breather.org

Take a breather

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I'm going to Breather

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Breather: A Design Conference:

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Breather: A Design Conference
August 30–31, 2007
Decatur, Georgia

The first annual edition of Breather: A Design Conference will take place on August 30-31, 2007, in Decatur, Georgia. A full day of events is planned to take place on the Agnes Scott College campus on Thursday, August 30, with additional activities that evening and the morning of August 31st throughout Decatur.
Breather will bring together artists, architects, interior designers, graphic designers, landscape architects and other professionals concerned with design and its effects. This multidisciplinary approach to the subject will also attract students from design programs in the area. The unique benefit comes from the interdisciplinary cross-pollination in both the audience and the presenters. Members of the design community are invited to “take a Breather in Decatur,” to be stimulated outside their usual constraints, and to benefit from the ideas and practices of other design disciplines.
A schedule of speakers and panelists will include the following: Lars Spuybroek, the principal of NOX, an art & architecture studio in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and the Ventulett Distinguished Chair of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta; Allan Messer, photographer and designer based in Nashville, Tennessee, who specializes in work for the music business; David Oakey, principal in David Oakey Designs and a leader in global efforts in sustainable or “smart design” through the study of biomimicry; Wade Thompson and Matt Rollins, designers with Iconologic, a design firm with global reach; and artists Amy Landesberg, Joe Peragine, and Danielle Roney, each with extensive experience in creating art works for public places. Friday’s events will include a discussion on planned design and community development by Lyn Menne, director of development for the City of Decatur; a session in creating handmade books with Judy Lynn; more discussion about his work with Alan Messer; and some sneak peeks at preliminary Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Decatur Book Festival activities.
Breather immediately precedes the Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Decatur
Book Festival taking place in Decatur during the same weekend (August 31
–September 2, 2007.) Information on the full activities of the Festival can be
found at decaturbookfestival.com.
Sponsors for Breather include the Georgia chapter of the American Institute of Architects; InterfaceFLOR Commercial; Iconologic; Agnes Scott College; Lightroom Studios; Davis-Moye & Associates; Decatur Arts Alliance; Lenz Inc.; and Standard Deluxe.
Breather will provide an opportunity to foster public awareness of the
benefits of good design in public spaces and encourage strategies for design
as an indispensable element of a sustainable world.
For more information and registration information please visit
www.breather.org or call Dorothy Moye, Davis-Moye & Associates at
404.377.2116.

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Organizers:
William Carpenter FAIA PhD is a nationally recognized architect and educator. He has won numerous design accolades for his writing, teaching and practice. He is founder Lightroom.tv—a successful design firm in Decatur, GA, specializing in award-winning architecture and new media projects for commercial and residential clients. Carpenter received the national ACSA/AIAS Educator of the Year Award in 2000 and the National Young Architects Citation in 1997. He was also elected as a Fellow in the AIA in 2000. He is the author of an important and well-regarded book; Learning by Building: Design and Construction in Architectural Education, VNR, 1997. He studied and worked for renowned architect and AIA Gold Medalist Samuel Mockbee FAIA and New York architect Norman Jaffe FAIA.
Dorothy Moye—Dorothy Moye of Davis-Moye & Associates has worked as an artist’s agent and art consultant since 1987 with a continuing emphasis on promoting work in the contemporary craft media. In addition, she has a broad range of experience with all arts media, including extensive experience in both commercial and fine art photography. Over the years she has marketed and sold art work to corporate and private clients and has curated and organized exhibitions for not-for-profit galleries and corporate and public spaces. Moye has been involved in the arts for more than twenty years, building her base of knowledge and resources through both volunteer and professional activities. She has recently completed a term as chair of the Decatur Arts Alliance.

Nell Ruby has worked as an artist and educator in the Atlanta area since1991 and is currently an assistant professor of studio art at Agnes Scott College in Decatur. She teaches drawing, design, digital imaging, and sculpture. She has worked as an artist, educator, furniture builder, and graphic designer and is a prolific new genre artist with an international exhibition record.

Breather 07

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Breather: A Design Conference
August 30–31, 2007
Decatur, Georgia

What is Breather?

