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Rockstar Games Upload, the online digital media awards program, announces it’s return for the fourth year. Four categories, Short Subject Film, Deejay Mix, Short Fiction, and Multimedia Design, are designed to recognize and celebrate those in the online community. The winners showcase a display of talent from all levels of experience.
Entries will be judged by Rockstar Games and a celebrity judging panel created by Rockstar of industry professionals that represent each category. This panel should be announced soon. Panels in the past years have included many such as Jonathan Wells, RES Magazine publisher, and designer Deanne Cheuk.
Sponsors provide the grand jury prize judging. This year, the judging in each category will be done by Independent Film Channel (film), XLR8R Magazine (deejaying), Flaunt Magazine (fiction) and Design is Kinky (multimedia design). In addition to having their winning entries published on the official Rockstar Games Upload website, grand jury prize winners will receive a cash award.
Entries are now being accepted for the following categories:
BEST SHORT SUBJECT FILM
CASH PRIZE: $5,000
ACCEPTABLE LENGTH: Between 3 and 30 minutes.
ACCEPTABLE FORMATS: .mov, .wmv, .mpeg
BEST SHORT FICTION
CASH PRIZE: $3,000
ACCEPTABLE LENGTH: Between 400 and 2,500 words.
ACCEPTABLE FORMATS: .doc, .txt, .html, .pdf
BEST DEEJAY MIX
CASH PRIZE: $3,000
ACCEPTABLE LENGTH: Between 30 and 60 minutes.
ACCEPTABLE FORMATS: .mp3, .wma, .asf
BEST MULTIMEDIA DESIGN
CASH PRIZE: $3,000
ACCEPTABLE LENGTH: Experience duration no longer than 5 minutes; aggregate filesize no larger than 5 MB.
ACCEPTABLE FORMATS: .swf, .dcr
The call for entries deadline is September 30th, 2005. Winners will be announced in November 2005.
Check out more at: http://www.rockstargames.com/upload or http://www.rockstargamesupload.com