Opportunity

Take part in the 3rd Annual Rappahannock Independent Film Festival by submitting a film or attending the public screenings.

Information

Located in historic Fredericksburg, Virginia, the Rappahannock Independent Film Festival (RIFF) is an annual event dedicated to promoting excellence in independent filmmaking.

The Rappahannock Independent Film Festival is dedicated to being a socially conscious event. We work to implement practices that reflect the ethics of the organizers and participants. Here are a just a few of the things we are doing to lower our ecological footprint:

- Using a “green” web host which subsidizes clean energy such as solar and wind power.
- Handle most of our correspondence and advertising online to reduce shipping costs and paper waste.
- All of our events take place within walking distances to reduce the need for excess travel.
- When possible, we use local and organic foods at our events.
- Encourage the use of re-usable water bottles and recycling at our events.
Films will be judged on the following categories - Direction, Technical, Screenplay, Acting, Editing, Ingenuity, Relevance, Theme, Sound, and Art Direction.

One film will be awarded in each of the following categories - Best of Show, Audience Choice (must be present to win), Best Student Film, Best Short Film, and Best Documentary

Festival will be held between August 26, 2010 and August 29, 2010 in Fredericksburg, VA.

http://www.rifilmfestival.com

Requirements

Deadline to enter is May 26, 2010.

Submit films through withoutabox.com, which is linked throughthe Rappahannock Independent Film Festival website, http://www.rifilmfestival.com.

Contact

Rappahannock Independent Film Festival
info@rifilmfestival.com
(540) 373-1311

Opportunity

Submit work for Athens Video Art Festival, Greece’s biggest festival of digital arts and new media.

Information

Athens Video Art Festival is Greece’s official festival on video art and at the same meets the requirements of people from the full spectrum of creativity. Through its versatile action Athens Video Art Festival constitutes a field of promotion and a link between the artists and the audience inside and outside Greece.
Every year Athens Video Art Festival evolves, enriches and sets new goals, raising the bar higher, brings out its academic side and enhances it through important tributes and collaborations, provides the artistic community with additional motive for creation presents international cutting-edge developments on the field of digital arts and communicates them to the wide audience. Our goal remains the expression through a versatile cultural event open to any form of expression of the digital creation.

http://www.athensvideoartfestival.gr/eng/default.asp

Requirements

Deadline to submit is March 15th.

Contact

info@athensvideoartfestival.gr

Opportunity

Submit work for American Illustration 29.

Information

https://www.ai-ap.com/reg/cfe/index.cfm?

Requirements

The entry deadline has been extended until February 26th.

Eligibility:
All North American illustrators, creative professionals, representatives, students and teachers of photography with work created or published anywhere for any purpose. International illustrators with North American representation or those who have been published or exhibited in North America are also eligible.
Work produced or published between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009 in the following categories: Editorial, Books, Advertising, Graphics/Promotional, Film and Animation, 3-D, Unpublished/Personal/Fine Art and Student work.

Entry Fee:
$10 per illustration or $60 per portfolio up to ten images by an individual, class, or department.

Contact

American Illustration - American Photography
1140 Broadway, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
917-408-9944
info@ai-ap.com

Opportunity

Submit work for The Indy Film Fest.

Information

The 2010 festival will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana July 15th to July 25th.

011110iiffsubmissionssought

Requirements

Submission deadlines and associated fees are:
Early submissions: Due February 1; $40 fee
Regular submissions: Due April 15; $50 fee
Late submissions: Due April 30; $60 fee

Films must be submitted through Withoutabox.com, an online tool for filmmakers seeking
audiences for their work and film festival officials. Films may be full-length, defined those whose
screen time is at least 40 minutes long, or short-subject works less than 40 minutes in duration.

Films chosen for the 2010 festival will be grouped in three major categories:

American Spectrum: This category celebrates the best in American cinema and films
must be produced or co-produced by at least one (1) U.S. citizen.

World Cinema: Recognizing the best in international works, these films may be
co-produced by a U.S. citizen(s) but at least one (1) producer must be a citizen of a nation
other than the U.S.

