The <stabletalk> perks keep on coming!  We’re asking you to send a pitch of a project you would like to present at Lean Startup Machine Toronto and we will send you and your team to the amazing weekend long event!

What is Lean Startup Machine?

Lean Startup Machine is a metrics-driven startup competition where teams learn to identify the key risks in their business model through hands-on mentorship and our framework of tools. Over the course of the weekend you will do the following:

• Ideate a startup or work on the one you have now
• Practice Customer Discovery
• Research your Target Market
• Practice Customer Development
• Test your Assumptions in Iterations
• Understand your Business Model
• Iterate and Pivot (when necessary)
• Build something you can Launch
• Present your Validated Learnings
   

  

How to win free passes:

Send me (amallozzi@cfccreates.com) a one-pager of the idea you would like to pitch at Lean Start-Up Machine Toronto by Friday January 20, 2012 and the best pitch will be awarded free passes for their team to attend!

Be sure to include the following in your submission:

• An outline of your idea (include the platform for your project and the audience you wish to target)
• Your team (include brief bios of your team members and their role)
• Any mock-up images you may have (not required but always nice!)

The McLuhan Mashup Challenge is on and amazing prizes are up for grabs. From October 31st to November 12th, CBC invites you to remix, rework and recreate Marshall McLuhan’s message by creating your own McLuhan Mashup.

What’s a Mashup?

A mashup is media content containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video and animation drawn from pre-existing sources, to create a new derivative work. You are also welcome to use content and elements you’ve created yourself; however, your work must be created from two or more separate pieces of digital content.

What do I need to do?

Start with an idea, gather your media, mash it up in any form you like and upload your most creative reinterpretation of McLuhan’s ideas. Video or Audio submissions must be no more than three minutes long.

More details are on CBC’s site!  Good luck to all entrants!

Want to be part of NXNE Interactive? Have an issue you want to talk about or a unique perspective on a topic? NXNEi wants to hear from you!

Submission deadline is Nov. 11th!

The Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF), the only festival of its kind in North America, is a public film festival that reaches over 1.3 million subway commuters daily. Recently named one of MovieMaker Magazine’s “20 Coolest Film Festivals,” TUFF takes place September 9 – 18, 2011 on Onestop platform screens across the Toronto subway system.

Award-winning Canadian filmmaker, Atom Egoyan, will guest judge the fifth annual Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF), selecting the top films of the festival.

Filmmakers, animators and video artists are invited to submit one-minute silent films an urban population. TUFF pays artist fees and awards thousands in cash and prizes.

Deadline for submissions to TUFF is July 15, 2011. TUFF is free to submit prior to June 1, 2011. After that date, there will be submission fees: $10 (June 1 – June 30) and $15 (July 1 – July 15). Films can be submitted through the TUFF Website.

5 Years and Still TUFF!





Canadian Heritage is requesting proposals for the research & development of mobile applications for the Virtual Museum of Canada. The Experimental Lab of the Virtual Museum of Canada tests digital technologies on behalf of the Canadian museum community, providing museums with strategic advice and ways to increase their visibility.  Using technology designed for mobile devices, this project will research and develop three Apps, in both official languages:

• Mobile WebApp for the Image Gallery and Museums in Canada on the VMC website. This involves mobilizing the page so that it is readable on mobile browsers.
• Mobile WebApp for Surrey Art Gallery. Walking tour that can geo-locate artworks within a certain radius.
• Native Mobile App for the Centre des sciences de Montreal. This mobile App will use Augmented Reality (AR) and will be downloadable. The App must be device-specific and use a touch framework.

Please click on this link for full details: http://meic.us2.list-manage.com/track/clicku=4aa77904811cd66c643869613&id=f4a2744aa9&e=d9bfee5e1d

The closing date is March 18, 2011, 2:00 PM.

The Centre for Creative Communications, Centennial College, is seeking innovative and forward-thinking proposals from Canadian media, interactive, creative, technology, business and social entrepreneurs for the next wave of children’s media and multi-platform projects to qualify for $50K federal development grants. The new kidsmediacentre, an industry and creative content think tank at Centennial College, will hold an Information Session to interested developers, on Thursday, Feb 24 at 5:30 p.m., at The Centre for Creative Communications, located at 951 Carlaw Avenue, Toronto.

Centennial College’s Applied Research and Innovation Centre (ARIC) has received ten $50K Federal Development grants, some of which are available to help small and medium enterprises in the kids’ technology industry launch the next big idea in children’s media. The grants are part of a coordinated strategy between the federal government and colleges to accelerate innovation and productivity in southern Ontario asking business partners to collaborate on projects and work “hands-on” with College faculty and students in developing new and innovative technologies and services. Businesses are asked to contribute at least $25K towards a project in cash and/or in-kind.

You haven’t forgotten about this, have you?

All Proposals are due after the weekend! December 6th!

WANTED: Canada’s next award-winning digital documentary!

Do you have a digital documentary idea? One that can attract a large community, win critical success on the world stage, or innovate with a successful business or creative approach? The docSHIFT Institute will support up to four experienced creators with innovative digital documentary project ideas. selected participants will receive mentorship, professional consultation and some financial support to complete their project or create a prototype.

docSHIFT is presented in partnership with Ryerson University, Hot Docs, CFC Media Lab and the National Film Board.

www.doctoronto.ca/docshift-institute

SURROUND YOURSELF WITH NEW WAYS OF THINKING

Think your ideas are farfetched? Think again. There’s no limit to what you can create at the CFC Media Lab. In just five months, you will learn from some of the best in the interactive business and develop engage in a collaborative process that will allow you to develop an original prototype.

ACCELERATE YOUR FUTURE

The CFC Media Lab TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program (IAEP) is Canada’s first post-graduate training and production program based on a philosophy that compelling content is created though a collaborative process harnessing a wide range of creative skills.

Residents learn from a variety of perspectives including academic, industrial, artistic, technological, and practical. Team-based and project-driven, the TELUS IAEP merges the fundamentals of new media with creative collaboration.

