Welcome to the Sac Music Seen, an original program for the Sacramento Film and Music Festival that pairs local filmmakers and musicians to make music videos. Bands submit their music and filmmakers provide the images, and in the past four years the festival has showcased nearly 115 audiovisual collaborations at the Crest.

Deadline extension: Music submissions are due by April 15th, 2009.

Sac Music Seen
10445 Ambassador Dr.
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670

Music Submission Form.

If you are interested in participating as a filmmaker in the 2009 event please contact nschemel@aol.com with your contact information. You are also invited to our music listening party that will be held at the Arts Institue of California - Sacramento on April 18th, 2009 @ Noon. Come and be a part of this collaborative arts process and network with local artists.

Listening party address:
The Arts Institute of California - Sacramento
2850 Gateway Oaks Dr
Sacramento, CA 95833

The Sac Music Seen video deadline is Friday, June 19th. Please either send or drop off your music video to the address below:

The Process

1. Bands and musicians submit their original music tracks (extended deadline - April 3, 2009).
2. The Sacramento Film and Music Festival will hold a listening party where all music submissions are sampled for local filmmakers.
3. Filmmakers rate music based on their interest in working with the music artist.
4. The Sacramento Film and Music Festival pairs musical acts with filmmakers based on review forms (not all music submissions will be selected).
5. Video production begins.
Musicians will have TWO chances for valuable exposure from the Sac Film & Music Festival experience!

Submitted music tracks will be provided to participating filmmakers, who will select their favorites and create a video using them as inspiration. If your music is not selected for this program, it will be provided to participants of the festival's 10x10 Film Challenge for possible scoring purposes. The 10x10 Film Challenge is a competition where filmmakers are given 10 days to complete a 10-minute film.

All videos completed through this process are shown as part to the Sacramento Film and Music Festival as a special program called the Sac Music Seen. The Sac Music Seen will be shown at the Crest Theatre the night of July 25, 2009. The festival reserves the right to pull any video from the program, though we have never exercised this right and will try to allow completed videos in the event.

If you have any questions contact:

(916) 600-7029

The Sacramento Film and Music Festival does not offer any financial support of the video projects.

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Completed Music Videos 2007

• The Refinery - Director: Steve Stubbs
• FreeX - Director: Jay Truesdale
• Stunt Double - Director: Todd Peeters
• D.Jesus feat. Paris Martinez - Directors: Erin Kruger & Lucas Abel
• Ricky Berger - Director: Mike Alfidi
• Hell Toupee - Director: Ken Aksentiev & Juan Espinoza
• Pets - Directors: Steve Orcino and Amir Sharafeh
• Kimberly Trip - Director: Robert Yoshino
• Will Haven - Director: Scott Cramer
• OlsonOlson - Director: Jay Truesdale
• Self Against City - Director: Marco Delatorre