Film, Audio, Media, RMIT

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film comp

http://www.knog.com.au/cms-knog-film-festival/

My name is Sean Wilkinson and I am responsible for the Consumer and Digital Marketing for the bicycle accessories brand Knog and just wanted to touch base with you regarding a competition that we are currently running.

As you may have heard, Knog are currently in the process of organising the first ever Knog Film Festival here in sunny Melbourne. There will be some pretty incredible prizes up for grabs such as a Tern Bike, Globe x Knog Cruiserboard, Rapha apparel, Timbuk 2 messenger bags, Knog gear and loads more prizes soon to be announced.

What we’re asking is for people to put together a short video (about 15-30 seconds) of their “No Ordinary Night”. Shock, scare, amuse and entertain us! All we ask is that the footage is filmed at night and captures your imagination! These can be Instagram, Vine or Youtube videos etc. so you do not need to have any filming experience to enter.

This competition is open to anyone and the awards night will take place on the 12th October at Baron Said in Melbourne.

shortshorts

http://www.shortshorts.org/

I’m sending this email out to let you know that our festival has just
started accepting short film submissions for the 2014 edition.

We take short films under 25min. produced after June, 2012 in any genre and
Japan premiere status is also required.

IBM: People for Smarter Cities. is offering $22,000 in prizes.

My name is Nikki, a Campaign Manager at Zooppa, a social network of user-generated advertising talent working with big name brands including Google, Reebok, and Warner Bros.

I am writing because I have heard of the talent at your school and would like to invite you and your students to participate in our latest campaign, IBM: People for Smarter Cities.

IBM is looking for 120 second videos about how you would make your city smarter and more efficient, and is offering $22,000 in prizes. The talent of your students would be a great addition to this campaign and a great experience for your students to build their portfolios.

You can get started here<http://zooppa.com/en-us/contests/ibm-people-for-smarter-cities/brief?utm_source=ibm&utm_medium=schls&utm_campaign=ctln>

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you might have! I look forward to speaking with you soon.

48 HOUR FILM PROJECT MELBOURNE 2013

Competition and screenings datesANNOUNCED

48HFP MELBOURNE is back for its sixth year running

The world’s biggest international short film competition returns to Melbourne to challenge and inspire Victoria’s filmmaking community. Participants will be battling it out over 48 hours to take home the award forBest Film. With top prize being a ticket and a trip to this year’sFilmapalooza in New Orleans, 48HFP Melbourne is expecting some stiff competition.

Over one hectic weekend, filmmakers will shoot, edit and score their film. Sounds too easy? We thought so too; 48HFP will give each team a prop, character and line of dialogue to fit in with their randomly selected genre. The competition will be kicking off on Friday 11thOctober at 7:00 pm in The Atrium (Federation Square) and drop off will be 48 hours later, Sunday 13thOctober at 7:00 pm in Deakin Edge, Fed Square.

Every year 48 Hour Film Project Melbourne has brought the local filmmaking community together in a creative forum where innovation and artistry collide.

48HFP is committed to developing the artistic talents of the community by offering filmmakers a chance for networking and international exposure.

Creative Forum, 14th September, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 2pm free event

In last year’s Melbourne 48 Hour Film Project,the film, The$Anti)Social$Network, swept the awards. The film won 5 awards including Best Film, Best Director (Chris&Tomkins), Best Script (Geoff&Paine), Best Actors (Geoff&Paine&and Michelle&Nussey) as well as the Audience Choice award. They won a flight ticket to L.A to compete in Filmapalooza the 48HFP International competition representing Melbourne out of 120 cities. The film made it as one of the judges’ favorite and chosen to be screen again in the prestige Cannes International Film Festival in 2013.

For more information and to register a team to this year competition

Check out: www.48melbounre.com.au

CONTACT:

Tommy Blum

Festival Director

+61 432 808 636

tommy@48melbourne.com.au



48 HOUR FILM PROJECT MELBOURNE 2013

Competition and screenings datesANNOUNCED

48HFP MELBOURNE is back for its sixth year running

The world’s biggest international short film competition returns to Melbourne to

challenge and inspire Victoria’s filmmaking community. Participants will be

battling it out over 48 hours to take home the award forBest Film. With top prize

being a ticket and a trip to this year’s Filmapalooza in New Orleans, 48HFP

Melbourne is expecting some stiff competition.