More than 92% of CFC alumni are currently working in the Film, TV and New Media industries. Award winning Alumni companies include Stitch Media (stitchmedia.ca), Smiley Guy Studio (smileyguy.com) and Trapeze Media (trapeze.com) to name a few.

Hey digital superstars!

Get the recognition and respect you deserve by entering your digital masterpiece into the CNMA’s. The Canadian New Media Awards (www.nextmediaevents.com/toronto) are taking place December 1st, at the Design Exchange (Toronto), and looks to honour the country’s best individuals, companies and projects.

You know your work is good, and we know it too!
Submit today! www.nextmediaevents.com/cnma

PSST! Hey Alumni…

OCAD is looking for an instructor for their Time-Based/Transmedia Narrative course to start this Fall, so you will have to act fast!

Time-Based/Transmedia Narrative course (ADVR 3B03):
This course continues the study of trans-media narrative and introduces the subject of storytelling and the construction of a narrative structure as students gain an understanding of time-based media across a number of traditional and emerging platforms. Instruction includes the creation of scripts, their refinement and pre-production requirements. As well, students are introduced to professional techniques that will support the execution of their advertising concepts. Projects will include television commercials, time-based web media and other media currently used in conjunction with modern global advertising.

Check out all the deets here: http://www.ocad.ca/about_ocad/human_resources/employment_opportunities/faculty_instructors/sessional_design_2010_2

...and good luck!

The CFC Media Lab and the docSHIFT Initiative have joined forces to present TWEAK: an Idea-Refinement Boot Camp for Digital Documentaries. We are looking for up to 30 experienced producers, creators, directors, writers, strategists and architects with an interesting interactive documentary idea and the desire to have their idea analyzed, work-shopped and honed from both a creative and business perspective. This 2-day weekend workshop will be facilitated by a series of high level industry mentors along with UK’s Frank Boyd, former BBC Director of Creative Development and the visionary behind Crossover Labs as well as CFC Media Lab Faculty member. Selected participants will retain ownership of their project idea but must be open to working collaboratively in a group setting—sharing their idea, receiving input, and also giving valuable input on other projects.

TWEAK will run from September 25-26

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
3 pages maximum (PDF). Please tell us briefly about:

1. You & your career
2. Your interactive documentary idea
3. What you want to get out of TWEAK

ELIGIBILITY:
• you have a strong interactive doc idea (mobile, web, game, multiple platforms)
• you must live and work in Ontario
• you must be an experienced and established documentary content creator (ie. producer, director, editor, writer, media artist, other) OR an experienced interactive digital media professional (ie. game developer, mobile developer, web designer, interactive producer)
• you are available weekend of September 25/26th both days, all day
• you are willing to pay registration fee of $100 (DOC Members) or $150 (nonmembers)

Please note: those of you who applied for or participated in the docSHIFT Crossover Weekend in May are eligible to apply for TWEAK. TWEAK (focused on idea refinement) has been designed to compliment and extend from the Crossover Weekend which focused on idea generation. TWEAK is both a stand alone event and a good preparatory phase for those interested in the docSHIFT Institute (see below).

For more, check out: www.doctoronto.ca/docshift

ABOUT THE docSHIFT INSTITUTE:
Four experienced creators with winning and innovative interactive documentary project ideas (games, mobile apps, websites) will receive mentorship, professional consultation and some financial support to complete their project or create a proto-type. docSHIFT Institute is part time (nights & weekend days) beginning mid November 2010 and running for approximately 5 months. Details & Call For Applications will be posted shortly.

docSHIFT is made possible with the support of the Ontario Media Development Corporation on behalf of the Ministry of Culture. It is presented in partnership with Ryerson University, Hot Docs, CFC Media Lab and the National Film Board.

Calling all talented femmes!

The HTMlles Festival of Media Art + Digital Culture 2010 (htmlles.net) is currently seeking proposals for its 9^th 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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twitter.com/rpff

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Our alumni constantly tell us that The Banff Centre has transformed them in some way. How have you been inspired – months or even years after a program here? We’re looking for stories about how the Centre has affected your career or your life — whether you have come through our doors as an artist, a business leader, or a mountain enthusiast.

We’ll include submissions in a new alumni section on our website. And, we may feature one of them in our upcoming online version of Inspired magazine to be launched next month.

Enter your story to win music, books, or Banff Centre events tickets.
Draw will be held on March 1, 2010.

Click here for more information.

The ThreePointOh (3PO) New Media Showcase is calling for entries that take creativity to the cusp by fusing and integrating as many media and elements together.

3PO emerges in its second year at the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival as the festival’s freshest, most compelling addition to the ten day and night showcase of sports, music, and arts.

As a celebration of innovation, technology and culture, the 3P0 New Media Showcase will present 3-5 minute digital shorts that best morph film, photo, graphics and animation, visual art, sport and media into a production that transcends the sum of its technical parts to create a moment of emotional resonance.

A panel of judges will review the submissions and select 6-10 finalists to be shown to the public in Whistler, BC during a Gala evening on Monday, April 19th as part of the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival.

One winner, Best of Show, will be chosen by an esteemed panel of judges, to reap the rewards this exposure will result in.

Best of Show will win $2,500 cash!
People’s Choice Award will win a prize value of $1000!

Deadline for Entries is March 26, 2010.

TO SUBMIT CLICK HERE.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE FESTIVAL CLICK HERE.

The exhibition I am here; what can we do? is part of “Urban Screens Toronto 2010”, an international urban screens conference and exhibition taking place between
September 24th-30th; produced in collaboration with the International Urban Screens Association (IUSA).

Through an integrated program of keynote lectures, panel sessions, workshops, curated screenings and multimedia projects, (Urban Screens Toronto) will bring together leading Canadian and international artists and curators, architects and urban planners, designers, ad agencies and brand managers, screen operators and content providers, academics, activists, policymakers, technology manufacturers, software developers and public intellectuals.