Documentary: Thought-provoking non-fiction from the U.S. or around the world, these films
may be produced by international or domestic filmmakers.

Contact

Susan Sullivan
susan.sullivan@indyfilmfest.org

Opportunity

Submit work for the Sola Luna, International Documentary Film Festival on Mediterranean and Islamic Cultures.

Information

The festival will take place in Palermo (Italy)  from July 18- 25, 2010

http://www.solelunaunpontetraleculture.com/SolelunaEng/index.html

Requirements

Deadline to submit is April 15, 2010.

Only films produced after January 1, 2007 can enter the competition.

To enter, send the following materials to Sole Luna Festival c/o Alessandra Amorello- Via della Concordia, 57 90124 Palermo (Italy):
1. A DVD copy of the film.  Films in a language other than English must be subtitled
2. A dialogue list, both in English and Italian language; would also appreciate an electronic copy of the dialogue list in any of the following formats: doc. and PDF
3. A completed and signed entry form with the DVD of the film
4. A completed and signed entry from must be attached to the film and, if not already filled on line, it must be also sent by mail to the following address: info@solelunaunpontetraleculture.com
5. In case of a film being selected for the sections in competition, the festival will notify the applicant, director, producer and distributor of the film BY MAY 15th AT THE LATEST;
6. The Festival office must receive the films selected to enter the competition no later than JUNE 1st, 2010 in any of the following screening format: BETACAM, DVCAM, DVCPRO. The copies for screening, to be shown in any of these formats, must be sent without subtitles, the Festival will subtitle the entries selected in Italian language.
All the DVDs, envelopes, BETACAM tapes, containers, etc., should be labelled “For cultural purposes only - NO COMMERCIAL VALUE”.

Contact

http://www.solelunaunpontetraleculture.com/SolelunaEng/index.html

Opportunity

Submit work for the Virginia Collaborative Professional (VaCP) video contest.

Information

Virginia Collaborative Professionals is seeking online videos that highlight the advantages of using the Collaborative Process in divorce rather than the more traditional adversarial court-based approach. The video may communicate, among other key features about Collaborative Practice, the value of using a team consisting of financial, mental health and legal professionals who work together to help clients through their divorce.

http://www.vacpvideocontest.com/

Requirements

Deadline to submit is March 31, 2010

Videos can be created by an individual or a team. Undergraduate & graduate students are particularly encouraged to participate.
To compete, entrants must be 18 years or older or have parental permission.

To participate in the contest:
- Create a video that is no longer than three minutes
- Format your video according to the YouTube handbook. Video specifications can be found at http://www.youtube.com/handbook_popup_produce_upload?pcontent=bestformat
- Register for a free YouTube account at http://www.youtube.com/create_account
- Upload one or more videos to YouTube and tag it with “VaCP” and “Collaborative Divorce”
- E-mail your real name, age, mailing address, phone number, and a link to your YouTube video submission to vacpvideocontest@youtube.com

Contact

vacpvideocontest@gmail.com

Opportunity

Submit screenplay for the 12thAnnual Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition.

Information

The Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition, was founded in 1998, and has generated heat, publicity and a reputation that demands respect. Scriptapalooza, Inc., along with its various divisions was created to nurture talent and create opportunities. Storytellers come from all over the world and from all walks of life, because of the simple fact that everyone has a story. Scriptapalooza’s goal: to seek out that storyteller and honor their script with a grand prize of $10,000. Each year dozens of production companies and literary representatives sign on as participants to read our winners, resulting in many scripts being optioned, sold or outright bought.

http://www.scriptapalooza.com

Requirements

Deadline to submit is March 5, 2010
Entry Fee: $50

Open to any writer, 18 or older.

