Otafest 2008 - AMV Contest!

jen-chan · Post by **jen-chan** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:15 pm

Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen!

I'm the Special Events Coordinator for Otafest, the annual con held in Calgary, AB, Canada. Otafest 2008 will be held on May 16-18, 2008 at the University of Calgary!

This year marks Otafest's 10th Birthday, and this will be our 5th contest, and hopefully, our biggest and best-est yet!

Currently, we are looking for any AMVs made after May 2007.

Rules have recently been posted and can be found at:

http://www.otafest.com/amv.html

Please read the rules before entering the contest!

Entry into the contest is very simple! Please send an email to: Jenny Chan: special-events@otafest.com

Please provide the following information in the email:

1) Your name or your studio’s name

2) The AMV’s information
a. The name of your video(s)
b. The name of the series from which you are drawing your visual material
c. The name of the song you are using, as well as the original artist

3) Please state whether or not your entry has been submitted to other contest

4) A link to where your video can be downloaded.

Entry deadline is April 30th. Please have your email sent by April 30th.

Once again, Otafest is really proud to announce that Vlad's will be assisting in the showing of our contest (THANK YOU VLAD!!) and all entries will be re-encoded back to mpeg2 and played off of Vlad's equipment for superior playback!

As such, mpeg2 is the preferred format, although all entries will be reencoded to this format!

Last year's winners were:

HONORABLE MENTION:
Inexplicably Sexy JudgeHolden - Way of the Gun
Seamless Editing Award! Raku Samatarou - Lyrical on Fire
Most Creative Crossover Roy Bann - Unrequired
Best Locally Made Video NiKKi2 - Be a Leader Tai
The "je ne sais quoi" Radical Yue - Grace
Sheer Hilarity Uanime5 - Magical Pharmacy Abenobashi
Most Hypnotic JudgeHolden - Lost in an Anime Dream
The Cute Award Dragon/Roy Video - We Lived to Love
Most Professional Sheen Omega - Tales of the Abyss:
Chunky Peanutbutter Award Tarzaim - Everything about Yue

WINNERS:
3rd Place & Most Romantic n4rU - MeMoRiEs
2nd Place & Best Trailer Antonio Neto - Judge Grave
1st Place & Overall Winner Kitsuner - Emily

Fan Favourite NiKKi2 - Be a Leader Tai

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to write!

Cheers,

Jenny Chan
Otafest 2008 - Special Events Co-Coordinator
special-events@otafest.com
http://www.otafest.com

Radical_Yue · Post by **Radical_Yue** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:21 pm

Yay for Otafest!

JudgeHolden · Post by **JudgeHolden** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:28 pm

Woot! Thanks be the Lord that Otafest is in Canada ... Cuz do I have a video for you ....

dreamawake · Post by **dreamawake** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:23 pm

Oh yeah, bout that time again huh >=)

I will surely be sending in 2 entries B)

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:28 am

And Apart from encoding the contest and showing it, I'll have several AMV blovks there too!! Should be fun

Vlad

jen-chan · Post by **jen-chan** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:10 am

Yay for Otafest indeed! ^_^ *does a jiggly dance!*

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's work! (Though I wonder what being a Canadian con has to do with your AMV, Judge? O_o;;)

And I've only heard good things about the AMV gameshow, Vlad, so I'm eagerly awaiting it!

Cheers,

Jenny Chan
Otafest 2008 - Special Events Co-Coordinator
special-events@otafest.com
http://www.otafest.com

JudgeHolden · Post by **JudgeHolden** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:28 am

jen-chan wrote:Yay for Otafest indeed! ^_^ *does a jiggly dance!*

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's work! (Though I wonder what being a Canadian con has to do with your AMV, Judge? O_o;;)

And I've only heard good things about the AMV gameshow, Vlad, so I'm eagerly awaiting it!

Cheers,

Jenny Chan
Otafest 2008 - Special Events Co-Coordinator
special-events@otafest.com
http://www.otafest.com

Because the Alberta Film Board is more liberal with what they consider to be PG .... I think Vlad can attest to this factoid.

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:26 pm

JudgeHolden wrote: Because the Alberta Film Board is more liberal with what they consider to be PG .... I think Vlad can attest to this factoid.

well.. yes and no.. Ironically, THE AFB now lets registered festivals rate thier own stuff and I have been one of the raters.. Ironically, I rating 30 more videos from the archive this weekend with two others so I have a very good ideas what is considered PG as I have to sign off on them

Vlad

JudgeHolden · Post by **JudgeHolden** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:05 am

Vlad G Pohnert wrote:
JudgeHolden wrote: Because the Alberta Film Board is more liberal with what they consider to be PG .... I think Vlad can attest to this factoid.

well.. yes and no.. Ironically, THE AFB now lets registered festivals rate thier own stuff and I have been one of the raters.. Ironically, I rating 30 more videos from the archive this weekend with two others so I have a very good ideas what is considered PG as I have to sign off on them

Vlad

Sooo, I send you the bribe this year ... I get it ...

dreamawake · Post by **dreamawake** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:48 pm

Entries sent. =D