Calls for entries

  • 1st Annual MIY Contest - The 60 Second Hand Job

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    1st Annual MIY (Make It Yourself) Contest: The 60 Second Hand Job Presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre

    Contest Opens: May 5, 2010 – Closing Deadline June 5, 2010

    Video Pool is accepting submissions for our juried 1st Annual MIY Contest - The 60 Second Hand Job. We are seeking submission of video made by using a hand held camera, is one minute in duration, and is experimental. The call is open to local, national and international video artists. The submitted videos will be judged on artistic merit and innovation by our amazing panel of artists, and they will be exhibited online.

    Video Pool Media Arts Centre is a nonprofit artist-run and media production centre dedicated to independent video, audio and computer-integrated multimedia production, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

    PRIZES: First Prize is $500.00 CAD and inclusion in Video Pool's Movie-oke screening and fundraising event June 12, 2010 in fabulous downtown Winnipeg. Nine Runner-Up videos will be selected and these videos will be included in a screening at Video Pool's Movie-oke fund-raising event; each of the Runner-Up artists will receive a $50.00 CAD screening fee.

    JURORS

    Noam Gonick(RCA) investigates identities including Winnipeg street gangs, queer hippie cults, ravers, TV psychics, stockbrokers and prison semaphore through photography, film, TV and installation. His films have been presented at the Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals. Gonick’s art has also been exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery and MOCCA at Nuit Blanche. His works are represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Canada.

    Deirdre Logue’s film, video and installations focus on self-presentational discourse and the body. Logue’s recent projects include Enlightened Nonsense, 10 short performance films about repetition and Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes, a12 channel self-portrait. Recent solo exhibitions were presented at Oakville Galleries, the Images Festival – awarded Best Installation and Best of the Festival – the Berlin International Film Festival, Beyond/In Western New York and at articule in Montreal. She was a founding member of Media City in Windsor, the Executive Director of the Images Festival, the Executive Director of the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre and is currently the Development Director at Vtape.

    Darryl Nepinak (Saulteaux) works at the Ndinawe Youth Resource centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He curated INDIANPEG: Shorts from Winnipeg Aboriginal Filmmakers at the 2006 Gimli Film Festival. Nepinak is the co-founder of Indie ‘N Film/Video Collective and the treasurer of Urban Shaman Gallery. He lived in Gisborne, New Zealand for 10 months in 2004, where he directed a documentary about the 30-year history of Te Ora Hou Aotearoa, a Maori youth organization, and mentored Maori teens in video production. Nepinak learned video production through the NSI Aboriginal Youth Pilot Project and the Aboriginal Broadcasting Training Initiative of the Manitoba Indian Cultural Education Centre.

    SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

    Only online submissions will be accepted.  Videos longer than one minute will be automatically disqualified.

    SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

    - video(s) must be made with a hand-held camera and be 60 seconds in length or under
    - an online submission form includes a $10.00* entry fee payable by PayPal
    *Canadian Residents must include GST to their submission fee for a total of $10.50
    - artists may submit more than one work, but must submit a form per each entry and pay the $10.00 entry fee for each work submitted
    - all entry fees are non-refundable

    Please visit http://www.videopool.org to enter!

    NOTIFICATION OF RESULTS
    Notification of results will take place live and by email on June 12, 2010.

    FOR MORE INFORMATION
    Przemek Pyszczek, Programming Coordinator
    Video Pool Media Arts Centre
    300-100 Arthur St
    Winnipeg MB  R3B 1H3
    [email protected]

    Video Pool acknowledges the generous support of our funders:
    Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council
    The Province of Manitoba, Canadian Heritage, W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation,
    The Winnipeg Foundation, The Thomas Sill Foundation, and the NFB.

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  • IN-OUT Festival 2010

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    IN-OUT Festival will take place in Laznia for the fourth time. Just like last year, it will be open for artists from all over the world. The Festival seeks to select the most interesting video works that search for new formal solutions. The spectrum of interest is defined by the issues of non-narrative presentation of aesthetic problems, and conceptual attempts at posing questions about the nature of the image and its technological layer. The Festival will be accompanied by special screenings. The prizes will be granted by an international Jury.