Breather is a design conference held each year in Decatur, which brings together artists, architects, interior designers, graphic designers, landscape architects and other professionals concerned with design and its effects. It unites the design community with true southern hospitality and showcases Decatur as a city that is rapidly becoming a center of creative work in the South.

Mission

To advance multidisciplinary design through support of all designers and schools, their faculties and students. We encourage debate, critical thought and the advancement of the design profession and its place in the community.

This support involves:

• Serving by encouraging dialogue among the diverse areas of discipline

• Articulating the critical issues forming the context of design

• Coordinating with the Atlanta Journal Constitution Decatur Book Festival to provide resources for art/design publications and authors, adding a new component to the festival.

• Fostering public awareness of the benefits of good design in public spaces and encouraging strategies for design as an indispensable element of a sustainable world.

This advancement shall be implemented through three primary means:

1. Plan and implement a successful, profitable and exceptionally planned
program titled “Breather”

2. Collaborate with collateral organizations and continue to grow the participating audience.

3. Encourage the reputation of Decatur as an attractive place for creatives, showcasing its diversity and sense of place that makes it ideal for creatives to live and work.

Place: based at Agnes Scott College, and using other city venues including Shawn Vinson Gallery, Lightroom Studios, Lenz Marketing, Decatur City Hall, Holiday Inn, various restaurants.

What: Presentations on design concepts, particularly addressing a theme of Blurring the Boundaries

Speakers: keynote and other presentations
Panels: focusing on concepts of design within various specialties
(architecture, art, graphics/print/new media)
Optional lectures, tours, and workshops
Book vendors
Invitational short films
Participant presentations (Free for All)
Display of high school design competition entrants

Prospective speakers:
Lars Spuybroek, architect, professor, and Ventulett Distinguished Chair at
Georgia Tech

Alan Messer, photographer for Johnny Cash
David Oakey, Product Design-- Interface
Iconologic, graphic design
David Carson-- Graphic Design--tentative
Amy Landesberg, artist and architect
Lyn Menne, director Decatur Development Authority

Budget: $25,000.00
Income: Registration fees
Sponsorships

Sponsorship:
American Institute of Architects
Iconologic

Organizers:

Founder--William Carpenter FAIA PhD is a nationally recognized architect and educator. He has won numerous design accolades for his writing, teaching and practice. He is founder Lightroom.tv—a successful design firm in Decatur, GA, specializing in award-winning architecture and new media projects for commercial and residential clients. Carpenter received the national ACSA/AIAS Educator of the Year Award in 2000 and the National Young Architects Citation in 1997. He was also elected as a Fellow in the AIA in 2000. He is the author of an important and well-regarded book; Learning by Building: Design and Construction in Architectural Education, VNR, 1997. He studied and worked for renowned architect and AIA Gold Medalist Samuel Mockbee FAIA and New York architect Norman Jaffe FAIA.

Executive Director--Dorothy Moye—Dorothy Moye of Davis-Moye & Associates has worked as an artist’s agent and art consultant since 1987 with a continuing emphasis on promoting work in the contemporary craft media. In addition, she has a broad range of experience with all arts media, including extensive experience in both commercial and fine art photography. Over the years she has marketed and sold art work to corporate and private clients and has curated and organized exhibitions for not-for-profit galleries and corporate and public spaces. Moye has been involved in the arts for more than twenty years, building her base of knowledge and resources through both volunteer and professional activities. She has recently completed a term as chair of the Decatur Arts Alliance.

Art Director--Nell Ruby has worked as an artist and educator in the Atlanta area since1991 and is currently an assistant professor of studio art at Agnes Scott College in Decatur. She teaches drawing, design, digital imaging, and sculpture. She has worked as an artist, educator, furniture builder, and graphic designer and is a prolific new genre artist with an international exhibition record.

come to breather 07!

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sanford and son LA style, originally uploaded by lightroomstudio.

breather

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IMG_3453_1.JPG, originally uploaded by lightroomstudio.

DSC00448

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DSC00448, originally uploaded by lightroomstudio.

Don't miss breather 06

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DSC05779, originally uploaded by lightroomstudio.

Take a breather

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DSC06510, originally uploaded by lightroomstudio.

Don't Miss breather 06

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stuck, originally uploaded by rebeccamissing.

