Film, Audio, Media, RMIT

A place for production staff and students in Media, Media and Communication @ RMIT – by Paul Ritchard

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FILM & MULTIMEDIA COMPOSER

Tamara’s appetite for music has becoming a passionate hunger to compose for film and with a Bachelor Degree in Music Composition, as well as specialised training in Film Scoring, Tamara commits herself to write, record and produce at the Industry Standards for every project she takes on.
Working with directors and producers from Deakin University, Swinburne University aswell as collaborating with artists on a national platform,has granted her the means and the momentum to explore originality and professionalism in her works.
With a strong background in music performance, being apart of the MYM community as a child and having the exposure to an expansive variety of styles, artists, technologies and creative approaches has allowed Tamara to have a vast network of some of the highest calibre of musicians and producers in Melbourne.
Currently seeking collaborations with dedicated and famished film makers, game developers and animators.
Tamara is contactable via links below.

The 5th Annual Good Dog! International Film Festival

The 5th Annual Good Dog! International Film Festival is now accepting film, story, screenplay and teleplay submissions through its websitewww.gooddogff.com  and www.filmfreeway.com  The prize pool is AU$16,000 comprising $1000 per category including a children’s category. Each submission must include or be about a dog making it the most unique film festival in the World. U.S. MovieMaker magazine described it as one of the “10 coolest film festivals in the World”-out of box category

The Early deadline: 30 MAY 2015
Regular deadline: 31 JULY 2015
Extended deadline: 30 SEPT 2015

The Festival will screen 18 & 19 March 2016 throughout Australia and will tour internationally as a travelling film festival. In the past, the Festival has screened Oscar and BAFTA winning & nominated films including films that have shown at Sundance, Palm Springs and other first-class festivals.

For further information please visit the website at www.gooddogff.com and its sister event www.dogparade.com.au

Each year proceeds of the Good Dog! International Film Festival are donated to Australian and international dog charities. In the past, the Festival has donated in excess of $10,000 to dog charities. This year the beneficiary is Young Diggers, a charity that trains comfort dogs for returned soldiers suffering from PTSD. www.youngdiggers.com.au/dogs

info@moondancepictures.com   www.gooddogff.com

www.facebook.com/GoodDogFilmFestival

www.twitter.com/GoodDogFF

Human Rights Arts & Film Festival

Film submissions are now open for the 2015 Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, and we can’t wait to see what new and established directorial voices have created in the social justice space.

SciFi Film Festival calling for Entries

‘SciFi Film Festival is dedicated to promoting sci fi film culture and celebrate all things science fiction, with $8,500 in cash prizes.

Have you made a scifi film?  We are accepting submissions to the film festival of feature films, short films, music clips, documentaries, machinima and animations for a chance to gain exposure with $2,000 in cash prizes and awards. A selection from these submissions will be screened at our annual SciFi Film Festival. Closing date for submissions is Midnight 19th October 2014.

Project SciFi Competition offers filmmakers, animators, machinima makers and documentary makers the opportunity to create a short film in just 30 days beginning 3rd October and compete for $5,000 cash and other prizes.

Writing Competition invites creative writers to submit their sci fi short story of 5000 words or less with $500 cash prizes and awards. The winning story is then promoted on our website and showcased to the world. Closing date for submissions is 2nd November 2014.

Cosplay Competition invites costume players to wear their favourite sci fi outfit or costume and compete for $1,000, on 16th November.

Screenings and Awards ceremony showcases short films and awards prizes on 16th November 2014 in Parramatta.

Visit www.scififilmfestival.com to find out more.

Big Break

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MOFILM

In consideration of the feedback that additional time would be beneficial we are pleased to announce that MOFILM has pushed back their deadline for the production grant applications. Filmmakers will now have until 28th July to apply for a US$500 – $2500 production grant towards the cost of their film.

MOFILM connects talented filmmakers with international brands and social causes. They believe that great filmmakers come from every background and experience, and with the easy availability of low cost, high quality technology, the essential requirements for a successful filmmaker have become creative intelligence, resourcefulness and determination.

