Toaster Film Festival
About Toaster
Toaster is a different kind of film festival — short! Celebrating creativity, spontaneity and a lot of other adjectives, Toaster is really just about using a common idea or object — like a toaster or grits — as a starting point for filmmakers to make short films and putting those films in front of audiences. It's about thinking outside of the box, playing with ideas, and having fun.
The film festival is open to any amateur, student, independent or professional filmmaker in South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. All genres and subject matter are welcome (experimental, documentary, narrative, music, etc.). The only stipulations are that films must include a toaster and/or grits and be no longer than three minutes. The festival awards filmmakers in each of the following categories: ages 8 -12, ages 13 -17 and ages 18 and up.
Toaster was inspired by an idea from South Carolina filmmaker Jeff
Sumerel.
The next Toaster Film Festival will be in April 2009 in partnership with Indie Grits, a program of the Columbia Film Society.
