us "The Turkey Shoot Music Video Festival is returning to Southern California this fall and is calling for entries now. Back in its second year and anticipating another successful turnout, the 2003 Turkey Shoot Music Video Festival will bring together emerging filmmakers and artists alike submitting some of the most innovative, compelling, engaging, shocking, and original music videos and music related documentaries from independent directors, bands, and labels.. Entries are being accepted for this year's festival until August 15 (postmarked). Entry forms can be downloaded from the Turkey Shoot website or by writing to The Turkey Shoot Music Video Festival at 15507 S. Normandie Avenue, Suite #148, Los Angeles, CA 90247. New to the program this year is the Shoot 'em Up! competition -- a call for written video treatments by aspiring music video directors. The winner gets an opportunity to direct a fully budgeted shoot of The Oranges Band for Lookout! Records that will screen during the 2003 festival this November.

Last year the Turkey Shoot Music Video Festival, held at the Hermosa Beach Playhouse. Program highlights from 2002 included a showcase of more than two dozen music videos, a screening of the 90-minute hip-hop documentary The Freshest Kids by filmmaker Israel, and a special guest appearance by Less Than Jake and 311 director Brendan Malloy. "