    Read the festival 's rules here. Works with filled application form must be submitted before September 1st 2010.

    Prizes:
    1st prize: 2000 PLN
    2nd prize: 1000 PLN
    Honorary mentions (2): 500 PLN

    Mieczyslaw Struk, the Marshal of Pomorskie Voivodeship is the Honorary patron of the project.

    The awards in the 4th IN OUT Festival 2010 are founded by the Marshal of Pomorskie Voivodeship, Mieczyslaw Struk.

    For the galleries, public institutions, etc...:
    If you are interested in presenting the best videos from the IN OUT FESTIVAL 2009 please write: [email protected] Last year was full of really great works!

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  • Cut & Run Experimental Tour: Call for entries & venues

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    Cur & Run LogoAnnouncing Cut and Run’s 2010 Experimental East Coast Tour – Call for Submissions – Call for Venue Proposals.

    Cut and Run is a curatorial project which consists of experimental  film and video programs, curated by Brenda Contreras and Mallary Abel, two filmmakers and Cinema alums from San Francisco State Univerity.  Mallary recently served as the programming associate for UnionDocs.

    Started in early 2009 at San Francisco’s Artist’s Television Access and turned into a  multi-city West Coast tour. Cut and Run’s aim is to explore the range of experimental and avant-garde works, from the past to the present. We celebrate works that deviate from mainstream and traditional narrative film, and opt towards authentic, brave, challenging, stylized, alternative and imagined subjects. Our call for submissions has no direct set theme. Our programs themes develope around the sense we make of the selected works, as well as individual sought-out films that provoked and inspired us.

    **There are no call for entry fees or applications. Please send us your 40 min. or less piece, on DVD or miniDV tape by mail.** Contact Mallary at [email protected] to obtain address info.

    **Cut and Run is also accepting venue proposals for exhibitions for our East Coast Tour, as well as independant programs here along the West Coast, currently. If you have a space or microcinema, experimental-friendly to potentially host Cut and Run, contact Mallary.

    Cut and Run featured artists:
    Jay Rosenblatt, Robert Nelson, Karl Lind, Christine Noll Brinckmann, Warren Haack, Paula Levine, Gretchen Hogue, Joshua Solondz, Dustin Zemmel, and more.**

    Past Cut and Run screenings took place at:
    Artist’s Television Access in San Francisco, The Waypost in Portland, Oregon, NWFF in Seattle, The Basment in Nevada City, CA, Beatnik Studios in Sacramento, Jensen Mainstage in Santa Barbara, Echo Park Film Center in LA, Ditch Projects in Springfield, Oregon, UnionDocs in Brooklyn, NY. Cut and Run also pioneered a guerilla screening on San Francisco’s MUNI rail system in 2009.

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  • MIX 23

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    We at MIX are calling for submissions to our 23rd annual queer experimental film festival, scheduled for November 9-14, 2010 at Theater for the New City in New York City's East Village.

    We are accepting film and video submissions, as well as proposals for curators, installations and performances. (Performances must incorporate film or video in an integral way.) See below for category deadlines and applicable fees.

    Founded in 1987 by author Sarah Schulman and filmmaker Jim Hubbard, MIX Festival is New York's longest-running queer film festival. Over the years, it has grown into an internationally recognized venue for emerging talents, introducing audiences to the early work of celebrated filmmakers such as Barbara Hammer, Gus Van Sant, Isaac Julien, Todd Haynes, Nisha Ganatra, Jennie Livingston, Jonathan Caouette and many others. The programming at MIX has had a broad influence on film festivals, museums and avant-garde showcases worldwide.

    MIX Festival provides an opportunity for filmmakers, curators and audience members to meet in a grassroots environment to share information and insights about creating non-receptive media. Screenings are augmented by panel discussions, workshops and post-screening parties.

