Competions at exground filmfest
One of the traditional festival highlights is the German short film contest, this year presenting ten films competing for the prize money of 6.000 Euros in total. The Cultural Office of the state capital Wiesbaden sponsors the German short film contest with 4.000 Euros for the winner and third place of this audience award.
In addition, the Cultural Office endows the prize money of 2.500 Euros for the youth days – International youth film contest. The winner of this contest, in which six domestic and international productions compete, is determined by a Wiesbaden youth jury. This year, the International ON-VIDEO contest takes place for the seventh time. The panel of three experts has to choose between 22 contributions from 13 countries this time. The director of the best film on video format receives the prize money of 1.500 Euros.
For the fourth time, the Wiesbaden Special – short film contest, endowed with 500 Euros, is being sponsored by the Wiesbadener Kurier newspaper. The audience will decide which director can take home the prize money cheque.
For the second time, the Hessische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung endows the prize money of 450 Euros for the Wiesbaden youth film contest, which takes place in the course of the youth days program. Again, the audience chooses the winner here.
One premiere is likely to become a real crowd puller: exground filmfest is proud to present the event BETTING ON SHORTS, organized by the renowned London Institute of Contemporary Arts, on November 21, 2008. On this evening, a contest program of international short films will be shown simultaneously in Athens, Barcelona, Istanbul, London, Maribor, Munich, Naples, Novi Sad, Paris, Po¬sen, Stockholm, and Wiesbaden, under the motto „Money, Money, Money“.
The show stopper is as follows: The audience is invited to place bets on who will be the winner before the screening. Whoever placed the correct bet in Wiesbaden will win two tickets for exground filmfest‘s German short film contest including award ceremony and closing party on November 23, 2008. The bets will have to be based on a short film synopsis, a freeze frame, and a short biography of the director; this information is given to the audience two hours before the program start. Additionally, short clips from the chosen films can be viewed at www.bettingonshorts.com and in the participating screening locations as of November 15, 2008.
Overview of contests:
