Call for submissions: NW Filmmaker's Festival

NORTHWEST FILMMAKERS' FESTIVAL

NOVEMBER 11-19, 2011

ENTRY DEADLINE, AUGUST 1, 2011 (POSTMARK)

If you haven't heard, the Northwest Film & Video Festival has changed its name to The Northwest Filmmakers' Festival and I am looking for your best recent work for our 38th year of celebrating you. I am hoping you have something for me-or know someone who does.

The NW Filmmakers Festival only accepts work made by filmmakers living in Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington State.

If you are a permanent resident of any of these, this Festival is for you. 

And it's not just "for you" in the sense that your work is eligible.

The whole festival is actually for you.

What do I mean?

• We do not charge an entry fee.
• All entries are considered for other screening opportunities at the Northwest Film Center including the Portland International Film Festival and our Northwest Tracking series.
• All selected short films will be eligible to join the "Best of the 38th Northwest Film & Video Festival" touring program that screens at venues large and small from Alaska to Tennessee and many points in between.
• Filmmakers whose work is selected are eligible to receive Production Services Awards worth $1000 or more from regional sponsoring companies like Alpha Cine, Digital One, Modern Digital and Koerner Cameras.
• If your work is selected, you'll get a Festival Pass for all events including the Opening Night Gala and, of course, invigorating and inspirational hours of screenings made by you and your comrades. Out of town guests will be put up in one of our sponsoring hotels.
• All filmmakers of the Northwest are invited to the Festival's free BarCamp un-conference where attendees set the agenda and lead discussions on all aspects of filmmaking-sharing their areas of expertise with each other.
• Every filmmaker who enters eligible work is offered two free tickets to Festival screenings regardless of whether they are selected or not.
• Did I mention that we do not charge an entry fee?

The entry deadline is August 1 (postmark) but be a pal and send it along as soon as you can.  I personally watch all the entries and would love to get a running start at it.

Here is a link to our NW Fest web page-it includes links to download the entry form.

http://www.nwfilm.org/festivals/nwfest

Official Selections will be announced and the schedule available online at nwfilm.org by October 15.

I look forward to hearing from you and seeing your latest work.

Thomas Phillipson

Regional Services / Festival Manager

Presented with support from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, The National Endowment For The Arts, The Oregon Cultural Trust, Weiden + Kennedy, LAIKA and many others.

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THOMASPHILLIPSON

Regional Services Manager

Northwest Film Center

Mail: 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205

Office: 934 SW Salmon Street, Portland, OR 97205

www.nwfilm.org

503-221-1156 X13

fax: 503-294-0874

Call To Artists

The Eugene Storefront Art Project will be hosting a Summer Fundraiser with a Figurative Show. Looking for various types of media. This is a non-juried show with a $10.00 entry fee that includes membership to E.S.A.P.  Fee includes up to 3 entries.  Framed and Unframed accepted.

Intake will be on Thursday July 28th from 2p.m. to 6p.m. at 224 E. 11th Street. This show will be included on the 1st Friday Art Walk in August and the Fundraiser will be on the following evening, August 6th from 5:30 - 9:30.

Portland Creative Conference - September 17th

Join other Creative Industries professionals for a celebration of inspiration, imagination and innovation at the Portland Creative Conference on Saturday, September 17th at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts, featuring local and national creative thought-leader presenters.  Early bird registration is just $64 after the 20% we can offer you as long as you register with our Discount Code: “GOFT”. Proceeds support K-12 arts education.

Confirmed industry-leading speakers so far include*:

Jim Kouf – Writer/Producer/Director  (“National Treasure”, “Rush Hour”, “Stakeout”), Producer (“Con Air”, “Ghost Whisperer”, “Angel”, “Grimm”)

David Greenwalt – Producer (“X-Files”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “Angel”, “Eureka”, “Grimm”), Writer (“Wonder Years”, “X-Files”, “Buffy”, “Miracles”, “Angel”, “Grimm”), Director (“Help Wanted Kids”, “Double Switch”)

Rob Legato, Special Effects Supervisor, “Avatar”, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, “Titanic”, “Apollo 13″, “Armageddon” and others

