The first Indie Alehouse Film Festival is now open, and accepting submissions!
Calling all aspiring Scorseses, Fellinis, Kubricks, Goddards, and Neil Breens - if you have an eye for composition, a directorial flair, and a taste for hops and barley, we want you to enter into the first Indie Alehouse Film Festival.
The Indie Alehouse Film Festival is THE premiere Toronto-based craft beer film festival, and is your guaranteed* ticket to fame and fortune. Gather your friends, your family, your pets, and your weird college roommate who was into foreign films, and start shooting!
PRIZES:
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All entrants receive a 15% off future beer purchase in our online bottle shop* (Min $50 purchase)
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Honourable Mentions receive a Beer Bundle
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Category Winners receive a $100 Indie Alehouse Gift Card, as well as a Beer Bundle
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Our Grand Prize Winner will receive a $250 Indie Alehouse Gift Card, the chance to attend a Champions Brew Day where you’ll help brew your own special Indie beer, and of course - a Beer Bundle.
HOW TO ENTER:
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Create a video that fits into 1 of 2 categories
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A) Short film (30-90 seconds) B) Long film (90 seconds-5 minutes)
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Upload to Youtube or a similar video streaming site.
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Send us the link! - email info@indiealehouse.com subject- Indie Film Fest
Deadline to submit is April 30th!
Looking for some suggestions?
1) Animals and babies up the cute factor (no babies drinking beer!)
2) A faux “Beer Commercial”
3) ‘Beers Bears and Battlestar Galactica’ – the anything goes open category
4) The “Football to the Groin” best Simpsons reference
Bonus points if your submission includes some beer in it!
MEET THE JUDGEs:
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Amy Cole of the RAA
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Raina Douris, World Café
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Steve Patterson, CBC Radio’s The Debaters
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Chris Owens, Actor (The X-Files, The Expanse, The Incredible Hulk)
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Dave Murray, Art Director of the Indie Alehouse and stunt goaltender in Goon 2
THE FINE PRINT:
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Please obey the laws of God and Man – we are not responsible if you break them, including but not limited to, good taste and image use and copyright laws among others
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All submissions grant the Indie Alehouse permission of use the material.
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This is for fun, if you are taking things too seriously, this is not for you, try running for school hall monitor.
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Any and all decisions by the ‘decision committee’ aka Indie Alehouse mgmt. are final, you can bribe us but that’s another matter
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Prizes are subject to change, and must be accepted as awarded
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Other stuff for sure, mostly but not necessarily, common sense
