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Share your spirit, your vision, your experience, your knowledge of us all -- through your art of cinema. Reach global audiences. Win Rewards. Submit now.

About the Festival:

Culture Unplugged Studios is organizing 'Humanity Explored', the film festival where we gather and explore Our voice -- as citizens of different locales of this earth, sharing the same cosmic resources that sustain life in us, dreaming the same future, experiencing the same fundamental emotions, living similar life stories, yet intensely feeling separation among us. Can we feel 'interconnectedness' or 'oneness' by sharing what fundamental emotions, needs and dreams unite us, and question/contemplate the divisive perception of 'otherness'? Let's celebrate our collective spiritual evolution by contemplating the contemporary cultures and societies through cinema.

With this, Culture Unplugged will also be initiating a global archive of cinema with focus on Asia, Middle East and Africa. Films from this archive will be showcased on the web and in film festivals around the world.

We believe independent cinema is at the right stage today to be promoted at a global arena, to be connected to a seeking and eager community worldwide. Culture Unplugged wants to establish the infrastructure necessary for this. We wish to establish a meaningful partnership with the filmmaking community to get there.

Past/Current Festival Promoters & Partners:

AWARDS/REWARDS :

• PEOPLE'S CHOICE (Most Viewed) : $3000
• POPULAR (Runner Up) : $1000
• VIRAL (Most Shared/Linked) : $1000
• UNDISCOVERED (Must View) : $1000
• FILM-MAKER'S CHOICE (Conscious Art) : $3000
  

FESTIVAL LAUNCH DATE : DECEMBER 2010

Submission : To participate in this festival please send the DVD no later than November 7th, 2010. You can also send it later than the above mentioned date, to participate in future festivals.

FESTIVAL VENUE : www.cultureunplugged.com

(This venue is currently running the film festival We Speak Here, focusing on the observation of our personal journey).

Please note : The above mentioned information for the Festival Date/Design may be updated before the launch of festival. We will inform you of updates in the future.

CRITERIA :

1) Films on : Personal relationships, personal viewpoints/vision on relationships and family structures of future, documented case-studies of expressive art therapy, individual's physical/mental health challenges, life experienced through or above it and stories of recoveries.
2) Any form : Shorts (less than 15 min.) Short Features (up to 60 min.) Full Features (up to 180 min.) + Mobifilms (up to 3 min.)
3) Film projects which are open to non-exclusive distribution (online and/or broadcast worldwide).
4) Films which are in English or suitably sub-titled in English (films originally produced in regional languages are welcome).

5) Entries for selection will be accepted only in DVD format.

To facilitate customs procedures, the entry package should be labeled "Only for cultural purpose, no commercial value."

SUBMISSION PROCESS :

Please fill out the form at www.cultureunplugged.com/submit and mail your film to either of the following locations:

Asia :
Culture Unplugged Studios
Clover Centrum, 2nd Floor, Galaxy Society, Plot No.5, Boat Club Road, Pune 411001, Maharashtra, India

America :
Culture Unplugged Studios
c/o LINK TV
P.O. Box 2008, San Francisco, CA 94126, USA

Pacific :
Culture Unplugged Studios
P.O. Box 21077 Henderson, Auckland, NZ

What is Culture Unplugged?

Culture Unplugged, by and for the global community of conscious storytellers, culture explorers and world citizens to reflect on issues and life experiences in the contemporary world. We are a new media studio focused on promoting socially & spiritually sensitive stories/films that does not merely express but pulsate to energize, enchant, enlighten, engage or embrace the humanity in us all.