AtomFilms and
Lucasfilm Ltd. Announce the 4th Annual Star Wars Fan Film
Awards
Renowned Competition
Calls for Submissions by March 8
San Francisco, CA
(January 11, 2005) - Atomfilms
and Lucasfilm Ltd. today announced the 4th Annual
Star Wars Fan
Film Awards (<http://starwars.atomfilms.com>)
with an official call for submissions. The contest is now
accepting fan-made Star Wars
spoofs and documentaries until its March 8 submission
deadline.
Entrants in this year’s
Fan Film Awards will compete for the George Lucas Selects
Award, which comes with a cash prize of $2,000 and the
recognition of George Lucas, who selects the competition’s
best film. Winners of all prizes will be announced at
Lucasfilm’s massive Star Wars
Celebration III fan event, which will take place April 21-24
in Indianapolis, Indiana, just weeks before the long-awaited
theatrical release of Star Wars:
Episode III Revenge of the Sith.
The official support and
participation of Lucasfilm have made the
Star Wars Fan
Film Awards the world’s
premier fan film event. Finalists in past competitions have
been viewed over 10,000,000 times at AtomFilms’ Fan Film
Awards Web site, and this year’s event is expected to
attract both a record number of submissions and a record
audience.
4th Annual
Star Wars
Fan Film Awards timeline:
o
Deadline for submission is
March 8, 2005.
Visit <http://starwars.atomfilms.com>
for submission guidelines
o
All 2005 finalists will be announced
on March 29, 2005
for viewing and online voting to
determine the Audience Choice award
o
Winners will be announced at
Star Wars
Celebration III on Friday night,
April 22 2005.
“Lucasfilm is delighted
work with AtomFilms once again on the fourth
Star Wars
Fan Film Awards,” said Steve Sansweet, Lucasfilm’s head of
fan relations. “George Lucas is a great supporter of
independent film and participates in the
Star Wars
Fan Film Awards because he wants to encourage a new
generation of filmmakers to develop their talent.”
“Star
Wars is a cultural phenomenon
unlike any other,” said Scott Roesch, VP Marketing
AtomShockwave Corp. “We’re very happy to be working with
Lucasfilm to provide this unique opportunity for
Star Wars
fans and up-and-coming filmmakers.”
Submission instructions
and past Fan Film Award winners are currently available on
the Fan Film Awards site (www.starwars.atomfilms.com
<http://www.starwars.atomfilms.com>).
About AtomFilms
AtomFilms is where the Web goes to watch
movies. Its award-winning Web site (www.atomfilms.com
<http://www.atomfilms.com>)
offers on-demand viewing of a diverse and distinguished
catalog of over 1,000 shorts in every genre, enabling new
and innovative artists to reach millions of viewers
worldwide. Based in San Francisco, CA, AtomFilms is a
service of digital entertainment leader AtomShockwave Corp.
For more information, please visit
www.atomfilms.com <http://www.atomfilms.com>
and
www.atomshockwave.com <http://www.atomshockwave.com>.
About Lucasfilm
Lucasfilm Ltd. is one of the world’s
leading film and entertainment companies. Founded by George
Lucas in 1971, it is a privately held, fully integrated
entertainment company. In addition to its motion picture and
television productions, the company’s global businesses
include Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound;
LucasArts Entertainment; Lucas Licensing; and Lucas Online.
Lucasfilm’s feature films have won 19 Oscar Awards and its
television projects have won 12 Emmy Awards.
