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07/21/2010

»  Link TV Launches ViewChange Online Film Contest: $50k in Prizes

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Excerpts from a letter about ViewChange (contest updated deadline Sept. 3 at 12 noon) from Danny Glover, courtesy of Link TV:

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On April 30th, 2010, Link TV, the largest independent TV broadcaster in the country, launched the ViewChange Online Film Contest – to find short films showing how international development efforts are making progress towards achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Link TV wants to see the personal stories behind these global targets, and is offering $50,000 in cash prizes to the best films.

OPPORTUNITY FOR FILMMAKERS
Online voters will help determine the finalists, after which a judging panel including Danny Glover, Gael Garcia Bernal, Wim Wenders, Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Angelique Kidjo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will select the winners and announce them in October.

In addition to cash prizes, winners and finalists’ videos will be nationally broadcast on Link TV and the finalists’ films will be showcased at major events in New York City and Washington D.C. All six category winners will be included in ViewChange.org, a cutting-edge digital media hub launching in November 2010.

CONTEST CATEGORIES & DETAILS
Entrants to the contest will be able to submit films five minutes or less to any one of several categories – learn more here. The winner in each category will earn a $5,000 prize, and the Grand Prize winner will receive $20,000. Contestants can upload their submissions until the extended deadline of Sept. 3  at noon to the project’s website: ViewChangeFilmContest.org.

06/22/2009

»  Cinereach Grant Recipient “Cinema Encounters in Tehran” premieres on Link TV June 23rd!

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LINK TV presents the U.S. television premiere of the original documentary program CINEMA ENCOUNTERS IN TEHRAN, a Cinereach grant recipient.  Shot on location in Tehran, this program seeks to bridge the cultural and political rifts between Iran and the U.S. through the collaboration of young Iranian and American filmmakers.  In 2007, the Link TV crew followed American filmmakers Yoni Brook, 25, and Musa Syeed, 23, to the Cinema Verite Film Festival in Tehran.  There, they meet two Iranian filmmakers, Atefeh Khademolreza, 24, and Abbas Amini, 26, with whom they decide to make a film juxtaposing the lifestyles of a poor carpet weaver and a wealthy carpet merchant in Tehran.  The program documents their efforts to overcome cultural, sociopolitical and linguistic barriers using the universal languages of cinema and friendship to create a film together.

CINEMA ENCOUNTERS IN TEHRAN is part of the BRIDGE TO IRAN series, Link TV’s response to the cultural and political tensions that have developed between Iran and the U.S. since the 1979 Iranian revolution.

CINEMA ENCOUNTERS IN TEHRAN will premiere on Link TV on June 23 at 8:00pm ET/5:00pm PT, with repeat broadcasts at 2 :00am ET/11:00pm PT, and on June 25 at 12:30pm ET/9:30am PT and 7:36pm ET/4:36pm PT.  For full background information, additional airtimes, and to view the program streamed in its entirety, visit http://www.linktv.org/BridgeToIran.

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