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AMMA Contests
The Magic Moments Contest
The Magic Moments Contest Is About Having Fun Here are some comments from past winners:
Creating a complete story in 60 seconds (including titles) is always a welcome challenge, requiring great attention to detail, since every word and every frame counts. I think, when it's done well, a one minute movie represents the highest form of moving image art.
I like the challenge of telling a complete story in only 60 seconds. Besides, it is a lot of fun!
It's a fun challenge, helps teach how to cut to improve and permits the showing of the work of many entrants. The tape of all the entries makes for a delightful club program which we all look forward to.
Magic Moments is a great format for amateurs to work in narrative style; you get to do a mini-feature on a minute scale. The challenge of telling a story in one minute is exciting, and the limitations make you really evaluate every shot you make and every cut you use.
The challenge is of fitting an intelligent story with titles in one minute!!
The challenge is of putting something original, and hopefully funny, together in a minute or less. The Utah Video Club always wants to do one, and that too pushes my button.
You may have an idea that you'd like to develop but it doesn't lend itself to a movie of any length. The idea is only useful as a one minute movie. Magic Moment allows you to use this material which would otherwise not be used at all. Check out this page later for the 2003 Magic Moments Contest Entry Form in PDF format.
The Annual AMMA Contest The International Amateur Motion Picture Festival is an annual competition sponsored by AMMA. The contest is open to all amateur moviemakers. Entries, which may be submitted in a variety of film or video formats, are judged by a panel of judges frequently representing both amateur and professional moviemaking communities. Typically, ten entries are selected as winners. The Oscar Horovitz Award, a special prize available only to members of AMMA, is also presented each year. Winning movies are shown at an annual Convention held in the Fall of the year. Go to the events page to check the latest information on the Conference. Check out this page later for the 2003 Annual Contest Entry Form and the Official Rules of the Annual Contest in PDF format.
The Ten Best of the West Ten Best of the West (TBW) is an annual movie competition open to amateurs who reside West of the Mississippi River in the USA or in the four Westernmost Canadian provinces (a listing of eligible residencies can be found in the Contest Rules printed on the back of the entry form). True to its name, ten winners are selected from among the entries by a panel of judges. TBW is a low-key, yet presitgious, contest, sponsored by various local movie clubs. Its venue changes each year to the locality of the current club sponsor. Check the List of Winners of the 2002 Contest in PDF format. Check out the Official Website for more information on this contest.
AMPS Contest The American International Film and Video Festival, sponsored by the American Motion Picture Society (AMPS), is the oldest continuously run film festival in the world. Entries are welcomed from all amateur film and video producers throughout the world. Productions are limited to 15 minutes in length and may be submitted in most formats. Contact Matt Jenkins for additional information at mattj@cameron.edu. Check the List of Winners of the 2002 Contest in PDF format.
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