The Radar Festival, which gave new directors the chance to make videos for label tracks and win awards, is now launched as Radar Music Videos with a social networking site that promises a “revolution in music video commissioning.”

RadarMusicVideos.com is designed to give emerging filmmakers the chance to make music videos for labels and unsigned artists. Budgets will be involved for all commissions.

Radar’s founder Caroline Bottomley says the site adds a new level for entry-level directors. “There are many small labels and zillions of unsigned bands these days and they all need videos. We can help them get made, and then help promote them.”

Labels and unsigned bands can invite pitches on Radar according to their brief and budget then get extensive promotion through Radar’s networks on YouTube, MySpace and Facebook. Radar is also inviting label commissions and continues to run fully managed competitions for clients.

RadarMusicVideos.com

a simple way for bands, labels and filmmakers to connect online to make music videos.

Joe Bateman - Director of the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival. He has over 10 years experience in film festivals, programming and event organising and has resided on judging panels for a number of short film festivals and initiatives. 

Todd Eckert - renowned film producer and music journalist. Nominated for BAFTA Film Award for co-producing “Control”, film about Ian Curtis and Joy Division.

Jo Hartley - actress known for her critically acclaimed roles in This Is England and Dead Man’s Shoes. She played the lead in last year’s ThinkSync Films winner, Tom Marshall’s “bigboy_74”

John Hassay - award-winning independent music video commissioner who has delivered cutting edge promos for Fatboy Slim, The Streets, Eric Pydez, Basement Jaxx, Bloc Party and Maximo Park, as well as Managing Director of celebrated music video production company Colonel Blimp.

Miranda Sawyer - distinguished journalist and broadcaster. A feature writer for The Observer. Her writing appears in GQ, Vogue and The Guardian and was a member of the judging panel for the 2007 Turner Prize.

Iain Smith - film producer, editor and director, most famous for his role as producer of Hollywood blockbusters such as Seven Years in Tibet and The Fifth Element.

Andrew Weatherall - DJ, producer, and remixer. Originator of Warp Records Artist Two Lone Swordsmen, producer of Beth Orton, Primal Scream and One Dove, Remixer of Björk, Siouxsie, The Orb, New Order, My Bloody Valentine, Bananarama, Saint Etienne, James and many others.

We are delighted to announce our new partnership with Shooting People, the biggest UK and US indie filmmaking community with over 34,000 members.

ALL entrants to Thinksync Film competition will receive a years free membership to shootingpeople.com (existing members will receive a years extension)

Additionally, to launch the new partnership, ThinkSync Music will be offering Shooting People members access to their vast catalogue of music from various independent labels for use in their short films outside of the competition. Each month, five new tracks will be made available via shootingpeople.com.

The site will launch in April 2008.

Last November, to coincide with the ThinkSync Films competition 2008, MTV2 did a 120 minute ThinkSync Special focusing on independent music in independent film. They showcased some of our shortlisted films from the last 2 years alongside interviews with the judges and filmmakers amid a selection of celebrated artistic music videos.

We have a selection of short clips from the show here