In Partnership with Channel [V] – Asia’s No.1 music TV station
The i3 SILENT FILM FESTIVAL CONTEST is all about discovering new talent for visual storytelling in youth worldwide. We’re calling all young directors aged 13 – 21 to submit a one-minute silent video (soundtrack – yes; dialogue – no). The videos will be judged by a panel of judges in two stages, and the three winning teams will not only be presented with one of the prizes donated by the NYFA* - but will see their videos aired on Channel [V], and broadcast across Asia and the Middle East.
NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY (NYFA) has donated three first prizes - one person from each winning team gets to attend a 4-week Film Making Intensive in Summer 2009 (worth US$3,500 each)
Dates to Remember
Registration period: August 1, 2008 to December 1, 2008
Film topics announced: September 1, 2008 ONE MINUTE "SILENT" FILMS to be made about any of the following topic suggestions:
1. ONE MINUTE OF KINDNESS
2. YAK CHEESE
3. OPEN TOPIC: use one minute to show us something you care about...
Submission deadline: December 31, 2008
Judging period: January 1 2009 to February 15 2009
Prizes will be announced and awarded: March 1, 2009
To Register
Contestants may choose to register either individually or in teams (all team members must be between the ages of 13 and 21).
Download the Registration Form (Please click here to download)
Please send your completed and signed form by registered mail or email to:
ICONmp
GPO Box 5005 -OR- i3Film[at]iCUBED.us
Hong Kong
Entry Cost and Payment Instructions
Cost per entry submitted: US$10Entry fee waived for Registered Charities and nonprofit Organizations
Download the Charity Fee Waiver Form (Please click here to download)
1. Payment is accepted via Paypal Once your registration form is received and processed, you will be e-mailed a Paypal invoice containing detailed payment instructions. Once your payment is confirmed, you will receive a registration number and your registration package within two working days. Be sure to keep your Paypal Transaction ID in a safe place.
The Grand Finale
The contest will culminate with the Awards announced on March 1st 2009. Channel [V] will interview and broadcast the three winning videos on television sets across Asia and the Middle East. Keep checking this space for more details closer to the event.
The Judges
Please keep checking this space for more details closer to the event. Film professors at prestigious universities like the NYU Film School and La Salle in Manila, have already committed to judging this contest. The judging process will be in two stages, with an elimination round by graduate film students, and awards granted in multiple categories. All three main prizes will be for Best Picture judged on the overall message of the films, but Award Certificates will be given for Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Sound.
JUDGE BIOS (presented alphabetically) : MR CHRIS CHAN ROBERSON
MR Chris Chan Roberson is the Executive Director of Post Production at the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Outside of the academic setting, he is the co-owner of Etc... Productions, an internet strategy and on-line film production company that has worked with SonyBMG, ABC Family, and 4Kids.
Mr JAE CHOE
Mr Jae Choe is currently a graduate film student at New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, where he was awarded the Maurice Kanbar Fellowship and won numerous awards, including the Warner Bros. Film Award for his thesis script scheduled for production in the spring of 2009 and was named a Wasserman Finalist for Best Film for his short, "Tomorrow Arigato", which also won accolades for Acting and Screenplay.
DR. ISAGANI CRUZ
Dr. Isagani Cruz, former Philippine Undersecretary of Education, is a professor Emeritus of De La Salle University in Manila. Dr. Cruz has a B.S. in physics from the University of the Philippines, an M.A. in English from the Ateneo de Manila University, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Maryland. He has been a professor or a visiting fellow at Ateneo de Manila University, Ateneo de Davao University, University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas, University of Maryland, Ohio University, Jundi Shapur University in Iran, Soochow University in Taiwan, Waseda University in Japan, and the University of Oxford in England. He heads the Graduate Commission of the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU) and the Philippine Fulbright Scholars Association (PFSA). He writes a weekly column on books, culture and education for The Philippine Star. He founded the Manila Critics Circle (MCC). He has published more than thirty books, including Movie Times.
DR. TRISH FITZSIMONS
Trish FitzSimons is a documentary film-maker, exhibition curator and convenor of the Bachelor of Film and Screen Media Production at the Griffith Film School in Brisbane Australia. With a first degree in social history, much of her media work has explored historical themes, including Snakes and Ladders: A Film about Women, Education and History (ABC, 1987), Another Way? (SBS, 1997) and Channels of History: A Social History Exhibition (2002). She has recently completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts on 'voice' in documentary film, explored both in creative practice and theoretically. She has also recently written creative non fiction in the area of water politics.
PROFESSOR SCOTT HESSELS
Professor Hessels is an internationally recognized media artist and filmmaker whose main focus delves into mixing cinema with new technologies to create new media experiences. His work has exhibited at some of the world’s top museums and his films have shown in the leading international film festivals. His current series of artworks are cinema generating systems — experimental types of film players. The most recent of these, GPSFilm, was released this year and is the invention of location-based mobile cinema. After coming to Singapore from UCLA in Los Angeles, he currently creates his research and teaches at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University.
www.dshessels.com www.gpsfilm.com
MR. PHILLIP LOPATE
Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943, and received a BA from Columbia University in 1964, and a doctorate from the Union Graduate School in 1979. He has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. He received a Christopher medal for Being With Children, a Texas Institute of Letters award in the best non-fiction book of the year category for Bachelorhood , and was a finalist for the PEN best essay book of the year award for Portrait of My Body. His anthology, Writing New York, received a citation from the New York Society Library and honorable mention from the Municipal Art Society's Brendan Gill Award.
After working with children for 12 years as a writer in the schools, he taught creative writing and literature at Fordham, Cooper Union, University of Houston, and New York University. He currently holds the John Cranford Adams Chair at Hofstra University, and also teaches in the MFA graduate programs at Columbia, the New School and Bennington.
http://www.philliplopate.com/about.html
MR. ARI NEWMAN
Ari Newman is a Hollywood Producer. Ari grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and earned a bachelor’s degree from Boston University. He held leadership positions in United Synagogue Youth in high school and college and continues to lead camp, school and university trips to Israel. To his friends and family, it is no surprise that Ari is a successful Hollywood movie producer. He excels at bringing people and ideas together and bringing out the best in both. Over the past year he has written two screenplays while keeping his hand in the producing end of things as well: “Art of War” II was recently released and filming has begun on “Van Wilder 3”.
Sponsors and Partners
Channel [V]
Channel [V] is Asia’s number-one music TV station. With stations in Australia, Mainland China, Philippines, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, Thailand and Korea, it is more widely viewed than even MTV Asia.
New York Film Academy - NYFAwww.nyfa.com
NYFA is a learning-by-doing film and acting school where students learn the art and craft of film making in an intensive, hands-on, total immersion approach to learning. NYFA teaches every aspect of filmmaking, from screen writing and acting to producing, 3D animation and broadcast journalism, 13 centers around the world.
APPLE STORE - Fifth Avenue afternoon event in collaboration with iCUBED.us' First Annual Silent Film Contest - Saturday, 15th November, 5pm to 6:30pm.
NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY (NYFA) www.nyfa.com has donated three first prizes - one person from each winning team gets to attend a 4-week Film Making Intensive in Summer 2009 (worth US$3,500 each)
*Registration Deadline is 15th DECEMBER 2008 (for Registered Charities & NGOs) and Submission Deadline is 31st DECEMBER 2008*
US$10 REGISTRATION FEE WAIVED for registered non-profit orgs and charities and also for members of iCUBED.us' forums, our 51TRIBES MEMBERS...
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