{"id":59888,"date":"2016-04-15T17:06:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T17:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=59888"},"modified":"2016-04-15T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T17:06:01","slug":"upcoming-lgbtqia-film-festival-seeking-screenwriters-filmmakers-webcontent-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/upcoming-lgbtqia-film-festival-seeking-screenwriters-filmmakers-webcontent-creators_59888.html","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming LGBT(Q)I(A) Film Festival  Seeking Screenwriters, Filmmakers &#038; Web-Content Creators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-style:italic; padding:8px 0px;\">Upcoming Live &#038; Online LGBT(Q)I(A) Film Festival Urban Rainbow Film Festival is looking for works from LGBT(Q)I(A)  screenwriters, filmmakers &#038; web-content creators to be featured at the event July 27-July 31.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>New York &#8211; 15<sup>th<\/sup> April, 2016 &#8211;<\/strong> Great news for aspiring LGBT(Q)I(A) film professionals looking for an exciting opportunity-latest LGBT(Q)I(A) Film Festival&nbsp; <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urff.org\/\">Urban Rainbow Film Festival<\/a> is seeking works from screenwriters, filmmakers &amp; web-content creators from the same community to be featured at the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a live &amp; online film festival to be hosted at NYC, from July 27-July 31.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deadlines for Submissions are Early bird Deadline &#8211; 04\/25\/16, Regular Deadline &#8211; 05\/06\/16, Late Deadline &#8211; 05\/16\/16, Extended Deadline &#8211; 05\/30\/16.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/uploads\/3719b951dbf03b3605366a9da2a90273.PNG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;We are glad to announce that we are soon to come up with the debut season of our film festival dedicated to the lesbian, gay, transsexual, bisexual, questioning, intersexual &amp; &lsquo;All Our Ally People of Color-it&rsquo;s going to be a great glamorous, edgy and uber festival where anything can happen. To make our event successful, we are looking for great films, screenplays and web series from the LGBT(Q)I(A) &nbsp;screenwriters, filmmakers &amp; web-content creators out there,&rdquo; stated a leading spokesperson from Urban Rainbow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urff.org\/\">URFF<\/a> is an endeavor by N. Mabasa-Mathope who is a NY &amp; LA based director, screenwriter &amp; producer. He is also the leader for UrbanWorld Film Festival Production Team sponsored by BET &amp; HBO&ndash;apart from being the lead of HBO sponsored Pan African Film Festival Production Crew.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new festival is aimed to celebrate stories &amp; images that mirror lives of diversified LGBT(Q)I(A) people. It stands as a gender-inclusive multi-ethnic platform for short &amp; feature-length films ranging from documentaries, narratives, animated films to web content about, of interest &amp; by LGBT(Q)I(A) community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H3vzu_IBy2E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe>Video Link: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H3vzu_IBy2E\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H3vzu_IBy2E<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;Held over 5 days, our festival would be pulling in more than 5,000 attendees from our community, added to traditional attendees, stellar names from entertainment industry &amp; major donors. It&rsquo;s going to be a huge affair no doubt and we promise you a grand exposure for your works before a massive enlightened and educated audience.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking further, another spokesperson from Mabasa-Mathope&rsquo;s team stressed on greatly competitive movie screenings at the festival accompanied by filmmaker Q&amp;A&rsquo;s, grand exclusive movie premiers from Hollywood Studios, gala after parties as well as enriching industry networking opportunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Added to all these, the festival is going to include a special URFF Filmmaking Institute LABS which are aimed to develop &amp; nurture the budding screenwriters, filmmakers, actors &amp; web-content creators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YzS0GtggqQY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe>Video Link: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YzS0GtggqQY\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YzS0GtggqQY<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&ldquo;Apart from showcasing their works to our grand audience-base, the aspiring film professionals and content-creators here would also have the opportunity to apply for screenwriting, film direction, production, acting &amp; content-creating mentor-ship workshops, the first ever in New York City and\/or The East Coast period, at our specialized URFF LABS,&rdquo; added in the second spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">URFF is not only looking forward to give the much needed voice to the voiceless via quality dynamic films which are at par with the grand Hollywood standards&ndash;but is also geared to celebrate best of film arts whilst bridging the unwanted gap with movies that explain, explore &amp; exemplify the very spirit of togetherness, oneness and\/or examine the themes of hope, tolerance &amp; equality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more information regarding the festival or to submit your work, please visit <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.urff.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can URFF on all social media&nbsp;<span>Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr at&nbsp;<span>UrbanRainbowFF<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/uploads\/cdb217cb94a60c04db81f2c8253a00cc.PNG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:18px !important;'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> URFF <br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> N. Mabasa-Mathope<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> info@URFF.org<br \/><strong>Phone:<\/strong> 929-400-7818 or 646-470-3070<br \/><strong>Address:<\/strong>125 w 123rd Street  <br \/><strong>City:<\/strong> NYC<br \/><strong>State:<\/strong> NY<br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urff.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.urff.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object type=\"text\/html\" data=\"http:\/\/www.urff.org\" style=\"width:605px; height:400px;\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=upcoming-lgbtqia-film-festival-seeking-screenwriters-filmmakers-webcontent-creators\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming Live &#038; Online LGBT(Q)I(A) Film Festival Urban Rainbow Film Festival is looking for works from LGBT(Q)I(A) screenwriters, filmmakers &#038; web-content creators to be featured at the event July 27-July 31. 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