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The review of submissions for Filminute begin in March 2009. Submissions for this year's festival will be accepted up until midnight August 20th, 2009.

The Filminute Festival, including final jury deliberations and public voting, will take place throughout September. The Filminute Awards will be announced in October 2009.


10 Points to Consider
  • Your film must be 60 seconds - no more, no less.
  • Produce your one-minute piece at broadcast quality.
  • Consider your viewing audience - from mobile phones, to broadband to televisions, to theatre screens.
  • Contributors must be the sole author(s) of the entry.
  • You may submit more than one film in accordance with the official Filminute rules and regulations.
  • No unauthorized use of copyrighted material.
  • Submissions will be made electronically.
  • Filminute will reserve the right to refuse any entry at its own discretion. Submitted material must not contain obscene, unlawful or objectionable material.
  • Content created to promote any product or service will not be accepted.
  • The exhibition and competition will be open to any resident of planet Earth.

See the Filminute 2008 Gallery


PRESS RELEASE:
ARTE
The 2008 edition of the festival caught the attention of influential film, entertainment and cultural media from around the world. We’ve captured a number of these in the Press section on the NEWS page.

Arte, the highly respected European culture channel, reaches over 30 million people. Arte is currently running a special on Filminute that focuses on the festival’s success over its first 3 years and its goals moving forward. The segment was produced by Germany’s Regard Film. You can watch clips from the piece in the screening area above. Visit the ARTE website to see the full listings in various EU countries.

TWITTER

On Twitter, Filminute has landed amongst a robust community of filmmakers, writers, directors, and creative producers from all over the world. The steady exchange of timely views, news, announcements, and the responses and commentary in real time is refreshing.

One of our favourite finds has been the community of writers devoted to 140 character short stories…These collections of ultra short stories seem just a breath away from becoming screenplays for one-minute films ;-) We invite you to follow Filminute on Twitter.


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HOST: PETER SHINKODA
Filminute broadband and television

Peter Shinkoda - Host Filminute 2008

Peter Shinkoda presents the Filminute 2008 Awards as well as the broadband and broadcast segments of the festival hosted on the Adobe Media Player content network.
About Peter Shinkoda

With segments shot in London, Vancouver, and Bucharest, the shows were Co-Executive Produced by videojournalist David Dunkley Gyimah of Viewmagazine.TV
About Viewmagazine.TV

Special thanks to director Wayne Campbell, Stockbridge Music Productions, composer Matti Paalanen, MOBY Gratis, D-topia Sound Production, editor Alexander Radu, Loop Media animation, and photographer Christopher Wadsworth.