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Every Day Heroes Film Competition

January 22, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Interactive Industry > Calls for Submission

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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.

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5th Annual Content 360 Challenge at MIPTV 2010

January 13, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Events > Interactive Industry > Calls for Submission > Funding

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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.


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European Commission “Content 360 Challenge”

January 12, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Interactive Industry > Calls for Submission

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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

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The Banff Centre Calls for Applications

January 11, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Interactive Industry > Calls for Submission

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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.

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OCAD Graduate Studies Info Nights

October 27, 2009 | Anthea Foyer | Posted in Interactive Industry > Calls for Submission


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>

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

September 16, 2009 | Anthea Foyer | Posted in Interactive Industry > Calls for Submission > Funding

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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



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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Toronto Free Broadcasting

July 27, 2009 | Anthea Foyer | Posted in Interactive Industry > Calls for Submission

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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

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COME UP TO MY ROOM 2010 - call for submissions

July 17, 2009 | Anthea Foyer | Posted in Interactive Industry > Calls for Submission

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transmediale.10 call for entries - deadline july 31!

July 15, 2009 | Anthea Foyer | Posted in Interactive Industry > Calls for Submission

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Call for Entries - Deadline July 31, 2009!

transmediale Award 2010
Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2010

transmediale.10
festival for art and digital culture berlin
03 - 07 February 2010

CTM - club transmediale.10
festival for adventurous music and related visual arts
29 January - 6 February 2010

Deadline: 31 July 2009
Award Ceremony: 6 February 2010

As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) are inviting submissions to the transmediale Award Competition 2010 and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010. Invited are art works, projects and positions that respond to the challenges of our rapidly changing digital, technological and networked cultures. The transmediale Award seeks innovative, experimental and visionary works across a wide scope of form, process and practice that embrace, question and enrich our understanding and relationship to our immersed media and technologically driven society. Entries that exemplify new and critical forms of digital expression and interaction are encouraged, as are works from countries and regions in which digital art and culture are emergent. Submissions of art works for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award 2010 while theoretical abstracts, papers and research oriented positions are invited for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with prizes totaling 10.000 EURO.

transmediale presents and pursues the advancement of artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and creative impact of new technologies, network practices and digital innovation. As a festival aiming to define the contours of contemporary digital culture, it seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that shape the way in which we think about and experience the technologies which impact virtually all aspects of our daily lives. As such, transmediale understands media technologies as cultural and aesthetic techniques that need to be embraced in order to comprehend, critique, and shape global societies.

CTM (club transmediale) is dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music and sound creation, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities and social practises that develop within and connect to those audio cultures. Thus, the festival reflects on the agency of contemporary sound creation within the cultural fabric of society and its technological and social transformations. It explores the intersections of contemporary music and audio art with other artistic forms and cultural fields. A special emphasis is put on the creative use of new technologies, the interplay of sound with other media formats, the situational potential of live performances, the formation of social networks, and the advancement of a positive form of globalization.

Previous transmediale Award winners have included renowned artists such as Herman Asselberghs, Shilpa Gupta, Harwood/Wright/Yokokoji, Zhou Hongxiang, Istvan Kantor, Thomas Koener, Julia Meltzer/David Thorne, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Netochka Nezvanova, schoenerwissen, ubermorgen.com, Adrian Ward, Herwig Weiser and 242.pilots. The Vilem Flusser Theory Award, in collaboration with the _Vilem_Flusser_Archive of the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin, has been awarded to Simon Yuill (2008), Denis Rojo aka jaromil and Brian Holmes (2009).

Jury of the transmediale Award 2010 are Michelle Kasprzak (Edinburgh), José Luis de Vicente (Barcelona), Li Zhenhua (Beijing/Zurich), Yves Bernard (Brussels), Doreen Mende (Berlin).

Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010 advisory committee members include Marcel René Marburger (_Vilem_Flusser_Archive, Berlin), Oliver Grau (Danube University, Krems) and Sabeth Buchmann (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)

transmediale Advisory Board are Alex Adriaansens (Rotterdam), Dr. Marie Cathleen Haff (Berlin), Prof. Saskia Sassen (New York), Yukiko Shikata (Tokyo).

transmediale is a project of the Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, in cooperation with the House of World Cultures and funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
CTM is a project by DISK / club transmediale GbR funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and DISK Initiative Bild & Ton e.V.

transmediale.10
festival for art and digital culture berlin
3 - 7 February 2010
Klosterstrasse 68 / D-10170 Berlin, Germany
tel +49 (0)30 24 749 761 / fax +49 (0)30 24 749 763
http://www.transmediale.de, award@transmediale.de

CTM - club transmediale.10
festival for adventurous music and related visual arts
29 January - 6 February 2010
tel + 49 (0)30 44 04 18 52 / fax +49 (0)30 44 04 58 27
http://www.clubtransmediale.de, postbox@clubtransmediale.de

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LG Life’s Good Film Festival - 100K in prize money!

July 15, 2009 | Anthea Foyer | Posted in Interactive Industry > Calls for Submission > Funding

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