OPPORTUNITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
November 2009
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Crew Calls
Crew Needed for Student Project — 11/12/2009
Glenn Pack's 302 Intermediate Production group is looking for a:
- 1st AC
- Key Grip
- Best Boy Electric
Need to be available all day on Friday, November 20 and Sunday, November 22.
Contact Kai Feliciano at lkf6568@uncw.edu if interested.
Calls for Entries
Whistling Woods Student Film Competition (A section of the Pune International Film Festival, India) — 11/19/2009
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DEC 10!
Please send your films in -- both Animation & Live Action categories! Prizes for Best Animated Film, Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay & Best Student Cinematographer. Prizes exceed USD 5000 & sponsored use of ARRI's latest HD Camera.
Compilation DVDs from film institutes are welcome.
I write to you from Mumbai’s Film City, heart of the world’s largest film industry and also home to Whistling Woods International Institute for Film, Television, Animation & Media Arts. This year we are reprising our role as the curator of the Whistling Woods Student Film Competition, a section of The Pune International Film Festival, one of the premier showcases for Indian and world cinema in the country. The 8th Pune International Film Festival will be held in Pune between 7th to 14th January 2010 with Whistling Woods International sponsoring & organizing the Student Film Competition Section.
This year’s entries have been invited from film & media school students across the globe in the Live Action and Animation categories. The prize winning films will be selected by a special jury appointed by PIFF with the competition award money totaling $5000 for Best Director (Live Action), Best Screenplay (Live Action) and Best Film (Live Action & Animation). This year, Whistling Woods International in association with ARRI introduces a special award for student cinematographers, the ARRI Promising Indian Student Cinematographer Award. The winning student cinematographer is awarded free use of the latest ARRI High Definition Motion Picture Camera for a period of 150 days. (This award is open to students of Indian nationality or those studying in a Film Institute in India only.)
The call for entries is open now! All entries must conform to the criteria specified and must fulfill the guidelines of submission as outlined in the Rules & Regulations which can be found attached. There is NO ENTRY FEE for this festival.
Please visit our websites Whistling Woods International & Pune International Film Festival to know more about out Institute, the Film Festival and the Student Competition. Previous award winners in this Competition have included students from film & animation institutes such as La Fémis (Paris), San Diego State University (San Diego), Film & Television Institute of India (Pune), Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques (Montpellier), Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (Mexico City), and Gobelins (Paris). We look forward to seeing a good number of entries from your institution! Please let the participants know all queries can be addressed to piff.sfc@whistlingwoods.net or clarified at the numbers below.
WEBSITES: www.whistlingwoods.net | www.puneinternationalfilmfestival.com
Columbia University National Undergraduate Film Festival (CUNUFF) Call for Submissions — 11/4/2009
Each year CUNUFF hosts a festival in the beginning of April in order to showcase the talent of the nation’s aspiring filmmakers. Selected finalists will have the opportunity to have their work critiqued by respected members of the New York film scene as well as take part in exciting workshops and lectures.
The event will be held on the Columbia University campus, featuring ten student films chosen for their distinction and excellence from a pool of submissions from across the country. A selected group of professionals from the New York City film scene will judge the films. The ten awards offered will be accompanied by beautiful glass statuettes denoting achievement, and four awards will include cash prizes.
The breakdown of awards is as follows:
- Best Picture ($500 cash prize)
- Best Directed ($200 cash prize)
- Best Screenplay ($100 cash prize)
- The Concord Award for best film voted by the general audience ($100 cash prize)
- The Opus Award for best use of music and sound
- The Frontiers Award for Most Original Film
- The Gateway Award for an outstanding film of a humanitarian nature or a film dedicated to community service ($100 charitable donation)
- Best Editing
- Best Cinematography
- Best Acting
The film festival will be in early April, where the finalists' films will be screened at Columbia's Miller Theater. Films of all genres are accepted. Submissions for the early deadline (with $10 submission fee) must be postmarked by December 18, 2009. The final submission deadline is tentatively set for March 5, 2009 ($20 submission fee).
Attached is the .pdf file of the 2008 submission form, which includes specific submission requirements. For further information, you may visit our website at http://www.cunuff.com/
or e-mail cunuff@gmail.com.
