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Berlinale Shorts Awards 2010

Friday, February 26th, 2010

The members of the International Short Film Jury Zita Carvalhosa (Brazil), Max Dax (Germany) and Samm Haillay (UK) award the following prizes:

Awards 2010: Händelse Vid Bank, Hayerida, Colivia, Venus vs Me

The Golden Bear for the best short film goes to
Händelse Vid Bank
by Ruben Östlund (Sweden)
“His film is a real reflection on our times and the role played by media. Filmed with a single camera without a single cut, we zoom in and out of the picture as if using a CCTV camera. The dialogues are perfect, humanity is explained with humour.”

The Silver Bear goes to
Hayerida
by Shai Miedzinski (Israel)
“The Israeli desert sets a dusty and intense background for a coherent road movie about loss. It’s hard to depict grief, a transition for a family, but the director listens to the wind blow and frames the emotion.”

The DAAD scholarship goes to
Adrian Sitaru (Romania) for Colivia
“A perfectly paced miniature, a chamber piece inside a Romanian tower block. Funny, heartfelt, with a wonderful rhythm. The director needs only 17 minutes to portray the three characters involved.”

The nomination for the European Film Academy Short Film 2010 goes to
Venus vs Me
by Natalie Teirlinck (Belgium)
“An experimental attempt to recount childhood memories from the interior with a complex montage technique. Pictures, sound and editing blend into multilayered storytelling. The director magnificently negotiates the puzzle.”

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Cartoon Scholarships

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

CARTOON and the MEDIA Programme of the European Union are glad to offer scholarships to animation professionals from the following countries of the enlarged European Union (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia) to enable them to participate in the Cartoon Masters.

The scholarship covers the registration and subscription fee, the travel costs (for a maximum of 250 EUR), the hotel costs and the meals package.

To apply for a scholarship, the applicant has to download the scholarship application form and send it to CARTOON by email to Audrey Sersté or by fax: +32 2 245 46 89.

CARTOON will grant a scholarship after having considered the applicant’s CV and motivation letter. Per Master, Cartoon will grant only one scholarship per company.  CARTOON will grant only one scholarship per person per year. In any other case, CARTOON will observe a “first come, first served” policy.

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Greenhouse – Call for Application

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Greenhouse is a prestigious International Development Program for documentary filmmakers supported in the past 4 years by the EU in the framework of Euromed Audiovisuall II.

The new Greenhouse program on the theme of Racism and Human Rights is open now for European and MEDA filmmakers. The project is supported by the European Commission in the frame of MEDIA INTERNATIONAL.

Filmmakers from the all European countries and 10 MEDA countries are invited to submit documentary film proposals on the theme of Racism & Human Rights.

The selected filmmakers will be awarded a complete grant covering tuition fees, round trip plane ticket, accommodations and meals during the seminar.

Greenhouse is looking for 16 powerful projects from Europe and MEDA countries in development stages on the theme of Racism & Human Rights.

The 16 selected filmmakers will participate in 3 seminars during which they will work closely on their projects with mentors and experts from the international documentary film industry.

Amongst the Greenhouse mentors & experts are:

Hans Robert Eisenhauer
Head of Thema at the Second German Television – ZDF, ARTE, is formally Head of the Berlin Film Fund at the Berlin Government, where he was also responsible for the foundation of the European Film Academy.

John Appel
An international award winning filmmaker who serves as a guest reader at the Dutch Film Fund and acts as lecturer at a number of film schools in the Netherlands.

Steven Seidenberg
a prominent producer, creator & head of development & script editor in the field of documentary filmmaking. As a producer he has worked in history programming, the sciences, as well as examinations of ethical and moral issues. Steven is a Board Member of the EDN (European Documentary Network) and with has participated in workshops on international co-production in eleven countries as a tutor and expert.

