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Below ZERO
Documentary projects on life above the Arctic Circle
Tromsø, Norway, January 14-17, 2009
Deadline: November 14, 2008
Below ZERO is a new international pitching session for documentary projects focusing on life above the Arctic Circle. This event is initiated in order to bring together filmmakers, producers, financiers and organisations whose common interest is documentaries thematically rooted in the Northern Polar region. Below Zero is set in Tromsø, Northern Norway, during the last days of the polar night.
Below ZERO seeks a wide range of documentary projects on all subjects related to life above the Arctic Circle. These can be projects focusing on culture, environment, resources, politics, climate changes and indigenous peoples as well as general human stories.
Filmmakers from all over the World are welcome to submit projects for Below ZERO. Stories with a broad international market appeal are preferred. From the submitted project proposals a maximum of 12 projects will be selected for participation. The working language will be English.
Further info and how to apply for Below ZERO is in the attachment or at Below ZERO on the web
EDN contact:
Cecilia Lidin
cecilia@edn.dk
+45 3313 1122
http://www.edn.dk/art.lasso?-token.skip=&na=200404&ndd=1159
The Social Equity Venture Fund (SEVEN) is sponsoring Cinema Prosperite, a competition seeking short films between 2 and 5 minutes that profile an entrepreneur engaged in ethical and sustainable business practices. The grand prize for the competition is $20,000, with second and third prizes also awarded. Submissions are due November 15th. For full details, please go to http://www.sevenfund.org/cinema.
Cinéma Prospérité, strives to change the dialogue around solutions to poverty by infusing the world's imagination with new imagery, imagery that focuses on the solution: Entrepreneurship. We welcome videos profiling entrepreneurs in any part of the world. At SEVEN, we believe there exists an opportunity to change the terms of discourse surrounding poverty, to change the assumptions and behaviors of entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, aid professionals, academics, and business leaders by exposing them tothese successful models of enterprise-based development. We believe that entrepreneurs who are starting and running for-profit businesses in ethical ways -serving customers, treating and paying workers well, generating returns for investors, and achieving all these things without negatively impacting future generations or damaging the environment - should be celebrated.
With this goal in mind, SEVEN is funding the Cinéma Prospérité competition. Through it, we are inviting amateur and professional filmmakers around the globe to help us tell the stories about real people who understand that ending global poverty is serious business.
Submissions will be accepted for six months – from May 15 to November 15, 2008. Judging will happen online from November 15, 2008 – November 30, 2008. The winning videos will be announced on December 7, 2008.
Distribution Grant for New York State Artists - Now Administered by free103point9
Deadline: December 31
free103point9 is pleased to announce the 2009 Distribution Grant for New York State Artists providing support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. This grant is for completed works only. Funding is available from free103point9 through a regrant from New York State Council on the Arts' Electronic Media and Film Program. Grant awards will assist artists in making works available to public audiences and may include, but are not limited to: duplication of previews, screening, and exhibition copies of moving image and sound works; promotional materials including documentation and schematics of media-installation and new-media works. The rental or purchase of equipment for exhibition/distribution by individual artists is also eligible. Artists may request funding support up to a maximum amount of $10,000.
Questions: Please contact regrant@free103point9.org.
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(518) 622-2598
(917) 297-1537
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Do you want to get ahead in documentary filmmaking? Get the skills and make your own film in just two weeks with DFG, the UK's leading provider of industry-focussed training in documentary filmmaking - also a member of the elite Skillset Media Academy Network.
DOCLAB is an intensive course taught by award-winning industry professionals that gives you the skills you need to pursue your career in documentary filmmaking. You will gain essential technical skills on industry standard HDV cameras, sound equipment and digital editing software. Through researching and making your own documentary under the expert guidance of our tutors, you will gain knowledge of and insight into the documentary production process to get the edge in this highly competitive industry.
By the end of the course you will also have your own film. Graduates of DOCLAB have screened their films at film festivals around the world, and have gone on to work for UK broadcasters and independent production companies.
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ABOUT DFG:
The Documentary Filmmakers Group (DFG) is the UK's leading provider of industry focused training in documentary filmmaking and the national organisation working to promote talent and innovation in the industry. DFG and its partner, Goldsmiths, University of London, are members of the elite Skillset Media Academy Network.
This month our special guest is Chuck Workman, who Matt Zoller Seitz of the New York Times called one of the three most influential editors of the past 50 years.
Chuck Workman has been involved in filmmaking for thirty years as a director, writer, editor, and producer. Workman has directed several documentaries, including: SUPERSTAR, on artist Andy Warhol, THE SOURCE, on the beat generation, THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT, on the Presidency and pop culture, and THE FIRST 100 YEARS, on the history of movies.
He has also won several awards for his short films at The Denver Film Festival, The New York Film Festival, Sundance, and Cannes. His film, PRECIOUS IMAGES, won an Oscar for Best Short film and it is the most widely shown short in history. Workman is also well-known for montage and documentary sequences, especially those he created for several Oscar shows, which were nominated ten times for Emmys.
"Pizza & Post" is a great opportunity to gain new insights, ask a few questions, network with your post-production peers, and as always, eat a lot of pizza. P&P is free and runs from 7PM to 9PM at Video Symphony TV & Film School, 266 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA. There's free parking in the adjacent parking garage (entrance at 239 E. Palm St., one block east of Magnolia). Seating is limited, so kindly RSVP to pizza_and_post@vs.edu as soon as possible.
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