Have you gotten your membership and submitted your Emerging Narrative (2009 Summer Lab, Hand Picked Only), USA or International based No-Borders (Submission) or Spotlight on Docs (Submission) yet? If not, you should consider doing so. It’s an invaluable experience.

Notes from the IFW web site:

Recent Emerging Narrative Lab Alumni Filmmakers Include: 2008 Venice Film Festival’s Zero Bridge, 2008 Gotham Award Nominee and Slamdance Grand Jury Prize-winner The New Year Parade, 2008 Sundance’s Half Life, and SXSW 2009′s Sorry, Thanks and St. Nick.

Recent No Borders Projects Include: Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River, Cherie Nowlan’s Introducing the Dwights, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s Half Nelson, Joshua Marston’s Maria Full of Grace, Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know, Sam Garbarski’s Irena Palm and Eran Riklis’ Lemon Tree, The Syrian Bride.

Recent Spotlight on Docs Projects Include: Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s The Garden, Caroline Suh’s Frontrunners, Cynthia Wade’s Freeheld, Aaron Woolf’s King Corn, Kazuhiro Soda’s Campaign, Benson Lee’s Planet B-Boy, Marlo Poras’ Run Granny Run, Marilyn Agrelo and Amy Sewell’s Mad Hot Ballroom, Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg’s The Trials of Darryl Hunt, and Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s A Lion in the House

Find out more about guidelines, what to expect and submissions or lab participation by clicking the Indpendent Film Week Project Forum link, here.