New Coordinator, New Contact Information, New Tour

In November 2008 Ian Leung took over the position of Prairie Tales Tour Coordinator from Leslea Kroll. He welcomes all inquiries about Prairie Tales either via the Metro Cinema:

Metro Cinema Society
Room 632, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton AB T5J 2V5
780.425.9212

or at the new Prairie Tales Tour Coordinator e-mail address:

prairietales@metrocinema.org

Prairie Tales 11 will premier at 8:00 pm on Friday, June 26 2009 at the Metro Cinema. It will be available for exhibition until August 31, 2010.

Prairie Tales 10 remains available for exhibition until the end of summer 2009.

The call for submissions for Prairie Tales 12 will go out in late fall 2009.

Ian Leung
Tour Coordinator
Prairie Tales

Call for Submissions: PT 2009

The Eleventh Annual Prairie Tales Media Arts Tour

Metro Cinema Society in association with amaas (Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society) invites filmmakers, videographers, documentarians, and animators to submit their recently completed works to Prairie Tales, an annual touring program of short works by Alberta media artists.

In its tenth consecutive year, the Prairie Tales Tour celebrates the diversity of work created by artists in our province. In circulation over several months, Prairie Tales screens throughout Alberta and across Canada at media art centres, galleries, and schools.

You are eligible to submit your work to Prairie Tales if:
your work has been completed in the last 18 months
your work has a running time of 15 minutes or less
your primary residence is in Alberta

When submitting, please include a brief description of your work (including year of completion and original production format) as well as an artist's biography. Preview copies may be submitted on VHS or DVD only. Works must be submitted in final edited form. Prairie Tales 11 will be curated by the Prairie Tales tour coordinator and a peer jury. Artists whose work is included in the program will be paid the CARFAC rate for multiple film/video screenings. There is no submission fee.

The deadline for submissions is 5:00pm on January 30, 2009.

Please send your submission to:
Prairie Tales Jury
Metro Cinema Society
Room 632, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton AB T5J 2V5


If you have any questions regarding submissions or the Prairie Tales Tour, please contact the Metro Cinema office at metro@metrocinema.org or 780-425-9212.

The Prairie Tales Media Arts Tour is generously supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Download the Call for Submissions PDF.