REDUCTION FESTIVAL SEEKS
COMPETITORS - PRIZES UP FOR GRABS!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Needed! Filmmakers to take
part in 7 day filmmaking challenge. Top Prize
= £2000.Reduction
Festival is a new arts
festival based in Sheffield which is entirely
dedicated to environmental/green content. In
year 1, the festival is focusing exclusively
on short film and is open to submissions from
around the world for the Online Jury Prize
(£1000 top prize).The 24/7 filmmaking
challenge pairs up environmental issues/ideas
suggested by our sponsors with filmmakers or
filmmaking groups who then have exactly 7 days
to produce as creative a short film as possible
about that issue. The winners, as decided by
our panel of expert judges, will be awarded £2000
and a
recycled trophy that will make their mums
exceedingly proud.
.The event is taking
place in October, but we need filmmakers
to start signing up now."This is an
excellent opportunity for UK filmmakers
to become involved with an emerging
grassroots movement" says Ed Cartledge
of Sort Of...Films Ltd, the company
responsible the event's inception. "The
project has the potential to provide a
huge amount of publicity for and excitement
around the UK's environmental
agenda and specific organisations in support
of the agenda. This is a unique,
environmentally sustainable opportunity
to engage minds and raise awareness
AND action".
Richard Keenan of The Environment Room
who are partnering with
Sort Of...Films to deliver the project
asks "If
there are any companies,
organisations or individuals out there
who want to get involved in this, we'd
be
happy to hear from you. We want the festival,
and particularly the time-based
filmmaking project, to reflect the environmental
hopes, fears and challenges
faced by the UK and so we've come up
with an exciting sponsorship structure
to
make sure this happens...""The
involvement of sponsors is key" agrees
Ed "not
just in terms of making the event happen
financially, but for content as well.
By
having the filmmaking teams working to
a sponsor's brief, we are bringing
businesses, institutions and creative
individuals together and seeing what
impact
these kinds of spontaneous collaborations
can have. Perhaps we could file this
under 'social experiment' as well."
The
pair have big plans for the future of
the
festival but for the time being, all
their energy is focused on making the
inaugural
year a success. With 24 sponsors and
24 filmmaking teams, not to mention the
expected flood of online submissions
there will be a lot happening - much
of it
focused around the Showroom Cinema, which
will holding the opening and
closing events, as well as screening
a series of environmentally themed feature
films throughout the last weekend of
the festival.All information is available
on the
festival website at www.reductionfestival.org,
as are further details about
submissions and the aims of the event.For
more information please contact the
Reduction Festival office on the details
below. Also included within this Press
Pack are festival logos, web images, and
a diary of dates.Reduction Festival
C/O
Sort Of... Films
The Site Gallery
1 Brown Street
Sheffield
S1 2BS0114 213 2200
WANT
TO MAKE A £100,000
MOVIE?
The Movie Mogul Fund
'®Micro Movie Lab'
competition to a create a user-generated feature
film has entered its exciting third phase entitled ®The
Director and Producer Call.
We are looking for one Producer and one Director
to make the Micro Movie Lab user-generated
feature film NEGOTIATING LIFE, and invite members
to video pitch their submissions, in accordance
with the briefs below.
The Directors Brief
Title: THE NEGOTIATOR
Duration: 1 minute max
Brief An entertaining fictional film which
showcases the Directors storytelling ability.
The Producers Brief
Title: MAKING IT
Duration: 1 minute max
Brief: A documentary/diary film which features
YOU - the Producer at work ¡making things
happen¡.
You will need to demonstrate talent, flair,
creativity, innovation, resourcefulness and
dogged determination to make a movie as your
pitch will face a public vote in the first
instance. Even if you win, it¡s going
to be a tough challenge!
You must be able to assure the online funding
community that you can deliver an earth-shatteringly
brilliant movie on a shoestring budget, so
some relevant and demonstrable experience is
necessary.
The top ten most popular submissions will
be subject to a Jury decision as in previous
rounds of the competition. Deadline Sept 30th
08. The Directors Brief prizes: Full directorial
responsibility and credit
Share in films profits
1 year Animoto membership
Hollywood Camera Work DVD box set
®The Producers Brief prizes:
Full producer responsibility and credit
Share in films profits
1 year Animoto membership
1 year NPA membership
The online fundraise will take place in Nov/Dec
2008.
