Festival selected as one of the '101 Reasons Why We Love the
Bay Area.'"
- San Francisco Chronicle

"Best Film Festival [That Still Caters to the Underground] You probably
won't discover the next big commercial thing at the MadCat International
Women's Film Festival. For those of you looking for that kind of relief,
MadCat delivers. The films are top-notch; they're so creative, in fact, that
you wonder why all movies aren't made for the art of it. Offering content
that only women can provide, MadCat takes the show on the road each year,
but Ariella Ben-Dov started it all in San Francisco."
- SF Bay Guardian

MadCat Women's International Film Festival
639 Steiner Street
San Francisco, CA 94117 USA

Phone: 415 436-9523
Fax: 415 934-0642
info at madcatfilmfestival.org
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org