Over one hectic weekend, filmmakers will shoot, edit and score their film. Sounds

too easy? We thought so too; 48HFP will give each team a prop, character and

line of dialogue to fit in with their randomly selected genre. The competition will

be kicking off on Friday 11thOctober at 7:00 pm in The Atrium (Federation

Square) and drop off will be 48 hours later, Sunday 13thOctober at 7:00 pm in

Deakin Edge, Fed Square.

Every year 48 Hour Film Project Melbourne has brought the local filmmaking

community together in a creative forum where innovation and artistry collide.

48HFP is committed to developing the artistic talents of the community by

offering filmmakers a chance for networking and international exposure.

Creative Forum, 14th September, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 2pm

free event

In last year’s Melbourne 48 Hour Film Project,the film, The$Anti)Social$Network,

swept the awards. The film won 5 awards including Best Film, Best Director

(Chris&Tomkins), Best Script (Geoff&Paine), Best Actors (Geoff&Paine&and

Michelle&Nussey) as well as the Audience Choice award. They won a flight ticket

to L.A to compete in Filmapalooza the 48HFP International competition

representing Melbourne out of 120 cities. The film made it as one of the judges’

favorite and chosen to be screen again in the prestige Cannes International Film

Festival in 2013.

For more information and to register a team to this year competition

Check out: www.48melbounre.com.au

CONTACT:

Tommy Blum

Festival Director

+61 432 808 636

tommy@48melbourne.com.au


 

Screen It: national filmmaking competition for students

Screen It

Screen It is Australia’s national film, animation and game making competition for school-aged students. Designed to encourage imagination and inventiveness in primary and secondary school students, Screen It fosters a new generation of young media makers.
Unlike other student film competitions, Screen It is designed to provide rich education outcomes for participants with comprehensive education packs provided to assist in the production process.

Registrations for Screen It 2013 are now open!

Fancy yourself a filmmaker? Think you can match Adam Elliot in the animation stakes? Want to show off your skills as a video game maker? Then get ready to enter this year’sScreen It competition for your chance to create something amazing and win some awesome prizes!
A national moving image competition for primary and secondary students, Screen It is designed to encourage and foster the next generation of young moving image makers.
This year, Screen It entrants are asked to create works responding to the theme:

Connect

All things in the universe connect in one way or another. How do we connect and why? In what ways do we connect? What connections are most important or interesting to us?
We want you to take this universal theme and make it your own using digital media. Your work can be in the form of an animation, live action film or videogame. The winning entries will be the ones judged most innovative, exciting and individual. There are some great prizes to be won, so get those thinking caps on!

Register now online. Registration is free and you will receive all our Screen It updates, including access to comprehensive online resources and interactive production tools.

SIPFEST IS CALLIING FOR ENTRIES IN 2013

Sip some cinema at SIPfest,  a night under the star of Surfers Paradise watching mini-movies from Australia’s best emerging film making talent. Surfers Paradise Festival is proud to announce the return of the Shorts in Paradise Film Festival (SIPfest) to the 2013 festival program.

Set in the heart of Queensland’s Surfers Paradise,  SIPFEST encourages filmmakers from around Australia to submit their short films to the festival judges,  who are looking for cinematic masterpieces under 10 minutes in length. SIPfest films cover any genre: thriller,  comedy,  animation,  documentary,  drama… if it entertains an audience,  we want it in the mix. As the festival plays to a broad audience, we are looking for films that would earn nothing higher than an M rating.

Live judging will take place at the outdoor screening in Surfers Paradise on Saturday April 13th. SIPFest will be the closing event of a day long street party in Surfers Paradise,  with the night to feature live music,  food stalls and market shops in addition to the program of shorts films. Finalist filmmakers have the chance to not only have their film play to a large outdoor audience,  but will also be in the running for prizes awarded in the categories of Best Film,  Runner-Up,  Directing,  Cinematography,  Editing and Audience Choice. The SIPfest prize pool comprises cash and industry prizes,  including a Best Film prize of $2, 500 cash.

