CINE Golden Eagle Award for Independent & Emerging Media

 Call for Entries: CINE Golden Eagle Award for Independent & Emerging Media CINE partners with CINE Select Festivals to honor the best in independent media Washington, DC ­ Since 1957, the CINE Golden Eagle Awards have honored excellence in media, building a legacy on discovering independent and emerging talent. The CINE Golden Eagle Award helped launch the career of rising powerhouses such as Steven Spielberg (1969), Ken Burns (1981) and Pixar Animation (1987). Now, the CINE Golden Eagle Awards have been reimagined to recognize the next generation of great media makers. The new CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Independent & Emerging Media are now accepting submissions, with​
categories available for narrative, animated and documentary shorts and features. The awards process is based on merit and transparency: CINE's initial review teams evaluate each entry through an openly published set of evaluation criteria, and all entrants may access their comments when the process is complete. Top­scored projects are sent to a distinguished jury of notable filmmakers, producers and former CINE winners, who select up to five finalists and a CINE Golden Eagle Award winner in each category. Golden Eagle Award­winners will be honored at CINE Celebrates events in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, DC. CINE is also pleased to announce partnerships with CINE Select Festivals — events that share CINE’s core values based on standards of excellence, festival history, industry influence and audience demographics — providing jury prize winners from these festivals receive complimentary entry into the CINE Golden Eagle Awards. CINE Select Festivals include the Ashland Independent Film Festival, DC Shorts Film Festival, HollyShorts Film Festival, and Tallgrass Film Festival, with more CINE Selects Festivals to be announced. Complete information is available at ​
www.cine.org/independent​
or FilmFreeway (​
https://filmfreeway.com/festival/CINEIndie​
). All submissions are due by March 30, 2015. ABOUT CINE CINE was created in 1957 as a private­public partnership with the USIA branch of the State Department as a way to accredit U.S. documentary and industrial films to send to large foreign festivals (Berlin, Venice, Rotterdam). The CINE Golden Eagle Award was created as the method to choose films for submission to the overseas festivals. Over the years, the CINE Golden Eagle Competition expanded to include student, independent, narrative and television productions. By the mid­1990s ​
CINE’s partnership with the State Department ceased, and the Golden Eagle Awards were presented as a symbol of peer­reviewed media excellence rather than as a conduit to foreign film festivals. In 2014, the CINE Golden Eagle Awards were relaunched with cycles specifically for professional, independent and student media. CINE Golden Eagle Award­winning alumni are working throughout the industry. For some, such as ​
Steven Spielberg​
(1969) and ​
Ken Burns​
(1981), it was their first major industry recognition; others, such as ​
Martin Scorsese​
(2006), ​
Barbara Kopple ​
(1992) and ​
Spike Lee ​
(1999) were honored well into their illustrious careers. CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Independent & Emerging Media **NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS** www.cine.org/independent Early Deadline: February 17, 2015 Late Deadline: March 30, 2015 Finalist and Awards Announcement: August 27, 2015 CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Professional Media www.cine.org/professional Early Deadline: November 30, 2014 Late Deadline: January 30, 2015 Finalist and Awards Announcement: April 30, 2015 CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Student & Youth Media www.cine.org/student Call for Entries: May 1, 2015 Early Deadline: June 15, 2015 Late Deadline: July 31, 2015 Finalist and Awards Announcement: October 30, 2015 ###