In association with Veritgo Films and Film4, MySpace want to make the world’s first user generated feature film. More details here - www.myspace.com/mymoviemashup

Exeter Phoenix is hosting the 5th International Short Film Festival on the 30th November to 1st December and are looking for submissions. Your film should be no longer than 10 minutes and need to be on miniDV. Full details can be found on the website www.twoshortnights.co.uk

My Chemical Romance are doing a ‘remix your own TV ad’ competition. It’s not as hard as it sounds - basically you download some static images and audio, and mix them together to create an ad. The winning ad will get played on MTV2, plus you’ll get to see and meet the band. Details at http://www.diymcr.com/

Adam Comiskey has started a petition to lobby the government to create a system of self-classification for artists working in the medium of video. More details and to add your name to it can be found at www.ipetitions.com/petition/SelfClassification/

Bill Wroath, a local artist, is looking for donations of 4 seconds of moving image, copyright free, for a channel surfing montage he wants to include in a film. They can be of any genre but should be fairly action based. He is also looking for 5-10 seconds of crashing waves. If you can help him, can you please contact Bill at billwroath@mac.com