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You are invited to create a tasty video based on any written piece (poem, fiction, fusion, or non-fiction) published in Mad Hatters’ Review, Brevity, Drunken Boat, elimae, Jacket, Milk, Unlikely Stories, or Word Riot.

We are calling for a video inspired by a poem, fiction, literary non-fiction, or experimental form, a written work that stimulates you to create a video in response. You may decide to creatively and dramatically interpret and thereby “collaborate” with the author of the work in terms of mood, energy, theme, related imagery, words, “plot,” music, and/or sounds.

To collaborate means: “To enter into conversation with another … is to risk what one found or produced in common … One enters into conversation in order to become an other for the other.” — Alphonso Lingus

The primary goal of the First Combination Special Video Contest (“CSC”) is to elicit imaginative and original quality videos that capture the essence of mood/spirit/energy or theme of a literary work published on the Internet.

Sponsor Mad Hatters’ Review is a collaborative, multi-new media magazine in which musicians and visual artists interpret written pieces and create new, exciting creations that converse with the writings. You needn’t be a professional videographer to stand a chance at fame and fortune.

** Vidopp Note: Contestants must pay $US 10.00 by PayPal in order to enter their videos in the Contest (see PayPal link on Entry Form). Multiple submissions are permissible, but the fee must be paid for each video in order for it to be considered.

Contest is open to legal residents of the United States, Canada, Australia, Britain, France, Italy, and all other countries applicable who are at least 18 years of age at the time of submission.

All videos shall be judged on the basis of:
Creativity/Originality
Quality of Execution: Image, sound, lighting
Overall Dramatic Presentation
Literary Theme: does film capture the essence of mood/spirit and/or theme of the written work.

The Grand Prize Winner and Honorable Mention recipients receive the following:
Grand Prize Winner - $US 500.00 Cash Prize plus publication of video on the front pages of Sponsors’ websites. Presentation at an event that may or may be hosted by Sponsor Mad Hatters’ Review in 2009.

Honorable Mentions – to be awarded to 2 – 6 entrants: publication of videos on the front pages of Sponsors’ websites. Possible presentation at an event that may be hosted by Sponsor Mad Hatters’ Review in 2009.

To enter this Contest click here

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