Personnel:
Shawn Quirk, Executive Director
Lawrence J. J. Andrade, Flickers Board
Shawn Drywa, Vortex Director
Scott Oberacker, Educational Outreach Director
Ericka Atwell-Cardona, Director of Community Engagement & Development
Submission Policy:
Festival Season: Summer (usually August)
Deadline: May (check website for exact dates)
Entry: $55 for LGBTQ, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Horror, Jewish, African-American, Indigenous, Canadian, French-speaking, Japanese, Chinese, Video Games, High School, College, Music Videos, New England, Webisodes, TV/Cable/Internet Pilot, Experimental Film, COVID-19, Podcasts, AI Generated; $65 for Feature Film, Short Narrative Film, Documentary Short, Documentary Feature, Animated, Children's/Family, Screenplay Competition.
Content:
Features, Shorts, Music Videos, Documentaries
Festival Season:
Summer
Comments:
FLICKERS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization that supports and promotes the film arts in Rhode Island and throughout New England. Over the past two decades, its production, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, has screened 6,720 independent films and videos out of 87,532 entries, presented 1,621 World/North American premieres, featured over 1,350 entries that were locally produced, and hosted 4,582 filmmakers and crew. Since its inception, over 595,000 film lovers, in-person and online, have enjoyed the Rhode Island International Film Festival and its programming, not including those in New England watching its weekly broadcast and cable programming series, doubleFEATURE, now in its ninth season.