OPPORTUNITIES BULLETIN # 74 – July 2009

1. Job opportunities: Jordan Pioneers.
2. Call for submissions: Shasha Grant.
3. Call for submissions: Dubai Film Connection (DFC) 2009.
4. Call for submissions: Muhr Awards.
5. Call for submissions: UNICEF CRC Video Contest 20th Anniversary.
6. Call for submissions: Tangiers Festival.
7. Call for submissions: The 46th Antalya International Film Festival.
8. Call for submissions: Leeds International Film Festival.
9. Call for submissions: DigiFestival.net.

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1.   Job opportunities: Jordan Pioneers.

• Skills and requirements:
• Dynamic person, who can easily move around with the costume.
• Patient and able to deal with crowds of children. 
• Two females (average height between 150-165 cm).
• One Male (average height) 170-180 cm.

–    Presenter / Host:

• Skills and requirements:
• Dynamic Male or Female.
• Friendly and can easily interact with audience.
• Able to deal crowds of children.
• – Communicational skills are required.

• The project subject matter is set in the Middle East OR North Africa.
• One of the key team members (writer, producer or director) is Emirati
• OR a resident of the Middle East OR of Middle Eastern OR North African decent
• The project is to be filmed in the UAE.
• The Shasha Grant competition is open for applications from teams of a writer and director or writer and producer, who have completed a short, feature or documentary film that was awarded a prize, has been screened at an international film festival or has had a broadcast commission.
• Writers may not have more than two produced feature screenplays.
• Directors may not have directed more than one feature film.
• Applicants must be comfortable presenting their projects in English.
• Submitted projects must be a completed feature screenplay or feature documentary project.
• Projects must be submitted by the screenwriter or director.
• All application documents must be in English; however screenplays may be submitted in English and Arabic.
• The online Shasha Grant agreement and application is to be completed online.
• The following should be sent the mailing address found below: filmmaker’s biography, one page personal statement explaining interest in the Shasha Grant, biographies of key people attached to project, logline and one page synopsis of the project, including genre, a DVD copy of prior work.
• DVDs must have English subtitles if spoken in another language.
• Submit an online Application via Withoutabox.com, print and mail the application & applicant Agreement (available at: www.thecircle.ae or www.film.gov.ae ) with all other supporting material.

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Requirements for submission:

• Directors must be of Arab nationality or origin.
• Directors must have previous directing experience – short films or features.
• It is essential that the project has a producer attached.
• The project must be either fiction or documentary feature length films intended for theatrical distribution.
• The project must be at an advanced stage of development (i.e. ready to be presented and discussed with potential partners) or a work in progress where principal photography is completed. An extensive treatment or a full draft script and a financial plan will be required, from all applicants, as part of the selection process.
• Project and application form must be sent to the mailing address found below.
• Projects submitted for the Work in Progress category will also have to supply edited copies of the material already shot.
• All written materials must be submitted in English. All filmed works must be available with English subtitles.

P.O. Box 502600, Dubai, UAE

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• Films must have been produced after September 1, 2008.
• Films must not have been screened in the Gulf region for any audiences before DIFF. With exceptions for films that have participated in the second edition of the Gulf Film Festival, films from outside of the Gulf region must be Gulf premieres and films from the Gulf region must be UAE premieres.
• Until the end of DIFF, films must not have been broadcasted and/or made available on television, the internet, mobile phones and/or any other public viewing platform now known or thereafter devised.
• Films must be directed by a filmmaker of Arab Nationality or origin.
• The subject and storyline of the film should be centered on the Arab world, Arab history and/or Arab culture.
• Films along with an entry form must be sent to the festival mailing address found below.
• Feature films have to equal or exceed 60 minutes in length.
• Fiction and documentary films are also accepted to compete for the Award.

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• Videos in all languages are accepted; however, for videos not in English, please provide an English language transcript of the script or summary.
• All videos must be 1 minute in length.
• Participants must be below 25 years of age.
• Submissions can be either by an individual or a group, and can be sponsored by an organization or corporation
• Each individual or group is limited to one submission.
• All videos should be free of copyright materials.
• Each video should be uploaded to one of the following video sharing sites:  YouTube, Blip.tv, Dailymotion, Veoh.
• Videos are to be uploaded on the website found below, and an email is to be sent to [email protected] with the: Name, age, link to movie upload, title of movie, postal address (with country), email address and telephone number.

• An entry form found on the festival website found below is to be sent with the following to the festival mailing address.
• The film in any language other than French should include subtitles.
• A listing of credits, screenplay, photography, sets, editing, sound, music, cast, etc.
• Film synopsis and biography of director.
• Filmography, original titles, English titles, year of production, awards if any.
• At least one photo of the film and of the director.
• Press kit.

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• The festival accepts fiction films over 60 minutes.
• Films in 35 mm format are eligible.
• All the films selected must have been produced within a 24-month period preceding the festival.
• All films selected for Competition will be screened in their original version with English subtitles. Digital Turkish subtitling will be provided by the festival.
• A DVD or VHS tape of the English subtitled original version of the film and the requirements listed below should also arrive to Antalya at the same date.
• CD including the synopsis of the film, the artistic and technical data sheet,
• CD including the English dialogue list of the film (to prepare the Turkish subtitles).
• Press kit and posters of the film and production photographs.
• DVD or Video cassettes for viewing purposes (Pal VHS format, Secam, Beta SP).

Sakıp Sabancı Bulvarı Atatürk Kültür Park İçi

07070 Antalya – Turkey

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• The film must have been completed after 1 January 2008.
• Any genre and any length of film will be considered – anything under 45 minutes is classified as a short, anything over 45 minutes is classified as a feature.
• The film must not have appeared on British television.
• Films are to be submitted via www.withoutabox.com.
• The film on DVD, for viewing purposes is to be sent to the festival mailing address found below.
• Multiple submissions may be submitted, but each film must be treated as a separate entry (one fee per film).
• If the original language of any dialogue or text featured in the film is not English, the preview and screening copy must be subtitled in English.

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• All artists and companies from all categories can participate with their productions and works realized and/ or documented in video.
• Submitted works, no longer than 20 minutes, will be divided into art categories. Selection of the art category will be directly decided by artist discretion and the Festival will put no limitations on artists’ choices. The list of participating artists will be published in the relative category section in alphabetical order. All artists will have a personal web page on the DigiFestival.net network that relates to the artist’s selected category.
• Submitted videos will be encoded in Windows Media technology and published on the internet on the DigiFestival.net network in two qualities in order to be available and be viewed by all kinds of audience with internet or mobile connections.
• Video works will all be published on the DigiFestival.net network on the festival beginning date and time and will remain available on the network unless the artist or the DF staffs decides to remove them.
• Prizes awarded to artist for any art category are to be given by the DigiFestival.net festival jury.

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