WHEN: Saturday February 28, Doors at 7pm

WHERE: Owls Club (847 Dovercourt Rd)

ADMISSION: $10 at the door

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 20! (please don’t torture me with later submissions)

SUBMISSION EMAIL: sewerfest@gmail.com (send a download link to your vid through google drive, wetransfer, or something like that)

RULES: 1. No pro equipment 2. No HD video unless you shoot on your phone 3. Keep it under 4 minutes. A deeper explanation of the rules can be found on a post below.

As always, there will be karaoke after the show, and drinks will be for sale at the bar all night.

WHEN: Saturday October 12, Doors at 7pm

WHERE: Owls Club (847 Dovercourt Rd)

ADMISSION: $10 at the door

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 10th! (No one abided by my earlier deadline last year, so this is about the latest I can work with)

SUBMISSION EMAIL: sewerfest@gmail.com (send a download link to your vid through google drive, wetransfer, or something like that)

RULES: 1. No pro equipment 2. No HD video unless you shoot on your phone 3. Keep it under 4 minutes. A deeper explanation of the rules can be found on a post below.

As always, there will be karaoke after the show, and drinks will be for sale at the bar all night.

See yas there!

WHEN: Saturday October 21, Doors at 7pm

WHERE: Owls Club (847 Dovercourt Rd)

ADMISSION: $10 at the door (I know it’s been by donation in the past, but everything is more expensive now)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 7th! (But like, you KNOW I’m gonna extend it.)

SUBMISSION EMAIL: sewerfest@gmail.com (send a download link to your vid through google drive, wetransfer, or something like that)

RULES: 1. No pro equipment 2. No HD video unless you shoot on your phone 3. Keep it under 4 minutes. A deeper explanation of the rules can be found on a post below.

As always, there will be karaoke after the show, and drinks will be for sale at the bar all night.

Since it’s so close to Halloween, this will be a COSTUMES ENCOURAGED event.

WHEN: September 24, 2022

WHERE: Owl’s Club (upstairs)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 10, 2022

RULES: See earlier post explaining the rules.

For any and all folks new to the fest, thinking about making a vid, here’s a little sampler of vids from the last fest to give you a notion of what it’s like.

Tourism of Toronto – James Malekzadeh

Found Footage – Kelso Steinhoff, Charles Hutchings, and Piers Desrochers-O’Sullivan

A Calming Breath – Devin Shears

VID 20170320 232117 1 – Lauren Belanger

Sending Out A Major Love – Colton David

I love nothing more than getting vid submissions.

To submit a video to SEWER FEST, just email a download link to sewerfest@gmail.com.

Not to be patronizing, or support any specific business, but services like Dropbox, Google Drive, WeTransfer, and others have been effective ways of sending vids to me in the past. If you need help just shoot me an email and ask!

Not all submitted vids will be screened at the fest. The program is compiled as a compromise of time and good taste.

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There are THREE rules for video submissions to SEWER FEST.

1. No professional equipment.
2. No HD unless it’s shot on your phone.
3. Keep it under 4 minutes.

Further explanation of THE RULES

“No Professional equipment.”

If you have to ask if it’s SEWER FEST permissible, it probably isn’t. No HD video cameras. No DSLRs. Nothing you can swap the lens on. No professional lighting. No grip equipment. No professional sound equipment.

The big exception is editing and post production software. Use whatever you want. I don’t really care so long as you try to stay within the spirit of SEWER FEST. For this reason animation is a bit of a gray area that I feel out on a per-submission basis. If you roll up with something fully animated in Maya you will be HARD IGNORED.

Found footage, professionally shot footage, and professionally recorded audio are permitted if you are remixing/ editing it in some way.

“No HD unless it’s shot on your phone”

Pretty self explanatory. Don’t shoot high definition video unless you’re doing it on your phone.

“Keep it under 4 minutes.”

Don’t submit a video longer than four minutes.

I occasionally make exceptions for rule breakers that are otherwise exceptional, but don’t count on us seeing eye-to-eye on what constitutes “exceptional”.