Directions: Film Matters Magazine Contest
The American Friends Service Committee and National Priorities Project cordially invite you to participate in our second annual If I Had a Trillion Dollars (IHTD) Youth Film Festival. The federal government has spent trillions of dollars on US military, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. You can change this! We invite you to present alternative uses for these funds through short films. Exceptional entries will be screened at the IHTD Youth Film Festival in Washington DC in April 2012 and will be screened in the US House of Representatives and Senate. This is an opportunity for creative expression, and a chance to effect positive change. Show your elected officials and your local communities your vision for our nation's future. We look forward to seeing what you would do with one trillion dollars! Contest Rules: * The contest is for youth 23 years of age or younger. * Submissions must be no longer than 3 minutes and must be submitted to IHTD by January 15, 2012. * Videos will be judged on quality of content and production by a panel of adult and youth video makers, artists and activists. * Videos will be curated into various genres, so feel free to be as creative as possible. For full contest rules and available resources please visit For more information please contact us at epolley@afsc.org call (312) 427-2533, or like us on Facebook
ICFA 2012: The Monstrous Fantastic (deadline October 31) full name / name of organization:
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Call for Papers
We hope to inspire interdisciplinary discourse through this year’s theme of Frontiers and Borders. We invite paper submissions that address language, ideology, rhetoric, written communication, pedagogical practices, and philosophy in any period or genre of literature, film, or television. We would like to draw together work from a wide range of disciplines, including Literature, Rhetoric and Composition studies, TESL, Film and Screen Studies, Creative Writing, Linguistics, Comparative Literature, American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, Ethnic Studies, Popular Culture, History, Art History, and Philosophy
Literature and Film Submissions:
In order to consider theorizations, interpretations, and representations of the social and political implications of frontiers and borders and their relation to various forms of text and discourse, we would like to draw together work from a range of disciplines. Paper topics might explore such diverse topics as political identity and hybridity at frontier/border sites; race, sex, gender, and group identity, movements and migration, discussions of ideology, historiography, ethnography, and social change in literature, etc.
Creative Submissions:
Fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction presentations are welcome. Please submit an abstract of 100 words or less describing the themes and strategies at play in your texts, as well as the texts you intend to present. You may choose to present poetry, short stories, or an excerpt from a longer work for a reading of 20 minutes. For plays: Last year's conference included several plays on panels; students from our theater department read parts as part of the presentation. This may be considered for this year's conference as well.
