Call for entries: Weimar Poetry Film Award 2017
Bauhaus University’s 19th annual Backup_festival will include an international poetry film competition for the second year in a row: the Weimar Poetry Film Award. The screening will be on the second...
View ArticleCall for videopoems: SINESTESIA 2017
For the third year in a row, SINESTESIA is mounting an international exhibition of videopoems during Barcelona’s Poetry Week in June. The call is in Spanish (here’s the Google Translate version), but...
View ArticleCall for essays on typography and text as image in poetry film
The Weimar-based, multilingual Poetryfilm Magazine generated as part of the fantastic Poetryfilmkanal website this week issued a new call for submissions. For their third annual issue, they’re looking...
View ArticlePoetry Film Live unveils first issue, opens submissions
Please join me in welcoming and spreading the word about a new online magazine, Poetry Film Live. Unveiled on Friday, its first monthly issue “features poetry films from international poets and...
View ArticleDoublebunny Press Opens Submissions for Fourth Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival
Submissions have opened for the fourth Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival. The Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival is a competition meant to highlight poetry and visual art at the intersection of film....
View ArticleCall for submissions: 5th Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition
The Cork, Ireland-based Ó Bhéal reading series have just announced on Facebook that Submissions are now open for the 5th Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition, in association with the IndieCork...
View ArticleOpen call for poetry films: Festival Silêncio 2017
1. INTRODUCTION Festival Silêncio is the celebration of word. Word as a creative unit and the vehicle of both thought and artistic creation is the engine behind this project. Festival Silêncio will...
View ArticleCall for submissions: Filmpoem Festival 2017 at Depot, Lewes
Filmpoem, the artists’ moving image project founded by British artist Alastair Cook in 2010, is at long last sponsoring another poetry-film festival and competition, this time partnering with Depot in...
View ArticleCall for artists’ participation in the 6th International Video Poetry...
The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network present the 6th International Video Poetry Festival 2017 Winter 2017 at Free Self-Organised Theatre EMBROS / Athens / Greece The yearly...
View ArticleCall for work: new Oregon-based poetry film festival Cinema Poetica
Poetry film festivals are pretty thin on the ground in North America right now, so I was excited to hear about a new one set for October 28 in Ashland, Oregon as part of the Ashland Literary Arts...
View ArticleCall for work: 6th CYCLOP International Poetry Film Contest
On August 1, it was announced that the 6th CYCLOP Poetry Film Festival will be held on November 25-26, 2017 in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine. Filmmakers have until Sept. 30 to submit work. Visit their website...
View ArticleIntroducing the Film and Video Poetry Society
Over the past two years, a mysterious, L.A.-based group called the Film and Video Poetry Society have built up a tremendous following for their Facebook page, on which they regularly share a wide...
View ArticleCall for submissions: 2017 Button Poetry Video Contest
For the second year in a row, Button Poetry, producers of arguably the most popular English-language poetry channel on YouTube, are holding a video contest. Submissions opened on August 1, but I just...
View ArticleCall for submissions of poetry and film: Magma 71
The British literary magazine Magma Poetry is now soliciting work for Magma 71 — The Film Issue, guest-edited by Cheryl Moskowitz and Stav Poleg, who are looking for both poems about films and...
View ArticleCall for poetry submissions and filmmaker applications: Visible Poetry Project
The Visible Poetry Project, which released thirty poetry films—one a day—during April last year, and held several screenings in New York and Beijing, is aiming to do this same in 2018. The Visible...
View ArticleCall for submissions: Weimar Poetry Film Award
Once again, the annual backup_festival at Bauhaus University and the Literary Society of Thuringia are cooperating to sponsor a poetry film prize in association with Poetryfilmkanal. The 2018 Weimarer...
View ArticleCall for poetry films: Newlyn Film Festival
A new international film festival slated for April 6-8th, 2018 at the The Centre, Newlyn, Cornwall, UK will include a poetry film section, selected by judges Lucy English and Sarah Tremlett, who should...
View ArticlePoetry Film Competition: Light Up Poole
Submissions are requested from poets and filmmakers as part of Light Up Poole, a unique digital Light Art Festival aiming to transform Poole’s town centre after dark from 15-17 February 2018. Focussing...
View ArticleCall for entries: ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2018
If it’s an even-numbered year, you know that it’s time to start planning for the world’s biggest and most influential poetry film festival, ZEBRA. Their website has yet to be updated from 2016, but a...
View ArticleFilm festival news note: Newlyn extends deadline to 21 February
The deadline for submissions to the Newlyn Film Festival has been extended to February 21st. (It had been January 31.) This is the festival slated for April 6-8th on the southwestern tip of England...
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