Category Archives: Call for Entries

CALL FOR ENTRIES: The Human Condition

Written by justin. Posted on June 22, 2010. Filed under Call for Entries. 1 Comment.

Our friends at the Chicago International Film Festival are hosting a 60-second film contest that examines who and what we are.  What causes people to start a war? Grow a flower? Create art? Advance technology? Pollute the environment? Seek knowledge? What is our place in the world? A program of finalists will be screened during the 46th Chicago International Film Festival and online, and the top three films will receive some hefty cash prizes.  Visit here to enter or find out more!

SPRING FILM FESTIVAL: Call For Entries

Written by justin. Posted on April 26, 2010. Filed under Call for Entries. 2 Comments.

Every year Fire Escape hosts a Spring Film Festival in the Film Studies Center made up of productions made under a certain theme.  This year’s theme is International Film.  This can be interpreted to encompass a wide variety of film styles, check a few suggestions below if you’re in need of a little inspiration:

  • Italian Neo-realism: “You live and you suffer.” (Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica)
  • French New Wave: “A virginal heartbeat has its own juvenile logic.” (Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Jacques Rivette)
  • German Expressionism:  (The Cabinet of Caligari, Metropolis)
  • The Western: “Every gun makes its own tune.”
  • Bollywood
  • Film Noir (The Big Sleep, The Big Heat, and The Big Combo!)
Get together with a group of friends this May and make a quick ode to your favorite international genre.  Or e-mail the committee at fecommittee@uchicago.edu if you’d like to be put in a group.  The deadline for entries is Monday, May 31st.

The Opportunity Shop: Call for Artists

Written by Ivan. Posted on April 16, 2010. Filed under Call for Entries. No comments.

The Opportunity Shop is a transitory, experimental project space for contemporary art in Hyde Park.  The current iteration is at the old Hollywood Video at 1530 E. 53rd Street. The OpShop bills itself as a place “where local, national and international artists come together to creatively facilitate conversation and community interaction in a dynamic art environment.”

Fire Escape members have shown their films there before.  Check out the Call for Artists page if you’re interested.

Also, don’t miss out on an upcoming event at the OpShop, a live historical reenactment of Geraldo Rivera’s infamous televised search for Al Capone’s vault.

FIREBREAD III: Call For Entries

Written by Ivan. Posted on April 15, 2010. Filed under Call for Entries. No comments.

We’re excited to announce our third annual collaboration with Sliced Bread Magazine, FIREBREAD III.

This is a DVD compilation of Fire Escape films that have come out in the last year or so.
Each of the 1,500 wonderful magazines will be unleashed at a release party on May 10th with our DVD inside.  Now, it’s time for you to add your film to the selection!

Contact us today at fecommittee@uchicago.edu or quick, make a short flick by the 20th!