Arlington International Film Festival (AIFF) invites you to purchase your 2013 festival pass at the discounted rate of $35 through June 30.

The festival also announces its partnership with Acitrón Restaurant.

Opening night is set for Oct. 23 at the Regent Theatre. Join in the excitement as you mingle with visiting filmmakers, community leaders and other film lovers. This year’s after-party event will be hosted by Acitrón Cocina Mexicana Restaurant.

VIP ticket and festival pass holders will receive priority seating at the Regent and will be invited to attend an elegant reception at Acitrón.

The festival is an ideal setting where the creative, cultural and business worlds can come together to learn and share ideas.

AIFF offers you the rare opportunity of close and personal encounters with independent filmmakers, directors, producers and writers.  
Foster the new generation of film makers by providing a forum for ideas, networking and bring the world of independent films to Arlington and to promote Arlington to the world.

For festival passes, make checks payable to:
Arlington International Film Festival
350 Mass Ave., No. 160, Arlington, MA  02474

Decision on entries in August

Filmmakers will be notified of the selection committee’s decision by in August.

The AIFF will again feature juried awards for the following categories: Best of Festival, Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Best Narrative Short, Best Documentary Short, and Best Animation Short.  

AIFF is much more than just a film festival; it is a celebration of cultures as well as a platform for recognizing the common global human experience.  

Submission categories

•    Features: Narrative and Documentary

•    Shorts: Narrative, Documentary and Animation

•    High School Shorts (students must be 18 or under) 

Note: The submission fee for high school students is waived.

Film fest names selection panel, seeks volunteers

The Arlington International Film Festival (AIFF) has named its 2013 selection committee and is offering volunteer opportunities.

Those choosing the award winners for the October festival are Elizabeth DiNolfo, Jim Ospenson, Meryl Perlson and Eric Stange, who are joining veterans Elisabeth Myles Birk, Alice Bouvrie and Cesar Perez.

The festival also seeks volunteers with professional skills who can help in these areas:

Graphic designers to help create posters, post cards and digital material;
Web workers (WordPress) with skills needed to update the website;
Social media (Facebook/Twitter);
Marketing/development intern to present marketing materials;
Writers to help with interview, articles and submission to local media;
Photographers to shoot events before and during the festival (must have your own camera);
Videographers to shoot certain events as well as edit footage;
Volunteers for the festival, Oct. 23 – 27, at the Regent Theatre;
Drivers (shuttling filmmakers from hotel, restaurant to theater): Must have driver’s license and car;
Four managers (coordinating operations) as well as a manager of festival tickets/passes (responsible for disseminating information and publicity); and
Volunteer Coordinators (Over-see a shift at the venue and assist the Manager)  
Venue Volunteers (collecting tickets, handing out playbills, ushers, selling raffles) .

Interested? Email your information to arlingtonfilmfest at gmail.com.

Background of selection committee

After graduating with a degree in journalism from Boston University, DiNolfo worked professionally for over a decade as a documentary filmmaker. She served as assistant camera person, writer, producer and director while working for Northern Light Productions in Boston, DBA Television in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and freelance in New York City.

Liz had the opportunity to work on documentary, educational and commercial projects in Europe, Africa and across the U.S. Her work is credited in numerous films and videos including, “Eyes on the Prize,” “There But for the Grace…,” “Lily Tomlin: In Search for Signs of Intelligence,” ”Heart on the Line,” and “Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues.” She lives in Arlington with her husband and two daughters, has been active with the Arlington public schools and currently works at Brandeis University.

Ospenson began making documentary and experimental video in Philadelphia in the late 1980s. A founding member of the Termite TV Collective, his most recent work is in photography. In the pre-YouTube era, his solo and Termite video work was broadcast on PBS, cablecast on Deep Dish TV, exhibited in museums including New York's MOMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and screened at a wide range of festivals.