Keep your head out of the sand and be a part of it! (thanks to rebeccasmissing on flickr)

Invited speakers

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Invited speakers for Breather 06

David Carson
world renowned designer and artist

Alan Messer
photgrapher for Johnny Cash and other stars

Designers gather at breather 06!

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DSC05833, originally uploaded by lightroomstudio.

Breather: Design Conference:

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Breather: This design conference examines the new studio. Multi- disciplinary interface brings into focus the design complexities of connection, contact and interaction. The interface explores how computation changes designs imagination of these complexities and their translation into the making of the material world. We propose for consideration an image of the world as an interface. In the new studio small can be big; really big.

Computation changes how design works, more importantly it changes how design thinks. Computation transforms one practice into another: cinema into architecture, product design into philosophy, urban planning into advertising. Design is an expertise in points of contact, in the interfaces between people, systems and effects. In our network culture, contact is condensed into buttons and icons, menus and dashboards, and into familiar pathways and fast surfaces, diagrams and directions.

At the Breather conference we have invited designers and artists who work with many kinds of Interfaces-- virtual and tangible, portable and environmental-- in ways that move us emotionally and physically. We have asked them to demonstrate their expertise in conceiving and critiquing the interface. What is the new studio? Can small be big?

Bruce Mau: Lifestyle

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Philosophy

1. It takes two (or three or four). Collaboration is our wellspring - both within the studio and without. We enter into projects looking for the work that lies between our clients' ventures and our studio practice, finding that area where we can make the greatest contribution. This inevitably results in our opening up a terrain we can't enter into alone, and the absolute necessity for collaborative efforts.

2. We see projects, not accounts. This follows from the first point and explains why many of our clients have been with us for a decade or more. Zone, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Getty Center, Gehry Partners, all have stayed with us because our methods respect the integrity of their projects. Our clients come to us with ambitions that we can build on. They are ongoing projects that are never "closed".

3. We see readers, not viewers. We privilege the receivers of our work as readers - as people who are intelligent and appreciative of subtlety. Doing so expands the possibilities for more sophisticated levels of communication - for active involvement rather than passive reception - which in the end gives our work greater resonance and a more lasting effect.

4. The root of studio. We look at the studio as a place of study in service to its projects. Admittedly, this is partly selfish, a product of the desire for continual growth and a constitutional aversion to complacency. Our projects, and the intensive research we favour, provoke us to learn about the world, and we are enriched and changed by that level of engagement. But this rigorous process has also proven to be the way to produce the best people with the highest capacity for tackling the most difficult projects. It is a process that produces work that cannot be arrived at by other means.

5. Re-Iteration moves design upstream. Solving a design problem is not a linear practice; it's an iterative one. Rather than focusing at the outset on producing that "perfect" thing, our method is loose and consequently very productive. All of the "what" questions are asked through a process that sketches out possibilities to their logical conclusions. We visualize a range of ideas to the point that we can say to our clients, "this is actually what you are asking us to do." This affords our clients the ability to see business decisions and their attendant implications early in the process - before design of the end product even begins.

6. Upstream the water's deeper. Rather than flowing down river, we prefer to labour against the current, to resist the simple solution, because that's where we find the real opportunity within a project. It's also where our contributions will have the greatest resonance.

7. We love things. And we love making them. We aspire to a level of quality you could call perfection, but it is more multifarious than that word implies; it comes out of a real love for the tactile object, for things that are beautiful, clever, unexpected. One of the ways this is manifest in the studio is that we make production part of the process - our creative input does not cease until the receiver sets their eyes or hands upon it.

8. The studio is not a tree. The studio's trajectory could best be described as rolling. Our capacity is constantly evolving in response to projects undertaken and as a defense against unhappiness. Our collective desire is to maintain a long life of real contribution - something we cannot maintain through repetitive practices. We want to grow in terms of what we are capable of, and technology has complied by advancing to the point that such an ambition is attainable.

9. We're claustrophobic. Not unrelated to the statement above, but with an addendum. Actually, it is the crux of the practice: we don't like boundaries. What drives client/studio collaboration is that we say, forget about what is usually done in this situation, let's look at what makes the most sense, what is the most exciting, what produces the best results, what is the most beautiful. If we feel we are contributing something of value, our ambition has no boundaries.

