Call for short film Submission and Application to CineSLAM, Vermont’s Short Film Festival (Vermont, June 2016) and CineSLAM Film Slam Workshops (takes place on Norwegian Epic, Barcelona to Western Mediterranean, June 5-12, 2016).

Cheryl Furjanic, Director of BACK ON BOARD: GREG LOUGANIS, speaking at the Pride of the Ocean Film Festival

Application deadline is December 15, 2015

To be accepted to the CineSLAM workshop a short film must be submitted and accepted by the CineSLAM Film Festival (click here for details)

This will be our 9th CineSLAM Workshop for emerging filmmakers of LGBT films that takes place during Pride of the Ocean’s LGBT Film festival on the High Seas(June 5-12, 2016).

We accept 8 filmmakers who are awarded a merit scholarship, which covers cabin and board on the Norwegian Epic and partial travel grant to embarkation city, Barcelona.

For full application details and submission of a film for the CineSLAM Workshops on board the Norwegian Epicand Film Festival in Vermont, visit www.cineslam.com
for more information about Pride of the Ocean Film Festival on the High Seas visit www.prideoftheocean.com.

The CineSLAM Workshops are facilitated and sponsored by the Kopkind Colony (www.kopkind.org)and the Center for Independent Documentary (www.documentaries.org)
Our Programmer is John Scagliotti, Administrator of the Kopkind Colony, and Facilitator Susi Walsh, Executive Director of the  Center for Independent Documentary.

Merit scholarships are provided in part by a grant from the Center for Independent Documentary and the Chessie Foundation.

Application Fee for Workshop which also includes submission fee for Film Festival is  $25

While there is a desire for diversity for our program there is no requirement that the filmmaker be LGBT.

Short films are eclectic and can be documentary, narrative, animation or web series. A short film for submission needs to be 15 minutes or less.  (Feature length or television documentaries in production or even finished can submit a short version of 10 minutes or less).  We prefer workshop material for our Film Slams to be material in production, but finished material may also be accepted.

We look forward to reviewing your submissions,
John Scagliotti
Program Director
CineSLAM Film Festival

Be part of the Pride Action taking place in Southern Vermont.  You can reserve and buy your CineSLAM Tickets  here, or click on Reserve Your Seat

Friday, June 19th, CineSLAM Short films start at 7pm with a “Pride Cake” Intermission at the Latchis Theater on Main Street in Brattleboro.

Following the films will be The Brattleboro Pride Experience. https://www.facebook.com/brattleboroprideexperience

Saturday, June 20th.. off to the Organ Barn in Guilford (2pm)  for more great films and live performace by Carmelita Tropicana and a Italian Picnic is included.  Co-sponsor Vermont Performance Lab.    If you need directions to the Organ Barn in Guilford, email John Scagliotti  stonewal@sover.net

CineSLAM screenings takes place on  Friday, June 19, 2015 7:00pm at The Latchis Theater, 50 Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont.

Opening Night CineSLAM,Vermont’s LGBTQ Film Festival screening of short films (list of films at www.cineslam.com) at the Latchis Theater in downtown Brattleboro  including Ela Troyano’s film featuring Carmelita Tropicana “Your Kunst is your Waffen.”

Intermission includes Pride Cake and Sparkling Cider!

Reserve your tickets here, or click on Reserve Your Seat in the menu above.

Below is a partial listing of featured films.

Arnaud Lalanne, a native of France, in his film “La Princesse de Lamour Damour” asks, “Can a princess fall in love with a prince and a princess?”A man summons men from around the world in, “International Male” from Heath Daniels.

Leading off the program is a delightful short film where a surprise visit, a bumbling bestie, and many years of tight-lipped deception cause EVERYONE’S ish to hit the fan. The chaos caused in this comedy of errors is full of sexy Continue reading →

CineSLAM, Vermont’s LGBT Festival of Shorts, is sponsoring a post-film reception and Q&A with the film’s director, Eric Schaeffer, following the 7pm Brattleboro Opening Night screening of Boy Meets Girl on Friday, February 13, 2015 at the Latchis Theater in downtown Brattleboro.

