Proscenia Newsletter - Opportunities

The Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA) announces its second annual mid-Oregon film and video festival to be held the evening of December 9th. This annual event provides an opportunity for local film makers to showcase their work. Prizes include Best Juried film/video Award $250 and Audience Choice Award $100.

Where: DIVA Center 110 W. Broadway, Eugene, Oregon
Festival Date: December 9, 2005
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 PM Reception to follow
Admission $5.00

Submission deadline: November 1, 2005 - no work accepted after this date. Full Details: http://www.proscenia.net/openlens/

Deadline: November 1, 2005
Interaction 2006, PRINT’s Digital Design Competition

Interaction 2006, PRINT’s Digital Design Competition is currently accepting entries. Any of your most exciting interactive projects, as well as print or TV ads promoting Web sites and e-commerce, are eligible. All winning work will be selected by a panel of distinguished judges and will be featured in Interaction 2006: PRINT’s Digital Design Annual, published as part of PRINT’s October 2006 issue.

For more information, along with rules and entry forms, visit PRINTmag.com. Then make sure your entries are submitted by the November 1, 2005 deadline.

Deadline: Friday November 4, 2005
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
THE 11TH ANNUAL WOMEN OF COLOR FILM FESTIVAL

In its eleventh year, the Women of Color Film Festival aims to provide a progressive showcase of films created by an underrepresented sector of the film industry. Each film entry must have a woman of color in at least one key creative role, e.g. director/producer, screenwriter. The festival will take place in March of 2006 at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA and at Cinematheque in San Francisco, CA. For the first time last May we also collaborated with a non-profit Canadian film festival in Toronto to produce a curated program of shorts at Alucine, celebrating Latina and border breaking films.
Past festivals have proudly featured Shirin Neshat's video installation Fervor, Etang Inyang's Badass Supermama, Grounds by Dolissa Medina, Jennifer Thuy Lan Phang's Love Ltd., She Wants to Talk to You by Anita Wen-Shin Chang, Hair Stories by Yvette Smalls, Sabrina Dhawan's Saanjh-As Night Falls, Grace Lee's Barrier Device, Rosario Sotelo's Fabrication, Monique Walton & Andia Winslow's Still Black, At Yale, and Aradhana Seth's Dam/Age: A Film with Arundhati Roy.
Submissions Criteria: Films or videos may be of any length, genre and format, and must be less than 3 years old. Preview copy of submission must be in VHS format. Please do not send originals. We are not responsible for damage incurred during shipping. Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you would like your submission returned. Submissions will not be returned otherwise. Notification of programming decisions will be made by late January through email.

Final post-mark deadline: Friday November 4
Domestic Entry fee: $10 for the first entry postmarked after October 7, $5 each additional entry (no one turned away for lack of funds). International entry fees are waived.
Make checks payable to Linda Charmaraman, c/o The Women of Color Film Project

Online information and submission forms available at www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa_programs/women_of_color/
Note: Website is currently being updated but the online app form is already usable

Send application materials and submissions to:
Women of Color Film Festival
c/o Pacific Film Archive
2625 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720-2250
For more information, please email wocfilmproject@berkeley.edu

Deadline: December 12, 2005
PRIX JEUNESSE INTERNATIONAL 2006
May 5 - 10, 2006
Munich, Germany

PRIX JEUNESSE INTERNATIONAL 2006, the world's premier festival for children and youth television programmes and webpages, is calling for entries for its Web Prize.
Every telecaster eligible to enter TV programmes to PRIX JEUNESSE may also
enter one Web Site for the 2006 Web Prize. Web Prize entries must be sites designed to accompany a specific children's TV series or programme offered by the telecaster.
Contest rules and entry forms for web and TV programme entries are
available at: http://www.prixjeunesse.de/home.html

Deadline: January 13, 2006
Call for Work:
Mid-Valley Video Festival
Salem, Oregon

Submit your film to the Valley's 3rd annual showcase for local filmmakers. All accepted entries will be shown. Submission areas include: features, documentary, music video, animation, and everything else. Entries will be judged on creative and technical merits and prizes will be awarded at the festival. Forms and information: mvvfest.org. Phone 503-371-7044.