International Screenplay Contest SUBMIT by May 31st →
The RULES are simple:
1. Write a script. Edit the heck out of it. We accept features and shorts of any genre, as well as original TV pilots and spec scripts for existing shows.
2. Email your script to info@wildsound.ca in .pdf, .doc, .wpd, .rtf, or .fdr format.
In the body in the email please add your:
- FULL NAME
- CITY AND COUNTRY
- TITLE OF SCRIPT
- TYPE OF SCRIPT (feature, TV, short)
- (optional) and a 1-2 line synopsis of your screenplay.
OR send your submission with a check of $40 to: WILDsound Film Festival, 77 St. Clair Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4T 1M5
1st GreenVoice Environmental Video Contest for International Students
Environment, Citizenship, Volunteering
ICVolunteers has been developing initiatives to raise awareness on social, humanitarian and environmental problems for over a decade.
For the past three years, the GreenVoice Program has sought to involve youth in the creation of a greener future. Thanks to our wide network of volunteers, we have gathered photos from multiple countries around the world, expressing different viewpoints on the environment and our planet. To date, the project has brought together over 1,000 images covering close to 100 countries, the most telling of which have been exhibited in different venues and galleries in Geneva and Barcelona.
In 2011, ICVolunteers launched its new slogan, ‘Life is hands on’. With this in mind, we want to emphasize how civil society and citizenship can contribute towards a better world through proactive activities.
Now is your chance to give back to the planet and help raise awareness about the environmental issues that you care about!
Contest description:
Each participant must enter a video exposing a specific environmental problem. The video must explain the issue (text may be used, but preferably avoid doing so), as well as the current initiatives and solutions. Lastly, the participant can offer his/her own low cost initiative to find an answer to the issue.
Your video will compete with others from High School and University students around the world.
The winner of the contest will receive a prize (300 Swiss Francs or a contribution by our sponsors and partners) as well as the chance to be showcased as a primary piece in the upcoming GreenVoice exhibition in Paris.
The best videos will be part of GreenVoice’s next exhibitions and will enjoy the possibility of being shown in the international and diverse setting of Geneva. Also, all the best videos will be posted on our website, as well as our YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter accounts.
The videos will be evaluated by ICV’s video production team, the GreenVoice team and ICV’s board of directors. They will be graded based on the message and the quality of the film.
Deadline: August 15, 2012
Conditions for participation:
Participants will be asked to send their videos by mail to:
ICVolunteers / ICVolontaires, 104, rue de Carouge
PO Box 755, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
Please include:
· Name
· Nationality
· Age
· School/University
· Title of the video
· Small paragraph describing yourself (50-100 words)
The requirements for the video are:
· Length: 2-6 minutes;
· File Types: .avi, .mov, .wmv, .mpg (mpeg-2 or 4), .mp4, .wav;
· Size limit: 1 GB;
· Min. Resolution: 720 x 480;
· Please do not send DVD’s with Video-TS and Audio-TS.
· Please do not send tapes!
If you have a smart phone with good enough quality, you are welcome to use it. Please note that the phone should be horizontal when filming.
If you have any other questions regarding the 1st GreenVoice Environmental Video Contest, or any other of our projects, do not hesitate to contact us at greenvoice@icvolunteers.org
Click on the link to learn more about GreenVoice.
Click on the link to learn more about ICVolunteers.
Dear Filmmakers and Film Lovers,
The 9th Jameson CineFest Miskolc International Festival will take place between the 14th and 23rd September, 2012, in Miskolc, Hungary.
We’re looking forward to meet young people and film experts again in Miskolc. In the past years our festival won renown and prestige not only in the region and in Europe, but all over the world.Every year we have several hundreds of entries, representing all countries, from Japan and Mexico to the farthest corners of the world, and the filmmakers who participate the event are offered, besides the screenings, a various scale of cultural programs.
We are waiting long feature films, short films, experimental films, documentaries and animation films as well.
The rules and conditions are the following: The director of the film must be under the age of 35 at the shooting of the movie, and the film cannot be older than 3 years (1 January, 2010). In terms of long features films the director’s age could be over 35, in case the film is the director’s first long feature film. There is no charge of application. The prizes of the festival (money and certificates) are awarded by an international jury.
