Reprinted from an International Documentary Association press release
From the astonishing stories of starvation, persecution, and escape from the world’s worst human rights violator to the surprising inside story of an iconic cult, the International Documentary Association (IDA) presents this year’s DocuWeeks™ Theatrical Documentary Showcase.
Screening in Los Angeles and New York City July 31st through August 20th, 2009, IDA’s 13th Annual DocuWeeks™ Theatrical Documentary Showcase will present 18 feature films and 10 short films, a collection of some of the best groundbreaking documentary films from around the world. DocuWeeks™ returns to the ArcLight Hollywood (6360 W. Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles) and the IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street in New York City) for this annual showcase of documentary films qualifying for Oscar® consideration.
A complete schedule and additional information about each film can be found on the International Documentary Association’s website at www.documentary.org
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We often get interesting material and recently I came across a music video contest that I think everyone should take their chances with. MTV & Pepsi are teaming up with Rock Band for a music video contest. The official rules are located here and it definitely looks like a fun contest to enter. Go here for more information. If you think you have what it takes, give this one a shot for sure!
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Imagine if you made a video that was 42 seconds long, and it was part of project that included 41 other directors, who have made 41 other videos. All of which are 42 seconds long. With the likes of Mike Figgis, David Lynch, Gaspar Noe and Abel Ferrara. Well then, you’d probably end up with this video:
Which is a trailer for ONEDREAMRUSH. Check it out here
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Congratulations to Joe Herbert, the creator of the spot “Free Doritos” for not only winning the contest itself, netting him $25,000 and a trip to Florida, but his commercial aired during the Superbowl, and was rated the number one ad in USA Today’s Ad Meter, beating out heavyweights Budweiser, Coca-Cola, and Pepsi. According to the terms of the contest, Doritos now will be paying Joe $1,000,000 for his efforts, making 2009 pretty much the opposite of a recession year for Joe Herbert.
What’s exciting for the rest of us independent video producers is that these guys got a chance to play in the big leagues, and walked away with the top spot, based on their ideas and skills alone. Budget and connections didn’t enter into it, simply using the internet to connect the content creators directly with the audience reaction was all it took to come out on top.
From the article:
“For the first time, it wasn’t an ad agency that created the best-liked Super Bowl commercial. It was two unemployed brothers from Batesville, Ind., whose ad for Doritos — created for an online contest for amateurs — won them $1 million from Doritos maker Frito-Lay, and leaves ad pros with a lot of ’splaining to do.”
Nothing breeds opportunity like success, and I’m sure we’re going to see more high value video contests in the future. Maybe you should start polishing up your skills and take a look at our contest page?
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How does $1,000,000 sound for a 30 second ad? Well if you’re a major production house, it sounds like a small budget. But a cool million for an independent video producer isn’t that shabby.
All you have to do is make a 30 second commercial for Doritos, and if it’s selected, your commercial will air during the Super Bowl, where you will be on hand to watch it. And if your ad is voted the best in the Super Bowl by USA Today, they will pay you one million dollars for your trouble. The five runners up get $25,000 each.
This is by far the largest contest award that I’ve seen for user generated video. And seriously if you’re a Videomaker reader, you’ve already got an edge on 95% of the submissions they’re going to get.
Your 30 second Ad has to be submitted by November 16th, 2008 so get cracking!
Full contest details and entry guidelines can be found on the crashthesuperbowl.com website.
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The 2008 Videomaker/Canon Short Video Contest is underway! The first entries are beginning to arrive and are being captured into our system. We can’t wait to see your entries, so don’t delay!
Over the course of this contest, we will be testing out TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress to conform all of the entries to a standard format for judging. The first look at this encoding software shows that it can import pretty much any file format that you can throw at it, and the resulting video output is very clean. It can’t directly handle ripped VOB files from a DVD, though, but it’s easy enough to import DVDs directly into the program for further processing. The program also makes cut-editing very easy to perform, the encoding is as quick as we could hope for on the system we’re running it on, and the batch encoding features work as advertised. It’s a very strong contender as far as encoding software goes.
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