/////////////////////////////////////// // Short films wanted for: // 1) EMERGEANDSEE Main Competition // 2) EMERGEANDSEE "East-West" Special // 3) Partner festival "Localize!" /////////////////////////////////////// // <http://submit.emergeandsee.org/> //
Dear friends of EMERGEANDSEE! After a successful 2008 season with 30 marvellous short films and countless lovely international guests at our event, it is time to prepare for EMERGEANDSEE 2009. The festival will take place in February 2009, at our traditional home, the Berlin cinema Babylon:Mitte. We will again show the most thrilling short film art by filmmakers from all over the world. This year, we have established a new highlight: The "East-West" Special Competition, for films centered around this topic. And, of course, we still have our open Main Competition. If you are a filmmaker: we would love to see your work submitted in one of these two festival categories. If you know filmmakers: tell them about us, so they can take their chances! As a third opportunity to present your film to an interested audience, we're featuring the call for entries of our young partner festival "Localize!" The details: 1) The EMERGEANDSEE Main Competition: Maximum film duration: 10min. For student filmmakers. We're looking for innovative and clever young short films. Be they filmed, computer animated, hand drawn or whatever. Over the years EMERGEANDSEE has gained a reputation of showing the most interesting new ideas from design and film schools all over the world to an open-minded crowd at the cinema. Give your film the audience it deserves and submit it on <http://submit.emergeandsee.org/> 2) The EMERGEANDSEE "East-West" Special Competition Maximum film duration: 20min. For all young filmmakers (30 or younger, that is.) In our world today the axis East-West gains new importance, but has numerous meanings. What this might mean is totally up to you. It might be the gap between Eastern and Western Germany, or in Europe, the two poles Eastern and Western states, the USA and the Arabic world..it is your idea and your point of view that matters. Tell us your story, get your opinion across to the EMERGEANDSEE visitors. We're awaiting your film on <http://submit.emergeandsee.org/>. 3) Localize! This young festival will take place in October 2008 for the first time. Their aim is to explore the topic of "home" in a short film competition. We thought this to be a rather good completion of EMERGEANDSEE and encourage all filmmakers to submit their work. Here's the call for entries: Localize – The festival of home Potsdam, 22 – 24 October 2008 Closing date: 31 August 2008 “YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR HOME OR DON’T HAVE ANY BUT NO MATTER WHERE, YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO LIVE SOMEWHERE.” Vilém Flusser ANNOUNCEMENT In the course of Localize- The festival of home we will set in an expedition into the staircase by next autumn! We call on professional and amateurish filmmakers, artists, students and interested people to join in and give us an exceptional insight into the ordinary features of their lives! Like cinematically realized observations of everyday life in the proximate social environment, for example. We are looking for shortfilms which refocus on the apparent implicitnesses of everyday life: Where is my home? How does it look like there, in my flat, around the corner, in the environment close-by or far away? Which problems, which moments of happiness are there? Is home the place where I am born or is it the one which I have chosen by myself? Is home a place at all or is it the people with whom I feel at home? Is it possible to link the terms “everyday life” and “living space” with the term “home”? What does home mean in times of globalisation? No matter i f your film is going to be highly professional or amateurish, animated, documentary or fictional, we are interested in your individual view on your individual environment! Closing date for sending in the films for the competition is 31 August, 2008. The films should not exceed 30 minutes in length. The chosen films for the festival will be shown from 22 – 24 October, 2008 in the Potsdam film museum. There will be a jury awarding the best films and prizes awarded worth up to €1000. You will find the set form for participation as well as further information on www.heimatfestival.de FESTIVAL Localize! – the festival of home is realised by students of the courses European Media Studies and Cultural Studies of the University of Potsdam with the collaboration of the Potsdam film museum. We are looking forward to your contributions! Your Localize – Team www.heimatfestival.de
