Big Water Film Festival - Bay Theater - Ashland - Wisconsin

NOVEMBER 6-9, 2019
Bay Theater, Ashland, Wisconsin

Film Entry Form

You are invited to submit your films, feature films, documentaries, animation, or any other creative film expression for consideration for the upcoming film festival.

The Big Water Film Festival awards the following prizes:  Best Feature, Best Short, Best Short-Short, Best Documentary, Audience Favorite, and the Loren Savitsky Young Filmmaker Award.  Each award comes with a certificate, a beautiful hand-made award bowl, and $150.

Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2019.

Your submission must include:

  • Your Movie (DVD, Blu-ray, or DCP, or we can view Vimeo/links as long as you provide the password– but if your film is accepted we will need a DVD, Blu-ray or DCP for the Festival).
  • $10 Entry Fee
  • Completed Entry Form (pdf download or use on-line submittal form below)

Either mail your submission to:
Big Water Film Festival, PO Box 11, Ashland, WI 54806

Or, use the Paypal button that will appear once you have completed the on-line entry form, and make your entry fee payment via Paypal.  If you also send us an on-line link to your film, then you do not have to mail anything.

  • Date Format: MM slash DD slash YYYY
  • You may, alternatively, send us a DVD or Blu-ray, to BWFF, P.O. Box 11, Ashland, WI 54806. For screening at the Festival you may also send us a DCP.
  • If you wish to be considered for the Loren Savitsky Young Filmmaker s Award please give us your date of birth.
    This information is for promotional purposes only and does not affect the selection of your film.
    Please check here if you authorize the Bay Area Film Society (the BWFF’s parent organization) to show your film at one of its events after the Festival.

  • I certify to the BWFF that I have the right to submit this film to the BWFF and to authorize the uses of it provided herein. I also certify that I have the rights to use in this film any third-party material contained in the film, such as music or film clips from other works. I will indemnify and hold harmless the Big Water Film Festival, its sponsors and partners, individually and collectively, from and against all claims, demands, losses, damages, costs, liabilities, and expenses, including legal expenses arising out of or in connection with any and all claims or third-party claims based on material submitted to the Big Water Film Festival. Big Water Film Festival has permission to use my name, my film, photos, and press materials for festival promotion. If my film is accepted I grant Big Water Film Festival full permission to show my film at the 2018 Film Festival and agree that Big Water Film Festival will not be obligated to remove the film from the Festival unless I give notice that I am withdrawing it before October 1, 2019.

News

2019 Awards:  The 12th Big Water Film Festival is in the books!  Thanks to everyone (filmmakers, volunteers, sponsors, and audience members) who made it happen.  Here are this year’s award winners:
Best Feature and Audience Favorite: Love Them First, Lindsey Seavert and Ben Garvin
Best Documentary: From Seed to Seed, Katharina Steiffenhofer
Best Short: Wanted:Strong Woman, Marilyn Cooke
Best Short-Short: Fairy Tail, Justin and Kristin Schaack
Loren Savitsky Young Filmmaker Award: , Ouroboros, Emma Keehan
Honorable Mention: Fraser Syndrome and Me, Kyle Anne Grendys
Congratulations!

Check out our new ticket sales page.  We’ve made purchasing tickets online very easy, and you can now purchase tickets online for all sites.
Special thanks to the Ashland Foundation for funding the purchase of a spotlight for our use at the Bay Theater.  Filmmakers will no longer have to answer questions in the dark!
The schedule is up!
Our 2019 Schedule is posted! Our film descriptions are also posted.
New venues!
Our Bayfield showings are moving from the Bayfield Carnegie Library to the more spacious environs of the Bayfield High School Library.  We hope this will give our audience more room to enjoy the films.  Thanks to Blair and the City Library for their support these past years, and thanks to the Bayfield School District for welcoming us to their campus.
And remember that as of last year we are having screenings again in Washburn, at the Harbor View Event Center.  Special thanks to our Washburn sponsors who are helping to make this happen:  Ron’s Repair and Towing, Washburn Family Dentistry, and Olson Building Supplies.

 

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Thank You to Our Sponsors:

Thank you to our Reception sponsors!  Ashland Baking Company, Benoit Cheese Haus, Chequamegon Food Coop, CoCo Artisan Breads and Good Eats, DaLou’s Bistro, Deep Water Grille , Hugo‘s Pizza, Maggie’s, North Coast Coffee, Pizza Pub, and The Snug.  

Thanks to our Festival sponsors for your support!

Director


Ashland Area Chamber of Commerce
1716 West Lake Shore Drive
Ashland WI 54806
715.682.2500
www.visitashland.com

Cinematographer


Wild Rivers Chapter of Trout Unlimited
604 Riverside Dr
Hurley, Wisconsin 54534
(715) 561-3098

Special Effects


Fiorio Wealth Advisors
317 West Main Street/ PO Box 844
Ashland, WI 54806
715-682-8439
www.fioriowealthadvisors.com

Special Effects


Choice Title LLC
320 West Main Street
Ashland, WI 54806
715.682.3333

Special Effects


Lange Creative Services
Catherine Lange
Ashland, Wisconsin
708.275.8868
www.langecomm.com

Director

SECURA/AIS Insurance Services
PO Box 498
Ashland, WI 54806
715-682-6197

Cinematographer


Stone's Throw
40 South 2nd Street
Bayfield, WI
715.779.5200
www.stonesthrowbayfield.com

Special Effects


Northern State Bank
321 Main Street West
Ashland, WI 54806
715.682.2772
www.nsbashland.com

Special Effects


Olson Building Materials
19 W Bayfield St
Washburn, WI 54891
(715) 373-2686

Director


Anonymous

Cinematographer


Anthony Jennings & Crew Real Estate
106 Main St W
Ashland WI 54806
715.209.6841
http://www.aijennings.com

Special Effects


BMO Harris Bank
100 Main Street East
Ashland WI 54806
715.682.3422
www.bmoharris.com

Special Effects


Associated Bank
221 4th Avenue West
Ashland WI 54806
715.682.9371
www.associatedbank.com

Special Effects


Solstice Outdoors
2521 West Lake Shore Drive
Ashland, Wisconsin 54806
715.682.3590
http://www.solsticeoutdoorstore.com

Cinematographer


Harbor View Event Center
130 Harbor View Dr
Washburn, WI 54891
715-373-5674
www.harborviewwashburn.com

Special Effects


Ron's Repair and Towing
77655 State Highway 13
Washburn, WI 54891
715.373.2030
 

Special Effects

Washburn Family Dentistry
16 E Bayfield St
Washburn, WI 54891
715-372-4860
http://www.washburndentistry.com

Special Effects

Haukaas Law Office
Superior Representation
200 Chapple Ave
Ashland, WI 54806
715-685-1001
http://www.haukaaslaw.com