Sunday Series | The Century of the Self

- Whatever's in my subconsciousness is none of my business.
- It, certainly, is business.

Been watching Adam Curtis's The Century of the Self documentary series. Thought I'd share it in here.
The video below includes all four episodes: Happiness Machines, The Engineering of Consent, There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed, and Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering.

The Century Of The Self-Full Length Documentary from JCBaird on Vimeo.

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Otherness | Misc. Projects of the Week

#otherness series continues this week with resilient cities and animated buildings.

1. Ruins of Abandoned Town As Playground 
for Alternative Sports (biking)

 

2. From the New World 
Yongliang's Intricate Digital Collages 
 

  
More with the artist: 

 

3. Animating Architecture 
by Axel de Stampa (awesome!!)

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WATERMARK | A Film by Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky

This Earth day, I would like to direct your attention to a new project by the award-winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal & Nick de Pencier in collaboration with photographer Edward Burtynsky. Their documentary WATERMARK is the awesomely produced combination of Burtynsky's famous vast perspectives and filmmakers' second collaboration since their 2006 Manufactured Landscapes.

“A feature documentary film that brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use. We see massive floating abalone farms off China’s Fujian coast and the construction site of the biggest arch dam in the world – the Xiluodu, six times the size of the Hoover. We visit the barren desert delta where the mighty Colorado River no longer reaches the ocean, and the water-intensive leather tanneries of Dhaka.

WATERMARK - Trailer from Flowers Gallery on Vimeo.

The Making Of:

Behind the Scenes:

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Otherness | Misc. Projects of the Week

These are some of the awesome (I think) videos circulating the web this week. #otherness  

The Bunker of the Last Gunshots | Jeunet & Caro

A group of army men looking a bit disturbed is confined to a bunker. When one of them discovers a dial showing that a countdown has begun, everyone panicks.What is going to happen at the end of the countdown? In this heavily tense atmosphere they all sink gradually into deep madness. (via)

LE BUNKER from kapelaans on Vimeo.

Superscope | Clark

“ I wanted to make tracks that had subtle depth and longevity but were simple and hooky enough to work on the dance floor. They've been tried and tested many times in different ways at all of my recent live shows. It was also really important to tie the oscilloscope imagery visuals into the art work. All in all I was hoping a singular, potent slab of techno that could be matched with accompanying visuals for the live show.” - Clark

Clark - Superscope from Warp Records on Vimeo.

Confluence | Noah Shulman

Confluence: A convergence of two streams or flows into one point. This film explores microscopic worlds, structures and meanings that exist beyond the naked eye. Confluence was shot using speciality macro lenses and microscopes shot in 4K resolution to bring a hyper-realistic image to life. Confluence was filmed as part of the exhibit Mental Fabrications. (via)

Confluence from Timur Civan on Vimeo.

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Open Invitation | BBB Short Film Festival 2014 “Dare To Repeat”

Balkans Beyond Borders has opened the call for submissions for the: 5th edition of Short Film Festival 2014, DARE TO REPEAT.

Artists 35 years of age and younger are invited to participate. The open call submission will run through July 1st, 2014, and this 5th edition of the BBB Short Film Festival will take place in Sarajevo sometime in October 2014.

This year's theme is “Dare to Repeat”:

- Repetition as one of the most used strategies in contemporary art, literature, music, theatre, dance and film.

- Repetition not as occurrence of the same, but as the difference and creative activity of transformation that produces variations through the act of repetition.

- Repetition as a new experience, encouraging new discoveries and experiments, with different expressions emerging each time.

- Repetition produced via difference and not mimesis.

- Repeat = to begin anew again.

- Repetition as transformation, as concept between identical, different and seemingly like, copy and original, primary and consequent, bringing about a reflection on contemporary issues.

You'll find more information on the links below:

• Participation Terms
• Application Form

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Open Invitation | SIMA 2014

FYI!!

Now in its second year, SOCIAL IMPACT MEDIA AWARDS or SIMA, a global documentary and educational impact media competition and showcase honoring members of the independent film and global humanitarian industries.

