Bjork is calling on fans to make the video for her new song ‘Innocence.’A post on Bjork’s official website is calling upon the help of any budding video makers:

The idea is to make the video. The video to Innocence, a song of yet to be released Volta record. Who is to make the video? Another idea is born: It is to be you, my dear!

Those interested are directed to the contest page where you can get all the necessary details, including the song lyrics and photographs.

All entries are to be submitted by early July, when the best ones will be judged for inclusion.

The Detroit Metro Visitor & Convention Bureau, or DMCVB, would like to give up $10,000 to a videographer that can put together a 2 to 4 minute video podcast that creatively and positively captures one of Detroit’s strong suites: cars, culture, gaming, music or sports. The visitors bureau wants to reach 21 to 34-year-olds, and what better way than to get into their iPods?

The Detroit video podcast must be between two to four minutes long, and the creator/s must be 18 or older. The 2 to 4 minute video podcast must creatively and positively capture at least one of these five major categories: cars, culture, gaming, music and sports.

To enter your video podcast, the DMCVB asks you to complete the online registration form and follow directions for uploading your video entry on YouTube.com by April 20, 2007.

A panel of judges assembled by the DMCVB will select one winner by May 4, 2007, and that winner will be notified no later than May 18, 2007. The winning podcast will be incorporated in the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau’s marketing campaign.

Ithaca College has opened entries to high school and college students in the U.S. for the second annual CellFlix Festival. The contest challenges filmmakers with camera phones to create a 30-second film shot on a cell phone.

The 2007 CellFlix competition offers two $5,000 prizes. Judges consisting of Ithaca College alumni in media professions will blind judge the entries and determine the winner of one $5,000 Judges Prize; the second $5,000 prize sponsored by Texas Instruments Incorporated will go to the “Fan Favorite” CellFlix.

“Last year we were delighted that 178 students figured out how to shoot a cell-phone film; this time around, we expect thousands of fledgling directors from around the U.S. to pick up their camera phones and get creative,” said creator of the CellFlix Festival Dianne Lynch, dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College.

For inspiration, you can check out last years’ top ten.

“CellFlix was the first student film festival in the world for movies shot on cell phones. A year ago, that was revolutionary. Today, it’s just how things work,” said Lynch.

Entry deadline is April 1, 2007.

DivX today announced the first ever DivX Film Festival, an online video festival devoted to creativity, storytelling and improving digital media. Hosted on DivX Stage6 — an online video sharing community site — the contest invites veteran professionals and aspiring independent filmmakers to make their mark on the next generation of filmmaking.

The DivX Film Festival is currently accepting video submissions that contain the advanced features of DivX — including interactive menus, chapters, subtitles and multiple audio tracks. Content creators can use these features to offer audiences compelling digital content, complete with bonus commentary cut or subtitles to make it meaningful to a global audience.

Filmmakers may submit their DivX video entries in an array of genres, including animation, comedy, documentary, fiction and music. The final deadline for submissions is April 30, 2007. Prizes range from DivX Certified hardware and software bundles to US $5,000 cash, including a top of the line DivX Ultra Certified DVD player and digital camera that records DivX video.

“The DivX Film Festival empowers filmmakers to share their work in the highest level of visual quality — with the advanced features of the DivX file format — with other movie aficionados from all over the world,” said Darrius Thompson, CXO, Community and Internet, DivX, Inc. “We are excited to host this festival on Stage6, as we continue our mission to help content creators grow communities around their own unique brands.”

iStockphoto today announced Future Now!, the first iStockvideo contest, which will run until April 30, 2007.

Videographers are encouraged to submit original videos between 30 seconds and three minutes long, centered on today’s high-tech lifestyles, offering a perspective on our futuristic, gadget-driven lives.

Judging of videos entered in the “Funny” or “Not Funny,” categories will be done initially by the community and then narrowed to second and first place winners by a panel of industry judges. Winners will be announced in mid-May.

Two first-place winners will each receive a Panasonic AG-HVX200 camera, an 8-GB P2 card, accessory packs including a Kata HDV Camcorder case, plus one year’s membership to Pixel Corps, a dvGarage Power Pak with $1,100 worth of dvGarage training and software, and a dvGarage’s Conduit for Final Cut Pro 5.1.2.

Second place winners will receive Sony’s DSR-PD170 DV cameras and Kata Shell Camcorder cases. The top 12 entries in each of the two categories as judged by the community will receive 50 iStockphoto site credits. A panel of industry judges will choose the winners. (more…)