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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 Calls for Submission > Funding > Interactive Industry

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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 Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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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 Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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transmediale.10 call for entries – deadline july 31!

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

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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 Calls for Submission > Funding > Interactive Industry

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The Banff New Media Institute, Zero1, Sundance Institute partner on Locative Cinema commission

July 14, 2009 | Anthea Foyer | Posted in Calls for Submission > Funding > Interactive Industry

This looks like an amazing opportunity especially for those of you that are super excited by place, space and site specific projects. And they’ll even give you money to do it!

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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

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

June 29, 2009 | Anthea Foyer | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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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

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*NEW* TUFF $2500 prize for emerging filmmakers, sponsored by the City of Toronto

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

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CFC Media Lab Alumni Sharon Switzer founded this amazing film festival which continues to grow and attract a high level of talented filmmakers.

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

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Toronto Urban Film Festival – Call for submissions

May 11, 2009 | Anthea Foyer | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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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

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luminato is seeking submissions to the creative city video contest

May 6, 2009 | Anthea Foyer | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

Two of CFC’s awesome alumni, Sharon Switzer and Maggie Greyson,  are involved in bringing this project  to the fair city of Toronto:

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