The Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival (BOFA) is inviting filmmakers from all over Australia to submit entries to their BOFA Devil Short Film Competition.
Open to all resident Australian filmmakers, the BOFA Devil Short Film Competition is accepting short films that have been made anytime within the last five years and are less than 15 minutes in length.
Up to 30 short films will be selected for programming into the festival, screening before feature length films and documentaries to festival audiences at BOFA 2014. They will also receive a Selected in Competition certificate.
The lucky winner will receive $1000, a VIP BOFA Festival Pass and a hand-crafted glass BOFA Devil Award, designed and made by renowned Tasmanian master glassblower James Dodson.
Furthermore, the winner and other finalist short film makers will be publicly recognised at a special festival film industry presentation event held in the Tasmanian Design Centre on the Saturday afternoon of the festival (November 8 at 5:30pm).
Festival Director, Owen Tilbury, emphasised the rarity of the opportunity that BOFA offers short filmmaker finalists to network with other screen industry guests on a level playing field. “The BOFA Devil Awards function on the Saturday of the festival is the perfect chance for filmmakers, critics, judges and screen industry guests to mingle in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.” he said.
All short film makers whose films are selected for screening at BOFA 2014 will receive a BOFA Festival Pass to see 8 films of their choice.
In what is perhaps a world-first, the judges of the BOFA Devil Short Film Competition are being crowd-sourced through BOFA’s You Be the (Short Film) Judge promotion. Applicants have started pouring in from all over the country and results have shown that those applying are not necessarily members of the film industry; they are simply die-hard film fans. This is just another example of BOFA Film Festival being agents of change and offering a ‘breath of fresh air’ to the global film festival landscape.
Now in its fifth year, BOFA is Tasmania’s only major annual film festival and will be held this year in Launceston from November 6-9, 2014.
Entries to the BOFA Devil Short Film Competition must be submitted through FilmFestivalLife at http://bofa.com.au/2014/competitions/ by Friday, August 1, 2014.
Competition details and conditions of entry are on the BOFA website at http://www.bofa.com.au.
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