The Los Angeles Animation Festival and Ka-Chrew! Hollywood present the Rockin’s Animation call for entries. Animate over, around or on top of TALLY HALL’S live-action footage or LEATHER HANDS’ logo. Work in whatever style you want. Do whatever you want. Just be creative. Selected winning entries will be cut into the final videos of each band, and premiered at the “Los Angeles Animation Festival” on 21 October 2007 (Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, USA).

Deadline is 10 October 2007. Entry is free and open to everyone. Enter as many times as you wish. Cash prize of $1,000 for the overall best animated segment. Over $5,000 in software prizes from TOON BOOM & ANIMATOR DV for the top 5 best animated segment winners. Go to the contest site for further details and entry information.

Ok - this is more of a “crafty” type contest, but it looks like fun and the prizes aren’t shabby. Read on…

Scion is challenging the “Do It Yourselfâ€? crowd to channel their inner craftiness and design hand-made car accessories for a Scion vehicle in a craft making competition that reinforces Scion’s commitment to creativity. The winner will take home a 2008 Scion xD five-door subcompact. Produced by non-traditional marketing firm Inform Ventures, the competition is dubbed, “Craft My Ride.”

“Similar to indie films, underground music, and the street art movement, we believe the arts and crafts community harbors undiscovered talent,” said Alan Mimaki, Scion business operations manager. “We want to support raw talent in any form, and to build a lasting relationship within these burgeoning artistic groups. Many of our competition winners have continued to work with Scion long after their contests have finished, and we hope the same goes for this challenge as well.”
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The Fulton Street Gallery, located in Troy, NY, is seeking artwork in all media including film and video, proposals for for readings, performances and installation art related to one or more of any of the sins and/or virtues such as lust/chastity, gluttony/abstinence, greed/liberality, sloth/diligence, wrath/patience, envy/kindness, and pride/humility.

This competition is open to local, regional, national, and international artists over the age of eighteen, professional and non-professional alike. Submission deadline is 7 October 2007, and artists will be notified on 12 October. Winners receive cash awards and a solo exhibition. Present work on slides, CD/DVD, or through online submission. Visit the site to learn more and for the entry form.

ComputerLove, a website that serves as a network for creative professionals, is holding a t-shirt design competition. They’re looking for designs that express the theme “Utopia.”

First and second prizes are iPhones, and third prize is a Nintendo Wii. Deadline is 15 October 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

The Bermuda International Film Festival is calling for entries for its 11th festival of world cinema, 28 March - 5 April 2008. The festival, which is recognised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival for the Short Film Academy Award, screens some 30 shorts, plus eight documentary features and eight narrative features in competition.

Cash prizes are given to the winner of the Mary-Jean Mitchell Green Award for Best Narrative Feature (US$5000), and the M3 Wireless Bermuda Shorts Award ($3000). There is also an award for Best Documentary Feature. The winner of the Bacardi Limited Audience Choice Award receives a $3000 cash prize. Directors whose films win the awards are invited to Bermuda the following year to sit on the festival jury.

The entry deadline is 1 October 2007. Entry forms, which include festival regulations, can be found on the festival web site at www.biff.bm.

At Right: Crystal Bock, “Fender Bender.”

The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in its exhibitions and activities. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works, including new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements are welcome.

The theme for this show is “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” open to various ways we choose to get around. Send them your best images from rickshaws to jet planes or pickups to trolleys…The exhibition is open to all professional and amateur, domestic and international photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both.

Entries due 30 October 2007. Visit the site to learn more!