More recently, his photographs have been acquired by private and corporate collections, including Bank of America. He is represented by Arlington's 13FOREST Gallery.  He has an MFA in Film/Media Arts from Temple University. His day job is in state government, wrangling data for a human services agency. By way of New Jersey, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, Ospenson is a resident of Medford, MA since 2001 where he lives with his wife and two amazing kids.

Perlson began making documentary and experimental video in Philadelphia in the late 1980s. She is a founding member of the Termite TV Collective, an ongoing swarm devoted to the creation of community and alternative media, now in its 20th year. She has exhibited her work nationwide on PBS and cable, and in festivals and museums, including MOMA (NYC) and the New Museum. She has an MFA in Film/Media Arts from Temple University, and has taught at the college level for over a decade. An Associate Professor in the Communication program at Newbury College, Meryl resides in Medford, MA with her husband and two children.

Stange, executive producer and founder of Spy Pond Productions in Arlington, is a writer, director and producer of documentary television programs on history, science, and technology. His work has appeared on PBS, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic and the BBC.

He specializes in both short and long-format projects that combine rigorous research with innovative visualization techniques and imaginative storytelling. Eric has been a recipient of the Charles Warren Fellowship in American History from Harvard University. He is member of the board of Common-Place, the leading academic web site for studies in early American history, writes a column for American Heritage magazine on history and new media, and is a visiting fellow with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Before becoming a filmmaker Stange was a print journalist and wrote primarily about art and culture for newspapers and journals including the Boston Herald, Boston Globe, New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Chronicle of Higher Education and other national publications. He lives in Arlington, MA with his wife, Barbara, and two children.

Birk has worked in the film industry in New York and Los Angeles as a script supervisor, writer, director and producer for more than 20 years. After earning a Master’s degree from Boston University, she began her career as a continuity supervisor on numerous feature films, commercials and television projects for HBO, MTV, PBS, ABC and CBS-TV. She has gone on to direct her own independent films, including "Remember the Rain," which has screened at numerous film festivals in New York, London, Wales and South Africa.  She is currently developing a feature film, The Double View, based on the 1960 novel by Chandler Brossard.

Bouvrie brings over 20 years of experience in the film industry to her role as documentary Producer and Director. She holds a master’s degree in Film Production from Boston University, a master’s degree in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University, and is a graduate of the DGA Producers Training Program in New York. She is an active member of the Director’s Guild of America, and an active member and former board member of Women in Film & Video/New England.

In 2005, she was a Filmmaker-In-Residence at WGBH, Boston, and in 2011 won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship.  Bouvrie worked as an Assistant Director on feature films, TV series and specials, commercials and industrials for seven years before producing documentaries as an independent in 1993, forming Mineral King Productions. www.mineralkingproductions.com

Perez was born and raised in Cuba, came to the US in 2002. He graduated from Universidad de La Habana in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and worked for Casa de las Américas until leaving Cuba for the Dominican Republic in 2001.

While in the D.R. he taught journalism at the Universidad Católica Santo Domingo and wrote features on Dominican and Caribbean culture for El Caribe newspaper. Cesar got his master’s degree in Spanish from the University of Iowa and he is currently finishing his dissertation work towards a PhD in Romance Languages at Harvard. Cesar has taught extensively Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture, Latin American Film, and language courses at the University of Iowa, Harvard, MIT, and UMASS Boston.

ProductionHUB a festival partner

AIFF is a partner with ProductionHUB for its 2013 Festival.

ProductionHUB is an online marketplace for broadcast TV, motion picture, pro video, live event, corporate and digital media production. It connects media and entertainment professionals with those seeking industry products and services.

Since 1998, this vertical B2B has grown to become the world's largest and most active production community search site, attracting more than 4 million searches annually.

How can you support AIFF?

