Film Festivals in Rhode Island

HAUNTED NEWPORT HORROR FILM FESTIVAL P.O. Box 12 Newport, Rhode Island 02840 Tel: (401) 846-9884 E-Mail: info_crypt@hauntednewport.net Web: http://www.hauntednewport.net Contact: Eleyne Austen Sharp Festival Statement: Haunted Newport is the largest Halloween celebration in the United States, featuring over 120 events and thousands of visitors. IVY FILM FESTIVAL Student Activities Office Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 ATTN: Tel: (843) 566-2848 E-Mail: director@ivyfilmfestival.com Web: http://www.ivyfilmfestival.com Contact: Whitaker Lader Festival Statement: The largest completely student-run festival in the world, partnered with Variety and Creative Coalition, open to submissions from university-level filmmakers and screenwriters all over the globe. We help aspiring student filmmakers and screenwriters attain the recognition their work deserves, while they learn from each other and industry professionals. $1,000 - $2,000 grand prize. NATIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD DAY SHORT FILM CONTEST 17 Gordon Avenue Suite 203 Providence, Rhode Island 02905 Tel: (401) 454-3183 E-Mail: zhunton@neighborhoodday.org Web: http://www.neighborhoodday.org Contact: Zoe Hunton, Program Director Festival Statement: Our Short Film Contest is for both professional and amateur filmmakers to illustrate, through a film in 5-minutes or less, what a neighborhood that inspires them means to them. The contest has three prize categories: Adult, Youth (under age 18 or enrolled in grades K-12), and a Special Jury Award. Prizes of $2,000 will be awarded in each of the three categories. We have a superstar panel of judges including two-time academy award winner Terry Sanders and Gregg Hale the filmmaker and producer of the Blair Witch Project. NEO-PANGEA UNDER-GROUND-CYBER-TECH FESTIVAL Tel: n/a E-Mail: info@neo-pangea.com Web: http://www.neo-pangea.com Contact: Gordon Holmes NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL P.O. Box 146 Newport, Rhode Island 02840 Tel: (212) 755-2743 E-Mail: newportff@aol.com Web: http://www.newportfilmfestival.com Contact: Christine Schomer, Executive Director PROVIDENCE LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL PLAFF PO BOX 1403 Providence, Rhode Island 02901 Tel: (401) 454-6591 E-Mail: mlewis@risd.edu Web: http://www.latin-americanfilmfestival.org Contact: Margaret Lewis RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: P.O. Box 162 Newport, Rhode Island 02903 Tel: (401) 861-4445 E-Mail: flicksart@aol.com Web: http://www.RIFilmFest.org Contact: George T. Marshall, Executive Director Festival Statement: Rhode Island native Bobby Farrelly was so impressed with what he saw in the festival's first year that he agreed to premiere his next film at the second year's festival, a film entitled There's Something About Mary. The rest, of course, is history. RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL HORROR FILM FESTIVAL 96 Second Street Newport, Rhode Island 02840 Tel: (401) 861-4445 E-Mail: info@film-festival.org Web: http://www.RIFilmFest.org Contact: Shawn Drywa/Joshua Gravel Festival Statement: New England's oldest and largest film festival dedicated to the spooky and macabre. Noted for its presentation of restored work, including silent films with live accompaniment, the four day Festival is based at the historic Columbus Theatre in Providence. Features include celebrity guest appearances, industry forums, art gallery exhibitions, book signings, lectures, a costume contest, and a candle-lit cemetery tour.