MOFILM has helped accelerate the careers of filmmakers from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa and now they’ve set their sights on Australia. They’ve seen a steady stream of compelling content produced locally and recognise that there’s a tremendous depth of talent here. The MOFILM mission is to provide filmmakers with access to wide audiences, important causes and major brands, and in so doing bring emerging filmmakers to global attention.

Working with Blue Cat Pictures, together we’ve embarked on an extensive search for Australia’s emerging filmmakers to participate in their first open competition here.

Teaming up with iconic Australian brand Aerogard, this MOFILM campaign is promoting Gramping – camping with your grandparents. I’ve attached the Brief from Aerogard which outlines the requirements in more detail.

Basically, filmmakers are required to create and upload a 30 second film which celebrates the opportunity for all generations to reconnect with family through Gramping.

The filmmaker who makes the most effective and original film will receive a US$8,000 cash prize plus a trip for two (including accommodation for three nights) to London to attend the MOFILM event 14-16 October.

What’s more, there are generous production grants up for grabs to help the production process. Between US$500 and $2500 grants are available to filmmakers who apply before 21 July.

Here are the key dates for the MOFILM Aerogard Gramping competition:

1 July – Brief live to international filmmaker community
21 July – Production Grant Applications due
4 August – Grant Winners notified
5 September – Competition Closes

Mid September – Prize Winners announcedWe hope you’ll agree this offers a fantastic opportunity for any emerging filmmaker – both in terms of the prizes available and international brand exposure.

If you would like to share with your students and colleagues, please direct them to the MOFILM website where they’ll need to register at MOFILM.com to download the terms, agreement and all the brief support materials.
For further information about MOFILM please check the following links:
Press:
The Globe And Mail (Canadian national newspaper)
Brands and Award-winning MOFILM Filmmakers

Causes:
A compilation of some MOFILM causes

MOFILM Hall of Fame:
Examples of MOFILM’s best workincluding Pepsi 2010 short film by Australian actor-writer-director Abe Forsythe and NZ filmmaker Hugh Mitton’s 2012 winning campaign for Coca Cola.

 

2015 BlueCat Screenplay Competition

We are proud to announce this year’s Movie Title Contest open to all entrants to the BlueCat Screenplay competition. Please share the below information with your communities. Thank you for your time!
Every year, the BlueCat Screenplay Competition holds a Movie Title Contest for all of our early submissions. All entries submitted to BlueCat by AUGUST 1st will be automatically eligible. Our TOP 3 favorite titles will each receive a cash prize of $250!
All scripts submitted by the Movie Title Deadline of August 1st will receive their written analysis by October 1st.
$60 for features and $40 for short screenplays.
Since 1998, the BlueCat Screenplay Competition has provided a community for the unknown screenwriter to develop their work, giving undiscovered talent a path to professional success.
We accept both feature length and short screenplays, and in keeping with our longstanding tradition, every screenplay will receive one written analysis, with our best screenplays receiving over $40,000 in cash prizes.
Awards
BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY
$15,000 Grand Prize
Four Finalists
$2,500 Prize
BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY
$10,000 Grand Prize
Three Finalists
$1,500 Prize
THE CORDELIA AWARD
Best Feature Screenplay from the UK
$1,500 Prize
THE JOPLIN AWARD
Best Feature Screenplay from outside the USA, Canada or the UK
$1,500 Prize
MOVIE TITLE CONTEST
Three Winners: $250 each
All screenplays entered by August 1st are eligible
Recent achievements by BlueCat Alumni include:
  • Aaron Guzikowski’s #1 Film “Prisoners,” starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Melissa Leo, was released in September 2013. He is also the creator of “The Red Road,” a Sundance Channel original series.
  • Young Il Kim’s script, “Rodham,” a 2012 Blacklist Script, recently attached director James Ponsoldt (“The Spectacular Now”). Young recently won the 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant from Sundance, where he will write a biopic on Stephen Hawking.
  • Ana Lily Amipour’s debut feature, “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night”, premiered at 2014 Sundance.
  • Ashleigh Powell sold her script, “SomaCell,” to Warner Brothers, with David Goyer attached to produce.
SUBMIT YOUR SCREENPLAY:
BlueCat Screenplay Competition

Sundance Institute has two contests

Below is an opportunity to bring your stories to the screen.**OPEN CALL for STORY Submissions — Deadline: July 1st, 2014**In partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Sundance Institute has two contests, one contest for stories, one for short films:
The Challenge: Share your unique, compelling and personal Story (fiction or documentary) to be made into a Short Film by a renowned Sundance Institute filmmaker. Tell us a Story that explores empowering individuals or communities who are overcoming poverty and hunger, combatting disease, or improving health in all parts of our world. Your Story can be imaginative, unorthodox, daring or simple and must touch on economic inequalities.

