Submissions
2012 Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
Call for Entry Now Closed
Thank you to all of the filmmakers that submitted film for SDFF 2012. We are in the process of reviewing every film and will be notifying you of results by January 7, 2012. If you wish to submit a film, please keep an eye on this page in June, 2012 when we will open our call for entry for the following year.
The Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is launching its fifth annual celebration of bringing strong, independent documentary films and filmmakers to West Sonoma County. Screening 58 films in 3 days during the 2011 festival, with over 50 filmmakers and subjects in attendance, we had a wonderful turnout and audiences left begging for more. Our next festival will be held March 30 - April 1, 2012. The only documentary festival named to MovieMaker Magazine’s 25 Coolest Film Festival list.
Deadlines
There are three entry deadlines:
1. Early deadline: Aug 6, 2011 ($25 entry fee)
2. Regular deadline: Sept 3, 2011 ($30 entry fee)
3. Late deadline: Sept 10, 2011 ($35 entry fee)
We encourage you submit through Withoutabox for discounted rates. There is no preference given to early submissions except the discounted entry fee. Consideration by the Selection Committee is equal for all submitted films and your chances of acceptance are not diminished by a late entry.
If you do not want to use Withoutabox, please complete this form (.pdf link) and send along with film and entry fee to:
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
Attn: Jason Perdue
6780 Depot St.
Sebastopol, CA 95472
Categories
Films will be eligible for any category in which they qualify, but must be entered into one category.
1. Documentary Feature – Films 50 minutes in length or more.
2. Documentary Short – Films 49 minutes in length or shorter.
3. Latino Program – Films that fit the broad description of Latino in subject matter or origin.
Awards
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival awards a Jury Prize and a Critics’ Prize for both Short and Feature Documentaries. An Audience Award will be given to a Short and Feature Documentary. Films submitted in the Latino Program category are eligible for all awards.
Entry Rules and Regulations
One film submission per entry fee and form.
Mandatory: submit 2 DVDs of your film (NTSC preferred. PAL DVDs must be clearly marked and will be screened by Selection Committee on computers). To receive acknowledgement of your entry, you must enclose a self-addressed stamped postcard with your entry.
Foreign language films must have English subtitles.
The nonrefundable entry fee is payable only in U.S. dollars by cash, money order, or check payable to Sebastopol Center for the Arts.
Submissions will be reviewed by Selection Committee between June and December, 2011.
Works in Progress: Please contact Jason Perdue at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to discuss your work before submitting.
Filmmakers will be notified of selection results by January 7, 2012.
Film Selection Committee
Jason Perdue was on the founding committee for SDFF and assumed the role of Program Director in 2008. Now on staff at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts as Director of Film Programs, he has successfully lead the last three Sebastopol Documentary Film Festivals and is looking forward to having an incredible fifth year.
Gil Mansergh is the festival’s resident film critic, serving as movie columnist in the Sonoma West Times and News, Petaluma Argus Courier, Windsor Times and Healdsburg Tribune. He is the radio host of Cinema Toast on KRSH-FM and Word by Word: Conversations with Writers on KRCB-FM. Gil is also author of the Cinema Toast movie blog on the Press Democrat/New York Times website, Petaluma360.com. A psychological educator and internationally acknowledged expert on using film clips as teaching tools, Gil brings a decidedly different point-of-view to the festival’s selection committee.
Tommie Dell Smith has produced and directed award-winning documentaries for over 25 years. As a member of New Day Films, a national film distribution cooperative, she has participated in selecting new documentaries for the collection for 14 years. Tommie has served as panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and several state arts councils and as a juror for other film festivals around the country.
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Teresa Book Webster is Co-Artistic Director of SDFF 2011, and has been involved with the festival since its inception in 2007. Her credits as a post-production supervisor and assistant film editor include numerous narrative and documentary features edited in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Cynthi Stefenoni (Programmer/Volunteer Coordinator) is a life long resident of Sebastopol and has been a member of the Directors Guild of America since 1988. Her Assistant Director credits range from features (Dear God with Greg Kinnear, directed by Garry Marshall) to episodic television (Lois and Clark; Sisters; Any Day Now; Boston Legal), children's programming(Zoey, 101;Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide), Movies for Television (Scattering Dad with Andy Griffith and Olympia Dukakis; Men Don't Tell with Judith Light and Peter Strauss; Cagney and Lacey with Sharon Gless and Tyne Daley) and mini-series (Night Sins with Valerie Bertinelli, Mariska Hargitay and Karen Sillas). She has been a Consulting Producer for various independent films and brought her skills to various projects at the American Film Institute, Cal State Long Beach and the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking. She is currently Supervising Producer for the documentary 'Face2Face' which is being shot in the summer of 2011
Jean McGlothlin was part of the independent film community in San Francisco, producing and distributing films primarily for business and education. Her small company produced a feature film and distributed independent films to college campuses. She also produced a video that was bought by McGraw-Hill for distribution. Jean has pre-screened shorts for the San Francisco Film Festival, and although now a metalsmith, she remains a rabid film fan.
Carolina Cruz Santiago has worked in various capacities in documentary film and commercial production for the past ten years. Her short film, Aloha New York, about a community of surfers in New York City premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is currently on the Sundance Channel. She is producing a new film directed by Laurent Alfieri about his French family and their history and memories of life in Tunisia. She lives in Northern California with her family.