The Kyoto University Museum Academic Film EXPO 2009 is now accepting entries for its Academic Film Competition. Submissions are encouraged from a wide range of genres and fields, including ethnographic film and anthropological cinema, documentaries in sociology and cultural studies, wildlife and environmental films, and more. Submitted works will be screened at the EXPO (Aug 15-Dec 10) and discussed at the Kyoto University International Symposium 2009.
This year the EXPO will also host New Horizons of Academic Visual-Media Practices (Dec 11-13), an experiment in stimulating vibrant discussion concerning what visual media means for academic research and other topics related to academism and visual media.
See the Japanese or English language websites for additional information. Online entry deadline: Aug 31, 2009. Film and report submission deadline: Sept 15, 2009. Prizes include filmmaking subsidies of 300,000 and 100,000 yen. The Academic Film Competition Committee can be contacted at academic-film-compe [at] inet.museum.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
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