Video Contests, Film Festivals, and Awards

(Los Angeles, CA) - The cameras are rolling in Los Angeles this month. On Location: The Los Angeles Video Project is challenging independent filmmakers to hit the streets of Los Angeles County to capture an insider perspective into this diverse, cosmopolitan city and its neighborhoods.

In its second year, On Location: The Los Angeles Video Project is a community outreach multimedia program that celebrates and enlists LA's remarkable pool of filmmakers. Presented by the nonprofit cinema organization NewFilmmakers Los Angeles with major support from the Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board and LA Weekly, the project asks filmmakers to highlight Los Angeles to the rest of the world in a narrative, documentary, montage, experimental, commercial, animated or new media format.

Filmmakers can enter their videos in one of two categories: 1 minute or less or 2 to 4 minutes. The video that best showcases and promotes Los Angeles as the premier global destination for tourists will win the grand prize: a production/post prize package valued at $25,000 from Equilibrium Entertainment and will also be awarded $1,000 cash.

�On Location: The Los Angeles Video Project allows us to showcase an authentic version of Los Angeles to the rest of the world,� said Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge. �There�s no one more qualified to promote Los Angeles than our thriving community of independent filmmakers.�

The selected finalists' work will premiere in a red carpet launch event on Saturday, October 6, 2012. Senator Curren D. Price, Jr. of California's 26th District, and Los Angeles City Councilmembers Bill Rosendahl, Jan Perry and Arts and Cultural Deputy Isaac Burks will attend the premiere. Additional celebrity guests and industry executives will be announced at a later date.

After the premiere, the films will be distributed internationally through the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board and LA Weekly digital properties, reaching a combined 20 million annual viewers.





Resources:

www.newfilmmakersla.com