Film Prize

Lorna Street Dopson’s UNTITLED POST-BABY PROJECT! Louisiana Film Prize gives $25,000 Grand Prize – first woman filmmaker to win the big check

By John Wildman 5 years ago

“Due to the extreme challenges brought about by the pandemic, this year forced both our competing filmmakers and our entire Film Prize staff to find another gear – which they all did. It was inspiring to see the creativity, innovation, and absolute refusal to yield to the difficulties that were laid out for everyone involved in our Film Prize world,” said Gregory Kallenberg, Founder and Executive Director of the Film Prize Foundation. “And the result was unleashing this juggernaut of entertaining cinema and promising filmmakers on the world.”

2020 Louisiana Film Prize finalists’ posters preview the competition that starts tomorrow for $25,000

By John Wildman 5 years ago

After all of that, one of the coolest things is getting a poster for that same film. It’s a reaffirmation that the film actually exists and it’s a quick hint at what the film is about, what the filmmaker’s style is about, an opportunity to lure someone into the theater to see the film or click on it to watch it online, because it gives them a clue as to what they can expect when they see the film.

2020 Louisiana Film Prize announces 20 finalists vying for $25,000 Grand Prize in October

By John Wildman 6 years ago

“The Louisiana Film Prize and the winning cash prize has become an ever-growing international draw for burgeoning indie filmmakers around the world. Not even a global pandemic could slow down the enthusiasm and participation for this year’s Film Prize,” said Gregory Kallenberg, Founder and Executive Director of the Film Prize Foundation. “This year will be special because people from around the world will be experience this one-of-a-kind event.”

Gregory Kallenberg from Louisiana Film Prize Announces Call for Entries for 2020 Film Competition/Festival with largest grand prize for a short film in the world

By John Wildman 6 years ago

“There was so much excitement surrounding the competition in 2019 that we wanted to open registration immediately to capitalize on that energy,” said Gregory Kallenberg, founder and executive director of the Film Prize Foundation. “With finalists last year coming from across the country, as well as Australia and London, we also want to ensure that filmmakers have as much time as possible to complete their films.”

SHORTS AND TO THE POINT: Will Robbins’s stark short MINORITY delivers a nightmare scenario for white racists that is all too familiar to black people

By John Wildman 8 years ago

MINORITY lands us in a “reverse world” scenario where a white man in a hoodie falls under suspicion of a black convenience store clerk because he is “shopping while being white.” Countless Facebook political debates have posed this scenario to racists and racist-apologists since Trump’s political ascension in 2016 (and, frankly, long before), but Robbins astutely keeps his film as basic and direct as it gets.