Raindance.tv and Raindance Festival are pleased to announce that they have teamed up with Global One Music to launch a unique world-wide talent competition for aspiring music video directors. The contest has already begun and the closing date for video submissions is 2nd April 2009.

Young filmmakers from all over the world are being invited to submit a three-minute video, with the winning entry -- selected by an expert jury – will be used all over the world as the promo video for ‘Lately’, and the winning video director commissioned to make a further video for the Global One project.

With the film and music industry constantly on the lookout for fresh talent, the Global One competition gives aspiring music video directors the chance to break into the industry by having their work viewed by the biggest names in the business, and to reach an audience of many millions around the world. The winning entry and best runners up will also be featured at the Raindance Festival, and on Raindance.tv and its affiliate channels.

Raindance founder Elliot Grove said: “Global One’s international initiative is exactly the kind of idea that can spark enormous creativity in young filmmakers by offering a clearly defined form within which to work, and through which to reach their audience – that’s the magic of music video.”

Global One’s President, Charlie Dilks said: “Raindance.tv and Festival are perfect partners for us as we are working with Artists all over the world. Raindance has a prestigious international reputation, and with http://www.raindance.tv they have a huge reach directly to new and talented filmmakers. We’re very excited to be in such good company’.

Competition Details:
The competition is to find the best single international video to accompany the song ‘Lately’ produced by Global One. The song is being recorded in approximately 20 countries as local language versions. The song is tracking at 2’56” long.

A master track for the competition, lyrics and other assets will be made available for all competition entrants to use.

The competition is open to all and the closing date for the competition will be 2nd April 2009.Full competition rules, music video creative tips, and submission process, will all be available on the Raindance.tv website shortly. http://raindance.tv/globalone