Bruni Burres
Executive Producer,Pivot Pictures/International Center for Transitional Justice/ USA. Bruni Burres was the programmer and director for the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (1991-2008), from 2006-2008 she was the Senior Consultant with the Sundance Documentary Program and in April 2008, Bruni joined the International Center for Transitional Justice to create and launch Pivot Pictures; an initiative to use media to further the interests of transitional justice through the creation of excellent media and the subsequent dissemination of this media to effect social change.

Nenad Puhovski
A documentary filmmaker and director of ZagrebDox Documentary IFF in Croatia.  Puhovski has also produced over 45 documentaries for FACTUM – Croatia’s biggest independent documentary production company.

For more information about Greenhouse program, methodology, partners, team, advisory board, experts and international friends please check our website on

http://www.ghfilmcentre.org

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Berlinale Shorts: 26 Films Explore Cinematic Frontiers

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

berlin_logoSelected from over 2600 short film entries, 25 films from 15 countries will be presented in five programmes, and compete for a Golden Bear, a Nomination for the European Film Academy Short Film 2010, and a DAAD grant.

Alongside films from, for example, Peru, South Africa, Italy, and Korea, Romania is contributing an impressive range of productions. And Croatia, another country from Eastern Europe, will be participating for the first time, with Zvonimir Jurićs film Žuti mjesec (Yellow Moon).

Berlinale Shorts has established itself as a platform for artists and filmmakers, one that leaves room for experiments and courage. Nicolas Provost from Belgium is participating with Long Live the New Flesh; parallel to the Berlinale, he will also be exhibiting works at the Haunch of Venison gallery in Berlin. Shelly Silver is presenting her experimental film 5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown.

Screenwriter and filmmaker Daniel Nocke explores the very core of a relationship in 12 Jahre. In the documentary Geliebt, Jan Soldat focuses on the question of what role animals can play when a person is incapable of loving another person.

In 2010, the Berlinale Shorts will provide an opportunity to discuss the challenging films in this section for the first time: during “Berlinale Shorts goes Arsenal”, a series of discussions will be held on three days in Cinema Arsenal.

Berlinale Shorts Programme:


I/ ca. 82′ + Introduction

Aramaki, Isamu Hirabayashi, Japan, 26′ (WP)

Akai Mori no Uta, Akihito Izuhara, Japan, 6′ (Out of Competition)

Žuti mjesec, Zvonimir Jurić, Croatia, 16′

In the Air, Liza Johnson, USA, 22′

Giardini di Luce, Davide Pepe & Lucia Pepe, Italy, 12′

II/ ca. 74′ + Introduction

Paradise Later, Ascan Breuer, Austria, 13′

Derby, Paul Negoescu, Romania, 15′ (WP)

A Perm, Lee Ran-hee, Republic of Korea, 19′

Suhaksihum, Jung Yumi, Republic of Korea, 2′ (WP)

El segundo Amanecer de la Ceguera, Mauricio Franco Tosso, Peru, 10′

Long Live the New Flesh, Nicolas Provost, Belgium, 15′ (WP)

III/ ca. 79′ + Introduction

5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown, Shelly Silver, USA, 10′

Wo ich bin ist oben, Bettina Schöller, Germany, 18′ (WP)

Out in that Deep Blue Sea, Kazik Radwanski, Canada, 16′

Hayerida, Shai Miedzinsi, Israel, 20′

Geliebt, Jan Soldat, Germany, 15′ (WP)

IV/ ca. 84′ + Introduction

Nachalnik, Yuriy Bykov, Russian Federation, 20′

Händelse Vid Bank, Ruben Östlund, Sweden, 12′ (WP)

Photos of God, Paul Wright, Great Britain, 28′ (WP)

Ich muss mich künstlerisch gesehen regenerieren, Ute Schall & Christine Groß, Germany, 20′ (WP)

12 Jahre, Daniel Nocke, Germany, 4′ (WP)

V/ ca. 89′ + Introduction

The Tunnel, Jenna Bass, South Africa, 25′

Tussilago, Jonas Odell, Sweden, 15′

Venus vs Me, Nathalie Teirlinck, Belgium, 26′

Colivia, Adrian Sitaru, Romania/The Netherlands, 17′ (WP)

Unplay, Joanna Rytel, Sweden, 6′ (WP)

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Awarded Shorts

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

László Nemes and Krisztina Esztergályos were recognized at international short film events in Soria and Bilbao, Spain.