- Any script from any genre will be considered
- Multiple entries are accepted, provided a signed entry form and appropriate entry fee is attached to each submission.
- Multiple authorship is acceptable. If screenplay wins an award, that award will be divided among the writers, by the writers.
- Screenplays must be original work of the author.
- Scriptapalooza recommends registering your scripts with The Library of Congress.
- No substitutions of new drafts or corrected pages for script entries will be accepted under any circumstances.
- Entry must be accompanied by the following
1. completed official entry from
2. the appropriate entry fee
3. completed original feature screenplay
- Submit scripts in English.
- Submit one copt of an 80-140 page screenplay. Do not send originials. Material will not be returned under any circumstances.
- Body pages must be numbered.
- Scripts must be in industry standard format and bound with two or three brads.
- Scripts must be on plain white paper.

Contact

323.654.5809
info@scriptapalooza.com

Opportunity

Submit work for the 3rd Ward Solo Show.

Information

The 2010 Winter Solo Show is a juried international art competition for dynamic, inventive and provocative work of all mediums: sculpture, photography, painting, printmaking, illustration, installation, graphic design, video and more!

The Selected Artist will receive:
- $5,000 cash grant
- Solo exhibition in 3rd Ward’s gallery, complete with a massive opening reception
- 3-month residency at 3rd Ward including private live/work studio & full facility access (photo studios, wood & metal shop, media lab, classes)
- Airfare & shipping to and from 3rd Ward for non-NYC residents (not residence)
- 2-page spread in 3rd Ward’s Quarterly Magazine
- NYC exposure - postcards, fliers, press!

http://www.3rdward.com/opencall/s1

Requirements

Deadline to submit work is March 1, 2010 at 11:59pm EST.

Recommend a minimum of three images per artist be submitted.
1, 2, or 3 images for $15/image
5 images for $60
10 images for $85

Each file submitted should be 1 MB or smaller.
Your file must be a JPG, PNG, GIF, PDF

Contact

3rd Ward
(718) 715-4961
info@3rdward.com

Opportunity

Submit work for Outcasting season 12.

Information

Outcasting is a voluntary organization that offers a platform for practioners of the moving image.  Artists, filmmakes, animaters, and documentary makers are selected for screening of their work in bimonthly seasons and will then be archived on the site.

http://www.outcasting.org/

Requirements

Season 12 submission deadline is March 15, 2010.

If you want your work to be considered then do one of the following
1. Send a URL if your work is online
2. Send a data DVD with .mov files/ MiniDV / of your work to Outcasting, c/0 Michael Cousin, 116 Paget Street, Grangetown, Cardiff, CF11 7La
3. Email your work via www.pando.com (up to 1GB for free of 3GB for $24.96 a year)

Contact

contact@outcasting.org

Opportunity

Submit work for the Lexington Art League Alternative Selves exhibition.

Information

Alternate Selves is an exhibition that explores the transformative power of costume. Through theater, annual holiday celebrations (such as Halloween and Mardi Gras), and even contemporary drag shows, costumes have allowed the wearer to reveal a new identity or at times hide from their own. Artists creating wearable items or those using costume, disguise, masks, etc. as primary thematic elements in their work may apply. Artists are encouraged to creatively interpret the theme. 2-D, 3-D, and time-based entries will be considered.

http://www.lexingtonartleague.org/calltoartist.htm#Alternate

Requirements

Entry deadline: March 1, 2010

Artists must be at least 18 years old to enter and cannot submit work that has previously been displayed at LAL.

Artists may enter by mail, drop-off, or email, but all images of work must be digital. Application materials will not be returned.

To enter by mail or drop-off- Please send or deliver completed entry form, jpeg images of work on CD or video on DVD (video submissions must be mailed or dropped-off), and artist statement to:

Alternate Selves
Becky Alley, E & P Director
Lexington Art League
209 Castlewood Dr.
Lexington, KY 40505

To enter by email- Please type subject of the email as “Alternate Selves Entry” and attach completed entry form (available for download at www.lexingtonartleague.org under “artist opportunities”), jpeg images (video submissions must be mailed or dropped-off), and artist statement to:

balley@lexingtonartleague.org

Contact

For questions or more information, please contact Becky Alley, Exhibitions and Programs Director, Lexington Art League, balley@lexingtonartleague.org, 859-254-7024.