International Festival For Arts and Media Yokohama 2009, a pioneer project of "Creative City Yokohama", could not be categorized as either an ordinary film festivals or a contemporary art exhibition. Along with the judges who are leading figures of diverse domains, this festival's CREAM competition program aims to propose a brand new visual expression and experience. CREAM competition craves a new visual expression, or works that cross the borderlines between different genres of art such as contemporary art, film, performing art, music, etc. and therefore, inspire and influence the future generations.

International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009 CREAM Competition

Submission deadline: Friday, July 31st 2009

Conditions for Submissions

• The Competition is open to moving image works with experimental character and radical spirit of any genre.
• The Competition is open to moving image works of any format, such as screening, exhibition, performance, network-mediated works, outdoor projection, and etc.
• Everyone, regardless of age, gender or nationality, is eligible to enter the competition. Group work applications are also allowed.
• All works submitted should be completed no earlier than 1st of May 2008

Prizes: Some awarded works will be screened or exhibited during the festival.

• CREAM PRIZE (One Award) \500,000
• EXCELLENCE PRIZE (Multiple Awards) \100,000

Results: Announcement will be posted on the Festival's website.

• Preliminary Selection: Scheduled in Mid August 2009
• Final Selection: Scheduled in Mid September 2009

Jury for Preliminary Selection

SEMBO Kensuke (artist, member of art unit "exonemo")
TSUCHIYAYutaka (film director, founder of Video Act!)
UKAWA Naohiro (video director, graphic designer, contemporary artist, VJ, professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design)

Jury for Final Selection

ASAI Takashi (president of Uplink, producer, editor-in-chief of webDICE)
OU Ning (director of Shao Foundation, Beijing, chief curator of 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture)
SHIKATA Yukiko (senior curator, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]; specially assigned professor,
STUBBS, Mike (artist, director of FACT [Foundation for Art and Creative Technology])
SUWA Nobuhiro/Jury chairman (film director, president of Tokyo Zokei University)
YAMAMURA Koji (animation artist, director of the Japan Chapter of the International Animated Film Association, professor, Tokyo University of the Arts)

For further information and inquiries visit the official website of International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009.