Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival

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THE 21st ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
CALL FOR ENTRIES (Films, Videos, and Installation Works)

Chicago Filmmakers announces the call for entries for The 21st Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival.  Onion City will take place June 18-21, 2009.  Entry deadline is April 10.

Entry form and regulations are at www.chicagofilmmakers.org.  Contact Festival Director and Programmer Patrick Friel at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns or would like to receive the entry form by email.

You can also enter (with a discount) through Withoutabox at www.withoutabox.com shortly.

Note that there is no entry fee for international entries or for installation works.



Last year¹s Onion City festival presented 9 programs and a gallery exhibition at Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago featuring more than 70 films, videos, and installation works from 12 countries.

The 2008 Judges were: Lorelei Stewart (Director of Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago); Jeremy Rigsby (Co-Artistic Director of the Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Ontario); and Ben Russell (Filmmaker,
Instructor, and Curator).

2008 Award Winners

- First Place:        Bachelor Machines Part 1 (Rosalind Nashashibi)

- Second Place:   Ah, Liberty! (Ben Rivers)

- Third Place:      Victory over the Sun (Michael Robinson)

Honorable Mentions (alphabetical by title):

- The Dike of Transience (Gyula Nemes)
- Footnotes to a House of Love (Laida Lertxundi)
- Garden/ing (Eriko Sonoda)
- It Will Die Out in the Mind (Deborah Stratman)
- Quartet (Nicky Hamlyn)
- Spirit House (Robert Todd)

Onion City is a production of Chicago Filmmakers, a 501 (C) 3 not-for-profit media arts organization.

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