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Silent Film Director International Film Competition

MacPhun, the developers of the very new and popular app, Silent Film Director are running a contest with some great prizes for the best movie created with their app. There are six categories including, Best Drama, Best Action, Best Comedy,, Best Home Video, Featured Video of the Week and Featured Video of the Month. Winners from the Featured videos and Facebook videos of the week/month can win up to $25 of iTunes cards. Winners of the Best Drama, Best Action, Best Comedy and Best Home Video can win either an Apple iPad 2 or a $500 Apple Store Card.

Sounds great, if you’d like to try your hand at winning any of these prizes, hurry and download this app and start planning your screen play right now.

Silent Film Director costs $1.99 from the App Store, you can download it here. This is a free to enter competition.

General Rules

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    •    Create a video, using iPhone, iPod touch or iPad & Silent Film Director App
    •    You can use other photo & video apps, but using Silent Film Director App is a must
    •    Submit your video, using “Submit to Contest” button from inside the App
    •    Make sure you mention your name, email and title of the movie, when submitting it
    •    Your video shouldn’t be no longer than 3 minutes
    •    You can submit any number of videos as you like
    •    If your video gets shortlisted, you will be notified about that via email

This competition ends on August 1st, 2011. You can find out more information about this competition here.

Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.