ArteEast Opportunities For Artists Mid February 2013

Calls for Submissions

Deadline: Feb 25

Featured: The Gulf Film Festival (GFF): 2013 Official International Competition

The Gulf Film Festival (GFF), to take place this year in Dubai from April 11 to 17, is seeking short films for its 2013 Official International Competition.

The Festival aims to develop the local and regional film culture in the Gulf, creating greater opportunities for filmmakers from the region to screen their films and develop future film projects.
The Festival aims to celebrate excellence in Gulf cinema and be a destination festival for the international film community to discover state of the art Gulf Cinema.

The Official Gulf Competition is open to films by Gulf filmmakers and students, or filmmakers of other nationalities with a film that showcases the region and its landscape. In addition to the Official International Competition that is open to short films from around the world.

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Ashkal Alwan, Beirut is accepting applications for the third edition of itsHome Workspace Program with resident professors Jalal Toufic and Anton Vidokle. For more information, please click here.

Deadline: Febrary 24

The Open Society Foundations invites photographers to submit work for a group exhibition that showcases documentary photography concerning human rights and social issues. For more information, please click here.

Deadline: February 26

“MADE IN MED” is a short film contest organised by Euromed Audiovisual III. The contest includes three different short film competitions around subjects dear to the Mediterranean. To learn more, click here.

Deadline: February 28

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Funding Opportunities

Deadline: March 1

Featured: Documentary Campus MENA Programme 2013

Documentary Campus and the Goethe Institute Cairo are calling for submissions for the Documentary Campus MENA Programme 2013.

The target group is documentary filmmakers who are residents of Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Algeria, Jordan, the Palestinian territories, Syria, and Lebanon, and who have experience in their domestic market but strive to work in the international field and are open to learn and to adapt their projects to the needs of their target audiences.

The 15 successful applicants will develop their documentary projects for the regional and international non-fiction market. The training includes workshops to develop the project for the regional and/or international market including sessions on storytelling, budgeting, legal aspects of international co-productions, trailers, project presentation, and a small pitching session. To learn more about the program, please click here.

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The Bemis Center provides Artists-in-Residence with the gift of time, space and support for their three month long residency. For more information, click here.

Deadline: February 28

The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and the City of Warsaw invite art professionals: curators, organisers, researchers and managers from the Middle East to apply for their month long Artists-In-Residence Laboratory program. To learn more, please click here.

Deadline: February 28

The New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation announces its annual Emerging Curator Open Call. The program offers the opportunity to organize a group show at their gallery. Click here to learn more.

Deadline: March 1

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Jobs and Other Announcements

Featured: Volunteering Opportunities During Art Dubai

Caspian Arts Foundation will participate in Art Dubai in March. We will co-organise a highly interactive panel discussion with The Moving Museum addressing ‘New Direct
ions: Art Education in the Middle East’ at the Global Art Forum on 22nd March. The panelists will address three main themes: the current art scene in the Middle East, the role of education as a catalyst for the future evolvement of arts and culture as well as proposals for supporting the next generation of artists in the region and their education in the arts.

In order to make sure the upcoming panel will run successfully, we are looking for 2-3 volunteers to assist our staff on the panel, which consists of handing out brochures, collecting information from guests and some other assistance.

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Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo is hiring a new Director to manage institutional growth and impelement programming. To learn more, click here.

Deadline: February 17

The Mosaic Rooms and the AM Qattan Foundation in London are looking for a Press and Markeing Coordinator interested in promoting contemporary Middle Eastern art. For more information, click here.

Deadline: February 22