12th Bitfilm Festival - Entries by September 1 '11

[Charles]

- Submission deadline: September 1, 2011

- Online competition from October to December 2011

- Opening event in Hamburg, Germany

- Closing event in Bangalore, India

For the 12th time the Bitfilm Festival invites digital filmmakers to participate in its online film competition. All films will be screened over the Internet. Film fans from all around the world may decide on the Bitfilm Awards by casting their vote online in these three categories:

- 3D SPACE: entirely computer generated Films made with 3D animation software

- FX MIX: Films which mix various techniques digitally, eg. 3D animation, 2D animation and live action

- MACHINIMA: films which are shot live inside a computer game or a virtual world like Second Life


The Bitfilm Festival will commence with an opening event in Bitfilm's hometown Hamburg, Germany's media capital, which will take place in the Passage Cinema on October 17, 2011. Like every year since 2003, Bitfilm is supported by the Hamburg's media authority.

The closing event, which includes the award ceremony, will take place in India's hi-tech metropolis Bangalore on December 3 to 4, 2011. With the support of CG Tantra, India's leading portal for computer graphics, and the Goethe Institute Bangalore, Bitfilm will show the most popular films of the competition. Film makers,
animators and visual effects specialists will talk about their work and exchange ideas across cultural borders.

Films for the competition may be submitted for free until September 1st, 2011, under
http://www.bitfilm.com/festival

Best regards

The Bitfilm Network team
http://www.bitfilm.com/network/

[Charles]

The Bitfilm Festival will be the first film festival worldwide which pays the prize money in Bitcoins, the new digital currency.

Bitcoin is money that is generated by a sophisticated mathematical process on the Internet without the need of a central bank.

It is designed to be as rare as gold and will therefore not be subject to inflation. Its value has risen from a few cents to over 20 US Dollars in the last months. More than 2000 products and services can be bought with Bitcoin and its acceptance as a means of payment is constantly rising.

The Bitfilm Festival's prize money will be raised through a crowd sourcing process. Participating filmmakers and film fans who like to watch Bitfilms on the Internet are asked to transfer Bitcoins (or small fractions of it) to Bitfilm's wallet. The result will be split between the award winners in our three award categories.

Read more here: http://www.bitfilm.com/festival/prizemoney.php

Best regards,

The Bitfilm Network team
http://www.bitfilm.com/

[Charles]

NEW DEADLINE / NEW WAY TO SUBMIT

We have postponed the submission deadline for the Bitfilm Festival to September 11, which gives you 10 extra days to finish and submit your film to this year's festival, which will take place in Hamburg (Germany), Bangalore (India) and on the Internet.

We are also introducing a new and simple way to submit your film. If your film is already on YouTube or Vimeo, you may just add the video ID and we will embed it into our festival site - no need to upload it to our server!

Of course you may still use our upload service. Your film will then be visible in our YouTube channel.

Feel free to submit your film one way or the other. We are looking forward to watching your film!

Best regards

The Bitfilm Network team
http://www.bitfilm.com/network/

[Charles]

Sunday September 11, 2011 is the last day to submit your film to the Bitfilm Festival.

As some of you have encountered technical problems in uploading your films to our YouTube channel, we have now simplified our submission procedure.

If your film is already on YouTube or Vimeo, you may just enter its ID to submit it. This is how it works:

1. Make sure you have registered and logged in to Bitfilm.com.

2. Choose on of the three categories (3D SPACE, FX MIX, MACHINIMA).

3. Fill in all the meta data of your film (title, lenght, director etc.)

4. In the next step "Upload your film" just click on "Add new video file". Thiswill bring you to a form where you can either upload a file or enter the YouTube or Vimeo ID.

If you have tried to submit a film but had problems uploading it, please enter your data again and use this method.

We are looking forward to watching your film!

Best regards

The Bitfilm Network team

http://www.bitfilm.com/network/

[Charles]

INVITATION TO THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE BITFILM FESTIVAL

We cordially invite you to the opening of the Bitfilm Festival, which will be a part of India Week Hamburg this year.

The Bitfilm Festival is specialized on films that use digital technology in a creative and innovative way. In 2011 it will take place on the Internet, in Hamburg and at the Goethe Institute Bangalore.

