OPEN CALL: "Solidarity" Short Film Series

You’ve probably heard that the divisive and isolating time you’re living in right now is historic, unprecedented, and wholly new. But to what extent is that true, if at all? What are tried techniques, new innovations, and visionary imaginations for battling personal, social, and societal disunion and loneliness? The Solidarity Short Film Series will attempt to intervene mainstream, one-dimensional narratives of detachment, apathy, and severance by highlighting ways that individuals/groups of people have/can come together across race, ethnicity, class, religion, gender, nationality, and other demarcations of fragmentation.

Whether through the lens of queer joy, pro-Palestine activism, class consciousness, police abolitionism, contraception and abortion access, racial justice movements, cultural phenomena, fantastical ideation, whimsical creation, all of the above, or others, this Short Film Series invites artists to ponder, confront, action, and represent (m)any dimension(s) of what “Solidarity” means.

Requirements

• The Solidarity Film Series will occur in September. Exact date(s) TBD according to filmmakers’ availability and the amount of eligible submissions. Details to come…
• Accent Sisters encourages all artists – from beginners to students to known artists – to submit. NO formal training or schooling in filmmaking required. Artists from under-represented and under-resourced groups – especially BIPOC, immigrant/non-citizen, LGBTQIA+, and women and gender nonconforming individuals– will be prioritized.
• $10 submission fee
• Only artists within commuting distance to Accent Sisters, or willing to travel to it, will be considered. The Film Series will be IN-PERSON at Accent Sisters (89 5th Ave #702, NY, NY 10002). Artists will NOT receive stipends for travel.
• A representative of the film (preferably the director or screenwriter/researcher) MUST be able and willing to participate in a post-showing panel/Q&A with other filmmaker participant(s) and withhold tenets of mutual respect, spatial awareness, and collegiality. In severe violation of these tenets, end-of-event payment may be withheld.
• Film submission must be a maximum of 30 minutes in length, including post-film credits.
• Artists may only send in ONE (1) submission in a category.
• Dual submissions (i.e. ONE submission in fiction and ONE submission in non-fiction) is ALLOWED. Please submit in separate forms and indicate dual submission.
• Submissions MUST be original works.
• Accent Sisters accepts works being simultaneously submitted elsewhere. However, if your film has been accepted or previously shown, please let Accent Sisters know.
• Any AI-assisted or AI-generated works will NOT be considered.

Application Instructions

Submit to this Google form before August 1 11:59pm:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgtRi-Z3Ezb4mq5FQrfppo_ni-3k4dkVupN8igBy_etq1PPQ/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=107043047829117087842