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| - Byron Bay International Film Festival I Call for entries to Sept 29 | The annual Byron Bay International Film Festival (BBFF) attracts international filmmakers, directors, producers, performers, cultural tourists and prominent members of Australia’s film industry, not to mention plenty of appreciative locals.
BBFF is now seeking entries for the 2011 festival. All films entered will automatically be considered for nomination in any award categories that the film might qualify for during the selection process. BBFF awards include but are not limited to Best Film, Documentary, Short Film, Drama, Cinematography, Surf Film, Animation, Experimental Film, Environmental Film, Music Video, Best Young Australian Filmmaker (open to Australian directors and producers under 25) plus an award for local filmmakers.
Films in competition must have been completed after 1 January 2008. Filmmakers are encouraged to use the paperless entry system 'Withoutabox' via the BBFF website at www.bbff.com.au
Closing 29 September (regular entry) and 29 October (final entry) |
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| - Win a Small Business Flourish Package - closes Sept 29 | As part of Small Business September 2010, Industry and Investment NSW is offering small businesses the opportunity to win the Small Business Flourish Package valued at $17,400.
This prize includes:
· $1,000 ANZ Visa debit card
· $1,000 Australia Post office supplies
· $10,400 Cumberland Courier Newspapers advertising package
· $5,000 Yellow Pages print advertising package
This is a fantastic opportunity to improve your cash flow, upgrade your office supplies and significantly boost the promotion of your business. Don't miss your chance for help to growyour business and flourish!
Entry is free. Entries are limited to one per business.
Visit www.smallbusinessmonth.nsw.gov.au to enter today.
The competition closes on 29 September 2010 at 5.00pm and the winner will be drawn on 30 September 2010. |
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| - Janison Short Sharp Film Festival 2011 - Call out for entries, closing May 16 | Janison Short Sharp Film Festival
No signature item in 2011, paving the way for total creativity
Call For Entries Deadline: Monday 16th May 2010 5pm
Two categories
SHARPIES 18+
Animation / Documentary/ Drama
YOUNG GUNS 14 to 18yrs
Animation / Documentary/ Drama
Event: Saturday 9th July 2011 Jetty Theatre Coffs Harbour
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| - NSW Volunteer of the Year Award - close Sept 30 | Nominations open for the 2010 NSW Volunteer of the Year Award
The NSW Volunteer of the Year Award recognises the outstanding efforts of the 2.4 million volunteers in NSW and promotes the importance of volunteering to the community, and this year the Award is proudly supported by Westpac. Nominations are open for the:
2010 NSW Volunteer of the Year (with special Awards for Youth and Senior of the Year)
2010 NSW Volunteer Team of the Year
2010 NSW Employee Volunteer of the Year
State Winners will be presented with their Award by the Minister for Volunteering at an Award Ceremony at Parliament House Sydney on 3 December.
Nominations close: 30 September 2010
Further information: www.nswvolunteerawards.com |
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| - The Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize - closes Sept 30 | The Nature Conservancy is the world’s largest conservation organisation, operating in over 32 countries, including Australia.
The inaugural Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize seeks to promote and celebrate the art of nature writing in Australia as well as encourage a greater appreciation of Australia’s magnificent landscapes. All entries will be independently judged by literary journalist, Sally Blakeney and renowned Australian poet, Mark Tredinnick.
The successful entry will receive a prize of $5,000 and the work will be published in Indigo journal in early 2011. This biennial prize will be offered again in 2012.
For an entry form and terms and conditions please email australia@tnc.org - Closing 30 September |
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| - Myfuture Video Competition to Feb 28, 2011 | Enter The Myfuture Video Competition And Win $7500!
Enter the myfuture Video Competition for the chance to win $7500 and show off your creativity. All you need to do is create a video profiling an occupation that interests you. The myfuture Video Competition is open for entries from young people aged 12-25.
The winner will receive a cash prize of $7500 and also have a chance to win another $5000 in the myfuture Viewers’ Choice Award.The aim of the competition is to assist young people to explore career ideas by producing a 2-3 minute video on an occupation that interests them.
This is an exciting opportunity for young people Australia wide to explore their future and film making skills in a creative and innovative way.
The closing date for the myfuture Youth Video Competition is Friday, 28 February 2011.
Other categories for 2010 include the myfuture Best School Video that offers a cash prize of $7500. This category closes on 29 October 2010. Entrants will have the chance to win an additional $5000 with the myfuture Viewers’ Choice Video Award.
Voted by myfuture visitors, appropriate videos entered into the Youth and School categories will be submitted into the Viewers’ Choice category.
