2010 ILDA Awards: Entries and instructions

Entries

The following entries have been received as of Thursday, 11 March 2010. If your package tracking service says your package has been delivered, but you do not see it listed here after a few days, then please call us to check on it.

• Laser Artist Co. Ltd., received 11 March.

Number of entries received in each category

Instructions

This page is for ILDA Members who wish to enter the 2010 ILDA Awards. You may enter laser shows produced/performed between 17 January 2009 and 31 March 2010. Winners of these awards will be announced and presented at the ILDA Awards Banquet during the ILDA Conference scheduled for Sept. 2010.

There are three main awards categories: Artistic, Technical, and Career Achievement Award. The deadline for entering all three Awards is Wednesday, 31 March 2010. Details are below.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact the chair of the ILDA Awards Committee. The address can be found here.

2011 Awards deadline also announced

The Awards Committee has also issued the deadline for next year's Awards in 2011: The deadline will be 31 January 2011. The Committee is bringing this up now so you can plan for next year's deadline (31 Jan) arriving earlier than this year (31 March).
 

ILDA Artistic Awards
Deadline: Wednesday, 31 March 2010

The 2010 ILDA Artistic Awards Guide includes rules and entry forms. ILDA Members can download the Guide in these formats:

Microsoft Word format, for A4-size paper (210 x 297mm)
  Adobe PDF document, to print on A4-size paper
Microsoft Word format, for U.S. letter-size paper (8.5 x 11")
  Adobe PDF document, to print on U.S. letter-size paper

These documents are only available to ILDA Members. If you are a Member and do not have access to the Members-Only area, please contact ILDA with your member information.

The document available above is the most current version of the Artistic Awards Guide (version 1.0, dated 19 January 2010).

Major changes for 2010

• Eliminated laser-format entries, to simplify entering and judging. For 2010, all entries will be submitted in video format (except for Laser Photography).
• Adjusted what video formats are preferred. We now prefer computer files such as MOV, M4V/MP4, AVI and WMV. Mini-DV and DVD are accepted but computer files are easier for us to use.
• Added three new categories:
       -- Planetarium Show: For shows created for, and videotaped in,
          a planetarium or similar dome.
       -- Live Performance: This is for laser jockeys or artistic live creation
          of laser light shows. The top five finalists will perform and be voted on live,
          at the 2010 ILDA Conference.
       -- Laser Show (Including Multimedia): This new category is intended for
          laser shows that have some added media and effects.
• Renamed and re-focused the previous “Multimedia Show” category. In the “Multimedia Show (Including Lasers) category, the judging focuses on multimedia shows where lasers are included but may not be predominant.

Deadline for entering

Entries must be mailed or shipped to ILDA on or before Wednesday, 31 March 2010 at 11:59 pm, your local time. Anyone who is a current ILDA Member at time of entering is eligible.
 

ILDA Fenning Awards for Technical Achievement
Deadline: Wednesday, 31 March 2010

The 2010 ILDA Fenning Awards Guide includes rules and entry forms. ILDA Members can download the Guide in these formats:

Microsoft Word format, for A4-size paper (210 x 297mm)
  Adobe PDF document, to print on A4-size paper
Microsoft Word format, for U.S. letter-size paper (8.5 x 11")
  Adobe PDF document, to print on U.S. letter-size paper

These documents are only available to ILDA Members. If you are a Member and do not have access to the Members-Only area, please contact ILDA with your member information.

Entries must be mailed or shipped to ILDA on or before Wednesday, 31 March 2010 at 11:59 pm, your local time. Anyone who is a current ILDA Member at time of entering is eligible.
 

ILDA Career Achievement Awards
Deadline: Wednesday, 31 March 2010

You do not need a special entry form for this; in fact, you can enter by email if you wish. Here is how to enter:

ILDA is now accepting nominations for the Career Achievement Award. The deadline for nominations is the same as for the Artistic and Fenning Awards: Wednesday, 31 March 2010.

Who may be nominated

You can nominate anyone who is an "exceptional individual with a distinguished history of achievement in the laser display industry." The nominee can be anyone -- they do not have to be an ILDA Member. (You can even nominate yourself, if you wish; this is fine!)

In the past, there have been three broad categories of winners:

• those who helped build significant laser display-related businesses,
• those who made artistic and technical achivements, and
• those who worked to improve ILDA and the laser display industry.

The nominee can have achieved in one, two or all three of these areas. In whatever area(s) they worked, the person should have made significant and lasting achievements in the field of laser display.

How to enter

To enter, submit the nominee's name, plus a biography/description of the person. This should go beyond just a "resume listing" of places they have worked. It should Include information about the career of the nominee and why his or her achievements are significant. If you are nominating another person, feel free to work with them, so they can help put together this document.

As a guide, past CAA nomination biography/descriptions have been from 1 to 10 pages, with the average about 2-3 pages.

Send your CAA nomination via e-mail to ILDA's Executive Director. Your nomination submission will be passed on to the CAA judges in confidence; no one will be told who made the nomination.

Automatic entries for 2010

Every CAA nomination is good for five years. This means that once a person has been nominated, they automatically are considered for the next five Awards years (or until they win, of course). These are the "automatic" nominees for 2009:

• Lothar Bopp, LOBO (first nominated 2007)

• Cory Simpson, LFI/Lightspeed/KOHR (first nominated 2007)
  Bernd Steinert, spectrabeam.de (first nominated 2006)

• John Tilp, Laser Images (first nominated 2007)

We will use the most recent biography/description in our files. If you want to submit a new or revised biography/description, send this to ILDA's Executive Director by the 31 March 2010 deadline.

 

Entries needing re-nomination in order to be considered

 

The following persons were nominated more than five years ago. They will NOT be nominees this year unless someone re-nominates them:

• Fred Fenning, Image Engineering (first nominated 2004)

• Carl Hannigan, Precision Projection Systems (first nominated 2004)

• Steve Heminover, Aura Technologies (first nominated 2004)

• Chris Matthews, Laser Creations Int'l. (first nominated 2004)

• Dick Sandhaus, Science Faction (first nominated 2004)

To renominate someone, contact ILDA's Executive Director by the 31 March 2010 deadline.

Judging process

All nominations received by the 31 March 2010 deadline, plus the "automatic" nominees, will be submitted to the CAA judges. Judging will take place in spring 2010. And, at the 2010 ILDA Conference, the winner of the 2010 Career Achievement Award will be announced.