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WILLiFEST Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary

WILLiFEST Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary We're back!!! We are celebrating our 5th year with a kick-off invitation only (Sorry!) cocktail party this Thursday in Williamsburg which will be followed by our Opening Night Screening at the Williamsburg Cinemas. This year WILLiFEST presents the premiere of director Malindi Fickle’s drama Suck It Up Buttercup. Friday brings a full day and night of screenings at two venues, Williamsburg Cinemas and returning partner El Puente. ...

17.09.2014 | Editor's blog | 1 comments

Williamsburg International Film Festival 2016

WILLiFEST spotlights independent filmmakers from around the world. We encourage you to submit your work and join us in New York City for a professional, fun-filled festival of screenings, industry panels, networking opportunities and after-parties.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The Williamsburg International Film Festival, voted top 10 coolest film festival by MovieMaker Magazine, was established to provide a platform for the creative visions of today's emerging artists of all disciplines. The film festival is an opportunity for filmmakers to enhance their careers by exposing their projects to a powerful audience, gaining crucial media exposure and strengthening industry relationships.

In addition to premieres, the festival features film selections from a multitude of categories. Screenplay, Commercial and Soundtrack competitions round out the offerings.

At WILLiFEST, we pride ourselves on elevating the filmmaker's experience. This festival was created for the artist, by artists, and we look forward to taking you, your film, music video or screenplay to the next level.

Narrative Feature Films
Any narrative work of fiction with a running time of at least 50 minutes from any country of origin. In order to qualify as a Narrative Feature Film, the submitted project must be either scripted or improvisational fiction. No premiere status is required. Films must have been completed after January 2013.

Documentary Feature Films

Any non-fiction film with a running time of at least 50 minutes from any country of origin, NOT including entirely scripted or improvised fictionalizations of actual events. If your documentary contains limited dramatization of actual events, you may submit in this category, but we will ultimately decide which program is best suited for your project, if accepted. No premiere status is required. Films must have been completed after January 2013.

Short Films

Any narrative or documentary film from any country of origin with a running time of 49 minutes or less. No premiere status is required. Films must have been completed after January 2013.

Animated Films

Any animated film in any style of animation from any country of origin with a running time of any length. No premiere status is required. Films must have been completed after January 2012.

Student Films

Any U.S. or International narrative or documentary film of any length. Proof of school enrollment is required. No premiere status is required. Films must have been completed after January 2013.

Music Videos

Any film or video in sync to music from any country of origin with a running time of less than 10 minutes. No premiere status is required. Music Videos do not have a completion requirement.

Screenplays

Any feature-length, English-language, narrative screenplay of any genre with a minimum of 15 pages.

Commercials

Any film or video that sells a product or service from any country of origin with a running time of less than 7 minutes. This category also includes Public Service Announcements (PSA) which promotes public awareness. Commercials have no premiere or completion requirements.

Soundtracks
A film or video music soundtrack from any category of film or video. Sample selection(s) should be less than 20 minutes. There is no completion requirement.

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Williamsburg International Film Festival 2013

WILLiFEST was established to provide a platform for the creative visions of today's emerging artists. The Williamsburg International Film Festival is the film component of WILLiFEST. The film and music festival is an opportunity for artists to enhance their career by exposing their art to an influential audience, gaining crucial media exposure and strengthening industry relationships.

Partnering with major universities, local non-profit organizations and industry leaders our Educational Panels introduce the artist to new technologies that affect their craft as well as gaining perspective on how the business-side of their industry is changing and real world methods to assist in successfully generating a livelihood from their art.

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