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Freewaves ~ Los Angeles

8:34 AM PDT on March 18, 2011

Freewaves - a media arts festival founded by Anne Bray in 1989- is utilizing TransitTV screens in Metro buses throughout Los Angeles County in its 2011 incarnation.

'OUT THE WINDOW: About/By/In Los Angeles', Freewaves is seeking two-minute artists-activists-storytellers' videos about places in Los Angeles (home, street, neighborhood) to show to 1 million riders per day on all 2,200 Metro buses in L.A. County in June and September-October, 2011----- animations, documentaries, narratives and experimental videos about, by and in Los Angeles. Freewaves will pay $100 - $300 per piece accepted for screening during the festival.

Work may be submitted through the below websites (disregard the March 1 deadline).

More info on Freewaves: http://freewaves.org/
More info on Out the Window 2011 (+ submission page): http://www.freewavesopencall.org/

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