Public Call For Submissions:

• New or existing experimental, interactive artwork suitable for urban screens.

• Short-format videos that are relevant for presentation on urban screens.

• Interactive Design & advertising created for urban screens (past commercial interactive work from ad agencies and designers accepted).

• Student work interactive and video work by students at any institution worldwide is welcome.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2010

Visit here for full details, suggested themes, and submission format/requirements.

Attention all filmmakers! Inspire Canada this Earth Day by creating a 90-second silent videos telling the story of your every day environmental hero and their dedication to support of a healthier environment.

Enthusiastic. Remarkable. Inspiring. These are just a few words that describe the individuals and groups across Canada that are doing amazing things to reduce their impact on the environment in large and small ways. They’ve taken the three R’s and made it a way of life. They’re every day heroes whose stories need to be told.

Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:

Best of ‘Under 18′ years of age (win a 13 inch MacBook Pro)
Best of ’18 and Over’ (win a 13 inch MacBook Pro)
Best of Competition (win two economy airline tickets to any destination in North America with two nights Hotel accommodation AND two tickets to the Earth Day Canada Gala, including travel to Toronto and hotel accommodation for the nights of June 8th and 9th, 2010)
The People’s Choice Award (win a Bose SoundDock Portable Digital Music System)

Finalists will have their videos screened in Ivanhoe Cambridge Shopping Malls across Canada, on the Onestop Network of 270 monitors on the subway platforms of the Toronto Transit Commission, as well as hosted on Earth Day Canada’s website and YouTube channel.

Judges include:

Judy Gladstone (Executive Director of CTV’s Bravo!FACT)
Jennifer Baichwal (Award winning Documentary filmmaker and director of Manufactured Landscapes)
Sharon Switzer (Media artist, curator, and founder of Art for Commuters)
Keith Treffry (Director of Communications for Earth Day Canada and unabashed movie enthusiast)

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2010

Submissions received prior to February 15, 2010 will be entered into the raffle to win a Panasonic 60GB HDD/SD Camcorder.

Click here for more details and a submission form.

ATTENTION ALL DIGITAL DAREDEVILS!

The most anticipated cross-media pitching challenge of the new decade has begun accepting entries for new ideas and techniques to engage audiences across digital platforms.

Finalists including independent producers, interactive agencies and digital designers will be invited to Cannes, France (April 12-16) to pitch ideas LIVE to major international networks, including the BBC, TF1, KCC, NFB, and the European Commission.

This rapid-fire competition sets the creative pulse for the Content 360 Festival, part of MIPTV’s all-new MIPDigital event programme.

Since its launch 4 years ago, the Content 360 Challenge has attracted over 1400 new ideas from 42 countries and awarded €400,000 in development funding.

Category: CONTENT 360 “Next Generation Audience Engagement”. A creative challenge for new talent, companies or freelancers, with truly new and unique application or content ideas with mass potential to attract and engage audiences.

Category: KOREA COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (KCC) “Engaging with children through the use of Connected TV”. Best educational content or service idea to engage with children through Wed TV, DMB and IPTV including any kind of connected TV.

Category: NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA (NFB) – “Next Generation Online Video Experience”. The National Film Board of Canada is on the lookout for the best and brightest to push the online video experience to a whole new level and imagine the next “killer feature” for the NFB.ca website.

Category: TF1 PUBLICITÉ – “New Advertising formats”. TF1 Publicité is looking for new advertising formats and/or cross media techniques to complement TV campaigns (TV commercials, billboards or short form programs) in order to maximize the efficiency of traditional TV advertising methods.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: February 15, 2010.

European Commission Challenge details.

For more information on “Content 360 – MIPTV Cross Media Challenge” visit here or contact content360@reedmidem.com.

THE CHALLENGE: The European Commission is inviting audiovisual professionals as well as individuals to compete in the production of a video clip presenting an original vision of Europe based on EU archive material mixed with new or remixed images produced by the participant.
CLIP CONTENT: The clip should express a personal vision of Europe and be able to captivate a young and wide audience via internet and/or mobile devices through its original, creative or aesthetical approach.
CLIP LENGTH: Maximum of 3 minutes
THE PRIZE: €10,000
THE DEADLINE: March 15, 2010

FULL BRIEF

UPLOAD YOUR CLIP

The Banff Centre is calling for applications for their Writing With Style and Self-Directed Writing Residencies.

Writing With Style: Amidst a diverse community of writers, you will encounter new ideas and gain confidence in your own style and voice, while shaping and editing your work-in-progress under the guidance of an experienced writer and editor. The program offers a variety of activities designed to maximize the artistic growth of each writer.

For more Writing With Style program information visit here.

Self-Directed Writing Residency: Self-directed writing residencies provide time, space, and facilities for individual research, editing, and manuscript development. Writers structure their own time, and are free to maintain privacy or to engage with other artists and activities at The Banff Centre.

For more Self-Directed Writing Residency information visit here.

For additional information, please email: arts_info@banffcentre.ca or call 1-403-762-6100.

OCAD Graduate Studies Info Nights

5:30pm to 7:00pm, Wednesday October 28, 2009

5:30pm to 7:00pm, Thursday, November 26, 2009

Interested in learning more about Graduate Studies at OCAD? Program Directors, Current Students and Staff will be on hand to answer questions and share insight and information.

Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design:
Blending art, media and design production with critical theory, this program challenges students to create new, hybrid forms of visual & social research and production.

Master of Arts in Contemporary Art History:
Launching in September 2010 This Program offers students opportunity to analyze the breadth of the pluralistic scene that is contemporary art.

Masters of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation:
This program positions design as the crucial link between social science, technology and business; drawing on essential design competencies to address the complex problems of contemporary society.