Brynn Bardacke, Global Creative Director, Coca-Cola

Naomi Pomeroy – Chef, Bravo’s “Top Chef Masters” TV show

Peter Richardson, Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner for documentary “How to Die in Oregon”

Robert Thompson, architect & design director at TVA Architects (Nike campus, Matthew Knight Arena at the U of O, Fox Tower, Proctor & Gamble HQ)

Irene Taylor Brodsky – Documentary Director, “Saving Pelican 895″, “Hear & Now”

Robyn Tenenbaum, Producer of OPB’s Live Wire! radio show

…all for just $64 with the discount code “GOFT”

In addition to several keynote presenters, there will also be our traditional Wrap Party for all attendees right after the conference.

Early bird registration is just $64 if you use our 20% Discount Code: [GOFT].

For complete details and to register, visit the Creative Conference Website.

NOTE: Proceeds go to support K-12 arts education programs in Oregon.

A Special Thank You to Creative Conference Sponsors: Wieden+Kennedy - Waggener Edstrom - Icebreaker Nature Clothing- Tonkon Torp LLP

OVERVIEW: Portland Creative Conference 2011 - Newmark Theater, Portland Center for the Performing Arts - Saturday, September 17, 2011

8:15am Check-in and networking

9:00am – 5:00pm Main program

5:00 – 7:00pm Wrap Party

http://www.cre8con.com

info@cre8con.com

Master of Arts: Design Practice, Critical Art Practice, and Visual & Critical Studies

Call for applications to Master of Arts programme in Design Practice, Critical Art Practice, and Visual & Critical Studies

School of Art, Design & Printing. Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland


The School of Art, Design & Printing Dublin Institute of Technology is offering a suite of Masters programmes specifically designed for honours graduates in fine art, multimedia, design, architecture and humanities. It has been developed by the School in collaboration with the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (www.gradcam.ie) which delivers a structured Doctoral programme. The programme is centered around the development and delivery of a major project which can be either practice or theory based. Key features of this approach are the integrated delivery of Masters and Doctoral research methods as well as a special series of lectures providing a survey of key ideas in the study of contemporary cultural practice.

The programme combines the self-directed ethos of graduate academic research with the structured environment of a taught programme. Drawing on the diverse research and scholarly activity by staff in the School and the activities of GradCAM it aims to nurture and support an interdisciplinary approach to research and development within art, design and critical theory. This dynamic environment seeks to provide a framework for critical interdisciplinary dialogue and enquiry that facilitates, promotes and leads the interaction between cultural practice, educational practice and the everyday world of work and innovation beyond the academy.

The programme allows specialisation within a dynamic mix of critical and practical disciplines in art, design and/or critical theory – realised within the context of critical and philosophical debate. The series of thematic streams on offer will reflect the current practice, scholarly and research activity of staff and will be available to students in the Project Initiation, Project Development and Project Delivery modules. Initially, the following thematic streams will be offered:

• Text and Type
• Narrative and the Image
• Design Participation and Usability
• Art and Temporalities
• Semiotics and the Visual
• Memory and Material Culture
• Interpretation, Representation and Criticism
• Transdisciplinary Practices


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School of Art, Design & Printing
DIT Mountjoy Square
Dublin 1
Ireland

NIEA Experimental Arts Double Conference

Registration Open: NIEA Experimental Arts Double Conference - August 19-20

What is experimentation? What makes art 'experimental'? What are the results of aesthetic experiments and why do we need them? Could artists invent new modes of experimentation with/for science? What are the differences between experiments and inventions; experiments and failures; experiment and innovation? How do we set up ethico-scientific-aesthetic experiments? 

This conference will showcase and discuss innovative arts projects by leading practitioners, thinkers and research groups that model new forms of transdisciplinarity and offer new ways of addressing real-world issues. These include works that have successfully 'changed the world' as well as speculative initiatives that radically change the way we think. It will survey the results and potential of Experimental Arts, inviting leaders in the field to discuss how we can extend and support a platform for path-breaking experimentation.