Entries are now open for the second annual Shorts in Paradise Film Festival (SIPFest),  part of the 2013 Surfers Paradise Festival. Submissions from across Australia are welcome. Entry is free and the final date for submissions is Friday March 1,  2013. For more information and to download an entry form,  go to http://www.surfersparadise.com/whats-on/all-events/sipfest

Xanadu Wines is holding a film competition

Xanadu Wines is holding a film competition where they are asking people to create a new wine film advertisement to be shown at St Kilda Film Festival. There are some great prizes up for grabs, I thought some of your students may be interested.  If you could pass the details on, that would be great! The link is here: http://www.xanaduwines.com/events-and-news/XD-film-contest/

Calling Aspiring Filmmakers!

Sony Electronics and Sony Pictures have partnered in 12 international territories to launch the ‘DJANGO UNCHAINED Aspiring Filmmaker Competition’.  Aspiring filmmakers are invited to submit their resume and previous work in order to be the chosen winner for their country. That winner will be given amazing Sony camera equipment, including the new Sony NEX-VG900 Camera, and an excerpt from the DJANGO UNCHAINED script to film. Their video will then be submitted for review by Quentin Tarantino himself!

Attached is an e-flyer with full details and an image you can post on your Facebook page, or feel free to share the following Sony Pictures Releasing post:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=546088542084237&set=a.241687265857701.79930.130667656959663&type=1&theater

Please share this with any film students or others that may be interested in entering.

To enter, go to: www.DjangoUnchainedMovieContest.com.au

Be quick, as entries close on November 7.

Django Unchained opens in Australia 24 January 2013.

Melbourne International Film Festival


Is there possibly a way of alerting RMIT’s aspiring filmmaker students to let them know that submissions of short films/documentaries/feature films for 2013 MIFF will be opening on Monday 29 October?

We would love to encourage young Melbourne filmmakers to submit their films for consideration to be a part of the official selection for MIFF 2013.
I can send you a short blurb and links to the MIFF website submissions page. Is there an internal message board or something like that?
Hope you can help, and look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,

Human Rights Film Festival

http://hraff.org.au/

Open Road Film Festival

Greetings from the Open Road Film Festival, a new initiative between Australia’s film industry and Harley-Davidson®, serving to promote Australia’s filmmaking talent, which means you.

Don’t bite off more than you can chew. Think about the resources you have available that will make your film work.

To get your creative spirit revving, we’re giving away five $1000 production grants. Grant recipients will also get the use of a Canon 5D MIII for their shoot. They’ll also receive up to three mentoring sessions with Gregor, Bryan or another industry participant of equal calibre. Grant applications must be submitted and received by 13th July 2012.

For more information, visit www.openroadfilmfestival.com

RMIT SEEDS (Social and Environmental Enterprise Developments)

You may recall receiving an email from us on a previous occasion re: the student wide program, RMIT SEEDS (Social and Environmental Enterprise Developments) designed to support students across the University to develop an idea, project or enterprise with a social or environmental mission (I.e. support programs through the ‘Fellowship’ and ‘Investment Fund’).

This is a request to send the following email copy below to your student list(s) and/or a relevant colleague to facilitate the following invitation to students to apply for the upcoming RMIT SEEDS Investment Fund.

We also run an associated RMIT community forum series at BMW  Edge Federation Square on topics pertinent to social enterprise (please feel free to check out our last forum and other associated videos on You Tube > type: RMIT SEEDS).  We would also like to warmly invite you to join us for our next event on Investing in Social Enterprise. Register at: http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=769f5rcgwh2w

2012 DigiSPAA Digital Filmmaking Competition

The Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) has launched the 2012 DigiSPAA Digital Filmmaking Competition which allows filmmakers from Australia and New Zealand to enter.

The eighth annual competition, themed ‘uncovering new storytellers, telling new stories’ is a celebration and acknowledgement of independent digital filmmaking.
This year’s winner will receive a prize a pool of $15,000 cash and $20,000 worth of post-production, a guaranteed screening of the winning film on the Movie Extra channel, plus a return airfare and free registration to the prestigious CineMart International Film Festival Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.

Important dates:

Applications close: 14 September 2012, 5pm

Final four finalists announced: October

Winner Announced: 12-15 November 2012 at the SPAA Conference, Central Pier, Docklands, Melbourne.

