Al Jazeera documentary channel calls for submissions

SubalternCinema writes that ‘The Arabic satellite Al Jazeera Documentary Channel is calling for Arabic language film submissions from young filmmakers. The Qatar-based channel hopes to purchase short documentary films that feature cultural, historical, environmental, geographic, socio-political, and youth related issues.

Submissions should be five minutes long, and must be filmed on HDV or Digital Betacam.

Interested parties can send their films to: Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, P.O. Box 23, 123 Television circle, Doha, Qatar.

For more information, contact abdelwahaba@aljazeera.net.’

Call for Entries: Create Awards

Create Awards
Create Magazine is now accepting entries for their Create Awards.

Think Sync Films Call For Entries

Think Sync

Entires are now being accepted for this year’s ThinkSync Films short film competition - founded in 2005, the competition brings together independent film-makers with independent record labels and publishers, and entrants to the competition submit short films which incorporate one or more tracks downloadable free of charge from www.thinksyncfilms.com The competition rewards the most skilful and appropriate use of the music within the film, the winner receiving a substantial cash prize at a screening event and party in the summer as part of the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival. The theme this year is ‘?’ and submission deadline is Friday 6 June 2008, so it’s time to check out the tracks on offer!