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The theme of this international film and video festival is to celebrate the soundtrack. Usually in cinema festivals there is a fixation on movie stars, or captivating imagery, or the literary qualities of screenplays, or the abstract concepts of film theory. Sound tends to be relatively unvalorized in moving-image making. The intent of the festival is to give attention to innovative work in the creation of film and video soundtracks, and to give due credit to the importance of audio in audiovisual media.

This first annual festival will showcase international works of film and video with fascinating soundtracks, idiosyncratic sound design, eclectic scoring and innovative approaches to the sound-image relationship.

Festival Dates:
Nov. 12th-21st, 2010

Location:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Submission Deadline: September 1st, 2010

For more information, including Submission details, please visit http://www.cinesonika.com

Contact Details:
info@cinesonika.com

Active Transportation Themed Cultural Event

The AT Themed Art Show will be from Sept 7th to October 29th at the Graffiti Gallery, send your art in by August 31st to Pat Lazo at patricklazo@gmail.com or Shannon Isfeld at s_isfeld@hotmail.com

Call for Entries at the 11th Annual Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival - Perfect the Art of the Pitch for Environmental Filmmaking!

Want to make a film about an environmental issue? Struggling to find the money to pull it together? Need to connect with a broadcaster and distributor? Welcome to the Green Pitch Competition, an opportunity to pitch your idea to the people with the power to give your project the green light. With environmental NGOs, broadcasters, producers, distributors and established filmmakers on board to lend their insight, the pitch sessions will give participants the opportunity to test their green story ideas in front of creative professionals. Finalists will gain valuable first-hand feedback as they present their pitches for the chance to win $5,000.00 in development funding and valuable in-kind services!

Pitches take place during Industry Day on Friday, October 15 at the Miles Nadal JCC (750 Spadina Avenue, Toronto) during the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival. The winning Green Pitch will be announced during the Film Festival, which takes place October 13-17, 2010 in Toronto. Past winners have included Yung Chang’s Up the Yangtze.

Submission information available at  http://www.planetinfocus.org

The Green Pitch Competition is generously sponsored by CBC Television, The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, Precision Transfer Technologies and Wallace Studios/ Toronto Lights Ltd.

PUBLIC ART OPPORTUNITY:
Local, National and International Call-to-Artists
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Request for Expressions of Interest

The Winnipeg Arts Council invites professional artists to submit expressions of interest to create a permanent, contemporary public artwork using elements of water and light in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
This is a national and international competition for a major artwork to mark the designation of Winnipeg as the Cultural Capital of Canada for 2010.

Budget:$575,000                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Deadline for Application: Monday, September 13, 2010, 4:00 pm CST

Artists must submit a complete application package to be considered.

For more on the Winnipeg Arts Council’s Public Art Program, please link here.
For more information on Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada, please link here.

Canadian filmmaking teams working on their first or second feature film can apply for training through NSI Features First. Run by Canada’s National Screen Institute (NSI), the program prepares you for production through customized, intensive training and mentoring with industry professionals. It aims to help filmmakers hone their script while also understanding the business aspects of feature film development.

The teams chosen for the program are not required to pay tuition fees or relocate and, after initial training, learning opportunities are developed close to home.
Teams must apply with a feature film script. Up to four teams are chosen for this 10-month, three-phase program and are selected based on the strength of their film concepts and the potential development and packaging of their film projects. The curriculum includes script and story development, market research, legal requirements, pitching, financing, distribution as well as marketing and sales training - delivered by leaders in the Canadian film industry.

Guidelines and application forms are available here.

Applications must be received by 4:30 pm CST on Wednesday, September 22, 2010.

Active Transportation Themed Cultural Event

The AT Film and Videos will be shown September 27th and 28th at Cinematheque Theater, send in videos by September 15 to Shona Kusyk urbansteed@gmail.com or Don English at donengl@mts.net

Two prizes of up to $10,000 each are awarded annually to experienced managers and future leaders in arts management, in the following categories:
-    Professional Development and Renewal
-    Mentorship

Deadline for applications:
September 30, 2010

Information / revised guidelines

ABOUT THE CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
The Canada Council supports, promotes and celebrates the work of Canadian artists and arts organizations. www.canadacouncil.ca

Super Channel is keeping it real and now offering opportunities for two documentary director/producer teams with credits in hour-long television, to make the leap to feature length documentaries.

“Super Channel is a proud supporter of Canadian production and is pleased to offer opportunities to those who aspire to produce feature length documentaries,” -Marguerite Pigott, Super Channel Creative Development Group Lead.

The two winning projects will each receive: 15-20 hours of mentorship from a senior documentary producer with experience in feature-length documentaries; $3,000 to be used to attend the Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF) at Hot Docs and to further develop the project; and promotion on the Super Channel website, in the Super Catalyst newsletter and through a nationwide news release.

The award program begins in late September, and winners will work with mentors to prepare projects for pitching in time for the TDF in May 2011. Winners will attend the TDF as observers, and use this opportunity to meet with potential broadcasters, executive producers or other potential partners.

