The Festival
The BIG MINI MEDIA FESTIVAL is a two-day event hosted by the Media Arts Department of Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus. The festival recognizes the best long and short form documentary, experimental, short form narrative and Super Short video productions created with the MiniDV and digital formats. Short- and feature-length screenplays are also in competition and rewarded - though not read nor performed during the festival itself.
With our eleventh festival, we celebrate a decade of the Big Mini Media Festival and as always, continue to encourage filmmakers of all genres and technical levels to submit their videos, and again demonstrate this year's festival as an exciting array of independent video.
“THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA” – FESTIVAL THEME
What is the future of media and where is our relationship with it going? “The Future of Technology and Media” as it relates to media arts, cannot answer that question completely but it can expand our understanding beyond easy answers. The energy of the massively interactive web and its cultural extensions integrate to shrink physical global boundaries while expanding the global consciousness. What will “cyberspace” be in ten years? Are we looking at Neuromancer in our lifetimes, where we can “jack in” or is are we looking at a different human/machine interface? How do all these elements relate to the production of media objects and the developments in media arts?
Technology in the 21st Century continues to integrate at the core of creativity.
When & Where:
The BIG MINI MEDIA FESTIVAL will take place on Friday, November 16 and Saturday, November 17, 2012 at Long Island University's Downtown Brooklyn Campus (ten minutes from Wall Street and SoHo). All festival screenings will be held in the LIU-Brooklyn Media Arts Department’s Spike Lee Video/Film Screening Room (see map).
The festival is free and open to the public. Please enter through the Paramount Theater entrance of LIU at the corner of DeKalb and Flatbush Avenue Extension.
Submission Requirement:
Please submit films in one of these formats: DVD (Region 0 or 1, NTSC only), MiniDV (NTSC) or HDV (NTSC).
For more information, please download and read the 2012 entry forms below.
2012 Entry Forms (please download for submissions):
Entry Form Videotape ReleaseDeadlines:
Deadline for submissions: August 3, 2012
Late deadline for Withoutabox.com submissions: August 17, 2012
We'll notify you of acceptance and awards by October 8, 2012
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Partners:
This event is supported by a grant from Long Island University's John P. McGrath Fund.
Questions:
Email: associatedirector@bigminimedia.comPhone: (718) 488-1052