Mosaic

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Brisbane writer-director Aaron Catling states that he believes in ‘thinking outside the paradigm which has defined Australian film-making for the last decade or more.’ That much is evident from his uncharacteristically brave and intelligent debut feature, which is marked by long takes, an episodic narrative and startlingly naturalistic performances. Candice (Candice Storey) is raped at the age of 14 by her Dad’s best friend, nice Uncle Ray Day (Justin Scott), after he pops into her bedroom to have a chat and wish hergoodnight. Over months and years it becomes obvious that Candice has never told her father (David Nichol) – and that her relationships have become profoundly affected by the experience. The film’s explosive climax occurs on her wedding day. Made entirely independently – that is, with no federal or state backing – and shot on HD (High Definition), Mosaic is one of the Breather's most exciting discoveries – a compelling Australian drama that is adventurously conceived and marked by an uncompromising purity of vision. Following a recent wave of low-brow Australian comedies, Catling’s film is uncharacteristically serious and thoughtful in both style and content. The writer-director says that he has always found inspiration in the details of life, the little moments that go unnoticed. This quickly becomes obvious in Mosaic. Ray’s sweet talking of Candice slides so subtly – and insidiously – into assault that it is impossible for the viewer to say where one ends and the other begins. Catling believes in actively challenging an audience’s preconceptions, requiring them to be active in their viewing. In following Candice’s story over the ensuing years Catling withholds narrative information that more conventional film makers would see as necessary, to home in on the emotional essence of his scenes. At one point he sends the camera sweeping around in 360 degree arcs, leaving viewers to pick up crucial visual information as the camera sweeps by. It’s a sign of a film-maker prepared to take stylistic risks.

Director's Bio
Aaron Catling

Aaron Catling has directed several short films and documentaries: Hello Goodbye (01), I Say Yes, You Say No (01, documentary), The Camera Never Lies (02), One Shot (02), The Middle Man (0

Lightroom; home of the opening Party

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Lightroom in the Spring
Originally uploaded by lightroomstudio.

Be there!

939-630

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939-630
Originally uploaded by lightroomstudio.

Don't get locked out-- attend Breather 2006

Call for Entries

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Submitting Films to the 2006 BREATHER FESTIVAL

2006 SUBMISSION DEADLINES AND FEES
If your film is completed, send it in early! We don’t offer early notification, but this option saves you money.

FEATURE and SHORT FILMS- $30 ENTRY FEE

ACCEPTED FORMATS
We accept submissions on VHS or DVD. VHS can be in PAL or NTSC, but all DVDs must be Region 1 or 0/NTSC.
For exhibition at the festival, your film must be on 35mm, 16mm or Sony HD Cam. If you have made your film in a different format, you must convert to one of these three.

FAQ's

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WHEN ARE THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES AND WHAT ARE THE FEES?

These are the dates your packages must arrive at our office in Decatur, Georgia. These are not postmark deadlines.

EARLY SUBMISSION DEADLINE: If your film is completed, send it in early!

U.S. & INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES

U.S. & INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS

OFFICIAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: This is the deadline for films submitted in good standing to arrive in our office. We are open until 6 pm, so you are welcome to bring it by. We appreciate timely submissions so that we can carefully and thoroughly consider your work.

ALL U.S. & INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS

U.S. & INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS DEADLINE: This is the deadline to upload pictures, cast list, long and short description, rights available, director bio and headshot to the website. We prefer this information be uploaded, not sent on paper. If you have an actual photographic production still without a corresponding high resolution digital file, you may mail it in with your submission.

WHAT ARE THE FESTIVAL PROGRAMS?

PREMIERES: An Invitation-Only category of Galas and Special Events featuring films from established directors and production companies.

DRAMATIC AND DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION: One of the best-known and most publicized categories of the festival, exclusively featuring films made in the United States. In this program, 4 Dramatic films and 4 Documentary films compete for Jury and Audience Awards in each category. To be considered for the Dramatic and Documentary Competition, your film must be a WORLD PREMIERE. Films that are not world premieres will be eligible only for other programs in the festival. Eligibility requirements are strictly enforced. Please read these requirements before screening your film at other festivals.

