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Worldwide Encounters
Portable Film Festival and Lonely Planet TV
Call for Entries
Call for Entries: 1 February 30 April 2009
Wanna play cinematic tour guide?
We want you to show us around a place that means something to you whether it be the place of your birth, or where to get the best greasy late night hamburger in town; somewhere far away and exotic, or something down home and personal, there’s a story everywhere you go. And we wanna hear you tell yours!
Portable Film Festival and Lonely Planet TV are proud to present Worldwide Encounters, a film event designed to take the world to the worldwide web, as we scour the atlas for the best in globetrotting filmmaking
Here’s what we suggest: create a destination video, and tell us creatively about the story of a place; it could be anything - the people there, your travels through it, what you love about it, what you remember about it. You can film yourself dancing through the streets or getting into fights with locals, but you’ve gotta capture the character of the place, and what makes it great
What we don’t want is the lazy kind of lounge travelogue videos that your relatives might use to inflict the summer cruises of their twilight years onto your family at large. What we do want are films that are creative; that are personal, and that observe things with their own unique sensibility
There are major cash prizes up for grabs, including $1000 for the grand prize winner, $750 for the audience favourite, and a host of smaller cash prizes and Lonely Planet travel guides for the runners up!
You’ve got until April 30th, 2009 to get us your film. We’ll announce the finalists and present them on Portable Film Festival in the month of June, where our judges will make their decision, and our audiences will make theirs
So, hit the road and make us a movie about what you find!
For more info, check out www.portablefilmfestival.com/projects.php, or email us at
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