C&CI Short Film Competition The Cement & Concrete Institute is proud to announce our 3rd annual C&CI Short Film Competition.

For the 2011 C&CI Short Film Competition, students are invited to focus a critical gaze into the future of the African urban environment and specifically the role of concrete in it.The world’s population is moving, increasingly, towards urban environments. This is especially true in Africa. But what will these future cities look like and what lives will their inhabitants live?Science fiction today is as much a study of urban landscapes and human systems as it is about technology. It is as much a musing on the near future as it is on the distant future. How can you offer a SCIENCE FRICTION vision of the future South African city be it utopian or dystopian?

In a mock newsreport? a documentary from 2060?

a vIsual poem of futurelandscapes? a human drama In hIllbrow 2020?

footage from the lab after the

alIens landed In cape town?

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Can we retain elements of village community in the urban sprawl? How will we tackle transport sytems, the core sustainability issue? What will life be like in ever more crowded squatter camps or ever smarter and more compact buildings? Will informal cities form on highways because of three-day-long traffic jams? What does the future city’s public space look like? How will the city function when there’s a spike in the cost of fossil fuels? Or will we become smarter, more self-reliant and adaptable? Will the city become something out of a JG Ballard novel? Will the middle-class rebel against being financially squeezed to support the less well-off? Will the rich burn down the shopping malls for the thrill of escape? Or will the ethos of

the African village live on in the city?

QUESTIONS TO SPARK YOUR IMAGINATION

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WHO MAY PARTICIPATE?

Any student or group of students currently enrolled at an architectural, film, design or multimedia school. Each production team will be allowed one crew member withprofessional film industry experience.

AWARds

The sponsor, The Cement & Concrete Institute, has made the following prizes available:

To four equally meritorious student proposals, a monetary component of R25 000.00 will be awarded to produce their films. This will be paid to the institutions to which the students belong.The completed films will be shown at the Architect Africa Film Festival 2012 and at the C&CI Evening Event Friday 23 September 2011, subject to selection for screening by the fe stival’s viewing committee. The festival will visit all major centres in SA.

2. The Architect Africa Film Festival will form part of AZA2012.

3. Films will be made available and marketed to international architecture film festivals through the Architect Africa Film Festival (subject to all applicable protocols).

4. The films will be offered for broadcast to a local television channel.

5. The films may be distributed by the C&CI.

AudIOvIsuAl BRIEf

The panel will favour innovative approaches to the audiovisual medium that also incorporate a functional concept. Students are free to explore any genre of themoving image. The proposal can be for adocumentary, a mockumentary, a music video,a comedy, an animation, a stream-of-consciousnessor even a corporate promotional video on concrete. Or anything in between. You are free to experimentwithin genres, but you should be able to motivate your approach conceptually. Frame a structure for your film. Tell a story that grips the judges. You must be able to prove that you will be able to deliver on both a technical and a conceptual level. You must prove that you will be able to produce your film within budget and time constraints.

The C&CI Moving Space competition was established to promote the innovative use of concrete; to stimulate an inventive approach to moving image production; to raise awareness of critical architectural issues; and to challenge notions of sustainability facing our society in its built/ unbuilt/wasted contexts.

The C&CI sponsors this contest to stimulate debate around the challenges of sustainable development and to allow resultant architectural ideas. Concrete is widely used and is an important building material in sustainable designed buildings and sites. The C&CI encourages Portland cement-based material innovations and applications– especially those that can extend the opportunities for sustainable innovations in the built environment.

by 2035, most of humanity will live in favelas.

this will not be entirely wonderful,as many people will live in very poor housing,

but it will have its good side. It will mean that cities will consist of series of small units

organised, at best, by the people who know what is best for themselves and, at worst,

by local crime bosses.- 25 predictions 25 years, the guardian January 2011

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TERMs ANd CONdITIONs

6. Each tertiary institution may enter a maximum of three proposal submissions. Proposals must be submitted electronically.

7. Each submission must contain the following:

a. A cover page with a summary of the concept, the name of the institution and the contact details of the producer of the proposal.

b. A Motivation or Concept (maximum 1 000 words).

c. Visual treatment (maximum 500 words). The inclu-sion of a storyboard or mood board is optional.

d. A Crew list. Each production team would have to prove that they have adequate knowledge of both filmmaking as well as architecture. It is strongly recommended that each team has at least one architecture or design student as part of the team.

8. A shortlist of 10 entries will be invited to pitch their concepts to a group of independently appointed judges.

9. Four teams will be selected and invited to produce films.

10. The production should be between 5-10 minutes in length.

11. One master DV tape as well as four DVDs of the film need to be submitted on completion. The decision of the judges is final.

JudgEs

To be announced.

QuAlITY CONTROl

1. Grants will be paid to institutions to administer on behalf of the student teams.

2. The C&CI will appoint quality controllers to monitor the progress of the films during the production process. The commissioned production teams will have to submit scripts, filmed sequences, off-line and final edited product to these controllers from time to time before the final date of delivery.

COPYRIgHT

The C&CI will retain full copyright of all the films commissioned for the South African territory. The C&CI also retains the right to use the films in which ever form for purposes of marketing and education. The C&CI also retains the right to make the films available to any international architecture film festivals. The student production teams retain 100% copyright for international sales or submitting their films to other international and local film festivals. The production team will be allowed to develop the films into full-length feature films without the consent of the C&CI. All films will use the logo of the academic institution from which the film originated as well as the C&CI logo in the title credits.

IMPORTANT dATEs

3 May 2011: Submission of proposal. 21 May 2011: Pitches by then invited teams to the panel of judges.

Friday 9 September 2011: Final submission of films to Tin Rage Productions.

PREvIOus WINNERs

‘Litshe le Golide ‘ / “Stone From Gold” – Short Film About Johannesburg wins award

‘litshe le golide‘ ,one of the 5 winning short films created for the c&cI moving space short film competition 2010 won best documentary film (International category) in turkey at the International Istanbul architecture and urbanism film festival.

the film was produced by guy adam ailion, andrew ross bell, tamara lynn and craig michael maarschalk all students from wits university. ‘ litshe le golide “stone from gold” is a short film about Johannesburg city as a mining town turn metropolis. the film narrates the memories of a mine worker swimming through water while he contemplates his infatuation for this contrasted city and questions, what happens when the gold runs out?

QuERIEs & suBMIssIONs

Wessel van Huyssteen or Naledi Mokhele at Tin Rage Productions

PO Box 35897 Northcliff 2115Tel: +27 11 477 2414/8515Fax: +27 11 477 8519Email: tinrage@iafrica.com

Daniel van der Merwe @ C&C

Tel: +27 11 315 0300Website: www.cnci.org.zaFax: + 27 11 315 0584Email: daniel.vandermerwe@cnci.org.za

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