Certamen Internacional de Cortos Ciudad de Soria, the international short film contest in North Spain ended Saturday evening.

The contest’s Main Prize in the foreign film category went to László Nemes for The Counterpart. The Hungarian director accepted the recognition in person.

The 14 minutes picture focusing on the “encounter after many years of two old friends separated by the world” was produced by Budapest Inforg Studio and won several awards including Bucharest DaKINO Best Short Award and Italian Fano fest Special Grand Prize earlier.

http://certamendecortossoria.org

The International Jury of the 51st Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival, ZINEBI 51 recognized Kriszina Esztergályos for her diploma film Variations with the Special Mention.

The leading Spanish short film event presented in competition 84 works arriving from 38 countries. Krisztina Esztergalyos, whose Variations won the Locarno Silver Leopard this summer, attended the Bilbao closing ceremony in person.

http://www.zinebi.com

via: Magyar Filmunió

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Fresh Festival Deadlines by Reelport

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

I. Approaching Deadlines

SFF-RATED ATHENS – INT. SCI-FI & FANTASY FILM FESTIVAL (Greece)

04th – 10th March 2010 – deadline: 30th November 2009

Competitions:   – Int. Competition

Science Fiction & Fantasy is where Imagination doesn’t just play the game –it makes the rules. Join us. 1.”SFF” stands for “Science-Fiction & Fantasy”. 2. We mean it. 3. We will screen Shorts & Not-Shorts, meaning: 4.To qualify for submission as a “short film”, a work of moving images must be longer than 3 minutes and less than 20 minutes.  5. Anything below 3 minutes may screen with us, out of competition, if it makes us laugh. Or cry. Or something intense.  6. Anything above 20 minutes will be considered in the “Not-Short Film” category.

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22nd MINIMALEN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Norway)

05th – 09th March 2010 – deadline: 1st December 2009

Competitions:   – International Panorama (max. running time: 30 minutes)
- National competition
- Nordic competition

Minimalen is an annual, independent short film event, covering new international releases and retrospectives, as well as premiere screenings of new Nordic and Norwegian shorts. Other international contributions are screened in panoramas, with an Audience Award of 500 Euro.

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TAMPERE FILM FESTIVAL (Finland)

10th – 14th March 2010 – deadline: Int. Compt. 1st December 2009
please note deadline National Competition 15th December 2009

Competitions:   – Int. Competition
- National Competition

All films and videos of all genres not exceeding a length of 30 minutes are admitted. Films must have been completed on January 1st, 2008 or after. The festival reserves the right to accept films of longer duration. An International Short Film Market for accredited professionals will be open during the Festival. All the preview copies are automatically entered in the film market selection.

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17th STUTTGART INT. FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILM (Germany)

04 – 09 May 2010 – deadline: 1st Dec 2009

Competitions:

1. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION (up to 35 minutes running time)
2. TRICKS FOR KIDS (Animated children film competition)
3. YOUNG ANIMATION (Student film competition)
4. UNDER COMMISSION (Commerical Spot / Music Video / TV Trailer  – deadline: 15th January 2010

Any animated commissioned film of the categories commercial spot, music video and TV idents including computer generated animation and combinations of life action and animation completed after October 01, 2008 may participate. The selection will be made on completed films only. Any borderline questions that may arise shall be decided by the preselection committee.