The film’s director was a Brattleboro Union High School student over 40 years ago, and his family still resides in the area. Viewers will recognize many of the film’s Vermont locations and actors, Eric Schaeffer having brought the production to his hometown for filming in the summer of 2013. Among the participating businesses was Brattleboro Union High School, Jamaica Coffee Shop, Bromley View Inn, D&K Country Store, and downtown Brattleboro’s own Salon Jacque.

Continuing its partnership with the Latchis Theater, CineSLAM will present its 2015 LGBT Short Film Festival during Gay Pride Month on Friday, June 19, 2015 at the Latchis Theater in downtown Brattleboro. Registration for the festival begins on March 1, 2015.

CineSLAM also conducts workshops with CineSLAM’s film directors on Pride of the Ocean’s LGBT Film Festival at Sea, taking place this year in Alaska on board the Celebrity Solstice for 7 days and 7 nights, cruising Alaska’s famous Inside Passage from  August 7-14, 2015 with ports of call in Seattle, Ketchikan, Tracy Arm Fjord, Juneau, Skagway, and Victoria.

The public is invited to attend the Vermont festival in June and the Alaskan cruise on the Celebrity Solstice in August. Click here or on the button below for more details about Pride of the Ocean.

the first group on Pride of the Ocean, 2010

We have extended the deadline for applications for our March  CID/CineSLAM workshops The new deadline for submission is December 15th, 2014… The workshops take place on the Celebrity Reflection sailing out of Miami on March 14th to March 21st 2015

Any questions:  please contact John Scagliotti at admin@prideoftheocean.com

Application can be filled out on this website.  Click above to 2015 CID/CineSLAM Application…

Following the sold out CineSLAM Film Festival at The Hooker Dunham Theater on Saturday June 21, 2014 in Brattleboro Vermont, the winner of the prestigious Chessie Award was selected by a juried panel of film academics, and was awarded to “A Last Farewell”, directed by Casper Andreas.

The first Swedish language film by Mr. Andreas tells the story of an aging author who is haunted by visions of his late husband and who is in conflict with his pregnant daughter. He must find a way to accept the loss that has devastated his life, and make peace with the family he feels has betrayed him.

Our congratulations to director Casper Andreas and producer David Färdmar!

2014 CineSLAM Vermont LGBT Short Film Festival

Vermont’s 9th Annual Gay Film Festival Closes June Pride Month

Opening Night at The Hooker Dunham Theater @ 7:30pm, Saturday June 21, 2014

Click here to reserve your seat

The Hooker Dunham Theater is located at 139 Main Street in Brattleboro, Vermont

The Pride Dance follows the festival at the nearby American Legion Hall at 32 Linden Street in Brattleboro, Vermont, starting at 9pm.

• Set in New York, which neighbors Vermont, Lavender Hill: a love story reveals the rich and complex history of one of the few gay and lesbian communes in the Back to the Land movement  in intentional living, from its theoretical beginnings in the Gay Liberation Front to its twilight during the AIDS crisis.

• Ọya: Something Happened on the Way to West Africa! An extraordinary exploration of womyn’s leadership, mythology and the hidden truth behind power in Nigeria. this personal and political story investigates mythology, ritual, power and gender fluidity within indigenous Yorùbá spirituality.

• Both hailing from Canada, Cock N’ Bull‘s Nathan Adloff explores the comic ramifications of prank phone calls, while Iris Moore artfully plays with gender in her animated film, Beyond the Mirror’s Gaze.

• Regarding gender, in the animated film Change Over Time, Ewan Duarte continues his personal journey transitioning genders, which he began in his film Spiral Transition.

This is just a sampling of the films that will be screening at this year’s Vermont LGBT Short Film Festival. Those films and others will be screened on June 21st with an intermission. Click here to see the other films and filmmakers.

After the festival, don’t forget to head over to the American Legion Hall for the annual Pride Dance at 9pm.

Lastly, we’re very excited to announce that in 2015, CineSLAM will be expanding to 2 filmmaker workshops, one taking place on Pride of the Ocean’s Caribbean cruise in January, and one on Pride of the Ocean’s Alaska cruise in July, so watch this space for future details.