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Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival launches trailer competition

Jan 5, 2009

The Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival announced a competition to find the official trailer for the 2009 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival. For the first time in the three-year history of the festival, Tribeca and ESPN have created a unique competition to find the official trailer that will be scheduled to play prior to all of the films in this year’s festival. The 2009 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival will take place during the Tribeca Film Festival, April 22 through May 3, 2009.

To participate in the competition, contestants will need to shoot a re-enactment of a scene from a classic sports film. Three scenes from two Walt Disney pictures, Remember the Titans and Cool Runnings, have been preselected for contestants to recreate. All recreations of the scenes should keep within the spirit of the original film and be under 30 seconds. A panel of Tribeca and ESPN notables will select the top submissions and choose the final winner. The competition began on Jan. 5 and ends on March 7.

Contestants should log on http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=tribeca/trailer/contest
to download the script pages to both films and then submit their videos. These selected shorts will be featured on espn.com, beginning in early April 2009.

In addition to having the scene play as the official trailer for the 2009 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, the grand prize winner will receive a trip for two to New York City (including airfare and hotel accommodations) for two nights to attend the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, dinner for two at the ESPN Zone, one Apple TV with an iTunes gift certificate in the amount of $100, and a 17-inch Apple MacBook Pro fully loaded with Leopard OS and Final Cut Studio.


Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival launches trailer competition

Jan 5, 2009

The Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival announced a competition to find the official trailer for the 2009 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival. For the first time in the three-year history of the festival, Tribeca and ESPN have created a unique competition to find the official trailer that will be scheduled to play prior to all of the films in this year’s festival. The 2009 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival will take place during the Tribeca Film Festival, April 22 through May 3, 2009.

To participate in the competition, contestants will need to shoot a re-enactment of a scene from a classic sports film. Three scenes from two Walt Disney pictures, Remember the Titans and Cool Runnings, have been preselected for contestants to recreate. All recreations of the scenes should keep within the spirit of the original film and be under 30 seconds. A panel of Tribeca and ESPN notables will select the top submissions and choose the final winner. The competition began on Jan. 5 and ends on March 7.

Contestants should log on http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=tribeca/trailer/contest
to download the script pages to both films and then submit their videos. These selected shorts will be featured on espn.com, beginning in early April 2009.

In addition to having the scene play as the official trailer for the 2009 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, the grand prize winner will receive a trip for two to New York City (including airfare and hotel accommodations) for two nights to attend the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, dinner for two at the ESPN Zone, one Apple TV with an iTunes gift certificate in the amount of $100, and a 17-inch Apple MacBook Pro fully loaded with Leopard OS and Final Cut Studio.

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