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)

WNDX now accepting submissions for 2010 edition
Call for innovative new films and videos

WNDX - Winnipeg's Festival of Film and Video Art - seeks new Canadian and international films and videos for our next edition, to be held Sept 30 to Oct 3, 2010.

WNDX pays special attention to the most innovative and ground-breaking works completed by moving image artists. Works completed in 2010 and 2009 are eligible for submission.

Submissions Deadline: Monday, May 31, 2010

There is no submisssion fee.

Submission forms are available at www.wndx.org

Short Cuts V: Resilient Structures
Thursday February 25, at 6pm
Northwest Film Center
Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Avenue, 97205 Portland, OR, USA
Co-Presented with the Northwest Film Center

For the 2010 Portland International Film Festival Cinema Project brings a selection of contemporary film and video from Japan, Malaysia, and Taiwan. Focusing on natural and man-made structures and the spaces in-between, each of these works reveals a variety of dynamic relations from frame to space and from history to environment. Daichi Saito’s entirely hand-processed film Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis examines the natural language of a familiar Canadian landscape while Chris Chong Chan Fui’s modernist exchange on public and private space in Block B presents a surprisingly telling view of an apartment block in Kuala Lumpur. From Tomonari Nishikawa is Lumphini 2552, black-and-white images of plants and trees shot using a 35mm still camera at Bangkok’s Lumphini Park. The result is a surprisingly emotional construction of rhythm and movement. And from Shiho Kano's Shinonome Omogo Ishizuchi is a transcendental travelogue inspired by filmmaker Mansaku Itami. Finally, Taiwanese filmmaker Chen Chieh-Jen’s Empire's Borders I examines the process that Taiwanese citizens endure when applying for a United States visa.