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II. New Calls for Submissions

8th INT. FESTIAL SIGNES DU NUIT / Paris 2010 (France)

31. March – 11. April 2010 – deadline: 28. February 2010

Competitions:   – allowed genres: fiction, documentary, experimental, video art
- 30 minutes max. lenght for shorts
- full lenght for documentaries
- films must have been completed on January 1st, 2008 or after
- screen ratio for 35 mm / 16:9 or 4:3 for DV / Sound/Son: PAL or NTSC
- language sequences should have English or French subtitles

« Signes de Nuit » is an independent, international festival of short, experimental and documentary films, organized by the Association SIGNES DE NUIT in Paris. The main festival takes place in different central places and cinemas in Paris in April. During the year, the festival is invited to present selections of its program in festivals, cultural institutions and film schools on a worldwide base. Beside the international selections the festival presents programs from guest festivals and schools.

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INT. SHORT FILM FESTIVAL DETMOLD 2010 (Germany)

10th – 13th June 2010 – deadline: 28th February 2010

Competitions: – Int. Competition

From 10th to 13th June the INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL DETMOLD 2010 is going to show apprx. 300 short films from all over the world in Hangar 21, Detmold. The programs is accompanied by video installations, workshops, concerts and parties.
The festival wants to offer cultural exchange, enabling all participants to deepen their experience of life.

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III. Open Festival Calls

5th ECU – THE EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (France)

12th – 14th March 2010 – deadline: 14th December 2009
late deadline: 4th January 2010

Competitions: – European shorts and features sections
- Non European shorts and features sections
- Student Films
- News and Current Affairs Reportage
- Ecology Now!
- Made on Mobile Telephones

The audiences and judges for your films will be very international and to enhance their viewing / judging experiences ALL films that are nominated as part of The Official Selection need to be subtitled.

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ROMA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (Italy)

08 – 16 April 2010 – deadline: 15th Dec 2009

Competitions:   – Int. Competition

1) RIFF Awards – if selected your film will be automatically listed in our FILMMARKET SECTION , an online catalogue listing RIFF participants. Allows Distributors, Agents, Web Content Buyers and other industry professionals to contact you directly
2) RIFF On Tour – The RIFF takes our hottest films on a non-stop trip to film festivals, screenings, and events around the world.* Monthly Screening Series – audience elected monthly winners will be entered into the annual RIFF Audience Award competition.
3) become an automatic member of “Associazione Culturale Roma Independent Film Festival”

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KURZFILMWETTBEWERB im Rahmen des Brechtfestival Augsburg 2010 (Germany)

29 Januar – 10 Februar 2010 – deadline: 21st December 2009

Competitions:   – National Competition (German speaking)

Bertolt Brecht gilt als einflussreichster deutscher Dramatiker und Lyriker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Da Brecht auch selbst ein bedeutender Filmschaffender war und wichtige theoretische Überlegungen zum Film vorgelegt hat, die heute noch aktuell sind, sollte sein Einfluss auf den Film auch vielschichtig auf dem Brechtfestival Augsburg 2010 (29. Januar – 10. Februar 2010), das unter dem Motto Brecht und Film steht, untersucht werden. In diesem Rahmen soll auch der Einfluss Brechts auf den zeitgenössischen Kurzfilm untersucht werden. Das Kulturamt der Stadt Augsburg ruft daher einen Kurzfilmwettbewerb aus, der mit einem Preis von € 1000,- für den ersten Platz dotiert ist.

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26th EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL OF LILLE 2010 (France)

27th February – 5th March 2010 – deadline: 31st December 2009

Competitions:     – European competition programme of short films (all types of films are allowed: fiction, animation, documentary…)
- National competition programme of French short films (all types of films are allowed: fiction, animation, documentary…)
- Non-competitive film programmes, retrospectives and special presentations
- Completed in 2008 or 2009. Films already presented on selection last year cannot be presented again: a film can only be submitted once to the
committee.
- The format is 35mm and Beta Sp only. The double tape system will not be accepted.
- The short film does not exceed 30 minutes.
- The director or producer is European.

