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'Fine Cut' 2022 Prize Packages: Cash Prizes, Camera Package Rentals, NFMLA Memberships, and More!

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Enter your film to "Fine Cut Festival of Films," for a chance to be one of the lucky finalists featured in one of the six-half-hour episodes on KCET in the Fall and one of the prize packages below.
 

Jack Larson Student Filmmaker of Southern California Award Winner:

  • $2,000 cash
  • Stage TH!S one-day Stage Rental
  • $1,000 Quixote production supplies rental
  • Final Draft 12
  • NFMLA student membership
  • Cinema Series season tickets

Narrative Winner:

  • $10,000 Keslow camera package rental
  • Final Draft 12
  • NFMLA student membership
  • Cinema Series season tickets

Documentary Winner:

  • $10,000 The Camera Division camera package rental
  • Final Draft 12
  • IDA membership and feature in their Monthly Member Memos (winning student featured in front of 3,500+ IDA members)
  • NFMLA student membership
  • Cinema Series season tickets

Animation Winner:

  • Wacom One Creative Pen Display
  • Dragonframe 5 and keypad
  • Mari and Modo from Foundry
  • 1 year subscription to Maxon One
  • 1 year license Storyboard Pro
  • 1 year license Harmony
  • Moho Pro 13.5
  • Final Draft 12
  • NFMLA student membership
  • Cinema Series season tickets

Backstage is excited to provide their acclaimed casting tools to all of the finalists in KCET's Fine Cut Festival of Films. Winners will be provided with a complimentary year's subscription to Backstage, and all finalists can post casting notices free of charge.

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