Master of Fine Arts in Criticism & Curatorial Practice:
Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this program brings together a small group of practicing artists, designers and critics in each cohort. It also features a first-year course in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Where: Graduate Studies Bldg, 205 Richmond St. Rooms 7511, 7514, 7314, & SLab, 6th floor, 100 McCaul St. (for the Masters of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation)
For more information contact Alice Brummell

416.977.6000 x423

http://www.ocad.ca/programs/graduate_studies.htm <http://http//www.ocad.ca/programs/graduate_studies.htm>

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Sheffield Doc/Fest announce 2009 “Cross-Media Challenge”

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Sheffield Doc/Fest are issuing a call for proposals for the third CROSS-MEDIA CHALLENGE on the theme of MIGRATIONS

The CROSS-MEDIA CHALLENGE is a competition for innovative, interactive, socially engaged content with applications for mobile and broadband. The winning producer will sign a production development deal with the NFB worth C$10,500/£5,000. The deadline for entries is October 9, 2009. Four semi-finalists will be invited to present their projects at a panel session during the Sheffield Doc/Fest. The winner will be announced at the festival’s Cross Platform program. Semi-finalists must finance their own travel to the festival.

ABOUT THE CHALLENGE

A global leader in developing content for new platforms, the NFB wants to ensure the digital future has room for artistic innovation and social relevance. The CROSS-MEDIA CHALLENGE is one way of reaching out to potential new production partners.

The CROSS-MEDIA CHALLENGE offers media makers an opportunity to develop projects that:
• Inspire an exchange of storytelling practices among diverse communities
• Use media innovatively to foster an international dialogue on issues with local roots
• Unleash the creative talents of alternative voices and communities

The NFB is interested in projects that use the versatility, mobility and borderless nature of new platforms to enable communities to talk to each other.. Projects must be documentary based. The theme for the 2009 challenge is MIGRATIONS.
Eligible projects must be multi-platform, involving the best features of each medium to ensure maximum audience participation. Projects should take full advantage of the range of new platforms, with particular emphasis on those that are interactive, mobile and online. Projects must feature direct contact and interaction with communities as part of their development plan.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Submitted proposals should be a maximum of two pages and provide a succinct overview of your project, a development plan and development budget summary along with any supporting audiovisual material. Proposals must be received by October 9, 2009.

Proposals (including your full name and address) should be e-mailed to Hugues Sweeney <h.sweeney@nfb.ca> , Multimedia advisor and designer

All the audiovisual material must be accessible from a web site or a FTP server.

More info here – http://sheffdocfest.com/view/crossmedia

Charlie Phillips
Marketplace Producer
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Sheffield Doc/Fest
The Workstation
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield, S1 2BX, England
Tel  +44-(0)7960-954307
+44-(0)114-276 5141
Fax +44-(0)114-272 1849
http://www.sheffdocfest.com

4-8 November 2009
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Doc/Fest Sheffield is where the international documentary family gets together under one roof for a week of intense deal-making, docwatching and debate.. It is the UK’s premier documentary festival/conference and a must-attend event on the industry calendar



TORONTO FREE BROADCASTING
Season 1: Call for Instructional Videos

“How to make a revolution in your kitchen.”

This fall, a learning channel and production studio will occupy the Toronto Free Gallery. For its first season, Toronto Free Broadcasting (TFB) makes this call for instructional videos on ways you navigate your environment to yield (or envision) ways to move in-between, and across boundaries separating “home,” “school,” “work” and “public space.” Season 1 submissions will be accepted from July 29th – August 31st, 2009, and made viewable at torontofreebroadcasting.ne

t . The ongoing archive of instructional videos forms one part of Toronto Free Broadcasting which also includes a series of live “educational programs” by artists and instructional video-making workshop nights held at the Gallery this September and October.

Videos should be between 1 to 10 minutes, documenting your practical skills, tactics, and knowledges –or those of someone you know– in forms such as “instructions,” “how-to’s,” “lessons,” “plans,” and “demonstrations.” Lessons might range from navigating the quickest route from point A to point B (fence-hopping techniques), to a step-by-step on negotiation tactics (dancing the tango with three), etc. These are some examples of knowledges which may not have use in predetermined day-to-day surroundings, though are useful in their personal, provisional and speculative grappling with the built environment. We love to see skills created, applied to situations particular to you, or which engage in the productive misuse of objects and spaces.

By cultivating a production site and channel for self-learning and teaching, we aim to facilitate conversations about the possibilities of an experimental community space.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please submit video(s) and accompanying text document(s) along the following guidelines:

• Season 1 submission period is July 29th – August 31st, 2009
• Video submissions will be viewable and archived online at: torontofreebroadcasting.net
• Multiple entries are welcome and encouraged!
• Videos can be old or new!
• Each video should be no longer than 10 minutes
• Submissions should include a text document outlining:
1. Title, production date, other credits
2. A short written description of video (50 words max)
3. Contact information, email or surface mail address (optional)

• For those interested in licensing their videos, we encourage the use of Creative Commons licenses. (Information about Creative Commons can be found here: http://creativecommons.org/ )

Sending and Uploading Video Files:

• You can send us your files via free video uploading websites like YouTube and Vimeo by providing us with a link (which we’ll use to embed on the TFB website)
• Files being sent through the net should be in any of the following formats: MOV, .AVI, .MPG, .M4V, .MP4
• Yousendit: http://www.yousendit.com . It’s free for up to 100 mb files
• Pando: http://www.pando.com. It’s free, but your computer has to be on for us to download it
• Files sent via Pando or Yousendit should be directed to info@torontofreebroadcasting.net
• Ftp (also free, you need an ftp program like cyberduck, etc.). For ftp login info please email: info@torontofreebroadcasting.net

We look forward to receiving your submissions! Please email us if you have any questions.

Signed,
Tejpal Ajji, Chris Lee, and Maiko Tanaka
TFB Producers
info@torontofreebroadcasting.net
torontofreebroadcasting.net

TFB
c/o Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON
M6H 1N7 Canada
+1 416-913-0461

Image credit for “What’s Cooking Show”: http://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardware/TV/tk40.htm

Toronto Free Broadcasting is supported by the Toronto Arts Council.