NON-COMPETITION SECTION: A section dedicated to the promotion of independent film. Eligibility requirements are not as strict as the Competition sections - films are allowed to have screened at two other film festivals.

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS: A series of films that play well at midnight. These are often edgy, sometimes shocking, most always fun. A good place to find the new cult classic.

SHORTS: Culled from the more than three thousand submissions a year, approximately 20 shorts are selected to play before features or in one of five programs. This is a popular and exciting section of the Film Festival that has launched the careers of many writers and directors. Short films may have screened at other festivals, but not been broadcast on television. They may have been broadcast on the Internet.

DO I HAVE TO PICK THE PROGRAM I WANT TO SUBMIT TO?

No. If your film is selected for the Festival, our Programming Staff will determine which program best suits the project. The important thing is to complete the application in its entirety so we have all the information we need.

IS ELIGIBILITY DIFFERENT FOR EVERY PROGRAM?

Eligibility does change per program.
No films may have been broadcast on television. Feature films in any category may not have been broadcast on the Internet. Short films may have been broadcast on the Internet.
Premieres is by invitation only.
Dramatic and Documentary competition films must be world premieres.
Except for short films, films in any of the other programs cannot have played in more than two other festivals. Short films are not limited by the number of festivals at which they have been screened.
Please be aware that in all categories, world premieres and U.S. premieres are preferred.

HOW DO YOU DISTINGUISH "SHORTS" FROM "FEATURES"?

The requirements are different for narrative films and documentaries.

NARRATIVE FILMS
69 minutes or less running length is considered a SHORT
70 minutes or more running length is considered a FEATURE
DOCUMENTARIES
49 minutes or less running length is considered a SHORT
50 minutes or more running length is considered a FEATURE

HOW DO YOU DECIDE IF A FILM IS "AMERICAN" OR "INTERNATIONAL"?

We don't necessarily make this distinction based on locations, actors, subject matter, or script.

Our general rule is any film with 51% or more American financing will be considered an American film. (If you feel your film is an exception to this rule, you may explain why in the text box that is provided on the application).

CAN I SUBMIT MY FILM WITH A "TEMP TRACK" OR "SCRATCH MUSIC"?

"Temp Tracks," "Scratch Music," or "Temp Sound" will be accepted. Again, you should always list directly on the tape box which elements are missing.

MUST I HOLD ALL THE RIGHTS TO THE MUSIC IN MY FILM?

Sundance is not responsible for the rights to the music in your film. You must secure permission from the owners of the music. Many rights-holders will offer the option of "festival rights" which are often less expensive.

DO YOU PROJECT DIGITAL AT THE FESTIVAL?

With the stability of digital standards and equipment changing every year, it is our policy to pursue the latest technology possible - which means we announce our digital projection options only to films that have already been accepted into the Festival, thereby allowing filmmakers and producers the digital choice as they make arrangements to screen at our venues.

As a reference point only, we have projected digital in the past in HD CAM format, Non-Anamorphic, and 1080i/16:9 60i.

HOW MANY FILMS CAN I SUBMIT?

As many as you like. However, each submitted film must have its own VHS tape or DVD, completed Submission Form, Entry Fee, and Supplemental Materials. DO NOT put multiple projects on the same screening tape or DVD (if you do – we will only consider the first project on your tape).

SO WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? WHAT KIND OF FILMS STAND OUT?

We celebrate the independent spirit of great stories. Diverse voices and films that push the limits of style and narrative also excite us.

WHEN WILL I FIND OUT IF MY FILM WAS SELECTED?

We will contact you via email the first week of April. Please make sure that the email address you provide will be operational at that time.

DO YOU ACCEPT SUBMISSIONS ON DVD?

Yes, but since universal technical standards don't yet exist for burning and copying DVDs, please read the following carefully. The Breather Film Festival invites all projects in all categories to submit on DVD with the following conditions:

DVDs should be submitted in plastic safe cases. These are the industry standard push-button hub, literature clip, full sleeve for artwork, dark plastic cases. Size is 5 1/4" by 7 1/2". No other cases of any kind will be accepted. If you do send an alternate case it will be discarded and replaced. Please don't waste money or efforts on artwork that fits other cases.

