National GI Film Festival Announces New Leadership

“KPBS is honored to have developed the GI Movie Pageant in San Diego. But to now have the blessing and have faith in from founders Brandon and Laura is truly an honor. KPBS is proud to continue the powerful GI Movie Pageant traditions in San Diego and outside of.”

SAN DIEGO (PRWEB)
May 28, 2020

Organizers of the GI Movie Pageant San Diego, a armed service-themed film pageant that provides films and occasions for, by and about armed service assistance members and veterans, announce KPBS, a community media station in San Diego, California, as the sole producer of the national film pageant. All routines will now originate in San Diego, which include the awards opposition, judging, and in-particular person film screenings. The full pageant is scheduled for May 18-23, 2021, allowing for for further time to plan screening occasions exterior of present-day COVID-19 limits.

“KPBS is honored to have developed the GI Movie Pageant in San Diego. But to now have the blessing and have faith in from founders Brandon and Laura is truly an honor. KPBS is proud to continue the powerful GI Movie Pageant traditions in San Diego and outside of,” states Nancy Worlie, affiliate standard supervisor of information and communications, KPBS. “In just 5 small several years, we have demonstrated that the GI Movie Pageant was essential to our group and that we can continue this tradition for filmmakers all over the globe.”

The national GI Movie Pageant was established in 2006 by U.S. Army Veteran Laura Law-Millett and her husband Brandon Millett, to foster greater community being familiar with of the armed service experience via film, tv and are living unique occasions. For over a ten years, the award-successful GI Movie Pageant occurred yearly in Washington, DC in the spring from 2006 to 2017. Additional occasions were hosted on armed service bases all over the nation and in Los Angeles, California. In 2015, the GI Movie Pageant labored with KPBS to bring “Sundance for the Troops” completely to San Diego to help broaden the festival’s footprint. The shift to the West Coast was only normal as San Diego offers a single of the most significant armed service populations in the U.S., with 7 major armed service bases among the Navy, Marines and the Coast Guard. San Diego County has the third most significant veteran population in the U.S. with a lot more than 240,five hundred veterans and a lot more than a hundred,000 active responsibility members. In 2018, the GI Movie Group announced San Diego would be the house for the national film pageant for that yr. This yr, KPBS formally obtained the GI Movie Pageant generating San Diego the house for the national pageant now and for several years to arrive. The Milletts will remain advisors to KPBS going forward.

“As the very first armed service film pageant in the nation, the GI Movie Pageant offered a voice for the armed service group in entertainment and we are so proud to have helped provide hundreds of films into the marketplace showing the honor and braveness of those who provide,” states Brandon Millett. “And now, below the leadership of KPBS, we have no question that the pageant will continue to develop and really encourage filmmakers everywhere to share their tales.”

To also continue its mission to have interaction audiences, inspire filmmakers, and rejoice reliable storytelling, the pageant will current a digital screening showcase on Oct. one and two, 2020. Titles and filmmaker participation to be announced later on this summer months, and films will be hand-chosen by pageant organizers.

Looking Again on the History of the GI Movie Pageant San Diego

In its 6 yr heritage, the pageant has offered 164 films and captivated hundreds of attendees. Each and every film tells a powerful and unique story that may problem the pageant-goers’ notions about what it usually means to provide and goes outside of a single-dimensional depictions of veterans, assistance members, their caregivers, and family members. The pageant also retains in-depth panel discussions immediately after every film block to help lessen the armed service-civilian divide. There is also an prospect for San Diego space filmmakers to share their function and rejoice the rising San Diego film group, via the festival’s Regional Movie Showcase, arranged in partnership with the Movie Consortium San Diego.

The GI Movie Pageant San Diego has also hosted various famous people who participated in films chosen for the pageant, which include documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Ric Burns actor and activist George Takei actor Matthew Marsden actor/producer/director Jeffrey Wright and actor/director Brenda Strong.

Movie Submissions Now Recognized for 2021 GI Movie Pageant San Diego

From documentaries and narratives to shorts and characteristic-lengths, pageant organizers are searching for filmmakers globally to submit their operates for consideration for the 2021 awards opposition. Movie submissions can consist of storylines or narrative arcs about the armed service experience (past or current working day Usa or worldwide-during assistance again house immediately after assistance, and so on.). Civilians, active responsibility and veterans are welcome to submit information among May twenty five, 2020 and January 20, 2021. For finish submission prerequisites, deadlines, sponsorship opportunities, and a lot more info on the GI Movie Pageant San Diego, make sure you take a look at GIFilmFestivalSD.org.

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