Deadline for submissions July 15, 2008
Nation Beat and Modiba Productions are hosting an animation contest in conjunction with Nation Beat’s highly anticipated upcoming album, Legends of the Preacher (July 15, 2008). Entrants are asked to submit 60-90 second animated music video shorts featuring a track of their choice. Modiba has offered files from the album's original artwork featuring the band members as cartoon characters. Vector character models are provided in .FLA format, and will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, so that they can be used in animated videos by contestants. In addition to the $500 cash prize, the winning video will be featured on Nation Beat and Modiba's websites, myspace pages, and a variety of other media outlets coinciding with the record release
How To Enter:
• Download an AIF of a song, and character models of the band already imported into Flash.
• To submit your entry, simply post the video to youtube.com and send an email with the youtube link to info@modiba.net
• The winner, announced on July 18th through an eblast to Modiba’s mailing list with a link to their winning video, will receive a $500 cash prize and a high level of exposure for their video coinciding with the album release in a variety of media outlets including the band and label’s websites and myspace.
Download Song clips and models:
A Cowboy In Brazil | A Onde Tem Cerveja | A Vida | Coroa Imperial | I'm So Lonesome | Nago Nago | Salve Ze | Sobe A Poeira
Character models
Styled characters for reference
FULL LYRICS - translated in English
About Nation Beat
“A revelation: the most alluring and original fusion band I’ve heard in years!”
-Banning Eyre, NPR
Inspired by the Afro-Brazilian rhythms of maracatu, the foremost diasporic band of the Mangue Beat movement of Northeast Brazil, Nation Beat has created an infectious new sound. Which nation, and which beat? What makes this group special is that it offers no simple answers. They are rhythm gatherers, harvesting the fruit of 500 years of cultural cross-breeding, which is why the sounds of the northeast of Brazil and the southern United States blend together so seamlessly. In 2005, Nation Beat became the first North American group to collaborate and record with an authentic maracatu "Nation," the legendary Estrela Brilhante of Recife, Brazil. Their highly anticipated album “Legends of the Preacher,” produced by Modiba Productions and featuring three mesmerizing collaborations with 2007 GRAMMY award winners The Klezmatics, is due out July 15, 2008. 10% of proceeds from Nation Beat’s Legends of the Preacher will be donated to Corpos Percussivos, an organization dedicated to uplifting the underprivileged children of Recife, Brazil through music, art, education and culture.