Shared Creation Magazine

Tank.tv a web site that specialises in showing new and original works from artists working in the medium of the moving image is running a series of three competitions to find new work for a series of exhibitions planned in 2009.

Entries must be no more than 10 minutes long and submitting artists must have a body of work consisting of 10 more pieces of moving image work to enter.

Further details can be at the

Three Graces website.

Good luck with the short films

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

Apologies on being  so close to the wire on this one

To mark National Adult Learners Week from 17-23 May the Cardiff Centre for Lifelong learning is holding a Photographic Competition open to all current and recent students

The winner will receive a voucher entitling them to 50% off any photography course run the Cardiff Centre for lifelong learning.

The closing date is May 12th

Details for this competition can be found here:

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/learn/competition/students.php

It should also be noted that 12 successful entrants will also be exhibited on the centres web site for the week.

Just thought to remind you that the Digial Camera Magazine - Photographer of the year competition is running and will end on 30th September 2008.

This is a prestiguous competition and well worth entering. This year the first prize is £15000.

If you’d like to learn more and also take a look at some stunning photography please visit http://poty2008.dcmag.co.uk/

Avid are looking for the perfect 60 second film pitch. If you think you have what it takes to convey the awesomeness of grandiose cinematic ambition then this could well be the perfect competition for you.

Here’s how it works - upload a video of you pitching a film idea. It gets voted on and the 20 most voted for pitches get moved onto round two - in round two you have to submit a covering letter and business plan for your idea. A panel of industry experts then take a look and decide a winner.

The winner gets…..