Dedicated to advancing global awareness, social justice, human rights, and humanitarian development, SIMA champions the works of independent FILMMAKERS, ACTIVISTS, and CHANGE-MAKERS, amplifying creative media that exemplifies excellence in its potential to inspire change.

Invited are all international DOCUMENTARY FEATURES and SHORTS that provide deeper insight into the realities of global development, global activism, and the human condition, as well as EDUCATIONAL IMPACT VIDEOS that illuminate "How Aid Works", i.e. the process behind innovative development programs.

For more information about Awards, Jury Prizes, Eligibility Requirements, and to

visit the SIMA website or find them on Facebook / Twitter.

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Open Invitation | DEAR ALBANIA Video/Photo Contest!

Remember last year's film project by Eliza Dushku on Albania? 

Well, she has announced an official video/photo contest with a December 15, 2013 11:59pm PST deadline. 

“One of the film's major themes is that Albanians remain proud of their country, even when they do not live within the country's borders. We want to show Albanians bringing Albanian pride to their own homes and communities around the world. We need your help. We are looking for video or photos that will help tell this story. 

No matter the corner of the world you live in, you're more than welcome to participate by showing how you keep the Albanian spirit alive.

“Do you teach an Albanian Language course? Or take one? Show us your Albanian class.

Have you taught your grandchildren your favorite Albanian dances? Show us a clip of their performance. 

Do you make Berek for your family dinners-- even if it's paired with local wine? Show us what your dinner table looks like. 

Do you have pictures in your home of your parents or grandparents? Show us! 

Where do you exhibit the Albanian double-headed eagle? Do you hang your Albanian flag on your brick faced Boston walk-up-- or inside the shop your parents have run for decades?

If you are interested in being in the movie, follow the official instructions for HD Video submissions (preferably) or old photos that depict the Albanian pride of previous generations throughout the world. The chosen entries will be featured in the film, receive credit in the end credits, and also be awarded a free copy of the final feature “Dear Albania.”

For official rules, forms, and further submission check the links below:

Rules: http://www.dearalbania.com/Contest/OfficialRules.pdf

Entry Form: http://woobox.com/hrs94w

INFORMATION ON HOW TO PARTICIPATE GO HERE.

Also, check out the contest's Facebook page.

Here's a sneak peek:

Dear Albania Ruff Intro from Nate Dushku on Vimeo.

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Don't forget the deadline: 

December 15, 2013 11:59pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)

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Featured Event | Tirana International Film Festival 2013

Starting Wednesday, October 23 (-31), 2013 for a whole week, Tirana will be hosting the biggest cinematographic event of the year, the most distinguished Film Festival in Albania. 

DON'T MISS IT!!

TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (TIFF) is the first and only international cinema festival of its kind in Albania. Created in 2003, this extraordinary cultural event takes place under the auspices of the Albanian National Center for Cinematography (QKK).

In its 11 edition, more than 1200 films from 91 countries are competing. This year's competition features distinct sections.

1. Feature Film Competition
2. Short Film Competition
3. DIGIART, Television Short Film Competition
4. Albanian Short Film Competition

TIFF will be screening features and short films, including fiction, documentary, animation and experimental. Open to all filmmakers around the globe, TIFF will showcase new cinematic work by well-established filmmakers, as well as projects by emerging talents such as students and young artists. There is a real cinematographic dialog happening during TIFF days, not only on-screen but off-screen as well, with scheduled classes/seminars and of course plenty of public gatherings and open discussions. 

You can find more info about TIFF on their website and daily updates on their facebook page. Check out last year's edition here.

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Featured Event | Balkans Beyond Borders Film Festival 2013

If you're a film buff and/or interested in Eastern European culture, don't miss: 

The 4th Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival “Reinventing Bridges” 

celebrating Balkan diversity through cinematography.

Supported by the European Fund for the Balkans,  

the festival will be held in Bucharest, Romania 

on 11-13 October 2013, 

at National Museum Țăranului Român & Club Țăranului. 

