2012
Friday, January 27, 5:30pm to
Sunday, January 28, 5:30pm
Competition Screening:
Sunday, January 29, 7:30pm

70 people and numerous sleep deprived filmmakers gathered at the ODD Fellows Hall in Dawson City last night to watch films that did not exist 48 hours previously! While there were a few casualties, 11 films made it to the big screen in KIACs 48 Hour Film Competition. With entries from erstwhile Dawsonites in Whitehorse and Kamloops, the audience was treated to a collage of cinematic styles ranging from animations, documentaries, heartfelt personal stories and some just plain mid-winter lunacy. When the lights came on the jury decided that Chris Clarke's untitled (and self awarded "Most kilometers traveled while trying to make a 48 Hour Film") won the "Flocons D'Or" award for the best film of the evening. Chris's film will be screened at the 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival (April 5-8). 2011 winners, Aubyn O'Grady and Evan Rensch scored a slightly used DCISFF Pillow as the Audience favorite for their documentary "Opening up Community Chest: Broken but not Dead".

Other films and jury awards:
Kit Hepburn: Lines (and Weird Nosies); Most Lines Done in a Film
Karen Mackay: Not Just in the Kitchen; Best use of Drugs/Best soundtrack made by a Judge
Meg Walker: January Brain; I Wish I Was on Drugs Award
Holly Haustein: Untitled; The Lilly Award
Trina Buhler: A Decade of Day Planners; The OCD Award
Jay Armitage: Time is Up; The Golden Pander Award
Sheriden Gunter: Shopping?; Best Clown Car Award
Jenna Roebuck, Georgia Fraser & Molly Shore: Sh*t Aaron Burnie Says; Best Abuse of AB Award
Eryn Foster and Elaine Corden: It seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time; The WTF Award

A congrats to all the hard working filmmakers, the judges, Stefan Popescu and David Curtis for their tech help. Thanks to KIAC, the Yukon Film Society and NFVIA for their assistance in organizing this event.

Rules

$25 Entry Fee ($20 if you use your own equipment). Includes, MiniDV camera, 1-mini DV tape and an IMAC editing station (Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and IMovie). Register early as equipment is limited and will be distributed on a first come first serve basis.

Extra equipment such as lights, tripods, mics, etc. can be rented on a first come first serve basis.

• Filmmakers may work individually or in teams
• Films may be in any genre (drama, comedy, documentary, animation, experimental)
• 5 minute maximum length. (there is no minimum length)
• No previously shot footage may be used.

The competition begins at 5:30pm Friday with a mandatory short demo of the equipment. Participants will be assigned cameras and editing stations. Editing stations will be in the KIAC classroom and will be available starting Saturday at 9:30 am.

Participant must hand in a completed film either on MiniDV tape or as a Quicktime file by Sunday at 5:30 PM. NO EXCEPTIONS. Participants may use their own editing systems if they prefer.

Out of town competitors are welcome to participate. Call (867-993-5005) or email for details on rules and uploading of films.

WHITEHORSE RESIDENTS can call the Yukon Film Society at 393-3456 to register. Due to their upcoming Available Light Film Festival is keeping them busy, we ask that you pre-register and pick up your equipment by Thursday, January, 26th. (We trust no one will start before Friday!) There will be an on-call person available to help with post-production and uploading of the films on Sunday.

All material used in he films must be owned by the filmmaker. Any copyrighted materials in the work must have been cleared for use.

KIAC is permitted to retain the submitted video for inclusion in our non-circulating library. All films will be screened on Sunday, January 28th. Filmmakers will also agree that KIAC may screen the film one further time at a separate event and may also opt in to be screened on Community Cable 9 (Whitehorse) and Dawson City Cable 12.

The winning entry will be screened at the 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival.

All other films will be eligible to apply to the festival as late entries by submitting the proper application forms and their film by February 3rd, 2012.