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Call for entries: Rural Route Film Festival

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:  After a successful re-launch year in New York City, Rural Route opens a call for submissions for its 8th Annual Film Festival, to take place in New York City, Late Summer, 2012.  Deadline March 16.

The festival highlights independent works that deal with rural people and places.  While so much media is set within the confines of big cities like New York and Los Angeles, Rural Route wants to showcase the many unique and extraordinary overlooked voices of the ‘everyday’ world.  We strive to put together an international community of like-minded artists that produce fiction films, documentaries, and experimental pieces from the fields, mountains, deserts, and seas.  Topics include: progressive agriculture, outdoor adventure, indigenous issues, the environment, travel, and always artsy/fun stuff.  There is no completion year requirement.

The easiest way to submit is via withoutabox (where you'll also save $5 off the already low entry fee):  https://www.withoutabox.com/login/4184 or yo,u can download a submission form from our website at http://ruralroutefilms.com/submissions
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TOUR GETTIN' GOIN':  We're also in the works of booking dates for our travelling tour program with 'best of/shorts' program from 2011, along w/the option to add features and 30 min. pieces from our scrumptious tour menu (check it here http://ruralroutefilms.com/tour/), from which you can go more green or more artsy, or a little of both!  We've already got some awesome dates booked in Portland, Southern Texas, Western England, New Orleans, and the Yukon -- there's still plenty of time for you or your community to line up a screening for the Spring!  Just drop us a line at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)!
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http://twitter.com/ruralroutefilms
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The best in pertinent contemporary agriculture, world cinema, and rural culture (a "schedule of independent, heartfelt productions" Mike Hale, NY Times).

Q&A sessions from the 2011 NY festival with incredible filmmakers, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ian Cheney, Severine von Tscharner Flemming, NJ trapper Muskrat John, and more...!  http://www.youtube.com/user/RuralRouteFilms

"So let's leave some blue up above us
Let's leave some green on the ground
It's only ours to borrow, let's save some for tomorrow
Leave it and pass it on down"  (from Alabama's classic country single, "Pass it on Down")
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The Rural Route Film Festival is made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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