Toronto Free Gallery is supported by the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Toronto Free Gallery is a not-for-profit art space. Our vision is to provide a forum for social, cultural and urban issues expressed through all media. Toronto Free Gallery is intended to be a creative laboratory. We aim to provide artists with a space to experiment, explore new ideas, question norms and challenge both themselves and their audiences.
torontofreegallery.org

Call for Entries – Deadline July 31, 2009!

For more information on Locative Cinema Commission:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/news/archive/2009/international-commissioning.asp

For more information the Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/

Media Contacts:
Doniece Sandoval, Chief External Relations Officer, ZERO1: The Art and Technology Network
Doniece@zero1.org • 415.846.4988

Brooks Addicott, Associate Director, Media Relations, Sundance Institute
brooks_addicott@sundance.org • 435.658.3456

Jill Sawyer, Media & Communications Officer, The Banff Centre
jill_sawyer@banffcentre.ca • 403.762.6475

THE NFB-TVO CALLING CARD PROGRAM INVITES ONTARIANS TO MAKE NEW-MEDIA
AND BROADCAST DOCUMENTARIES.

Winning teams receive $45,000 , mentorship and an online or broadcast launch.

Documentaries must be original, character-driven narratives with a focus on social, political and cultural issues.  Submission deadline is August 31st, 2009.

For more information please visit:  NFB.ca/callingcard

TORONTO URBAN FILM FESTIVAL
Silent 1-Minute Films on the TTC

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2009
Trinity Square Video Pitch Deadline: June 15, 2009

Share your film with an audience of 1.3 million daily commuters. Finalists selected by a stellar panel of guest jurors, with top prizes awarded by this year’s guest judge, writer/director/actor Don McKellar.

ABOUT TUFF:
The Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) is the only film festival of its kind in North America, and one of the largest in the world with an average daily viewing audience of over 1 million. The 3rd annual TUFF is programmed on the Onestop Network of 270 subway platforms screens throughout the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). We accept all genres of film, video, and animation from both professional and amateur filmmakers. All films screened are silent and 1-minute in length. TUFF is free to enter and open to both Canadian and international submissions.

2009 SUBMISSION CATEGORIES: Urban Diversity – Urban Encounters – Urban Ideas – Urban Imaginary – Urban Journeys – Urban Natural – Urban Secrets

AWARDS:
1ST PLACE – 4.5 star trip for two to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
2nd/3rd  PLACE – TBA

NAISH MCHUGH AWARD FOR EMERGING FILMMAKERS
$2,500 given to the film that best captures the unique qualities of Toronto, created by an emerging filmmaker living and/or working within the Greater Toronto Area (416/905 area code). Sponsored by the City of Toronto through the TFTO.

TRINITY SQUARE VIDEO PITCH AWARD:
NEW DEADLINE: JUNE 15, 2009
Looking for production help to make your TUFF film? Send a one or two paragraph pitch that describes your 1-minute film idea. The seven submissions that best capture the spirit of this year’s TUFF themes will receive a full TSV membership and up to $600 of in-kind support towards both the production and post-production of their TUFF movie. Send your pitch with CV and contact info to: A4C@torontourbanfilmfestival.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO SUBMIT YOUR FILM ONLINE: www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com

CFC ALumni Sharon Switzer founded / runs this fabulous short film festival:

TORONTO URBAN FILM FESTIVAL
Silent 1-minute films on the TTC
September 11-20, 2009
Presented by Heineken

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2009
TSV Pitch Deadline: May 30th, 2009
Share your work with an audience of 1.6 million daily commuters. And, win a trip for two to the Dominican Republic plus other great prizes. Finalists selected by a stellar panel of guest jurors, and screened by this year’s Guest Judge — writer-director-actor Don McKellar.
The 3rd annual Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) is programmed on the Onestop network of 270 subway platforms screens throughout the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). The festival runs concurrent with the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
We accept all genres of film, video, and animation from both trained professional, and amateur filmmakers. All films screened are silent and 1-minute in length. TUFF is free to enter and open to both Canadians and international submissions.
2009 Submission Categories:
Urban Diversity – Urban Encounters – Urban Ideas – Urban Imaginary – Urban Journeys – Urban Natural – Urban Secrets

Trinity Square Video Pitch Award – Deadline May 30th, 2009
Locals, looking for support to make your TUFF film? Send us a one or two paragraph pitch that describes your 1-minute film idea. The seven submissions that best capture the spirit of this year’s TUFF themes will receive a TSV membership and up to $600 of in-kind support towards both the production and post-production of their TUFF movie. TSV Pitch Award Winners will be screened as their own category on the 8th day of TUFF. TSV: www.trinitysquarevideo.com Send your short pitch with CV and contact information to: A4C@torontourbanfilmfestival.com.
For more information or to submit your film online: www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com
TUFF is co-produced by Art for Commuters (www.art4commuters.com) and Onestop Media Group (www.onestopmediagroup.com).
Contact: A4C@torontourbanfilmfestival.com

Piksel [1] is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway,and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of FLOSS & art.

This years event – Piksel09 – continues the exploration of free/libre and open source technologies and it’s myriad of expressions within the arts.

Piksel09 is organised in collaboration with Gallery 3,14 [2] and Lydgalleriet [3] which will host this years exhibitions, Bergen Kunstmuseum [4] hosting the presentations and panels, and Bergen Kunsthall/Landmark [5] hosting the evening events.

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** open CALL for PROJECTS

For the exhibitions and other parts of the programme we currently seek projects in the following categories:

1. Installations

Projects to be included in the exhibitions at Galleri 3,14 and Lydgalleriet. The works must be programmed by and running on free and open source software and/or open/DIY hardware.

2. Audiovisual performance

Live art realised by the use of free and open source software. We specially encourage live coding and open/DIY hardware projects to apply.

