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The year of the curators – A reader’s digest of a mega-trend
/ November 28, 2011According to trend scouts on the Internet and in the features pages, 2011 was the year of the curators. Not the real-life curators, who have already had their year, but the Web curators.
What exactly is a Web curator? Well, nowadays everything is curated – from parties to home furnishings. So why not the Internet? There, curating is about filtering and recommending Web content from the social networks. The mass production of information and content is beginning to overwhelm today’s users. That’s why trustworthy curators are now needed to help reliably separate the wheat from the chaff. more
Upload Cinema – Web short films at the cinema
/ November 30, 2011Not long after YouTube was founded in 2005, people were already starting to download videos from the platform and present them elsewhere. This usually took place privately – for example at parties. Soon, however, YouTube DJ-ing became popular in clubs. As interest in the phenomenon of upload platforms grew in the media art world and on the film scene, there then followed curated public screenings at the cinema. These mostly took place as isolated events on special occasions. more
Budget boost for MEDIA as of 2014
/ November 23, 2011On 23 November the European Commission will make a first concrete proposal for the budget and form to be taken by the MEDIA programme, which will then be presented to the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. There is two years’ time for negotiations until the start of the new programme. The MEDIA budget for 2014-2020 is to be raised by 20% to 900 million euros. It will be subsumed under “Creative Europe”, under which MEDIA Mundus and the cultural programmes also operate. more
Norway: Film budget boost – short films also benefit
/ November 23, 2011Professional association founded for the German animated film industry
/ November 23, 2011Leuven Short Film Festival shows “Milestones in Short Film History”
/ November 23, 2011This year’s Internationaal Kortfilmfestival Leuven (Belgium) will present “Milestones in Short Film History”, four programmes of 30 short films produced in the century between 1900 and 2000 that left their mark on cinematic history. more