    Film & Video Submissions - Deadlines & Fees:

    Early Registration - April 25, 2010 - $10
    Regular Registration - May 15, 2010 - $25
    Late Registration - July 1, 2010 - $35

    Fee Waived For Work Finished On Super8, 16mm Or 35mm

    Contact us via our website for extensions past July 1. More information on film submissions at http://www.mixnyc.org/submissions.html.

    Curators, Installations & Performances:

    No submission fee. All proposals must be postmarked by July 5, 2010. Delivery deadlines for installation-based and performance-based proposals will be determined on an individual basis. All exhibition materials for film & video shows must be received no later than October 6, 2010.

    More information on proposals for curators, installations and performances at http://www.mixnyc.org/curators.html.

    Please pass along this invite to anyone you know who may be interested in submitting a proposal to MIX. Visit our website at http://www.mixnyc.org for general information and a look back at the work exhibited at MIX 22.

    We look forward to seeing your work soon!

    - The MIX Team

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  • L'Alternativa 2010

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    L'Alternativa 2010
    Call for Entries: Fiction feature, Documentary feature and Short film competitions
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    Entry deadline 1st July 2010
    No Entry fee. Cash prizes

    Festival regulations and online registration can be found at: http://alternativa.cccb.org and is finalised once the screener has been sent by post.

    L’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival (12-20 november 2010) is a platform for the promotion and exhibition of films, which for their innovative character are often excluded from main distribution circuits.

    As well as the international competition, the festival also screens retrospectives, thematic programmes, works from international film schools, offers an open screen and organises workshops, round tables, concerts and parties. What’s more, l’Alternativa is a lively meeting place for filmmakers, producers, programmers and distributors.

    For additional information please feel free to contact us:

    [email protected]

    L'Alternativa,
    Barcelona Independent Film Festival
    CCCB Montalegre 5
    08001 Barcelona - Spain
    Ph: +34 93 301 43 26

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  • CPH:DOX 2010

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    CHP:DOX logoCPH:DOX Call For Entries 2010
    Deadline: May 15th, 2010

    CPH:DOX 2010 takes place in Copenhagen from November 4-14, 2010. We welcome filmmakers around the world to submit their documentary and experimental films to the 8th edition of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. More than 170 films will be presented in ten days. Programme includes seven international competitions, thematic sidebars, a five day professional seminar, a digital screening market - DOX:MARKET - and the international distribution forum - DOX:FORUM.

    Films can be selected for the CPH:DOX Award, the New:Vision Award, the Amnesty Award, the Sound & Vision Award, The Danish:Dox Award, The Short:Dox Award, and for the non-competitive thematic programmes. The festival also presents an expanded cross-media platform with visual art exhibitions, live performances, high-profile events, and much more. Projects aiming to expand the boundaries of documentary are therefore also welcome.

    We look forward with great pleasure to see your films!

    To submit a film, please use our entry form here.

    There are no entry fees involved. Please print the entry form and send it together with a screener, contact info, still photos and synopsis to the CPH:DOX festival secretariat. Please note our new address:

    CPH:DOX - Tagensvej 85F - DK2200 Copenhagen N - DENMARK

    Please include a pro forma invoice: "For cultural purposes only. No commercial value. Insurance value for custom purposes only. No commercial transaction involved" and mark "No value", or no more than "10 US$".

    Deadlines and Regulations
    The first deadline is May 15th, 2010 for films completed between November 2009 - April 2010. The last deadline is August 1st, 2010 for films completed after April 2010.

    For more information on our rules and regulations, please read here.

    Competition Sections
    CPH:DOX offers a quality selection of worldwide independent, innovative and experimental cinema and visual arts. Devoted to supporting independent filmmaking from around the globe, the festival aims at breaking away from mainstream to discover new approaches to the entire documentary film genre.

