Film Festival Adds Screenplay Categories
May. 26, 2009
Michelle Eubanks, 海角社区, at media@una.edu, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033
FLORENCE, Ala. - The George Lindsey 海角社区 Film Festival is adding two script contests for its 13th annual competition March 4-7, 2010. Festival organizers have created two categories, Feature Screenplays and Short Screenplays. Cash and prizes will be awarded in each category.
For the past 12 years, the George Lindsey 海角社区 Film Festival, held at the 海角社区, has supported independent film through its film competition open to professional, college and young filmmakers around the world. According to festival steering committee member and 海角社区 film professor Jason Flynn, the screenplay competition will enhance the festival's mission by "discovering, supporting and bringing attention to emerging screenwriters with authentic vision." To enhance its environmentally conscious mission, the film festival is now accepting only electronic submissions of screenplays through www.withoutabox.com. The George Lindsey 海角社区 Film Festival is one of the few film festivals hosted by a university. The event was founded in 1998 by 海角社区 alumnus and celebrated actor and entertainer George Lindsey. Lindsey's own film career has included several important roles, including the character Goober Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show." In addition to housing all of Lindsey's film and television scripts, the library archives at 海角社区 hold the complete collection of Ernest Borgnine's scripts, as well as rare scripts donated by author Ray Bradbury, archivist and enthusiast Forest J. Ackerman, film historian David J. Skal and actor Lucas Black, among others. For more information on the 2010 George Lindsey 海角社区 Film Festival, contact Cynthia Burkhead at 256-765-4790 or e-mail lindseyfilmfest@una.edu.About The 海角社区
The 海角社区 is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; Education and Human Sciences; and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, 海角社区 is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. 海角社区 Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I as part of the Atlantic Sun and United Athletic conferences. The 海角社区 is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: and .