MICRO MOVIE LAB
Press Release
www.moviemogulfund.com
Copyright Movie Mogul Ltd 2008
Movie Mogul Ltd, Saint Line House, Mount Stuart
Square, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5LR
Tel: +44(0)29 20444203 Email: john@moviemogulfund.com
Web: www.moviemogulfund.com
Berlinale Talent Campus,
part of the 59th Berlin International Film
Festival
...is now open for applications from emerging
filmmaking talent from around the
world.The campus will take place between the
7 and 12 February 2009.Berlinale
Talent Campus is an amazing opportunity for
professional networking and
includes a combination of practical learning
as well as masterclasses with some
of the biggest names in the business.Skillset,
an Official Partner of the Berlinale
Talent Campus since 2005, delivers one of
the campus' highlights, the global
speed matching events and 'meet the experts'
as part of the programme, plus
more.For full details on the application process
and the programme for 2009,
please click on the link below:Apply now for
the Berlinale Talent Campus #7:
http://www.berlinale-talentcampus.de/story/66/1866.html
The
deadline for
applications is 8 October 2008.Check these
pages regularly for updates on what
other activities we will be hosting in 2009.
Apply
to Crossover Labs!
Crossover is a unique series of creative
laboratories
designed to explore the creative and commercial
challenges of developing
content and services for digital media
Crossover Docs will be held from 5-10
October and applications (deadline 8 Sept)
are being accepted from
documentary makers, games producers, animators,
new media producers and
people working in all other media forms
24 selected participants will attend the
lab and pitch their ideas in the Crossover
Pitch at Doc/Fest for the chance to win
a development prize of 10k
For more info & to apply, go to
www.crossoverlabs.org / www.sheffdocfest.com
Movie Deal! Screenplay Competition: Open for
Submissions
This new
screenplay competition offers an exciting
Production deal to the grand prize
winner. Movie Deal! are looking for an original,
innovative, yet marketable idea
that could garner the success of the hits
'Napoleon Dynamite,' 'The Blair Witch
Project,' or 'Open Water.' It doesn't matter
what genre, it just has to be INDIE
and INTERESTING!
Entries to The Movie Deal! are invited in
10 categories for
feature length genres, as well as TV pilots,
and short films.
For further
information, go to: www.TheMovieDeal.com
FourDocs
Bursary Scheme
FourDocs is launching a brand new bursary
scheme
to help filmmakers professionally finish
their short documentary films. They'll
be
awarding three bursaries of £1000 to
people who have already started making a
documentary intended for film festivals.
Films can be any length up to 30
minutes, and it's up to you to decide how
to spend the money. It could be used
to hire a professional editor, get a sound
mix and grade or other production
costs such as archive and music, or gathering
additional footage.
For Further
information, go to:
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/F/fourdocs/bursaries/index.html
Deadline: 12th October 2008
DepicT! '08: Call for Submissions
Now in its tenth year, this ultra-short
film
competition is on the hunt for emerging
filmmakers who can take imagination,
style, emotion, drama, mystery, humour
and passion and pack them into one
captivating 90 second mini-movie. We love
all kinds of films, from live action to
animation, documentary to experimental,
as long as they're distinctive, fresh and
engaging. If your film is short-listed,
not only will your film get priceless industry
exposure through screening at Encounters
Short Film Festival, but you'll be
eligible to win a range of prizes geared
to help you with your career.
-First
Prize: £2000 cash
-NFTS DepicT! Special Mention Prize: a place
on a short
course at the National Film and Television
School in 2009, including travel
bursary
-Shooting People DepicT! Audience Award:
a lifetime membership
to and bundle of goodies from Shooting
People
All shortlisted filmmakers
will also receive an Encounters Network Delegate
pass with all the trimmings,
including a place on the popular Encounters
Film School, opportunities for travel
bursaries to attend the festival and
a one-year membership to Shooting People
For more information and to submit your
film, visit http://www.depict.org
Deadline
for submissions: Mon 8 Sept '08
Glimmer -
Hull International Short Film Festival:
Call for submissions
Glimmer:
The 7th Hull International Short Film Festival
is now accepting submissions for its
next edition which will take place from
21st-26th April 2009. Glimmer, the
largest
short film festival in the North of
England, is looking for innovative
and exciting
films from across the globe of any genre
that run up to a maximum of 45
minutes.
After last year's decision to charge
for entry, Glimmer is instituting a
unique system of submission fees for
its 2009 edition: it will allow those
submitting films to decide how much that
they are willing to pay to enter their
films into the festival .
Full information on submitting films
to Glimmer, go to:
www.hullflm.co.uk.
