imagineNATIVE Final Call for Film, Video, Radio and Web-based New Media Submissions

June 1, 2011

imagineNATIVE is sending out its final call for film, video, radio and web-based new media works made by Canadian and international Indigenous artists for its 12th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Striving to represent a diversity of ideas, themes and genres in its programming, the Festival prioritizes works that balance unique content, cultural and social relevance, and have a creative approach to form, characterized by innovative expression, distinctive style, and personal vision. Emerging and Student artists are encouraged to submit their work, and priority is given to works that have not yet been broadcast in Canada or on the Internet. International and Canadian premiere status is also a consideration. News reports, extended reportage, television magazine formats, and information programming or segments (such as PSAs) are not eligible (complete listing of rules and guidelines).Deadline: June 1
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LATE SUBMISSION? Let us know by sending an email to Daniel Northway-Frank, Programming + Industry Manager at programming@imaginenative.org. This helps us track your work and provide follow-up; If the Programming Team is unaware of your late submission it may not be considered. Your email should include:

• Subject Line: “Tracking 2011 -” followed by the title of your work
• Name
• Email and phone number
• Title of work
• Run-time/length of work
• Type (film/video, radio or new media), and
Genre (documentary, drama, experimental, music video, animation).
• Expected submission date(s) of rough cut and/or final cut

New this year! Dramatic or documentary episodic series led and produced by Indigenous production companies are eligible to submit programs and episodes to the Festival’s Mediatheque, an on-site video library of all submitted work to the Festival, which industry distributors, broadcasters and programmers screen for acquisition and programming needs. NOTE: These works are not screened publicly at the Festival, nor are eligible for awards. Application forms for television series will be available early summer for submission. Please contact programming@imagineNATIVE.org for more information.

About the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

The 12th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival runs from October 19-23, 2011 in downtown Toronto, Canada. imagineNATIVE is an international Festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples at the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio and new media. Each fall, the Festival presents a selection of the most compelling and distinctive Indigenous works from Canada and around the globe. The works accepted reflect the diversity of the world’s Indigenous nations and illustrate the vitality and excellence of our art and culture in contemporary media.

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