DVDs must be formatted for Region 1 or 0/North America. No other regions are accepted in the submission process, including international projects.

DVDs must be formatted in MPEG video using the codec of your choice. Neither QuickTime (.mov) or Microsoft (.avi) DATA files are accepted.

DVDs should not include labels or stickers of any kind: only laser printed artwork, if any, should be on the disc itself. Many consumer labeling products (like stickers) can actually damage the disc and make it unplayable in our systems. If you are burning a consumer disc please write your Project Title, Contact # on the disc with a black Sharpie pen.

PLEASE test your consumer-burned DVD on several makes and models of players BEFORE sending it to our offices. If in doubt, always send a VHS tape as back-up. Technical problems can delay the completion of your submission.

IF I SUBMIT MY INFORMATION ONLINE AND THEN DON'T SEND A TAPE OR DVD, CAN I GET A REFUND ON THE APPLICATION FEE?

No. The application fee is non-refundable.

If you need further assistance after reading the information above or would like to be put on the Sundance Institute mailing list call the Breather offices at 404-377-6889

The Captain says "I want to see you at Breather 2005"

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Be there to make history.

REGISTRATION

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breather ATTENDEE REGISTRATION 2006

Mail this form with your check for $100.00 to Breather, 115 North Mcdonough Street, Decatur, GA 30030
Students with Valid ID: $50.00

________________________________________________name

________________________________________________company

________________________________________________address

________________________________________________

_______________________________________________email address/ website

_______________________________________________list of submitted works/papers

Welcome to Breather

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This is the official site of the Breather design conference. This conference highlights film, photography new media and architecture. It precedes the Decatur Arts festival which attracts over ten thousand visitors to the Decatur Square.

location: Decatur, Georgia

sponsors: Lightroom.tv, ShadowlightPictures, Holiday Inn Select

registration fees: $100.00-- includes VIP party at LIGHTROOM studios-- see lightroom.tv
make checks payable to BREATHER

submitted works: short films, feature films, papers on design and film(4000 words max.), photography(framed)

Breather

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General Information :

Objectives : The principal objective of the noncompetitive Breather International Film Festival is to promote and encourage an awareness, appreciation and understanding of the art of cinema. Its mandate is to present the most outstanding films produced in every part of the world. Films are selected on the basis of quality and originality. Preference is given to premieres. The Festival also promotes contacts between industry professionals to assist in the development of the American motion picture industry.

Dates : This is the First annual Breather International Film Festival.

The Festival Organizing Committee reserves the right to rule on cases not foreseen by these regulations, but in accordance with International Regulations. Participation in the 2005 Breather International Film Festival implies acceptance of the Rules and Regulations by the producers and their agents. Should the meaning of these regulations be contested, the English version will be considered the authentic one. The Festival is recognized by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF). Submission Guidelines :

Selection : Festival Programmers select and invite all films presented at the Festival. Filmmakers selected to participate will be notified. Filmmakers not selected will be notified by fax and/or international post. 11: Submission Materials : Please include the following materials with your submission: -one 1⁄2" VHS (NTSC or PAL) video cassette or DVD (Region 1 only), or 16mm or 35mm print of the completed film. Please indicate if the submission is a rough cut, or a work in progress. Submissions must be labelled with the title, running time, format and return address. Submissions will NOT be returned, unless return shipping information is supplied, including a courier account number, requested in 7.2. -a fully completed Film Submission Form plus any available press notes. Producers and their agents are responsible for the accuracy of all submitted materials. The Festival accepts no liability in the event that its publications reproduce inaccuracies in submitted materials. You may be contacted for additional material prior to and following selection. Should you be informed directly that your film has been selected, you will be required to submit extensive publicity materials. A complete list of required materials will be sent to you at that time.

Print Liability : The Festival will insure the integrity of film prints only from the time of delivery to the Festival to the time the print is delivered to a shipping agent for return. In case of loss of or damage to a print, the Festival must receive notification and independent verification immediately. The Festival's obligation is limited to compensating the producer only for the cost of replacing the damaged reel(s).

