News: Deadline of "Awakening World Awards" extended to April 8, 2012
received from Bita Mesbah

see competition website

I have some news about Awakening World Awards. The festival is being well recieved and we are really excited about it. This caused to extend the submission deadline from 29th March to 8th April, 2012. The jury members in each section are announced on the website. Besides we have especial guests in each section whom are of the global masters. In the cartoon section we are honored to welcome Hicabi Demirci from Turkey and Maria do Socorro Rodrigues from Brazil while the jury members are Bahram Azimi ( Iran),Kambiz Derambakhsh (Iran),Masoud Ziaei Zardekhashoei (Iran),Marcio Leite(Brazil),Sorcinelli Giovanni (giox) (Italia). In the poster section we have the great chance of welcoming U.G. Sato as one of our jury members, and Alexander Faldin (Russia), Mostafa Assadollahi (Iran), Ebrahim Haghighi (Iran), Mostafa Goudarzi (Iran). We are going to hold two exhibitions in the poster section. One is a selection of the works by Chaz Maviyane-Davis who can not attend the festival himself. Another exhibition is dedicated to the works by Pekka Loiri who will attend the festival himself. The photography section has a jury team consisting of Ebrahim Hatamikia (Iran), Seyed Abbas Mirhashemi (Iran),Farzad Hashemi (Iran), Michel Setboun (France) and Shahidul Alam (Bangladesh). Our guest in the photography section is David Burnett. Other details are annonced on the website. Bita Mesbah