FIRST FILMMAKER AND BAND ANNOUNCED FOR CAPTURED 2.0

On Friday, 27th July, The Loft Youth Arts & Cultural Centre played host to the inaugural Shooting Tunes DIY Music Video Competition Awards. The competition invited local videographers and artists aged 13 to 25 to submit 2-5 minute music videos. To view the finalist videos head to www.youtube.com/tvloft.

The big winner on the night was Newcastle based director Sam Cupitt, who won the 25 & under age category and ABC Rage Programmers Choice Award for his video for the song "Civic Station" by The Hedonists. The video will be screened on ABC's rage program later in this year. As was announced on the night, Sam also won a wild card entry into the second annual Captured music video competition - CAPTURED 2.0 - and we're proud to confirm today that Sam will indeed be taking up the challenge. Also set to take part in the Captured competition will be the band whose video was the runner up in Shooting Tunes, and the Peoples' Choice Award winner, Riley & Donna ( http://www.facebook.com/RileyAndDonna - photo attached )
Sam, Riley & Donna will join 5 other bands and 5 other filmmakers who will be announced on August 30th. Who is paired with who won't be revealed until October. 

Similar to the Shooting Tunes competition, the annual Captured project - which premiered as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival in 2011 - brings together six emerging filmmakers in NSW and the ACT and pairs them with six emerging artists from the same region. They each create a music video or short film under 5 minutes to be voted on by a judging panel and by the public through a 3 week campaign that kicks off on November 16th, giving the curated pairs two months to put together the video.

Head to http://www.capturedsydney.com/ to view the six films which resulted from last year's competition and to access the petition to bring Captured to your state in 2013.
ENDS

Please contact Larry Heath for more information about this project, or to chat with Sam, Riley or Donna.

Larry Heath at Heath Media

Founder and Editor in Chief, 

the AU review
Publisher, Australia's Year in Music

Founder and Coordinator, Captured 2.0

PO BOX 211 // Newtown NSW 2042 // +61 403 993 500

http://www.heathmedia.com.au/

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