This Festival aims at promoting the short film in its diversity and also first films. The 26th Festival will therefore offer in its program several competition screenings (about 80 short will be presented in competition and 10 feature films out of competition).

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56th INT. SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OBERHAUSEN (Germany)

29 April – 4 Mai 2010 – deadline: 05th January 2010

Competitions:   – International
- German
- Children s and Youth Film
- Films from NRW
- MuVi Award for the best German music video, with its own set of regulations
Every year Oberhausen attracts filmmakers, festival representatives, curators, buyers, journalists, distributors and, last but not least, an enthusiastic short-film audience. For filmmakers around the globe, the festival is a platform where they can present their work to the public, learn different cinematic vocabularies, get to know like- minded individuals from all over the world, and network with buyers, other festivals and distributors.

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7th GREEN FILM FESTIVAL IN SEOUL (South Korea)

20 – 26 May 2010 – deadline: 31st January 2010

Competitions:   – Int. Competition
- Films completed after January 1, 2006,
- never been submitted to the GFFIS before.
- Films that deal with environmental issues regardless of genre or contain

- environment-related topics at large.
- Offical languages: Korean, English

The Green Film Festival in Seoul(GFFIS) is the first film festival in Korea to highlight environment issues. First established in 2004 by Korea Green Foundation, the GFFIS is a festival that seeks to share the hope for a better world where all the lives can be in harmony with environment and nature.

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MUNICH INTERNATIONAL short film festival 2010 (Germany)

17th – 23th June 2010 – deadline: 28th February 2010

Competitions:  – only Int. Competition
- Films must not exceed a length of 15 minutes. The Selection Committee can allow exceptions to this rule.
- Films must not have German dialogues. No exceptions will be made either. As the festival language is English, all films must have either no dialogue,
English dialogue or English subtitles.

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DAAZO.COM – European Shortfilms (Hungary)

Online Network – deadline: 1st July 2010

Competitions:   – short fiction films

user-uploaded videos

Daazo.com is a Hungarian-based online network for hosting professional short fiction films and user-uploaded videos. In collaboration with many film studios, festivals, schools and associations, Daazo presents several movies weekly from the past years’ best short films, setting up a growing online collection of short films which – we hope – motivate users to upload more quality content to its database.

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EUROPEAN SHORT FILM INTERNET EXHIBITION – EUROPE IN SHORTS (Germany)

1st November 2009 (launch) – deadline: 31st July 2010

Competitions:   – International competition

The organiser will present two European films each week in the Internet in the period from 1 November 2009 to 31 October 2010. The films will be accompanied by extensive background information and will remain online as part of the gallery until 31 December 2010. Consideration is taken to achieving a balance between the countries entitled to take part, for the aim is to reflect European short film production as representatively as possible.

EUROPE IN SHORTS is an initiative by the film magazine »Schnitt« and a project for RUHR.2010 European Capital of Culture.

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Body-Dance-Image – International (dance)movies Contest

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

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The Kontakt Táncért Fundation in association with the Orkesztika Fundation presents

on SzólóDuó 2010
Ork_Kota_Platform

We expect applications to the One minute (dance)movies platform in 2 cathegories:

off programme

competition programme

Movies can be made by cellphone, camera, videocamera can be experimental, animation or anything else which
theme is
Body_Dance_Image

time limit: 1minute

(recommended picture ratio:16:9)

Please, upload the movie to one of the video sharing websites and send the EMDEB code to 1min@mozdulatmuveszet.hu along with the application.

If you would like to participate in the competition programme please send your movie in DVD format to the following address:

Orkesztika Alapítvány – Mozdulatművészeti Stúdió

1097 Budapest, Tagló u. 11-13.

Registration deadline:

December 20th 2009

Application form can be downloaded from here:

www.szoloduo.com/1min/

Prize: Best one-minute movie

All the movies will be screened between January 7th -12th

in MU Theatre and the Millenáris Teátrum.