The following packages are available:

2014 Student Poster Contest = $2,500
Press release announcement of your company’s sponsorship
Representative from your company will award the winner
Logo on festival program
Logo on 2013 official poster
Logo on the two banners inside the theater
Logo on the trailer that will run prior to each film screening
Logo on our website
Logo on our social media – Facebook –
8 Festival Passes
6 VIP Passes to Opening Night (each pass admits 2 people to the screening and After-Party)

2013 Program (6,000 copies) = $2,500
Press release announcement of your company’s sponsorship
Logo on festival program
Logo on 2013 official poster
Logo on the two banners inside the theater
Logo on the trailer that will run prior to each film screening
Logo on our website
Logo on our social media – Facebook –
8 Festival Passes
6 VIP Passes to Opening Night (each pass admits 2 people to the screening and After-Party)

2014 MFA Package = $ 2,000
For the 2nd year Arlington International Film Festival and the Museum of Fine Arts will partner to screen AIFF’s Best of Festival 2012 "ALL ME: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert."
Press release announcement of your company’s sponsorship
Logo on 2013 official poster
Logo on festival program
Announcement of company as our 2013 sponsor during the MFA   week of screenings
Logo on our website
Logo on social media  -Facebook-  
6 Festival Passes
2 VIP Passes to Opening Night (each pass admits 2 people to the screening and After-Party)

2013 Best of Festival Awards (5 Categories) = $1,000
Press release announcement of your company’s sponsorship
Representative from your company will award the filmmaker
Logo on the two banners inside the theater
Logo on our website
4 Festival Passes
2 VIP Passes to Opening Night (each pass admits 2 people to the screening and After-Party)

2013 Street Banners (double-sided) = $550
Name of company & logo on the Street Banners (7’; X 3’) displayed in Arlington Center in September and October prior to and during the Festival.
Press release announcement of your company’s sponsorship
Logo on our website
Logo on our social media – Facebook-   
2 Festival Passes
2 VIP Passes to Opening Night (each pass admits 2 people to the screening and After-Party)

2013 Best of Student Film Festival Awards (5 Categories) = $550
Press release announcement of your company’s sponsorship
Representative from your company will award the filmmaker
Logo on our website
Logo on our social media –Facebook-
2 Festival Passes
2 VIP Passes to Opening Night (each pass admits 2 people to the screening and After-Party)

2013 Theater Banners = $500  
Logo of your company on two banners displayed inside the theatre for 5 days
Press release announcement of your company’s sponsorship
Logo on our website
Logo on our social media –Facebook-
2 Festival Passes
2 VIP Passes to Opening Night (each pass admits 2 people to the screening and After-Party)

2013 Official Poster (6000 copies) = $500
Logo on 2013 official poster
Press release announcement of your company’s sponsorship
2 Festival Passes
2 VIP Passes to Opening Night (each pass admits 2 people to the screening and After-Party)

Festival Passes = $350
Logo on reverse side of passes w/lanyards or buttons
2 VIP Passes to Opening Night (each pass admits 2 people to the screening and After-Party)

Festival Badges (Filmmakers, Media, Volunteers) = $300
Logo on reverse side of badges (Filmmakers - Media - Volunteer Badges w/lanyards)
2 VIP Passes to Opening Night (each pass admits 2 people to the screening and After-Party)

Step 2: Complete the form

Donor or Business Name: (as you would like it to appear)
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Contact Person:
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Mailing Address:
_____________________________________________________________________________________
City, State, Zip:

Phone # _____________________________________________________________________________

E-mail: ______________________________________________________________________________

Notes: ______________________________________________________________________________

Step 3: Return form

Note: Checks should be made payable to:

Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA)
Payment and sponsorship information should be mailed to:
Arlington International Film Festival
350 Mass. Ave., Suite 160
Arlington, MA 02474

Tax-deductible contributions should be made payable to the Festival's fiscal agent, MIRA, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.

Step 4: Prepare logos

Submit logo in full color, high resolution with minimum of 300 d.p.i.
Email to: arlingtonfilmfest at gmail.com by July 31, 2013.

Please contact Alberto Guzman at 857.209.1122 or arlingtonfilmfest at gmail.com with question

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What the second annual festival brought you

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This story was published Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, and updated numerous times, the latest June 10, 2013.