| ATTENTION ALABAMA WRITERS
Submit your short screenplay (15 pages or less) to us by August 24 to be considered for two fabulous ways to win!
Grand Prize: A handcrafted cast-iron award sculpture designed by resident artists of Birmingham's historic Sloss Furnaces, plus other awesome PRIZES to be announced.
Production Prize: Get your movie made! One screenplay will also be selected by Wannabe Films to be produced for Sidewalk 2008 with guest director Wayne Franklin, co-founder of Sidewalk! Just initial the Production Prize box on your entry form to be eligible. (Remember, for the Production Prize, the fewer the locations and number of explosions the better!)
Winners will be announced at the 2007 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival.
Click here to download official rules and entry form.
Questions? Email Natalie @ natalie (at) sidewalkfest.com, or call 324-0888.
About Wannabe Films:
Nine years ago, as Sidewalk co-founders Wayne & Kelli Franklin were planting the seeds for
Alabama's premiere independent film festival, they were also cultivating a new business:
Birmingham-based production and post boutique Wannabe Films. Long a fixture in Birmingham's
commercial and corporate video market, Wannabe is completing a transition into content creation.
They are now in post-production on "All Around," a documentary series that goes inside the world of
big-time college gymnastics, set to air this fall on Fox Sports Net.
In addition to "All-Around," Wannabe is currently in post-production on the feature documentary, Bayou
Country. A co-production with Liquid Coast films, the documentary tells the 40-year journey of an
obscure song that has fundamentally affected the lives of many people and redeemed the life of its
author.
In 2004, Wannabe produced a series of 170 short films for the University of Alabama, highlighting
team and individual champions from the entire history of its football program. In 2005, Alabama came
calling again, this time for sport-specific videos highlighting the dedication to developing the student
side of the student athlete and promoting each sport to potential recruits. Since 2003, Wannabe Films
has produced annual national television commercials for Alabama’s cross-state rival, Auburn
University.
In their efforts to establish themselves in the world of independent filmmaking, they have produced,
written and directed several short films. These include “The Stanton Killer,” a seven-minute, 16mm
film made for a budget of under $500 and distributed by Hypnotic, the award-winning short comedy
“Bad Dates,” and the upcoming “jesusjobinterview,” a Gilliam-esque telling of the temptation of Jesus.
They are developing “Pluck & Grit,” a dramatic feature about the 1926 Rose Bowl. The project was
one of less than 40 chosen for the 2003 Sundance Producers Conference, where it garnered
significant industry buzz. Wayne and Kelli, co-writers of the film, are working with financiers to secure
funding.
SideWrite 2006 winners:
Grand Prize
WHEN STANDISH MET STANDOFFISH - by Daniel Ryan O'Donnell
Production Prize
PINEVILLE - by David A. Smith
SideWrite 2006 finalists:
Garbage Disposal by Greg Legat
The Man from Room 103 by Terron R. Parsons
A Mid-Afterlife Crisis by Mike Ragsdale
Music in the Rain by David Carn
Pineville by David A. Smith
Play Dead for Me, My Sweet by Steven Rudd
Teeth by Ted Speaker
Trouble by Teresa Thorne
Vanushka by Greg Hendrick
When Standish Met Standoffish by Daniel Ryan O'Donnell
Check out the 2005 winners here.
Check out the DVD of BIG FISH
or pick up the original Daniel Wallace novel!
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