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20th Raindance Film Festival call for submissions, deadline May 6

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British Film Festival encourages first-time directors. More info here: http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/festival

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Submit Your FilmRules and Regulations

The 20th Raindance Film Festival will take place in London from 26 September to 7 October 2012. The festival aims to reflect the cultural, visual and narrative diversity of the international independent filmmaking community and specialises in films by first-time directors. Raindance accepts fictional, documentary and experimental features, short films, music videos and children’s films.

Submit Your Film Through Withoutabox

Submission Deadline

Submissions will be accepted from 1 November 2011. 
The regular deadline is 6 May 2012. 
The late deadline is 10 June 2012. 
There is an extended Withoutabox-only deadline of 24 June 2012.

Submission Format

Films must be submitted on DVD only. The title, screening format and running time must be clearly labelled on the cover. Submitted copies will not be returned.

Submission Eligibility

– All submissions must have been completed after 1 June 2011.
– Films must not have been released in the UK on any format.
– Films must not have been screened on the internet, television, cable any other media in the UK.

– Raindance requires at least a UK premiere for any feature film it screens, and London premiere for any short.
– Submission packages must include a preview copy, a completed 20th Raindance Festival Submission Form, the correct submission fee and a 50 word synopsis.

– All films in a language other than English must be subtitled in English.
– Exploitation or grossly indecent genres are not eligible.

Submission Fee

Early deadline (6 May 2012):
•    Shorts (up to 45 minutes long) – £20
•    Features (45 minutes +) – £50
Late deadline (10 June 2012):
•    Shorts (up to 45 minutes long) – £25
•    Features (45 minutes +) – £75

Extended Withoutabox-only deadline (24 June 2012):
•    Shorts (up to 45 minutes long) – £35
•    Features (45 minutes +) – £100

The submission fee is not refundable

Payments not made through Withoutabox must be made in Pounds Sterling. Raindance is unable to accept payment in any other currency. Submission fees must be paid by cheque from a UK bank, international money order, Pounds Sterling travellers cheques or by VISA, Mastercard or Switch. Please make cheques payable to ‘Raindance Limited’.

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Submissions should be sent to:
Festival Submissions
Raindance Film Festival
6-7 Little Russell Street
London WC1A 2HR 
United Kingdom

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call for entries to the People’s Film Festival, May 17-20, NYC, deadline April 5

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Attention FC filmmakers – this looks awesome. Details below. Deadline April 5.

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CALL FOR ENTRIES TO THE PEOPLE'S FILM FESTIVAL MAY 17-20 2012 HARLEM, NYC MAYSLES CINEMA


The People's Film Festival is a showcase of emerging filmmakers, producers, and videographers, reflecting both traditional & advant-garde styled films on one screen.

Open to filmmakers of all levels in all categories, we are looking for narratives, features, shorts, @ documentaries —with an emphasis on films that integrate multi-digital platforms using today's new media & technology.  We've included an outlet for films about the Worldwide Occupy Wall St Movements (WWOWS) and a special feature called "Your Best Shot"  contest for video content providers, film junkies and aficionados alike to submit their best 1—2 minutes clips in action.


The People's Film Festival runs from May 17 – 20, 2012 in NYC. For  more info on submission guidelines / forms / fees visit us NOW@ www.thepeoplesfilmfestival.com


TPFF POSTER: http://tinyurl.com/The-peoples-film-fest-poster

YOUR BEST SHOT CONTEST FLYER 1: http://tinyurl.com/Your-best-shot-contest-flyer-1


YOUR BEST SHOT CONTEST FLYER 2: http://tinyurl.com/Your-best-shot-contest-flyer-2


TPFF CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FLYER: http://tinyurl.com/TPFF-call-for-submissions

SUBMISSIONS: submissions@thepeoplesfilmfestival.com

TPFF INFO: info@thepeoplesfilmfestival.com


SPONSORSHIP: sponsorship@thepeoplesfilmfestival.com

TWITTER:  http://twitter.com/#!/peoplesfilmfest


FACEBOOK:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Peoples-FilmFestival/295415027193149


TUMBLR:  http://thepeoplesfilmfestival.tumblr.com/

GOOGLE+:  https://plus.google.com/105296977912457925178


PINTEREST:  http://pinterest.com/peoplesfilmfest/

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Transmission Art Symposium call for papers, deadline March 16

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Hey folks. See below for info on the 2012 Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art.
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Trans-X Symposium Call for Papers deadline March 16, 2012

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is pleased to announce the Trans-X,
a symposium about Transmission Art May 25-27, 2012

We are now inviting proposals for papers.

