November 11, 2009

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– Submissions are now open for the 12th Annual Provincetown International Film Festival -

Provincetown, MA (October 26, 2009)—The 12th Annual Provincetown International Film Festival will take place June 16-20, 2010 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Executive Director Gabrielle Hanna, Artistic Director Connie White and Director of Programming Andrew Peterson have announced that the festival is taking submissions for all narrative, documentary and short films. HBO Audience Awards will be given for the Best Short (a $1,000 prize given), the Best Narrative Feature ($1,500 prize given) and the Documentary ($1,500 prize given). A jury will select the Best Student Short Award (winner receives a software package). The submissions deadline is February 26, 2010.

Hanna also announced today that these organizations have given the festival the following grants for 2010 to date: The Massachusetts Cultural Council Recovery Grant ($10,000 granted) and the Massachusetts Cultural Council Organizational Support Grant ($4,400 granted).

ABOUT PIFF – First produced in 1999 (the same year Provincetown celebrated its 100th anniversary as America’s oldest art colony) the PIFF is on the edge – artistically and geographically. Provincetown takes pride in embracing creativity and diversity in a thriving and increasingly year round tourist, business and art economy. For decades, Provincetown has attracted legendary artists, writers and filmmakers to this furthest tip of Cape Cod. Eugene O’Neill, Norman Mailer, Lily Tomlin, John Waters, Connie Francis, Helen Hayes, Billie Holiday, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Richard Gere, and Eartha Kitt have all worked and performed here to the delight of the town’s cosmopolitan visitors and residents.

For more information visit – www.ptownfilmfest.org

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