SCI FI, Sundance Launch Exposure

Source: SciFi Wire

SCI FI Channel announced that it will join forces with the Sundance Channel to launch Exposure, an eight-week short-film competition to find the best science fiction, horror or fantasy films to post on SCIFI.COM and SundanceChannel.com, with a grand prize of the chance to pitch a project to SCI FI Channel’s Pictures Group. Both sites are now accepting submissions from up-and-coming filmmakers of two-to-eight-minute movies in the genre.

The short films will be judged by a committee of SCI FI Channel and Sundance Channel experts, who will review the submissions and post the best ones online each week. Viewers will cast their votes on either Web site to determine a weekly winner, ultimately determining the eight finalists. The eight shorts will be featured in an on-air special, to be broadcast on SCI FI Channel (airdate to be announced) preceding the online voting to determine the grand prizewinner. That winner will be awarded a trip to New York to pitch his or her project.

Entries are being accepted now through Nov. 20. Online voting will begin Oct. 23 and will end Dec. 17.

“Exposure is the perfect way to harness the new movement of ordinary people creating extraordinary videos for the Web, and it also lets us harness the most knowledgeable people on the planet—SCI FI Channel and Sundance Channel viewers—to help us find the best filmmakers out there,” Craig Engler, senior vice president of SCIFI.COM and SCI FI Magazine, said in a statement. “We couldn’t ask for a better partner than Sundance Channel to help make an independent filmmaker’s dream become a reality.”