Shortfilm makers watch out - Contributions for the backup_festival 2010 can still be submitted until 1st of March
The preparations for the backup_festival 2010, which takes place in Weimar from 6th - 9th May, have been running for five months now. This year, backup will run with a new profile: For the first time it will be a festival by students for students.
The backup.team is currently working at full blast and is therefore able to draw a pleasant interim balance: numerous submissions for the backup.award and the backup.clip.award have been recorded. Their variety and origin are astonishing: The submissions originate not only from Germany, European and English-speaking countries, but also from Armenia, Singapore, Iran, Romania, Taiwan and the Philippines.
backup has started over this year with mostly new staff. More than 80 students in different work groups are involved in the organisation of the backup_festival 2010, as backup is not only one of the most important festivals for innovative cinema, but also part of a course at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
For the organisation of the backup_festival the students use their contacts with media and design schools from all over the world. If nothing else, a network of film makers from the commercial as well as the academical sector is the secret of the success of backup and a basis for the students' professional advancement that should not be underestimated.
This interim balance encourages the backup.team's aims, and confirms the comprehension of the backup_festival as a meeting of the present day media industry, and a place of intercultural networking.
Since January 2010, the tender circulates worldwide electronically and through posters and letters. The backup_festival continues to call for submissions, deadline is the 1st of March 2010. The registration forms for the backup.clip.award and the backup.award are available for download on www.backup-festival.de .
For further information visit
www.backup-festival.de
www.uni-weimar.de/bfi
Contact:
Ulrike Otto
backup_festival 2010
Press and Public Relations
Mobile: +49 (0) 176-50383539
Phone.: +49 (0) 3643 – 58 39 29
Fax: +49 (0) 3643 – 58 37 01
email: info@backup-festival.de
For further inquiries you can also contact Antje Klahn, Press and Public Relations for the faculty of media, via phone +49 (0) 36 43 - 58 37 06 or email: antje.klahn@uni-weimar.de .
Main Person of Reference within the Bauhaus-University Weimar:
Claudia Weinreich
Press Officer
Bauhaus-University Weimar
email: presse@uni-weimar.de
Tel: +49 (0) 36 43 – 58 11 73
Fax: +49 (0) 36 43 – 58 11 72
