The Residency Project is seeking submissions of short film/video projects by Southern California-based artists/filmmakers for a screening event in Pasadena on Saturday, August 19, 2023. Selected artists will be paid $100 each for their participation in the screening as recommended by Working Artists in the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) and an additional $50 for their in-person attendance of the screening event.

Deadline: May 31, 2023
Notification of decision by: June 30, 2023
See website to apply: https://www.theresidencyproject.org/open-call

Eligibility Criteria:

• Artist/Filmmaker must be 18+ years old and based in Southern California
• This call is open to narrative, non-narrative, experimental, documentary-style, animation, experimental animation projects completed within the past 5 years
• Project’s total runtime cannot exceed 30 minutes
• The work should already exist in a digital format playable in a cue-based, multimedia playback software (.mp4 and .mov preferred).
• Artist/Filmmaker must be able to commit to attending the in-person screening event on the evening of  8/19/2023, where they will give a brief introduction of their featured work
• Artist/Filmmaker must be open to screening their work in a non-traditional/ad hoc/salon-style environment. TRP is an artist residency and project space based in an intimate home environment in a residential neighborhood. Depending on the weather, curatorial vision, and expected audience size, the screening may take place inside the residency house or outside in the backyard/garden.

Submission Guidelines:

• Each work sample or trailer should be no more than 3 minutes long. Samples will need to be submitted as links to Vimeo, YouTube, etc.
• Full work cannot exceed a total runtime of 30 minutes. Finalists will be asked to submit the full film/video for review.
• Submission fee: $5 per submission
• Limit of 5 submissions per artist/filmmaker
• Applicant will need to include title, date, and contextual description for each submission + your CV and link to your artist website/IMDB

See website to apply: https://www.theresidencyproject.org/open-call