Rooted in the earliest experiments with radio, Transmission Art has
continued to flourish with experiments with wireless communications
technology over the past 100 years. The 21st Century is not excluded
from this experimentation as artists have ventured into exploring a
variety of mobile-based platforms and more lesser known forms of
transmission such as VLF. The terrain of transmission art is dynamic
and fluid, always open to redefinition.

The Trans-X symposium, part of the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio &
Transmission Art, will focus on transmission art, with particular
interest in paper contributions that summarize, examine or reframe
traditions and histories of transmission art practices, technology,
education and pedagogy. Additionally, we are very interested in paper
presentations that go beyond the local contingent to give a sense of
what new technologies of international transmission activity might
sound like.

Proposals related to any aspect of transmission art practice are
welcome. Submit a 500-1000 word abstract, and a biography of 250 words
or less, to the symposium's Review Committee at: http://naisa.ca/transx-submit-piece.php

All symposium contributions will be webcast live, and text proceedings
will be published on-line on the NAISA web-site.

Important Information
Deadline for receipt of proposals: Friday March 16, 2012 @ 11:59 PM EST
Notification of acceptance: Monday April 2, 2012
Symposium sessions including workshops, keynote lectures, papers and
panel discussions: May 26 & 27, 2012
Keynote address by Joseph Galen-Hunter, author of Transmission Arts:
Artists & Airwaves and Executive Director of free103point9
Deep Wireless Festival concerts: May 25 and 26, 2012 @ 20:00
Symposium registration fees (General): $70 (includes admission to all
concerts)
Symposium registration fees (Student): $35 (includes admission to all
concerts)
Questions and requests for further information should be directed to: naisa@naisa.ca

Review Committee:
Galen Joseph-Hunter, author of Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves
Anna Friz, post-doctoral fellow, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Gregory Whitehead, radio artist / co-editor of Wireless Imagination
Jonathon Guberman, Site 3 coLaboratory
Geoffrey Shea, OCAD University
Tetsuo Kogawa, Tokyo Keizai University
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NAISA Inquiries & general information:

Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Executive Director
New Adventures in Sound Art
Address: Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252, Toronto, ON
M6G 4C7
Tel 416 652 5115
www.naisa.ca

NAISA current/upcoming events:

TransX, a Symposium about Transmission Art May 25 – 27, 2012
Call for Papers, deadline March 16, 2012

http://naisa.ca/opportunities.html

Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art May 1 – 31, 2012

Follow us on:
Facebook www.facebook.com/NAISASoundArt
Twitter www.twitter.com/NAISASoundArt
You Tube www.youtube.com/user/NAISAtube

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Knight News Challenge Call for Applications, deadline March 17

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From the lovely folks at AIR, the announcement of the latest round of the Knight News Challenge. Deadline March 17. Good luck!

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The Knight News Challenge is open for applications.

Enter by answering seven questions, with 450 words, for a shot at a share of $5 million.

The theme is networks, which means we’re seeking breakthrough ideas for using existing software and platforms to deliver news and information.

Learn more and apply at www.NewsChallenge.org.

Don’t delay, the challenge is open for 20 days – until March 17.

Twitter: @knightfdn and #newschallenge

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All-expenses-paid mini-fellowship, plus three different reporting grants from USC Annenberg, deadline April 16

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Hey all. Latest grants and fellowships (up to $10K) from USC Annenberg have been announced. Deadline to apply is April 16. Details HERE and below.
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USC Annenberg/California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships
February 27, 2012

Call for Applications!

All-Expenses-Paid Mini Fellowship, $2,000-$10,000 Reporting Grants At USC Annenberg

When: July 22-26, 2012

Where: Los Angeles

Deadline to Apply: April 16, 2012

USC Annenberg's California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships program is offering three different reporting grants this year to underwrite investigative or explanatory journalism projects on substantive health issues. The grants all include participation in The National Health Journalism Fellowships , which allow journalists to step away from their daily routines to spend five days in Los Angeles exploring topics related to "Health and Place," or how neighborhood and work environments impact health and life expectancy. This intensive mini fellowship will help you understand how community health, health policy, and the nation's growing ethnic diversity intersect. You'll come away from the experience with a multitude of story ideas and sources, new insights into what community influences contribute to personal health, and funds to pursue an important health-related reporting project.