Anti-Piracy Precautions and Release : The Breather International Film Festival endeavours ® to take all reasonable anti-piracy precautions. While on Festival premises, copyrighted materials are securely stored. Access is limited to our submissions, programming, print traffic and projection staff. No duplication or loaning is permitted. By submitting your material to the Festival, you hereby release the Festival from any and all risk and liability in the event of theft or breach of copyright of your materials while on Festival premises. If you wish to discuss any security measures during Festival screenings, please advise us separately, addressed to: submissions@torfilmfest.ca 14: Shipping Information : i. ALL packages containing film or videocassettes must be marked clearly with the title of the film, the sender's return address and the Festival address, exactly as below. ii. All submissions must be sent prepaid. The Festival will not accept collect shipments. Film prints will be returned at the sender’s expense as soon as possible following the selection screening. iii. The Festival will not assume responsibility for, nor will it accept, shipments incurring expenses for terminal charges, duties, taxes or customs brokerage. Clearly indicate on all waybills that transportation and customs charges be billed to the sender. To ensure shipments originating outside Canada clear Canada Customs without delay, please follow these instructions: a) include three copies of a commercial invoice (declaration of contents) containing the following information: -Sender’s name, address and telephone number -Receiver’s address (Festival address) -Title of film and format (e.g. VHS) -Length of film -Fair market value (standard are $20 CDN for cassette and $500 CDN for feature-length print) -Country of manufacture -Declaration "Goods on loan for Festival purposes only. No commercial value. Non-pornographic." -Sender’s signature b) The commercial invoice must be included with the courier waybill. If you are shipping via international post, please affix a customs declaration label to the outside of the package. iv. Recommended courier is FedEx, where available. The Festival will not accept shipments via United Parcel Service (UPS) since this company does not deliver international duty-free shipments to Breather. v. You can obtain confirmation of delivery through the courier tracking service. For more Festival information refer to the Official website: www.bell.ca/filmfest or contact Film Submissions at: BREATHER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The Breather International Film Festival is a presentation of Breather International Film Festival Inc. The Breather International Film Festival Group is a charitable, cultural, and educational organization devoted to celebrating excellence in film and the moving image. ®Breather International Film Festival is a registered trademark of Breather International Film Festival Inc.

1. FILM 1.1 TITLE OF FILM In the language of production country: _______________________________________________ In English: _______________________________________________ 1.2 FILM LANGUAGE Original Language: _______________________________________________ Subtitles: _______________________________________________ N.B. Invited films must be in English or subtitled in English 1.3 TYPE OF FILM Feature Documentary 1.4 YEAR AND COUNTRY/COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION _______________________________________________ 1.5 DATES OF THEATRICAL RELEASE In country of production: _______________________________________________ In North America:____________________________________ 1.6 FESTIVALS at which the film has already participated: _______________________________________________ 1.7 PRIZE(S) (if any) won at these festivals: _______________________________________________ 1.8 The screening at the Breather International Film Festival will be a(n) World International (outside of country of production) North American Canadian PREMIERE (i.e. THE FIRST PUBLIC SCREENING in the region indicated) N.B. The Festival expects all of the films it presents to be North American premieres unless special arrangements have been made with the Festival Organizing Committee 1.9 Is the submitted film the Director's FIRST THEATRICAL FEATURE film? Yes No I ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY for the accuracy of information supplied in Sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 below and I authorize the Festival to reproduce credits and company contact information in its publications exactly as supplied below. The Breather International Film Festival Group collects personal information supplied in the application solely to facilitate management and administration of its activities and responsibilities as it relates to the film being submitted. The Breather International Film Festival Group safeguards this personal information against loss, theft, and unauthorized access or disclosure. By supplying this personal information you consent to its use.

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2. PRODUCTION 2.1 EXECUTIVE PRODUCER(S) OF FILM Name__________________________________________ Permanent Address for correspondence _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Telephone___________________Fax_________________ Email___________________________________________ PRODUCER(S) OF FILM Name__________________________________________ Permanent Address for correspondence _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Telephone_________________Fax___________________ Email___________________________________________ 2.2 PRIMARY PRODUCTION COMPANY Name__________________________________________ Address_________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Telephone_________________Fax___________________ Email___________________________________________ CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY/COMPANIES Name__________________________________________ Address_________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Telephone________________Fax____________________ Email___________________________________________

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