The Films

The Dream, Video art- Experimental 4,34’ Albania
Eros Dibra

My Baby, Drama- Mystery 19’ Romania
Luiza Parvu
Security guard Iulia, interior decorator Andi and English language teacher Ana are bound by a series of decisions that could change their lives forever. Each of them depends on the others’ actions. Each one of them gets to care for and needs to be taken care of. Transparent windows are not necessarily see-through.

Michael Pollan’s Food Rules, Animation 2,13’ Serbia
Marija Jasimovic
A short stop-motion film that playfully animates seeds, veggies, cookies and popcorn to the words of award-winning author, journalist and food activist Michael Pollan. Illustrating the importance of healthy eating and the health of our planet, it acts like an appetizer to anyone willing to become more mindful of the food they eat.

Sphinx, Drama 18,25’ Greece
Konstantinos Karamagkiolis
“Greece 2012” The right wing extremist party’s popularity has risen dramatically and the party violently threatens the natives to banish the foreigners. In a ghetto neighborhood of Athens the SPHINX team undertakes the duties of an unsolicited militia, whose goal is to cleanse the area from every non-Greek element, with main hero a 17-year-old student, member and son of the leader of the fascist organization.

My Circumcision, Fiction 17’ Germany/Turkey
Uludag Ümit
Nine-year-old Ümit does not want to go to Turkey with his family. He is haunted by the thought of his upcoming circumcision and he misses his friends in Germany. Everyone in Turkey is stupid, especially his cousin Haluk. Ümit feels like a fish out of water. Tradition stresses him to step up and face his fears, but not without his Mesut Özil football shirt.

Sisters, Experimental 7,48’ Belgium/Croatia
Lea Vidakovic
The sisters are trapped in facing the loss and emptiness over the missing one.

Botev is an idiot, Fiction 8,51’ Bulgaria
Deyan Bararev
A high school student Vasko criticizes his society that swears by Bulgarian national hero Hristo Botev and his ideals but at the same time is living in a brutish narrow-mindedness

The Blue identity, Fiction/Documentary 19’ Germany
Mumin Baris
Two Kurdish men with blue (refugee) passport living in Berlin try to deal with the idea of not being able to go back to their homeland forever.

De Nuevo, Fiction 7’ Greece
Christos Karteris
The most inanimate object in your house, takes over your mind…

Identity, Drama 25’ Serbia
Milos Krasulja
A story about two outsiders brought together unexpectedly by bureaucracy.

Do they know me? Drama 1,4’ Turkey
Abdullah Harun Ilhan
Inside Questions of an Anatolian man who emigrated to Europe for work…

I want to know what it’s like, Documentary 5’ Romania
Alexandra Carastonian
Diversity is everywhere. In some countries it is less accepted, in others maybe more. This is a short movie about what some members of the Romanian LGBTQ community feel in their daily lives. A movie about how people perceive love and acceptance. A movie about freedom of love and expression. “Through the screening at the BBB Festival, we wish to celebrate the memory of Cristi, a strong activist for the Romanian LGBTQ community who died in January 2013.”

The Blue Viking in Sarajevo, Documentary 17’ Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ado Hasnaovic
A film that portrays a Latin American whose background includes three nationalities – Argentinean, Chilean, and Uruguayan. Emilio started performing street dance in Chile at the age of 19. He had visited 65 states, and then he found himself on the streets of Sarajevo. The capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina has become his home, and new friends have become his family.

Waves in agony, Experimental 8,35’ Greece
Nasos Karabelas
A film about human existence; about the things that we can’t understand. We live in an absurd world where we want to find our safety. We are trying for this but the only thing that we find is the limitless freedom.

The Ballad of Biszewski & I, Fiction 30’ Greece
Quail Harlow
Biszewski picks ‘I’ up beaten. He’s on the hunt for the lifestyle he’s been sold by his heroes…

Sunshine through the rain, Fiction 10’ Bulgaria- Hungary
Hristo Simeonov
Stas and David became friends this summer and are inseparable. David has gypsy origins and the grandmother of Stas doesn’t approve this friendship David’s grandmother is concerned about the boys’ friendship for very different reasons… Now the bears get married, become foolish and don’t hide from people.