Venue: Passage Cinema, Mönckebergstraße 17, Hamburg, Germany

Date: October 17, 2011
Time: 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Programme:

1. Reception with snacks and drinks from India
2. Lighting of the "festival lamp"
3. Selected digital films from the three competitions:
3D SPACE - three dimensional computer animations
FX MIX - films that mix different techniques digitally
MACHINIMA - films produced inside computer games

Please register here:

http://bitfilm.wufoo.com/forms/registra ... -festival/


Best regards

Aaron Koenig
Director of the Bitfilm Festival

The Bitfilm Network team
http://www.bitfilm.com/network/

[Charles]

17 DAYS LEFT TO VOTE FOR THE BITFILM AWARDS

Please keep in mind: The deadline for the online vote of this year's Bitfilm Festival is November 17, 2011. 59 films compete in three categories for the Bitfilm Awards. You can watch them online and decide which films will win.

Vote now! http://www.bitfilm.com/festival

If you like our films: please donate some Bitcoins for our prize money!

http://www.bitfilm.com/festival/prizemoney.php

Here is a report about the festival's inauguration in Hamburg:

http://www.bitfilm.com/network/buzz.php?id=230

Hope to see you at our closing event in Bangalore!

http://www.bitfilm.com

[Charles]

ONE WEEK MORE TO VOTE - INVITATION TO BANGALORE

The deadline to vote for the Bitfilm Awards is November 17 - so the race is still open:

http://www.bitfilm.com/festival.


If you want to be the first to know who are the winners, please join us for the Bitfilm Award Show.

It will take place at the Goethe Institute Bangalore on Friday, December 2nd at 7 PM.


Please register here:

http://bitfilm.wufoo.com/forms/registra ... bangalore/


If you are a journalist and want to report about us, you may apply for an accreditation here:

http://bitfilm.wufoo.com/forms/accredit ... bangalore/


Best regards

The Bitfilm Network team
http://www.bitfilm.com/

[Charles]

SUPPORT THE MONEY REVOLUTION!

If you want to support our film project on the money system and Bitcoin, you may support it by becoming a fan at this German crowd funding platform:

http://www.nordstarter.org/money-revolution

The information on the film is in German only for now, sorry.

You may still vote for the Bitfilm Festival until November 17, 12am CET:

http://www.bitfilm.com/festival/


Best regards

The Bitfilm Network team
http://www.bitfilm.com/network/

[jj7947]

Only 2 days left and would like to cast me vote at that site http://www.bitfilm.com/festival.

Thanks

[Charles]

24 HOUR MACHINIMARATHON

Produce a Machinima film in just one day at the Bitfilm Festival! Machinima filmmakers may do this at the festival venue in Bangalore, India, or from
hereever they are.

The MachiniMarathon will start on December 3, 2011 at 3pm (Indian time), the deadline is December 4th, 3pm (Indian time).

You may prepare a story from now on, but shooting may only start at the official kick-off. To make sure that nobody cheats, we will then tell you a few things that have to appear in the film at the kick-off.

Please register here:

http://bitfilmbangalore.wufoo.com/forms ... imarathon/


FINAL CALL FOR BITFILM AWARD SHOW ON DECEMBER 2nd

If you haven't registered for the Bitfilm Award Show, which will take place at the Goethe Institute / Max Mueller Bhavan on December 2nd at 7pm (Indian time) please do so now, we are nearly booked up:

http://bitfilm.wufoo.com/forms/registra ... bangalore/


BITFILM WARM-UP AT JAAGA

There will be a warm-up with some films at Jaaga, Bangalore on Wednesday, November 30th. More info at: http://www.jaaga.in


DONATE BITCOINS FOR THE WINNERS!

If you want to donate some Bitcoins to make the award winners happy, you may still do so: http://www.bitfilm.com/festival/prizemoney.php


Best regards

The Bitfilm Network team
http://www.bitfilm.com/network/

[Charles]

BITFILM FESTIVAL COMES TO INDIA FOR THE FIRST TIME

When:
2nd - 4th December 2011

Where:
Max Mueller Bhavan / Goethe Institut, 716 CMH Road, Indiranagar, Bangalore (India)

Web:
http://www.bitfilm.com/festival
http://www.bitfilm.com/press (with pictures in printable resolution)

For the 12th year in a row, the Bitfilm Festival presents films that use digital technology in a creative and innovative way. This year it has started with an opening event in Hamburg, Germany on October 17, and carried on with a global Internet-based film competition. Its climax will be the closing event, which will
take place for the first time in India's hi-tech metropolis Bangalore.

