Submissions Guidelines

  •    1.         Entries must be 5 pages (5 minutes) or less and use standard film script format.

    2.         Submitted screenplays must be unproduced, noptioned wholly original work of the writer(s).

    3.         Entries must be PG-13. There may be children in the audience at the production workshop.

    4.         The setting should be one interior room with no more than 4 actors. Keep it simple to make it easily doable. Remember the crew will have only two hours in the studio to shoot your script.

    5.         Maximum 2 submissions per author. Author must be a resident of Iowa.

    6.         Scripts will be judged "blind" (without writer's names). Do not include your name on the script.

    7.         Directors will have the freedom to shoot the script according to their vision.

    8.         Questions regarding the contest may be submitted to fairfieldfilmfest@gmail.com

    9.         Send your submissions to fairfieldfilmfest@gmail.com as an Adobe pdf. or Microsoft Word file. Include your name and contact information in the e-mail.

    10.     By submitting a script, writers agree to abide by all contest rules.


  • 1st Fridays Art Walk 6th Annual Film Expo – 
    Final Schedule 2010


    Friday – February 5th 2010

    Venue 1
    FACC - Sondheim Theatre – 

                            6:00- 7:30     -Sam Steel Jr Detective Agency 
                                  7:30 - 8:00    -Intro to Film Festival
                            8:00 – 10:00 -Big River Man - Winner 2009 Sundance Film Festival        
                                                 -World Documentary

    Venue 2
    Central Park Furnishings – Student films/Fan Films
                            7:00 – 9:00 Student Shorts - (Courtesy MUM Film Department)
                                  9:00 - 9:30 - Zarosh - Professional Skateboarder (Courtesy DLF.TV)
                            9:30 - 10:00 - SB Woods - Installation and Performance Artist (Courtesy DLF.TV)

    Venue 3

    Revelations – Feature and Short Films/10 min or less and 2 min or less
                            7:00 – 8:30 - Guy Chronicles
                            8:30 - 10:00 -Shorts
    Venue 4 (Free)
    Fairfield Public Library
                            7:30 - 9:00 - Sita Sings the Blues & Guest Speaker Q&A
    Venue 5 (Free)
    Carnegie Museum - 
                             6:00 - 9:00 Abraham Lincoln Documentaryby D.W. Griffith

    Saturday Feb 6th 2010
    Venue 1

    FACC - Sondheim Theatre – 

                           1:00 - 3:00    - Big River Man - Replay 
                           3:00 - 4:00    - Ghost Players 
                           4:00 - 5:00    - This American Gothic
                           6:00- 7:30     - Intro to Film Festival

                                 7:30 - 8:00    - Kent Newman - IMPA/Heather Hartnett Award Presentations
                           8:00 – 9:00    - Winners Shorts contest
                           9:00 - 11:00   - Haunting Villisca - Premier

    Venue 2
    Central Park Furnishings – Student films/Fan Films
                            7:00 – 9:00 Animation Shorts - (Courtesy Grasshorse animation)
                                  9:00 - 9:30 - Arctic Hip Hop (intro by Sonia Gunderson)
    Venue 3

    Revelations – Feature and Short Films/10 min or less and 2 min or less
                           1:00 - 2:30   - Star Trek of Gods and Men (Fan Film)    
                           2:30 - 4:00   - The Danger 
                           7:00 - 8:30   - Shorts
                           8:30 - 10:00 - Dumb Dumb 
    Saturday Workshops -
    Hawthorn Direct
    – Scripts Production Workshop

                          8:00 Registration  
                          9:00 - 12:00 Screenplay 1 Shooting Scripts Workshops

                          12:30 Break Lunch (Set up Lunch prior to break).
                          1:00 – 3:30 Screenplay 2 Shooting Scripts Workshops

    FACC - Sondheim - Meeting Rooms
                          1:00 – 3:30 – Animation Workshop 
    Venue 4 (Free)
    Fairfield Public Library
                          2:00 - 3:00 - Guy Chronicles 
                          3:00 - 4:00 - Sam Steel and the Jr Detective Agency
    Venue 5 (Free)
    Carnegie Museum -  
                          6:00 - 9:00 Abraham Lincoln Documentary by D.W Griffith


    Sunday, February 7th   

    Sunday Afternoon Films
    Revelations Café – Fan Films /Shorts 
                          1:00 – 3:00
    (Free)
    Fairfield Public Library               
                         1:00 - 2:00 - Ghost Player 
                         2:00 - 3:00 - This American Gothic