The winner of the Shorts Online Contest
to be screened at FirstGlance Film Fest 11 Philly on Closing Night is...
The River on Randolph Street
We would like to thank all of the filmmakers who took part in the online event, and we believe you have proven that an online contest in partnership with a real world event can succeed.
Thank you for promoting and getting people excited about this new event we offer to shorts we are unable to program due to physical time constraints. One of the great things about this online event, is that it's open 24/7 to any registrants and we believe in the future that the amount of visibility for the online contest will surely eclipse any size physical venue.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing your next project at a FirstGlance Film Fest!!
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
After a little more than 2 weeks of the online shorts contest, we wanted to thank the filmmakers and the viewers, as we have seen an amazing number of registrations and views of these fine short films!! We are extremely happy with the feedback we are receiving, and are contemplating an even bigger event for next year!! With bigger prizes and more short films.
If you are a registered member, we ask you to take advantage of the contest and watch and vote for as many films as you can, it only takes a few minutes to watch each film and vote!!
As of October 5th the top five shorts by ratings only are:
1. River on Randolph Street
2. Jupiter
3. Chemistry
4. Nice Cup of Tea
5. Pardoner's Tale
With less than 2 weeks to go...it is a very tight competition, so spread the word!!
We look forward to announcing the winner and showing that film at FirstGlance Film Fest 11 Philadelphia during our closing night screening!!
We'll see you at
FirstGlance Film Fest 11 Philadelphia
October 16 -19 2008
Prince Music Theater
1412 Chestnut St
Buy your tickets NOW!!
Check out the schedule provided and maintained by B-Side!!
If you are a registered member, we ask you to take advantage of the contest and watch and vote for as many films as you can, it only takes a few minutes to watch each film and vote!!
As of October 5th the top five shorts by ratings only are:
1. River on Randolph Street
2. Jupiter
3. Chemistry
4. Nice Cup of Tea
5. Pardoner's Tale
With less than 2 weeks to go...it is a very tight competition, so spread the word!!
We look forward to announcing the winner and showing that film at FirstGlance Film Fest 11 Philadelphia during our closing night screening!!
We'll see you at
FirstGlance Film Fest 11 Philadelphia
October 16 -19 2008
Prince Music Theater
1412 Chestnut St
Buy your tickets NOW!!
Check out the schedule provided and maintained by B-Side!!
Monday, August 25, 2008
FirstGlance Film Fests welcomes you to our inaugural online short contest!!
As digital technology becomes better and the prices go down on equipment, we have found that we receive more festival worthy entries than ever before in our history, and unfortunately due to the costs of producing a real world festival, we cannot accommodate all the films we feel could play at our events, so we have come up with what we believe is a new approach to getting added visibility to those short films.
We started this process a few years back however the technology wasn't ready for the concept, so with the help of B-Side, we are offering a virtual theater experience to the filmmakers and the viewers of this event.
The Short Online Contest is an open contest for anyone who wants to view and vote on their favorite short films online, however with the ability to register viewers the contest is closed to a general public audience, like Youtube or many of the other open platforms. This keeps the films integrity intact, as we are not distributing the films, we are showing them in an environment that only registered members can take part in the event, similar to having to purchase a ticket to get into our real world events, but entrance into the online contest is FREE to those who register.
The contest will consist of a four week run up until the opening night of the FirstGlance Film Fest 11 Philadelphia event. The winner of the Short Online Contest will be awarded a prize package approximately valued at $1000.00 and will be screened at our Closing Night Screening!!
We look forward to bringing viewers a wide assortment of great films to view, from animation, narratives and documentaries from student and professional filmmakers...and look forward to growing this event alongside our successful offline events we present to the public twice a year!!
Congratulations and thank you for taking part in our first year, and we look forward to continuing our effort to bring great truly indie films to both the big screen and the small screen!!
Thank you
FirstGlance Staff
We started this process a few years back however the technology wasn't ready for the concept, so with the help of B-Side, we are offering a virtual theater experience to the filmmakers and the viewers of this event.
The Short Online Contest is an open contest for anyone who wants to view and vote on their favorite short films online, however with the ability to register viewers the contest is closed to a general public audience, like Youtube or many of the other open platforms. This keeps the films integrity intact, as we are not distributing the films, we are showing them in an environment that only registered members can take part in the event, similar to having to purchase a ticket to get into our real world events, but entrance into the online contest is FREE to those who register.
The contest will consist of a four week run up until the opening night of the FirstGlance Film Fest 11 Philadelphia event. The winner of the Short Online Contest will be awarded a prize package approximately valued at $1000.00 and will be screened at our Closing Night Screening!!
