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GoLeft.TV Online Documentary Film Festival - $6000 in Prizes!!

GoLeft.tv, America’s new progressive online video news source, announces the GoLeft.tv Progressive Online Documentary Film Festival to air on www.GoLeft.tv in the fall of 2007. The Goleft.tv festival will be the first ever online film festival devoted
exclusively to progressive documentary films.

The festival will showcase progressive documentaries on issues such as politics, media consolidation, foreign policy, the environment, civil liberties, human rights, immigration, workers’ rights, corporate power, health care, education, economics, religion, voting systems and others.

The goal of the festival is to raise awareness and spur activism in relation to the issues addressed by each film.

The entries will be judged by a panel of industry experts, and political and legal progressive advocates including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., environmental attorney and co-host of Ring of Fire on Air America Radio, Mike Papantonio, founder of GoLeft.tv, attorney, television commentator and co-host of Ring of Fire and Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, directors of the Oscar nominee Jesus Camp.

The first-place prize for best full-length documentary (20 minutes or longer) is $4,000 and the first-place prize for the best short documentary (less than 20 minutes) is $2,000. If you are concerned about whether your film is suitable for this festival, please email a short description of the film to festival@goleft.tv

Starts08/30/2007
Ends11/06/2007
IssuesCriminal Justice, Economic Justice, Environment, Family & Society, Gay/Lesbian, Gender/Women, Health/Health Advocacy, Human Rights, Immigration, International, Media, Politics/Government, Racial Justice, Religious Freedom, Youth
Homepagewww.goleft.tv
Contactfestival@goleft.tv

Posted on August 31, 2007 in Film / Screening by kmadonna