Invited speakers: James Crutchfield (Complexity Sciences Centre, University of California, Davis); David Dunn (Art and Science Laboratory, Santa Fe); Donald Brook (Flinders University); Amy Balkin (CCA; Stanford); Mischa Kuball (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne); Chris Bosse (UTS; L.A.V.A.); Terry Smith (Pittsburgh; NIEA); Elizabeth Ann McGregor (MCA, Sydney); Adrian McKenzie (University of Lancaster); Victoria Vesna (University of California, Los Angeles); Lyndal Jones (RMIT); Pia Ednie-Brown (RMIT); Joyce Hinterding (University of Sydney).

Main program includes keynote lecture, five plenary sessions and three parallel strands over two days.Session topics: Formative Technologies; Politics/History; Agency/Materiality; Experimental Humanities Bio Art/Sense Perception; Experiments in Collaborative Experience; Affective Experiments; Soundscape/Filmscape/Landscape; Urban Construction; New Materialities; Health/Body; Ecology/Sustainability; Exhibiting; Experimental Discourse & Practice. Also features lunchtime screening of iCinema Centre's Scenario on Friday. 

Visit the Conference Website for full program and registration. 
blogs.unsw.edu.au/niea-experimentalartsconference/

NIEA website: www.niea@unsw.edu.au

FREE, Summer in the City event

Downtown Eugene,   Wednesday, July 13 at 6 pm Kesey Square

Summer in the City presents     Eugene Opera in the Open Wednesday, July 13 at 6:00 pm   Downtown, Broadway & Willamette     Treat yourself to light opera favorites, sung by members of the Eugene Opera's Mentor program, with Eugene Opera music director Andrew Bisantz. This show is all voice! Join us at Kesey Square (Broadway and Willamette) for this Summer in the City-Downtown event on Wednesday, July 13 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Summer in the City - Downtown: Fun, family-friendly and free! Suggested donation of one can of food or $1 for FOOD for Lane County  More information about this event and all City of Eugene's Summer in the City free events go to www.eugene-or.gov/Summer in the City or find us on facebook.

NW Film Center - Media Arts Academy

CAMP: MEDIA ARTS ACADEMY FOR TEENS #8

GRADES 9-12

If you’re thinking about applying to film school or want to experience the excitement (and challenges) of creating an entire film from scratch and experiencing a real film shoot, you don’t have to go to New York or Los Angeles. Now in its 12th year, the MEDIA ARTS ACADEMY FOR TEENS is the School of Film's premier opportunity to learn with award-winning film professionals, work in a small group, and use professional level digital video equipment and Apple Final Cut Pro software. Bring several script ideas to the first day. You'll work as a group to determine producability, what attributes make a story great, and to select one concept to develop into a screenplay. You will then be involved in all aspects of production, including planning, casting, directing, working with actors, shooting, lighting, sound recording, and editing to a polished level. Come prepared to work hard and learn an amazing amount! Expect at least one long shooting day during the class. The week will culminate in a screening for family and friends in the Film Center's state-of-the-art Whitsell Auditorium. Tuition includes catered lunches. No previous experience is required. Completed films will be uploaded to a special class online video album.

Enrollment is limited to 14.

PREREQUISITES

No specific classes are required. Please see notes below for more details and recommended skills required to successfully participate in this course.

SELECT 1 OF 2 SECTIONS

SECTION 1: MONDAY-FRIDAY, JUL 18-22 & MONDAY-WEDNESDAY, JUL 25-27, 9 AM-5 PM

SECTION 2: MONDAY-FRIDAY, AUG 8-12 & MONDAY-WEDNESDAY, AUG 15-17, 9 AM-5 PM

8 Sessions

4 PSU CREDITS

CERTIFICATES

Level 1: Does Not Apply Level 2: Does Not Apply Level 3: Does Not Apply

PSU Course: Yes

FEES

Tuition:	$995.00
Equipment/Lab Fees:	$125.00
PSU Credit (optional):	$240.00 (if taken for 4 PSU credits)

