VERTIGO NEWSLETTER #34, August 2008



	Problems reading this newsletter? See http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/newsletter/August2008.htm VERTIGO NEWSLETTER #34, August 2008 Vertigo's newsletter features the latest on the magazine, what's new on the website plus exclusive competitions, events listings, links to resources and more. Subscribe or buy Vertigo magazine online / Go to the latest issue / Unsubscribe from this newsletter / Send us your information CONTENTS 1) *Vertigo News* – August On-line issue on the website 2) *Competition* - Win a DVD copy of ‘XXY’ 3) *Events and screenings* – 2nd Russian Film festival, 13th Bite the Mango Festival, 5th London International Animation Festival 4) *Calls for submissions* *and Courses* – Think,Shoot,Distribute, Horrorfest 2008, European Media Artists in Residence Exchange 5) *Links* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 - VERTIGO NEWS Vertigo’s Summer Issue is out now *All Power to the Imagination, the current issue of Vertigo, takes a close look at the events of May 1968 and the lasting legacies of that summer’s turmoil. Covering Vietnam, Grosvenor Square, Mexico City, Prague, China and – of course – Paris, the issue has interviews with J G Ballard, Walter Murch and Jean Luc Godard; exclusive pieces by Peter Whitehead, Helke Sander, Iain Sinclair and Barbara Stone and photos by Philip Jones Griffiths, together with Time Unfolding, an exclusive Picture This artists’ film DVD. To subscribe or buy the new issue click here* August Online issue now on the Vertigo website The August On line issue is currently available on the Vertigo website, with 5 web exclusive new articles. Featuring interviews with Guy Maddin discussing memory, nostalgia and how he met Isabella Rossellini, Japanese director Kazuhiro Soda about his political documentary ‘Campaign’ (more on the new documentary movement in Japan as profiled in Vertigo Vol 3 Issue 4) and artist filmmaker Sheena Macrae on remixing Hollywood classics; a critical exploration of gender in Ousmane Sembene’s final film ‘Moolaade’ and a review of Bruno Dumont’srecently re-released debut ‘La Vie de Jesus’. Click here to access the current Online issue 2 - COMPETITION Win a copy of ‘XXY’ Argentinian director Lucia Puenzo won both the Critics Week Grand Prize at Cannes and the Best New Director Award at Edinburgh when her debut film ‘XXY’ was released last year -- it was subsequently chosen to represent Argentina at the Oscars. Part of a new wave of contemporary Argentinian cinema, the film follows Alex, a conflicted teenager struggling with raging hormones – even more raging than the usual teenager, as she was born ‘intersexed’ – both male and female. An incisive study of gender, social alienation and identity, the film has exceptional performances from the two teenage leads. For your chance to win one of 5 copies of the Peccadillo Pictures DVD, email the answer to the following question, along with your full contact details, to vertigo@vertigomagazine.co.uk XXY syndrome is a condition in which a male has an extra X chromosome, so is considered intersexed. What is the medical term for this condition? Read the Vertigo's review of ‘XXY’ from Vertigo Online issue 17, May 2008 3 - EVENTS AND SCREENINGS 17th Chichester International Film Festival, Chichester, 21st August to 7th September This year’s festival has grown yet again, and includes many special programmes, including Oscar nominated foreign films, the films of Michael Redgrave, a focus on Sir David Lean and a full retrospective of the work of producer Kenith Trodd. In addition, there will be gala screenings and a special selection of British films. More information and the full programme 5th London International Animation Festival, London, 1st to 7th September For the past five years, the London International Animation Festival has been sourcing amazing, rare, haunting, surprising and gorgeous animations from all over the world (220 films from 28 countries this year) and LIAF proves that animation can be dark, sad, shocking, abstract or brilliantly original. This year's festival has a special focus on animated documentaries, and includes a roundtable discussion with Canadian animator Josh Raskin, creator of the brilliant Oscar-nominated animated interview ’I Met the Walrus’, documenting a 1969 meeting with John Lennon. More information and the full programme 2nd Russian Film Festival, London, 18th to 28th September Screening contemporary and classic Russian films, plus a special Documentary programme, the second Russian Film Festival will run from 18th to 28th of September, followed on September 29th by a day-long symposium covering Film and Politics, and discussing filmmaking collaboration