Submissions for the 2012 Made In Melbourne Film Festival are now open!

Submissions for the 2012 Made In Melbourne Film Festival are now open!

MIM is an exclusive showcase for Melbourne filmmakers and short films that are ‘Made in Melbourne’.  The festival celebrates the desire, drive, and diversity of our local film community by screening the very best short films Melbourne has to offer.  Check out the promo below:

https://vimeo.com/32179438

Last year the festival was a great success, running over three big nights, showcasing local films to almost 500 people at the beautiful Astor Theatre, as well as DV8, and the laid-back Great Northern Hotel.  We highlighted a great range of talent and encouraged crowd interaction by hosting Q & A with the filmmakers and allowing the audience to decide the winners.  Now even more is in store for 2012 – more films, more fun, more sensational local shorts!

Plus more prizes and accolades will once again be up for grabs including $1000 in cold hard cash to the ‘Best Film’.  The Entry Form plus all the details are available on the website:

www.mim.org.au

So send us your shorts and show us what you got, Melbourne!

Surfers Paradise Festival

Surfers Paradise Festival is proud to announce the addition of the Shorts in Paradise Film Festival (SIPfest) to the 2012 festival program.

Set in the heart of Queensland’s Surfers Paradise, SIPFEST encourages filmmakers from around Australia to submit their short films to the festival judges, who are looking for cinematic masterpieces under 10 minutes in length.

SIPfest is open to all genres – everything from documentary to animation – and will play to a broad audience so we want films that would earn nothing higher than an M rating.Live judging will take place at the outdoor screening in Surfers Paradise on Saturday July 7, SIPFest will be the closing event of a day long street party in Surfers Paradise, with the night to feature live music, food stalls and market shops in addition to the program of shorts films.

Finalist filmmakers have the chance to not only have their film play to a large outdoor audience, but will also be in the running for prizes awarded in the categories of Best Film, Runner-Up, Directing, Cinematography, Editing and Audience Choice. The SIPfest prize pool comprises cash and industry prizes, including a Best Film package of $2,500 and industry sponsorship awards.

Entry is free and the final date for submissions is Friday June 1, 2012. For more information and to download an entry form, go to http://www.surfersparadisefestival.com/eoi/sipfest

Call for submissions to the 9th Harmony International Short Film Festival.

2012 Theme: Equality

Format: HQ video file & DVD

Time limit: 2 – 10 minutes

Entries close: Friday September 28th

Sydney screening: November 2012

For more info and how to enter visit www.harmonyfilmfest.com

West End Film Festival Call for Entries

The 3rd West End Film Festival is calling for entries for the 2012 program. Filmmakers are encouraged to enter Australian short films from all genres including drama, documentary, animation and music clips.

The festival welcomes first-time and established filmmakers and creative producers to enter their unique works. A selection of the best entries will be showcased as part of the 2012 program at West End’s Rumpus Cinema, and will also be in the running for cash prizes.

Entries close 31 December 2011, and it is free to submit a film.

Submission details are available at www.westendfilmfestival.com.au

$10,000 in prize money for Climate Fix Flicks

Climate scientists from Macquarie University, the University of Melbourne and Monash University have launched a short film competition, Green Screen: Climate Fix Flicks.

Professors Tim Flannery, Lesley Hughes and Ann Henderson-Sellers are seeking film submissions of between 30 seconds and five minutes that communicate positive messages about a zero or low carbon, clean energy future. Fifteen films will be shortlisted and publicly screened in Sydney around the Australian Film Festival in March 2012. Entries will be judged by a panel of well-known artists, film-makers and scientists including Kimble Rendall (Matrix and I, Robot) and Professor Tim Flannery.

The winning entry will receive $5000, up to five films will be awarded ‘highly commended’ prizes of $500 each, and there is a people’s choice award worth $2500. Participants are encouraged to push their creative boundaries! This competition is a great opportunity to have work seen by high profile film and television professionals as well as audiences around the country.

Deadline for submissions is February 10th 2012. See www.greenscreen.org.au for further details and official entryform.

http://climarte.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29a210c8ac479a21fe27cfac3&id=c81c3ddf9d&e=50ae174f73

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