INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE 2010: CALL FOR WORKS

Cole Smithey

INDEPENDENT
EXPOSURE 2010: CALL FOR WORKS

A Worldwide
Showcase of International Short Films, Videos, and Digital Works

Curated
by Microcinema
International

and Bill Plympton

Presented by Panasonic Broadcast

Independent Expos

ure 2010

is
the 14th annual showcase for contemporary, progressive, artistic, and
culturally relevant short films and videos by some of the most
compelling artists and filmmakers from around the globe.

To date,
Independent Exposure has featured over 1,000 artists and filmmakers and
been presented hundreds of times in 44 countries including Palestine,
Antarctica, and at base camp on Mt. Everest.

Independent Exposure

invites
you

to submit your short video, film, and digital-media
submissions of 15 minutes or less.

Independent Exposure is

seeking
narrative, artistic, humorous, dramatic, animation, documentary,
experimental, alternative, avant-garde, ambient, music videos, and
underground works of all genres, formats, and styles.

Participants of all
nationalities are welcome to submit their works by April 30, 2010

Entrance
fee is $5 USD.

Prizes include

Panasonic AG-HSC1U 1/4" 3-CCD High
Definition Video Camera

and Selected
works from the MicrocinemaDVD.com Catalog.

For

full
program information, rules, selection criteria, prizes, and how to
submit

please visit

www.independentexposure.com

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."

Bill Plympton

–
www.plymptoons.com

Bill Plympton,

best known for his 1987 Academy
Award-nominated short Your Face

,
joins Microcinema to curate and judge this year's Independent
Exposure.

In addition to two
Academy Award-nominations, 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.

(photo credit: Hannah Grey)

Microcinema
International

–

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.