Independent Exposure 2010: 14th Season
A WORLDWIDE SHOWCASE OF INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS, Curated by Microcinema International and Bill Plympton
Independent Exposure invites you to your submit short video, film, and digital-media submissions of 15 minutes or less.
Participants of all nationalities are welcome to submit their works by April 30, 2010
PRIZES Please read our Submission Guidelines & FAQ and Terms
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Mail all films to: For extra information, e-mail: Beyond our regular San Francisco events, recent screenings included The Ambient Film Festival in Ithaca, NY, Anchorage Alaska, a widely covered Halloween screening in San Francisco, a showing of films at Virgin Mobile Fest, Festival Nemo in Paris, and a screening of Independent Exposure at one of Asthmatic Kitty Record's curated Unusual Animals show in Houston. Over the past ten years Independent Exposure has screened in small towns and some of the world's major cities - in small venues and world renowned facilities. Since 2005, Independent Exposure has teamed up with a partner to curate the screening programs and select prize winners and a "best-of" selection. Recent partners include Addictive TV, Hal Hartley, and Asthmatic Kitty Records. This year we are pleased to partner with Academy Award Nominated Animator Bill Plympton. From the earliest screenings of Independent Exposure animated film and video have played a central role in our program," says founder Patrick Kwiatkowski. "Bill Plympton is going to attract world class animators and we are very excited about our program this year." www.plymptoons.com Bill Plympton was born in Portland, Oregon, to Don and Wilda Plympton. From 1964 to 1968, he attended Portland State University, where he was a member of the film society and worked on the yearbook. In 1968, he transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Plympton's illustrations and cartoons have been published in The New York Times and weekly newspaper The Village Voice, as well as in the magazines Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Penthouse, and National Lampoon. His political cartoon strip Plympton, which began in 1975 in the Soho Weekly News, eventually was syndicated and appeared in over 20 newspapers. His distinctive style is easily recognized. Plympton is considered the first animator to draw every frame for an animated feature film by himself. As of 2006, Plympton had created 26 animated short films and five animated features. He has also published a comic book, The Sleazy Cartoons of Bill Plympton. Plympton, together with other independent, New York City animators, has released two DVDs of animated shorts, both titled Avoid Eye Contact. His work also appeared on the 1992-1993 Fox comedy series The Edge; on MTV during the late 1980s; and on MTV's animated series Liquid Television in the early 1990s. In 1995, he contributed animation and graphics to a computer game collection, Take Your Best Shot. From 2001 to 2003, he teamed with Don Hertzfeldt for the touring "The Don and Bill Show", which played throughout the United States. In 2005, Plympton animated a music video for Kanye West's "Heard 'Em Say". The following year, he created the music video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Don't Download This Song". Plympton in early 2007 was in production on an 80-minute feature, Idiots and Angels, that would have no dialog. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on 26 April 2008, and was nominated in the feature film category at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2008. www.microcinema.com Microcinema’s first activity was producing Independent Exposure. From our activities in presenting this program a film distribution business was born. Microcinema International is now a leading specialty distributor of the moving image arts. Microcinema International specializes in the acquisition, exhibition, and distribution of independently produced works of an artistic and socially-relevant nature. Microcinema’s mission is to seek out, curate, exhibit, promote, and distribute compelling works to a broad audience via existing and emerging mediums. Through Microcinema’s own DVD label Blackchair Collection and Microcinema International DVD, a unique and diverse catalogue of international DVD titles are distributed into retail, wholesale, online, and institutional sales channels worldwide. |
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