AV Festival is an international festival of electronic arts featuring visual art, music and moving image. A biennial event, the festival takes place in the urban centres of Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough in the North East of England. The next AV Festival will take place 5-14 March 2010 and will be based around the theme of Energy. The festival will explore energy as a force through which all of life is connected, transformed, renewed and destroyed.

This is an open call for moving image and short film works that relate to the festival theme of energy. The chosen works will be screened to members of the public on the Live Sites BBC Big Screen in Centre Square Middlesbrough opposite mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) during the festival. The designated screening times will be during three days of the festival: 5, 10 and 12 March. This project is a partnership between AV Festival, Middlesbrough Council and the Live Sites Big Screen team at the BBC.

For more information and to submit your work visit www.avfestival.co.uk

If you have any questions please contact: peter@avfestival.co.uk

Deadline: 16th November 2009