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MIRAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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Next Festival Dates
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Price info
http://miragefilmfest.com/festival/passes.aspx
Opening hours
11:00am to 02:00am
Last attendance
0.00
Number of journalists
35.00
Is the Festival open to the public ?
Open to the public
Does the Festival have a market ?
Festival have a market
Does the Festival have a competition ?
Festival have a competition

Location

Name
Mirage Film Festival, Corp.
Address
PO BOX 6061-352
City
Sherman Oaks
State
California
Zip code
91413
Country
United States
Telephone
818-481-5896
Fax
none

About

FESTIVAL MISSION

The Mirage International Film Festival’s mission is to help filmmakers present their films to audiences, industry professionals and distributors from around the globe. In order to best achieve this, the festival strives to create an immersive, high energy environment that promotes networking and the awe-inspiring wonderment that only great cinema is capable of producing.

Beyond supporting emerging and established filmmakers, our various special events, educational series and film marketplace are specifically designed to help attendees of all levels expand their industry acumen, form wide ranging industry connections and foster their overall careers. The spirit of the festival will permeate from every screening, meeting and attendee. The Festival will screen over 250 feature and short films over five days this summer in Las Vegas, Nevada. With a plethora of distributors, sales & production companies and production executives guaranteed to attend, filmmakers and attendees will have unprecedented access to industry professionals.

 

Festival

Festival presentation

FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS

The Festival welcomes submissions for feature films in narrative and documentary categories. All selected features will participate in the festival’s MAIN EVENT competition. We strongly believe that a film from any category could take the Festival’s 2014 Best Feature award, be it Darkest Before the Dawn, Cinema Mavericks, the Dockect or any category. Entering all films into the MAIN EVENT puts everyone on an even playing field in the completion and recognizes the best from across all different styles and genres in the independent film community.

In addition, however Mirage International Film Festival offers filmmakers several competitive sub-categories designed specifically to recognize excellence within various genres and help promote the various styles, methods and techniques that populate the ever expanding world of cinema.

  • Main Event  -  main competition program for all eligible feature-length films
  • Darkest Before the Dawn  -  dedicated to showcasing feature-length genre films
  • Cinema Mavericks  -  feature-length films with budgets less than $1.5 million USD
  • Newcomer  -  available exclusively for first-time, feature-length directors
  • WorldCine  -  feature-length films which were financed and filmed outside of North America
  • The Dockect  -  non-fiction feature-length documentary films

SHORT-LENGTH FILMS

The Festival offers a robust competition program for short films, divided into institutional and non-institutional categories.

New Media Marvels Competition Category

Mirage International Film Festival's New Media Marvels competitive program is designed to bring attention to the emerging world of new media. With the growing prevalence and wide reach of online streaming video sites, the internet is providing filmmakers with an easy and affordable avenue to present their alternative media to a global audience.

New Media Marvels is designed to recognize and reward exceptional work in the expanding new media landscape. With the increasing number of success stories of TV series, films and documentaries being developed and produced based on new media content, the Festival's New Media Marvels program provides a solid forum for these new age filmmakers to showcase their stories and network with distributors, producers and industry executives.

Film Blueprint Competition Category

All epic projects start with a vision. And like the building of monolith skyscrapers that dot the city landscape, the first step in realizing that vision is putting your ideas on paper... as blueprints. This concept resonates strong in Mirage International Film Festival’s Original Screenwriting competition Film Blueprint.

We believe that all great films started as great scripts! Film Blueprint seeks to discover the next generation of great writers and provide a forum to highlight and recognize their scripts. This competitive category is judged by a distinguished panel comprised of top literary agents, screenwriters and development executives.

Festival Nickname
MIFF, Mirage Film Fest
Edition
1.00
Theme
American Films
Animation
Art-house films
Awards
Comedy
Crime
Digital
Documentary
Environnement/Nature
European Films
Family
Fantasy/Science Fiction
French Films
German Films
Horror films
Independent
International
Italian Films
Japanese Films
Latin American Films
Market
Multimedia
Romance
Science
Seminar
Spanish Films
Student films
Thriller
Underground
War
Western
Women
Youth/Teen
Category/Format
Animated Films
Documentaries
Experiment
Fiction Features
Independant
Music video
Short films
Student film
Work-In-Progress
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Submission

Film submission fee
Payment
Film submission amount
Main Event - $65.00 (early) $75.00 (official) $90.00 (late), Add one sub-category for $25.00 (early) $35.00 (official) $50.00 (late), Additional sub-categories - $15.00 (early) $20.00 (official) $30.00 (late), Institute of Cinema - $45.00 (early) $55.00 (
Film call for entry start day
Film call for entry deadline

Contact

Festival Director Name
Mark Sonoda
Festival Director E-mail
marks@miragefilmfest.com
Festival Programmer Name
Mark Sonoda
Festival Programmer Email
marks@miragefilmfest.com
Festival Press Contact Name
Brent Singleton
Festival Press Contact Email
brents@miragefilmfest.com
Festival Commercial Contact Name
Alan Smith
Festival Commercial Contact Email
industry@miragefilmfest.com
E-mail for Webmaster
info@miragefilmfest.com

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