[Discuss MovieFest] [MovieFest Entrants] Announcement - Grand Overall Prize!

[craig.callaghan at xtra.co.nz]

Kiaora

Would like to know, if you have recieved our cheque from Gisborne Boys High School and I had asked a few weeks ago, if we were allowed to use score.

Thanks,
Phyllis Callaghan. 


---- MovieFest Entrants <entrants at moviefest.org.nz> wrote: 
> The trustees of MovieFest would like to thank you for entering this  
> years competition and wish you well with your movie making.
> 
> There is less than a month before your movies are due - remember to  
> include a signed Movie Details Form with each movie, and ensure your  
> entry fee is paid for each movie.
> A countdown to hand-in is on http://MovieFest.org.nz/06/home -- Post  
> your entries as PAL long play DV (miniDV or Digital-8 tapes or full  
> frame uncompressed .DV files on DVD-R) to PO Box 40732, Upper Hutt  
> 5140 - ensure they are send before the close of post 5:00pm, Friday  
> 11 August 2006.
> 
> Send us your photos of some MovieFest action:  Just attach them to an  
> email to pix at MovieFest.org.nz - You can include a description in the  
> email body and a title in the subject, and it'll appear in the  
> MovieFest pictures RSS feed, and possibly on the website.. Feel free  
> to send artwork etc for your Movies as well.  We've giving you a  
> prize to the value of about $70 to the "best" pictures.. so get those  
> cameras working!  More details are in the MovieFest Forums posting.
> 
> We would like to announce that we have now completed arrangements for  
> a Grand overall prize and this will be a day trip to Wellington for a  
> tour of a number of the facilities owned by Peter Jackson and his  
> team! We have managed to arrange free air tickets for two people  
> courtesy of Origin Pacific from anywhere on their network to  
> Wellington and return. Although we have only been able to get two  
> free air tickets, we can take a party of more than this from the  
> winning team on the movie facility tour and are currently trying to  
> arrange for discounted air travel for any others that wish to avail  
> themselves of this fabulous opportunity.
> Panavision (New Zealand) Ltd are our major sponsor this year and they  
> will be providing a prize package of video equipment valued at $1000  
> for each of the three categories. The two runners up in each category  
> will also receive prizes courtesy of Imaging Technology and the Apple  
> Division of Renaissance Ltd.
> 
> We are currently in the process of arranging the venues for the  
> regional finals, which will be held on one day over the weekend of  
> 26/27 August, and we should be in a position to announce these shortly.
> 
> The judging will be done in three levels. The first or preliminary  
> judging will check all movies for content and make sure they adhere  
> to the time criteria. This will be done over two days in Wellington  
> and will be a very time intensive activity. We are interested in  
> inviting suitable people to come along and assist and if you are  
> interested, please let us know soon. Entrants are welcome to offer  
> their services but there will only be space for a limited number and  
> they will not be able to vote for their own movie. At this stage we  
> will be reducing the number of movies down to nine in each category.
> 
> The second level of judging will take place at the regional finals  
> where three movies from each category will be reduced down to one in  
> each category and these will be judged by local video/film  
> professionals.
> 
> The best three movies from each of the three categories decided at  
> the regional level will be appraised by the five judges who have been  
> appointed. They are all experienced in the film and video industry  
> and two can boast five academy awards between them. They are; Miranda  
> Harcourt, a well known New Zealand actress, Rosemary MacLeod, a well  
> known script writer and columnist, Hugh Macdonald, a director who  
> learned his craft at the New Zealand National Film Unit, Alex Funke,  
> a cinematographer who is currently head of the Miniatures Unit for  
> Peter Jackson and Mike Hedges, a sound re-recording mixer at Peter  
> Jackson’s Park Road Post. The last two judges worked on both the  
> Lord of the Rings Trilogy and King Kong movie winning academy awards  
> for both projects.
> See http://MovieFest.org.nz/06/judges
> 
> Finally, we would like to thank those that have paid their  
> registration fees as these fees are necessary to pay for the  
> organisation of this event and without them, there wouldn’t be one.  
> To those who have registered and have not yet paid, we would ask that  
> you do so today as we will not be able to accept any movies that have  
> not had their registration fee paid.  You can pay via direct credit  
> if you prefer.  Let us know promptly if you have any difficulty paying.
> 
> If you have any movie-making problems you would like help with or  
> would like to discuss the competition in any way, please feel free to  
> either email the discussion list at discuss at moviefest.org.nz or go to  
> our online forum at http://MovieFest.org.nz/forums .
> 
> Many thanks again from the MovieFest Trustees and members of the  
> organising team:
> 
> Graeme, Ed, Michael, Jo, Shirley, Simone
> 
> And a huge thanks to our sponsors for 2006: Panavision, Amstore,  
> Imaging Technology and the Apple division of Renaissance Ltd
> 
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