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Hungama Mobile teams up with leading Indian filmmaker Dev Benegal’s maverick film production program 24x7makingmovies™ to produce 100 films every year.

The 2006 program has been announced, so please send in your entries!

We usually don’t quote from emails but this one from Janaki deserves a read from all of you.

hi sopan and your team at tropic films,
i really missed the competition during IFFI 2005. there was no charm in attending the film festival. it wasn’t just me, but so many of my friends who were looking forward to participate in your competition. being in goa here, it’s not an everyday event that a film making competition is held and anybody can participate in it.

There is a lot of potential and talent here in goa , it’s just that there’s no proper exposure nor direction. so there’s really no way the youth interested in film making here can improve their skills .

I want to request you to come to goa again and hold this competition and more events aimed at ‘film making’.
hoping to hear from you soon.

your sincerely
janaki

24×7 Making Movies 2006 takes off.

The Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF) have not invited 24×7 MakingMovies to the 36th International Film Festival at Goa this year. It’s a classic example of short sighted-ness on the part of the Indian government. Clearly they don’t like anything that is successful and shows a glimpse of the future.

But participants need not worry. We are planning several more 24×7 Making Movies events across the country. Send in your entry and remember there is NO LAST DATE!

GET PUBLISHED IN AN EXCITING INTERNATIONAL BOOK-MAP!

Incommunicado – a one-off publication as part of the Next Wave Festival’s 2006 ‘Empire Games‘

Incommunicado will be a collection of writing from around the Commonwealth in a foldable book / world map format – read it, then stick it on your wall. Focussing on the theme of miscommunication, Incommunicado will bring together political and personal stories. It will be published in English, but written in distinctive local voices, with a glossary explaining uncommon words and phrases. Incommunicado will be a glimpse of life all over the Commonwealth, beyond newspaper headlines and medal tallies. It’s going to be a visually stunning, deliciously awkward, collectable literary treat.

Incommunicado will be published in March 2006, in Australia, as part of ‘Empire Games’ – the theme of the Youth Program of the Cultural Festival of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, presented by Next Wave.

If you are a Commonwealth citizen and are 30 years old or under, this is an amazing opportunity for your writing to be published in the context of a high-profile international event. If your work is selected for publication, you will be paid A$50 for your efforts.

Tell me more about this Incommunicado theme …
Misunderstanding is the basis of much comedy, and much tragedy. Incommunicado will bring together very short (250 word or 500 word) stories, poems, anecdotes and reflections from across the Commonwealth about people trying – and often failing – to communicate. Lost tourists unable to ask for directions; parents who can’t understand their children’s slang; workers forced to sign contracts they don’t understand … We want to hear about communication breakdowns that break hearts, make fortunes, start wars, and everything in between. These stories will be as factual or fantastic, as epic or microscopic, as you make them.

Incommunicado submission deadline: 30 November 2005

For more information about submitting to Incommunicado, go to www.expressmedia.org.au

For more information about the Next Wave Festival’s 2006 ‘Empire Games’, go to www.nextwave.org.au

… Feel free to pass this information on to anyone and everyone who might be eligible.

Regards,

Romy Ash and Tom Doig
Editors,
Incommunicado

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ELIGIBILITY DETAILS

* You must be under 30 at time of deadline, ie, you must be born after 30 November 1975.
* You must be a citizen of a Commonwealth country. (It doesn’t matter which country you currently reside in.)
* You can submit up to three written pieces of work.
* Your submission(s) must be either 250 or 500 words (approximately).
* If your story contains interesting and/or unusual words (and hopefully it will), please format these words in bold, and provide a glossary at the end of your story.
e.g. Dhurna (Anglo-Indian) – extorting payment from someone by sitting at their front door and staying there without food, threatening violence, until you get paid.
Faamati (Samoan) – to make a squeaking noise by sucking air past the lips in order to gain the attention of a dog or a child.
The glossary is not part of the word count.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK
* You must email your submission to editor@expressmedia.org.au using the subject line incommunicado submission
* Your submission(s) must be accompanied by this Incommunicado coversheet with all the fields filled in. Download it (it’s a Word document), fill it in and attach it to your email with your submission.
* Submit your submission(s) in electronic format as an attached rtf file, in a 12-point font, double-spaced.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 2005

Submission form available at http://www.expressmedia.org.au/incommunicado/index.htm

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Tom Doig – Voiceworks Editor

Express Media
Publishers of Voiceworks Magazine
workshops * mentorship schemes * special projects

Meat Market Arts House
42 Courtney Street
North Melbourne
VIC 3051

Phone (03) 9326 8367
Mobile 0416 497 311
Fax (03) 9326 8076

Email : editor@expressmedia.org.au

Website: http://www.expressmedia.org.au

24×7 is powered by ecto the fabulous app created by Adriaan Tijsseling.
Our website is a wonderful adaptation of WordPress.
The design is by a terrific team of web and graphic designers, Inventiv based out of New Delhi.

Sopan Muller uses ecto on his dual G4 to post the blogs, update the movies, run the ground events and manage producing the cutting edge shorts in 24 hours.

We’ve often been asked WHY 24?

Film runs at 24 frames per second. It’s a universal standard. And there are 24 hours to a day. There’s a natural connection to that which appeals to us. It’s also makes for a tough challenge.

And why the age limit?

Audiences in the east are growing younger and younger. We want to see their stories in their voice, their dreams, their struggles, their vision. Not someone who is pushing 60 and pretending to be 24!

Simple!