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Video:animago CH Opens

The launch of animago Switzerland was marked with a ceremony. From now on, the animago AWARD is also available in Switzerland, specifically for Switzerland. The organisers have formed a partnership with the “Festival international du film fantastique de Neuchâtel”.
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04.07.2008
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DOK Film Festival: Last Call for Entries

Film submissions for the 51st DOK Leipzig, the Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film from 27 October to 2 November 2008, remain open until 18 July 2008, when the documents must have been received.
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03.07.2008
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Wanted: A Good Idea for Protecting Intellectual Property

At a BDI ceremony marking this year's Intellectual Property Day, Federal Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries, Microsoft Germany and Messe Frankfurt today called in Berlin for entries to the competition «The Idea - For the Protection of Intellectual Property». The competition, being held for the second time, recognises exemplary professional initiatives by companies, associations, initiatives and individuals that address the value of intellectual property within society, highlight its misuse and illustrate the damage this causes.
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30.04.2008
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Fast-Paced Competition: Making Films in 40 Hours

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Museum für Naturkunde at Humboldt University Berlin are inviting entries for the “kurz vor 12” rapid-film festival. Complete films—from screenplay and shooting to editing—must be produced in just 40 hours.
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25.04.2008
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animago: Registration Opens

Competition is the best further training. For this reason, participation in the animago AWARD 2008 is a must. The animago AWARD is the most important prize for the German-speaking Digital Content Creation (DCC) sector
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07.04.2008
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March TV Market: RTL Scores Across Genres

In March, RTL again leads among viewers aged 14 to 49. With a 15.8 percent audience share, it is ahead of ProSieben at 12.1 percent, Sat.1 at 10.9 percent, VOX at 7.4 percent and ZDF at 7.1 percent. Among the total audience, RTL places behind ZDF and ARD with an 11.7 percent share.
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02.04.2008
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Call for entries to the Gesellschafter ART.AWARD 08

The submission period for the Gesellschafter ART.AWARD 08 begins on March 1. With its launch, all artists nationwide are asked: “What kind of society do we want to live in?”. The competition, launched by Aktion Mensch's Gesellschafter initiative and ART.FAIR 21, explores ideas and visions on sociopolitical issues in art.
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29.02.2008
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11th eDIT Filmmaker’s Festival: young-talent competition

Who will demonstrate talent and creativity with a 30-second film on the subject of Planet Earth and — win eDward 2008? The best films will be shown at the opening gala of the 11th Filmmaker’s Festival in Frankfurt am Main in September. Cash and non-cash prizes worth around 5,000 euros also await
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15.02.2008
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Computer Games: Many Turn Hobby into Profession

The final of the Championship Gaming Series (CGS) http://www.thecgs.com is currently taking place in Los Angeles. At the event, e-sports players compete against each other who have long since left behind the status of hobby computer gamers. The CGS is in fact the first league worldwide to pay its players fixed salaries.
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12.12.2007
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Michel Ocelot on the Jury

The juries at the 2008 Animation Film Festival are once again top-class. One of the most renowed animation filmmakers has already agreed to join the jury of the “AniMovie” feature film competition: Michel Ocelot.
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27.11.2007
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Awards Presented at up-and-coming 2007

On Sunday morning, the 'German Young Film Award 2007', the 'BDK Student Film Award' (Professional Association for Art Education), the 'Flying Camera' and the 'International Young Film Makers Award' were presented in Hanover. The 9th Hanover International Film Festival comes to an end with the award ceremony.
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26.11.2007
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Olymptronica 2007

Launched three years ago as a small, local event, the consistently youth-free Olymptronica has advanced to become the second largest industry get-together in Germany. The two-day event, which according to the organisers is expected to attract several thousand guests, is also regarded as Germany's largest event for console eSports.
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18.11.2007
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German websites win “World Summit Award 2007”

