The deadline to submit entries for The 2012 SHOOT New Director Showcase Event, at the DGA Theatre, in New York City is Saturday March 31, 2012.
This is SHOOT‘s tenth annual worldwide search to discover the best up-and-coming directors who, based on their initial work, show promise to soon make major positive contributions to advertising and/or entertainment in its traditional and emerging forms. This global search is conducted by SHOOT’s editorial staff with input from agency and studio creatives & heads of production, as well as production company heads and established directors. Entry forms and details can be found online at <a href="www.SHOOTonline.com.go/search”>www.SHOOTonline.com.go/search.
SHOOT does not rank the finalists. Rather, all work in the Showcase is presented as equally outstanding examples within their categories. The categories include:
• Traditional Broadcast including: television spots, spec work, cinema ads, branded content, music videos, trailers broadcast promos.
• Alternative Media Content including: webisodes, spots created for online, mobile-phone content, in-game ads, advergaming, virals, alternate reality-gaming ads, ads created for PDAs.
• Film/TV Entertainment Content including: feature films, independent films, short films, TV programs
Directors receive enormous career-making exposure!
Entering SHOOT‘s New Directors Showcase can be a big step towards being noticed by Film, advertising agency, TV, and Online creatives, commercial & entertainment producers that hire directors. And, the companies that represent directors to these movers & shakers.
The 25-30 Showcase Finalists Receive Priceless Worldwide Exposure
After the best work is chosen, SHOOT editors will compile the 2012 SHOOT New Directors Showcase Reel. The reel will be screened for an audience of over 400 agency and studio creative executives & heads of production, as well as production company heads. Finalists’ work will be seen by major decision-makers from Madison Avenue’s key advertising agencies to Hollywood’s top motion picture production companies and studios at SHOOT‘s 2012 New Directors Showcase Event at the DGA Theatre in New York City, Thursday, May 17th, 2012. The New Directors Showcase Event will take place in the evening immediately following the daytime SHOOT Directors/Producers Symposium. The evening will include the screening of The New Directors Showcase Reel, a fresh exchange of ideas during the after-panel and after-party. SHOOT editors will interview all the 2012 Showcase directors for a special feature that will appear in SHOOT‘s May 18th issue, interactive pdf version, SHOOT >e.dition, and on SHOOTonline.com®, bringing worldwide attention to the work and the directors. Coverage of the May 17th New Directors Showcase gala event will appear on SHOOTonline and in the SHOOT >e.dition following the event with follow-up in-depth coverage and photos SHOOT’ June 15th Issue and the showcase reel, including new director interviews will be posted on www.SHOOTonline.com.to be viewed monthly by over 40,000 unique visitors who are the motion picture industry movers and shakers.
Search Submission Details
For the 10th Annual New Directors Search, Directors, their representatives, and yes, even friends can submit work for directors if the submitted work was completed during the 15 month qualification period (January 2011-March 2012) and meets all other entry criteria as outlined on the submission form. (excerpts from shorts, long form film or other entertainment fare must be NO MORE than 5 minutes in length.) To be eligible to enter, directors must be directing professionally less than three years. The Entry Deadline is Saturday, March 31, 2011 Midnight EDT. Entry fee is $85.00 for first piece of work, $35.00 each additional. Download entry form here.
About SHOOT® Magazine
SHOOT® Magazine is the leading publication for commercial and entertainment production & postproduction decision-makers. Covering news, great work, trends, creative techniques, applications and talent, SHOOT provides timely and relevant information including behind-the-scenes looks at the best new commercials, interactive work, branded content, music videos, features, etc., and the talented ad agency creatives & producers and commercial & entertainment industry executives and artisans behind the work. SHOOT also reports on the latest cinematography, post & editing technology and equipment. If the work involves advertising or entertainment content that consumers view on a screen–TV screen, Cinema screen, Computer screen, Mobile screen or Game screen, SHOOT is searching out who’s doing the most innovative work and what’s coming next. SHOOT provides insights from established filmmaking talent as well as giving its readers a heads-up on the up-and-comers, as reflected in our March and October Directors Issues. For over 51 years SHOOT has been chronicling commercialmaking from its infancy to maturation, providing historical contest and a mix of perspectives, showing where the industry has been in order to get a better handle on where it is and in what directions it is headed. SHOOT explores the advertising and entertainment crossover dynamic and integrated campaign strategies, providing an informed big-picture take on the business and the creative sides of advertising and entertainment while showcasing the best work–both prominent and obscure–and getting into the hearts, minds and creative spirit of the industry’s best and brightest executives and artisans in the client, agency creative, entertainment, production, post and music sectors. For further information, please visit www.SHOOTonline.com.
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