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2013 Film Festival
BIG BEAR LAKE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
NOW ACCEPTING FILM & SCREENPLAY COMPETITION ENTRIES
The 14th annual Big Bear Lake International Film Festival is open for film & screenplay competition entries. Next year’s festival will be held the weekend of September 20-22, 2013.
“We have already started to receive film submissions,” says Monika Skerbelis, Co-President and Film Programming Director. To be eligible for the film competition, a film entry must have been completed in 2011, 2012 or 2013. All film entries must be submitted on DVD by the earlybird deadline February 8 (early entry fee $35), or regular deadline May 3 (entry fee $45) or late deadline May 31 (entry fee $50). The Big Bear and mountain resorts “locals” entry fee is $35. The festival utilizes withoutabox.com for entry submissions with a discount for filmmakers who use their service. Click to submit to the Film Competition
The 12th annual Big Bear Lake Screenwriting Competition is open for feature screenplays 90 to 130 pages in length. Entry fee for scripts submitted by the earlybird deadline of January 15 is only $35. “Our goal with this competition is to provide as much benefit to the writer as possible. As part of fulfilling that goal, we provide feedback on every screenplay entered from at least three separate readers,” says Sandy Steers, Co-President & Screenwriting Competition Director. Click to submit to the Screenplay Competition
For film & screenplay submission guidelines, becoming a film screener, screenwriting competition reader, festival volunteer, or festival sponsor visit www.bigbearlakefilmfestival.com, email: info@bigbearlakefilmfestival.com or call (909) 866-3433 for more information. The Big Bear Lake International Film Festival is a non-profit organization.
Big Bear Lake International Film Festival to Honor
Jack Cardiff for Lifetime Achievement in Cinematography.
The Big Bear Lake International Film Festival (BBLIFF) is delighted to recognize and celebrate the remarkable nine-decade career of legendary British cinematographer Jack Cardiff, who provided the canvas for classics like Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes and The African Queen. The Festival will honor the late Mr. Cardiff at the Big Bear Lake Performing Arts Center (PAC) with a posthumous Cinematography Award on Friday, September 14.
The September 14th tribute will be followed on Saturday, September 15 at 10:15a.m. by a screening of the critically acclaimed documentary CAMERAMAN: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff directed by Craig McCall. A cinematography showcase and a Q&A session with McCall and other special cinematographer guests is scheduled for 12:15 – 2:15p.m.
Cameraman illuminates a unique figure whose life and career are inextricably interwoven with the history of cinema. In it, Cardiff shares many fascinating revelations and anecdotes about what it was like to work with Hollywood icons like Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas and Sophia Loren. Packed with stunning high-definition clips from newly restored classic movies and over twenty original interviews with the world’s greatest actors, directors and technicians, Cameraman explores how Cardiff’s life and work helped elevate cinematography to an art form and made history with his groundbreaking vision and technical wizardry. Director Craig McCall says, “This multi-Oscar winning Cinematographer changed cinema history. Martin Scorsese and twenty other cinema greats tell you why.” Scorsese acts as a guide to the films and explains their influence on him by saying, “I began to have a very strong affinity towards British Cinema, because of my recognition of Jack Cardiff’s name.”
Jack Cardiff was born to movie actors and vaudeville performers that got him started in front of the camera at the age of 4. By the time he was 14, he was working regularly for camera crews. He worked his way up to Camera Operator at Denham Studios before he operated the camera for the first Technicolor film shot in Britain, Wings of the Morning (1937).
He took on the Cinematographer mantle for the Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger films Stairway to Heaven (1946, originally titled A Matter of Life and Death),Black Narcissus (1947) — for which he won the Academy Award for best color cinematography — and The Red Shoes (1948). Cardiff later joined director John Huston in the Congo for The African Queen (1951), and shotThe Magic Box, The Barefoot Contessa, The Vikings, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, War and Peace, andFanny. His directorial efforts peaked with the critical breakthrough of 1960, Sons and Lovers.
Cardiff was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2000 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 73rd Academy Awards in 2001 for “exceptional distinction in lifetime achievement; exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences; and for outstanding services to the Academy.”
Influenced by the painters’ Vermeer and Caravaggio use of shadow, Cardiff once reflected, “Simplicity — that’s the secret of good lighting and good cinematography. Always keep it simple.”
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Big Bear Lake International Film Festival to Honor
Tom Schulman for Lifetime Achievement in Screenwriting.
The Big Bear Lake International Film Festival (BBLIFF) is pleased to announce Academy Award winning screenwriter Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society) as the 2012 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Screenwriting. He will receive the honor during BBLIFF’s Opening Night Awards Presentations at the Big Bear Lake Performing Arts Center (PAC) on Friday, September 14.
Tom Schulman graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Philosophy before turning to drama. He studied film at the USC Graduate School of Cinema, the Actors and Directors Lab, Los Angeles and with director Joan Darling. During this period, he directed the Actors’ Studio, West production of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker.
Tom’s first feature script, Dead Poets Society, earned an Academy Award in 1990. (One of his teachers at the boys prep school Montgomery Bell Academy, Sam Pickering, was the basis of Robin Williams’s character.) He also wrote What About Bob?, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Medicine Man, and Holy Man; wrote and directedEight Heads in a Duffel Bag; executive-produced Indecent Proposal and Me, Myself and Irene; wrote and produced Welcome to Mooseport; and co-wrote and co-produced the HBO pilot of The Anatomy of Hope.
In addition to his creative work, Tom served on the board of directors and then as vice president of the Writers Guild of America, West. He was also the president of the Writers Guild Foundation and currently serves on its board.
About honoring Tom in Big Bear, BBLIFF Co-President and Screenwriting Competition Director Sandy Steers said, “I’m thrilled that we have the privilege of honoring such an excellent screenwriter as Tom Schulman. He takes intriguing characters on grand adventures in such a down-to-earth way that we instantly relate on every level and cannot wait to see what happens next. And he makes it all look easy.”
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BBLIFF to Honor Gloria Meade for Community Service