Based at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism, the National Fellowship is open to print, broadcast, and online journalists from around the country. National Fellows receive meals, travel, and lodging, plus a $2,000 stipend upon publication or broadcast of a major fellowship project on almost any domestic health issue.

The Hunt Fund (grants of $2,500 to $10,000) will support projects that examine the effects of a specific factor or confluence of factors on a community's health, such as poverty, health disparities, pollution, violence, land use, urban development, access to health care, and access to healthy food. And our new Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health Fund (California journalists only) will provide grants of $2,000-$5,000 to underwrite projects focused on children's health issues.

Competition for all the grants is open to both newsroom staffers and freelancers who contribute to print, broadcast, and online news outlets. The stipends and grants can be used to defray reporting and publishing-related costs such as travel, website development, database acquisition and analysis, environmental testing, translation services, and a journalist's otherwise uncompensated time.

Applicants must join ReportingonHealth.org, a Web 2.0 community for health journalism and the official website for the Fellowships. To encourage collaboration between mainstream and ethnic media, preference will be given to applicants who propose a joint project for use by both media outlets.

For more information, visit ReportingonHealth.org or e- mail Martha Shirk at Cahealth@usc.edu. (To improve your prospects for success, we recommend that you discuss your project idea with us in advance.)

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deadlines approaching for two Independent Filmmaker Project fellowships, March 6 and 21

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Two IFP fellowship deadlines coming up, March 6 and March 21. Details HERE and below.

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Applications Now Open for IFP International Fellowships

CANNES PRODUCER’S NETWORK FELLOWSHIPS

Deadline March 6, 2012

As the sole U.S. Partner Organization for the Cannes Producer’s Network & Producer’s Lab, IFP is pleased to offer producers the opportunity to attend this prestigious week-long immersion program in May 2012. Running concurrently with Cannes International Film Festival, the Producer’s Network is specifically designed for experienced producers to build up the international networks and share expertise on the international production, financing and packaging marketplace. Cannes’ latest initiative, The Producer’s Lab, is open to all emerging producers with at least completed feature film credit.

To apply, please send a resume and one-page letter of interest to John Sylva, jsylva@ifp.org, byTuesday, March 6th.  5 producers will be selected to attend the Producers Network and 2 emerging producers will attend the Producer’s Lab. All applicants must be IFP members at any level to be considered for the program.

For more information:  http://www.ifp.org/programs/international/international-fellowships/cannes-producers-network/

TRANS ATLANTIC PARTNERS FELLOWSHIP

Deadline March 21, 2012

TRANS ATLANTIC PARTNERS is an intensive three-week film training program for U.S., Canadian, and European producers seeking co-production/co-venture professional development. Module 1 begins in June 2012 in Berlin. Module 2 takes place September 2012 in Halifax leading into Strategic Partners (SP), Canada’s international co-production market. Directly following SP, Module 3 takes place at the Independent Film Week in New York, the oldest and largest forum in the U.S. for the discovery of new projects in development and new voices on the independent scene.

TAP offers a unique combination of intensive, hands-on training with effective networking and targeted project partner search. Topics covered in the program include an overview of the European, Canadian and US audiovisual market-figures, structure, and players; the financial landscape for European, Canadian and US feature film production; and current marketing and distribution realities.TAP application forms are available at www.coproduction-training.com, and the deadline to apply is March 21, 2012.

Please contact John Sylva, jsylva@ifp.org, or visithttp://www.ifp.org/programs/international/programsinternational-programstrans-atlantic-partners/for more information.

