Award-Winning GI Film Festival Enters Twelth Season
GIFF Expands Entertainment Categories and Relationships with Television Networks, Hollywood Studios and other distribution Partners
The GI Film Festival -- which is dedicated to entertaining the troops and preserving their stories through film, television, gaming, and special events -- has developed several new exciting programs to benefit festival filmmakers since it began in 2007.
The core of the GI Film Festival's festival's line-up focuses on entertainment media that connect soldier to society by showing the life of military veterans in the arena of war and back on the home-front. GIFF has also always placed a special priority on films of all types in which members of the Armed Forces have played a key role on the production team.
Moreover, the festival has also expanded to include a high-impact event each fall in San Diego.
With respect to festival events hosted around the world, the programs are truly first-rate, featuring classic and premier film screenings, musical performances, panel discussions, receptions.
Says filmmaker Gary Mortensen, Shepherds of Helmand:
"What you have done transcends the world of film festivals by creating a true community where passionate filmmakers, our veterans and those who support them can gather for a few magical days to educate, heal and preserve the legacies of our veterans. You have poured your hearts and souls into this event and it shows. Every city in America should experience what you have built."
Past GI Film Festival smashed previous records for media coverage, earning 150 million media/consumer impressions, including live national daily television coverage from "Fox and Friends, all major DC network affiliates and front page coverage from The Washington Post, among many other press hits.
In terms of distribution, GIFF films have been nominated for Academy awards while earning distribution in theaters, on-demand, in retail stores and online.
All GIFF "official selections" without distribution are eligible for screening at other GIFF events. All film entries are also eligible for consideration in a number of "first look" arrangements the festival's partners have with major television networks, movie studio executives, theater chains, online portals and DVD distribution companies.
The GI Film Festival is open to filmmakers of every experience level from first-timers to veteran directors and producers. Prizes will be awarded for winners in numerous categories, including Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Best Narrative Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Student Film and Best International Film. The GI Film Festival will also welcome short film submissions from any filmmaker who serves, or has served, in the U.S. Military regardless of whether or not the film submission is military-themed or not.
For more information, please visit www.gifilmfestival.com.
All GIFF "official selections" without distribution are eligible for GIFF San Diego and other location screenings. Winning films are also eligible for consideration in a number of "first look" arrangements the festival's partners have with major television networks, movie studio executives, theater chains, online portals and DVD distribution companies.