Photographer’s Forum Magazine and Nikon present the 29th Annual College Photography Contest. The winning photos will be published in the May 2008 issue of Photographer’s Forum, and all contest finalists will be published in the Best of Photography Annual 2009. Additionally, there are over $4,000 in cash grants and two Nikon cameras that will be awarded. Winning photos also will be entered into Nikon’s Emerging Photographers Hall of Fame.

Final deadline is 20 November 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is pleased to announce its 1st Annual “Freedom on Campus” Student Video Contest. Students from around the country have the opportunity to produce a video about policies or practices that stifle their freedoms on campus and win a scholarship and other exciting prizes.

FIRE is looking for student filmmakers to document a free speech controversy on a college campus-either at their own or at another school, and produce a short film about it. Examples include instances when someone has been punished because of his or her speech, student newspapers have been stolen or vandalized, student groups were not allowed to associate, or where speech was confined to a “free speech zone.” To understand more about what FIRE does, you can view their documentaries at thefire.org/multimedia.

Deadline is 15 November 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

MID=MTV ID. In other words, MID is a TV channel identity for MTV that incorporates the MTV logo by any kind of art form - live action, 2D, 3D, stop-motion animation, photography, and anything in between. You are free to make the MID anything you want it to be as along as it does not contravene any broadcast regulations. And more importantly, you want to make sure that the MTV logo is integrated cleverly and correctly. MTV provides you with the MTV logo & guidelines, which you can download. The MID must be any of the following duration: 05, 10, 30. or 60 seconds.

Compose your own original music for your MID. If you can’t compose music or don’t know how, work with someone who can. All MIDs should ideally have original music but to help you out, MTV also is providing you with a selection of music beds and audio templates online.

This is an international call for entries. Deadline is November 30th, 2008, and top-quality submissions will be aired on MTV Asia in 2008/09. Visit the site to learn more.

Inspired by the wild, Durban Wild Talk Africa is a premier international wildlife, travel and cultural film festival and conference which takes place in South Africa. It attracts the global wildlife, travel and cultural filmmaking industry by offering a forum for delegates to meet, network and negotiate with Commissioning Editors, Distributors and Producers. In a celebration of natural history, eco-tourism and cultural filmmaking, the ROSCAR Awards will be awarded to filmmakers at a prestigious gala event during the Festival.

The ROSCAR Celebratory Awards are open to new or established film and television production companies, broadcasters and independent filmmakers, from anywhere in the world. To qualify, productions must have an aspect of the natural world as the central focus such as revealing new facts about animal behaviour, a natural habitat, ecology, travel, culture or humankind’s relationship with the natural environment and with animals. Productions may be of any length, and must have been completed after January 2007.

The deadline for entries and payment, to reach the office in Cape Town, South Africa is 28 November 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

It’s not even March yet, but already the enquiries about the 2008 World Communication Awards are flowing in.

We’ll start calling for entries in March, 2008, but if you are starting to think about your submission we can now confirm that the list of categories for the 2008 WCA will be as follows:

* Best Brand

* Best Content Service

* Best Customer Care

* Best Managed Service

* Best Mobile Operator

* Best International Carrier

* Best New Service

* Best Operator in a Developing Country

* Best Project Management

* Best Technology Foresight

* Best Changemaker

* Best Wholesale Carrier

* Best Global Operator

* Person of the Decade

* The Green Award

Unbelievably this will be the tenth year of the WCA and so fittingly the theme will be a Decade of Excellence - things have certainly changed since the first awards presented in Geneva in 1999.

This years gala evening will be the 26 November, and the venue will be the outstanding Hilton on Park Lane, London.

If you are interested in getting involved, please visit the site.

We hope to start unveiling sponsors very soon…..