Savannah Film Festival

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Savannah, United States October 30 - November 06, 2010
Call for Entry Deadline: July 01, 2010
Festival Data:
- Established: 1998
- Genre: General
- Attendance: 35000
- Total Number of Films Submitted: 525
- Total Number of Films Screened: 55
- Students Section
- Has Panels
- Has Seminars
- Workshops
Festival Website:
http:/ / www.scad.edu/ filmfest/
Festival Description:

The Savannah Film Festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design features the best in independent, innovative and influential film from around the world. The annual festival presents a full range of cinematic creativity from both award-winning professionals and emerging student filmmakers including features, documentaries, professional and student shorts, both live action and animated films.

The Savannah Film Festival regularly screens award-winning films before their national release dates at the beautifully restored Trustees Theater, a 1946 cinema house, and the Lucas Theatre for the Arts, a former Vaudeville venue. Savannah becomes a film lover's paradise during this weeklong event, which also features workshops, panel discussions and presentations by well-known artists and filmmakers. Films screened at the festival have come from Scotland, the UK, Vietnam, Australia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Israel, China, Germany, Canada, the United States and Ecuador, and special guests in attendance have included Malcolm McDowell, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Peter O'Toole, Kathleen Turner, Danny Glover, Milos Forman and Alec Baldwin.

The Savannah College of Art and Design is among the most comprehensive art and design universities in the world. SCAD is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution that offers students a choice of degree programs in 46 majors and more than 50 minors at locations in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, in Lacoste, France, online through SCAD eLearning, and soon in Hong Kong.

The diverse student body of more than 9,500 comes from all 50 United States and nearly 100 countries worldwide. The education and career preparation of each student is nurtured and cultivated by a faculty of more than 600 professors with extraordinary academic credentials and valuable professional experience.
Film Submissions:
- Call for Entry: http:/ / www.scad.edu/ news/ 2010/ film-festival-entries.cfm
Email: filmfest(at)scad.edu

Phone: 912.525.5050

Mailing Address: Savannah College of Art and Design
P.O. Box 3146
Savannah, GA 31402-3146 USA

Email:	filmfest(at)scad.edu
Phone:	912.525.5050
Mailing Address:	Savannah College of Art and Design P.O. Box 3146 Savannah, GA 31402-3146 USA

OCT 01, 2009 08:34AM FFW Festival Editor writes:

The 12th annual Savannah Film Festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design

Films to receive special gala screenings will include Jean-Marc Vallee's "The Young Victoria"; Oren Moverman's "The Messenger," with Moverman and stars Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster in attendance; Grant Heslov's "The Men Who Stare at Goats"; Pedro Almodovar's "Broken Embraces"; Lone Sherfig's "An Education"; the United States premieres of James Ivory's "The City of Your Final Destination," with Ivory in attendance, and Nick Moran's "Telstar," with Moran and star Con O'Neill in attendance; Jodie Markell's "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond" (from a screenplay by Tennessee Williams); Cannes Palme d'Or winner Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon"; and Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," winner of the Grand-Jury Prize at Sundance and the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival. Daniels and star Gabourey Sidibe will be in attendance.

Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson ("Pieces of April," "Vicki Cristina Barcelona") will receive an Outstanding Achievement in Cinema Award after a screening of Woody Allen's "Whatever Works". Emmy and Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson ("Cheers," "The People vs. Larry Flynt") and Ben Foster ("3:10 to Yuma") will also receive Outstanding Achievement in Cinema Awards prior to their screening of "The Messenger." Emmy Rossum ("The Phantom of the Opera") will receive the Young Hollywood Award prior to a screening of her film "Dare," and Jeremy Renner will receive the Spotlight Award for his performance in "The Hurt Locker," which will also screen at the festival. Scott Caan ("Ocean's 11"), the writer and star of "Mercy," one of the festival's competition films, also will attend.
In addition to the special screenings, the festival will showcase 22 professional films (features, documentaries, shorts and animation) and 12 student films in competition. The jurors for the competition are actress Patti D'Arbanville ("Rescue Me"), actress/producer Rita Gam, writer/director Ingrid Rockefeller, writer/director Michael Sucsy (Emmy-Award winning "Grey Gardens") and writer/director David Twohy ("Pitch Black").
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