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EDIT: Now this is no longer live, but coming from the archive. It starts of in Swedish but switches to English pretty soon, so just fast forward at the beginning, if it sounds like gibberish to you 
This is for the Germans only, I am afraid…
But going through the German applications to our 1st Call, I think there are some very worthy contenders for this award amongst our applications. So check this one out.
Please find the official press release below:
Kulturstaatsminister Bernd Neumann schreibt den Innovationspreis des deutschen Films aus – Einreichfrist bis zum 30. Juni 2010
Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Staatsminister Bernd Neumann, würdigt neue Ideen und herausragende Projekte, die die Leistungsfähigkeit und Entwicklung des Filmwesens in Deutschland verbessern, mit dem Innovationspreis 2010. Der Kulturstaatsminister vergibt bis zu drei Preise, die mit einer Prämie von jeweils bis zu 25.000 Euro verbunden sind. In besonderen Ausnahmefällen kann auch eine höhere Prämie verliehen werden.
Filmschaffende und -interessierte, Institutionen und Organisationen können sich mit innovativen Projekten bis zum 30. Juni 2010 schriftlich (formlos) bewerben. Die Anträge sind an das Bundesarchiv, Frau Fülöp, Potsdamer Str. 1, 56075 Koblenz zu senden (Tel.: 0261/ 505 -465, Fax: 0261/ 505 -368).
Dem Antrag sind beizufügen:
Zur Weitergabe an die Jury werden die Anträge in 7-facher Ausfertigung erbeten. Eine zusätzliche Einreichung via E-Mail (K35@bkm.bmi.bund.de) ist möglich. Dabei sollte der Name des Projektes sowie “Innovationspreis” in den Betreff aufgenommen werden.
Die Richtlinie ist unter www.kulturstaatsminister.de abrufbar.
Die Auszeichnungen werden im Rahmen einer Preisverleihung zum Ende des Jahres 2010 verliehen.
Kontakt/Information:
BKM- Filmreferat K 35, Tel. 0228 99 681-3449, Fax: -3885,
E-Mail: K35@bkm.bmi.bund.de
A few explanatory words about our call: Well, what digitisation did, was level the playing field. Cheap digital cameras, powerful editing suites running on desktop computers, computer literacy let you do quite a bit. Channels lie youtube, vimeo, etc do their bit to provide some infrastructure. What digitisation did not do so far, was producing a great new number of talents. Why is that?
Taking kart racing as an example, everybody starts off with it, but only the best drivers get to pilot a Formula1 racer. Digitisation means that everyone can build a fairly good kart in his/her own garage, but that does not yet make you a talented mechanic/pilot. And those of you that are, might still drown in the sheer mass of kart-racers and not make it to the race track.
The beauty of our kart-racing discipline (cross-media) is that the rules are not yet established. On one hand that means particular risks of uncertainty. That is why you need the racing team, unless your garage also houses your Ferrari collection and you are worry-free
On the other hand that means you are free to develop and express your own style and ideas while estabishing the rules/while the rules get established.
What we are trying to do here with this call for projects, is to try to build a kart-workshop: We try to take some worries off your back that you are bound to encounter, if you get started in kart-racing . You still have to be/provide the talent and you still have to do the kart-building and driving, but not on your own.
First Motion helps you build your kart and helps you along the raceway at least for the first race./season. After that you maybe can continue kart-racing on your own. The beauty of our cross-media discipline is that all other forms are within this racing class: cinematic distribution, audiovisual iphone applications, augmented reality, all are no longer seperate disciplines, but different race-tracks that you can choose to race…
Sounds fun to me. What about you? Are you eager to race?
Let us know and get in touch
Today First Motion sent out the first Newsletter, calling out to the Baltic Sea Region to present innovative cross-media ideas to First Motion. Creative´s can get up to 30.000€ and two international workshops as part of the deal.
All the specifics, details, information on how to apply, contact details and everything else about the call can be found here on our website. If you did not receive our newsletter, you can subscribe to it here
First Motion is funded by the European Union through the BSR Programme 2007-2013. All about the EU programme can be found here
We are very much looking forward to answering your questions and receiving your applications.
