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Show life B6 MONDAY*OCTOBER 3 I »2005 Plan 10 From Call for entries to the LDS Film Festival Outer Space Alicia Lee tion to their talent. The best scripts are also forwarded to various industry professionIt's festival season again. als for possible consideration. The LDS Film Festival is Last year's winning script, now accepting shortfilmsand "Strawberries of Eldritch," feature-length screenplays came from Kohl Glass, a for the 5th annual LDS Film Brigham Young University's Festival 2006. Prizes totaling film school graduate, who is $2000 will be awarded to the currently making the script best films and screenplays, feature length. including a $1000 award for While this is an LDS festhe best short film. tival, it is not imperative that Over the past four years, the the stories and films be purely LDS Film Festival has be- gospel oriented. The festival is come the premiere place for looking for intelligent works LDS filmmakers to mingle that deal with spirituality in and network. And while the a universal way. Any entries once "short-film" festival that demonstrate intelligence, now screens more and more spirituality, originality, integfeature-length films, the short rity, and technical brilliance film competition remains have an excellent chance of the heart of the festival pro- being accepted. Drama, comgram. "Napoleon Dynamite," edy, animation, documentary, "Saints and Soldiers" and and experimental films are all "Pride and Prejudice" were welcome. all conceived as short films The regular entry deadline is at the festival, before moving Thursday, December 1, 2005, on to be feature-length, award and the extended deadline is winning, and nationally ac- Thursday, December 15. The claimed films. Festival will be in January. Photo courtesy ot New Line Cinema There is also a screenplay For more information visit Jared Hess, writer and director of Film Festival favorite, competition that offers writers the festival website at: lds- Napoleon Dynamite. the prospect of drawing atten- filmfestival.com. Life Writer From PUN -B5 Outer Space actually made some serious waves amongst Mormons and independent filmmakers alike. Harris is quite proud of the fact that the movie was chosen as Sci-Fi movie of the year by one critics' circle, while simultaneously being banned in Boise, fdaho. Plan 10 also broke technical ground, being the first - independent film to launch a website and hold an internet press conference. Fans of cheesy Sci-Fi will cheer the less-than-special special effects and Harris is quick to point out that the whole thing, not including pizza, cost less that 550,000. 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