Visit the myfuture website www.myfuture.edu.au for further information and to sign up to receive regular competition updates that will provide helpful tips for producing a video entry. |
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| - Bike Rack as Art design Competion - 18 October | Call for Enteries
Applications are now open for Bike Rack as Art design competition. This Australia-wide design competition invites creative, street-savvy designers to design a cutting edge public bike rack that can be seen as a beautiful item of street art as well as a long-lasting, easy-to-use, functional device.
Closing date: Monday, 18 October 2010
www.powerhousemuseum.com/bikeracks/ |
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| - Award for Contemporary Textile Art - March 2011 | Call for Applications
The Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery holds a biennial Award for Contemporary Textile Art.
Professional artists working in any style of textile media are invited to make an entry for consideration within a competitive assessment process.
Closing date: Friday, 25 March 2011
Entries here |
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| - Play Air | The Song Room has just launched its first national fundraising campaign PlayAir, to help provide music-based programs for disadvantaged young people to improve their education and development.
Log on to www.playair.com.au and load up your best air moves, or simply vote for your favourite clip, and you could win an array of great prizes. |
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| - Screen It Competition | Screen It Competition
Registrations are now open for Screen It, the national competition for school aged filmmakers run annually by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
This years’ theme The Environment: Who Cares? provides a valuable trigger for students and teachers to investigate environmental issues while learning filmmaking techniques along the way.
This year registration is completely free and is accessible online. The competition is open to anyone enrolled in primary or secondary education and students can enter through their school or independently.
Entries can be live-action films, computer games or animations, but must incorporate the theme. Guidelines and application details online:
www.acmi.net.au/screenit.htm |
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| - Teen Shorts Call for Filmmakers | Teen Shorts | Call for Filmmakers
Teen Shorts Inc is running a film festival for NSW and Victorian high school students and intends to expand nationally in 2011.
All films are scripted, shot and edited by students and are given a screening where students can see their film up on the big screen. The first round of the competition takes place at a regional level, with winners moving into a final round.
Teen Shorts would like to offer filmmakers and musicians the opportunity to run workshops with students by placing a listing of their skills on the website
www.teenshorts.org
A yearly fee of $25 per listing is applicable. Fur further information please visit the 'filmmakers available page on the website or email teenshorts@bigpond.com |
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| - Mobile Screenfest | Mobile Screenfest
Mobile Screenfest, Australia’s first mobile phone film festival is giving anyone who loves filming videos and taking photos on their mobile phone the chance to win over $10,000 in prizes.
For the tech-savvy, budding photographer or emerging filmmaker, the competition is as simple as shoot, upload and win.
Now open to the public, the festival aims to recognise the growing global phenomenon of shot-on-mobile content.
Mobile Screenfest seeks creative shot-on-mobile memories, stories and entries that will set the bar for user generated content in Australia. Guidelines and application details online:
www.mobilescreenfest.com |
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| - Movie Extra's Webfest I Call For Entries - Closing 15 October | Movie Extra's Webfest | Call For Entries
Movie Extra's Webfest is an exciting and challenging new initiative from The Movie Network Channel – a competition that offers emerging filmmakers the opportunity to showcase their production skills and join an online community of like minded individuals, passionate about web based mediums and the film and television industry.
In the tradition of Project Greenlight Australia and Movie Extra Tropfest, The Movie Network is offering budding filmmakers the opportunity to create a web series for broadcast on Movie Extra's website www.mnc.tv and to premiere on the Movie Extra Channel in 2011.
Filmmakers will need to submit details of the web series and a short video teaser for a chance to win $50,000 to create their own series.
Guidelines and application details online:
www.facebook.com/movieextrawebfest |
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| - Words for the Future - Oct 15 | What is Words for the Future?
If you’re aged 13-25 and can use language creatively in any way, we want you to give us byte-sized literature about the future.
What does the future hold? A dystopia of climatic and technological nightmares, or an exciting, sustainable world of endless opportunities? What do you think? What do you imagine? What kind of scenes do you see? Where do you see yourself in this future? And what will you be doing in this future world?
Inspire yourself | Inspire your friends | Inspire us!
Get involved in this online competition for funny, sad, brilliant, brilliantly beautiful, or perhaps wonderfully bad texts! Along with your work, send us a bio and join an online community of young writers to develop your work and ideas. You can contribute to Words for the Future in four ways:
M. microfiction/microfaction (blog, autobio, status updates - sms/facebook/twitter/etc)
C. comedy writing
P. poetry
S. song lyrics
Entries close
on October 15th. There are prizes in each category and a chance to go to a free workshop and performance in November at Bellingen Showground, where you can learn more about the crafts of writing, discover opportunities
for young writers and meet others with great ideas. Entry is FREE – so what are you waiting for?
