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 The 2008 Outrate Online Short Film Festival is now open! There are lots of great reasons to enter your gay or queer themed short film into the Outrate Online Short Film Festival. We've got almost $1,000 dollars of prizes to giveaway and entry (until July 29) is FREE! SCREENINGS HAVE NOW COMMENCED VIEW THE FILMS ENTERED HERE The films are screened across five screening rooms, more depending on the amount of entries that we end up with. Take your pick from the list below. Screening Room #1 Green Room, dir Matt Palazzolo Blue, dir Remy Schepers Gay Love, dir Philip Yao Death In Saitama, dir Philip Yao Kelly, dir Brian Rowe Every entry is screened, and the 2007 festival welcomed over a quarter of a million unique visitors from all over the world - that's a lot of exposure for your work. If your fillm is selected as a finalist, you'll receive personal feedback on your work from each member of our judging panel. The festival a great way to network with your filmmaking peers and maybe even see your work get taken that next step - you never know who'll be watching. Join us on Facebook here. Quick jumps: Sponsors Prizes Meet the Judges Key Dates Techs and Specs What to Enter How to Enter  We're so grateful to have our three Sponsors on board. They Are TLA Releasing, Gay Times UK and STR8cam.com. (Please be advised STR8cam.com is an adult site). They've been really happy to help out and, of course, they've provided all off this year's great prizes! Visit their sites here (STR8cam.com is an adults-only site):     The judges will choose nine finalists, and of these will award a Winner, a Runner-Up, and a second Runner-Up. FIRST PRIZE The Winner will receive the following prize courtesy of TLA Releasing: Winner's choice of TLA titles to the value of $250! TLA Releasing stock probably the world's biggest library of brand new edgy, international gay and lesbian titles. Since new-to-DVDs like the gay surfer movie Tan Lines start at $9.99 and you'll have $250 to spend, you could choose yourself a whole new DVD library!           SECOND PRIZE The first Runner-Up will receive a 1-YEAR complimentary subscrioption to STR8cam.com, the hottest site on the net (apart from Outrate.net), valued at around $125. Jeff, the star of the site, does live jack-off shows every Monday and Wednesday and when you log-in to watch, he greets you personally and takes your requests. Some nights he'll do a theme, like a cop or a marine but usually it's just Jeff home from work or the gym and taking it off bit by bit, then, well, you know ... All his vids are archived and there are tens of thousands of photos that members can pore over whenever they want.  THIRD PRIZE The second Runner-Up will receive a one year subscription to Gay Times UK, sent to wherever they live in the world for twelve whole months!  FOURTH PRIZE The third Runner-Up will receive a $50 credit to purchase whatever titles they like from TLA Releasing. FIFTH-NINTH PRIZE And every other finalist will receive a one-month subscription to STR8cam.com. You can't lose!  JUDGING PANEL ANNOUNCED! Our seven judges this year are drawn from the world of film, television, theatre and internet production. Among them are Academy Award nominees, award-winning writers and gay film festval managers, and they hail, variosuly, from the UK, Australia and the USA. Our 2008 judges are:         The Outrate Online Short Film Festival 2008 officially opens Friday, July 11. You can enter your film from that date onwards (see below for how to do to this) but if your film is already completed or, even, uploaded to YouTube, My Space or Daily Motion then please send it in straight away. Please note though, that screenings of pre-sent films will not commence until July 11. Entries will be accepted until Friday, August 29. Late submissions may be accepted, subsequent to discussion with the festival. All entries will screen here on the site as soon as they are received and uploaded to our server and, if necessary, formatted. From September 5, however, only the 9 finalists selected for competition will screen on the site. A full index of all entrants and their contact details, regardless of whether they became finalists, will be kept online for perpetuity. The winners will be announced on Monday, September 29.  The festival encourages entrants to upload their work to YouTube, My Space or Daily Motion then submit the relevant url as their entry to the festival. Alternatively, please send .mov files (we are compatible with QuickTime only). The maximum file size is 10MB and no film may be longer than 10 minutes. Entries of excessive file size or length may be returned to the entrant for re-compression or editing. It is most important that each entry commences with brief titles stating at the least, the film's title. Other credits are at the entrant's discretion. The festival takes every effort to ensure entries are presented at their best; that is why we prefer entries pre-uploaded to third party players as mentioned above, which we can easily embed in the site. The festival is not responsible for any form of errors or problems inherent in the entrant's submitted work and we are only able to offer very limitd service regarding uploading, compression and so on. Please note that the judges will evaluate and score each film separately - the judging panel do not meet nor do they discuss their scores or feedback. Winners and runners-up are decided based on combined scores sent in by the judges and no correspondence will be entered into regarding the final results.  Concerning genre, style, plot or theme the festival has no guidelines beyond that the film should have some sort of gay or queer angel, and/or be created by a gay-identifying filmmaker. In other words, go for your life! We are happy to accept erotic or soft core content, in fact for the benefit of the judges and the festival administrators we actively encourage this. Hard core stuff is a bit of a grey area: we are happy to show penetration or oral scenes, for example, but anything too hard core may be subject to revision by the festival. Again, by all means submit such work. Work must be original and made no earlier than 2007.  Again, entries uploaded to third party sits such as YouTube are preferable as the emailing of large .mov files can be problematic. Please email entries, regardless of their format to mark (@) outrate.net. The festival will not accept hard copies of any entries, sorry. Your entry must contain: * The file itself, or the url to where you have uploaded it to a third party site. * The name of the film's director(s), screenwriter(s), key cast, producer(s) or production company * A synopsis between 25 and 50 words * A contact email with associated name (this will be used in the filmmakers index) * I you are submitting a film on .mov, then please, a couple of stills from the film Entry is free from July 11 to July 29. From July 30 to August 29, an administrative fee of $14.95 will apply to all entries. This fee will be payable by PayPal or direct wire deposit. These details will appear here from July 29. 9 films will be selected as finalists, and these are the films that the judges will score and provide feedback on. The festival in no way offers itself as an intermediary between filmmakers and the judges, and the final decision by the judges is final. By entering your short into the 2008 Outrate Online Short Film Festival you agree to have it screened on the site for a year, should it be selected as a finalist. The festival reserves the right to reject any entry, but we do encourage all to enter their work (rejection would take place only under the most extreme circumstances). Prizes are offered by our festival sponsors and we, again, do not act as intermediary between prize winners and prize providers. Good luck and we're looking forward to receiving your entry! |
2007 Ourate Online Short Film
Festival WINNER: Dinner Conversation, directed by Jim Cashman 2007 Ourate Online Short Film Festival RUNNER-UP: Little Gold Cowboy, directed by Michael Reihana Synopsis: The tale of a Cowboy in pursuit of true love. 2007 Ourate Online Short Film Festival AUDIENCE FAVOURITE: STR8 For A Minute, directed by Michael Lucid Synopsis: Michael teaches you the hot new dance move that enables you to be "str8 for a minute". 2007 Ourate Online Short Film
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directed by Olivier Lessard 2007 Ourate Online Short Film
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