20th Annual Notre Dame Student Film
Festival Screens January 22-23-24, 2009

The wildly popular Notre Dame Student Film Festival returns to campus on Thursday January 22nd, Friday January 23rd, and Saturday January 24th, 2009 in the state-of-the art Browning Cinema inside the DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts.

This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the festival which began in the basement of the Center for Continuing Education in 1990 (now McKenna Hall) with 50 people in attendance. Today, the festival traditionally sells out each screening with over 1000 people expected to watch a brand new slate of creative, intelligent, and entertaining student films produced in the Dept. of Film, Television, and Theatre during the past year.

The Notre Dame Student Film Festival screens each night at 6:30pm and 9:30pm. Tickets are $3 for Notre Dame students, $5 for Notre Dame faculty and staff and $6 for the general public, and can be purchased online at performingarts.nd.edu or in advance at the Performing Arts Center Box Office, 574-631-2800.

With past festivals selling out, we recommend buying your tickets early!

See the festival trailer at: ftt.nd.edu/news-events/film-fest

Fantastic news! The ISUB Film Fest is in the process of becoming a bigger festival hosted by the City of South Bend in the downtown’s main convention center, the Century Center!   The Film Fest will also be sponsored by the Mid America Filmmakers.
To that end, we are extending our entry deadlines through January and moving the festival dates to May 1 & 2, 2009.

2009 CALL FOR ENTRIES

We are looking for films from the midwest region as well as films from throughout the US and the rest of the world.  Have a film you’d like to enter into the festival?  Then download the entry form below and visit the Film Fest website for more details!

*NEW* EARLY DEADLINE JAN. 20, 2009 & LATE DEADLINE JAN. 30, 2009

DOWNLOAD 2009 ENTRY FORM

Mid America Filmmakers will be holding a screening for local area filmmakers on February 27th at the Century Center in South Bend, Indiana.  We are looking for films by local artists from the general Michiana area.  Have a film you’d like to submit?  Here are the details!

- Films must be 10 minutes in length or less.

- NO MUSIC VIDEOS!

- Foreign films must have subtitles

Films may be submitted for consideration either electronically (vimeo, youtube, etc) or via DVD by January 31st. 

Filmmakers selected for the screening will be notified no later than Feb. 7th and then a DVD will be required.

Screening will take place on Feb. 27th at the Century Center in downtown South Bend.  For more information or where to send your films please contact Jessica Stone at wilyjess@gmail.com or Tara Eary at duketrik@gmail.com .

Greetings all!  Hope you are all starting off the new year well.  Here at MAF we’ve started off the new year by electing 2 new officers.

For Vice President, congrats go to Jessica Stone!  And for Secretary, congrats to David Boyer!  Welcome to the elite ruling council of MAF, where you will find out all of MAF’s deepest darkest secrets (we’re actually ruled by Trolls who live in Tim Richardson’s basement disguised as Mr Potato Head dolls.  Really, its true.)

Congrats!