between Russia and Britain. The September Online issue of Vertigo will have a special Russian Film Festival focus. More information and the programme 13th Bite the Mango Film Festival, Bradford, 19th to 25th September Bite the Mango celebrates the cinema of black and Asian countries and filmmakers. Taking place at the National Media Museum, this year’s festival has a special focus on the films of Columbia and Malaysia, plus a special lifetime award will honour the work of veteran director Waris Hussein. More information on event 4 - CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS, APPLICATIONS AND COURSES Call for Entries: ‘Your Winnipeg’ filmmaking competition Inspired by the release of the new Guy Maddin feature My Winnipeg, Soda Pictures (in conjunction with Four Docs, 3 Minute Wonders & The Branchage Film Festival) are holding a filmmaking competition. Filmmakers are invited to submit a 3-minute documentary about their hometown, being as experimental and creatively adventurous as you dare. Guy Maddin will join a jury of industry professionals to select the winning entry, which will be screened on Channel 4 and feature on the UK DVD release of My Winnipeg. The winner will be rewarded with £1500 and a holiday to Maddin’s Winnipeg. Three runner-up films will also be screened on Channel 4 and the winners will each receive £1500. For more information click here Deadline for entries: 31st August, 2008 Call for Submissions: Horrorfest 2008 Horrorfest 2008 is seeking short horror films for broadcast on Propeller TV during the Halloween season. In addition to having your short broadcast, there will be prizes for the best films, including holidays for 2, Avid Media Composer software and Raindance courses. Films have to be 10 minutes or shorter. For more information click here Deadline for submissions: 12th September, 2008 Call for Applications: LUX Associate Artists Programme LUX Associate Artists Programme (AAP) is a unique 12 month professional development course for artists working with the moving image, starting in November 2008. The scheme aims to provide an intensive course of development focused on critical discourse, extending to the practical and infrastructural issues that present challenges for artists working with the medium through workshops, seminars, mentoring and a final funded project. LUX AAP is open to all artists working with the moving image who have completed a graduate or postgraduate course in the last three years. For more information click here Deadline for applications: 15th September 2008 Call for Applications: Think, Shoot, Distribute Think-Shoot-Distribute is The Times BFI London Film Festival’s professional development scheme. They are seeking 25 experienced and emergingfilmmakers seeking to develop their feature film career.Successful applicants producers, screenwriters and directors - will take part in a 5-day programme during the Festival in October in which they willmeet with leading film professionals in a series of workshops andmaster-classes exploring the international film industry - from financing toexhibition. Participants then join the T-S-D network of over 100 alumni whomeet bi-monthly at the BFI Southbank. More info and an application Deadline for applications: 16th September, 2008 Calls for Submissions: 11th One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival One World would like to invite documentary makers to send films for the next edition of the festival. Feature length documentaries, short documentaries (up to 35 minutes) and animations (up to 35 minutes) are considered for the festival program. Held in Prague in March 2009, the festival will include over 120 documentaries from all over the world, anInternational Competition of feature length documentaries, Right to Know Competition for investigative documentaries, Short Forms Competition and International guests, thematic categories, retrospectives, workshops, and many special events. For more information click here Deadline for submissions: 30th September, 2008 Call for Applications: Vivid - European Media Artists in Residence Exchange With support from the European Union Culture 2007 - 2013 programme the European Media Art Network will give 16 production awards to emerging media art talent to explore the creative possibilities of innovative content for new media platforms. Media artists in the fields of digital media (including internet and computer based art, video and sound) are invited to apply for a two month residency in 2009 with one of the following partner organisations: Netherlands – Impakt, Germany - Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Bulgaria - Interspace, UK - VIVID. 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