WINDHOEK With the 6th Wild Cinema Windhoek International Film Festival dates fixed for March 23 until April this year, the festival organizers have appealed to all Namibian Film-makers to submit their most recently produced films for selection, it was announced in a press release. “While festival staff are already busy sifting through the first submissions, Wild Cinema organizers have decided to extend the deadline for submissions to this Friday in order to accommodate film-makers returning late from their Christmas vacation,” said Irmi Schreiber in the statement. Registration forms can be obtained from FNCC, NTN, Goethe-Centre/NaDS and the Namibia Film Commission. “Only new entries produced between 2003 and 2006 filmed in professional digital video (DV) – or higher – format will be considered. The productions must be accompanied by a detailed Electronic Press Kit (EPKs) consisting of a synopsis of the film, a biography and complete filmography of the director as well as stills from the film and a recent photograph of the director,” she insisted. “Apart from many other new features this year, the 2007 Windhoek International Film Festival will once again host the popular Audience Choice Award, where viewers will be given the choice to vote for their favourite Namibian production and, with local films of all types and descriptions pouring in, the audience will be hard pressed to decide which local film deserves their vote,” Screiber asserted. According to her, the festival organizers have decided to increasingly feature recent international productions in 35mm format, as this will guarantee local audiences getting to see only newly released films. “With a programme packed with the crÃÆ’Æ‘Æ‘ÃÆ”šÃ‚¨me de la crÃÆ’Æ‘Æ‘ÃÆ”šÃ‚¨me of local and international cinema, workshops, forums and open-air screenings, the 2007 Wild Cinema Windhoek International Film Festival promises once again to be a bumper edition of celluloid fantasmogastic proportions guaranteed to tickle all but the most jaded movie palate,” she promised Namibian movie-lovers. Other creative news includes two current exhibitions at the Namibia National Art Gallery.