CAT CLIPS: A COMPETITION IN CUTENESS Video Contest Now Accepting Entries – Event April 4th at Urban Chestnut Brewing Company

Cat Clips: A Competition in Cuteness! Is a FUNdraising event with adorable cat videos submitted by cat lovers produced by Animal House Cat Rescue and Adoption Center and Cinema St. Louis.

Cat lovers are encouraged to submit their adorable amateur cat video footage. All submitted videos will be juried, then the selected clips will be screened at our ‘Cat Clips’ event on Wednesday, April 4th at Urban Chestnut Brewing Company in The Grove (4465 Manchester).

St. Louis’s renowned animal welfare advocate, Julie Tristan, will emcee Cat Clips and on-site judges include Best Friends Animal Society’s Senior Legislative Attorney, Ledy VanKavage and Cinema St. Louis’s Executive Director, Cliff Froelich. The judging panel will award a cash prize of $250 to the top clip of the evening and award various prizes to second and third place clips.

Cat Clips can be submitted at https://filmfreeway.com/CatClips . $10 donation is required for

each submission. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, February 28th.

Located in St. Louis’s historic The Hill neighborhood, Animal House Cat Rescue and Adoption Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a humane living space, care and adoption center for the homeless, abandoned cats of St. Louis City, providing shelter, nutrition, medical attention, socialization and love as well as our best effort at finding the kitties in our care a loving forever home.

“Animal House, now in our 8th year of rescuing cats and kittens in desperate need in our community, is proud to partner with Cinema St. Louis and Urban Chestnut Brewing Company to showcase the cuteness of cats and, to support cat rescue. Everyone who participates will be helping to save lives. Fun with a mission!” says Brandyn Jones, Animal House Cat Rescue and Adoption Center Executive Director.

Submission Guidelines

Those interested in participating must submit clips that meet the following criteria:

• Run a maximum of 120 seconds, including credits (no minimum running time).
• Contain no profane language or offensive imagery; if CSL and Animal House deem a work inappropriate for viewing by audiences of all ages, it will be eliminated from consideration.
• All conceivable approaches – including experimental and narrative – are acceptable.
• The clips can be shot in any film or video format, in either color or black-and-white.
• Clips must have a production date no earlier than 2011.
• In addition, the following conditions apply:
• Clips must be an authentic, original works created by the contest entrants as the videographer.
• Videographer must have secured rights to any music, words, or images used in the work.
• Videographer will retain ownership rights to submitted works, but by submitting a clip to the competition, the owner grants Animal House the right to screen the work and use for future Animal House purposes. Submission of a clip does not guarantee its use.
• All films must be submitted using FilmFreeway with a secure online screener link. An entry fee of $10 is required. All proceeds will help support the ‘Help Us Heal’ medical fund at Animal House. Submission deadline is February 28, 2018.

For more information please contact: Brandyn Jones, Animal House Cat Rescue and Adoption Center Executive Director, animalhouse@stlcats.org (314) 531-4626.