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• SPIRIT OF MOONDANCE AWARD: This award category is for women writers filmmakers & composers. Men may be co-writers or co-filmmakers, but the entry must be submitted by a woman.
• MOONDANCE SEAHORSE AWARD: This award category is for men writers, filmmakers & composers. Women may be co-writers or co-filmmakers, but the entry must be submitted by a man.
• MOONDANCE SANDCASTLE AWARD (male/female directing team): This award is for male and female writing, filmmaking or composing teams where both men and women or a man and woman work as a team on the project.
• MOONDANCE COLUMBINE AWARD: Films and writings may be submitted by either a man, a woman, a male/female team, young people 18 and under, or seniors, 75 & over. The work must reflect non-violent conflict resolution, alternatives to violence, or show why violent resolution to conflict is counter-productive. The submitted material may contain violence, but should not contain gratuitous violence.
• MOONDANCE DOLPHIN AWARD: This award is for young people 18 years of age or younger, male or female. Moondance accepts submissions for this award in the genres of short narrative, documentary, multi-media, music videos, film scores or animation video film, as well as short screenplays, short stories or short stageplays.
• MOONDANCE CALYPSO AWARD: This award is to encourage a spirit of enterprise in saving the environment, habitats and wildlife by creative individuals from around the world. The award is presented to the person who expands knowledge of our world, seeks to improve our quality of all life on the planet, and contributes to the betterment of humankind.
• MOONDANCE GAIA AWARD: This award is to encourage and inspire contemplative, meditative, spiritual and inspirational films and scripts. The award is presented to the person who seeks to elucidate and improve the spiritual quality of all life on the planet, and contributes to the betterment of the world spirit.
• MOONDANCE ATLANTIS AWARD: This award is for writers, filmmakers & composers who have submitted projects from a foreign country outside the US.
• MOONDANCE STARFISH AWARD: This is an award for comedy projects submitted by writers and filmmakers.
• MOONDANCE MYSTIC AWARD: This is an award for winning projects in any genre, created by Connecticut writers, filmmakers & composers.
• MOONDANCE ABYSS AWARD: This new Moondance award was created in 2009 for very well-made and meaningful thriller, horror or supernatural films, written works & film scores. An abyss, usually in the ocean, is a chasm that is so deep and vast that its extent is not readily visible, without further exploration. The winning works in this awards category also have a deeper, and often hidden, message, lesson, moral, or important idea that bears further thought.
• MOONDANCE NEPTUNE AWARD: This unique award is presented to a male or female writer, filmmaker or composer, over the age of 75, who has created either a single work of the highest quality or a body of quality work, and who continues to strive for excellence in his or her career in the entertainment industry, and who inspires and encourages others by his or her example.
• CINEMA PIONEER AWARD: This award is in special recognition of a living pioneer in early cinema; a person who had a significant role in contributing a body of work to the silent-film era, or early film and television, either as a writer, director, producer, cinematographer, film editor, or actor.
• MOONDANCE ANGEL AWARD: This special award is presented to the exceptional person who has made a very important contribution to the continuing success of the Moondance International Film Festival.
• LIVING LEGACY AWARD: The award is presented annually to honor and recognize women in the film industry who have contributed most to insuring that women's work is recognized and appreciated for its worth, who help women achieve success in film, and who have themselves contributed a vital body of work, and who and continue to contribute to this vital effort. The pearl in the award is a symbol of women's efforts to make something meaningful and valuable from our struggles to overcome that "grain of sand" women often encounter, when trying to express themselves and succeed within the international film and entertainment industry. The resulting lovely pearl is a reminder of what beautiful things women can accomplish.
• MOONDANCE LEGACY AWARD: Presented to the person who has consistently demonstrated, through his or her exemplary and on-going work in film, television, stage, writing and/or music composition, a meaningful body of work of the highest quality, to be passed down and emulated by future generations, and which will inspire others to strive toward the same excellence.
(Not all awards are presented every year.)
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WHAT YOU NEED
TO KNOW ABOUT MOONDANCE:
As Moondance’s founder, executive director & artistic director, I have had the rare pleasure of personally previewing and judging every single film, reading all screenplays and other written works, and listening to all music and film scores submitted to the annual competition.
I have selected all the films to be screened and all the winners in every category, and have done so, successfully, from the very first Moondance, in 2000.
I do not travel to other film festivals looking for films to invite. In the rare event that a very special film is invited to be screened at Moondance, it is clearly labeled as “invited”, and it can have no chance of winning an award. Only submitted films have that opportunity.
When submitting your work to the Moondance annual competition, you can be 100% assured that it will be carefully previewed and judged fairly.
~~Elizabeth English
Founder, Executive Director, Artistic Director
Moondance International Film Festival
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I went to Pitchfest in LA last weekend and pitched my screenplay. Four producers want to read the screenplay. I noticed that as soon as I mentioned it was a finalist at Moondance, the immediate response was, "Send it to me." Thank you so much for letting me "name-drop" like that. What a world of difference it has made in creating instant interest in my screenplay!
- Jennifer Martin |
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