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Los Angeles -- Back by popular demand! Slater Brothers Entertainment’s Hamilton Film Festival, founded by brothers Wade, Grant and Todd Slater, whose father, Terry Slater, was the head hockey coach at Colgate University for 15 years, is returning for its second year, and is set to take place August 5 – 8, 2010. The Festival is now accepting film submission.

Through the Film Festival, the Slater brothers aim to bring a piece of Hollywood back to the area they proudly grew up in and provide a platform to recognize local area talent and advance the careers aspiring filmmakers. Supported by Hamilton and Colgate University, this year’s festival will kick off with a VIP reception at Colgate for film festival organizers, film directors and producers, and other special VIP invited guests on August 6that 7pm. The first film will be screened at 8:30pm on Friday night following the opening reception. Events will continue throughout the weekend and include a festival closing night event to take place at The Palace Saturday night, as well as a closing night party to happen in downtown Hamilton.

New this year is a special competition and screening for the best central and upstate New York short film selected for the festival. The addition of the ‘Upstate New York Filmmakers Screening’ is to encourage local filmmakers to get involved with the festival and community.
The host venue for Festival screenings is the Hamilton Theater, located at 7 Lebanon Street in Hamilton, NY (www.hamiltontheater.net ).

Charitable components associated with Slater Brothers Entertainment’s Hamilton Film Festival include a awareness walk to benefit the community Food Cupboard and a special screening to benefit the school’s various educational and athletic departments.

Grant Slater’s announcement of the Central New York filmmakers award came with great excitement, “My brothers and I started this festival to give back to the area we grew up in. We couldn’t think of a better way to promote the festival and the arts of Central and Up State New York than by encouraging interested filmmakers to get involved. Our company is aimed at putting on special events with a charitable focus. We thought, why not include the best local filmmakers in our festival by having a special screening dedicated to them. We hope to find some ones that will really resonate with the area and people of Upstate New York.”

Todd Slater continued with his brother’s sentiments in saying “Part of what we hope to accomplish with our Film Festival is to promote the arts and culture of the area we grew up in. It is not easy having your talents or film recognized in general, let alone if you are a filmmaker from Up State New York. Regardless of the age, subject matter, or the price of the short film, we wanted to encourage budding filmmakers of Central New York to get involved with our festival. It’s incredible what you can now create with a digital camera and a computer. Having a film included in the festival should encourage any film lover to get involved, pick up a camera, and create a short film that is fifteen minutes or less. This is why we wanted to particularly focus on screening a short film that was created by a resident or student of Up State New York.”

Wade Slater added, “We wanted to bring a fun event back to the town we grew-up in. Hamilton is a special place. Hopefully we can bring some famous faces and some talented filmmakers back to Central New York for years to come. Anyone interested in entertainment and filmmaking should enjoy the experience and look to start putting his or her short film together now. As long as the filmmaker can put his film on a DVD that plays in the movie theater, we expect to have some great films sent our way.”

The Film Festival local short competition is open to any filmmaker who is a Resident or Student of Madison, Herkimer, Chenango, Oneida, Oswego or Onondaga County.

The first submissions cutoff is June 1st, 2010. A late submission deadline will be extended to July 1, 2010 for certain circumstances. All submissions and processing fees should be sent to:

Selection Board c/o Slater Brothers Entertainment 7902 Citrus Blossom Dr. Land O Lakes, Florida 34637 Tel: 813 929 9511 Email: info@slaterbrothersentertainment.com Website: www.slaterbrothersentertainment.com

 


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