Alt-w, the annual award scheme set up to support Scottish creative entrepreneurial talent and the creation of web-based and interactive digital innovation is pleased to announce the successful award-winners for 2004.

David Bernard, Gareth Ennis, Simon Fildes, Hoss Gifford, Sam Hill, Riccardo Iacono, Minttu Mantynen, Holger Mohaupt, Iain Morrision, Euan Sutherland, Andrew Tullis have all been successful in being granted awards.

Open to Scottish-based researchers, designers and producers within the creative industries, awards were given to recent graduates and established producers in the fields of software design, visual arts, design and interactive film production.

As well as 11 production awards, 4 projects by Kris Bird & Kerry Mullaney, Fergus C Murray, Martin Parker and Maus Sulter have received development funding to research technical viability and commerical potential.

Reflecting the diversity of new media work across Scotland, this year's projects are wide-ranging: tartan-generating software, a digital mosaic that links remote Highland communities, to non-linear web-cast film narratives and sound software generation.

Jointly supported by Scottish Screen, Dundee City Council, Scottish Enterprise Tayside, Dundee College and the Universities of Dundee and Abertay, Alt-w is a scheme that offers the unique opportunity for media producers to take time out to invent and to raise the international profile of Scotland's new media industry.

If you want to find out more about applying to Alt-w or you want to see what previous award-winners have produced, take a look at the Alt-w website, details below. The next round of applications will be December 2004.

Contact: Susannah Silver
Phone: 07904 375 355
Email: info@alt-w.com
Url: www.alt-w.com