We look forward to bringing viewers a wide assortment of great films to view, from animation, narratives and documentaries from student and professional filmmakers...and look forward to growing this event alongside our successful offline events we present to the public twice a year!!
Congratulations and thank you for taking part in our first year, and we look forward to continuing our effort to bring great truly indie films to both the big screen and the small screen!!
Thank you
FirstGlance Staff
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Welcome to FirstGlance Film Fest Philadelphia 11!
FirstGlance™ Film festivals began in 1996 in the basement of a small theater in Center City Philadelphia.We started as a small theatre company in Philadelphia that wanted to help fellow filmmakers get their projects shown in a public venue for others to enjoy. It’s mission was a one time weekend to show projects that might otherwise not be seen by moviegoers in the Philadelphia area. With a rented video projector and a bunch of large screen TV’s, we had a successful weekend showing about 20 projects to about 150 people. After the event we received multiple calls and emails from filmmakers and attendees. The FirstGlance™ Film Festival was born. FirstGlance™ decided to move forward and make its festival an annual event. With filmmaker interest, our sister festival opened in Burbank California in 2000 to a similar audience in a 35 seat screening room and has also become a growing annual event.
Friday, March 7, 2008
A Great Week for FirstGlance and Short Filmmakers!!
I have to say, it has been quite a week for the FirstGlance Film Festivals!!
Select FirstGlance short film titles will soon be available at Costco, Best Buy, Borders, Barnes and Noble and more retail venues and some of those titles will be premiered on Time Warner Cable for broadcast.
If you are a current or past official selection, or a short winner at any of our past festivals, we urge you to take part in this momentous opportunity for quality short films!!!
You will not find anywhere in the world you can get better opportunity and visibility for your short quality content!!
If your short is of any of the following genres, we would love to hear from you!!
Narrative Shorts (Comedy, SciFi, Horror, Drama, Thriller, Family, Animation)
Documentary Shorts of all interests under 25 minutes
Get in touch with us and let us know you are interested and the journey begins!!
We are so happy to be able to offer this to our FirstGlance Film Festival Selections, both past and present!!
We look forward to offering short filmmakers bigger opportunities in the very near future, as FirstGlance becomes the premiere festival and short distribution network!!
Select FirstGlance short film titles will soon be available at Costco, Best Buy, Borders, Barnes and Noble and more retail venues and some of those titles will be premiered on Time Warner Cable for broadcast.
If you are a current or past official selection, or a short winner at any of our past festivals, we urge you to take part in this momentous opportunity for quality short films!!!
You will not find anywhere in the world you can get better opportunity and visibility for your short quality content!!
If your short is of any of the following genres, we would love to hear from you!!
Narrative Shorts (Comedy, SciFi, Horror, Drama, Thriller, Family, Animation)
Documentary Shorts of all interests under 25 minutes
Get in touch with us and let us know you are interested and the journey begins!!
We are so happy to be able to offer this to our FirstGlance Film Festival Selections, both past and present!!
We look forward to offering short filmmakers bigger opportunities in the very near future, as FirstGlance becomes the premiere festival and short distribution network!!
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Vine and FirstGlance Films
The Vine Entertainment in Santa Monica partners with FirstGlance Film Festivals to offer short filmmakers and feature screenplay writers new and exciting opportunities.
FirstGlance Film Festivals will be one of main suppliers of quality short content (live action, animation, and documentary) of all genres for a quarterly compilation DVD series to be distributed in retail outlets across the country.
Mark Rimer, VP of Development at The Vine has joined our honored group of production companies to be judges for our feature script competition opening for submissions on April 11 2008.
Stay tuned for more info about this partnership!!
Currently, The Vine is in post-production on
The Perfect Dress by Victoria Sambursky,
Look for it to premiere at FirstGlance Film Fest 11 Philadelphia in October.
FirstGlance Film Festivals will be one of main suppliers of quality short content (live action, animation, and documentary) of all genres for a quarterly compilation DVD series to be distributed in retail outlets across the country.
Mark Rimer, VP of Development at The Vine has joined our honored group of production companies to be judges for our feature script competition opening for submissions on April 11 2008.
Stay tuned for more info about this partnership!!
Currently, The Vine is in post-production on
The Perfect Dress by Victoria Sambursky,
Look for it to premiere at FirstGlance Film Fest 11 Philadelphia in October.
Friday, February 29, 2008
FirstGlance welcomes Greenestreet Films
We are excited to announce that Fisher Stevens and Greenestreet Films will be a part of our esteemed panel of judges for our 5th annual Short and Feature Screenplay Competitions, which open for submissions on April 11-13 2008.
