Updated entry information for entering the Flickerings Film Showcase has been posted. Check these pages out to learn the "What Is" and "How To" of our annual short film Showcase, along with an Entry Form.

Deadline for entries is March 1, 2006.

Since we've announced the 2005 Film Lab at this year's Flickerings, we've had many respond to both our call for cast and crew in these pages, and to a mass email to past Cornerstone Festival attendees. We've been pleased to begin to assemble both cast and crew for our Film Lab projects, including experienced and newcomers in both categories. But we're still looking for a few good volunteers who'd like to spend part of their Cornerstone Festival 2005 experience working on a short film. If this sounds like something you'd like to do, consider joining the auditions we'll be holding at the festival. Here's the information as it appears on a handbill we'll be handing out at the fest:

WANNA BE IN A SHORT FILM?
Independent production looking for all ages, sizes & shapes of goths, punks, nerds, clerks, straights, mothers, believers, skeptics, do-gooders, gate-crashers, bands, and teenagers who want to spend a few hours being themselves in front of a camera. 30 roles to give away! Come to the audition!

When: Tues, July 28 from 2 to 6 pm
Wed., July 29 from 10 am to 5 pm
Where: Flickerings Film Lab Tent (behind Food Court / near Flickerings building)

We designed this year's Film Lab with the idea of creating films the filmmakers would care about, even to the point of finishing them after the festival and sending them on the festival circuit. We're happy to report that our filmmakers are indeed taking these projects seriously, and hope that many of you will catch the vision and join the fun at Flickerings 2005!

The complete list/schedule for the 2005 Flickerings short film Showcase has been announced and added to the online program. This year we received more entries than ever, making for our strongest lineup yet. In addition to solicited entries, this years' program includes various curated works from the Winnipeg Film Group and the Select Short film, Like Twenty Impossibles, a much acclaimed piece that powerfully embodies our "Outlaw Cinema" theme. Thanks to all who sent in films this year, and congratulations to all those filmmakers whose work has been selected for our 2005 program. We hope to see many of these and other filmmakers at this year's festival, which features quality programming and informal networking sessions just for filmmakers. Along those lines, stay tuned for further information in these pages about our 2005 Film Lab.

We're pleased to announce the program for the fifth annual Flickerings @ Cornerstone Festival. Our feature film track and accompanying seminar is called "Outlaw Cinema" which will spotlight films and filmmakers who resisted the status quo and expanded the vocabulary of cinema. Flickerings 2005 will also add an additional day with our new "Cinephile Series" on Thursday afternoon, and we're also very excited about this year's filmmaking workshop, "Film Lab". Check out the complete schedule, along with details about our seminars & workshops and "Featured Screenings". (Information on this year's short film Showcase will be posted soon.)

Flickerings 2005 will be held June 30 through July 3 in Central Illinois, part of the annual Cornerstone Festival. See official Cornerstone site for further details.

We hope to see you there!

Flickerings 2005 (June 30 thru July 3, at Cornerstone Festival) will present a special track of screenings and an afternoon seminar under the banner of "Outlaw Cinema", led by Film Journey's Doug Cummings. The series promises to be a virtual film school in a weekend, surveying some of the most significant territory of film history and taking off from our screening (in our new Thursday afternoon slot) of the documentary Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque. The experience of the La Cinémathèque Française under Langlois and his mentoring of what would become the French New Wave remains an inspiring model for the community gathering in the La Cinémathèque Flickerings.

Entry for the 2005 Flickerings short film Showcase has been closed as of our March 1st deadline. Thanks to all the filmmakers who sent in their work. We'll post a list of the films selected for this year's Showcase in the weeks to come. If you're interested in submitting a film but missed this year's deadline, we look forward to hearing from you next year. As you make your plans, feel free to check out the 2005 entry information, though updated information for the 2006 Showcase will be posted after this year's event. Stay tuned also for the rest of the 2005 Flickerings program information, which will be posted by the end of this month.