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Call for Entries: Shorts for New IDA Website

As many of you may be aware, an exciting change is coming to the IDA website. In March, we will be launching an entirely new site with a new look, a new vision, and many exciting opportunities for you, our members, and the documentary community at large. It is our hope that the new www.documentary.org will quickly become the premiere destination for anyone interested in documentary films and filmmaking.

Many of you have expressed a desire to share your work with our international community. Now's your chance. The new www.documentary.org will feature video clips from documentary films that you, our members, have created. It's a great way to promote your film, market your professional talents, and just have fun. So we're asking you to submit your video files.

Here's what we're looking for:

- All submissions should be short pieces no longer than 10 minutes
- They might be stand-alone excerpts from completed long-form documentaries
- Trailers and EPK's are fine
- Compelling, never-before-seen "outs" (including resurrecting some of those "babies" you had to kill in editing)
- Entire "short" docs
- Original works created specifically for our community

Here are the ground rules:

- Please only submit fully cleared pieces, including music rights and stock footage.
- By your submission to IDA, you acknowledge and agree that you have all right, title and interest in the submitted material and such submission does not infringe on the rights of any third party. You further agree that you will defend, indemnify and hold the IDA harmless from any claims.
- By submitting you grant the IDA the right to stream clips on the IDA website, partner destinations and video sites with whom the IDA has promotional relationships.
- The IDA only streams clips and does not make them available for download without the owner's approval.

So scour your shelves and computer files for work you'd like us to showcase.

We look forward to sharing it with the community of filmmakers and doc-lovers at www.documentary.org! Please email a link to where your film is online (or send via free web services like yousendit.com) to videos@documentary.org.

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Posted on March 6, 2008 in Event / Call to action by jengallardo