If you missed it, Fisher was on February 28th episode of "LOST"
Not only is he a great supporter of Truly Indie Filmmaking, he is also an actor with many years of experience in TV and film.
FirstGlance Films and our festivals and Script Contests are very happy to have his company onboard.
In our continuing effort to give up and coming writers visibility and industry opportunities we look forward to this partnership to lead to many more...
If you missed it, Fisher was on February 28th episode of "LOST"
Not only is he a great supporter of Truly Indie Filmmaking, he is also an actor with many years of experience in TV and film.
FirstGlance Films and our festivals and Script Contests are very happy to have his company onboard.
In our continuing effort to give up and coming writers visibility and industry opportunities we look forward to this partnership to lead to many more...
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Welcome to FirstGlance Film Fest 8 Hollywood
FirstGlance™ Film festivals began in 1996 in the basement of a small theater in Center City Philadelphia.We started as a small theatre company in Philadelphia that wanted to help fellow filmmakers get their projects shown in a public venue for others to enjoy. It’s mission was a one time weekend to show projects that might otherwise not be seen by moviegoers in the Philadelphia area. With a rented video projector and a bunch of large screen TV’s, we had a successful weekend showing about 20 projects to about 150 people. After the event we received multiple calls and emails from filmmakers and attendees. The FirstGlance™ Film Festival was born. FirstGlance™ decided to move forward and make its festival an annual event. With filmmaker interest, our sister festival opened in Burbank California in 2000 to a similar audience in a 35 seat screening room and has also become a growing annual event.
By 2005, The FirstGlance™ Film Festivals have shown over 400 quality projects to over 10,000 attendees and has grown to 200 seat venues with state of the art projection capabilities.
To date, FirstGlance™ Film Festivals has produced sixteen film festivals and has broadened its audience of both filmmakers and attendees. Currently, FirstGlance™ Film festivals receive close to 1000 entries per year and show close to 80 projects a year. To read about our growth, you can check out our success stories page.
In 2005, FirstGlance™ finds itself on the cusp of a new generation, where 24p, HD, and computer animation can be created on a budget. With the creation of new technologies, short films will be the next hot acquisition. In the past year, we have acquired an acquisitions arm for short films (live action, docs and animated) and FirstGlance™ is on the ground floor of the technology offering filmmakers distribution of short films to cable, internet, retail and rental, DVD distribution, airline network distribution, handheld technologies (iPod, Cell phone, and handhelds). With the potential for your project to be seen by millions of people all over the world and the opportunity for you to profit from each market, don’t pass up FirstGlance™.
We want to be your venue of choice for theatrical, distribution to DVD, Cable, HD, and Internet.
Four feature length films that placed in our festivals have received theatrical distribution and the creation of our first DVD, available online and retail.
In our continuing efforts to support, encourage, exhibit and create new opportunities for truly indie filmmakers, we hope you are as excited as FirstGlance™ to become a part of what is sure to become the next generation of viewing, both in the theater and on TV and the Web.
By 2005, The FirstGlance™ Film Festivals have shown over 400 quality projects to over 10,000 attendees and has grown to 200 seat venues with state of the art projection capabilities.
To date, FirstGlance™ Film Festivals has produced sixteen film festivals and has broadened its audience of both filmmakers and attendees. Currently, FirstGlance™ Film festivals receive close to 1000 entries per year and show close to 80 projects a year. To read about our growth, you can check out our success stories page.
In 2005, FirstGlance™ finds itself on the cusp of a new generation, where 24p, HD, and computer animation can be created on a budget. With the creation of new technologies, short films will be the next hot acquisition. In the past year, we have acquired an acquisitions arm for short films (live action, docs and animated) and FirstGlance™ is on the ground floor of the technology offering filmmakers distribution of short films to cable, internet, retail and rental, DVD distribution, airline network distribution, handheld technologies (iPod, Cell phone, and handhelds). With the potential for your project to be seen by millions of people all over the world and the opportunity for you to profit from each market, don’t pass up FirstGlance™.
We want to be your venue of choice for theatrical, distribution to DVD, Cable, HD, and Internet.
Four feature length films that placed in our festivals have received theatrical distribution and the creation of our first DVD, available online and retail.
In our continuing efforts to support, encourage, exhibit and create new opportunities for truly indie filmmakers, we hope you are as excited as FirstGlance™ to become a part of what is sure to become the next generation of viewing, both in the theater and on TV and the Web.
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