Got an idea for an innovative short interactive project?

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and ARTE are issuing an international call for submissions for short online interactive experiences, in a new collaboration called Interactive Haiku.

Memes, Vines and Buzzfeed are all formatted for the digital age, where users tend to consume things quickly. Yet brief experiences aren’t synonymous with an absence of quality or depth: the short format of haiku poetry offers a perfect example.

Interactive Haiku aims to bring the brevity and richness of the haiku to the online realm, through projects
that explore the possibilities of the short interactive format. To help guide applicants, organizers have offered these 10 rules:

1. The experience should be 60 seconds long.
2. It should inspire us to see the world we live in differently.
3. Only one interactive concept should be used.
4. It should employ a full browser design with common “NFB/ARTE” header.
5. No navigation menu should be used.
6. Project must include sound.
7. It should be understandable and accessible to an international audience.
8. Project creators must own or have released all rights.
9. Must be computer, tablet and mobile friendly (iOS, Android and Windows).
10. And because there’s always an exception to the rule: break one of the creative rules 1 through 7
and explain why.

Twelve proposals will be selected.

Applicants can register on website & have until August 19, 2014, @12pm EST.