Good news for Welsh Filmakers; the West Wales School of arts (in Carmarthen) and Oriel Myrddin Gallery will be staging a selected show of film in March 2009. This means that they need short films and this could mean you if you are a film maker either working in Wales or in the medium of Welsh.

• In order to enter your film needs to fulfill a few criteria
• It must be no more than 5 minutes long
• It must be on the theme ‘My Place’
• It must be supplied on a PAL DVD
• A films must be able to be showed via single channel projection - so this excludes any multi screen films.
• You must supply a CV, a short artists statement and an official application form.

The closing date for applications is the 31st of October this year.

For more details please contact: KDodd@carmarthenshire.gov.uk

Way back in the early days of Shared Creation I tracked the development of Adobe Lightroom, bought it as soon as it was out and became a great fan.

Now Light Room 2 is out. I’ve not played with the product myself yet - that’s not due to any lack of enthusiasm - just a reflection on a maturing in my Photo software use. My library of images is now so large I don’t want to mess around with pre-launch betas for safeties sake. 

Anyway all this is just a diversion. I’ve been looking at the specs on Lightroom 2 and its new features look like a major enhancement to Lightrooms ability to organise and enhance photos. It looks like an essential purchase or upgrade from where I am sitting.

So if you like Lightroom or are thinking about some high quality photograph workflow software take a look at Lightroom 2. I have a feeling you won’t be disappointed. For more details click here for the Adobe site.

Its time to give a quick mention to this years New Media Expo. This years event is scheduled to start on August 14 and run until August 16.  The location is Las Vegas Convention Centre. So a little hard to reach if you are outside of the States, worth a mention though as it is an event that brings together a good many of the big names in Podcasting, Video Blogging and Blogging together.

Of course if you cannot reach it then keep an eye on the new media itself. You can bet that there will be many many blog entries - many made live at the event that will help those who cannot go get a feel of it.

That’s the nice thing about new media - it can be incred

ibly fast to report something, with as many different flavours as there are producers.

If you’d like more information the Expo can be found at:

http://www.newmediaexpo.com

I’ve recently seen a mention of Hijacker films in the bloc newsletter. There’s no website and only a little information. However my gut feeling is that this could be very useful - as they provide film projects to youth and community groups. So if you have a film project that is good for production in the community arena then please contact them. Here are the details on the bloc website.

A quick moment of your time to mention the Creative Cultivators. They are an eclectic mix of artists, craftsman and food producers who are getting together in Chepstow High Street on Saturday the 19th of July as part of the Chepstow arts festival.

Unfortunately I don’t have a working URL for the Festival to give you at the moment - hopefully better contact details will be forthcoming in the future.

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