Deadline for submissions: 6th February
2009
FIRST
LIGHT MOVIES STUDIO AWARD: Call for Submissions
First light
Movies Studio Award is now open for submissions.
With First Light Movies
Studio Award organisations with experience
in collaborative filmmaking with
young people can apply for up to £30,000
to fund the production of between
two
and four short films. The more imaginative
the film ideas are the more
favourably an application will be looked
upon by the assessors, providing you
match up to the basic criteria.
For further information, go to:
http://www.firstlightmovies.com/funding/
Deadline for applications: 16 September
2008
UK's LEADING TALENT DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
Think-Shoot-Distribute
- The Times BFI London Film Festival¹s elite professional development
scheme is looking for 25 experienced
and emerging filmmakers seeking to develop
their feature film career.
Successful applicants producers,
screenwriters and directors - will take part
in a 5-day programme held at The Hospital
during the Festival in October in which they
will meet with leading film professionals
in a series of workshops and master-classes
exploring the international film industry
- from financing to exhibition. Participants
then join the T-S-D network of over 100 alumni
who meet bi-monthly at the BFI Southbank.
Previous guest speakers have included Stephen
Frears, Tessa Ross, Paul Webster, plus executives
from BBC Films, Film4, Lionsgate, Working Title,
Universal Pictures and DNA Films. Previous
participants have gone on to be BAFTA nominated
and three 2007 participants were selected as
Screen International 'Stars of Tomorrow 2008'.
Think-Shoot-Distribute is supported by Skillset
and Film London and sponsored by Adobe. Deadline
for applications is 5.00pm, September 16.
Further details and application forms: www.bfi.org.uk/thinkshootdistribute
Email: tsd08@bfi.org.uk
About Films has £100,000
on offer to Independent Producers Seeking
Finance for their Feature or Documentary
About films is seeking creative excellence
within the UK film industry. We will invest
a total of GBP 100,000, which will be split
between a feature film and a documentary that
is uniquely innovative and will enthral a worldwide
audience.
In addition to financing the projects, About
Films will guide the Producers through the
mind field of deliverables and help to create
a marketing pack for the festival circuit.
About Films will not only
take on the international sales of the project,
ensuring it's global success, but we will also
give the successful Producers the chance to
add their future projects to the About Films
slate, such an offering has never been seen
before in UK so make sure you apply early!
Go to http://www.aboutfilms.com/initiative.html
for more information on how to apply.
Channel 4's Comedy Lab -
OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS
"Thank the Baby Jesus for Channel 4's
Comedy Lab, the only real showcase for original
comedy on terrestrial television." - The
Observer.
Comedy Lab is a late night comedy slot on
Channel 4 to provide a showcase for new writers
and performers. It takes an original approach
to traditional comedy and features experimental
pieces that don't fit any of the established
entertainment strands.
Ideally, projects will be submitted via a
production company - but if you don't have
the necessary contacts feel free to submit
direct to Channel 4. You'll need a full script
and whatever supportive material you can compile
- such as artwork, show-reels, cast suggestions
and sample content on VHS/DVD.
What you get
The chance to showcase your comic talents to
millions of people on national television.
What more could you possibly want?
No but seriously, then what?
Having shown your talent to the nation, there's
no stopping you. The Comedy Lab has launched
the careers of performers including Dom Joly,
Peter Kay, and Jimmy Carr with series such
as Trigger Happy TV, Phoenix Nights, Los
Dos Bros and The Last Chancers. As Jimmy
Carr himself says: "The Comedy Lab is
godsend for comedians who would never otherwise
have a half-hour slot on television. Dom
Joly, Peter Kay and myself all owe a lot
to the fact that it nurtured our talent at
an early stage."
Deadline
Applications for Comedy Lab's 2009 season are
now open
Deadline for applications: 31 October 2008.
Find out more at channel4.com/comedylab
4MATIONS - CALL FOR UPLOADS
Be amongst the first to upload and put yourself in prime position to be eligible
for a cash reward and have thousands of eyeballs watching...Those Hip Young
gunslingers at 4mations are looking for all animated submissions for online
exhibition. 4mation have been proactive in commissioning pieces for the internet,
most of which are now in production, so there are plenty of opportunities to
get your work noticed and potentially developed further.
For more information, or to upload your animation, please visit:
http://www.4mations.tv
Kaos Films BSSC award:
call for submissions
Kaos Films, the founder of the internationally
celebrated British Short Screenplay Competition
(BSSC) is inviting writers from across the
world to enter the British Feature Screenplay
Competition.
Kaos Films has long been the champion for aspiring
film making talent through associations with
the National Film and Television School and
The John Brabourne Awards.
