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Moondance March 2005 Newswww.moondancefilmfestival.com

LAST CHANCECheck out all the festival info, guidelines and entry forms at:www.moondancefilmfestival.com/Sub-Submissions.html

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE: We cordially invite screenwriters and filmmakers, playwrights, short story writers, TV writers, librettists, film score composers, children's filmmakers & writers, and young (18 & under) filmmakers & screenwriters, radioplay writers, music video filmmakers, and multi-media filmmakers to participate in the film festival competition 2005. Moondance offers everyone a unique opportunity to come together with other writers, directors and producers to create new opportunities, develop tools for success and forge new alliances within the international film and entertainment industry.

MOONDANCE BENEFITS: Here's what you can get by participating in the Moondance: promotion and exposure of your work on an international level; a forum in which to share your knowledge, experience and talents with your peers; an opportunity to network with professional movers and shakers from Hollywood; learn something new and valuable; and get some great pointers on advancing your own entertainment industry career, in this professional, world-class forum. Moondancers are part of an amazing community; a unique collaboration of multi-talented writers and filmmakers.

OUR OBJECTIVE for this competition and film festival is to promote and encourage independent filmmakers, screenwriters and playwrights, and the best work in films, screenplays, stageplays, TV scripts, radioplays, film scores, lyrics, librettos, musical videos, & short stories.

INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY FORUM: Moondance provides a forum in which those creative, talented & dedicated artists can have the opportunity for their work to be viewed and accepted by the powers that be, within the international film and entertainment community. The Moondance film festival offers everyone a unique opportunity to come together with other writers, directors and producers to create new opportunities, develop tools for success and forge new alliances within the international film and entertainment industry.

INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS at past Moondance film festivals came from the USA, Israel, Australia, Canada, France, UK, Greece, Finland, Iran, South Africa, Norway, Germany, Italy, Uruguay, Brazil, Russia, China, Mexico, France, Japan, Spain, Costa Rica, Turkey, India, Nepal and many other countries.OUR MISSION: Moondance promotes, encourages, educates and rewards non-violent conflict resolution in writing, the theatre arts & film. Moondance also promises to raise awareness of the invaluable contributions of women to the entertainment community.

OUR REPUTATION: We are eager to continue to be one of the most important film festivals in the world by being innovative, risk-taking, and open to new thinking, new concepts, new talent, and new ways of telling stories.

OUR VISION: The long-term vision of the Moondance International Film Festival is to preserve and revitalize our intangible heritage, cultivate creative diversity, develop an intercultural dialogue, and stimulate this creative resource in screenwriting and film. Our mission is to present a vibrant and growing collection of films, screenplays, short stories, stageplays and other writings, which are an ideal means for communication across perceived boundaries of race, culture, age and gender.

The 2005 Moondance Competition Postmark Deadline isApril 1, 2005Check out all the festival info, guidelines and entry forms at:www.moondancefilmfestival.com/Sub-Submissions.html
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