The Goal: Let’s use the power of independent film and collective creativity to inspire a global conversation around innovative solutions that real people are using to conquer these challenges.

The Reward: FIVE winning Story submitters will each earn $1,000 and ONE of those Stories will be made into a Short Film to be directed by a Sundance Institute filmmaker. That Short Film will be shown at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and its Story author will receive an all-expenses paid trip to attend the Film Festival as the Special Guest of Sundance Institute and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

To submit a story, **NOTE–You can submit up to FIVE stories:http://tongal.com/project/SundanceStory#tab-brief

To submit a short film (for those projects who have videographers or filmmakers), please go to this link, **NOTE–You can submit up to FIVE videos:http://tongal.com/sundance#.
Prize is $10,000 for award winners and receive an all-expenses paid trip to attend the Film Festival.

To read the Huffington Post article, “Sundance And Gates Foundation Challenge You To Create A Video That Matters” for background and three short films that premiered at Sundance 2014 for inspiration:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/05/sundance-gates-foundation_n_4875141.html

The Made In Melbourne Film Festival

The Made In Melbourne Film Festival is the only festival exclusively for our local filmmakers. MIM opens submissions for 2014  on Tuesday May 27th with a big launch screening and party.

2014 marks the sixth straight year MIM celebrates the desire, drive, and diversity of our local film making talent.  And the festival is bigger and bolder than before: four days and nights, more sessions, more films, more awards; and once again open to shorts, features, and films by high school students.  Plus more surprises in store. Check out the website for more info on the festival and to find out how to enter your films.

Tomorrow night’s launch sees MIM teaming with Melbourne’s most innovating and popular monthly film event, Final Cut, run by Richard Harris at the grungy and hip 1000 £ BEND  in the heart of the city.  The night will feature a retrospective screening of some of the best films from MIM, including major winners and high school standouts.  Pop-up cabaret, circus acts, and street performers will also grace the event, the atmosphere bound to be buzzing and loaded with laughter.

So celebrate the best local films with us, enjoy the show, and welcome the Made In Melbourne Film Festival back for a brand new year. We look forward to seeing you there tomorrow night and viewing your films, Melbourne.

MIM Launch @ Final Cut
Pre-show entertainment begins 5:30pm
Films begin 7:30pm
Tuesday May 27th
1000 £ BEND  361 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne

www.mim.org.au

2015 BlueCat Screenplay Competition

We are pleased to announce the start of our 2015 BlueCat Screenplay Competition! Please pass along the below information to your communities to spread the word about our exciting 2015 Call for Entries!

 

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Since 1998, the BlueCat Screenplay Competition has provided a community for the unknown screenwriter to develop their work, giving undiscovered talent a path to professional success.

The Joplin Award is given to the best script from outside of the US, Canada, and the UK and comes with a cash prize of $1,500.

The Cordelia Award is given to the best script from the UK and comes with a cash prize of $1,500.

BlueCat accepts both feature length and short screenplays, and in keeping with our longstanding tradition, every screenplay will receive one written analysis, with our best screenplays receiving over $40,000 in cash prizes.

All submissions received by June 15th will receive their written analysis by July 1st.

Students will be eligible to submit their short screenplay at a special rate of $35.

The final deadline for the competition is November 15th, 2014.

We look forward to working with you!