More information about the award, eligibility, submission requirements and deadlines is available at Super Channel Producers’ Page.

www.superchannel.ca
For more information please contact:
Sylvie Powell
MédiaLane Communications Inc.
(613) 290-1497

The 2011 Program
Six emerging writers and six senior writers will be selected from among the applicants, and will be paired for a five-month mentorship. Writers are asked to specify the literary genre in which they are currently working, and to send support material in that genre. Eligible genres are: poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and writing for children and young adults.

Apprentices and mentors are asked to commit to 10 one-on-one meetings between
January and May, 2011. At each meeting, mentors will comment on a piece of the
apprentice’s work, focussing on issues such as writing process, literary techniques, selfediting and manuscript development. Attention will also be devoted to markets,
publishing and grants. Applications are invited from writers in every part of Manitoba.

Where rural writers are chosen, the mentorship will be conducted online.
At the end of the program in June, apprentices will have the opportunity to read their
work at a public event hosted by the Manitoba Writers’ Guild.

For more information on eligibility and the application process please visit: http://www.mbwriter.mb.ca

The mentors and apprentices selected for the program will be contacted by telephone in December, and the program will begin with a welcome reception in January.
To facilitate sending out materials to the jury, applicants in both categories are asked to submit their application, including writing sample, by e-mail to: info@mbwriter.mb.ca.

Please send the package as a Word attachment. If this presents problems for you, or if
you have any questions about the program, contact coordinator Irene Bindi at (204) 944-8013. Application deadline for the 2011 Sheldon Oberman Emerging Writers Mentor Program: October 31, 2010.

Prairie Fire Press & McNally Robinson Booksellers
2010 Writing Contests
3 contests, $6,000 in cash prizes!

Bliss Carman Poetry Award
The poetry first prize is in part donated by the Banff Centre for the Arts, who will also award a jeweller-cast replica of poet Bliss Carman¹s silver and turquoise ring to the first prize winner. (1-3 poems per entry, maximum 150 lines per entry)
Judge: Christian Bök

Short Fiction
(one story per entry, maximum 10,000 words)
Judge: Joan Thomas

Creative Non-Fiction
(one article per entry, maximum 5,000 words)
Judge: Hal Niedzviecki
1st prize $1,250, 2nd prize $500, 3rd prize $250 in all categories

Contest Rules
- Entry fee is $32 (per category). This entitles you or your designate to a one-year (4 issues) subscription to Prairie Fire. Make cheque or money order payable to Prairie Fire and enclose with your entry. You may also use all major credit cards.
- Deadline for all contest entries: Postmarked November 30, 2010.
- Do not identify yourself on your entry. Please enclose a cover letter with your name, address, telephone number and/or e-mail address, the title(s) of your piece(s), and word count (prose), or line count (poetry) along with your entry fee.
- No faxed or e-mailed submissions, please.
- Your entry must be typed on 8 1/2 x 11-inch white paper and the pages clipped, not stapled. Prose must be double-spaced.
- Entries will not be returned. If you want to be informed of results, include a stamped, self-addressed envelope, or check our website at www.prairiefire.ca.
- Each piece must be original, unpublished, not submitted elsewhere for publication or broadcast, nor entered simultaneously in any other contest or competition.
- You may enter as often as you like; only your first entry in each category will be eligible for a subscription.
- Winning pieces will be published in Prairie Fire magazine, with authors paid for publication.

Send entries to: Prairie Fire Press, 423-100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3.
For more information check out our website at www.prairiefire.ca, call (204) 943-9066, or e-mail us at prfire@mts.net.

Retzhof Castle, Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria

Professional conference open to performers, performing arts educators and teachers from all over the world interested in the research of topical questions and processes in contemporary performing arts education and training.

The conference is open to different art genres, techniques and forms - theatre, dance, music, circus, visual and multimedia art.

At the moment the Conference is accepting presentation proposals!

Submission guidelines: http://www.iugte.com/projects/registration.php

General information: http://www.iugte.com/projects/Conference.php

Photo of the Past Conference:
http://picasaweb.google.ru/globtheatre/ConferencePerformingArtsTrainingTodayApril28May12010Austria#

The working language is English.

(ongoing call for submissions)

Kirk Smith is inviting his fellow composers who want an opportunity to sell their music for use in ads, films or TV to submit their music to his “stock music” website, oakstockmusic.com.

Smith says that composers from all over the world – including the U.S., UK, Brazil, Israel, the Netherlands and beyond - have already submitted their music to his website, including professional composers with extensive credits in film and TV.

“Stock music is a win-win for producers and for composers,” said Smith, “Producers get the music they want without the hassle of licensing, and just as important, artists get paid for their work.” 

Smith’s website offers multiple versions of tracks (short, medium and long) for $20 a download. Composers get a substantial share of each of their tracks that are purchased, and if the music is used in broadcast, they may get additional on-going royalty payments as well.

For more information, contact:

Kirk Smith - Owner/Composer/Producer, OakStockMusic.com
kirk@oakstockmusic.com
Phone (Winnipeg): 204.415.6767
Toll-free (U.S. & Canada): 1.866.948.6767

The Retreat House is a 1000 square foot passive solar home
situated on 320 wooded acres an hour south of Winnipeg. Fully
furnished with a completely outfitted kitchen, four piece
bathroom, and sound system.

Manitoba Music members get the following special rate:
$35/night (minimum 3 nights), $200 per week or $500 per month.

Email heather@heatherbishop.com

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