The Bitfilm Festival for Digital Film and New Media is open for submissions! And we’re a partner

Bitfilm Festival Calls for Entries

It’s really an honor for us to take part in this year’s Bitfilm Festival, which will take part in Hamburg and Tel Aviv to recognize and reward the best digital films in various categories. In the past two years we have created some pretty successful digital videos which forced us to quickly realize and take advantage of this medium, allowing us to campaign for certain causes more effectively. You can watch these videos at CENSEO, Mideast Youth’s production arm. Several of these comics and videos have found themselves on prominent newspapers including in Egypt, Lebanon, Bahrain, thousands of blogs worldwide and most recently on South African TV.

Here’s the Bitflm press release below, which contains all the relevant information!

Bitfilm Festival Calls for Entries, Looking for the World’s Best Digital Films:

Deadline: July 1

Opening event in Hamburg on August 13

Online voting from August 13 to September 24

Closing event and award show in Tel Aviv on October 1

10,000 Euros in prize money

As of today, digital filmmakers throughout the world may submit their films to the Bitfilm Festival to win one of the five prestigious Bitfilm Awards. Only the best 3D animations, digital hypbrids, Machinima movies and Realtime demos submitted online until July 1 will be selected by the Bitfilm team to compete in a worldwide election on the Internet.

The Bitfilm Festival will start with an opening event in its hometown Hamburg (Germany) on August 13. It will end with a closing event including the award show in Tel Aviv on October 1.

These are the award categories with a cumulated prize money of 10,000 Euros:

3D SPACE AWARD – computer generated 3D animations

FIX MIX AWARD - digitally composed hybrid films which mix various techniques

MACHINIMA AWARD – films shot live inside computer games

REALTIME AWARD – animations generated in realtime (aka, Demos.)

New in 2009: the POLITICOOL AWARD which features digital animations and mash-ups with a political message (we’re happily participating in this one, with 3 video submissions!)

In the last years, our users have submitted more and more political films, the festival’s director Aaron Koenig comments this innovation. “The internet is full of digital animations and mash-ups on political issues. In Germany, we have a year of many elections, the ‘Superwahljahr’ and our new host city Tel Aviv is located in the politically very complex and interesting Middle East, so it was just natural for us to introduce this new section.”

Films may be submitted until July 1 here.

We’d especially love to see many submissions from the Middle East! We are sure that many of those fit under the new and very relevant Politicool category.

Start submitting videos, spread the word, and most importantly, good luck!

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