Get Ready!

  

      Now is the time to start buttoning up your edits on the 2007 movie submissions to the Big Screen Showcase. We have made the festival slightly more competitive this year by moving up the CALL FOR ENTRY to March 14, 2007. All producers that want to compete for prizes must have their movies in by the deadline. Go here to enter your movie, print entry forms, and mail them in with your media.

        Winners from the Big Screen Showcase are automatically entered into the Chicago Film Festival. Last year, three movies from the 2005 Big Screen Showcase were selected for screening. Its a huge deal because they solicit world wide and received 581 submissions. Of all those movies, Humboldt County based Chisa Hughes won a Certificate of Merit for her first movie, "Working to Survive Behind Barbed Wire: The Nisei Interned." Her documentary portrays the living conditions for Japanese Americans in the interment camps set up in the United States during WWll.

         Central Recycling Agency- Director/producer Caleb Price gives up a sci-fi twist to this educational movie about the importance of our recycling effort. Good acting, great special effects, and conceptually sweet.


       Another noteworthy movie that entered itself into the Chicago film festival, after screening at the 2005 Showcase is Wiggyman Productions' "Waking Up," a spellbinder about a young man capable of seeing the future. Producer/director Rameen Aryanpur, good writing and good acting. The editor was really paying attention.