Awards

BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY

$15,000 Grand Prize

Four Finalists

$2,500 Prize

BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY

$10,000 Grand Prize

Three Finalists

$1,500 Prize

THE CORDELIA AWARD

Best Feature Screenplay from the UK

$1,500 Prize

THE JOPLIN AWARD

Best Feature Screenplay from outside the USA, Canada or the UK

$1,500 Prize

MOVIE TITLE CONTEST

Three Winners: $250 each

All screenplays entered by August 1st are eligible

Recent achievements by BlueCat Alumni include:

  • Aaron Guzikowski’s #1 Film “Prisoners,” starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Melissa Leo, was released in September 2013. He is also the creator of “The Red Road,” a Sundance Channel original series.
  • Young Il Kim’s script, “Rodham,” a 2012 Blacklist Script, recently attached director James Ponsoldt (“The Spectacular Now”). Young recently won the 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant from Sundance, where he will write a biopic on Stephen Hawking.
  • Ana Lily Amipour’s debut feature, “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night”, premiered at 2014 Sundance.
  • Ashleigh Powell sold her script, “SomaCell,” to Warner Brothers, with David Goyer attached to produce.

SUBMIT YOUR SCREENPLAY:

http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/2015-call-for-entries/

BlueCat Screenplay Competition

Website:  http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com

Facebook: http://facebook.com/BlueCatScreenplayCompetition

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlueCatPictures

Instagram: http://instagram.com/bluecatscreenplay

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/bluecatpictures

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/bluecatscreenplay

Newsletter: http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/bluecat-newsletter

 

Registrations for Screen It 2014 are now open

Registrations for Screen It 2014 are now open
http://atom.asn.au/screen_it/screen_it.html
Now in its tenth year, Screen It is Australia’s largest moving image competition for primary and secondary students, encouraging and fostering a new generation of moving image makers. This year’s judges include ABC Good Game’s Bajo and Hex!

Explore the theme REFLECTION in an

– Animated film,
– Live action film or
– Videogame

and enter in the Primary or Secondary school category as a group or individual.

Entries close:
Friday 12 September

Great prizes are awarded at the red carpet awards ceremony in December at ACMI in Melbourne. Winning entries are displayed in ACMI’s permanent exhibition, Screen Worlds.

Register, watch previous winning entries or download the Teacher Resource Kit atacmi.net.au/screenit.

Environmental Film Festival Melbourne

I am the Program Coordinator for the Environmental Film Festival Melbourne. We are currently considering content for inclusion in our 2014 festival program, and are inviting distributors, production companies and film schools to submit material completed since January 2012.The Environmental Film Festival Melbourne entertains with groundbreaking films, traversing the relationship between humans and their environments, challenging the way people think about the natural world and inspiring them to discuss, explore and act on important environmental issues.

We are the premier environmental film festival in Australia. With a marketing reach of over 2 million, and a diverse audience, EFFM provides great exposure for new and established filmmakers. And with plans to go national, we expect our reach to increase significantly over the next year.

If any of your students are interested in submitting work, we would appreciate access to the full film (ideally either a DVD screener or a password protected link). This will help us in our decision making process. The deadline for entries is May 31. 

Martin Schoo

Program Coordinator
Environmental Film Festival Melbourne

 

‘Ocean Warming’ film comp


Would your film or media students be keen to create a 45-sec video to win prizes?

 Create a 45-second video about the log-a-fish project Redmap to raise awareness of ocean warming – and to win prizes!

Why? The Redmap video competition offers a total of $5,000 in cash prizes. It’s also a chance to showcase your video (and your Uni or school!) on the Redmap website and in promotions around the country.

Who? Anyone in Australia, any age.*

Style? Any style is welcome, from an animation to a mockumentary, photo slideshow, an interview (e.g. with a scientist or fisher), underwater footage, faux-news bulletin, skit, TV-style ad and musical. The sea’s the limit!

What?  Just include the themes ‘Redmap’ and ‘ocean warming’.

When? Enter your 45-second video by 1 May 2014

For more information go to:  www.redmap.org.au/article/redmap-video-comp-2014/

 

Pass on the competition details to interested students, colleagues, friends and family.  

What’s that cliché again? Be in it to win it!

 

ENQUIRIES:  Yvette at   enquiries@redmap.org.au

Warehouse Cinema

http://www.warehousecinema.com.au/

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Action4Climate

C4C’s goal is to create a participatory, open knowledge platform that engages youth in a global climate change conversation to drive local action.

