Lucca Film Festival 2010
Participation In The 2010 Short Films Competition

The Lucca Film Festival will take place October 5-9 2010 at the Cinema Central and the Auditorium San Romano in the center of Lucca. The festival, now in in its sixth year, has as main purpose to promote exciting new works by artists from around the world, encouraging their knowledge and dissemination, whilst trying to rediscover and show 'historic' works that marked the path of art film, as a meeting point between past and present.

Regulations

The competition is divided into three sections: fiction, documentary, experimental.
- Short films must not exceed 29 minutes.
- Productions on the following screening formats are accepted: 16mm, 35mm, Beta SP, Beta Num, DigiBeta, DVD, DV, Mini-DV, Mini DVCam.
- If the film is neither spoken nor subtitled in Italian, it is required tio send a copy (paper or digital) of the dialogues preferably in English, to allow subtitling of all films.

Admissions

The call for participation must be completed and sent along with the DVD to the following address:

LUCCA FILM FESTIVAL
Associazione VI(S)TA NOVA
Via del Tiro a Segno, traversa. IV, n° 67
55100 Lucca
ITALIA

The films sent for preselection must be submitted in DVD media.
Label the items as specified: title, section, director, and duration.
Please send a CD / DVD containing two high quality photos for publication in the catalogue.
The material sent for pre-selection will not be returned.
The films must be sent - in 2 copies - by July 31, 2010, together with the registration form.

It is required the payment of 10 Euros for the costs of the secretariat for each parcel sent.
Payment must be made simultaneously with the sending of the material.
Payment by bank transfer:
Monte dei Paschi, agency 8 (Lucca)
Payable to:
Associazione Vi (s) ta Nova
IBAN account: IT 45 O 01030 13710 000000117654
Please enter as the reason for the transfer your name and the word "competition".

It is also possible to pay by credit POSTEPAY. In this case, please send an email on segreteria.lff @ gmail.com to have the data required for payment.

Full regulations and inscription form here (in italian)

Los Angeles Filmforum invites film and videomakers to take part in the 2010 Festival Of (In)appropriation.

WHO: All film and videomakers
WHAT: Call for entries for the Festival of (In)appropriation
WHEN: Entries must be received by May 15, 2010.
WHERE: Send submissions to Jaimie Baron, 10480 National Blvd. #308, Los
Angeles, CA 90034
PRESENTED BY: Los Angeles Filmforum

Santa suit in July? Brussel sprouts for breakfast? Cat in the bathtub? Fish on a bicycle? All of these things are possible, but they are just "not done." At least, in our view, not often enough! Of course, the notion of what is "appropriate" always depends on context – the right time and the right place. What is permissible in one context may not be so in another. Indeed, the "inappropriate" is all about what is in the "wrong" place and at the "wrong" time, which is exactly where we think it should be. Mash-up, machinima, remix, collage, compilation, found footage, détournement – these terms all refer to films and videos that tear materials from one (con)text and place them in another, constantly questioning the limits of what is "appropriate. " At its best, this act of (in)appropriation may produce revelation that leads viewers to reconsider the relationship between past and present, here and there, truth and lie, intention and subversion.

Marmalade, publishers of visual theory, would like to invite artist film makers to submit film and video works for publication on their new artists film and video DVDlabel: Filmarmalade. Every year they will publish a series of films, selected through a process of invited and open submission. Each DVD will include one film only, however long or short, so as to maintain the individuality of each work and will be published as a limited edition.

Deadline: March 30th.

Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, Studio 4, 21 London Fields Eastside, London E8 3SA
Email: post@gordonshrigley.demon.co.uk
Website: www.filmarmalade.co.uk

2ANNAS is a non-profit independent international short film festival featuring creative shorts produced by young professional independent filmmakers, film school students, graduates and experimental film projects worldwide. Begun in 1996 as modest film screenings of experimental shorts for youngsters and kids, 2ANNAS has grown into an international event seeking innovative ideas and fresh cinematic solutions from all around the world.

The festival’s objective is to promote non-commercial cinema.

2ANNAS 2010 International competition is open to contributions by filmmakers of all national representations, produced by individuals, international film schools, film studios etc. (with film directors aged 20-35)