This competition is the first event leading to the 2011 Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival (April 9 & 10) featuring great writers and events.
Keep your ears peeled! Note: To be eligible for the prizes and workshop you must live within 100 Ks of Bellingen Post Office but if you don't, we'd still love to see what you can do!
www.wordsforthefuture.com.au |
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| - Flickerfest - Sept 3 | Flickerfest 2011 | Call For Entries
Flickerfest, Australia's premiere international short film festival, will be held at the Bondi Pavilion on Sydney's famous Bondi Beach in January 2011, after which a selection of films will go on tour to capital cities and regional
centres around Australia.
The 2011 Festival is now calling for entries in the following categories: international, Australian, documentary, GreenFlicks (environmental shorts), and FlickerUp (student competition).
To be eligible for Flickerfest, films must be no more than 35 minutes in length, must have been completed within 2 years of the closing date, and must be in English or have English subtitles. Due to the competitive nature of Flickerfest, Australian films selected for competition should not have screened publicly in NSW within six months of the festival dates.
Guidelines and application details online:
www.flickerfest.com.au
Closing 3 September (Australian entries) and 17 September (international entries) |
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| - Port Stephens Examiner Literature Award - Sept 30 | Port Stephens Examiner Literature Award
The Port Stephens Examiner Literature Award is on again, with $1,000 in prize money on offer.
Short stories of up to 2,000 words on any topic are invited. The entry fee is a $5 cheque made out to TACE. Standard competition conditions apply and no entry form is required.
Stories should be typed and double spaced, and accompanied by a cover sheet providing the story title and author's contact details.
The postal address for entries is: Literature Awards, PO Box 105, Tanilba Bay NSW 2319.
For further information please contact Geoff Walker: Tel 02 4982 4095,
Email tace@tilligerry.com - Closing 30 September |
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| - The Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize - Sept 30 | The Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize
The Nature Conservancy is the world’s largest conservation organisation, operating in over 32 countries, including Australia.
The inaugural Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize seeks to promote and celebrate the art of nature writing in Australia as well as encourage a greater appreciation of Australia’s magnificent landscapes. All entries will be independently judged by literary journalist, Sally Blakeney and renowned Australian poet, Mark Tredinnick.
The successful entry will receive a prize of $5,000 and the work will be published in Indigo journal in early 2011. This biennial prize will be offered again in 2012.
For an entry form and terms and conditions please email australia@tnc.org - Closing 30 September |
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| - Australia's Favourite Event - Nominate and Vote till Sept 12 | Who is Australia’s Favourite Event?
Now that entries in the Australian Event Awards have closed, we have opened our new ‘public choice’ award, Australia’s Favourite Event. Almost 3,000 votes have been cast from across Australia since voting opened on Thursday. Voting closes on 12th September so you still have plenty of time to rally your troops and get them voting.
Do you manage an event or do you know an event that deserves to be named Australia’s Favourite Event? Did that event take place in Australia between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010?
The trophy and the title of Australia’s Favourite Event will be presented at the Australian Event Awards Industry Night of Nights at Sydney Olympic Park in October.
Find out more here |
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| - IMAGinE Awards are open until September 6 | M&G NSW, Museums Australia (NSW), Museums Australia (ACT) and Regional Public Galleries Association of NSW are pleased to announce that nominations are now open for this year’s IMAGinE Awards.
The IMAGinE Awards are the museum and gallery sector’s annual event that recognises outstanding achievement in exhibitions, public engagement and collection management. The awards highlight the work of institutions that have demonstrated excellence in serving their communities and rewards individual paid and volunteer staff who have shown passion and commitment in their field. Details of awards categories are available on the M&G NSW website.
Nominations close: 6 September 2010
Further information: www.mgnsw.org.au |
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| - 12words - the microfiction website is up again | Can you write a story in 12words?
Nambucca Valley Youth Services Centre thinks you can. They are running their national microfiction website for the second year. Everyone is welcome to logon and write stories but only 15-25 year olds can win a prize (like a $1,000 writing mentorship).
Funded by The Ian Potter Foundation; sponsored by Random House, Burnside and Avant Card; and affiliated with the National Library of Australia and TAFE NSW, this is a fantastic National project run from our region. It runs until December 1.
Check it out at: www.12words.com.au
www.12words.com.au |
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