THE 22nd ONION CITY EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES (Films, Videos, and Installation Works)

Chicago Filmmakers announces the call for entries for The 22nd Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival. Onion City will take place June 17-20, 2010.

Please read the festival regulations and entry procedures available for download.

Contact Festival Director and Programmer Patrick Friel at onioncity@chicagofilmmakers.org if you have any questions or concerns.

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Last year’s Onion City festival presented 9 programs featuring more than 60 films, videos, and performance works from 13 countries.

The 2009 Judges were: jonCates (New Media Artist, Curator, and Instructor at the School of the Art Instutute of Chicago), Ted Hardin (Filmmaker and Instructor at Columbia College Chicago), and Chi-Jang Yin (Videomaker and Instructor at DePaul University).

2009 Award Winners

First Place: QUIVER by Robert Todd
Second Place: TO BE REGAINED by Zach Iannazzi
Third Place: BERNADETTE by Duncan Campbell

Honorable Mentions:
(alphabetical by title)
DIRTY GOGGLES OF PERCEPTION (LEFT AND RIGHT) by Joe Grimm
JOURNEY TO Q’XTLAN by Peter Rose
KEMPINSKI by Neil Beloufa
THE PRESENTATION THEME by Jim Trainor
SAND SAGA by Shana Moulton
TRYPPS #6 (MALOBI) by Ben Russell
UNNAMED FILM by Naomi Uman