C4C has just launched Action4Climate: a new global competition for the best environmental documentary on climate change.

ACTION4CLIMATE invites young aspiring filmmakers to produce and submit a 1-12 minute video
documentary telling a story about climate change.

How is climate change impacting your community?
What are you doing about it?
What needs to be done to solve the climate challenge?

The competition is open to young filmmakers from all over the world (individuals and
teams of 5 or less) in two age groups:14–17 and 18–35.

Award-winning film directors and producers, and international organization representatives will select the winning entries:

· Bernardo Bertolucci – President of the Jury· Atom Egoyan

· Marc Forster

· Mika Kaurismaki

· Rose Kuo

· Rachel Kyte

· Cynthia López

· Fernando Meirelles

· Mira Nair

· Bob Rafelson

· Walter Salles

· Pablo Trapero

· Wim Wenders


The winners will be awarded with cash prizes up to US$15000 or video equipment.
Winning films will go to major film festivals and will be featured on the new MTV Voices platform.


The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2014.

If you believe the Action4Climate competition would be of interest to your students, we would be thrilled if you encouraged them to participate in this effort to amplify youth voices on climate change.

For more information about the competition, please see the attached one pager and links.

http://www.connect4climate.org/competition/action4climate
apps.facebook.com/actionforclimate
www.connect4climate.org

2014 documentary study abroad

Actuality Media coordinates summer programs for current students and recent graduates interested in video, journalism, new media, social entrepreneurship or telling stories that matter. In each program students travel to a developing international community and learn how to produce a short documentary film about a social entrepreneur, nonprofit organization or other changemaker working there. We are now accepting applications for our 2014 documentary outreaches, heading to Ecuador, Kenya and Cambodia.

You can check out our production schedule at
http://www.actualitymedia.org/programs/2014-production-schedule/ or read more about our documentary outreaches at http://www.actualitymedia.org/study-abroad-outreach/. There are also past films, behind-the-scenes photos and student testimonials on our website. For questions, contact Robin Canfield, the Outreach Program Director at robin@actualitymedia.org.

Sydney’s Backyard Film Festival

Entries are now open for Sydney’s Backyard Film Festival, taking place on Thursday 28th November at the Alexandria Hotel, Sydney (poster attached). This film festival offers the opportunity for up and coming filmmakers across Australia to screen their films in a casual, fun and supportive atmosphere.
The closing date for entries is the 14th November. Films must be less than 15 minutes long but can be of any genre. They will need to be submitted in 1080p and 16*9 format.
Prizes will be awarded on the night, and will include a grand prize of a $500 voucher for Metro Screen.
For further information or to submit your film, please email fourandbenproductions@gmail.com.

Viral video competition: Purifier

Focus: Create a video promoting Purifier’s new iPhone app that displays humour or interest potentially resulting in virality.
Deadline: 11 October 2013
Submissions: Please upload the video to YouTube as ‘unlisted’ and send a direct link to bianca@dizzydigital.com.au
Prize: Winner will take away three double passes to Frontier Touring gigs this year, and if the viral video is used in the Purifier marketing campaign, $1,000 cash as payment for their idea.
Brief: Purifier is currently developing a brand new iPhone app to accompany our website, and we need a viral video to help promote the app on launch as part of our marketing and social media campaign. It doesn’t need to be ‘professional’ or ‘slick’. It just needs to be engaging and shareable, whilst communicating that Purifier’s new app is available for download now on the iTunes store.
Key marketing messages:Please use one of the following marketing messages as part of the viral video your create:1. Purify your life… with Purifier2. Connect your music world3. Let music find you
Tone: Purifier is cool, fun, young, fresh, modern, connected, an insider, cheeky and at times provocative.
Viral video reference examples:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201383730983103 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI#t=83
About Purifier: Tired of wasting countless hours trawling websites, blogs, socials and videos for the music content you want? Purifier makes following, sharing and discovering music easy.

Purifier demo video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ8G6ypRqq8

For more information or Purifier assets: Email bianca@dizzydigital.com.au

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