Student films: STIFF Festival

Organized by the Student Cultural Centre of the University of Rijeka, the first edition aims to bring the best student productions from all over the globe to Rijeka to present to Croatian audiences, especially fellow students. The Festival aims to empower the developing local film and video industry by opening a window into the works of fellow filmmakers, to encourage cooperation and development of new ideas and cross-border collaboration in the field of media production.

Eligibility: All entries must be original, student created films (created during film studies, training or workshops). There are no limitations as to the length and genre of the work. There is no limit to the amount of films that a filmmaker, producer or film school may register.

All works must be produced after 1 January 2012

Formats: Films must be submitted via DOWNLOADABLE link (Wetransfer, Yousendit, Vimeo etc) in a common video format (H264 in a mp4 or m2ts container is preferred)

There are no entry fees.

Deadline April 15

More Information: http://www.skc.uniri.hr/portfolio/student-international-film-festival-stiff/

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VIDEOHOLICA OPEN CALL FOR VIDEO ART 2014

Deadline June 1

VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival starts the open call for video art submissions for its 7th edition: 1-7 August 2014 in Varna, Bulgaria.

This year's edition of VIDEOHOLICA will be accompanied by an international panel discussion on the issues and opportunities for alternative video art distribution and creating on-site archive of video art in Bulgaria.

The theme of VIDEOHOLICA 2014 is 7 : a hyper functional number featuring multiple typical symbolic and meaningful encumbrances.

VIDEOHOLICA 2014 will be composed of: video art, short films and animation and will award prizes.

Submission fee: EUR 15

More Information: http://www.videoholica.org/

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34th Annual Spring Photography Contest sponsored by SIGMA

Deadline April 14

FEES Early Entry :: by April 14, 2014 :: $4.95
FINAL Entry :: by May 12, 2014 :: $5.95

No Limit to Quantity of Entries.

• Rights remain with photographer
• Subject matter is open
• Finalists notified by July 28, 2014
• Winners notified by August 11, 2014

ELIGIBILITY This contest is open to all amateur photographers in the United States, Canada, and around the world.

WINNING PHOTOS will be published in the November 2014 issue of Photographer’s Forum Magazine. All contest finalists will be published in the hardcover book Best of Photography 2014.

FIRST PLACE GRAND PRIZE

$2,000 cash award from Photographer’s Forum
• Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM|Art lens (MSRP $1,160)
• Chimera OB2 PRO Kit #6024 (Octa 2 Beauty Dish reflector and Versi Octa Speed Ring). (MSRP $399)

SECOND PLACE

$1,500 cash award from Photographer’s Forum
• Sigma 18-250mm lens (MSRP $800)
• Manfrotto Professional Backpack 50 camera bag. (MSRP $264)

THIRD PLACE

$1000 cash award Photographer’s Forum

FOURTH PLACE

Five $125 awards

100 HONORABLE MENTIONS
All Honorable Mentions will be listed in the November 2014 issue of Photographer’s Forum magazine and will receive a gold embossed certificate of outstanding merit from Photographer’s Forum.

PARTICIPATION GIFT All entrants from the U.S. and Canada receive 2 FREE ISSUES of Photographer’s Forum.

More info: http://pfmagazine.com/photography-contest/?idev_id=1011#sthash.RMCsdppU.dpuf

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ENDE TYMES IV FESTIVAL OF NOISE AND EXPERIMENTAL LIBERATION

This one must be lots of fun, je je

Deadline: April 15
Ende Tymes IV is the 4th annual festival for NOISE and VIDEO ART in outer NYC. This year it will be held at Silent Barn and Outpost Artists Resources from May 8-11

Submissions of video art are requested for screening at Outpost on May 11.



The theme is "sound vision" - sound as integral component of the conceptual / thematic / technical video material. Single-channel works with time lengths of 2-15min are recommended.



You may submit up to 3 links in a single email message. We will watch the videos after the deadline has passed, so make sure the links will not expire. Please do not send more than one email message! And please trust we'll be in touch if we are interested

Announcements will be made April 22. Final screening copies will be due by May 1 - uploads preferred. Screenings will be May 11 at Outpost.

General festival details:


Ende Tymes IV Festival 
May 8-11, 2014
presented by Silent Barn, Outpost Artists Resources, Halfnormal, and Love Over Gold
Thursday-Saturday will be noise and experimental music

 at Silent Barn
Sunday will feature video screenings and live performances with video at Outpost

More info:
http://halfnormal.com/endetymes/

http://outpostartistsresources.org/
http://www.silentbarn.org/

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InShadow International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies (Portugal)

If you're accepted in this one I'll pay for drinks =)

Deadline extended: May 30

InShadow is an innovative initiative promoted by Vo’Arte in co-production with São Luiz Teatro Municipal. The Festival has already affirmed itself as a reference in the scope of trans-disciplinary contemporary creation, presenting exclusive proposals of body representation on screen and on stage, highlighting the convergence between image and body and artistic creation processes based on technology.