The Verdict, Documentary 11’ Croatia
Djuro Gavran
Sixteen years after the war, in the main square of Zagreb several thousand people gathered to watch a live broadcast of the verdict to Croatian generals. Through a series of close-ups, the film documents the eruption of emotions caused by the verdict.

Doors, Doors, Doors, Fiction 23’ Albania
Kreshnik Saraci
A film that talks about the life of six different people that casually are gathered in the same place. They live in the same building, in the same floor.

Worthless, Drama 11,43’ Kosovo
Nart Zeqiraj
Three friends hanging around in a cafe, make plans on where to go. Empty coffee cups on the table show that there is some time they are there. Affected by the monotony they begin to tease each-other and passersby.

The hungry men, Distopia 28’ Greece
Yorgos Bakalis
Capitalism has collapsed, and fat people have been driven out of society… a few of them, living in the same house, form a revolutionary group without meaning. An anonymous, fat man lives above them. Everything changes when the leader of the group decides to eat the state officer for the cause of the revolution. Only one person in the house, who is asked to write the manifesto, knows about the leader’s plan.

First Lady of Dubrava, Comedy/Drama 20’ Croatia
Barbara Vekaric
Amra is an attractive and talented teenager living in the outskirts of. Dina is her chubby, clumsy and spoiled younger sister who suffers from asthma. Amra and her “manager” plan to shoot a hot music video but she learns last minute that she’s to babysit Dina instead…

Nicoleta, Fiction 19’ Greece
Sonia Liza Kenterman
1951: in the mountains of Greece still full of the hatreds of the civil war, a boy, as the head of his family, is responsible for the destiny of his baby sister. Carrying the baby on his shoulders, he treks the inhospitable mountains and braves the dangers of unforgiving people in the hope of escaping poverty.

About a city, Experimental 8,34’ Serbia
Dragana Nikolic
Talking with the ghosts of the city, the shadows, the fog…
This city is full of secrets. Secret passageways, stairways. Just hidden from you, hard to find…

The sound at the window, Fiction 19,09’ Turkey
Nursel Dogan
Gülizar had to move from her small village to the big city. She can’t speak any language except her native language is Kurdish. Everything is very different for her in the big metropolis city Istanbul. She has to face a lot of challenges of everyday lie.

One line, Experimental 3,4’ Greece
Dimitris Argiriou
“One Line” is the line, which connects the dream with the reality.

Vacant, Fiction 14’ Sweden
Josephine Camitz
In a city that was once theirs. Myrto and Spiros are two young lovers living in Athens. She suffers from a disease. He becomes shut out.

Cat, Experimental/ Documentary 30’ Germany
Stefan Neuberger
KEDİ is an experimental documentary in the tradition of “Cadavre Exquis”. Several people from Istanbul are portrayed through the power of their imagination in a moving portrait photography. Together they create and narrate a fiction story about the life of a cat.

One year after, Drama 10,48’ Romania
Cristian Pascariu
How does a mother deal with the loss of her husband? “One year after” is the story of a mother who unwillingly meets the man who killed her husband at a heart-breaking accident. In an attempt to express his remorse and deep feelings of guilt, the man tries to talk to the woman whose life has been marked by him.

The man who fed his shadow, Drama 18’ Greece
Mario Garefo
A man intrudes into rich people’s dinners claiming that he can collect the food from their table and feed his shadow which, curiously enough, is a female figure.

Transformance, Experimental 8,15’ Germany/ Croatia
Nina Kurtela
Transformance is a video-event-work that activates and documents a five-month durational performance. Over this period of time, Nina Kurtela establishes a daily practice of visiting and witnessing the changes at the building site of the Uferstudios, Wedding, Berlin – the warehouse for the repair of public trams and buses becomes a dance institution. The camera acts as a witness to her performing/witnessing.

One missed call, Fiction 5,43’ Greece
Fotis Velentzas
One night in town a boy and a girl capture their meeting on video, building up a choreography of thoughts and memories before they separate…

Boy Story, Romantic comedy 17’ Greece
Thanassis Angelopoulos
A bus station, a video-club, a swimming-pool. A series of random meetings will become the occasion for a “Boy Story” to unroll. Will the hero manage to overcome the suspensions which victimize him since childhood? And will he manage to make Eirini ask him what is the music he is listening to?

Between the lines, Drama 9,3’ Germany/ France
Fingscheidt Nora
Hungary 1946. The Hungarian policeman Sándor must displace his foster father Michael from his farm. Michael’s refusal to leave his country leads to a tragic end.

Dreaming Apecar, Comedy 16’ Italy
Dario Leone
Caterina is a 45 year old Italian woman who has been without a job for months and cannot find another one. So she accepts to work as a carer for Gheorghe, an elderly lively Romanian stuck to a wheelchair. This experience will change her life.

Man in a box, Clay Animation 4,36’
Greece
Elias Papastamatiou
A figure pops up out of a piece of clay, but is unable to get released. It desperately seeks to find ways to get cut off from this piece of clay which confines it. Freedom is close…

The Shovel is too small, Documentary 24’ Serbia
Nemanja Babic
The film investigates the motivation for work through the shock workers movement and the youth work campaigns. The elderly folk are skeptical regarding the new generations, accusing them of being only after the material benefits. Today, these work campaigns have lost their role of connecting people, so it’s absurd that they seem to be outdated but also inspiring.

In the shadow of the deathless tree, Fiction 30’ Turkey
Nail Pelivan
You spent it in this way, in all places, too/You cannot find a different sea./This city will follow you./You will walk in same streets, again./You will age in same neighbourhood./Your hair will turn grey in same houses./You will come to this city in the end, coming full circle./how you spent your life, in this corner./You cannot find a new country.

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HIGHRISE | An Open-Source Multi-Media Re-Mix Project

Earlier this week, Highrise made its debut at the 51st annual New York Film Festival as part of the Convergence Program. The project is an interactive, open-source online installation/documentary/film/experiment that explores vertical living around the world. A collaboration of National Film Board of Canada and The New York Times Op-Docs, the interactive experience will launch in the New York Times soon.

The project explores a 2500 year history of vertical living by utilizing digital media. The story is being told by pushing all limits of media genres: bringing together different people to collaborate and share ideas; remixing life with art, cinema with the web and creating a participatory, interactive and networked experience, that will ultimately transform our physical space, our neighborhoods, our cities, our urban landscape.

A Short Story of the Highrise 
[Mud, Concrete, Glass, Home] 

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The Story so far:

PROLOGUE [interactive]

WORLD OF HIGHRISES [interactive]
[check out Albania and/or suggest a highrise]

HIGHRISE / ONE MILLIONth TOWER trailer

THE THOUSANDth TOWER [interactive] 

OUT MY WINDOW [interactive]
[if you want to share views from your own video participate here]

INSTALLATION [space in Amsterdam]

**Don't forget to check out New York Times later on this week 

for an interactive launch of the project.

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Featured Event | DOKUFEST

DOKUFEST opens up Film Festival Season in Albania & Kosovo. 

17-25 GUSHT / AUGUST 2013, PRIZREN, KOSOVA 

Prepare to break borders! 

Dare to take flight and have your own borders broken! 

#dokufest13 / Web / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram

For more information, go here.

DokuFest is coming back to Tirana today, this time to Break Borders!  

The screening will be held at: 

Academy of Film & Multimedia Marubi 

(Aleksandër Moisiu Nr. 78) 

@20:00h. 

Films:

TOKYO GIANTS, Nicolas Provost / Belgium, 2012 / 23 min – The film infiltrates the daily life of the Japanese metropolis following a serial killer character played by an actor.

MINIYAMBA, Luc Perez/ Denmark, 2012 / 14 min - Like thousands of people around the world who everyday leave their homeland, Abdu, a malian musician, has decided to reach Europa. A trip from the Niger river to the fences of Ceuta, where dreams are confronted with the harsh reality...

SLOMO - Josh Izenberg / USA, 2013 / 16 min– Depressed and frustrated with his life, Dr. John Kitchin abandons his career as a neurologist and moves to Pacific Beach.

GATES OF LIFE - Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen / Finland, 2012 / 6 min – This progressive documentary plays with form and sound to create a unique perspective on human nature.

LULLABY - Victor Kossakovsky / Russia, 2012 / 3 min – A couple of homeless men lay sleeping on the floor of a bank vestibule. Kossakovsky captures the economic crisis in a single image.

Entrance to the screening is free.

DokuFest kthehet sot në Tiranë, këtë herë për të thyer kufi! 

Filmat do të shfaqen në: 

Akademinë e Filmit dhe Multimedias Marubi 

(Rr. Aleksandër Moisiu Nr. 78 Kinostudio) 

ora 20:00. 

Filmat:

TOKYO GIANTS, Nicolas Provost / Belgium, 2012, 23 min - Filmi e infiltron jetën e përditshme të metropolit të Japonisë duke ndjekur një karakter të vrasësit serial të luajtur nga një aktor.

MINIYAMBA, Luc Perez/ Denmark, 2012 / 14 min - Sikurse mijëra njerëz rreth botës, të cilët çdo ditë e braktisin vendlindjen e tyre, Abdu, një muzikant malian, ka vendosur të arrijë Evropën. Një udhëtim nga lumi Niger te rrethojat e Ceutës, ku ëndrrat konfrontohen me realitetin e rëndë...

SLOMO - Josh Izenberg / USA, 2013 / 16 min - I frustruar dhe në depresion me jetën e tij, Dr. John Kitchin e braktis karrierën e tij si neurolog dhe shpërngulet në bregun e Paqësorit.

GATES OF LIFE - Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen / Finland, 2012 / 6 min - Ky dokumentar progresiv luan me formën dhe tingullin për të krijuar një perspektivë unike të natyrës njerëzore.

LULLABY - Victor Kossakovsky / Russia, 2012 / 3 min - Një grup burrash të pastrehë shtrihen të flenë në dysheme në korridorin e një banke. Kossakovsky kap krizën ekonomike me vetëm një imazh.

Hyrja është falas.

tags: dokuphoto, kino prizreni, autobahn, tirana, prizren, kosova

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SUBURBAN | A Project by Ian Strange

SUBURBAN is a multi-faceted photography, film and installation exhibition created by artist Ian Strange. Over a two-year period Strange worked with a film crew and volunteers in Ohio, Detroit, Alabama, New Jersey, New York and New Hampshire to create, photograph and film eight site-specific interventions incorporating suburban homes. The recording of these interventions through film and photographic documentation forms the basis of a new solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria on July 26 and a short-film which will be released in late 2013.

Ian Strange: SUBURBAN from Ian Strange [KID ZOOM] on Vimeo.

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Off Book Series | Artificial Intelligence

**Creative Sunday Series

‘‘ Artificial intelligence is an ever evolving goal for researchers, and the object of endless fascination for writers, filmmakers, and the general public. But despite our best science fiction visions, creating digital intelligence is incredibly difficult. The universe is a very complicated place, and humans have had millions of years to evolve the ability to navigate and make sense of it. Contemporary attempts to create AI have us looking more at how our own brains work to see how a computer could simulate the core activities that create our intelligence. No matter how we get there, it is certain that artificial intelligence will have tremendous impact on our society and economy, and lead us down a path towards evolving our own definitions of humanity.’’

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Featured Project | Map Your World

Keep an eye out for Map Your World launching this month. 

A global network of young people making real change.

Data + Story + You = Change!

map it + track it + change it + share it

Map Your World from Grainger-Monsen Newnham on Vimeo.

Map Your World was inspired by the documentary The Revolutionary Optimists, by Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger Monsen.

Check out some of the stories here.

Make sure you join in here.

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Open Invitation | Kino Prizreni

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: KINO PRIZRENI

DokuFest has opened its call for applications for the second edition of Kino Prizreni that will take part during this years festival, to be held in August 17-25 in Prizren.

The selected filmmakers will be invited in Prizren to write, shoot, cut, and screen their films within a short period of time. The films will be made in “guerilla style” and with no budget. But lots of passion. Young artists will have one long week to compose the cast and crew and make their films from scratch. The finished films will be screened in DokuFest 2013.

The call is open to participants of all backgrounds, abilities, skills and experience. Directors, scriptwriters, DOP’s, actors, boom operators, editors, light assistants, musicians, composers, animators, producers, make-up artists, costume designers or simple film enthusiasts can apply.

Apply Here! 

Rules and regulations!

Deadline for application is 15 July.

Participation fee is 50 Euro. 

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THIRRJE PËR APLIKIM: KINO PRIZRENI

DokuFest ka hapur thirrjen e aplikimit për edicionin e dytë të Kino Prizrenit, i cili do të mbahet gjatë këtij edicioni të festivalit, më 17-25 gusht në Prizren. 

Filmëbërësit e përzgjedhur do të ftohen në Prizren për të shkruar, xhiruar, edituar dhe për të shfaqur filmat e tyre. Filmat do të xhirohen në stilin “guerrila” dhe pa buxhet. Por me shumë passion. Artistët e rinj do të kenë një javë kohë për të organizuar ekipin e xhirimit si dhe të prodhojnë filmat e tyre. Filmat e përfunduar do të shfaqen në DokuFest 2013.

Thirrja është e hapur për pjesëparrësit nga të gjitha kualifikimet, aftësitë dhe përfojat. Regjisorë, skenaristë, kameraman, aktorë, asistentë të ndriqimit, editor, muzicientë, kompozitorë, animatorë, producentë, make-up artistë, kostumografë apo thjesht entuziaztë të filmit mund të aplikojnë. 

Aplikoni Këtu!

Rregullat e Konkursit!

Afati i fundit për aplikim është 15 korrik.

Pagesa për pjesëmarrje është 50 Euro.

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Open Invitation | PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival

PLURAL+ 2013 Call for Entries

Submit your videos now up until June 30th, 2013

The PLURAL+ Video Festival is a platform that recognizes youth as powerful agents of social change and supports them in addressing the key challenges of their communities related to migration, diversity and social inclusion.

Anyone can enter the Video Festival as long as they are between the ages of 9-25. 

All entries must be received by Midnight (New York City Time, GMT -5hours) on June 30th, 2013. 

The video should be about things like migrant integration, inclusiveness, identity, diversity, human rights and social unity. 

Be creative in your submission. Your video can be done in any style or genre – animation, documentary, drama, music video, comedy etc. – whatever you decide best represents what you think about migration and diversity.

Videos must be between 1 and 5 minutes long, including title and end credits. 

Any submissions falling outside of this time restraint will not be considered.

Preferably all videos should be submitted on DVDs, or through a file hosting website of choice. (see Rules and Regulations)

Your video can be in whatever language you want, however if the language of your video is not English then you must have English subtitles.

A prestigious international jury will select three winners in each age categories (9-12, 13-17, and 18-25). All the winners will be invited to New York, all travel expenses paid, to present their work at the PLURAL+ 2013 Awards Ceremony at the Paley Center for Media in December 2013. 

Read more about how to submit your videos here.

Watch the PLURAL+ 2012 winning videos here.

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Obey The Giant | The Story of Shepard Fairley

Since we're on the subject of color-bombing and mural street art check out this film. Based on the true story of Shepard Fairey's first act of street art during his time at Rhode Island School of Design from 1989-1992.

OBEY THE GIANT - The Story of Shepard Fairey from Julian Marshall on Vimeo.

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Open Invitation | Colors of Albania

Introducing Colors of Albania (Tumblr), in case you've missed it or haven't checked it out yet.

Colors of Albania aims to bring the best films and documentaries currently produced in or about Albania, as well as related stories scattered across the web, in one place, to audiences worldwide.

Their vision is to become an exciting online library of contemporary film and photography, as well as a place to connect, share, learn and inspire.

Colors of Albania is run by The Albanian Cinema Project (here & here), an initiative that brings much needed awareness, attention and assistance to the current plight of the Albanian Film Archive (Arkivi Qëndror Shtetëror i Filmit). 

Here's a screenshot:

So, don't forget to SAY HELLO!

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