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Call for Proposals: HTMlles Festival of Media Art + Digital Culture 2010, Montreal

August 24, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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Calling all talented femmes!

The HTMlles Festival of Media Art + Digital Culture 2010 (htmlles.net) is currently seeking proposals for its 9th edition, to be held in Montreal, under the theme of <home></land>.

Initiated by Studio XX (www.studioxx.org) in 1997, and evolving as quickly as technology itself, the HTMlles Festival is an international platform dedicated to the presentation of women’s independent media artworks from all facets of contemporary technological creation, including but not limited to:

  • digital storytelling
  • cyber art
  • short film and video art
  • audio and electronic art
  • installation
  • locative media
  • 3D animation
  • game art
  • virtual reality
  • electronic publishing
  • design
  • performance
  • interdisciplinary practices

As a meeting place at the crossroads of creativity, technology and a wide spectrum of feminist perspectives, the HTMlles Festival focuses on the public presentation of innovative media artworks, panel discussions and workshops, creating dynamic connections between audiences, artists, cultural practitioners, curators, producers, educators, scholars, students and technophiles.

The Deets!

THE WHEN: November 13 – 20, 2010
THE WHERE: Montreal, QC

THE DEADLINE FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: Monday, September 13, 2010 (9:00 PM)
Check out the Submission Guidelines here: htmlles.net/2010/en/callforproposals.html

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Canadian New Media Awards 2010: Now Open For Nominations!

August 10, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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Canadian New Media Awards (CNMAs), the country’s only nationwide competition recognizing the accomplishments of Canada’s most successful digital media companies, is now open for nominations! The awards are part of nextMEDIA Toronto, Canada’s leading digital media production and development marketplace.

Canada is a hotbed of digital innovation. Last year’s nominees and award recipients truly represented the best in digital media and we look forward to discovering fresh talent from leading-edge companies.

- Mark Greenspan, Executive Producer of nextMEDIA and former Senior Training Programs Manager at the CFC Media Lab

Celebrating its 10th year, the CNMAs offers up two exciting new categories:

  • Community Campaign of the Year
  • Digital Media Technology of the Year
The Deets!

THE WHEN: November 29 – 30, 2010
THE WHERE: The Design Exchange – 234 Bay Street, Toronto, ON (The CNMAs Gala Awards will also be held at The Design Exchange on November 30, 2010)
THE RATE: Kick Off Rate is only available until September 17, 2010. Click here to register: https://registration.achillesmedia.com/delegate_registration/list_products?event_id=32

Think you’ve got the chops to enter?

To be considered for this year’s CNMAs, choose the category which best applies to the achievements that you would like to highlight for this year’s awards. To view all the categories and to check your eligibility, click here: www.nextmediaevents.com/cnma/competition-categories.php
Regular Rate is $175.00 CDN. Enter today! Contest is closing September 17th, 2010.

For more information, please contact:
Tiffany Rushton | Program Producer – Awards
Email: trushton@achillesmedia.com

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Stitch Media and Showcase.ca Seeking Fresh Talent for Web-Series

August 5, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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Calling all aspiring actors: STITCH MEDIA (www.stitchmedia.ca) and SHOWCASE (showcase.ca) are hosting an online, Canada-wide talent search for their new comedy web series, Moderation Town. Quirky, crude, and awkwardly self-aware, Moderation Town satirizes the worst of Internet culture by revealing how online attitudes affect average, normal people in the real world.

We want to hear the most creative, hilarious stories people have experienced online. It could be an awkward Facebook encounter, an odd Chatroulette conversation, or the most atrocious message board flamewar. It doesn’t even have to be true. We just want to see what stories people have and search out new and aspiring actors through this open casting call.

- Mark Mullane
Co-writer & Director of Moderation Town

The Deets!

THE WHAT: Searching for fresh, new talent to star in this upcoming six-part comedy web series. Aspiring actors are encouraged to upload a video submission of a funny or embarrassing 90-second anecdote about an online encounter, real or fictional, on the Moderation Town Talent Search YouTube channel (which can be reached via www.moderationtown.com).

