Moondance - Successes

2008 is the 9th anniversary of Moondance International Film Festival
Moondance was voted the "third most important film festival in the world" after Cannes and Sundance in an online poll of 150,000 international film industry professionals at Filmmakers Alliance, Los Angeles, CA. In this 2003 online poll, members were asked to rate film festivals based on their importance to one's career and to the international entertainment industry, not on number of attendees or celebrities present
Moondance was endorsed & profiled in Oprah Winfrey’s magazine, “O” in May 2003
Moondance founder & executive director, Elizabeth English, was invited to attend, speak and represent international women in film at World Forum 2004 in Barcelona, Spain, along with Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela & Sting
Cirque du Soleil, Montreal, Canada, has generously offered to sponsor Moondance
Top film studios, producers & agents in L. A., NY and worldwide request Moondance winners’ and finalists’ screenplays, films & music
Many of the Moondance winning and finalist films have been purchased and distributed world-wide, for television and theatrical release
Three Moondance film winners have been subsequently nominated for the Academy Awards®, the most recent of which was "Tanghi Argentina" which had its US premiere at Moondance 2007, and was nominated for best short foreign film at the 2008 Oscars
A 2001 Moondance winner was invited to screen her film "The Unique Oneness of Christian Savage" at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
Francis Ford Coppola optioned a finalist Moondancer's screenplay and his literary magazine, “Zoetrope: All-Story" is a Moondance sponsor
Sesame Street, Oxygen Media, Sundance Channel, Lifetime TV, National Geographic TV, the BBC, Canal+, and Starz Encore are just a few of the television companies requesting winning Moondance films and scripts
The Hendricks Foundation has donated funding for special awards
Otis Taylor, Boulder blues musician who provided entertainment at the 2003 Moondance, was noticed at our festival by a prominent Hollywood agent and music producer, and was subsequently nominated for, and won, the W.C. Handy Blues Awards & the Grammys for his CD "White African"
Moondance winning films have been invited for screenings in many other film festivals around the US and the world
Jodie Foster’s production company considered the five 2002 finalists' Spirit of Moondance screenplays
Moondance founder & executive director, Elizabeth English, has been nominated twice for the Hollywood Reporter’s annual “Most Powerful Women in the International Film Industry” awards
A libretto was given NY production funding, based on the writer's win at Moondance 2002
The Spiritual Cinema Circle has selected a winning Moondance film for their recent compilation DVDs
Many of the winning films from all previous Moondances have been considered by film distributors, optioned, sold and/or distributed, worldwide
Boulder writer & Moondance winner of 2001 and 2002 had 2 scripts read and optioned by an important NY production company
Many screenwriters are agented after winning Moondance, such as a Texas screenwriter finalist who got an agent at the film festival and was offered an option and production date for her winning Moondance screenplay
Advertising at Moondance reaches 150,000+ immediately, and exposure continues on our website, and reaches over 25,000 international entertainment industry professionals, via our popular monthly e-newsletter
Celebrity attendees at Moondance include: David Strathairn, Academy Award-nominated actor & producer; Cray Thomas, actor, "Angels In America"; BARRY CORBIN, actor, "Northern Exposure", "Lonesome Dove"; Stephanie Zimbalist, actor, "Remington Steele" with Pierce Brosnan, "The Tempest" with Anthony Hopkins; Robert Culp, actor, Nominated for an Emmy & a Golden Globe Award for "I Spy"; Kostas Sommer, actor, “Deuce Bigalow II”; Tristan Rogers, TV actor, “General Hospital”; Joey D. Vieira, actor, "Lassie" TV series, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "The Patriot", with Mel Gibson, "My Three Sons", "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"; Ellen Sandler, writer, Emmy Award winner & Head Writer "Everybody Loves Raymond"; Meg LeFauve, producer, Emmy-nominated Executive Producer, Egg Productions, Jody Foster's Production Co.; Lenore English, actor, Former Child Star in Silent Films with Charlie Chaplin, etc.; Vicky Jenson, director & animator, Co-Director of "Shrek", Academy Award for Best Feature Animation Film; Scott Rubenstein, writer, producer, Head Writer, "Star Trek" TV series; Marc Halperin, Co-distributor: "Chinatown", "Dancer in the Dark"; Linda Seger Script Doctor for over 2000 Hollywood films; Pam Grier, actor, star of "Jackie Brown"; Anthony "Tony" Tarantino, actor, father of Director Quentin Tarantino; George Lopez, Film & TV actor "The George Lopez Show"; Phil Roman, Producer, Winner of 6 Primetime Emmys for Animation TV series: "The Simpsons" & "King of the Hill"
48 countries are represented in Moondance entries, participants and festival attendees
Moondance 2006 & 2007 were held in Hollywood, California, to great success. 2007 was at the Raleigh Studios, and 2008 at Universal Studios City Walk theaters