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The 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards Submissions
Well of course they weren’t going to stop after just one year! Yep the submission clock has started for 2012′s Vimeo Festival + Awards. The categories have been opened up this time round to include Advertising, Lyrical, Action Sports and Fashion (a DN favourite), all of which could net you a cool $5,000 grant, while [...]
The Beauty of a Second
190 years ago Nicolas Rieusse recorded time to an accuracy of a fifth of a second. The chronograph was born. To celebrate Rieusse’s invention, Mont Blanc and Wim Wenders have issued the challenge to “seize the moment” and capture the beauty of a second. Just shoot one second of video/film and if Wim Wenders picks [...]
Stray Cinema 2011
Back on DN009, we mentioned a new (well new then) competition called Stray Cinema, which was inviting filmmakers to download and recut footage to be voted on by the online community. While we may have neglected to keep an eye on the project, Stray Cinema is very much alive and raring to go with brand [...]
Collabor8te
The Bureau, Rankin Film and DazedTV have combined forces to create Collabor8te, a new platform designed to champion new British short filmmaking talent; from script development through to production and distribution. Collabor8te are looking for scripts of any genre, up to 15 pages, with budgets up to £10,000. Ten scripts will be shortlisted and go [...]
DN EIFF2011: Nokia Shorts
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Back in March Nokia continued their support of the short film format through the use of mobile phone cameras, with the launch of the Nokia Shorts competition. Filmmakers around the globe were challenged to create a two minute video pitching the short they’d create with a $5,000 bursary [...]
Charlie
We didn’t get round to posting this at the time, but having just wrapped a DN interview with director Luke Snellin, who impressed us all with his Virgin Media Shorts winning film Mixtape, I thought it only right to highlight the short he made to launch this year’s VMS competition, Charlie. Also, in case it [...]
SotW Presents: Matter Fisher
A few months ago the fine folks over at Short of the Week decided to expand their remit as one of the most read/watchable sites online and used their film The Thomas Beale Cipher as a test case to see if with the correct strategy in place, shorts can be launched online to audience numbers [...]
Hello, Future
We know from his mobygratis project that musician Moby is keen to lend his support to new filmmakers trying to break through, so it’s no surprise (although still welcome) to see him team up with Vimeo and Saatchi & Saatchi for the Hello, Future competition: Moby, along with Saatchi & Saatchi, and international video sharing [...]
Nokia Shorts 2011 Launched
To flaunt the quality of their HD-quality N8 camera, Nokia has teamed up with Vimeo ‘to nurture new, HD mobile movie making talent‘ through the Nokia Shorts competition. Basically, submit an idea at www.vimeo.com/nokia and a panel of judges will select the best eight submissions to each receive a $5,000 budget and two Nokia N8 [...]
Life Just Is: Poster Design
As DN regulars no doubt know, Alex Barrett’s feature debut Life Just Is has been steadily progressing towards completion, but no matter how good the finished product may be, what’s a film without a stunning poster? With this in mind the LJI team launched a poster design competition last December and today have unveiled the [...]
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