CounterCorp Film Festival

The CounterCorp International Anti-Corporate Film Festival is a three-day series of anti-corporate films, panel discussions, and related events held every year since 2006 in the Mission District of San Francisco. The [http://www.countercorp.org/countercorp-festival.htm 3rd Annual CounterCorp Festival] runs October 15-17, 2008, at the Brava Theater Center on 24th Street.

Among the topics of films shown at past CounterCorp Festivals were consumer rights, corporate culture, democracy, environmental issues, industrial agriculture, "intellectual property" and media, and worker-run cooperatives.

Submissions

The CounterCorp Festival is open to U.S. and international feature-length and short, documentary and narrative (fictional) films, including animated and experimental works. The organizers also accept suggestions for potential films and speakers, and offer free tickets to those who suggest films that end up being shown at the Festival.

The deadline for submitting films is generally three months before the Festival, and the final program is announced approximately one month before the opening night. The submission fee for short films (under 60 minutes) is $10; the submission fee for feature-length films (60 minutes and above) is $20. Non-English films must have English subtitles.

Organizers

The Anti-Corporate Film Festival is organized by CounterCorp, an all-volunteer non-profit organization that originated in 2005. The Festival's stated goal is to "foster public and media attention, critical thought and analysis, and informed discussion and debate on the effects that large corporations have on the lives and cultures of people all over the world, and on the health of the planet itself."

CounterCorp does not accept corporate funding, and relies instead on donations and other forms of support from members of the public and local small businesses, an all-volunteer staff, and proceeds from year-round [http://www.countercorp.org/countercorp-events.htm events] and Festival ticket sales.

External links

* [http://www.countercorp.org CounterCorp Official Website]
* [http://list.countercorp.org/mailman/listinfo/countercorp-news CounterCorp News and Events list]