dropper esprit: Vimeo Festival + Awards 2012

The Vimeo Festival + Awards are back for their second season, and the deadline for you to submit is fast approaching. Submissions close on Monday 20th February so this is the last call to enter your projects into one (or more) of their 13 categories. Entries are open to everybody, from hobbyist trying to break into the film industry to students to professional filmmakers and everyone in between.

The categories in which you can enter include Animation, Captured, Documentaries, Experimental, Motion Graphics, Music Video, Narrative, Remix, and Series, along with four new categories for 2012; Fashion, which explores the blurred boundary with visual arts; Action Sports, acknowledging the increase in thrilling, fast-paced adventure video via more accessible, durable and wearable HD cameras; Advertising, and it?s expanding territory as short entertainment; and, Lyrical; incorporating videos that showcase the natural world or personal experience with dramatic styles and effects such as extreme slow motion or time lapse.

An independent jury consisting of category winners from 2010 plus two industry experts/ famous faces / pioneers will be the judges, and prizes include $5,000 grants to winners in each category, plus a whopping $25,000 grand prize, all hoping to inspire and enable the filmmakers to create and produce further projects.

?More and more creators earn visibility, credibility and, ultimately, work by showcasing their videos online.? said Jeremy Boxer, Director of the Vimeo Festival + Awards. ?The aim of the Vimeo Festival + Awards is to become the gold standard for creative online video. We designed the program to focus on discovering the best new talent and to give that talent a platform that will catapult their careers to the next level.?

If you are interested, need inspiration, or further clarification, then check out the new promo video below, take a quick peek at what happened last time around, or view the full 2010 show.

Vimeo will accept submissions through February 20, 2012 for a $20 (U.S.) fee per video ($5 for Vimeo Plus and PRO members) at vimeo.com/awards. Entrants can submit any original work that premiered anywhere online between July 31, 2010 and February 20, 2012 or any original work that has never been premiered before. All entries must comply with the Official Rules of the Vimeo Festival.

This year?s Vimeo Festival + Awards event will be happening in New York from June 7-9, and tickets will be available soon.

by Lee Jarvis.

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