Short Film News - DepicT! '06, the 90 seconds competition part of Encounters Short Film Festival, Britain, calls for entries from around the world.

There is just one month to go until the deadline for entries for DepicT! '06, the micro movie competition (Mon. 4 Sep. '06). The shortlist will then be posted on www.depict.org on Monday 9 October '06 and the winners will be announced at Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol, UK (21 to 26 of November).

All international entries are welcomed in this competition part. Anybody interested in submitting a film can go to http://upload.depict.org or visit the festival's main site http://www.depict.org.

DepicT! is the short film competition which challenges budding filmmakers from around the world to make mini-masterpieces of under 90 seconds, in two categories - live action and animation. Watershed's popular filmmaking challenge, part of the renowned Encounters Film Festival, is inviting entries for this year's competition.

DepicT! has formed a key part of Brief Encounters for over 7 years. This year sees Brief Encounters join forces with Animated Encounters to create one single Encounters Film Festival, combining the very best live action shorts with the cream of animation. To celebrate this merger, DepicT! is re-introducing two separate Awards in 2006, one for Live Action and one for Animation (£2,000 each).

The DepicT! winners will be selected by a panel of industry professionals, whose brief is to uncover distinctive voices with originality, imagination, and the ability to engage the audience with a compelling idea told in a mere 90 seconds. Previous judges have included renowned actor Pete Postlethwaite, multi-Oscar winning director Peter Jackson, Executive Producer at BBC Talent Jeremy Howe, award-winning director Damien O'Donnell, and David Sproxton, Executive Chairman of Aardman Animations.