Over the last eight years the winning entries
of the BSSC have been shot around the world
and have won best film accolades in international
film festivals. The finalists of the BSSC have
been judged by an unprecedented panel which
includes: Kenneth Branagh, Sir Alan Parker,
Michael Kuhn, Nik Powell, Natascha Wharton
and Stephen Woolley.
For further information and entry details,
please visit:
http://www.kaosfilms.co.uk
Deadline for submissions: September 12th 2008
Sheffield Doc/Fest's MeetMarket
is now open for Project Submissions!
Doc/Fest presents the
UK's biggest international documentary marketplace
and its unique pitching initiative: MeetMarket
where, in pre-scheduled match-made one-on-one
meetings, documentary makers pitch their
newest and most unique projects to dozens
of UK and international buyers, Executive
Producers, commissioning editors and distributors.
MeetMarket provides high quality, original
ideas with the possibility to be fast-tracked
from development to production, in a supportive
and dynamic setting. The projected worth of
sales in negotiation sparked at MeetMarket
2007 adds up to £4,321,980, and rising.
MeetMarket is a unique and exciting way to
pitch and discuss the projects you're most
passionate about with the documentary decision-makers
who matter.
Online project submissions are now open. Projects
can be at any stage of development and applicants
can be from any geographic location and background.
Interactive and cross-platform projects are
also very welcome. The deadline for project
submissions is September 12th. To see the full
list of confirmed buyers, see www.sheffdocfest.com/view/buyerslist
. For more information on applying, email charlie@sidf.co.uk
or visit www.sheffdocfest.com/view/meetmarket
Cinema Extreme: Call for
Submissions
Cinema Extreme, Britain's Oscar winning short
film scheme, is now open for applications.
Co-financed by the UK Film Council's New Cinema
Fund and Film4, Cinema Extreme seeks out and
develops filmmakers with a distinctive directorial
voice and cinematic flair. This unique director-led
short film scheme, managed by independent production
company The Bureau is now in its sixth year.
Twenty-three films have been commissioned
to date. They have been shown at festivals
around the world and won numerous awards including
the Edinburgh International Film Festival's
Best Short Award for Duane Hopkins' Love Me
or Leave Me Alone and the Oscar for Best Short
Film for Andrea Arnold's Wasp.
In 2008/09 Film4 and the UK Film Council
will select and fully finance up to 4 short
films. The maximum budget per short film
will be £50,000. This year they will
be onsidering scripts and one page ideas.
In addition the UK Film Council's Development
Fund and Film4 will offer one of the filmmakers
commissioned by Cinema Extreme 2008/09 the
opportunity to develop their feature to first
draft.
For further details, FAQ's or to download
the guidelines and application forms please
visit:
http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/extreme
http://www.thebureau.co.uk/schevents/index.html
Deadline for applications:
12th September 2008
Horrorfest 2008 - Be Afraid.
Be Very Afraid!
Your chance to win a holiday for 2, Avid software
or an XBOX 360 as part of propellertv's search
for the scariest horror short. Following
the huge success of propellertv's first ever
short film festival, ShortFest, we are now
launching a brand new competition to find the
most horrifying short.To get involved all you've
got to do is send in your horror short (no
longer than 10 mins) to Horrorfest, Propeller
TV, C/O Screen Yorkshire, Leeds, LS2 7EY, UK
before Friday 12th September, 2008, along with
a propellertv submission form which you can
download from;http://www.propellertv.co.uk/Contributetofilmfirst.aspx.
All entries to 'HorrorFest'
will be broadcast on propellertv over Halloween
(subject to terms and conditions).Judging the
films will be James Mullighan, Creative Director
of Shooting People and makers of cult film
The Zombie Diaries, Kevin Gates and Michael
Bartlett.Amongst the prizes on offer are a
weeks holiday for 2 courtesy of Jet2holidays.com,
Avid Media Composer software (worth £2000), an XBOX
360, XBOX 360 games, Raindance Film courses
and many more.
Carole Dove, Managing Director
enthused, 'It's with great excitement
that we are launching our very first short
horror competition. There's some fantastic
prizes on offer and to have such highly-regarded
judges on board is an added bonus. She
added, 'It will be great to see the entries
broadcast on propeller'. Michael Bartlett (producer
of Award winning horror film, Zombie
Diaries), said, 'I think this is a great competition
to find the scariest horror film in the
UK. I'm looking forward to watching and judging
the films'. For more information please
contact john@propellertv.co.uk
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