Economy Scares Away Sponsors for Student Film Festival

The Emmaus Arts Commission is in a desperate situation regarding our 5th Annual Student Horror film Festival. Our major sponsors have pulled out of our festival for financial reasons and have left us without a sponsor for our event. This will hopefully be our 5th year for the festival but without any sponsors the festival is in jeopardy of being cancelled. This is an event that the kids of the Lehigh Valley really enjoy, they get to be creative, reinforces teamwork, and understanding of deadlines.

We really need your help, if you would like to become a sponsor of our event or know of someone who might please contact us at http://emmausarts.org/ScaryMovieContest.html

5th Annual Student Horror Film Festival

This year will be our 5th year for our Student Horror Film Festival Contest. Teams again will have only 96 hours to create, edit and deliver a less than 6-minute film. We are excited for this years event and hope to have more teams in the Lehigh Valley and beyond competing. Schools with visual communciation departments are welcome. Films are then judged and the winning or selected films are shown infront of a live audiance and then posted to our YouTube site. Our categories this year will be middle school and high school. For reasons unknown to us college students don't seem to want to be bothered with our event or the cash prize? So we have removed the college category unless we have other people or teams who will be participating.

Welcome 2009 - challange for our arts commission

Well the economy is very tight right now and the ones who will suffer will be the non-profit organizations who rely on sponsorship donations to conduct their events. Our organization is no exception; we have found it already difficult to find any sponsors for our upcoming Snowblast Winter festival. This year we have several events planned and will require local and community support for all of them. All of our events take place in Emmaus. The events are as followed:
· Snowblast Winter Festival – Feb. 7-8th
· Art in the Garden – TBD
· Wildlife Art Festival – Sept. 12
· 5th Annual Student Horror Film Festival

If any of these events interest you, or you would like to become a part of an event please visit our website for more information.