Kontakt Táncért Alapítvány, Orkesztika Alapítvány

for further information visit:

http://www.szoloduo.com/1min

http://www.daazo.com/dancemovies

or

e-mail: 1min@mozdulatmuveszet.hu

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Port.hu Premier Party in Budapest

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

We’re inviting you to the first installment of the monthly artists’ party, PORT.hu PREMIER PARTY, on Saturday, November 21. You’ll be able to get a taste of and first-hand information on upcoming cultural events and happenings.

We’re awaiting you at the party – from the world of short film, theatre, literature, music and art. We’re planning to create an open salon, where you can meet, mingle and chat.

This is an open event, so bring whoever you think will fit in.

Please register at ppp@port.hu or http://www.mentaterasz.hu/ppp, and you’ll have the chance to win flight tickets.

Program:

8 p.m.-9:40 p.m.: Premier – selection of Hungarian short films

10 p.m.-11:30 p.m.:  Egy Kiss Erzsi Zene concert

11:30 p.m.-’til dawn: MR2 Petőfi Rádió DJs

Date: November 21, from 6 p.m.

Place: Menta Terasz
Budapest, Margit krt. 14.
Entry fee: a 200 Ft coin

Next Premier Party: Thursday, Decemer 17 (special guest: The Kolin)

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Shorts on the Top

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Braunschweig, Brest, Cottbus – Three international movie fests awarded Hungarian films this weekend.

23rd Braunschweig International Film Festival
The short film music award, “The Leo” went to Mama by director Géza M. Tóth, composer Attila Pacsay and sound designer Imre Madacsi.

The complete jury statement:
“On the roof of a high building a young woman hangs up the washing, on piece after the other. With each piece she pushest he line a little further – at the same time the neighbouring buildings in the background follow – until she reaches the beginning of the line. The entire scene is shot with fixed camera but moves nonetheless – just like in the tricks in the silent movies.
Starting with a loud city street atmosphere with honking horns, street cars, crying babies, talking people, telephone rings and other every day life sounds a rhythmic structure emerges. The more we dive into the young woman’s world, the more the rhythmically aggressive sounds disappear. Slowly a world opens where melodiousness comes to the foreground. Every time the woman reaches the end of the line, a short moment of silence occurs. Until sounds such as the woman’s heavy breathing and the street sounds return. We have come full circle.
The varied concept of music, sound design and atmosphere is consistent and well structured. The acoustic design takes over a mayor part of the story telling, so that an organic work of direction, sound design and composition sensibly balanced evolves.”

24th Brest European Short Film Festival awarded “Prix du Moyen Métrage” to The Dinner, a Hungarian-US coproduction directed by Karchi Perlmann.

19th FilmFestival Cottbus
The Jury of the Short Feature Competition voted for Pici Papai’s Coming Out as winner of the Main Prize. Eleven nominees with a length of less than 30 minutes from ten Eastern European countries competed at FilmFestival Cottbus ended on 14th November.

via Magyar Filmunió

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Be a Reverse Film Maker!

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

A series of conferences organized by University of Eötvös Loránd (ELTE) in Budapest called RUKVERZ. The event symbolizes the ‘89-’09 20 year old celebration of the Fall of the Wall in Hungary, the fall of the socialism era, the political transmission and the beginning of something else.

The festival organizes a film competition for one minute shorts, which are made reversed.

HOW?
Register and upload you one minute film to Daazo.com, Rukverz Category till the 10th of December! Anyone can vote for your film by clicking the “I like this” button. More votes raise the chances of you to win one of our valuable awards.

After you uploaded your film, please send its link to: rukvercfilm@gmail.com

Deadline: 10th of December.

Make it! – Upload it reverse! – Share it! – Promote it!

www.rukverc.com
www.daazo.com

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