The Sarasota Fringe Film Festival

The Sarasota Fringe Film Festival is alive, well, and looking forward to formally announcing its mid-April 2010 dates and plans in the next few weeks.

Everything is different about the 2010 Fringe. New venues, new board of advisors, new guests, filmmaker prizes offered by international distributor Planet Group Entertainment Ltd., and special events to be scheduled over the three day Festival. 

John Avildson speaking about rejection at FringeFest 2009

Thanks to the original group of rejected filmmakers who participated with us last year, we are now “on the map” as they say!

There will be a “withoutabox” listing in place shortly for everybody, but for those of you who come from the original group of filmmakers rejected by the regular Sarasota Film Festival, you are invited to “sign up” directly with us at the discounted rate of $35 per entry. (We have to charge something.)

Each and every entry gets a FREE T SHIRT and CERTIFICATE of SELECTION

There are no particular requirements for entry as you have all been rejected from one film festival or another. If you have a new film that has not entered any festivals that’s fine too! Let us be your very first festival.

Our goal is to screen each and every film entered!

As Jonas Mekas, friend and Founder of The New York Anthology Film Archives (and FringeFest “Advisor at Large”) once said: “All films have value. They don’t have to be masterpieces. If you just eat steak every day and no salad, you sometimes need salad. You cannot live on masterpieces alone. Each film can contain something we don’t have, something that is very special.”

GO TO THE GENERAL ENTRY INFO HERE OR CLICK ON THE SIDE BAR TITLE TO THE RIGHT!

For more information regarding the Sarasota Fringe Film Festival 2010, please contact patricknagle@yahoo.com