The Maverick Movie Awards

Festival

Festival presentation:

5 Annual September 14, 2013 to September 15, 2013
MISSION STATEMENT

The Maverick Movie Awards was founded by moviemakers who have been through the glorious highs and crushing lows of the international film festival circuit; from these shared experiences came the calling to create a real alternative to the nepotism, politics, and commercialism that defines far too many festivals and competitions.

Our goal is to help talented moviemakers achieve the recognition they deserve by awarding movies with unique style, exceptional craft, and the power to communicate.

By championing great movies – regardless of origin, genre, or budget – our hope is to re-ignite the spirit of the major film festivals and distribution pioneers by celebrating great cinema above glitz and glamour.

MAVERICK MOVIE AWARDS SUMMARY

The Maverick Movie Awards exists to honor all facets of moviemaking form, function, style, and craft. A level playing-field where a movie’s lack or excess of a budget is immaterial, its absence or abundance of star power is inconsequential, and its humble or lofty origins are irrelevant, any and all independent, underground, student, and studio films are eligible to receive a Maverick Award.

Celebrating narratives, documentaries, experimental films, and the vast diversity of moving pictures expression, the MMA has recognized everything from big-budget pictures to low-budget indies, global issue documentaries, screwball comedies, computer-animated movies, action-horror flicks, video art, microcinema, music videos, webisodes, and everything in-between. Each movie’s successful execution of intent as a whole, on its own terms, is considered first and then the quality of its parts. So in addition to standard award categories like Best Picture and Best Director, the MMA prides itself on saluting oft overlooked disciplines, including stunts, special effects makeup, original music, and more.

Except for advertising and industrial work, all motion picture creators are encouraged to submit. As a cooperative of moviemakers honoring moviemakers with no theater or online screening events, the MMA will not jeopardize premiere status for any other competition or festival submission.

MORE ABOUT US

The Maverick Movie Awards’ founders and judges are all entertainment industry insiders and outsiders (not mere academics, critics, fans, or dabblers) with backgrounds as varied as our work. In fact, everyone involved in the MMA’s judging process has been a collaborator on a theatrically-released movie, a television or video release, or a top-ten film fest official selection.

But we’re not telling you who we are. No siree! We must maintain our secret identities in order to preserve the integrity of our judging process. The self-interest we will cop to is the need to protect the careers we’ve built in the ‘small, small world’ known as the entertainment industry and a desire to avoid retaliation on the World Wide Web from those whose work we “fail” to recognize.

And if those aren’t good enough reasons for you then please consider that, unlike far too many film festivals and competitions, we are NOT doing this for our greater glory. We do what we do at the Maverick Movie Awards for our fellow moviemakers; these talented folks are the ones with the names to know.

The Maverick Movie Awards

Festival Nickname:

The Maverick Movie Awards

Edition:

Festival Logo:

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Theme:

Adult

Adventure

African Films

American Films

Animation

Arabic Films

Art, Dance, Music

Art-house films

Asian Films

Awards

Black Culture Films

British Films

Children

Comedy

Crime

Digital

Documentary

Education

Environnement/Nature

European Films

Family

Fantasy/Science Fiction

Flash

French Films

German Films

Health/Medical

Historical

Homosexuality

Horror films

Human Rights

Independent

International

Italian Films

Japanese Films

Jewish Films

Latin American Films

Market

Multimedia

Music

National

Religious films

Romance

Science

Seminar

Senior

Silent films

Spanish Films

Sport

Student films

Television

Thriller

Underground

War

Western

Women

Youth/Teen

Category/Format:

Mixed

Festival Info

Next Festival Dates:

09/14/2013 - 09/15/2013

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Festival Submission

Film submission fee:

Payment

Film submission amount:

$20 / $60

Film call for entry start day:

03/13/2013

Film call for entry deadline:

05/30/2012

Rules and regulations:

http://www.maverickmovieawards.com/submissions.htm

Submission payment:

http://www.maverickmovieawards.com/submissions.htm

Submission Page:

http://www.withoutabox.com/login/4747

Festival Contact

Festival Director Name:

Michael Kenneth

Festival Director E-mail:

mkenneth@maverickmovieawards.com

Festival Programmer Name:

Jane Dempsey

Festival Programmer Email:

jdempsey@maverickmovieawards.com

E-mail for Webmaster:

mkenneth@maverickmovieawards.com

Feature-length Movies

All genres of narrative, documentary, animated, musical, experimental, and/or performance-based pictures are eligible for up to twenty-one Maverick Awards in this category.

Short-length Movies

All genres of narrative, documentary, animated, musical, experimental, and/or performance-based short-length pictures are eligible for up to twenty-one Maverick Awards in this category.

Student-made Movies

All genres of narrative, documentary, animated, musical, experimental, and/or performance-based student-made feature-length AND short-length pictures will be considered for this category and up to 20 other awards.

P.O. Box 2083 New York NY 10013
U S A
+1 917-231-2063

Festival Organization

Name:

The Maverick Movie Awards

Address:

P.O. Box 2083

City:

New York

State:

Zip code:

10013

Country:

United States

Telephone:

+1 917-231-2063

Website:

http://www.maverickmovieawards.com/faq.htm