• Film score composer and music editor, Todd Kasow, who won the Moondance International Film Festival's 2010 Seahorse Award for his score for "The Farm" short film, Jon Hill, director/producer, is getting great buzz among his industry colleagues while he's currently working on The Coen Brothers' version of "True Grit" in NYC. Todd Krasow’s film music credits include: The Color of Money, The Last Temptation of Christ, A Bronx Tale, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Red Violin, Before Night Falls, Julie & Julia, Where the Wild Things Are, and No Country for Old Men.
  
  
• Baghdad Texas: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack has garnered a Top Ten Album of the Year from The Boston Herald and a Top Five Album of the Year from The Philadelphia City Paper, and charting in the top twenty for three months, and has been gaining a lot of support in Nashville, New York and L.A for consideration as a Grammy nomination. “Baghdad Texas” screened at Moondance 2009, the film score composer, Booka Michel, was a winner , and the film was screened again at Moondance 2010, in our Best of Moondance series. www.baghdadtexasthemovie.com
  
  
• A winning feature script at Moondance 2009, “Lab Rats”, written by Louis Rosenberg, was picked up by a producer and is being filmed, in London.
  
  
• Moondance-winning screenplay, "The Ellen and Ted Show" (formerly "The Real Thing" when it won in 2008), is now in development as a feature film, starring the inimitable Sandra Bernhard, Michael Urie (from "Ugly Betty"), William Miller, Jeff Davis and actor/Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts.
  
  
• Five filmmakers whose films were screened at Moondance 2008 received offers of distribution after the festival!
  
  
• 5 winning screenwriters were offered agenting and/or option offers at the 2008 festival, and many other writers were asked to send their screenplays to agents!
  
  
• Christopher of the Wolves and Mukama Morandi, musicians who entertained at Moondance
  2008, were agented during the festival by a music label representative!
  
  
• Moondance was endorsed & profiled in Oprah Winfrey's magazine, "O" in May 2003
  
  
• Moondance was voted the "third most important film festival in the world" after Cannes and Sundance in an online poll of 150,000 international film industry professionals at Filmmakers Alliance, Los Angeles, CA. In this 2003 online poll, members were asked to rate film festivals based on their importance to one's career and to the international entertainment industry, not on number of attendees or celebrities present.
  
  
• Moondance founder & executive director, Elizabeth English, was invited to attend, speak and represent international women in film at World Forum 2004 in Barcelona, Spain, along with Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela & Sting.
  
  
• Cirque du Soleil, Montreal, Canada, generously sponsored Moondance in 2005 & 2007.
  
  
• Top film studios, producers & agents in L. A., NY and worldwide request Moondance winners' and finalists' screenplays, films & music.
  
  
• Many of the Moondance winning and finalist films have been purchased and distributed world-wide, for television and theatrical release.
  
  
• Three Moondance film winners have been subsequently nominated for the Academy Awards®, the most recent of which was "Tanghi Argentina" which had its US premiere at Moondance 2007, and was nominated for best short foreign film at the 2008 Oscars.
  
  
• A 2001 Moondance winner was invited to screen her film "The Unique Oneness of Christian Savage" at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
  
  
• Francis Ford Coppola optioned a finalist Moondancer's screenplay and his literary magazine, "Zoetrope: All-Story" is a Moondance sponsor.
  
  
• Sesame Street, Oxygen Media, Sundance Channel, Lifetime TV, National Geographic TV, the BBC, Canal+, and Starz Encore are just a few of the television companies requesting winning Moondance films and scripts.
  
  
• The Hendricks Foundation has donated funding for special awards.
  
  
• Otis Taylor, Boulder blues musician who provided entertainment at the 2003 Moondance, was noticed at our festival by a prominent Hollywood agent and music producer, and was subsequently nominated for, and won, the W.C. Handy Blues Awards & the Grammys for his CD "White African".
  
  
• Moondance winning films have been invited for screenings in many other film festivals around the US and the world.
  
  
• Jodie Foster's production company considered the five 2002 finalists' Spirit of Moondance screenplays.
  
  
• Moondance founder & executive director, Elizabeth English, has been nominated twice for the Hollywood Reporter's annual "Most Powerful Women in the International Film Industry" awards.
  
  
• A libretto was given NY production funding, based on the writer's win at Moondance 2002.
  
  
• The Spiritual Cinema Circle selected winning Moondance films for their compilation DVDs.
  
  
• Many of the winning films from all previous Moondances have been considered by film distributors, optioned, sold and/or distributed, worldwide.
  
  
• Boulder writer & Moondance winner of 2001 and 2002 had two scripts read and optioned by an important NY production company.
  
  
• Many screenwriters are agented after winning Moondance, such as a Texas screenwriter finalist who got an agent at the film festival and was offered an option and production date for her winning Moondance screenplay.
  
  
• Advertising at Moondance reaches 150,000+ immediately, and exposure continues on our website, and reaches over 25,000 international entertainment industry professionals, via our popular monthly e-newsletter.
  
  
• 50+ countries are represented in Moondance entries, participants and festival attendees.
  
  
• Moondance 2006 & 2007 were held in Hollywood, California, to great success. 2007 was at the Raleigh Studios, and 2008 at Universal Studios City Walk theaters.
  
  
• MovieBytes.com lists Moondance as one of the top ten film festivals worth the entry fee.

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