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14/7/2011

Tent Academy Awards 2011

Tent, Rotterdam

On 15 July 2011, TENT Rotterdam is staging the annual competition to decide who deserves the title of this year’s best recently graduated audiovisual artist: the TENT Academy Awards. Jury chairman Bart Rutten will present the TENT Academy Award during the award ceremony in Cinerama Filmtheater on Friday 15 July. This year, students from Belgium and Luxembourg are also competing for the TENT Academy Award For Best Foreign Film.

The Benelux edition
The Benelux edition of the annual competition between the best graduation videos, films, shorts and animations from all the art academies, displays the finest audiovisual talent that the Netherlands, Belgium/Luxembourg have to offer in a single viewing. On Friday evening 15 July, TENT is showing the works selected by expert scouts in Cinerama Filmtheater, Rotterdam. The presentation takes place after the screening and the winners of the TENT Academy Award and TENT Academy Award for Best Foreign Film will then be announced. The audience also names its favourite as winner of the public award. Afterwards, the nominated films can be seen in TENT until 21 August.

The jury
A jury chaired by Bart Rutten, curator of visual art Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, with Olof van Winden, new director of the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Kevin Muhlen, director of Casino Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain, and Carolyn van Liefland, established film distributor and head of programming at Wolff Cinema, will judge the merits of the new audiovisual talent on offer. The jury prize: a three month artist in residence position.

Scouts 2011
· Yasmina Aboutaleb, journalist, wrote for CJP magazine and NRC Handelsblad a.o.
· Merel Bem, art critic De Volkskrant
· Joost Daamen, programmer IDFA, Paradocs a.o.
· Stephane Kaas, video editor Hard//Hoofd; online magazine for art and journalism, independent director
· Hicham Khalidi, director TAG; platform for modern audiovisual art in The Hague
· Noor Mertens, editor Tubelight, guest curator NEST
· Sandra Smets, freelance art critic for NRC Handelsblad a.o.
· Angelique Spaninks, director MU; exhibition space for contemporary art and visual culture, Eindhoven
· Joost de Vries, art editor De Groene Amsterdammer and writer
· Kerstin Winking, assistant curator Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam

Image: Still from The Super Rope Solution by Auke de Vries

The presentation
The festive award ceremony takes place in Cinerama Filmtheater on Friday 15 July. The screening, which shows the audiovisual talent that all the academies in the Benelux have to offer in a single viewing, begins at 20.00h. The evening concludes with the announcement of the winners and an afterparty in the Tikibar.

Programme TENT Academy Awards 2011
Date: Friday 15 July
Time: 19.30h – Doors open
20.00h – TENT Academy Awards film screening and presentation
23.30h – Afterparty in the Tikibar, Hartmanstraat 16, Rotterdam
Cinerama Filmtheater
Westblaak 18 - Rotterdam
Admission: full price €5 - students €3
Reservation is recommended and possible at Cinerama (010 4115300)
Cinerama Filmtheater

For more information please contact Carolien van Hooijdonk, communication and
marketing Tent at com.tent@cbk.rotterdam.nl or +31 (0)10 4135498

Exhibition 16 July – 21 August 2011

Tent
Witte de Withstraat 50 - Rotterdam
opening hours: thue - sun, 11 - 18.00 hrs

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