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2012 ILDA Awards: Entries and instructions
 

ILDA Awards deadline has passed

The 2012 ILDA Awards deadline was 31 March 2012. A list of entries received to date is below. The remainder of the page (after the list of entries) contains the instructions for the 2012 ILDA Awards entries. Although the deadline has passed, the instructions may still be of interest.

2012 Entries

The following entries have been received as of Wednesday, 25 April 2012. 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. All entries are OK and complete unless there is a specific notation in red.

• Collimated

• Effect Ses Işik Lazer ve Görüntü Sistemleri

• ER Productions

• HB Laser

• Kvant

• LaserAnimation Sollinger

• Laser Design Productions

• Laser Entertainment

• LaserNet (Laser Production Network)

• Laser Show Design

• Laser Spectacles

• Lasertainment

• Laservision (Australia)

• Lighting Systems Design Inc.

• Lightline Lasertechnik

• Lightwave International

• LOBO

• Orion-Art Multimedia (first entries received!)

• Pangolin Laser Systems

• Planetarium Hamburg

• Prolight (Croatia)

• Quantum Satis Media (original + backup duplicate)

• Scenes

• Strictly FX

Artistic and Technical entries by categories

Nominees for 2012 Career Achievement Award

• Tom Harman, LaserNet (Laser Production Network)
• Olesya Kazantseva, Laser Artist Co. Ltd.
• Cory Simpson, LFI/Lightspeed/KOHR
• John Tilp, Laser Images

ILDA Members will be able to vote for the candidates later this spring. Notification that voting is open will be done on the ILDA List; voting will be by email ballot sent to ILDA.

Instructions

This page is for ILDA Members who wish to enter the 2012 ILDA Awards. You may enter laser shows produced or performed between 28 February 2011 and 31 March 2012. Winners of these awards will be announced and presented at the ILDA Awards Banquet during the 2012 ILDA Conference scheduled for San Antonio.

There are three main awards categories: Artistic, Technical, and Career Achievement Award. The deadline for entering all three Awards is Saturday, 31 March 2012. 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.

2013 Awards deadline also announced

The deadline for 2013 will be Sunday, 31 March. Please plan on videotaping any shows during 2012 that you want to enter in the 2013 Awards.
 

ILDA Artistic Awards
Deadline: Saturday, 31 March 2012

The 2011 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.

Major changes for 2012

• Changed the word “rave” to “music festival”. While work presented at raves is still acceptable, “music festival” is a broader term with fewer negative connotations.
• Changed the requirements for video files. We now accept MP4 and MOV formats ONLY. Do NOT submit older video formats.
• Limited the video file pixels and size. The maximum video pixel dimensions are 1280 x 720. The maximum video file size is 100 MB. If your video is larger, you MUST decrease the pixel dimensions and/or use stronger compression in order to keep the file size below 100 MB.
• Added more “Tips for Better Video”. Too many entries have second-rate video and/or audio. This is due to poor equipment, poor adjustments on the equipment, and poor technique. To help improve this, we have added additional tips in a box on page 7.
• Added checklists to the Member Form and the Entry Form. The checklists will help entrants and ILDA have “clean” entries with fewer problems than in previous years.
• Color-coded the Member Form and the Entry Form. The Member Form uses black headings and borders; this form is filled out one time (for all entries). The Entry Form now uses blue headings and borders; this form is filled out once for each entry.

Deadline for entering

Entries must be mailed or shipped to ILDA on or before Saturday, 31 March 2012 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: Saturday, 31 March 2012

The 2012 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 Saturday, 31 March 2012 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: Saturday, 31 March 2012

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:

Between 1 January 2012 and Saturday, 31 March 2012 (at 11:59 pm your local time), you may email one or more nominations for the Career Achievement Award.

Who may be nominated

You can nominate any person 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 achievements, 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 is confidential; no one will be told who made the nomination.

Automatic entries for 2012

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 2012:

• Olesya Kazantseva, Laser Artist Co. Ltd. (first nominated 2010)

• Cory Simpson, LFI/Lightspeed/KOHR (first nominated 2007)

• 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 via e-mail to ILDA's Executive Director by the Saturday, 31 March 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)

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

• Dick Sandhaus, Science Faction (first nominated 2004)

• Bernd Steinert, spectrabeam.de (first nominated 2006)

To renominate someone, email to ILDA's Executive Director by midnight, your local time, Saturday, 31 March 2012.

Judging process

All nominations received by the 31 March 2012 deadline, plus the "automatic" nominees, will be submitted to the CAA judges. Judging will take place in spring 2012. And, at the 2012 ILDA Conference, the winner of the 2012 Career Achievement Award will be announced.