http://www.dokfestival-leipzig.de
Phone: 49 (0) 341 / 9 80 39 21
Submissions Due: July 28
Festival Date: October 29 - November 04

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Artists Band Together to Fight Restrictions on Street Photography
http://www.picturenewyork.org

“Picture New York” Formed In Response to Mayor’s Plans to Limit Cameras

YouTube “Video Public Comments” to be Submitted to Mayor’s Office

NEW YORK CITY: Picture New York WITHOUT pictures of New York. In one of the most photographed cities in the world, photographers and filmmakers, both professional and amateur, would be shut down by proposed regulations making it illegal for them to film or tape in NYC without a permit and a million dollars of insurance.

An overnight, massive grassroots fight against these proposed regulations has sprung up under the name ‘Picture New York.’ Fighting back with YouTube videos, petitions, handwritten letters, a website, Flickr space and a rally and press conference this Friday in Union Square, this ad-hoc group of working artists, photographers and filmmakers vow to stop the regulations going into effect as scheduled in September from the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting (MOFTB).

Albert Maysles, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, and Amy Arbus are among the celebrated artists who have already signed on to demand the MOFTB extend the period of public comment, currently ending August 3, and eliminate the proposed regulations.

Jem Cohen, the critically-acclaimed filmmaker whose alarmed e-mail prompted an initial meeting of concerned filmmakers, says, “Because street photography is, by its very nature, inextricably born out of free and random movement through the city, street photographers cannot know exactly where and when they intend to work, or for how long. One cannot regulate an art form or activity by negating its very premise. The proposed rules, in refusing to recognize the spontaneity which is at the core of street photography, are untenable for that reason alone.” (Read the article)

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http://www.lafemme.org/
Email: info@lafemme.org
Submissions Due: July 16
Festival Date: October 11 - 14

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http://www.sansebastianfestival.com/
Phone: 34-943-481212
Submissions Due: July 31
Festival Date: September 20 - 29

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http://www.short-cuts-cologne.de
Email: scc@koelner-filmhaus.de
Submissions Due: July 30
Festival Date: November 28 - December 02

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http://www.baf.org.uk
Phone: 44-1274-203308
Submissions Due: July 13
Festival Date: November 14 - 17

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http://www.chicagofilmfestival.org/
Phone: 312-425-9400
Submissions Due: July 25
Festival Date: October 4 - 17

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http://www.cinanima.pt
Phone: 011-351-22-733-1350
Submissions Due: July 27
Festival Date: November 05 - 11

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