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BOFA Film Festival offers $20K in short film prizes

Press release from Tsuki

$20,000 is on offer to filmmakers worldwide that can capture the “Essence of Tasmania” in a three minute short film.

The Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air (BOFA) Film Festival “Essence of Tasmania” Short Film Competition, will offer four prizes of $5,000 each, provided by Tourism Tasmania, with the successful films to be used to promote Tasmania to the world.

Announcing the start of competition BOFA Festival director Owen Tilbury emphasised that entrants should make their films to tell Tasmania’s story in their own way.

“We aren’t looking for TV commercials or travelogues, we want stories with a beginning, middle and an end,” Mr Tilbury said.

“Film-makers could tell their own Tasmanian story, or through the eyes of a visitor, or follow the path of a convict ancestor or just conjure what Tasmania means to them – stories can be as original and quirky as you like- we’re looking for film-making creativity from anywhere in the world expressing the "Essence of Tasmania" .

Mr Tilbury said that the idea came from Tourism Tasmania, who saw film as the perfect way to showcase Tasmania, from its natural beauty, its fascinating heritage, or from the people who live here.

The four winning films will be used by Tourism Tasmania to promote Tasmania through a number of channels, including the increasingly important social media.

Films should be less than three minutes long, in English or subtitled, and be shot in high definition in any of the following genres:

· drama;

· documentary;

· humour (comedy);

· romance;

· grand adventure;

· sci-fi

Entries will close on Friday, April 13, 2012. Detailed terms and conditions are available at the Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival web site, www.bofa.com.au
 
Films will be judged on the filmmaker’s ability to capture, in story form, the “Essence of Tasmania”.