Filmmakers, mark your calendars and ready your submissions! This year’s Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival will be held at the Premiere Theaters Oaks Stadium 10 in Melbourne, Florida on October 17, 18, and 19. Tell your friends and family to reserve those dates and stay tuned for more information in the coming months. The submission window …
Congratulations to all selected for the 20th YEAR of The Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival! Opening night is Thursday, October 18, 2018, and will feature a special retro selection of films from the past MIFFs and a 20th anniversary MIFF documentary. Join us on this THROWBACK THURSDAY and come in costume – if you dare — …
Now it’s time for producers and directors to take on the challenge! Screenwriters of Brevard have chosen the winner of the screenplay phase of the Tie Up Loose Ends competition. They had several great scripts to consider, including: Bad Bet by Russell W. Sanders The Model by Eric Emerick Q Ball by Archangel Delapaz Moment …
The Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival is celebrating two decades of filmmaking this year. The festival is also bringing back its Tie Up Loose Ends competition. The deadline for scripts for these short, open-ended films – whose conclusions will be decided by filmmakers – is just a few days away, on Jan. 17. Each submission will …
A clever new script has been selected for filmmakers to produce in this year’s Tie Up Loose Ends competition: “Bag Man,” by Russell W. Sanders. We can’t wait to see how it ends. This is where you filmmakers come in! It’s time to film the script with an ending of your own. Top entries will …
We’re excited to announce that nine screenplays have been submitted to the Screenwriters of Brevard for the MIFF’s Tie Up Loose Ends completion. The screenplays are being reviewed by the SoBs, and a final selection will be posted to the MIFF website by February 1. The submissions are: BAGMAN by Russell Sanders BRAKE DOWN by …
The July 4 deadline for regular Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival submissions has come and gone, but there are still a few days left to enter MIFF’s “Tie Up Loose Ends” competition, whose deadline is July 31. If you’re submitting a competition entry after the July 4 general deadline, keep in mind that the updated submission …
The Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival has named Eric Emerick the winner of the first phase of its 2016 competition, now titled “Tie Up Loose Ends.” His open-ended script was chosen as the winner with the help of the Screenwriters of Brevard. Now filmmakers have an opportunity to make a film of approximately five minutes in …
With the recent loss of our dear friend Dean Naegel, who was to coordinate script entries for our “Loose End” competition, we have extended the deadline for script submissions. If you have already submitted a script to the contest, please submit it again to the new address in the rules linked below! What is the …
Screenwriters have a unique opportunity to write a story with an open ending for a special Loose End competition held by the 2016 Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival. The festival is looking for five-minute screenplays that have a Loose End – an open ending. The winning screenplay’s ending will be resolved by different filmmakers, who will …