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Subject: DEADLINE EXTENSION for Darklight Digital Film Festival


--Darklight Digital Festival 2002 ---
Ireland's premier festival for digital filmmakers, animators and artists.


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April 2002
Welcome to Darklight Digital Festival Update 2002

Email contents 1. Darklight Digital Film Festival 2002, call for entries
DEADLINE EXTENSION.
2. DIGITAL WEEKEND Micro-festival of Digital Culture Sofia 2002
3. Straylight online Exhibition.

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1. ******CALL FOR ENTRIES DEADLINE EXTENSION******
DARKLIGHT DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL 2002
IRISH FILM CENTER DUBLIN IRELAND JUNE 2002

Firstly thanks to all of you who have already sent in you entries and for
those of you who need more time we have extended the deadline...

The DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS has been extended to MONDAY 22nd APRIL 2002. If
accepted for selection we will need your BETA PAL exhibition tape by Monday
13th MAY 2002.

Darklight submissions will be processed on-line and applications can be made
through the entry form available on the site.

The ENTRY FORM, CONDITIONS and INSTRUCTIONS are available on the site@
http://www.darklight-filmfestival.com

FILMS

Eligible for entry are feature films, documentary, all CG animation, Flash,
3D etc., experimental video works, music videos, commercial work, motion
graphics, game sequences, DV live action shorts and student work. There are
no restrictions on genre, length or number of submitted works.

Darklight encourages the submission of contemporary works that demonstrate
and explore the creative potential of digital technologies. The entries must
use some sort of digital process in their production.

For entry level we accept only VHS (NTSC or PAL), QuickTime and MPEG on CD,
DVD or zip disk at preview quality - (approx. 320 x 240), or as a URL
pointing to your movie.


There is an entry fee for the first time this year of 10 EUROS or 10US$ but
there are concessions for students and unemployed, so please send in your
work, any donation are welcome.



If you have any questions please contact us by email at:
submissions@darklight-filmfestival.com


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2. Darklight Touring Programme.
April 2002: Darklight Directors Nicky Gogan and Sue Patterson will be
presenting films at the DIGITAL WEEKEND Micro-festival of Digital Culture
Sofia 2002, Bulgaria.

A MICRO-FESTIVAL OF DIGITAL CULTURE SOFIA 2002
curated by Iliyana Nedkova WHERE: Studio 7, National Academy of Arts, Sofia
WHEN: 12-14 April 2002
All Events are FREE and open to the public

Your guide to the digital arts and culture of the 21st Century featuring
exciting new digital art projects by Bulgarian and international artists
including film screenings, Internet audio streaming, lectures and talks.

This year's DIGITAL WEEKEND is the first of a series of art and technology
events, bringing together the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia
and New Media Scotland, Edinburgh. This new partnership takes place in the
unprecedented climate of increased interest towards digital culture in
Bulgaria and the rising need for furthering the critical debate across the
country.

For further information:
Dessislava Gavrilova
Tel: 00359 2 980 49 24
http://www.redhouse-sofia.org
http://www.mediascot.org

Also this month, Darklight Touring Programme can be seen at CLONE Digital
Film Festival. 12-13th of April.
CLONE Digital Film Festival is an annual film festival, held in H=E4meenlinn=
a,
Finland. Festival will focus on films which have been made in digital format
exclusively.
CLONE is organized by an organization called Aviteekki. Aviteekki was
founded to support audio-visual cultures in H=E4me region.

For further information:
Juhana Myllyniemi
00358442841 607
email: jkm@clonefilmfest.com
http://www.clonefilmfest.com/
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3. Straylight online art exhibition. http://www. darklight-filmfestival.com

The first Straylight online exhibition invites artists to explore the
virtual world and the challenges it presents.

Contributors were asked to examine the words Ownership, Networks, Sharing,
Re-usability & Control and the issues they suggest, to work to an
exploratory agenda which this year was set by Darklight Perspectives, a
conference dealing with issues of ownership and distribution of content
online.

To view some of the work you will need:
Flash 5 Plugin
Quicktime 4 or Higher
Shockwave 8 or Higher

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