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I infiltrated festival animatu last year to give out a demoshow and meet some interesting people in the digital animation biz. After some negotiations, this years edition of the festival will have a parallel demoscene competition organized by yours truly. You can read the submission rules online, but basically, we accept into competition demos and intros produced in 2007 and 2008. Deadline for submissions is on the 30th of July, the festival itself will occur in the lovely portuguese city of Beja from the 15th to the 19th of October. A round up of 20 nominated productions to be shown in the event will be selected by a jury consisting of me and couple other international reknown sceners (who can be some of the fuckers who didnt allow 828 to get nominated for scene.org awards 2007 best soundtrack since i cant enter 828 in this competition anyways), the winner demo will be given 500e and an invitation to join the festival in the following year to accept the prize. There will be several digital animation related workshops and roundtables, the demoscene will share it's presence in these activities with some demoshows of the nominees and an invited speaker. So if you got something worth showing to the world, do get in touch and participate.

To warm up for the festival there will be an animation film showcase on the 10th of April in Portalegre where i'll be present to also show some state of the art demos and intros at cine teatro CAE de Portalegre. So if you're portuguese or spanish or just happen to be visiting, do show up.

Really, really cool. How did you manage to get invited to do the "state of the art demos and intros" in Portalegre?

I spent about a year there and I tried to make a few of my classmates get interested in it but just got one guy curious. Even my teachers seemed to ignore it AND I was in the animation course!

the main orga contacted me through the scenept blog, they had received a submission by conspiracy that year so they snooped around if there was a demoscene in portugal and asked me if i wanted to go there show some demos at the afterparty. i liked the event location and the people. lots of them were interested in what these demoscene things were, and lots of their workshops would be interesting for any type of regular demoscene guy, so i think its worth having more presence and they wanted someone who knew the demoscene to be in charge. so now i cant submit 828 and get filthy rich :(

Well done! Now they'll regret the fact that I am gone and will of course be wildly nostalgic about it.

I think I can make a few people show up if you wish. It's kind of hard for me to get prods done by myself (even though the animations at BP gave me some cool ideas).

any audience is welcome :) im not leaving the comfort of my home for the free beers ;)

actually it seems the demoscene invited speaker thing got canceled -_-

but the 500e prize money for the compo winner is still on

prods accepted into the competition must have been created between january 2007 and july 2008. deadline to deliver the filled out form is 30th of July. please get in touch and participate.

great initiative, ps! Keep going!

still waiting on your submissions people..

i think, request to fill in pdf form is not very good idea. i already tried to edit this pdf with two various programs and failed :(. downloading adobe acrobat needs registration at adobe site, what i don't really like. anyway, i'll do it.

you're supposed to print it, fill it up and then either scan it and email it or send it by snail mail.

hm, i got it wrong. thanks for explanation.

i also dislike the burocracy but the guys giving the money away need signatures of consent from the authors :S

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Good work ps - we are lucky to have someone like yourself :)

if people bother participating that is :S

damn, had forgot about this. now, need to check if i can enter something

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send in the filled out scanned form to demoscene@festivalanimatu.com before the end of this month, preferably sooner.

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too bad there ain't more compos, else than demos.

submit the form you lazy bastards -_-

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convinced. (*printing out the PDF*)

sent

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whoa cool!
I think I'm going :D
oh wait...