LOCATION

Northwest Film Center School of Film

934 SW Salmon Street, Portland, OR (Corner of 10th & Salmon)

OTHER INFORMATION

Meals: Provided

HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT: The Academy may qualify for high school Arts or Elective credit through your school district. Inquire with your local guidance counselor. COLLEGE CREDIT: The Academy is available for 4 undergraduate credits through the Portland State University Department of English at an additional charge of $240 (depending on enrollment status, additional PSU fees may apply). A letter grade will be issued on a PSU transcript. Admission to PSU is not required. College credit must be selected by the first day of the Academy and cannot be awarded retroactively. For information contact classes@nwfilm.org or 503-221-1156. STUDENT HOUSING: Reasonably priced dormitory housing with kitchen and Internet access (and optional meal plan), operated by the Portland State Housing Office, is available in the Ondine Residence Hall, a short walk from the Film Center. Arrangements must be made directly with PSU at 503-725-4336 and/orwww.pdx.edu/housing. Please note that PSU housing does not provide on-site supervision of students and is not affiliated with the Film Center. For more information contact Pam Minty,pam@nwfilm.org or 503-221-1156 x25. FRANK HOOD SCHOLARSHIPS: A limited number of full and partial scholarships to the MEDIA ARTS ACADEMY FOR TEENS are available to those with a demonstrated high interest.  The application deadline is June 15, 2011. Dowload the Application Form.

Szpilman Award 2011: Call for Submissions

Members of the jury - Bernd Euler, Dirk Fleischmann, Lise Harlev, Leonard Kahlcke, Patrick Koch, Tina Kohlmann, Sara Nuytemans (prize winner 2010), Arya Pandjalu (prize winner 2010), Tina Schott, and Michal Sznajder - are glad to announce the SZPILMAN AWARD again in 2011.
 
The SZPILMAN AWARD is awarded to works that exist only for a moment or a short period of time. The purpose of the award is to promote such works whose forms consist of ephemeral situations.
  
Everyone can apply. Worldwide! There is no participation fee. Closing date: September 30, 2011 (postmark)

The prize winner receives the Jackpot Stipendium. This scholarship consists of three parts:

A challenge cup, 10 days of accommodation in Cimochowizna (Poland), and a sum of money in cash.

The amount of money is dynamic. SZPILMAN is raising money parallel to the competition. The prize winner receives the money that is raised until September 30, 2011. The current score may be checked here ( www.award.szpilman.de/jackpot )

For all informations and the application form click www.award.szpilman.de and: Apply Now!

Project Youth Documentary - apply now

SECOND SESSION ADDED! APPLY NOW!
August 1 - August 26

PROJECT YOUTH DOC (PYD) is a summer video documentary program for youth ages 13-16 years old taught at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR.  Working in small teams with the guidance of professional filmmakers, students go through the process of producing, filming and editing a short documentary from start to finish.  Students create documentaries focusing on the most powerful force in our society today, their own voices, turning the camera inward to explore issues important to their lives and communities.

Documentary topics by PYD students have included:

   * "Flashmobs" –   Looks at the new 'Flashmob' phenomenon, where a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment and/or satire
   * “Alberta" –  Examining the Alberta neighborhood in Portland, focusing on the people, businesses, and recent changes affecting the area
   * “Disabled Lives”  –  Several hearing impaired PYD students explore cochlear implants, the controversial new technology that many see as endangering deaf culture.

Get more information and download the application athttp://hollywoodtheatre.org/education/project-youth-doc/.
While there is no formal deadline, applications are reviewed in the order received

August 1 - August 26
M-F, 12pm-5pm at the Hollywood Theatre
$600, scholarship information available at:http://www.racc.org/resources/funding

Project Youth Doc films will have a formal premiere at the Hollywood Theatre on September 9th, 2011. Students will also offer community screenings and Q&A sessions.

For questions, please contact Rachel Stone, Education and Outreach Coordinator, at rachel@hollywoodtheatre.org or (503) 493-1128
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August 13-14 & August 20-21

Angel Flight Art Retreat

Angel Flight Rd. Leaburg, Or

9 AM—3 PM

Bring fishing/camping/painting gear

Call or email to reserve your place

343-5651

pittore44@yahoo.com

Cost: $120 —  Deposit Required to hold place in class

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