InShadow ranges a comprehensive program including performances and solo performances, international video-dance and documentary competitions, a section aimed at a younger audience (LittleShadow), an important training section offering workshops and masterclasses for both wide and specialized participants, as well as installations and exhibitions that expand the Festival throughout the city and later on the world.

InShadow, the body imagined within the shadow.

Organization: Vo’Arte
Co-production: São Luiz Teatro Municipal
Artistic Direction: Ana Rita Barata and Pedro Sena Nunes

6th InShadow – International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies
December 2014
São Luiz Teatro Municipal and other theatres, museums, galleries and venues in Lisbon

ACCEPTED GENRES

a) Video Dance / the videos in competition run to 8 awards attributed by the Official Jury, Schools Jury, Vo’Arte Jury and Public.

b) Documentaries / the videos in competition run to an award attributed by the Documentary Jury.

c) Performance (solos) / Presented in alternative spaces in Lisbon.

d) Installations / Presented in alternative spaces in Lisbon.

SUBMISSIONS

Read the regulations thoroughly here, fill in the online entry form for each genre at the SUBMISSIONS subtabs and send the film via wetransfer to info@voarte.com (features: Quick Time, codec H264, in HD if possible) until 2GB (maximum capacity of wetransfer) or, alternatively, send the DVD and other elements as in the point B) of the regulations to:

More info: E-mail (for questions related to the regulations and online entry form) voarte@voarte.com

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MADATAC 06

Deadline: July 28

The spanish festival is dedicated to new media arts & advanced audio visual technologies.
Are accepted all forms of video: film, performance, installation…
Madatac takes place in Madrid. This year, concept's festival is POLITICS OF BENUMBING (of how society and art coexist with coercion, the inability to react, stagnation, paralysis, powerlessness). There is no criteria as to the subject of the works: works created with new media and digital technologies, video art, interactive art, multimedia digital art, computer art, media art, live cinema, found footage, video installation, audio-visual performance, human-machine interaction, technological art creation, bio-art, etc.

More info: http://madatac.es/en/madatac-06-open-call

A little detail for the northern folks, Madrid in summer is uppa uppa seafood soap, on the other hand chicks are half naked, je je

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VIDEOROVER: SEASON 8 - OPEN CALL

Wow NY is non-stop!!

Deadline: April 21

NURTUREart is currently accepting proposals for the 8th season of Videorover. NURTUREart’s dedicated video program, Videorover aims at becoming an ever-expanding forum for emerging artists working in video.

This season we are seeking proposals that focus on video as installation. We are therefore encouraging submissions from video artists concerned with the many variables of how video content is reproduced and presented. We will consider how the video is engaged with the gallery space and its context, looking for works presented as installations, as well as ones referencing such issues internally, as part of the video’s own narrative and visual articulation.

Videorover: Season 8 will be exhibited in the main gallery space for a three week event during which different video-installations will be presented via separate openings. The selected works will be separated into smaller groups, with an emphasis on the co-activation of the space. In this respect, we are looking for work from artists that are interested in or open to the spirit of collaboration. After the formal exhibition, the videos will then move the the Videorover project space, where they will be displayed on a rotation of one video per day for the remainder of the season. For this reason, there should also be a version of the video, or a related work available for when the works move to the Videorover project space.

The subject matter of this call is open. Keep in mind that although we are dedicated to realizing these projects through creative institutional support, our budget and equipment is limited.

More info: http://nurtureart.org/?p=8229

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VIDEOFOCUS

Deadline: April 26

STIGMART10 VIDEOBIENNALE CALL FOR VIDEOART, EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA, FASHION, DOCUMENTARY

You are invited to submit your work to the Biennial Edition of VIDEOFOCUS, our special Stigmart10 issue focused on video. Selected artists will be published in our art review. There are 4 categories to submit works to: videoart, experimental cinema, fashion video, documentary. Since its foundation, Stigmart10 has encouraged a conception of art based on a dynamic dialogue between artists and audience which reflects the interactive nature of the creation process itself, developing a virtual space for videoartists from all over the world.

Due to the advent of technologies like DSLR and microbudget cinecameras, in the last decade it came a true revolution in the video field. The fusion of differents worlds, like videoart, experimental cinema, and even fashion video and corageus documentary is attested by the increasing number of videoartists cooperating with filmmakers in the last decade, though this synergy is not limited to the improvement of the overall quality in mainstream cinema terms, but shows the great potential of a new generation of artists able to renew the cinematographic language itself from the inside.

More info: http://stigmartpress.yolasite.com/videofocusbiennial.php

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10TH COLOGNE INTERNATIONAL VIDEOART FESTIVAL

Deadline: 30 April

For being german very confusing non tabbed info, anyway details here: http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=5219

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I'm tired, there are other interesting things, check also

• TAIWAN
• IMPAKT
• Cologne Animation
• A film a word