Thursday, May 29, 2008

INTERNATIONAL CONTEST - VIDEOFEST 2008 - - - - - - - - EXISTENCE - CO - EXISTENCE

Welcome to the Mission Cultural Center
International VIDEOFEST 2008
Existence-Co-Existence



MCCLA's Video Fest is proud to be celebrating its fifth consecutive year.
The title and theme for Video Fest 2008 is Existence-Co-Existence. Video Fest 08 will focus on people's existence and their surroundings, the relationships that develop between human beings and nature, community, family and social surroundings. Existence-Co-Existence encourages submissions of videos with themes related to ecology, sustainability, community development and social and/or family stories.

Video Fest 2008 Categories:
Documentary (not longer than 60 minutes)
Short Fiction (not longer than 20 minuter)
Youth Video* (must be 18 years old or younger / not longer than 10 minutes)
Video del Barrio / Neighborhood Video / From or about a Neighborhood (not longer than 20 minutes)
Experimental (not longer than 20 minutes)

We will not accept videos created before 2004.

Prizes:
1rst prize: $ 1,000
2nd prize: $ 500
3rd prize: $ 300 for Youth Video
There will be a juror specialized in film and video for the video selection.

DEADLINE for submitting videos: 9/11/08



Selected videos and winners will be announced by September 23
Festival dates: October 17 and 18 at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Theater
For more information and complete guidelines and entry form please visit:
missionculturalcenter.org

VideoFest is associate with other Video Festivals in the world:
VIDEO AKT BERLIN 2008
Festival La Noche de Los Cortos, Peru
International Latino Film Festival in Sydney

Adrian Arias, VF producer
Sebastian Davila MCCLA Events coordinator
Sabina Nieto, Multimedia Dpt. assistant