Open Call for Submissions:
Vector Film and Video Program
Deadline: December 10th, 2012.

Vector Game + Art Convergence is a four day Game Art Festival and symposium centred around games as the tool and inspiration for contemporary art making. Vector, Canada's first ever festival focusing on video game art, invites you to submit to its inaugural edition taking place February 21-24, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Machinima is a recent moving image art form that involves re-purposing the computer graphics found in video games in order to create new cinematic productions. Although early machinima was gamer oriented it has since been used to create a new form of video art that combines hacker aesthetics with found footage practices. In addition, machinima has been used by artists to as to critique and comment upon video game culture, alienation of contemporary culture, death and many other themes.

We are looking for work that experiments with the concept of machinima to produce engaging films and videos. In other words, the work should make use of video game footage or video game engines in some capacity. Narrative work will be considered, but the work should push the boundaries of traditional/classical Hollywood narrative cinema in some capacity. Due to programming restrictions we are looking for work under 20 minutes, however, please contact us if you have made a longer work and and feel that it fits fits our mandate.

We are seeking works from artists in all stages of their creative careers from emerging to established.

MEMIC Film Salon 1: Warpaint
Call for Submissions
Deadline November 15th 2012

MEMIC Film Salon 1: Warpaint is the launch event of MEMIC (Midlands Experimental Moving Image Collective). This independent collective has been set up to instigate a critical dialogue about experimental moving image works and to provide a platform for experimental filmmakers, video artists, animators and multimedia artists.

Each Film Salon will consist of a traditional screening and an exhibition of moving image installation works. There will be facilities for digital video projection, 16mm and 8mm film, slide projection, as well as a number of HD and CRT monitors.

This event is a great opportunity to showcase your work to an audience and to network with other filmmakers and moving image artists.

You are invited to submit innovative work which will be screened at MEMIC’s first Film Salon on Friday the 30 of November 2012. The program for the evening will be published on www.memic.co.uk

Images Festival 2013
On Screen Film/Video for films and videos presented in the cinema
Call for submissions now open!  
On Screen Final Deadline: Thursday, November 1, 2012 (postmark)

The Images Festival is now accepting entries for the ON SCREEN section of the 26th edition of our festival which will take place from April 11– 20, 2013.

We screen films and videos, of any category, that have a compelling, inventive, aesthetically unconventional approach in terms of form, content, story and/or structure.

Fee for online entries just $10 until October 15! No entry fees for students!
 
Artist fees (screening fees) paid for all works presented!!

Online form - Submission guidelines: http:/www.imagesfestival.com/forcedownload.php?file=call/40.pdf