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If you're familiar with the Third Coast Festival ShortDocs than you might have been expecting the announcement of a theme, and that we'd be accepting proposals for stories about that theme, and then choosing four proposals to be made into the 2006 ShortDocs.
Well...between feedback we've received from folks who attended the 2005 TCF conference, our own inclination toward doing something different this year, and running into Matt Madden at a reading in Chicago last fall - this new plan for 99 Ways... came together easily.
Our goal with 99 Ways is to encourage all kinds of producers - from total newbies to veterans - to stretch their brains and really play around with using sound to tell stories. The whole experiment is inspired by the literary group Oulipo, which is dedicated to exploring creativity through constraint. In case you haven't made it over to the TCF website yet, here's a preview of the experiment:
We've picked an opening sentence:
"To begin with, they never got along."
three sounds:
a pre-recorded voice, a rhythmic noise, an exclamation
and a time limit:
(2min 30sec.)
Your job is to give us a short audio piece in return that includes all of the above, and the sounds even have to appear in the order they're listed.
We'll start archiving submissions as soon as the first one arrives, so any/everyone can follow the progress of 99 Ways. Around the beginning of September we'll choose four submissions as the 2006 ShortDocs, which means we'll bring their producers to Chicago for our conference in October, and we'll showcase the stories in other ways.
OK, now that you're convinced and ready to get involved with 99 Ways. Get busy! Read more about how to participate in 99 Ways...
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