Dachshunds. Weekends. Tyrion Lannister. Three things that are short, but awesome. Joining them is #TROPVINE: the short filmmaking competition where films can be no more than six seconds long. #TROPVINE is the lovechild of Tropfest Australia and Twitter’s short video app, Vine, and entrants from around the globe are invited to submit their Vine films now!
Entrants need to make an original Vine film, using this year’s TSI (Tropfest Signature Item) ‘CARD’, and Tweet it to @TROPFEST using the competition hashtags #tropvine and #card. The winner will take home a cash prize of $5,000 AUD, a Nikon 1 V3 Kit with a 10-30mm lens, one year of Spotify premium PLUS a VIP trip to Sydney for Tropfest Australia 2015 this December, including Qantas flights to Sydney and accommodation at hip designer hotel QT Sydney.
Last year’s winner, Tee Ken Ng (@teekenng) says winning #TROPVINE 2014 created opportunities in the filmmaking industry that would have otherwise been impossible. “My winning #TROPVINE entry, Mirror Copy, went on to be nominated for a Shorty Award, up against Michelle Obama’s, for ‘Vine of the Year’ in New York. Flying over to attend the ceremony was an invaluable opportunity to finally meet in person many talented video creators who I knew through the platform. Whilst there I also met with the people at Vine HQ and was invited into Mashable for a fun Vine duel!”
Ken (@teekenng) offers up these three tips for entrants:
1. Check out what other people are doing on there and get inspired
2. Don’t be daunted if you spend hours making a single Vine!
3. Get a simple tripod if you’re planning to do stop-motion
Michael Laverty, Tropfest Managing Director said “Tropfest and Twitter have partnered to create #TROPVINE - championing creative short filmmaking across the globe. It’s fun and creative filmmaking and we love seeing how the Tropfest Signature Item is interpreted in ultra-short form!”
Jennie Sager, Music, Entertainment, and Events Partnerships Manager Twitter Australia said "Vine creators are a community of some of the most creative minds in the world, and we wanted to create an opportunity to showcase their talents. In line with the Twitter ethos that constraint inspires creativity, we thought it would be amazing to partner with Tropfest, the world's largest short film festival, to create an even shorter film festival and #TROPVINE was born. We were blown away by the quality of the entries we received during the inaugural #TROPVINE in 2014 and we can't wait to see what Vine creators in Australia and around the world wow us with this year”
The 2015 finalists will be screened live at the #TROPVINE Festival Night at The X Studio in Sydney on 12 August, with the winner announced at the end of the night. Finalists will be able to mingle with social-media mega-dude Jason Mante, Head of User Experience for Vine. That’s a pretty big deal.
THE DETAILS
The competition is open to international entrants, and will run from July 1-31. Entrants make a six second Vine film, featuring the Tropfest Signature Item 'CARD', and Tweet it to @TROPFEST using the competition hashtags #tropvine and #card. Tropfest will select the top 10-20 vines to screen at the Festival night on August 12. One Vine-maker will be crowned the winner on the Festival Night. The winning Vine-maker will receive $5,000.00 AUD, VIP tickets to Tropfest Australia, Qantas flights to Sydney for the event (terms and conditions apply), accommodation at QT Sydney plus other prizes (as outlined above). Terms and conditions of entry apply; please visit www.tropfest.com/au/tropvine for all the details on how to enter!
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