2012 1st Annual Urban Garden Cinema

For year one, we are accepting work that was filmed in Delaware, casts Delaware as subject, or was created by an artist living or working in the state of Delaware.

Seeking all genres—animations, short-shorts, documentaries, music videos, narratives, and abstract or experiential works.  Works that are experimental in nature are encouraged. Length should be under 10 minutes.

SubmissionDeadline midnight, August 15, 2012. 

Free to Submit.  Free to Attend.

What is Urban Garden Cinema?

Urban Garden Cinema (UGC) was created to cultivate the making of short films, educate and inspire communities, and activate open unused spaces in urban settings. Our first summer screening celebrates Market Street in Wilmington, Delaware by providing free public access to new independently produced moving images.

Colette Gaiter and Amy Hicks co-organized an event titled Garden Cinema, an outdoor film screening hosted at the Wilmington home of Chris Johansen and Herman Boyd. The event began in 2006 with friends getting together to watch films outdoors, evolved in 2008 to include a few short student films before the "main" event, and by summer 2011 grew into an all out short video festival with over 100 in attendance. 

Although Garden Cinema outgrew its backyard origins, we saw the potential in combining the intimate feeling of friends gathered in a green space to watch movies with a more activist approach to art and public space.  Ultimately UGC aims to sustain emerging talent working with moving images in all its formats and bring these works to the public through social action film projects and educational programs throughout the year. 

2012 Jurors are Colette Gaiter, Amy Hicks, Chris Johansen, Herman Boyd, and Shawn DiCriscio.