Submissions to ‘Sound & Image Challenge’ open until June

Organizers of the Sound & Image Challenge (SIC), a project that was launched six years ago by the Center for Creative Industries, (commonly known as Creative Macau), announced yesterday that the 7th edition of the event will feature two competitions; a short-
film contest (“Shorts”) and a music video contest (“Volume”). Submissions for both contests will be open until June 16.
José Luis Sales Marques, president of the Institute of European Studies of Macau (IEEM), which co-organizes the festival, said at a press conference yesterday that the event aims to foster creative cooperation between artists from all over the world.
The Sound & Image Challenge Festival will be held between December 6 and 11. The “Shorts” category awards the best short films in four categories (Fiction, Documentary, Animation and Advertisement). The “Volume” category calls on contestants to submit music videos using Macau compositions.
The winning music video will be recorded as the festival’s theme song.
A series of cultural activities will be held between December 6 and 11, including shortlisted film showings, public voting, seminars about film production and development, as well as the screening of winning and nominated films.
Last year’s festival received 25 nominated films from 10 countries and regions, namely France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Russia, Greenland, Hong Kong and Macau.
According to Lúcia Lemos, project manager of Creative Macau, and the event’s director, the best projects will have a “remarkable impact on Macau’s filmography culture through consecutive showings.”  Staff reporter