Calling all filmmakers! If you’ve got a film you’ve been slaving over, now’s your chance to do something with it – enter the Vimeo Festival before 20 February for your chance to win a $5,000 grant or the grand prize of $25,000! Money aside, this festival is a great way to get your work seen by important people in the CG industry
Celebrating the best in online video, the 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards are jam-packed with new judges, new categories, and new monies… There are 13 categories to enter, from music videos and motion graphics to animation and advertising.
Grants of $5,000 will be awarded to the winners of each category, and a grant of $25,000 will be presented to the winner of the Best Video Award.
You can submit any original work that premiered anywhere online between 31 July 2010 and 20 February 2012, or any original work that has never been premiered.
Vimeo has just announced that Dreamwork’s Shelley Page will be one of the judges for this year’s Animation Award. Shelly’s credits, on over 23 feature films to date, include Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Shrek 1-4, Shark Tale‚ Madagascar and Puss in Boots. You can find out more about Shelley on our Advisory Board page.
Watch the complete show of the Vimeo Awards 2010…
You’ve only got a few more weeks to enter! The submission closing date is 20 February 2012. Good luck to everyone!
For the full list of the video categories and more information on the festival visit the Vimeo Festival + Awards website
Posted on Thursday, February 9th, 2012 at 2:29 pm under Industry, News. You can subscribe to comments. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.
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