AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Current.org
ITVS and Independent Lens announced that Kylee Darcy, a 19-year-old attending UC Berkeley, is the grand prize winner of their first annual Filmocracy mashup contest. She wins $1000 for her short film King Corn Takes Over the World, which incorporates clips of the Independent Lens film King Corn. Her film will also play in various [...]

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Variety
Pair will be honored at org’s annual fundraiser
Producer Jon Avnet and Robert Rosen, dean of the UCLA School of Film and Television, will receive special achievement awards from the Caucus for Producers, Writers and Directors.
The honors will be presented at the org’s third annual Caucus Foundation fundraiser for student filmmakers on Aug. 2 at the [...]

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Variety
Juried award comes with $50,000 prize
The Independent Film Project is offering a $50,000 film finishing grant for the winner among the 11 narrative films picked for the Independent Filmmaker Lab, which runs in Gotham June 10-13.
Juried award will be presented at the independent filmmaker awards ceremony during IFP’s Independent Film Week next September. The filmmakers [...]

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TV Week
Award Cements Acclaim, Helps Lift Sites to Next Level
Donnie Hoyle, the main character in MyDamnChannel.com’s popular Web series “You Suck at Photoshop,” helped pull in more than 8 million views. And three Webby Awards.
And he’ll be back.
Donnie, otherwise known as Angry Photoshop Guy, vanished in the last episode of the 10-part series. The popularity [...]

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Business Week
Competitions from the likes of Microsoft and Virgin are sparking innovation and drawing thousands of contestants from around the world
The Bean Cup, a coffee house on the southern edge of Indianapolis, is about as far as you get from Silicon Valley, culturally speaking. Shoehorned between an Arthur Murray Dance studio and a shuttered beauty [...]

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Spotlight on Digital Media
MacArthur’s President announces new grants in Digital Media and Learning.
We are pleased to announce three new grants in this second year of our program in Digital Media and Learning. The grants continue to support robust research on how young people are participating in digital media, consider the future of the public [...]

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Variety
Stephen Colbert, will.i.am among recipients
Original content from high-profile film and TV names highlighted the 12th annual Webby Awards winners, which were announced Tuesday.
The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences has been distributing the awards since 1996.
“Wet Hot American Summer” helmer David Wain’s “Wainy Days” won one of the Online Film and Video Webbys. The [...]

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Lost Remote
Stephen Colbert picked up a special award for innovative use of the Web to engage fans. The New York Times, The Onion, National Geographic and PostSecret were also big winners (full list here). HBO Voyeur and the Discovery Channel’s UK videogame site got the nods in the Television category. As usual, congratulations to all.

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Variety
21-year-old receives $5 million to direct feature
Nuru Rimington-Mkali is ready for his closeup. The 21-year-old Londoner has been crowned the winner of the yearlong film contest sponsored by Web-based production shingle Filmaka.
As his prize, Rimington-Mkali will receive funding of about $5 million for a feature film he will direct. He’s prepping to pitch a handful [...]

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Variety
Film Institute awards artists $35,000 each
The Tribeca Film Institute has awarded its 2008 Media Arts Fellowships to 20 filmmakers and media artists, who each receive $35,000.
Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, awards are presented in narrative, documentary, experimental, installation and computer-generated media genres.
Twelve of the 20 winners this year are women, marking the first time the [...]

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