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Enviromental Film Festival

March 1, 2011 / Paul Ritchard / Comments Off

Last year we ran the festival for the first time.www.effm.org.au We had an outstanding turn-out, with films that sparked debate, inspired thought and empowered people to envision a better future. The festival will be running in mid-September this year, and we are now in the process of collecting films for this year’s screening. The festival will be running over 5 days, and in addition to a selection of international films, we would like to showcase some home-grown work from budding film-makers in Melbourne. We think it’s an excellent idea to encourage local film-makers to tackle the vast list of environmental issues our world faces, whether in the format of Documentary, Fiction or Animation. We would love to receive submissions from your students who are developing projects this year. The films do have a limit of 10 minutes, and will need to be ready by July. Films that are selected will be screened at the Kino in Melbourne, September.

Watch this space for more info

Hard Sell Video Comp

February 28, 2011 / Paul Ritchard / Comments Off

$5,000 TO BE WON
ENTRIES CLOSE FRIDAY 10 JUNE 2011
Make a 30-60 second video commercial that creatively communicates the importance of intellectual property (IP) to small businesses and you could win a cash prize. http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/thehardsell/index.shtml

Environmental Justice Society film comp

February 28, 2011 / Paul Ritchard / Comments Off

The new Environmental Justice Society have launched a video competition that may be of interest to your students, in which the winner would win a trip for two to L.A. to meet Erin Brockovich.

We ask entrants to submit a video of an environmental issue or injustice in Australia for their chance to win. Entries close on march 25th.

I have created a poster about the competition which you could download for more information and potentially pass on to the students if you think they would like to participate. http://bit.ly/ghkOvl

Call for entries from Short Shorts Film Festival, Tokyo

September 18, 2010 / Paul Ritchard / Comments Off

WarmGreeting from Tokyo, Japan. I’m Aki from Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia.

As accredited by Academy Awards, our festival is one of the biggestshort film festival in Asia. For more details, please kindly see our websitewww.shortshorts.org

I’m writing this email to see if we could let know your students about our call-for-entries. We just open our submission for 2011from August 1st. I attach the regulation with email.

For individual submission, we accept through Shortfilmdepot (www.shortfilmdepot.com)

Melbourne International Student Film Festival

September 18, 2010 / Paul Ritchard / Comments Off

We are hosting Australia’s only student film festival in Feb 2011 and would like to invite student work from around the globe.

Please have a look at our website for details. http://www.isfilmfest.org/melbourne

Opportunity for student writers

September 15, 2010 / Paul Ritchard / Comments Off

My name is Kim Heras, I’m the editor of The Next Web Australia – the local arm of the global The Next Web tech blog network
I was wondering if you had any other students who would be interested in doing some guest writing for the blog.

It wouldn’t be a paid gig but there are a bunch of reasons why it might be a great opportunity
1. Opportunity to cross post their stories to the main The Next Web network which receives about 3 Million unique views /month
2. Chance to get introduced to key companies/people in the Australian tech scene
3. Opportunity to build up a portfolio of real stories on a leading global tech blog network
4. Experience in what it’s like to have to identify stories and produce them in a timely manner

Of course this would be perfect for students who have a specific interest in technology but then again we cover companies like Google/Microsoft/Apple/The Australian Government etc. all of which any of your students will probably be familiar with.

Kim Heras
Editor – The Next Web, Australia
Twitter: @kimheras / @thenextwebau
Facebook: The Next Web Australia
Skype: kimheras

Student Contest: Calling all storytellers, animators and filmmakers

September 14, 2010 / Paul Ritchard / Comments Off

We are currently looking for submissions for a contest hosted by jovoto, that could be of great interest to your students. Hence I hope you can tell me how to provide them with information, or even spread the word yourself.

jovoto is an online community that links creative talent worldwide and provides space for an ideation process which is free, collaborative and, above all, fair. It’s initiation was triggered by the perception that in creative industries young talents often have the weakest standpoints, while the entire sector profits from their ideas. Thus, their main goal is to connect people who have ideas to people who need ideas – in a way that satisfies both of them and doesn’t benefit just one party.

This contest, initiated by PayPal, carries a first prize of $5,000 with a further $15,000 being distributed amongst the 19 runners up. Any idea put into production is licensed for a further $2,500. Although some challenges are public, this particular challenge is private. If your students would like to submit anything (ideas, sketches, skits, storyboards or films), please tell them to contact me at nsonne@jovoto.com with samples of their work and I will invite you to the private layer.

TAC Comp success for Kayla Robertson

July 25, 2008 / davidc / Comments Off

Second year RMIT Media student Kayla Robertson has been announced as one of two winners, from a record number of entrants, in the 2008 TAC Make a Film, Make a Difference competition. Kayla will be making her short film over the next few months (at the same time as doing TV2!) with a professional mentor and a budget of $20 000. Congratulations Kayla – this is a brilliant effort.