Festival mission

The goal of this festival is to discover talented artists and provide them with an opportunity to show their work. We are also trying to increase the international scope of the festival by inviting guest creators, active on the front lines of the creative world, to participate as judges. During the festival, holding a lot of related audio & visual events, we explore the possibility of digital films.

Date and Place:

Online: All selected works will be shown on SHIFT website. (from November 1st, 2010)
Place: TBA (major cities in Japan and the world) *Details to be announced.

Applicant's qualification

We accept all work including prize-winning works or works submitted to other contests in Japan as well as in other countries.
Submissions are accepted regardless of nationality and open to both professionals and amateurs. If some contests forbid sending your work to other contests, please respect their requirements.
Animation, images, sounds, music, text and illustrations in your work should be original.
However if the author give a permission to submit, it doesn't have to be your original.
Works submitted for the past edition of DOTMOV festival can't be accepted.

Theme

Choose your favourite theme and create a work with it. (You can submit as many pieces as desired.)

Works to submit

The work should be digital film works such as animation, design or music clip.
The format should be videotape (VHS/S-VHS), mini DV (NTSC), or DVD (video format/NTSC or PAL).
We will not accept any works that are not in the above formats such as digital data (quicktime movie or flash etc.) and PAL mini DV tape.
Please post your work which is copied in the above media.
We only accept works which is delivered by post. Submitted work is not returned to you. Please save a master copy for yourself.

Deadline

September 10th , 2010

Fees / Awards

Submission is free. Any money for film production or prizes are not given.

How to submit

1. How to submit

Complete the application form and send your work with it to the following address.
Please download the application form from here.
Submission starts on June 15th, 2010.

Shift Magazine
3F Sasshin Bld., S6 W11 Chuo-ku, Sapporo 064-0806, Japan
Tel: +81-11-206-4567

2. Selection

Shift and guest creators will select works to show at the event from all those that arrive before the deadline, September 10th, 2010.
Results will be sent to the selected creators only. We will not accept any inquiries.

3. After the selection

The submitted works will be selected by guest creators and Shift.
The selected works will be shown on Shift website from November 1st, 2010, and also screened at world venues. (Date will be different depending on the venue).