The Lucky 7

Cucalorus Film Festival

18^th Annual from November 08, 2012 - November 11, 2012
Next Deadline: June 20, 2012

Fee: $25 (FREE for local filmmakers)

Reason for this festival: This is our regional film festival selection.  It is appropriate for our film because the festival is local and supports local filmmakers.  It is unique and accepts a wide variety of projects. And helloooo it’s Cucalorus.

Praxis Film Festival

Just held January 21, 2012

Next Deadline: TBA (Look into 2013 submission)

Fee: FREE

Reason for this festival: Praxis is our free film festival selection.  We are submitting to them not only because they are free but because they love UNCW students  and are also regional. We like them because they are really into supporting undergraduate film students with little resources.

NextFrame International Student Film & Video

Held July 1, 2012 – May 1, 2013 (Year-round traveling festival)

Next deadline: May 15, 2012

Fee: $20 with Withoutabox Account

Reason for this festival: Next Frame is a good choice because they aim to expose cutting-edge student work, and I mean come on, our doc is most definitely cutting-edge student work. They are also a touring festival, so there are opportunities to network with people all around the country. 

Athens International Film + Video Festival

39th Annual from April 13, 2012 –April 19, 2012

Held April 13, 2012 – April 19, 2012

Next deadline: TBA

Fee: $40

Reason for this festival: This festival is good for our film because they look for works that utilize nonfiction material to construct a story, an argument, and/or a statement about the real world.

RiverRun Film Festival

14th Annual from April 13, 2012- April 22, 2012

Next deadline: TBA

Fee: FREE for NC students

Reason for this festival: The RiverRun International Film Festival is a good festival choice for us because it is regional.  It also accepts documentary shorts and looks for films that offer an insight into the lives of people.  Looking at previous film submissions, they selected films with similar qualities to our story.

Ivy Film

11th Annual from April 9, 2012 – April 15, 2012

Next deadline: TBA

Fee: $20 for regular deadline with Withoutabox Account

Reason for this festival: They accept entries for undergraduate documentary productions both short and feature length.   They also offer multiple deadlines to submit your film in case you are running behind and cannot submit it by the regular deadline.

Angeles Student Film Festival

Held October 8, 2011

Next deadline: TBA

Fee: $35-$45

Reason for this festival: Angeles Student Film Festival is a good festival for us because they are looking for documentary entries that “explore, not exploit”.  Our film also contains themes similar to those that Angeles typically programs.