Following up on their successful festival and awards presentation in 2010, Vimeo has at last announced their follow-up event to be held sometime in 2012. Starting today, the online video website — a favorite for filmmakers thanks to Vimeo’s high quality video streaming — is accepting submissions for next year’s event that will see a couple lucky winners taking home some big prizes.
There will be 13 total categories that filmmakers can submit to and the winning video of each category will win a Grant of $5,000. In addition, there will be a $25,000 Grant given to one Grand Prize winner.
Videos eligible for submission are original works that have debuted online sometime between July 31, 2010 and February 20, 2012 — with Feb. 20 being last day entries will be accepted. The submission fee is $20 (U.S.) per video ($5 for Vimeo Plus and Pro members). Interested filmmakers can submit their work here.
The 2010 festival only accepted videos in nine categories.
There will be 13 total categories that filmmakers can submit to and the winning video of each category will win a Grant of $5,000. In addition, there will be a $25,000 Grant given to one Grand Prize winner.
Videos eligible for submission are original works that have debuted online sometime between July 31, 2010 and February 20, 2012 — with Feb. 20 being last day entries will be accepted. The submission fee is $20 (U.S.) per video ($5 for Vimeo Plus and Pro members). Interested filmmakers can submit their work here.
The 2010 festival only accepted videos in nine categories.
- 12/13/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The most poignant moment at the Vimeo Festival + Awards ceremony was when Casey Neistat (half of the famous lo-fi filmmaking duo known as the Neistat Brothers) accepted the Digital Maverick Award and quoted Francis Ford Coppola from the behind-the-scenes Apocalypse Now documentary, Hearts of Darkness: To me, the great hope is now that these little 8mm video recorders have come around, some people who wouldn't normally make movies are going to be making them. Suddenly, one day, some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart, you know, and make a beautiful film with her little father's camcorder. And for once, the so called "professionalism" about movies will be destroyed forever, and it will really become an art form. The words weren't revelatory in regards to a democratized production process. We all know that with low cost production tools and virtually no-cost distribution mechanisms, anyone with a vision,...
- 10/11/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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