3. Presentations

Innovative DIY hardware and audiovisual software tools or software art released under an open licence. (Also includes presentations of artistic projects realised using these technologies.)

4. Workshops

Hands on workshops utilising free software and/or open/DIY hardware for artistic use.

!!!!!!!!!!  Deadline – july 15. 2009 !!!!!!!!!!

Please use the online submit form at: http://piksel.no/ocs

or send documentation material – preferably as a URL to online documentation with images/video to piksel09 [AT] piksel [DOT] no

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Contact:

Piksel
att: Gisle Fr0ysland
Georgernes Verft 12
5011 Bergen
Norway

More info: http://www.piksel.no

Piksel09 is supported by Arts Council Norway, City of Bergen Cultural Office, Hordaland County Cultural Office and others.

links:

[1] http://www.piksel.no
[2] http://www.stiftelsen314.com
[3] http://www.lydgalleriet.no
[4] http://www.bergenartmuseum.no
[5] http://www.kunsthall.no/default.asp?k=6

CODE Live Bridging Art, Music, Performance and the Audience in a Digital World

Invitation for applications This notice is an invitation for Canadian artists and arts organizations to submit applications to CODE Live , a 17 day event during the 2010 Cultural Olympiad that will engage audiences with eye-catching and inspiring interactive digital media in music, the visual and performing arts. The exhibitions and performances will showcase leading-edge works from local, national and international artists.

As part of its programming, CODE Live is interested in existing works from emerging artists, works that are interactive and reflect the theme of : Bridging.

(Please see below) The recommended budget range for submitted applications is $2 to $10,000 CAD.

CODE Live is a premiere event of the 2010 Cultural Olympiad and will be the finale for CODE, the Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition. CODE is a suite of programs designed so people can connect, create and collaborate in the digital space leading up to and during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. CODE launches in early May 2009 at vancouver2010.com/code.

Theme of CODE Live : Bridging Art often reflects life: the times we live in, the changes to our world, the trends and the values people hold on to. Using the theme of Bridging, CODE Live will explore how we experience technology, our planet, its ecology and the people living within it. As the world becomes more closely intertwined, so too does the art world. People are creating bridges not only in reality, but in the virtual world as well. Technology has altered how the Earth is seen, from both a cultural and ecological perspective. Works of art selected for CODE Live will explore how people interact with art, how they physically respond to a piece or how it challenges them to become part of the piece and the greater process. In today’s art world we see how interdisciplinary works crossing mediums are creating new messages for their audiences. Bridging aims to reflect this world, looking at these messages through the multiplicity of disciplines that have merged with new technologies. Submissions regarding the above artistic forms and the festival theme are encouraged. APPLICATION DEADLINE: all submissions must be received by May 31, 2009.

CODE Live A Festival Bridging Art, Music and Audiences in a Digital World Submission requirements Please send all inquiries and submissions to code@vancouver2010.com. (Please note all submissions much include the attached information and will not be processed otherwise.) Item One: Name, address, phone, e-mail and other pertinent contact information. Item Two: Artist CV of existing work for all participants in the application (twopage maximum per CV) Item Three: Three- to five-page synopsis of art. Item Four: Technical information, including: a. length of piece b. dimensions and size of the installation c. technical requirements for the installation of the proposed piece d. images/video or links to the current work and previous work e. proposed budget for exhibition installation (NB. If the proposed piece is for a performance or an outdoor installation, please put in any detail needed for the specific installation).

Important: Please e-mail the document below as a compressed itemized folder to code@vancouver2010.com. Please address each e-mail with the title: CODE Live Submission Call: (Artist/Org Name) APPLICATION DEADLINE: all submissions must be received by May 31, 2009. Applications can be also be mailed to: CODE Live Cultural Olympiad 3585 Graveley Street, Vancouver, BC V5K 5J5

Women in Film Festival in Vancouver seeks interactive projects for their New Media Day on March 4th, 2009.

The women in film festival is a four day event that showcases national and international female projects in screen based media. The first day of the festival is dedicated to new media production and its a full day of panels discussions, networking events, pitches of new applications, and best of all- a new media exhibit that would transform vancity theatre into a great interactive space. This day would bring together content creators, visual artists and technology groups, and encourage discussions about new forms of interactivity and storytelling.

I am looking for projects that push the boundaries of traditional story telling and use interactive methods to engage the audience in the piece. Anything from an art installation, non linear films to mobile games and interactive performances. We are presenting projects from the digital media centre, Vancouver art galleries, mobile groups, national and international companies.

Selected artists will receive 2 festival passes with access to all the film screening, galas, panels and network events. They would also have a great opportunity to present their work to key personals in the new media industry in Canada. Out of town artists can also receive assistance in accommodation and travel expenses during their stay.

If interested please send a link to your work with a short synopsis and what equipment would you need to present it at the theatre. For more information about women in film and the  festival program please visit:
http://www.womeninfilm.ca/

Sincerely,

Maayan Cohen
New Media Curator
Women in Film Vancouver
maayanco AT gmail.com
778.990.1735

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

CANADIAN ARTISTS WORKING IN NEW MEDIA

REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTER, IRELAND

The Regional Cultural Center (RCC), one of Ireland’s finest Arts Centers, is currently accepting submissions for a New Media Exhibition Programme.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 5pm on Monday 16th February, 2009.

The RCC is seeking submissions from Canadian artists working in new media for an exhibition at the center in April / May 2009.  The RCC is a fabulous new multidisciplinary arts facility in North West Ireland and described by the Irish Times as a ‘cultural beacon’.  It presents a programme of exhibitions, concerts, film, digital media, education and outreach.  This group exhibition will select innovative work that utilizes new media, such as (but not limited to) digital video, illustration, interactive & web based projects etc.