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how to set up a small recording studio, from Transom.org

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Well this is just about the most useful and comprehensive write-up for how to set up your own home recording studio I have ever seen. Jeff Towne rocks (as does Transom.org). Enjoy! http://transom.org/?p=23904

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TRANSOM.org
a showcase & workshop for new public radio
February 22, 2012

* NEW TOOL: "Setting Up a Small Recording Studio" by Jeff Towne – UPDATED *

One of Transom's most popular features ever is TOOLS Editor Jeff Towne's primer on setting up a small recording studio, but the page hasn't had an update in six years. So, Jeff has created a completely new version–covering computer and software selection, the requisite hardware, along with equipment recommendations in various price ranges and pretty much everything you need on this topic, all in one place. There are links to individual tests of gear, manufacturer's sites, downloads, etc. etc. (One interesting new thing: ProTools is becoming dislodged as the go-to choice for documentary production.) This is the kind of useful, generous advice that makes us all love Jeff Towne.

http://transom.org/?p=23904

Drop over any time,

Jay Allison
Atlantic Public Media
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
www.transom.org

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"As the trend toward smaller, less-expensive, more-powerful recording gear continues to accelerate, it gets harder and harder to stay on top of the latest innovations and deals. It seems like we updated our recommendations for setting up a home studio only yesterday, but in fact, a few years have gone by, and several important things have changed. We're temperamentally more likely to wait and see if the latest, greatest thing is really stable and reliable and useful, rather than continually staying out on the bleeding edge, so we might not include that virtual mixer that you control with your mind, until we're sure it's reliable. Ultimately we're more interested in getting work done, and doing it efficiently, than in having the coolest, shiniest, geekiest gear. Keep in mind: if your current set-up is working for you, you may not need to make any changes. But if you're feeling constricted by your old home studio, or if you're setting one up for the first time, here's what we think you might want (at least for the next few days…)."

-Jeff Towne, continued at Transom.org

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Nieman Storyboard’s 2012 conference roundup

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How handy! All the storytelling-related conferences happening in 2012 written up in one convenient blog post. Thanks, Nieman Storyboard!

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All the narrative edification you need: our 2012 conference roundup

Nieman Storyboard blog
http://www.niemanstoryboard.org/2012/02/21/all-the-narrative-edification-you-need-our-2012-conference-roundup/

It’s time for our annual almost-spring listing of 2012 writing events and conferences. From California to Texas and Boston, there are options to work on your writing or storytelling skills coast to coast. Whether you want to sharpen up your scene-setting, peek into the world of multimedia, or just network with others who are devoted to narrative, we bet you can find what you’re looking for here.

But be sure to watch for dates and early bird registrations – one of these conferences has already filled! Here they are in chronological order:

The 2012 AWP Conference in Chicago, an offering of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, will take place next week, Feb. 29-March 3, but is completely sold out. Look for online updates on talks from Dagoberto Gilb, Margaret Atwood, Luis Rodriguez, Rebecca Skloot and Marilynne Robinson.

“The Narrative Arc: storytelling journalism goes digital,” a production of the Boston University College of Communication, will take place March 23-25 on the BU campus. Highlights include Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Director Jon Sawyer, audio storytellers Jay Allison and Maria Balinska, New York Times reporter Amy O’Leary, The Atavist’s Evan Ratliff, and journalists-turned-authors Adam Hochschild and Tom French.

The Muse and the Marketplace 2012, put on by Grub Street, will run May 5 and 6 in downtown Boston. Highlights for nonfiction writers include Jerald Walker on suspending disbelief, Seth Mnookin on choosing topics, and Wendy Call (co-editor of the Nieman Foundation’s own “Telling True Stories” and winner of this year’s Grub Street nonfiction prize) on writing scenes.

The American Society of Journalists and Authors 2012 Writers Conference will take place April 27 and 28 (with sessions on the 26th for members) in New York City. Highlights include science writer Dan Ferber, nonfiction author Janine Latus and New York Times columnist Samuel Freedman.

The Compleat Biographer Conference, run by the Biographers International Organization, will take place May 18-20 on the campus of the University of Southern California. Highlights include Jack El-Hai on narrative suspense, Kathleen Sharp on interviewing techniques and Tracy Daugherty on choosing a subject.

The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference will take place July 20-22 in Grapevine, Texas (outside Dallas). Highlights include Pulitzer winners Richard Rhodes, Isabel Wilkerson, and Amy Harmon; Esquire writers Chris Jones and Tom Junod; memoirist and nonfiction author Luis Alberto Urrea; and GQ’s Jeanne Marie Laskas.