Power Mac Center Launches Cinemansanas! A Digital Film Competition Using Apple Devices!

Recently, we got a word that Power Mac Center launched its latest interesting film storytelling campaign. Dubbed as the "Cinemansanas" this is the second installment of Pixelworx, Power Mac Center's advocacy for recognizing exceptional artist that was celebrated with workshops, live demos and ultimate art challenge previously.

Cinemansanas

This time, Cinemansanas dares everyone who'll join the competition to defy the norm once more with a new challenge of creating short films using Apple devices. The competition calls for short film entries with the theme "Designing for a Bold New World."

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Entries can be in a form a documentary, narrative fiction and the likes as long as its all original, shot and edited using Apple devices.

Two Categories

It goes with the Student Category open to all officially enrolled High School and College / University students and Professional Category for local residents. All the finalist on both categories will qualify for the People's Choice Award.

Power Mac Center aims to honor the brightest and best local talents in contemporary creativity further by participating with ADAA (Adobo Design Awards Asia) Open / Theme category: Digital Short Film. 

Students entries are automatically eligble to win the award while the Professionals will have to pay a nominal feel of 500 Pesos inclusive of 12% VAT.

“Power Mac Center challenges everyone to reconnect with their inner artist. We need a new breed of storytellers now and with the amazing things you can do on the iPad and iPhone, the only limit is your creativity,” said Joey Alvarez, Marketing Director of Power Mac Center.

What's at stake?

The Student Category Diamond Award winner will get 30K worth of Power Mac Gift Cards and the Professional Category Diamond Award winner will take 50K worth of Power Mac Gift Cards!

Interesting prizes waiting for the Runner-ups of both categories that includes Power Mac Gift Cards and products. There are also special prizes waiting for the Adobo Design Award for Digital Short for both categories and People's Choice Award.

The deadline for submission of entries is on March 20, 2016. For the registration form and full contest mechanics, visit www.powermaccenter.com.

Additional information

As in the previous year, Pixelworx Cinemansanas will feature a series of workshops led by brand ambassadors, as well as live demo sessions in select Power Mac Center stores. This year’s workshops will showcase some of the country’s premier figures in the film industry. 

The chosen Pixelworx ambassadors are Erik Matti for Direction, Yam Laranas for Cinematography, Ricky Lee for script-writing, and Mario Cornejo and Monster Jimenez for Film Production. It is a rare opportunity to have these distinguished film artists share their unconventional way of visual storytelling to equip participants with valuable skills that can help in their own film-making. 

Apart from the workshops, also scheduled are in-store activities featuring live demonstrations of apps used for film-making. Topics include Digital Film-making with iMovie, Musical Scoring with GarageBand, and Final Cut Pro X for Mac OS. This will show how Apple devices can be used as instruments in crafting in any chosen medium, particularly in creating film masterpieces.

Watch out for further announcements at Power Mac Center's social media acccounts for the online registration instructions. Great luck everyone!

For more information, visit any Power Mac Center branch, www.powermaccenter.com or call 855-8888.