TO APPLY: Submissions can be submitted by post, e-mail or online and must include: * Work samples DVD’s (15 mins max) or CD’s (12 images max – digital images resolution 1024×768 pixels) * A detailed Work samples list * Exhibition proposal, including installation / technical /equipment / space requirements (max 2 pages) * Artists Statement (300 words) * A current curriculum vitae / resume

FOR RETURN OF WORK: Applicants must include a SAE (Self Addressed Envelope) with IRC (International Reply Coupon) if they wish to have their applications returned..

RESULTS: Applicants will be notified of results in approximately 2 to 4 weeks.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION & SEND SUBMISSIONS TO:

Ruth McCullough

REGIONAL CULTURAL CENTER

Cove Hill, Port Road Letterkenny Co. Donegal

ruthmccullough@gmail.com

++353(0)749129186

www.donegalculture.com

<Call for Projects> * Interactivos?’09: Garage Science*

Deadline for entries: *December* *14, 2008 12 midnight* (GMT+1) Call for collaborators: December 30, 2008 – January 25, 2009 Dates of the event: January 28 – February 14, 2009 at Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain)

Open call for the submission of projects to be collaboratively developed within the framework of the *Interactivos?’09: Garage Science* international workshop and seminar. The aim is to design and build experimental and critical prototypes such as mechanical, digital, and biological devices, using open software and open hardware tools, as well as low cost materials.

The medialab will then be transformed into a “domestic lab” where a maximum of 8 proposals will be developed with the aid of teachers, assistants and interested collaborators (call for collaborators: December 30). With the participation of the Critical Art Ensemble.

Keywords: Garage science, critical design, bioart, mechanical devices, automatons, robots, impossible machines, Rube Goldberg’s machines, pataphysic, energy, physical computing, free hardware, fabbing, recycling, biocomputing, biology, biohacking, biopunk, “license to fail”.

*Interactivos?’09* also includes a Seminar (January 28 and 29, 2009) with lectures by artists and experts where selected papers will be presented (see call for papers: www.medialab-prado.es/interactivos).

More information and access to the online submission form: http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos09_ciencia_de_garaje-_convocato ria_para_proyectos

Contact: interactivos AT medialab-prado.es

*MEDIALAB-PRADO*
Plaza de las Letras
C/ Alameda, 15
28014 Madrid (Spain)
+34 913 692 303
www.medialab-prado.es

Hello, friends, past winners and applicants —

The deadline for the Knight News Challenge is fast approaching! This year’s contest, giving away $5 million to digital news innovators, closes to all applications at midnight on November 1st.

Remember that we’re looking for innovative ideas that use digital experiments to transform community news and information exchange. Ideas should push the edge, whether that involves bringing Web 2.0 tools to local neighborhoods, improving online news or creating publishing platforms to inspire conversations in specific geographic communities.

There are only four rules. Winning entries must:

1. Use or create digital, open-source technology;
2. Use news and information to serve the public interest;
3. Benefit at least one specific geographic community;
4. Be innovative.

Last year’s winners received prizes ranging from $15,000 to $876,000. They included individuals, philanthropic organizations and for-profit businesses, such as The Bakersfield Californian newspaper. Ten winners were from the United States, and six were from Canada, England, Lithuania, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Russia.

To apply, visit www.newschallenge.org today.

Good luck!
Susan Mernit
Knight News Challenge

The Knight News Challenge is an initiative of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Filmaka (www.filmaka.com) has just launched a filmmaking contest called “Digital Cribs.”  Filmmakers will get to make a 3-minute video on anyone that they feel is on the cutting edge of technology and how they incorporate that technology in their lives.

The contest is sponsored by Cisco and winning filmmakers will receive up to $7500 in cash.  Here is the information that would be helpful for you to post to your staff and students on your campus.  I hope that this information could be posted to your campus somehow such as in a newsletter. Would this be possible? I hope to hear back from you soon. Thank you.

CISCO DIGITAL CRIBS

Are you a filmmaker who knows someone using digital technology in their home in an amazing way?  Want to tell the world about it – in your native language?  Cisco and Filmaka want you to make a film about a “Digital Crib” – a home that uses digital technology – and send it to us.  10 winners will receive $7500 USD and another 10 will win $5000.  Winning Digital Crib clips will be placed on over 200 sites across the internet, for the whole planet to see!  Submissions are due October 13 – go to www.filmaka.com/ciscodigitalcribs for more information!

DIGITAL’08: Imagination On Behalf Of Our Planet
to be held at the New York Hall of Science
October 4, 2008 – January 25, 2009
[and includes a corresponding online exhibition]

Co-Jurors:
Michael John Gorman, Director of the new Science Gallery, Trinity College,
Dublin, Ireland; and Cynthia Pannucci, Founder/Director, Art & Science
Collaborations, Inc.

Deadline: August 10, 2008
For Guidelines & online Entry Form:  http://www.asci.org/artikel981.html

There are two paths to the mountains:

a/ You may register as INDEPENDENT ARTISTS; the tuition is $600 and is worth it if you have it. There are many people to meet and a fine time to be had, replete with fun, learning, and the occasional wild elk or wooly mountain goat.

b/ If you have a new media project that fits within the thematic lines of the event and that you wish to further develop, you can apply for the INTENSIVE SCHOLARSHIP program. At least 10 scholarships are available. They support 50% of travel fees and 100% of tuition, room, meals, and mentorship costs. The projects will be adjudicated by a committee and participants will be invited to come to the event a day in advance and to stay on a day extra to have focussed time with Peer Advisors.

Stop Them in Their Tracks
Final Submissions Call for TUFF

DEADLINE EXTENDED – JULY 7, 2008

Next MONDAY is the final day for submissions to the 2008 Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF).

Share your work with an audience of over 1 million people who ride the rails and another 50,000 who visit our Website and YouTube channel.

Now in its second year, TUFF is the only festival of its kind in North America. TUFF runs concurrent with TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) when Toronto — and the TTC — play host to thousands of film fans and film professionals alike.

Professional and first-time filmmakers are encouraged to submit their films, videos and animations to one of 7 urban themed categories. All submissions must be silent and exactly 60 seconds in length.

