For those of you who haven’t had the chance to battle the crowds and check out a real, live film festival, check out the Babelgum Online Film Festival, judged by both professionals like director Spike Lee and visitors like you.
Here’s what the official press release has to say:
Babelgum, the new interactive web TV portal, has released all entries to the Babelgum Online Film Festival onto its platform for public voting. The festival introduces a huge variety of professionally produced short films. Over a thousand entries from 86 countries are available to anyone with broadband, reaching a potential global audience of 360 million. The Babelgum Online Film Festival is the first of its kind, and provides a unique distribution opportunity for the newest filmmaking talent. A number of entries have been created specifically for the festival, proving that it is also generating new and original content.
Spike Lee confirms that viewers should be impressed with what they find. “With the Babelgum Online Film Festival, filmmaking officially enters the Web 2.0 era. The standard of the entries we’ve received thus far has been outstanding. It just goes to show there is a wealth of talent out there that wouldn’t usually get recognition or exposure if it wasn’t for festivals such as this. It really does represent a new era in film-making and puts the filmmaker in more control of getting their productions seen.”
Valerio Zingarelli, CEO of Babelgum, is pleased to see the festival is contributing to an industry shift which sees the small screen as important a vehicle as the big screen. “Films are now being made primarily for consumption online or on other smaller screen devices with 60% of entries received having been produced specifically for the small screen. This supports the realization that to be successful, filmmakers need to go where their potential audience is and Babelgum provides the perfect platform to do so.”
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
Click on the link above to view the film “Waiting…” (1 min 13 secs) which shows children in Hebron taking to the roofs to try to get to school past the soldiers who are trying to stop them. This MicroDoc is in the Looking for Genius category in the Babelgum Online Film Festival – please rate it and leave a comment! Many thanks.
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I am currently working with Babelgum handling publicity. Could you send me an email address so I can keep you posted on developments?
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Click on the link above to view the film “Waiting…” (1 min 13 secs) which shows children in Hebron taking to the roofs to try to get to school past the soldiers who are trying to stop them. This MicroDoc is in the Looking for Genius category in the Babelgum Online Film Festival – please rate it and leave a comment! Many thanks.
Hello,
I am currently working with Babelgum handling publicity. Could you send me an email address so I can keep you posted on developments?
Best.
Harry