Fernie Mountain Film Festival

Summer has vanished, fall is here and by the looks of those mountains, winter is fast approaching. As time seemingly flies by, the Fernie Mountain Film Festival team is now fast into planning mode for their annual 2012 February Festival. It’s going to be a good one. Always looking for new ways to improve and build on each year’s film feasting festival, this year they are getting things going with a new local’s short-film comp, excited to see some inspiring shorts to showcase the amazing talent and outstanding terrain that we have here in Fernie.

It’s a social media short-film comp, primarily promoted and run via the FMFF’s facebook page, which for three lucky winners will result in them taking home a GoPro HD Camera to help their winter filming season and bring something awesome to the Thursday Local’s Film Night. Local’s Film Night kicks off the main weekend Festival with a bang and last year was a huge hit. With improvements afoot and this online pre-festival short-film comp this year will be even better, with cash prizes to 1st, 2nd and 3rd. You heard it here first.

Whilst the main Festival’s mandate “The Fernie Mountain Film Festival is dedicated to filmmakers who spark awareness of mountain cultures, fragile environments, and the passion and perseverance of global explorers”, ensures a diverse selection of film submissions, the criteria for this short-film comp is split simply into three categories – Biking, Skiing or Mountain Adventure. Choose your weapon.

How to enter? First you need to ‘like’ the FMFF facebook page. Then, upload your short film (up to 10mins in length) either direct to FMFF’s facebook page, or via YouTube (then posting the YouTube link on our page or choosing Autoshare to facebook). Encourage friends to ‘like’ or share your entry, but the FMFF committee will in the end cast final votes and those three lucky winners will bag themselves a GoPro. It’s as simple as that.

Comp is NOW OPEN and closes on November 30th, with winners announced on December 15th. So as you wait for the snow to roll into town, get your film on for your chance to win big…