Call for entries - AiM Short Film Competition
Africa in Motion is inviting African filmmakers to submit short films of up to 30 minutes for a new film competition. In order to target the competition specifically towards young and emerging African film talent, filmmakers who enter a film for consideration must not have completed a feature-length film previously. Films entered must have been completed in 2005 or after.
The competition winner will be selected from a shortlist of films and will be announced at an awards ceremony at the third successive Africa in Motion festival in October 2008. The winner will have the opportunity for their film to be screened at AiM 2008 as well as the chance to win a significant cash prize. A selection of other short films specially commended by our competition jury will also be screened as part of a short film showcase at AiM 2008.
The AiM 2008 Short Film Competition will be judged by a jury panel consisting of local film specialists and established African filmmakers.
The deadline for competition submissions is 31 May 2008, and following from this a shortlist of films will be selected by an AiM viewing committee. The shortlist will be announced in July 2008. These films will then be viewed by all jury panel members, who will make a collective decision as to the prizewinners, based on a point scoring system that will take into account the relative merits of each of the shortlisted films.
Please see below for full submission guidelines and to download the entry form. For any further enquiries, please contact AiM festival director Lizelle Bisschoff at: submissions@africa-in-motion.org.uk.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- We accept entries from all filmmakers of African nationality working in Africa or abroad.
- We are particularly interested in giving exposure to young, emerging African filmmakers living and working in Africa. To this end, filmmakers who enter a film for consideration must not have completed a feature-length film previously.
- Films should be no longer than 30 minutes.
- Films could be fiction, animation, experimental or documentary and shot in any format.
- Only recent films directed by filmmakers of African nationality will be accepted. The film must have been completed in 2005 or after and could have been screened at festivals and in cinemas previously.
- We will only accept films in English or with English subtitles. Participants are responsible for all translation and subtitling, but please get in touch with us if you need advice/support on this.
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Participants should complete the entry form and post it with
a viewing copy of the film to us at
Africa in Motion Film Festival
14/9 Viewforth Square
Edinburgh
EH10 4LW
UNITED KINGDOM
- The viewing copy should be on VHS PAL, DVD (any region) or Mini DV PAL.
- The completed entry form and viewing copy should reach us not later than 31 May 2008. There is no entry fee.
- All deliveries from outside the European Union should be marked with the phrase "no commercial value – for cultural purposes only". Applicants are responsible for the cost of posting the entry form and viewing copy to us.
- Unfortunately viewing copies cannot be returned and will be stored in our festival archive. These copies are exclusively for our own research and non-commercial purposes.
- Please note that we do not accept online submissions.
- We welcome stills, press releases and promotional material to accompany entries, which we might use for promotional purposes. These could be emailed to us at: submissions@africa-in-motion.org.uk. In addition, we claim the right to use frame grabs and clips from films for promotional purposes.
- We will contact all applicants in July 2008. If your film is selected for screening we will get in touch with you to arrange for a screening copy to be sent to us (screening copies could be on dvd, Betacam SP PAL, Digibeta, 16mm or 35mm). Participants are responsible for the cost of sending the screening copies to the festival. The festival will cover the costs of returning/forwarding screening copies.
To enter, please download, complete and print the entry form and post it to us with a viewing copy of your film.