We are waiting for applications from all over the world.
The entry form and the regulations can be downloaded from:
Deadline of application: 31 May, 2012.
We welcome you to the 9th Jameson CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival this September 14-23, 2012!
Two positions available:
Two projects:
Needs a 3 min promo for doc about mental illness. Needs a shooter/editor with own equipment. Has an outline to work from. Have FCP on mac if you need to use it. Compensation negotiable. Completed ASAP.
I’ve been working on a documentary about mental illness for some time now. I need someone to help me complete this project as a partnership. I need fund raising, editing and shooting done. This is a long term project. Compensation negotiable.
About the Doc:
Slashed mental health budgets are shattering lives and fracturing communities’ coast to coast. Taxpayer dollars are being diverted to corrections. Jails and prisons have become the largest de facto mental institutions in the US. Some people cannot get help when they want it. Others are being forced into treatment. The results are needless suffering, criminalization, stigmatation, and heavy tax burdens, with seemingly little hope of solving the mental health crisis in our country. Opposing sides- “the system” vs. advocates-are taking up positions frequently as polar opposites.
Please contact: Kevin Vels 720-628-8600 email: Kevinkdv@aol.com
Dear Students and Faculty,
We are writing to enlist the energies and talents of the Colorado Film School community for director
Doug Liman’s “Reckoning With Torture” grassroots film project.
“Reckoning With Torture” is the story of ordinary Americans standing up and doing what
our government so far has failed to do—telling the truth about the scope and human cost of
America’s post-9/11 torture program. Over the past 2 years, Liman, PEN, and the ACLU have
staged and filmed readings from formerly classified documents and other materials featuring
some of the country’s leading writers and actors alongside former military and intelligence
officers.
This spring, Liman launched the website www.reckoningwithtorture.org and issued a
national call for footage, asking people of conscience throughout the country to film themselves
reading these same documents. Later this year, he will intercut scenes from this crowdsourced
footage with the staged readings, creating a film that is both a rolling national performance of the
RWT script and the record of a citizen-driven movement to demand accountability and to honor
the many servicemen and women who stood up to stop the torture.
This month, Bill Moyers will interview Doug Liman and feature the Reckoning With Torture
project on his nationally-syndicated “Moyers and Company” program on PBS. The interview
marks the launch of a national outreach campaign to promote grassroots participation in this
unique film and advocacy project. We are very much hoping you will join in this effort.
Here’s how you can help:
• Shoot and upload your own scene at www.reckoningwithtorture.org
• Spread the word about the project throughout your physical and virtual communities,
by forwarding this message to your friends and colleagues, finding us on Twitter and Facebook, or by an other means
• Apply, or encourage an exceptional colleague or fellow student to apply, for an
RWT production internship, as described in the attached job listing.
In the Reckoning With Torture project, the collective process of making the film is also the
process of creating and mobilizing a national constituency for action on what Doug Liman
has called “one of the crucial moral tests of our times.” Its success depends on passionate and
committed filmmakers and communicators like you. As summer approaches—a summer that
will mark the 10th anniversary of some of the worst abuses of the post-9/11 Detention, Rendition,
and Interrogation program—we are very much hoping that you and the rest of the Colorado Film School
community will want to contribute a bit of time and creative energy for this unique and important
film project.
If you have any questions or want more information about the project, please contact Leily Kleinbard at info@reckoningwithtorture.org.
Call for Entries- FiloFest International student film and video festival
The Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana is hosting the fourth InternationalstudentfilmandvideofestivalFilofest. The festival will take place between 10th and 14th December 2012 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe. The competition part of the programme will feature independent student films, while the non-competition part of the programme will screen productions of students of film schools and academies.
We kindly ask you to inform your students and student bodies at your university about the festival. All students who are involved in film and video production, or would either like to take part in the educational part of the programme and panels, or see the screenings and vote for their favourite films are invited to participate in the festival. The call for entries closes on 10thOctober, the entry form and the rules and regulations of the festival are available at our website.
You are welcome to check out our website at www.filofest.com or contact me at nastja@filofest.com. I will be happy to answer any and all questions regarding the festival.
We are looking forward to your films and hope to see you and your students in
Ljubljana in December.
Best regards,
Nastja Majerič