THE WHEN: From July 30th to August 20th, 2010

THE PRIZE: Prizes will be awarded for the funniest and most popular audition videos on August 20th. The best auditions will be shortlisted for the chance to win an Apple iPad and a second audition that could lead to a part in the show, set to launch on showcase.ca in Fall 2010.

…why do I get the feeling the most embarrassing submission will be about a (first-and-last) Chatroulette experience?


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Now Accepting Applications for Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab

July 30, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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Are you a filmmaker with a passion for comedy? Want to work with the best comedic talent in the business to make your comedy feature a reality?

Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab (www.cfccreates.com/comedy) is a CFC Film Program in Collaboration with Just For Laughs (www.hahaha.com).

There’s some very heavy weight people at the Lab. Just to get their ear is difficult enough in this business. These filmmakers are in a very privileged position.

- Eugene Levy, Chair of the Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab

The Deets!

THE WHAT: The program is divided into two intensive five-day modules so it’s accessible and manageable to working professionals. New this Year: Teams selected will do their second half of the program in sunny California!
THE WHEN: Module #1 – November 2010, Module #2 – March 2011
THE WHERE: Module #1 – Toronto, Module #2 – Los Angeles
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday, August 16, 2010

For more information and criteria visit www.cfccreates.com/comedy or email Kristine Kazias, kkazias@cfccreates.com

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Regent Park Film Festival Calls for Submissions

May 20, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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Regent Park Film Festival

The 8th Annual Regent Park Film Festival (RPFF) happening November 4-7, offers films from around the world to a neighborhood of people rarely exposed to independent, foreign, animation, shorts, experimental, documentary, or even Canadian films.

RPFF seeks works made by filmmakers from multi-cultural background and/or celebrate differences and solidarity, immigrant experiences, urbanization, inner city issues, cultural identity and multicultural relationships.

Submissions deadline: May 3, 2010 June 4, 2010
NO ENTRY FEE

For more details dowload guidelines and entry form here: www.regentparkfilmfestival.com/submissions.html

401 Richmond Street West, #354
Toronto, Ontario  M5V 3A8
416.599.RPFF (7733)
director@regentparkfilmfestival.com

www.regentparkfilmfestival.com
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26624117559
twitter.com/rpff

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nextMEDIA Announces iPad and Tablet Competition

April 16, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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nextMEDIA is proud to announce a new competition to find the hottest new ideas using iPad/tablet devices!

Submission: FREE

The Process:
Applicants must fill out the application form which will outline the following:

* goal of the application, and specifics of functionality
* audience target
* intentions for development
* information architecture or up to five screen shots

An expert jury will select five finalists to showcase their concept live at nextMEDIA and the
Banff World Television Festival on June 16, 2010.

The winning entry will receive a development deal worth $25,000 to make their concept a reality via leading interactive development agency Trapeze* and the Toronto-based Mobile Experience Innovation Centre**.

The winners will be announced at nextMEDIA.

Deadline for submissions is May 14th, 2010. Click HERE to apply now!

* CFC Media Lab Alumnus, Mike Kasprow, is Founder of Trapeze.
** CFC Media Lab Guest Faculty Member, Michele Perras, is Executive Director at MEIC.

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docSHIFT Crossover Weekend Calls for Applicants

April 16, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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Opportunity awaits with the Canadian Media Fund!

The CFC Media Lab has joined forces with The Documentary Organization of Canada – Toronto, National Film Board, Hot Docs, and Ryerson, to present docSHIFT: a cutting edge initiative aimed at fostering collaborations and business opportunities between interactive media producers and documentary filmmakers.

docSHIFT is currently seeking applicants interested in participating in a 2-day weekend workshop (May 8-9th 2010) facilitated by the UK’s Frank Boyd. Frank is the past BBC Director of Creative Development and the visionary behind world-renowned Crossover Labs as well as part of the CFC Media Lab’s guest faculty roster for the TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program.

