[spectre] call: Short Films, Music Videos for backup2007, Weimar/D

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:57:01 +0200
From: dietrich-schoenherr at web.de
Subject: <nettime-ann> Last call for entries. Short Films and Music
	Videos for backup2007. new deadline 25th of august
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The 9th Annual Backup_festival will take place 
from 18. ñ 21. October 2007 in Weimar, Germany.

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backup.award - short films
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This year, once again, we are looking for young 
film makers and media creatives interested in 
submitting
work for the international category of the 
backup.award and who would like the chance to win 
an award
from the 3750 Euros worth of prizes we have on offer.

Backup is interested in film works that reflect 
and re-define the limits of short film and video 
and which
explore creatively different methods and styles 
of production. In particular this year the 
festival is focused
on the hybridisation of visual communication 
methods and on works which seek to break down 
traditional
practices of narrative structure, production and distribution.

In acknowledgement that many works submitted will 
cross-over numerous traditional category 
guide-lines
in their content, The Backup_Festival 
pre-selection committee will sort entries 
according to their content
and form. Works will then be put into competition 
blocks that reflect their character. This frees 
film makers
from needing to adhear to strict self-categorization of their creative output.

Prizes for the best entries will be awarded by an 
independent jury of filmmakers, TV executives, 
producers,
designers and media theorists.

The call for entries will be announced at 
international academies of film and art, 
universities, polytechnics,
Film and Media Agencies, Film Clubs and centres 
of learning and culture via www.backup-festival.de

To qualify for entry into the competition, all 
works must be submitted in a common video format, 
must have
been completed after the 1st of January 2006 and 
must be no longer than 15 min. in length.

The deadline for entries is the 25th of August 2007

All entries must be submitted by the 25th of 
August 2007 and must include a DVD of the work/s, 
film stills, a
dialogue list, a synopsis, a filmography and a biography of the film maker.



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backup.clipaward - music videos
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This year, once again, we are looking for young 
film makers and media creatives interested in 
submitting
work for the international category of the 
backup.clipaward and who would like the chance to 
win an
award from the 3750 Euros worth of prizes we have on offer.

By awarding the backup.clipaward, the 
backup_festival offers an overview of current 
developments within
the field of international music video culture 
and provides a public forum for experimental 
music video screenings.
Particular emphasis is put on music videos which 
create an extraordinary symbiosis of film and 
music by
using different forms of visual communication and production techniques.
Itís imperative to make image audible and sounds visible.

The pre-selection committee and the jury will 
judge ideas, concepts and the interaction of 
image and sound as
well as the artistic exploration of the possibilities of music video.

The call for entries will be announced at 
international academies of film and art, 
universities, polytechnics,
Film and Media Agencies, Film Clubs and centres 
of learning and culture via www.backup-festival.de

To qualify for entry into the competition, all 
works must be submitted in a common video format, 
must have
been completed after the 1st of January 2006 and 
must be no longer than 7 min. in length.

The deadline for entries is the 25th of August 2007

All entries must be submitted by the 25th of 
August 2007 and must include a DVD of the work/s, 
film stills, a
dialogue list, a synopsis, a filmography and a biography of the film maker.


All musical compositions featured in works 
submitted to the festival must be used with the 
permission of
their legal owner. Failure to obtain 
authorization for compositions used in works 
submitted will result in
their expulsion from the competition.