2010 Hometown Video Festival - Enter Now!

On the cusp of the Academy Awards where a $10 million film beat out a $400 million dollar film for best picture, many are still wondering where a program produced for $10 can get the recognition it deserves. Well  . . . there are two festivals just for community media. The first are the WAVE awards for regionally produced community media (last year Kramer Herzog won for his production "I Remember Momie #2" and Jay Hamilton-Roth for his series "Business With Passion"). The second is a national festival called the Hometown Video Festival.

The Hometown Video Festival honors and promotes community media and local cable programs that are first distributed on Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) access or Local Origination (LO), cable television channels. Sponsored by the Alliance for Community Media, this national festival recognizes creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats, and move viewers to experience television in a different way.

Hometown festival must receive your submission by March 27, 2010, in
Olympia, WA. As an added incentive to our CMCM members, we are willing to pay 1/2 of the $40 entry fee if members submit a festival entry through us. Entry DVDs, forms and checks must be submitted to CMCM by 5 PM, Tuesday, March 23. No Late entries can be accepted.

All program entries must have been cablecast between January 1 and
December 31, 2009. Program entries cannot exceed 30 minutes, if the
program is longer than 30 minutes then you must assemble the first and
last ten minutes as well as a ten minute sample from the middle. Series
programs must select a single episode for entry, compilation tapes are
not excepted. Download the entry booklet.

Programs may be submitted in the following categories: About Access,
Access-ABLE, Children's programming, Community Event, Computer/Video
Art, Cultural and International Diversity, Democracy in Action,
Documentary Event/Profile/PSA, Educational Activities, Educational
Class Project, Educational Profile, Empowerment, Entertainment and
Variety, Entertainment Talk Show, Gay/Lesbian, Govt. Activities, Govt.
Profile, Informational Feature, Informational Talk Show, Innovative,
Instructional, Live Format, Local Performances, Magazine Shows, Making
a Difference, Music Video, Nationally Distributed, News, Original
Teleplay, PSA, Seniors, Short Subject, Spiritual/Inspirational, Sports
Coverage, Sports Entertainment, Videotext, and Visual Arts. Each
category is judged in three sections: Non-professional, Professional,
and Youth.

All DVDs must be submitted to CMCM by March 23 with a completed
entry form and a $20 check payable to CMCM in order to take advantage
of the entry fee discount. Specific questions regarding this festival
should be researched here: http://www.acmhometown.org

Download the Entry Form Booklet and the official Entry Form.