We have made special rate arrangements for over night accommodations for our visiting filmmakers at the following participating location(s): These rooms are limited, so please make your reservations promptly !!
 
Pala Mesa Resort (1-800.722.4700)
2001 Old Highway 395 Fallbrook, CA 92028
Special rates $99.00 per night
Must mention "Fallbrook Film Festival" to get rate
Parking is free.
www.palamesa.com

San Luis Rey Downs Resort
for reservations call (800) 783-6967 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
San Luis Rey Downs Golf And Country Club,
31474 Golf Club Dr Bonsall, CA 92003
Special rates $89.00 per night
Must mention "Fallbrook Film Festival" to get rate
Parking is free.
www.slrd.com

NOTE: Pala Casino 'special rate' rooms below have SOLD OUT.

Pala Casino Spa & Resort (1-877-946-7252)
35008 Pala Temecula Road,
Pala, CA 92059
Special rates $99.00 per night
Must mention "Fallbrook Film Festival" to get rate
 
Pala Casino is conveniently located on Hwy 76, just 5 miles East of the I-15
and 10 ½ miles East of the UltraStar Cinemas in Bonsall. Parking is free.
www.palacasino.com/

Our final cutoff date for film selections is February 7, 2011. You can determine your film's selection status by visiting Without A Box and selecting Submission Status. If selected, have the opportunity to submit an Exhibition Copy of your entry and are requested to submit a Press Kit and Trailer if so desired. Selected films will receive eight (8) Single-Screening tickets and one (1) VIP pass at filmmaker’s check-in. The tickets can be used for your screening (bring your supporters) and/or to attend other Single screenings. The VIP pass is good for screenings, workshops or special VIP events.

You will be notified by email and/or phone. Your film title will be posted to the 2011 Nominations Page on the Fallbrook Film Festival web site. You will receive one additional VIP pass (for a total of two (2)) at filmmaker’s check-in that allows you and a guest to attend all screenings, workshops and special events of the 2011 Festival. Congratulations!

Nominated recipients are requested to submit a 30-sec QuickTime clip from their film that best represents their entry. These clips will be shown during the closing Awards Ceremony on Sunday, April 10th.

Winner of this special award (and only this award) will be announced up to four weeks in advance of the Festival. This allows time for special press coverage, and for winner to make travel arrangements, etc. Winner will receive a check for $1,000 and the Capra Award to be presented at the Awards Ceremony, Sunday, April 10th plus room for two for two nights at a local participating resort, a dinner for two at anyone of our sponsoring restaurants, and two (2) VIP passes good for all 2011 Festival events.

Best Narrative Feature

Between Floors

Colin Hearts Kay 

Law American Style

Listen to Your Heart

Best Narrative Short

Inspector 42

Pumzi

Sudden Death

The Philosopher

Best Documentary Feature

Beatboxing:  The Fifth Element of Hip Hop

John Muir in the New World

May I Be Frank

The Test

Best Documentary Short

Journey Home

Living for 32 

She Wore Silver Wings

We Must Remember

Best Student Film

The Birds Upstairs

 Jeremy

Kavi

The Response

Best Animation

Kidnap

Sharfik

Surviving Hunger

Swing

Nominated recipients are requested to submit a 30-sec QuickTime clip (standard definition only)
from their film that best represents their entry. These clips will be shown during the closing
Awards Ceremony on Sunday, April 10th.

The Frank Capra Award

Heal

Director: Mian Adnan Ahmad

Best Narrative Feature

Colin Hearts Kay

Director: Sebastian Ho Conley

Best Narrative Short

Sudden Death!

Director: Adam Hall

Best Documentary Feature

John Muir in the New World

Director: Catherine Tatge

Best Documentary Short

She Wore Silver Wings

Director: Devin Scott

Best Student Film

The Response

Director: Andrew Spieler

Best Animation

Sharfik

Director: Karina Gazizova

Audience Choice Award

Listen to Your Heart

Director: Matt Thompson

Festival attendees will receive one (1) Audience Choice Ballot for each screening they attend during the main three-day Festival period, April 8, 9 & 10. They can collect ballots and vote them all for one movie or several movies as they wish before depositing them in a Ballot Box. The Audience Choice Award will be presented to the winning film at the closing of the Awards Ceremony, Sunday, April 10th.

Unique to the Fallbrook Film Festival is our four days of additional theater screenings following the main event. This allows persons to re-see top films or catch one they may have missed. Best of Show selections are made up of the winning films and whatever number of the top nominated films that can be fit into the eight screening blocks available (two per each day). Festival Committee's choice is final. Persons holding 2011 VIP passes can attend for free.

FESTIVAL DATES

• Main Competitive Festival: Friday, Saturday, Sunday – April 8, 9 & 10, 2011
• Best of Show (8 screenings): Monday through Thursday – April 11 – 14, 2011

––– NOTE: SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS NOW CLOSED –––

• Early Bird deadline is October 30, 2010
• Regular deadline is November 30, 2010
• Late deadline is December 31, 2010
• WAB Extended deadline is January 14, 2011

NOTE: ALL CANDIDATE FILMS MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH WITHOUT A BOX (WAB). For detail information regarding film classifications, costs, payment methods, mailing directions, etc., click on the link to WITHOUT A BOX (WAB). To enter, complete the entry forms found in the Fallbrook Film Festival's section on WAB.

CRITERIA & COMPETITION

Our Festival welcomes diversity in film submissions, seeking quality productions – feature length, shorts, documentaries, student and animation – in all genres. We have a two-level competition category:

1) The FRANK CAPRA AWARD. All selected films will be first considered for this prestigious position. Best candidates will be those films that “most lift the human spirit, fostering a positive and (hopefully) lasting outcome”. Any genre, length or technique will be considered. However, since only one Capra award is given per Festival year, remaining selections will automatically become eligible for Best Film category below.

2) BEST FILM AWARDS. This is a broader scope of subject and style with storytelling and quality still paramount. Nominations and awards will be given for Best Narrative Feature, Best Narrative Short, Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short, Best Student Film, Best Animation and Audience Choice.

In summary, we seek submissions that are entertaining, enriching and enlightening and yes, can be edgy to uplifting. What we won’t accept are films with gratuitous gore, violence or vulgarity that exist solely to shock.