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Independent Exposure 2010: 14th Season

A WORLDWIDE SHOWCASE OF INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS,
VIDEOS, AND DIGITAL WORKS

Curated by Microcinema International and Bill Plympton
Presented by Panasonic Broadcast

Independent Exposure invites you to your submit short video, film, and digital-media submissions of 15 minutes or less.

Independent Exposure is seeking narrative, artistic, humorous, dramatic, animation, documentary, experimental, alternative, avant-garde, ambient, music videos, and underground works of all genres, formats, and styles.

Participants of all nationalities are welcome to submit their works by April 30, 2010

Entrance Fee: $US 5

Screenings: San Francisco, Houston, Other Events Worldwide

PRIZES
Grand Prize: Panasonic AG-HSC1U 1/4" 3-CCD High Definition Video Camera
Second Prize: Selected MicrocinemaDVD.com Catalog ($500 worth)
Third Prize: Selected MicrocinemaDVD.com Catalog ($250 worth)

Please read our Submission Guidelines & FAQ and Terms

TO SUBMIT
To submit, go through the Checklist, then submit your information online via our
online submission form and you can also pay your fee online.

Mail all films to:
Independent Exposure
Microcinema International
1528 Sul Ross
Houston, TX 77006
+1-713-527-8412

For extra information, e-mail: submissions@microcinema.com



ABOUT INDEPENDENT EXPOSURE
Since its inception in 1996, Independent Exposure has been a curatorial effort designed to bring the newest and most innovative short films to an untapped, broader audience by using non-traditional venues. These showcases are exhibited in non-traditional venues or "microcinemas" such as galleries, microcinemas, museums, outdoors, and other alternative spaces that support the independent visual arts. To date, Independent Exposure has been presented hundreds of times in 44 countries plus Palestine and Antarctica and at base camp on Mt. Everest.

Beyond our regular San Francisco events, recent screenings included The Ambient Film Festival in Ithaca, NY, Anchorage Alaska, a widely covered Halloween screening in San Francisco, a showing of films at Virgin Mobile Fest, Festival Nemo in Paris, and a screening of Independent Exposure at one of Asthmatic Kitty Record's curated Unusual Animals show in Houston. Over the past ten years Independent Exposure has screened in small towns and some of the world's major cities - in small venues and world renowned facilities.

Since 2005, Independent Exposure has teamed up with a partner to curate the screening programs and select prize winners and a "best-of" selection. Recent partners include Addictive TV, Hal Hartley, and Asthmatic Kitty Records. This year we are pleased to partner with Academy Award Nominated Animator Bill Plympton.

From the earliest screenings of Independent Exposure animated film and video have played a central role in our program," says founder Patrick Kwiatkowski. "Bill Plympton is going to attract world class animators and we are very excited about our program this year."

ABOUT BILL PLYMPTON
www.plymptoons.com

Bill Plympton was born in Portland, Oregon, to Don and Wilda Plympton. From 1964 to 1968, he attended Portland State University, where he was a member of the film society and worked on the yearbook. In 1968, he transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Plympton's illustrations and cartoons have been published in The New York Times and weekly newspaper The Village Voice, as well as in the magazines Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Penthouse, and National Lampoon. His political cartoon strip Plympton, which began in 1975 in the Soho Weekly News, eventually was syndicated and appeared in over 20 newspapers. His distinctive style is easily recognized.

Plympton is considered the first animator to draw every frame for an animated feature film by himself. As of 2006, Plympton had created 26 animated short films and five animated features. He has also published a comic book, The Sleazy Cartoons of Bill Plympton.

Plympton, together with other independent, New York City animators, has released two DVDs of animated shorts, both titled Avoid Eye Contact. His work also appeared on the 1992-1993 Fox comedy series The Edge; on MTV during the late 1980s; and on MTV's animated series Liquid Television in the early 1990s. In 1995, he contributed animation and graphics to a computer game collection, Take Your Best Shot.

From 2001 to 2003, he teamed with Don Hertzfeldt for the touring "The Don and Bill Show", which played throughout the United States. In 2005, Plympton animated a music video for Kanye West's "Heard 'Em Say". The following year, he created the music video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Don't Download This Song".

Plympton in early 2007 was in production on an 80-minute feature, Idiots and Angels, that would have no dialog. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on 26 April 2008, and was nominated in the feature film category at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2008.

ABOUT MICROCINEMA INTERNATIONAL
www.microcinema.com

Microcinema’s first activity was producing Independent Exposure. From our activities in presenting this program a film distribution business was born.

Microcinema International is now a leading specialty distributor of the moving image arts. Microcinema International specializes in the acquisition, exhibition, and distribution of independently produced works of an artistic and socially-relevant nature. Microcinema’s mission is to seek out, curate, exhibit, promote, and distribute compelling works to a broad audience via existing and emerging mediums. Through Microcinema’s own DVD label Blackchair Collection and Microcinema International DVD, a unique and diverse catalogue of international DVD titles are distributed into retail, wholesale, online, and institutional sales channels worldwide.

Independent Exposure is an important showcase for artistic, contemporary, progressive, and culturally relevant short films and videos. Each Independent Exposure program is curated to present diverse and eclectic works in a relevant and intentional context. The curatorial aesthetic is further supported by the presentation of the Independent Exposure series in non-traditional venues or "microcinemas" that support the independent arts.