Alternative Theaters; Better Movies!

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Where and When

Nov. 9~19	COMMON GROUND 2008 环铁时代美术馆

Nov. 14 11月14日 14:00	Beijing Film Academy 北京电影学院 A号楼四季厅

Common Ground Arts at Huan Tie Gallery
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Short Film Distribution Forum at the Beijing Film Academy Student Film Festival

See "Venues" page for MAPS！场所地图

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Starting Oct. 17, 2008! We are currently open for submissions through Withoutabox.com. The final postmarked date acceptable is Nov. 30, 2008. Selections will be finalized before Dec. 21 and the next big screening week will happen in late February 2009, pending successful preparations and government approval!

Our regular submission fees will remain as cheap as we can keep 'em, because shipping is a bitch.

If you are unfamiliar with Withoutabox.com, now is the time to learn. They host the premier system for festival submissions management throughout the entire international independent film community. Full information about how our Festival events relate to filmmakers is available on their website. The below link will guide you through.

Moviemakers! If you really really want to for whatever reason, you can express-mail your screener and submission fee payment directly. Contact us by e-mail for details. (see Contact Info) However, Withoutabox.com is WAY more convenient for everybody, and significantly increases our ability to know and promote your work!

If you live in China and would like to submit directly, that's a little different and a lot easier. Please do contact us by e-mail and we'll tell you about the guidelines and reduced fees for domestic works. There's no sense in using Withoutabox.com then until they come up with a Chinese version. (perhaps with our assistance, hmmm.)

如果你住在中国并且想直接递交你的作品，那有点困难但同时也很容易。请以电子邮件的方式联系我们，我们会告诉你该怎么做。没必要使用Withoutabox.com，因为它还没有中文版本。（或许有一天在我们的帮助下它会有中文版本，哈哈）

Shipping options:

Prices for mailing screener DVDs seems to widely vary from UPS, FedEx, and DHL outlet. In New York City, reasonable deals are to be had, but elsewhere we have heard tales of shipping costs going up to $48 or even $70! Madness!

Regular mail is affordable, but China Post is very unreliable, and you can expect your package to show up in our mailbox 6~8 weeks after arrival in China, if ever. Mail is frequently lost or stolen with no reliable protection other than paying more money for a courier service. The USPS now offers such a service for American mail, we've noticed.

The Chinese internal fast shipping courier service- EMS, is crap and more likely to lose your movie than anyone.

DHL sometimes has trouble too, keeping track of deliveries once the package arrives in China.

And for freak's sake DON'T list the value of your mailed items as anything other than ZERO, "for cultural purposes only, no commercial value". We are not paying your bloody taxes!

We'd like for more moviemakers to send copies of their work over the internet by compressing a digital-format version of their screener, no greater than 500MB in size, and uploading it to a private FTP account or sharing system. Or seeding it as a private .torrent for our office computers to download. We have set up our own FTP account space for all moviemakers to conveniently access and speedily upload their work, bypassing all shipping struggles and costs. Please contact us to discuss using this option.