If you are an experienced interactive digital media professional (games, mobile, web, AR) looking for opportunities in the burgeoning interactive documentary genre, this weekend should not be missed! Through participatory creative group exercises, the workshop is designed to break down walls between professional silos, develop common languages and perspectives and establish best practices for working together and ensuring success.

The docSHIFT Crossover Weekend is a pre-cursor to a five-day residential lab this Fall where select projects will move into development with the CFC Media Lab’s incubation support with Ryerson University.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 21ST, 2010

For full details and application information, please click HERE.
Any further questions regarding docSHIFT can be directed to Coordinator Kyree Vibrant: kyree@doctoronto.ca

To download the official docSHIFT flyer, please click HERE.

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CFC’s The Reel Challenge: Call for Submissions

April 13, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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WANT TEN GRAND IN YOUR HAND?

The submission deadline for The Reel Challenge is fast approaching! Submit your film online by April 26, 2010 at thereelchallenge.ca.

The Reel Challenge contest, an initiative of the CFC, challenges filmmakers to create a short film that will persuade audiences to respect creator’s rights and copyright protection for their work.

1st place winner: $10,000

2nd & 3rd place winners: $2,500

Please note the contest is open to residents of Canada (excluding Quebec as well as all CFC employees and their families)

For more information click HERE.

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TUFF 2010, Call for Submissions

April 7, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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Making a great one-minute film, that’s TUFF!

The Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) founded by CFC Media Lab Alumnus, Sharon Switzer, is a 10-day (September 10-19, 2010) public film festival that reaches over 1.3 million subway commuters daily. TUFF is looking for the best one-minute silent films from across Canada and around the world. Over $10,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded to the winning films (Check out the incredible prizes!) Artist fees of $100 will be payed to every film that’s selected by our jury to screen on the TTC and on the TUFF website.

Films are selected by a guest jury, with the top films chosen by a special Guest Judge. The TUFF 2010 Jury includes Min Sook Lee, Jorge Lozano, Kathleen Mullen, Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Haema Sivanesan, and Michael Zryd.

Filmmakers, animators and video artists are invited to consider our urban-themed categories:

  • Urban Encounters and Other Stories
  • Our Environment and Urban Growth
  • The Medium is the Message
  • Urban Ideas and Politics
  • Urban Journeys
  • The City is a Poem
  • After Night Falls


TUFF SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 15, 2010
Submit your film before June 1st and avoid the $10 entry fee. Fees rise to $15 on July 1st.

www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com

…Need support to make your TUFF film? Click HERE to find out about the Trinity Square Video (TSV) Pitch Award.

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Upcoming Deadline: Every Day Heroes Film Competition

February 24, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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Submission Deadline: March 15th, 2010

Do you know someone who’s going green and doing good? Tell the story of an every day environmental hero in the first annual Every Day Heroes Film Competition.

Filmmakers can submit silent 90 second videos online, or by mail.

Jury Includes: Judy Gladstone (Executive Director of CTV’s Bravo!FACT); Jennifer Baichwal (Award winning Director, Manufactured Landscapes); Sharon Switzer (Festival Director, Toronto Urban Film Festival); Keith Treffrey (Earth Day Canada).

Exposure: Filmmakers selected as finalists by our jury will have their films viewed by over 2 million viewers a day during Earth Week (April 16-25), on the ONESTOP screens in Toronto’s TTC, and on screens in Ivanhoe Cambridge shopping centers across Canada.

Prizes: Selected films will have a chance to win great prizes in four categories:

  • Best of Competition—North American Getaway
  • ‘Best of Under 18 years of Age’, and ‘Best of 18 and Over’ – MacBook Pro laptops (one per age group)
  • People’s Choice Award —Bose SoundDock Portable Digital Music System

Online Voting: Get your friends and family to vote for your film as winner of the People’s Choice Award and they can enter to win a $250 Ivanhoe Cambridge shopping center gift card.

Every Day Heroes is co-produced by Earth Day Canada, Art for Commuters and ONESTOP Media Group (the folks who produce TUFF).

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