Two German websites were honored this week in Venice with the “World Summit Award” (WSA). Both the German Bundestag website (e-Government category) and the Hessischer Rundfunk topic website about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials “End of Silence” (e-Culture category) are thus among the best websites in the world.
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12.11.2007
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9th International Eyes & Ears Awards

Around 700 guests celebrated the 32 prize winners and 96 finalists of the International Eyes & Ears Awards last Thursday. For the ninth time, industry association Eyes & Ears of Europe presented the distinction as part of Medientage München. The two special prizes "Innovation" and "Effectiveness" went to 20th Century Fox and ProSieben respectively. Robert Wilson received the Eyes & Excellence Award.
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12.11.2007
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ESL Pro Series

On August 24, 2007, Europe’s largest league for computer games kicked off the eleventh season of the eSports professional league, the ESL Pro Series, in Leipzig at Games Convention. With 170,000 euros, it is Germany’s most highly endowed league for professional computer gaming. The league comes to Munich’s Tonhalle on 09.11.2007. In Warcraft 3 and Counter-Strike, professional players compete live before an audience for valuable points in the competition for the German electronic sports championship and for 170,000 euros in prize money.
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09.11.2007
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Intel raffles off three parabolic flights for Germany’s most extreme “mobile gamers”

Today the “Intel ZeroG Competition” starts on Intel Game On (www.intel.de/gameon): the chance to win one of three places on a parabolic flight in the USA beckons. To enter, each participant must upload a photo of their wildest activity with a notebook: for example, a photo of the last session on the glacier - the more extreme, the better, because the image can then be rated with up to ten points by all Intel Game On visitors. The three participants who have the highest average rating after four weeks will fly to Las Vegas at the beginning of January 2008. With a converted passenger plane, they will experience weightlessness there several times in succession for around 20 seconds.
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09.11.2007
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animago AWARD

The most important competition for Digital Content Creation (DCC) in the German-speaking region is launching with a new concept. This year, the main prize for “Best Production” will be awarded for the first time, and the winner of the “Best University Production” category will be rewarded with a sponsorship prize. The submission deadline is June 30, 2007. The animago EVENT 2007 with a festive awards ceremony takes place as part of the digital creation days – the networking event of the German-speaking DCC industry – at the Congress Center in Karlsruhe. On November 8 and 9,2007, the digital creation days offer, as part of an integrated congress and exhibition concept, the opportunity to get to know new trends and developments in the German-speaking DCC industry. The animago Awards will be officially presented on the evening of November 8 as part of an exciting Award Ceremony.
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08.11.2007
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Official music video by Fantastischen Vier created by a MyVideo user for the first time

In an unprecedented campaign, Die Fantastischen Vier, together with MyVideo.de, Vodafone, ProSieben and Radio Energy, had the official music video for the new single from the album “Fornika” filmed by fans and creatives. Since the call two months ago at fanta4.myvideo.de, more than 300 clips were submitted in the first, three-week phase, a huge response when one considers the effort behind an animated video.
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07.11.2007
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Festival Initiates Prize for Film Music

Animated film and music will be one of the focal points of the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2008. With “Music for Animation”, the festival, in cooperation with the GEMA Foundation, is awarding a prize for the best music for the first time.
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22.09.2007
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WAM Film Night Goes XXS

Dortmund is getting its own short-film festival. An initiative of students from Werbe- & Medien-Akademie Marquardt (WAM) is organising the event.
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09.08.2007
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Corel seeks the best storyboarders

Corel invites aspiring film artists, students and everyone interested in digital art to an international storyboard competition: The task is to visualize individual scenes of a screenplay in the style of a comic strip with the aid of the Corel Painter X painting and illustration program.
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02.08.2007
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tv14 searches for the video star

tv14, Europe's largest programme magazine from the Bauer publishing group, and the Internet portal clipfish.de are now launching a summer campaign: They are looking for the most beautiful children's video - the main prize is a family trip to Mallorca worth 2,000 euros, while places two to six each receive 1,000 euros in cash.
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23.07.2007
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