It will start with the award ceremony on December 2nd, where the most popular films of these three categories will be screened:

3D SPACE: entirely computer generated Films made with 3D animation software

FX MIX: Films which mix various techniques digitally, eg. 3D animation, 2D animation
and live action

MACHINIMA: films which are shot live inside a computer game or a virtual world like
Second Life

The winner films in each category have been chosen by Bitfilm's worldwide audience
in an online vote.

Bitfilm was the first festival worldwide with a Machinima competition for game-based films. In Bangalore it will also host a worldwide Machinima Marathon, bringing together game-based filmmakers from across the globe. Participants of this contest are required to produce a Machinima film over a span of 24 hours.

"We are really happy to reach out to the wonderful Indian audience, and we are looking forward to engage with young and creative Indian minds", says Aaron Koenig, Director of the Bitfilm Festival.

The Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology has taken responsibility to help in hosting the 12th Bitfilm festival in collaboration with the Goethe Institute / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore. Christoph Bertrams, Director of the institute says: "It's a great privilege for us to bring the Bitfilm Festival to India, as it has been quite a success in Hamburg, Barcelona, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and other cities".

Please register here to get your press accreditation:
http://bitfilm.wufoo.com/forms/accredit ... bangalore/

Press contact: Aditi Dash - 87 92 38 90 03 or
Shaivalini Kumar - 96 63 37 65 63

[Charles]

ONE INDIAN AND TWO GERMANS WIN BITFILM AWARDS 2011

Bangalore, December 2, 2011: The results are out! The global Bitfilm audience has chosen the winners of the Bitfilm Festival 2011 through an online vote.

In the category 3D SPACE (computer generated 3D animations), the award goes to Kasi Medidi from Hyderabad (India) for the short film "Feel the Punch".

In the category FX MIX (digitally composed hybrid films) the award goes to Alexander Gellner from Berlin (Germany) for the short film ?One Minute Puberty?.

In the category MACHINIMA (films shot live in computer games or virtual worlds) the award goes to Philipp Scheifelbein from Frankfurt (Germany) for the short film "Tales of Crusade".

The Bitfilm Awards were conferred on the winners this evening at a ceremony held at the Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore. The most popular films in each category were screened, to the tune of live music from Banglaore?s sound artist Yashas Shetty.

The Bitfilm Festival 2011 began with an Opening Night in Hamburg (Germany) in October 2011. After a month-long global online voting session, Bangalore hosts the Closing Event and climax of the world?s leading online & live festival for digital film.

The Bitfilm Festival continues on December 3rd and 4th (Saturday and Sunday), with all 59 nominated films from this year?s Festival being screened at the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan. There is no entry fee. All are welcome!

On Saturday December 2nd there will be a party at the same venue with DJs Nikhil (Bicycle Days, Bangalore) and Andres (Argentina) with live visuals. Entry is Rs. 200 only per head - 9.00 p.m. onwards.

Caf? Max on the rooftop of the Goethe-Institut is the venue for talks by filmmakers, animators and digital artists. Please check http://www.bitfilm.com/festival for the details.

This Festival has been organised by Bitfilm in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan and the Srishti School for Art, Design and Technology Bangalore and is a part of the Year Germany and India 2011-2012 Infinite Opportunities.

More information is available on the Bitfilm website: http://www.bitfilm.com/festival.

Press photos can be downloaded from: http://www.bitfilm.com/press

Press contact: Aditi Dash - 87 92 38 90 03 or

Shaivalini Kumar - 96 63 37 65 63

[Charles]

These are the winners of the Bitfilm Festival 2011:

3D SPACE
1st place: "Feel the Punch" by Kasi Medidi (Hyderabad, India)
2nd place: "Hugo vs Lino" by Debasis Senapati (Hyderabad, India)
3rd place: "Cubism" by the Cubism Team (Stuttgart, Germany)

FX MIX
1st place "One Minute Puberty" by Alexander Gellner (Berlin, Germany)
2nd place: "Freak Out" by Nupur Bhargava & Hitesh Kewalya (Mumbai, India)
3rd place: "Secular Quarter #3" by David Gidali (Jerusalem, Israel)

MACHINIMA
1st place: "Tales of Crusade" by Philipp Schiefelbein (Frankfurt, Germany)
2nd place: "Clockwork" by spyvspyaeon (Lisbon, Portugal)
3rd place: "Stop, Rewind" by Harrison Heller (New York City, USA)

Thanks to all filmmakers for submitting their films and to all members for voting! Hope you will take part in Bitfilm again next year!

http://www.bitfilm.com