The Disposable Film Festival celebrates the artistic potential of disposable video: short films made on non-professional devices such as one-time use video cameras, cell phones, point and shoot cameras, webcams, computer screen capture software and other readily available video capture devices.
You can see examples at the DFF site.
Here are the details:
Metacafe and Microcinema, a leading international rights manager, are teaming up on a juried online and offline film festival, MetaFest 2008.
MetaFest hopes to combine the best of interactive online video-viewing with the best of the live-audience offline film festival experience.
Selected films will have a theatrical premiere in San Francisco in November 2008, will be showcased [...]
Conan O’Brian wants you to make your own Late Night commercial.
One winner will get a shopping trip to the NBC Experience Store in New York City with Late Night stage hand Steve Graham, who will use his employee discount to get you 25% off all merchandise. Plus, the winner will also receive complementary round-trip bus [...]
The New York Times has published an article that looks at costs of running contests for user-generated advertising, suggesting that it’s actually more costly than traditional advertising, and that most amateur ads are terrible.
“That‚Äôs kind of a popular misnomer that, somehow, it‚Äôs cheaper to do this,” said David Ciesinski, vice president for Heinz Ketchup. “On [...]
Comedy Central and AtomFilms have announced the second annual online video competition, Comedy Central Test Pilots, this summer. Test Pilots will give viewers the chance to create their own short form comedy pilots, with the best being voted on by viewers at Comedy Central.
The winning pilot will earn its creator $5,000 and a chance for [...]
Ozzy Osbourne wants you to direct his next video, for the track I Don’t Wanna Stop from his upcoming album Black Rain. He’s offering prizes for the best music video, including a Sony HD video cam.
Here are the details:
Here’s what we’re looking for. Ozzy wants a video for his new single “I Don’t Wanna Stop”. [...]
The winners of the Webby Film and Video Awards were announced today, with winnders ranging from Hollywood heavy hitters like NBC’s The Office Webisodes to Eepybird.com’s The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments.
The Webby Award Winner for podcasting was NPR Podcasts, which also was the People’s Voice Winner.
Organizers also announced the recipients of two Special [...]
Olympus is offering podcasting grants for schools to help promote awareness of its podcasting offerings. Apply for the grant, and your school could win software and the digital media accessories you need to start a podcasting program.
To apply, you need to develop a lesson plan demonstrating how you would use podcasting in your curriculum. The [...]
Elizabeth Arden is giving away ten limited-edition 30-gigabyte video iPod’s autographed by Britney Spears as part of a three-week promotion of Britney Spears’ Midnight Fantasy perfume.
“Fragrances are one of the many ways I express my creativity,” says Britney Spears. “My fans are so talented and I hope that they enjoy capturing their own creative visions [...]
The 2007 iPod Film Fest is now online. This year, the festival features 25 films from seven countries.
The films are competing in three categories:
Student Films: These film were created as part of a class or for credit at any high-school or college.
Indie Films: This category covers any film or music video made independently, without a [...]