National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) - 2010 Call for Entries! — 11/4/2009
NFFTY announces call for entries for feature-length and short films in narrative, documentary, animation, music video, and experimental categories. NFFTY is the largest youth film festival in the country and features over 100 films, filmmaking panels, networking with Hollywood professionals, concerts, parties and more. Submissions are open to any filmmaker 22 years old or younger in the world. For 2010, the festival has developed a brand new secure online submission system with San Francisco based Indee.tv. The system allows filmmakers to submit films online and upload an HD quality version of their film to a secure server for festival judging and consideration. Films that have environmental awareness, peace, and social justice themes will receive special recognition as part of the festival’s NFFTY Earth campaign. Entry fees range from $20-$35. NFFTY 2010 will be held April 29-May 2 in Seattle, WA. We also have discounted group submissions for schools at $10 per film.
Next Deadline: October 31st
Regular Deadline: December 15th
Final Deadline: January 15th
Learn more and submit at: http://www.nffty.org/submit.html
Other Opportunities
Film Score Contest — 11/24/2009
There is an official contest to remix a piece from the upcoming videogame “Dark Void” It’s a Capcom property and can be found on their website, or you can follow the link below to a blog posting on it by Bear McCreary (scores to TV series Battlestar Galactica, Terminator: the Sarah Conner Chronicles, Trauma, and Human Target) who actually is scoring the game:
http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=2930#comments
WINGA Video Contest — 11/19/2009
Kurgo Products is a company that is focused on developing active dog products. We recently introduced a new product, the Winga is a game, toy and training tool that will keep dogs and owners entertained for hours.
Kurgo Products would like to see your take on their new WINGA. This great new toy for dogs provides a unique spin on the simple game of fetch, that everyone will love. So if you are a performer and think you have what it takes to put together a great clip, keep reading!
The video can be anywhere from 30 seconds to 3 minutes and is due by February 21st 2010. The selected, video will be aired on our website, our YouTube Channel, in retail stores nationwide and via other media outlets potentially including national TV.
- Step 1: Fill out application
- Step 2: Receive samples
- Step 3: Go crazy and create
- Step 4: Upload your video by posting a vide response on You Tube
- Step 5: Promote, promote, promote!
- Step 6: Judging process, make sure to promote your video to get the most views!
The number of views your video gets will be one of the factors taken into consideration when choosing the finalists.
1st place - $500 | 2nd place- $250 | 3rd place - $150
Visit kurgo.com/contest for complete rules and regulations
FILMMAKERS, SHOW YOUR WORK ON CAMPUS — 11/17/2009
I am interested in finding a student in Film Studies who would be interested in assisting UNCW School of Nursing's Camp BONES participants in making a video for a project of their own. Camp BONES is a Community Oureach program in the School of Nursing that introduces nursing and health careers to underserved minority students. For more information to go the nursing home page http://www.uncw.edu/son/ and look for the Camp BONES link at the bottom www.uncw.edu/son/CampBones.html. Our students frequenly do projects designed to give back to their communities through education. Our students will return in the spring and would like to produce a 20 minute educational video that can be shown to their high school peers that will educate them about domestic violence.
Please contact Debbie Ezzell if you are interested in assisting with this video project: ezzelld@uncw.edu
Music Recital Taping — 11/6/2009
My name is Mary Claire Curran and I am inneed of a videotographer for my Junior Recital. The performance will be in Beckwith Recital Hall in the Cultural Arts Building, Saturday, November 14th. The performance will start at 7:30 pm and will be approximately 45 minutes long.
I am hoping that a dependable Film Major will be able to professionally videotape my performance and then be able to put it into DVD's.
This is a paid job!
Call me at 443-742-7458 or e-mail MEC8064@uncw.edu if you are interested!
FILMMAKERS, SHOW YOUR WORK ON CAMPUS — 11/3/2009
CHWK, UNCW-TV’s on-campus television station, wants to promote the creative efforts of student, staff, and faculty filmmakers by showing their work on channel 77, which broadcasts for FREE to your peers right here on campus! Visit http://uncwtv.uncw.edu/submissions.html for information on making video submissions or email CHWK@uncw.edu.
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