5th Annual SXSWclick Festival Call For Entries.

SXSWclick is a summertime, digital shorts event created to showcase short-form storytelling via mobile devices and the web.

Whether your film is a documentary, narrative, traditional animation or machinima project — there is a category to fit your film. (You are able to enter a piece in multiple categories, but a separate entry fee of $10 will be applied to each category entered.)

Categories:
Old-School Shorts - Tried’n true narrative shorts, shot on anything you like.
Really Real Shorts - Documentary shorts, real stuff.
Animate-it - Flash and traditional animation.
Sound Checks - A.K.A. music videos.
What the F*#!? - What the “film.” Experimental and Machinima.
None-of-the-above - The “Not sure we ‘get it’ — but it’s pretty cool” category.

Winners in each of the five categories will be invited to screen at the next SXSW Film Festival, scheduled for March 13-21, 2009 in Austin, TX.

Final submission deadline is June 13, 2008. Projects cannot exceed 10 minutes in length.

Submissions can be entered here: http://sxswclick.com/enter/

Fifteen finalists will be announced in five categories on June 24, with the winners announced on July 15. There will be audience votes and jury prizes.

Some of the jurors already confirmed, include: actor Jeffrey Tambor, comedians Eugene Mirman and Doug Benson, filmmakers Ron Mann, Anish Savjani, Mary Sweeney, and many more.

Companies that have already donated prizes for the winners, include:
Productiontrax.com, Gear Software, Mariner Software, Eye Scream Factory, and Movie Outline Software.

WATCH ONE OF LAST YEAR’S FILM FINALISTS “PETERSON’S SAVINGS AND LOAN” BY TEXAS FILMMAKER WILL ELLIOT: