INDIAN DOCUMENTARY PRODUCERS’ ASSOCIATION
IDPA UPDATE September 28th 2007

223, Famous Cine Building, 20 Dr. E. Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai 400 001
Tel: 24920757, 2496 1020 
e-mail : idpaindia@gmail.com
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The San Francisco International Film Festival 2008
April 24 - May 8, 2008
Call for Entries - Click here
Primary Deadline - November 2, 2007
the final submission deadline is November 30, 2007

Organiser Contact Information:
The 51st San Francisco International Film Festival
San Francisco Film Society
39 Mesa Street, Ste 110
The Presidio
94129 San Francisco CA
United States
Tel: 1-415-561 5000 / Fax: 1-415-561 5099 / Email – gga@sffs.org
The Official Website: www.sffs.org
 
ABOUT THE GOLDEN GATE AWARDS COMPETITION
Festival programmers put together roughly three-quarters of our programs, including all of the theatrical narrative features. For the remaining quarter we turn to the Bay Area's active, savvy, dedicated professional media community, who, through the Golden Gate Awards™ competition, determine the year's best documentaries, shorts, animation, experimental film and video and television. The GGA quite simply is one of the most unique, respected and popular competitions in the world-and the most international.

GOLDEN GATE AWARDS COMPETITION
Golden Gate Awards Competition for Documentaries, Shorts, Animation, Experimental, Youth-Produced and Television Works
UPLOAD THE CRITERIA (PDF)

CRITERIA
The Golden Gate Awards competition is accepting submissions in 11 categories. Entries must have been completed on or after January 1, 2007. Works that have played a multiday commercial theatrical run in the Bay Area or had any kind of media broadcast are not eligible to apply to non-television categories.
The New Visions category is ONLY for experimental film and video in which personal expression and aesthetic exploration are the primary concerns. If the entry is inappropriate for New Visions, the Festival will reassign it to the proper category.
Youth Works submissions and college student submissions must include with the application a copy of a photo ID indicating proof of age or university enrollment at the time of production. Adult participation in Youth Works is limited to an advisory role.
Productions partially financed by television companies intended for theatrical presentation may be entered in non-television categories. Works specifically financed and produced for broadcast must be entered in television categories. Premiere telecast of the entry must have been on or after January 1, 2007.

CATEGORIES AND GOLDEN GATE AWARDS PRIZES
Juries make one award per category. Bay Area entries are also eligible for Bay Area awards as noted.
Documentary Features (40 minutes and longer) $10,000
Bay Area Documentary Feature $5,000
Documentary Shorts (under 40 minutes)$5,000
Bay Area Documentary Short $2,000
Narrative Shorts* (under 40 minutes) $5,000
Animated Shorts* (under 40 minutes) $2,000
New Visions* $1,500
Youth Works* $1,500
Works for Kids and Families $1,500
Television Narrative Long Form (40 minutes and longer, including series)no cash award
Television Narrative Short Form (under 40 minutes) no cash award
Television Documentary Long Form (40 minutes and longer, including series) no cash award
Television Documentary Short Form (under 40 minutes) no cash award
* Animated Shorts, Narrative Shorts and New Visions works by Bay Area residents are also eligible for the Bay Area Non-Documentary Short prize of $1,500.

Submit your film: Click here
you can also download and print out a PDF of the entry form and send it in.
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2008 SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL
June 13, 2008 / June 21, 2008
(tentative dates)

Call For Entries Deadline: Online Form
CALL FOR ENTRIES!
No entry fee
All genres
All formats (but accepted filmmakers are required to provide NTSC digibeta or NTSC beta sp)
All countries (English subtitles required for non-English language films)
Japanese premieres only
VHS or All-Region DVD Screeners Only
25 minutes and under
Produced after January 1, 2007

Submission deadline for all categories (International, National, Asia and STOP! Global Warming) is December 1st, 2007.

OFFICIAL CONTACT
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR: Seigo Tono
Short Shorts Film Festival Office
2F Urban Building, 2-4-8 Hirakawacho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0093 Japan
E-mail: look@shortshorts.org
Tel: 81-3-5214-1233 / Fax: 81-3-5214-1956 /
Website: http://www.shortshorts.org
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CALL FOR FILM ENTRIES
Fourth IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival 2008, India

The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) is a non–profit professional organisation of women working in electronic and allied media. The IAWRT is a non-government organisation (NGO), in consultative status with United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). IAWRT collaborates with media organisations and organises conferences, projects and activities.
The IAWRT in partnership with IIC Asia Project is organising the Fourth Asian Women’s Film Festival in March 2008. The aim of the festival is to open up a space for debates on creative processes and concerns.

The 2008 festival is titled, “Insights and Aspirations”.  It will be a two-day event, to mark the International Women’s Day (March 7th to 8th 2008). We take this opportunity to invite you (and/or your friends) to send your film by 26th Dec. 2007.

Recognising the critical need for a forum that can sustain the form of documentary as well as women’s contribution to this unique form, the festival will showcase documentary films created by women, covering a range of genres and expressive styles. It will present films that explore and reflect on how women filmmakers negotiate, resist or document political, social, cultural, environmental, educational or economic issues. 

Are they creating a new language of filmmaking, which reflects, explores a news aesthetic and politics of filmmaking? How are women widening the frame for issues concerning women? These will be some of the central questions in the festival coupled with panel discussions and/or a seminar.
IIC Asia-project and IAWRT will use this forum to curate a special session dedicated to short films across genres of animation, fiction and documentary film.
The IAWRT/IIC Asian Women’s Festival has traveled to many cities in India .The last festival had screenings in Kolkata, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Pune and Madurai.

For forms for the festival and more information contact Jai Chandiram at iawrtfest2008@gmail.com with a copy to: fict@fictindia.com (Kind attn. Ms. Jai Chandiram)

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The Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences announces a new Masters programme in Media and Cultural Studies from. June 2008. The application deadline is November 10, 2007. Admission Test in 17 centres all over India. More details at http://tiss.edu/querya.htm and at http://www.tiss.edu/cmcs/ma.html

A Note on the Programme

The M.A. in Media and Cultural Studies aims at honing skills of media production and research within a framework that enables the development of a critical perspective on media, culture and society. In contemporary society, media and culture are crucial sites where identities are produced and popular ways of seeing are consumed. Cultural Studies enables us to meaningfully engage and interact with these new modes of being and doing. By making us conscious of the many complex ways in which power impinges on our lives and constructs our cultures, it has the potential of empowering us to critically read the media and other cultural institutions and texts, to understand how they shape our identities and to think about how we could possibly shape them.

This programme will impart intensive hands-on training in video production, including direction, research, scripting, editing, camera and sound. It also has a strong research focus. This will enable students to produce documentaries and short films.  The programme will culminate in the production of a documentary/ multi media artifact and a research term paper. It will also teach basic skills in community radio, graphics and web design. The students will have access to the well-equipped facilities and the visual archive of the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies (www.tiss.edu/cmcs). The teachers of the course would include CMCS and TISS faculty as well as professionals.

With its unique blend of theory and practice, the M.A. in Media and Cultural Studies works towards the creation of a lively group of media 'thinking do-ers' and 'doing thinkers' who could then choose to branch out into a diverse range of work or educational situations. The students of this course will be equipped to work in the areas of media and television production, independent media practice, media education, advocacy and research.  The potential employers include NGOs, television production houses, educational and research institutions and governmental agencies.

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DRISHTI AND VIDEO VOLUNTEERS ARE HIRING VIDEO TRAINERS OR FILM-MAKERS
FOR FIVE COMMUNITY VIDEO UNITS AROUND INDIA

Organization and Program Profile

Drishti is a leading human rights organization that uses media, communications and the arts to strengthen India's social movements and organizations. Video Volunteers is an international organization that empowers communities to voice. Drishti and Video Volunteers have established ten Community Video Units (CVUs) across India where community members are producing monthly videos for local and global audiences. Each Video Magazine is screened back to the community in 25 different villages or slum pockets to approximately 10,000 people per month.  

We believe community video can truly accelerate social change and create people led development. Our goal is to create a Global Social Media network for and by the community.

About the Video Trainer Positions

Each Community Video Unit (CVU) has a full time Video Trainer working on site at an NGO with the Community Producers for a period of eighteen months. The job will entail training 6-10 community members in all aspects of video production, participatory video, principles of community media, media analysis and development communication.  

Our upcoming CVU sites are Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal and Gujarat. We are looking for candidates who can proficiently communicate in  Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi or Gujarati and will be willing to relocate to their respective work sites. The Video Trainers will also need to have a working knowledge of English. For our Unit in Tamil Nadu, we would prioritise Dalit applicants or applicants who have worked on Dalit Rights.

This is a great opportunity for film-makers interested in being part of the global movement to democratise media and wishing to work with communities to use their skills to affect social change.


Job Positions: Five, one each at Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal and Gujarat

Job Requirements:
Proficiency in shooting, writing and editing videos
Proficiency in operating digital video cameras
Proficiency in non-linear editing
Must have strong creative and storytelling abilities
Must have strong ability to teach/train
Must have coordination skills and leadership qualities to motivate and lead
Must be interested in working with underprivileged community members
Candidates with experience working in human rights or development will be prioritised.

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