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A Brief Introduction to the Festival
The Park City Film Music Festival is an independent film festival, presenting film music competition for both INDIE and studio-sponsored films, a performance showcase for composers with seminars for composers, musicians, songwriters and groups.
The Park City Film Music Festival is made possible, in part, with support from the Summit County RAP Tax and Restaurant Tax Funds and is a project of the Park City Chamber Music Society.
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About the Film Music Festival
The 2013 Park City Film Music Festival is pleased to announce it is now accepting submissions from filmmakers and film composers.
Synopsis of the 2013 Park City Film Music Festival
The ninth annual PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL (PCFMF) will be held in Park City, Utah, October 11 - 21 2013. This is the first film festival in the United States singularly recognizing the contribution of composers and their music to film. Awards are given in the categories of Best Use of Music in Full-Length Narrative Feature Film, Best Use of Music in Documentary Film, and Best Use of Music in Short Film, Best Music Documentary, Best Performance/Experimental Music Film.
Venues for the 9th PCFMF will be the Egyptian Theatre on Historic Main Street and the Prospector Theatre and Screening Rooms at The Prospector Park City, for a total of five screening rooms. In addition to screenings of films in the competitions, the Film Music Festival will present screenings of special invited films and past winning films featuring the work of noted film composers.
For submissions, PCFMF is a festival partner with Withoutabox.com, the world's largest film submission service that reaches out to over 300,000 film makers worldwide. PCFMF.com, the Film Music Festival official website, features links to the Withoutabox.com service. Films in the competition are screened from DVD and BluRay.
The PCFMF burst on the scene with a landmark 33 films in 2004, 50 films in 2005, 102 films in 2006, 200 films in 2007, 210 films in 2008, and 200 films in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, and is the brainchild of Ms. Leslie Harlow who has been operating the Park City International Music Festival for over 28 years. A Juilliard graduate, she and her husband, festival director Russell Harlow, a former member of the Utah Symphony, are both classical instrumentalists prominent in their fields.
Ms. Harlow is driven to propel the PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL to international prominence, and has received encouragement from the Utah Film Commission, original founder of the Utah/United States Film Festival (now called Sundance Film Festival), the Film Music Institute and other film music industry organizations. Leslie has already spoken with esteemed film composer, John Williams, who is very excited at the prospect of this new festival. As this festival grows in scope, we will be inviting John Williams and other prominent film composers to celebrate the art of film music through performance and master classes. For 2013 the PCFMF will feature film music seminars.
Film music, whose broad appeal continues to gain prominence in the music marketplace, has stood for a long time recognized only at the very highest levels: the Academy awards, the Emmys, the Grammys, and a few others. The growing stature of film music is exemplified in the announcement in 2005 of the Pulitzer prizes qualifying film music for the first time after over 60 years.
Present and past sponsors of the festival include The Prospector Park City, Park City's Egyptian Theatre, the Park City Film Series, Summit County RAP Tax and Restaurant Tax Funds, the Park City Chamber of Commerce Special Events Fund, Klipsch Audio Technologies, Mackie, Michael Wiese Productions, Performance Audio of Salt Lake City, Filmacre, Corpus Polymedia, indivisiblePR.com, Cambridge Films, Berkeley Sound Artists, the Film Music Institute, Film Music Magazine, Film Score Monthly, Park City Stock Photography, Westminster College, Utah Contemporary Theatre, Pure Volume, Knock on Wood Film Productions and the Utah Wind Power Campaign.
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Components of the Festival
The Park City Film Music Festival consists of five components:
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Lodging during the Festival
The Prospector is the official lodging sponsor for the Film Music Festival, as well as one of the main venues. The Prospector
offers discounted lodging rates, so ask for the Film Music Festival discount lodging rates when you make your reservations. Additional
lodging information is available through the Park City Chamber of Commerce -
Travel to Park City:
By Air, fly into the Salt Lake International Airport and take a shuttle or taxi to Park City. Park City is located approx. 40 miles from the airport.
Please contact the Park City Chamber of Commerce for current Transporation Information: http://www.parkcityinfo.com
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Contact the Festival
Please contact the festival by email at lharlow@pcfmf.com or by calling 435-649-5309.
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The All-Volunteer Festival Staff
Festival Founder & Director: Leslie Harlow
Festival Team:
Jeffrey Gold, Paul A. Wood, Mario DeAngelis, Rhea Bouman, Annie Sundquist, Kelly Graham
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Photography: Leslie Harlow, Jon Scarlet