Filmmakers retain all rights, and will receive an honorarium of $150 per selected film. Prizes include a trip for 2 to Aruba from Belair Travel; a Sony HD Camcorder with accessories; Sony Digital Cameras; MP3 Players; dinner at the Drake Hotel with a notable filmmaker.

Submit your film now at: www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com <http://www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com/>

TUFF is co-produced by Art for Commuters (A4C) and Onestop Media Group.

Contact: Sharon Switzer, TUFF Executive Director, at A4C at torontourbanfilmfestival.com

An 8-day long public film festival on the TTC – the only one of its kind in North America – featuring a different urban-themed program of 1-minute films each day.

Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2008

6 Weeks is plenty of time to make a 1-minute film! Take part in the citizen’s film festival and share your work with an audience of over 1 million people.

We encourage all genres of film, video, and animation, from both professional and first-time filmmakers. All submissions must be silent and exactly 60 seconds. Filmmakers retain all rights, and will receive an honorarium of $150 per selected film.

Our 2008 guest jurors are Richard Fung, Judy Gladstone, Michelle Jacques, Deirdre Logue, Brenda Longfellow, Robert Ouellette and Jason St-Laurent.

The films selected by our jurors for each thematic category play on the network of 250 TTC subway platform screens repeatedly during one day of the festival. The 8th day of TUFF is programmed based on audience votes.

Award winning actor, writer, director and comedian Mark McKinney, is our 2008 guest judge. Mark will select the top 3 films of the festival, and each guest juror will choose the best in their category. Audience votes determine the winner of the TUFF Choice award.

Prizes include: Sony HD Camcorder with accessories; Sony Digital Cameras; MP3 Players; a ‘Creative Retreat’ from Belair Travel; dinner at the Drake Hotel with a notable filmmaker.

Filmmakers must submit to one of the following thematic categories:
* Urban Encounters – the moments that make city-living worthwhile
* Urban Fears – the darker side of living in a metropolis
* Urban Growth – from skyscrapers to suburban sprawl
* Urban Imaginary – hopes for the future of big cities
* Urban Natural – the living city, both nurtured and oppressed
* Urban Secrets – stories about the hidden or forgotten city
* Urban Travels – from public transit to Parkour

Submit films online by July 1st: www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com <http://www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com>

TUFF is co-produced by Art for Commuters (A4C) and Onestop Media Group.
Contact: Sharon Switzer, TUFF Executive Director, at A4C@torontourbanfilmfestival.com

We acknowledge the support the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $11.8 million in media arts throughout Canada.

http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/03/interactive_media_industry_forum.asp

• Advertising
• Animation
• Business TV / Inhouse TV
• Children’s
• Corporate Communications
• Corporate TV
• Documentaries
• Education
• Internal Communications
• News
• Public Relations
• Sales Promotions
• Training
• WWWEB

plus sub-categories

Closing date for festival entries is January 31, 2008

http://www.worldmediafestival.org
Please visit our websites for online information and registration

Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF)
Cinema by Citizens Celebrating the City
September 8 – 14, 2007

Attention: filmmakers, video artists, animators, and urbanites with video cellphones.

We’re looking for 1-minute, silent videos that address the following urban themes: My TOwn; Urban Ennui; 905 to the 416; The Imaginary City; Big Smoke, Big Dreams; Forgotten Places, Uncommon Spaces.

Genie award-winning director Jeremy Podeswa will be awarding prizes for the top 3 videos in the Festival. The TUFF Choice award will also be given to the video with the most online votes.

Prizes include: Camcorder with tripod; Wireless devices; Digital cameras; iPods; Retailer giftcards, and a trip for 2 to Jamaica from Bel-Air Travel!

TUFF Programmers John Greyson, Steve Reinke, Heather Keung, Jon Davies, Kim Simon and Jacqueline Nuwame will select films from submissions to the six thematic categories. Not all submissions will be accepted to TUFF.

Each day of TUFF will feature a different thematic programme on the network of TTC subway screens, with individual films cycling throughout the day. Films will also be available online for viewing and voting.

Format: 60 seconds (exactly), no sound, 720x480dpi (4:3), 30 fps. Quicktime, AVI, MPEG and SWF formats accepted.
TUFF is open to local, national and international submissions. It’s free to enter, but all submissions must be uploaded or postmarked by Aug. 20th. International submissions must be postmarked by August 13th. Selected films will be listed on the website by September 1st.

For more information, or to submit films: www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com
Contact: A4C@torontourbanfilmfestival.com

GET YOUR CREATIONS ON THE WORLD STAGE!

Join us at the third annual MIPCOM Mobile & Internet TV Awards, designed to reward new short form audiovisual entertainment content and cross media formats for Mobile and Internet TV. There is no cost to enter these prestigious industry awards, and you now have one extra week to send in your entries.

a.. Best Short Form Audiovisual Entertainment made for Mobile and/or Internet: Drama, Comedy, Lifestyle/Music, Factual

b.. Best Cross Platform & interactive Mobile TV Format

c.. Best Made-for-Mobile TV or Film Channel

d.. Best Mobile Service for Social Community & User-Generated Content

e.. Best Short Film originally created or repurposed for Mobile

f.. Best Film shot on a mobile device

So if you have cutting-edge content corresponding to the above nine categories, don’t miss out on this unique opportunity for international recognition and business!

Full details on the Awards, the categories and entry rules are available online at: http://mipcom.reedmidem.com/ebrochures/emailings/MobileTVCallForEntries3.htm
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The Mobile & Internet TV Awards take place at MIPCOM, the global content event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing
entertainment content across all platforms.

To become part of the conversation on convergence please register at http://www.canadianconvergence.com . If you have any questions about the site, need help registering or would like to find out more about upcoming Convergent Media Courses being hosted across Canada please contact Ryan FitzGerald at ryan [at] nihilonaut [dot] com