Sponsorship Levels

The Vidlings & Tapeheads Film Festival welcomes all film, music, and art lovers! We’re rallying a robust and diverse crowd from throughout Metro Detroit as well as visiting filmmakers from around the globe. We expect a great crowd to come out Friday through Sunday to enjoy all our festival has to offer — and Planet Ant Hall & Ghost Light can easily accommodate a large audience. From high school & college students, to young professionals & progressive culture enthusiasts of all ages, our audience will find a fix for their niche whether at our film screenings, live music performances, or all-day art exhibition.

Submissions were open from late January through early May, 2017. We received over 200 entries from which our programmers are crafting the festival lineup in four categories: Made in Michigan, Animation, Documentary, and Fiction.

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SPONSORSHIP LEVELS

Please see the following suggested Sponsorship Levels. We’re happy to provide customized sponsor opportunities as well!
For all inquiries, contact our Sponsorship Coordinator, Andy Menko » andy@vidlingsandtapeheads.com

In-Kind Sponsors

Perks for In-Kind Sponsors will vary, please contact our Sponsorship Coordinator for details.

Filmmaker Awards: Prize products such as video & audio gear, software, gift cards, etc.
Local Vendors: Goods and services such as food, beverages, promotional material, t-shirts, etc.

Festival Sponsor $3,500 (limit one)

  • 3/4 page color advertisement in festival program distributed throughout Metro Detroit
  • Exclusive full-screen sponsor card projected before and after film blocks
  • Prestige branding on promotional materials including onsite signage and print advertisements
  • Festival sponsor acknowledgement on our social media outlets
  • Large name/logo branding on festival sponsor webpage
  • Name/logo in all press releases
  • 12 VIP Passes (includes Opening & Closing Parties w/Live Music, All Film Blocks, Awards Brunch, & Sunday Excursion)

Venue Sponsor (CLAIMED)

Planet Ant Logo
Planet Ant Hall 2320 Caniff Avenue, Hamtramck, Michigan 48212

Opening Night Party Sponsor $1,750 (limit one)

  • 1/2 page color advertisement in festival program distributed throughout Metro Detroit
  • 1/2 screen sponsor card projected before and after film blocks
  • Branding on promotional materials including onsite signage and print advertisements
  • Sponsor acknowledgement on our social media outlets
  • Name/logo branding on festival sponsor webpage
  • 8 VIP Passes (includes Opening & Closing Parties w/Live Music, All Film Blocks, Awards Brunch, & Sunday Excursion)

Closing Night Party Sponsor $1,750 (limit one)

  • 1/2 page color advertisement in festival program distributed throughout Metro Detroit
  • 1/2 screen sponsor card projected before and after film blocks
  • Branding on promotional materials including onsite signage and print advertisements
  • Sponsor acknowledgement on our social media outlets
  • Name/logo branding on festival sponsor webpage
  • 8 VIP Passes (includes Opening & Closing Parties w/Live Music, All Film Blocks, Awards Brunch, & Sunday Excursion)

Best of Fest Awards Sponsor $1,250 (limit one)

  • Category exclusivity, “Best of Fest Award brought to you by ______________.”
  • Includes two awards: Best of Fest & Best of Fest Student Awards
  • 1/2 page color advertisement in festival program distributed throughout Metro Detroit
  • Sponsor acknowledgement before all four category blocks and Q&As
  • Shared sponsor card projected before and after film blocks
  • Sponsor acknowledgement on our social media outlets
  • Name/logo on festival sponsor webpage
  • 6 VIP Passes (includes Opening & Closing Parties w/Live Music, All Film Blocks, Awards Brunch, & Sunday Excursion)

Shorts Block Category & Award Sponsor $750 (limit four three)

  • Category exclusivity (Made in Michigan, Animation, Documentary, or Fiction), “_____ Award brought to you by ______________.”
  • 1/2 page color advertisement in festival program distributed throughout Metro Detroit
  • Shared sponsor card projected before and after film blocks
  • Sponsor acknowledgement before individual block category and Q&A
  • Sponsor acknowledgement on our social media outlets
  • Name/logo on festival sponsor webpage
  • 4 VIP Passes (includes Opening & Closing Parties w/Live Music, All Film Blocks, Awards Brunch, & Sunday Excursion)

Shorts Block Co-Sponsor $500

  • 1/4 page color advertisement in festival program distributed throughout Metro Detroit
  • Shared sponsor card projected before and after film blocks
  • Name/logo on festival sponsor webpage
  • 2 VIP Passes (includes Opening & Closing Parties w/Live Music, All Film Blocks, Awards Brunch, & Sunday Excursion)

VTFF2017

Festival Submissions 2017

The Vidlings & Tapeheads Film Festival is dedicated to promoting unconventional narrative film. VTFF will feature live music performances, an art exhibition, and of course — lots of films! Our inaugural festival will take place on July 7th & 8th, 2017 and we’ll cap the weekend with a filmmaker and VIP-only Award Ceremony Brunch & Excursion on Sunday the 9th.

We’re looking for films with a unique voice that tell stories in an unusual way, experiment with the medium, or explore eclectic subject matter and themes. We encourage and celebrate subversiveness, innovative use of materials and budget, and quirky independent work that doesn’t fit comfortably within any one genre.

Welcome to the Inaugural Vidlings & Tapeheads Film Festival!

Welcome to the inaugural Vidlings & Tapeheads Film Festival! V&T is dedicated to promoting unconventional narrative film. We love films with a unique voice that tell stories in an unusual way, experiment with the medium, or sincerely explore eclectic subject matter and themes. We encourage and celebrate subversiveness, innovative use of materials and budget, and quirky independent work that doesn’t fit comfortably within any one genre.

This year’s fest features nine live music performances, an art exhibition, and of course, a lot of films—forty-three to be exact! It’s all happening at Ant Hall & Ghost Light in Hamtramck, MI on July 7th & 8th, 2017, and we’re capping the weekend with a filmmaker and VIP-only Award Ceremony Brunch & Excursion on Sunday the 9th!

V&T films are often weird, cult, or niche, but they’re not random. We’re passionate about films that make the strange familiar and the familiar strange while telling a story. We connect with characters who are outsiders and dreamers— both in front of and behind the camera. And though filmmaking is a collaborative effort, we have an unabashed appreciation of the auteur. We love the the absurd humor and magical realism of Terry Gilliam and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the irreverent sincerity and dysfunctional iconoclasm of John Waters and Jane Campion, the uncanny cleverness and dark mystery of Davids Cronenberg and Lynch, the tactile humanity and visceral goofiness of Jan Švankmajer and Stephen Chow, the timeless avant-garde dreamscapes of Maya Deren and Slavko Vorkapić, and the haunting beauty and moral ambiguity of Hayao Miyazaki.

We believe that filmmaking should be accessible to all and that content transcends medium. We’re open to all projects whether they were shot on VHS, Super-8, an HD DSLR, 35mm, an old cell phone, or a 5K Red Scarlet. In fact, we have a special place in our hearts for so- called obsolete tech.

We’ve done our best to curate a diverse and engaging program with a progressive group of unconventional filmmakers, musicians, and artists from Michigan and around the world. We strive to be inclusive and welcome people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, creeds, orientations, and walks of life to be part of this and future years of the fest!

VTFF2017