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call: Alternative Film/Video Festival 2009

Call for entries
Deadline: 20 October 2009

Alternative Film/Video 2009
December 9th – 13th 2009 – Novi Beograd/Serbia

Entry Form
http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/AlternativeFilmEng09.pdf

Innovative, experimental, exploratory, avant-garde, and personal works of young cinema artists, and also works by accomplished artists, will be presented in two competitive selections: The international selection and regional (ex-Yugoslavia) selection at the 16th Festival of New Film and Video – Alternative Film/Video. The festival takes place in Belgrade from the 9th until the 13th of December 2009. As a place of meeting for authors, theorists, critics and the audience, the Festival’s goal is to record and theoretically define movements, promote the right values and support new creative possibilities in visual media. Through the competitive programs, author selections and retrospectives, selections of production centers and festivals, introducing new regional initiatives, audio-visual performances, video installations, exhibitions, panels and discussions, the Festival provides a glimpse of the current state of new film and video in the world. This year there will be more than 100 movies in both selections, from around 400 received each year. More than 30 authors will receive accommodation in student housing during the festival.

JURY:
Jury of the Festival – Dušan Makavejev, Beatrice Kobow, Hrvoje Turković and Jurij Meden will choose the films and videos for the “List of Significant Achievements.”

PROJECTIONS:
Experimental, exploratory, avant-garde, personal films and videos, new forms of narrative and documentary works, retrospectives, author selections…

DISCUSSION PANELS:
Experimental film and video in the region
Found footage film and video and authors rights and the Creative Commons license.

EXHIBITIONS/INSTALLATIONS
PERFORMANCES
WORKSHOPS
PARTY
DJ and VJ party with a projections of found footage held every night

PRIZES:
“List of Significant Achievements” (the author wins usage of the residential AFC program for the production of their new film or video), Student’s Jury and Audience Prize, “Ivan Kaljević” Memorial Prize.

Selectors:
Danijela Purešević, Greg DeCuir, Zoran Saveski, Miodrag Milošević.

Academic Film Center
“Students’s City” Cultural center
Bulevar Zorana Djindjića 179
11070 Novi Beograd
Serbia

http://www.alternativefilmvideo.org/