CLIPPED Music Video Festival is pleased to announce its 2017 return as part of the Vivid Ideas program. Presented at SUNSTUDIOS on Saturday 3rd June, CLIPPED is Australia’s premiere music video festival, dedicated to promoting and celebrating the best of Australia and New Zealand’s artists in the field.

CLIPPED is excited to reveal acclaimed American music video director Warren Fu as its first international guest speaker. Warren Fu is famed for his work with the likes of Daft Punk, The Strokes, and Snoop Dogg. Fu was the mastermind behind The Weekend’s latest video for I Feel It Coming featuring Daft Punk.

As former art director at Lucasfilm, Fu created prominent characters and designs for Star Wars. This creative luminary has designed sets for Daft Punk, and created commercials for some of the biggest global brands such as Samsung, ADIDAS and Reebok.

Fu has worked with some of the music industry’s most esteemed artists including Stevie Wonder, Haim, Mark Ronson and Electric Light Orchestra to name a few.

This one-day event includes an exciting interactive music video exhibition, screenings, awards, workshops and industry discussion panels with special industry guest speakers.

CLIPPED invites filmmakers and bands to submit their clips, which will be judged in categories such as Animation, Cinematography, Directing, and Editing.  Judges include Warren Fu, as well as other industry leaders and innovators from Australia and overseas, who will be announced in the coming weeks.

In 2016, CLIPPED received more than 1,000 entries. Competition judges included music video directors Nigel Dick (Tears for Fears, Oasis, Britney Spears) and David Wilson (Tame Impala, Metronomy, Arcade Fire), and prizes included equipment, software packages and trophies.

Only music videos released or to be released after January 2016 are eligible for consideration. CLIPPED is also looking for submissions or applications to premiere new music videos live at the event.  Entries from Australia and overseas are welcome as there are plenty of showcase opportunities. Submissions are open now until May 1^st 2017.

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Vivid Ideas

Vivid Ideas is Asia Pacific’s annual celebration of innovation, creativity and change community, and is held as part of Vivid Sydney, the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas. Vivid Ideas brings the world’s greatest minds, innovators and industry leaders to Sydney to build engagement between the creative industries and the broader economy, exploring trends, movements and opportunities that shape society and business through public talks, industry seminars, conferences, workshops and debates. Vivid Sydney is owned, managed and produced by Destination NSW, the NSW Government’s tourism and major events agency and runs from 26 May to 17 June 2017.  For more information visit here

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