Whistler Film Festival call for submissions

The Whistler Film Festival is looking for submissions for the 10th annual edition. This year the festival will run from December 1st to 5th 2010.

Canadian and international filmmakers are welcome to submit in all lengths and genres, and there are six juried awards and one audience award that the final selections may be eligible for.
The short film deadline ($25 entry fee) is July 19. The feature film deadline ($40) is August 3.

Full details are available at: whistlerfilmfestival.com/2009-Festival-Info/submissions.html.

Call for Submissions – 4th Cairo Video Festival

4th Cairo Video Festival Video Art & Experimental films

Deadline for submissions: 15th of June 2010

Medrar for Contemporary Art is sending out an open Call for Submissions to the Forth Video Festival hosted in Goethe institute Cairo-Downtown.

Initiated by the Cairo-based artist initiative Medrar for Contemporary Art in 2005, this festival continues its focus on providing a platform for sharing and discussing newly produced high concept / low budget experimental videos. Based on a call for works by emerging artists, the festival program takes the format of a concise series of video screening on accompanied by talks/discussions with active video-makers and curators to tackle some of key themes and issues presented in the works.

More information and application from: medrar.org/4thvf.html

Call for Art, "Revisiting Beauty"

Call for Art, "Revisiting Beauty"
April 29 - May 29, 2010
Deadline to Apply: March 10, 2010
Opening Reception: May 1, 6-10pm

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
117 North Sycamore
Santa Ana, CA 92701

The meaning of beauty has been debated by philosophers since the time of the Greeks. Courted or scorned, distrusted, devalued, deconstructed, beauty promises pleasure while provoking awe, admiration and even fear. Beauty quickens the pulse. Attention Contemporary Artists! OCCCA is now accepting submissions of artworks representing ideas of the beautiful. Painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and computer-based New Media projects welcomed. Beauty stirs the understanding, and is the enemy of complacency. Concepts alone can never replace it. Beauty’s provocations are no longer innocent.

Full details available at: www.occca.org

in other words...

Every now and then we get random email in at CoCA with absolutely no info other than a link. Most are junk but every now and then, I find something interesting.

I wish I knew more but its from Seattle based artists Nico Vassilakis