Today’s the day! You have until midnight to enter online, mail or fax your submissions for the Spring 2010 CINE Golden Eagle Competition. Not only could you win the award that launched the careers of Steven Spielberg and Ken Burns, but if you’re an independent filmmaker, you could win a $10,000 post-production grant from Henninger Media Services if your film is selected as the top Independent film of 2010. And if you’re a student filmmaker, you could receive a rights clearance grant and scholarship from the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies if you receive CINE’s Award of Excellence as 2010’s top student film.

So – do you think your film is good enough to win? Prove it! And if you’re still looking for reasons to enter, well, here are ten more for you to consider.

Have any questions or concerns? Check out our Rules and Regulations and Frequently Asked Questions pages, or email us at info@cine.org.

Ready to enter? Here are the forms!

The deadline for the Spring 2010 CINE Golden Eagle Competition has been extended to March 15, 2010. You now have two extra weeks to submit your production for consideration for the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award. Don’t waste them!

You can enter online through CINE.org by clicking here. Or you can enter online through Withoutabox here. OR you can download a PDF form to fill out, and mail/fax back to CINE here.

Questions? Email us at info@cine.org, or visit our Rules and Regulations page.

When you submit a production to CINE, you submit a form that tells us everything we need to know about that film.  CINE juries use that information when evaluating entries, so what you put on paper should best serve what you present on screen. Here are a few tips to help you avoid the mistakes that may set your production back right out of the gate.

“INTENDED AUDIENCE”

DO NOT OVERSTATE YOUR AUDIENCE.  Our juries frequently see “for a general audience,” “for all ages” or “for moviegoers from 9 to 99!” While that’s a remarkable goal, in most cases, the viewing preferences of the 9 year old and the 99 year old won’t be identical. Even a seemingly narrow audience (ie., “for grades K-6″) can in fact be too general; as any elementary school teacher can tell you, a video for a kindergarten classroom is almost never appropriate for sixth graders, and vice versa. Our jurors are always checking carefully to see if a film communicates well to its intended audience. If a production misses the mark with anyone within the stated range (and with a “general audience,” that’s virtually everyone) it will lose points – and, potentially, an award.

If your production is intended for 25 year old steel workers in western Pennsylvania, say so. The better the judges know your audience, the better they can evaluate how effectively your film speaks to them.

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