Welcome to our 2nd Short Online Contest!
We are glad you have become a member of Bside and the FirstGlance Short Online Contest.
We believe that in the future of film festivals that many filmmakers and audience that cannot make the trip to an event will enjoy the immediacy and ease of watching short films online.
We invite you to take part and register with the website and vote on your favorites.
This event's winner will receive over $2000.00 in prizes and a spot in the Closing Night Screenings at FirstGlance Film Fest 9 Hollywood on May 3rd and an opportunity to be included in a retail DVD compilation set.
You can watch as many short films or all of them for the next 6 weeks, 24/7...
vote after you view and you are giving one lucky filmmaker the opportunity to be screened on a large screen in Hollywood!
If you enjoy your experience, we ask that you invite your friends to take part in this event too.
Thank you
FirstGlance Film Fests
by indie filmmakers, for indie filmmakers
Monday, March 9, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Welcome to the FirstGlance Film Fest 9 Hollywood Online Community!
We are proud to announce that we had a record number of entries and we have a record number of shorts that will be part of our online contest beginning on March 10th and running for 6 weeks!
If you are a FirstGlance Official Selection and already have a login to Bside you can watch, vote and help decide the winner that will be shown during our closing night screening and win over $2000.00 in prizes.
We look forward to a great festival with over 30 award winning films, including Robert Pattison in our Saturday May 2 Twilight Showing of "HOW TO BE" a feature film he starred in before "Twilight". We also have the honor to be presenting over 20 Premieres, including the Los Angeles Premiere of "Chasing the White Dragon" by FirstGlance Alumnus Kathylynn Phillips, starring an amazing performance by Amanda Ward, an up and coming star. An amazing premiere feature "Saving God" starring Ving Rhames, and "Balancing the Books" with Leah Thompson and a great ensemble cast.
Our short program showcases talent from around the globe, including the last performance from Brad Renfro, before his untimely passing, Ian Ziering in a surprisingly dramatic short, and some great performances from children in "Gone Fishing", "Light Years" and "Alba"
Did you ever think "Connect Four" could bring together people from across the globe...think again, our documentary features are the most entertaining documentaries you'll see at any film festival.
From Hollywood to Bollywood and beyond, FirstGlance will entertain you from music videos, to animation, and features to shorts, directed by industry veterans and first time student directors from every corner of the globe and directors from every background, religion, ethnicity and country. FirstGlance brings together an amazing array of award winning films, that are sure to entertain any audience.
Enjoy FirstGlance Film Fest 9 Hollywood May 1-3 2009
You will not find a better selection of great films anywhere!
If you are a FirstGlance Official Selection and already have a login to Bside you can watch, vote and help decide the winner that will be shown during our closing night screening and win over $2000.00 in prizes.
We look forward to a great festival with over 30 award winning films, including Robert Pattison in our Saturday May 2 Twilight Showing of "HOW TO BE" a feature film he starred in before "Twilight". We also have the honor to be presenting over 20 Premieres, including the Los Angeles Premiere of "Chasing the White Dragon" by FirstGlance Alumnus Kathylynn Phillips, starring an amazing performance by Amanda Ward, an up and coming star. An amazing premiere feature "Saving God" starring Ving Rhames, and "Balancing the Books" with Leah Thompson and a great ensemble cast.
Our short program showcases talent from around the globe, including the last performance from Brad Renfro, before his untimely passing, Ian Ziering in a surprisingly dramatic short, and some great performances from children in "Gone Fishing", "Light Years" and "Alba"
Did you ever think "Connect Four" could bring together people from across the globe...think again, our documentary features are the most entertaining documentaries you'll see at any film festival.
From Hollywood to Bollywood and beyond, FirstGlance will entertain you from music videos, to animation, and features to shorts, directed by industry veterans and first time student directors from every corner of the globe and directors from every background, religion, ethnicity and country. FirstGlance brings together an amazing array of award winning films, that are sure to entertain any audience.
Enjoy FirstGlance Film Fest 9 Hollywood May 1-3 2009
You will not find a better selection of great films anywhere!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Welcome to FirstGlance Hollywood 9
We would like to congratulate the list of award winning films that will be screened at FirstGlance Hollywood! This year’s call for entries brought in the most entries in our history and was the most difficult prescreening in our history.
All Official Selections will receive an award and prize package following the screening program they are placed. The BEST OF THE FEST award winner is decided with help from the screening audience, so invite family, friends, cast and crew!!
We are happy to invite over 50 short films to our Short Online Contest with over $2000.00 in prizes and a spot in the closing night screening.
We look forward to seeing you at FirstGlance Film Fest 9 Hollywood!
All Official Selections will receive an award and prize package following the screening program they are placed. The BEST OF THE FEST award winner is decided with help from the screening audience, so invite family, friends, cast and crew!!
We are happy to invite over 50 short films to our Short Online Contest with over $2000.00 in prizes and a spot in the closing night screening.
We look forward to seeing you at FirstGlance Film Fest 9 Hollywood!
Friday, October 17, 2008
FirstGlance Online Winner Announced!
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!!
CHECK OUT THIS GREAT ARTICLE AT MOVIEMAKER.COM
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!!
CHECK OUT THIS GREAT ARTICLE AT MOVIEMAKER.COM
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.
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