North By Midwest Micro-Budget Film Festival

From the heart of the Midwest, the Kalamazoo-based North by Midwest Micro-Budget Film Festival is looking for submissions from North America-based filmmakers. Categories include: Long Feature, Short Feature, Documentary/Profile, Animation, and MicroCam. Call for entries for this juried competition is September 5 - November 6, 2017. Finalists will be screened at a day-long event March 17, 2018. There will be a filmmaking forum as well as an awards ceremony. Budget must be equal or less than $10,000 for Long Features and $5,000 for other categories (not including equipment costs). About Sponsor Organization Public Media Network: Public Media Network (PMN, formerly known as the Community Access Center) is a Public, Education, and Government (PEG) community media organization founded in 1983. We provide non-commercial media services to these consortium partner communities: City of Kalamazoo, City of Portage, Kalamazoo Township, Oshtemo Township, Comstock Township, and the City of Parchment in the state of Michigan. Our services include: media production training, equipment loan, programming distribution, and vocational instruction in radio and digital video production to local high schools. We also manage and operate (under contract) WKDS 89.9 FM, a 100-watt FM non-commercial/educational radio station licensed to the Kalamazoo Public Schools.