    The Competition Sections are as follows:

    - DOX:AWARD: the main competition programme for feature length documentaries.
    - NEW:VISION AWARD: for experimental documentaries and other visual art works (both short and feature lenght).
    - SOUND & VISION AWARD: for documentaries focusing on music, bands, music genres, and/or specific uses of music.
    - AMNESTY:AWARD: for documentaries focusing on human rights issues.
    - DANISH:DOX AWARD: the main competition programme for Danish documentaries.
    - SHORT:DOX AWARD:the main competition for short documentaries.
    - DOC ALLIANCE AWARD: for documentaries selected by members of the Doc Alliance.

    Additional Industry Deadlines

    DOX:FORUM:
    DOX:FORUM: Running in conjunction with CPH:DOX and DOX:MARKET the DISTRIBUTION FORUM has been initiated to enhance international distribution possibilities for independent documentary filmmakers and to facilitate early pick-up possibilities for market players.

    Deadline for project submission: September 2010. Regulations and entry form will be available in June 2010.

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  • Wavelengths Call for Submissions

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    TIFF logoWavelengths, the avant-garde programme of the Toronto International Film Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary from September 10 through 13, 2010. Taking place during the opening weekend of TIFF, Wavelengths provides a unique forum for international film and video art within the context of one of the largest public film festivals in the world.

    There is no official submission process for Wavelengths, no forms to fill out and no entry fee.
    All previews should be sent by May 17th directly to:

    Wavelengths, TIFF
    Attention: Andréa Picard
    2 Carlton St, suite 1600
    Toronto, ON M5B 1J3
    CANADA
    Tel: +1.416.967.7371

    Please contact Andréa Picard in advance if you prefer to send a film print for preview. Other than prints, previews will not be returned to the filmmaker unless they are picked up in person or the return shipping is pre-arranged. If you cannot meet the deadline but have works in progress that you wish to have considered, please do not hesitate to be in touch.

    Named after Michael Snow’s seminal film Wavelength from 1967, Wavelengths strides to provide a thoughtfully curated platform for avant-garde film and video within one of the busiest and most diverse festivals in the world. Building on its past successes, Wavelengths is presently looking for new works (2009-2010), as well as recent restorations of seminal films from the avant-garde. Programming suggestions and referrals are equally welcome.

    For information on last year's edition, please see the following link and attached brochure:
    http://www.tiff.net/filmsandschedules/programmes/wavelengths

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  • Atomino Art Festival 2010

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    Atomino logoThe Atomino Art Festival 2010 is looking for talented experimental cinema works to be exhibited next August 2010 in Crimmitschau, Germany.

     

    All kinds of art will be accepted: music, installations, paintings, film, sculpture...

    The festival wants to focus on experimental art and our goal is to show an actionable road different from the mainstream.

    The Atomino Festival does not endorse money unless strictly necessary. All the events have free admission and the organization team will be composed by volunteers.

     

    Send your work via our artist call:
    http://www.atomino.eu/artist-call
    Or contact us directly:
    https://sites.google.com/a/atomino.eu/festival/the-team
    In our Atomino TV you can see selected works of the artists already interested in participate:
    http://www.livestream.com/atomino

    You can join our Facebook group:
    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=340039568561
    And follow us in twitter:
    http://twitter.com/atomino2010

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  • CologneOFF 2010 - Extended deadline

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    CologneOFF logoCologneOFF VI - Let’s Celebrate!!
    Extended deadline: Tuesday, May 4th 2010

    In 2010, CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival is celebrating its 5th anniversary - a good reason to try the new festival concept as a networked festival, including a networked jury, networked contributions and a series of networked screenings between September and December 2010 and beyond.

    Full regulations here.

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  • ATA: OpenScreening

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    Thursday, March 18, 2010. 7pm Door, 8PM $5

    ATA's openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing artists. Door:7:30pm, Projector: 8pm

    Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out with us anyway. Enjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people, the refreshments

    Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week advance submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good. Max length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All genres.

    More Info: contact Katy at [email protected]

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