Introduction

Music ethnography is a modern academic tool for the preservation, representation and study of musical acts and processes. It is an important link in the development of musicology and art studies, and an important route to the transmission and dissemination of music culture. Organised by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the "Chinese Music Ethnographic Film Festival" (hereinafter referred to as CMEFF) was founded in 2019 and has been successfully held twice in Shanghai Grand Theatre and Gulangyu, Xiamen, as well as on tour in Taipei and Hualien, with more than 60 films screened.

CMEFF focuses on traditional music heritage, music performance and contemporary music life in China and the Chinese-speaking region, and is the first documentary film festival in China to focus on music.

Deadline for Entries

10 June 2023

Rules

Target audience: Domestic and international music universities as well as social film and television organisations, groups and individuals.

The call for entries: ethnographic documentaries on traditional Chinese musical heritage, musical performances, rituals and contemporary musical life; documentary works based on fieldwork and ethnomusicological/musicological anthropological research, focusing on the objective recording of music, interpretation of meaning, academic exploration and intercultural exchange and understanding; documentary images of fieldwork involving music (songs) and people, especially endangered Documentary images of fieldwork involving music (songs) and people, especially endangered music varieties, are encouraged and welcomed. The length of the film should not exceed 150 minutes, the type of equipment used is not limited, the clarity of the film should be at least 1080p, each film should not exceed 5GB, and each person is limited to one to three entries.

Selection rules: The expert jury and curatorial team will conduct a preliminary review of all submissions and shortlist them. In the final round, the jury will focus on viewing and discussing the films, and will select the winners of the awards, which will be announced on the Ritual Music Centre's WeChat public website.

Submission

Please submit your film to cmeff@foxmail.com by the deadline of 10 June 2023. Please include your name and title in the subject line of the email and include a completed entry form and a link to your film. Submissions will be accepted online only. Please do not send hard drives, CDs or offline submissions, otherwise submissions will be considered invalid.

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