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BFI UNVEILS FUTURE PLAN FOR FILM 2012-17 - NEW HORIZONS FOR UK FILM

Increased investment for 3 strategic priorities:

- Education and Audiences

- Filmmaking

- Film Heritage

8.5 million children to have film education

1000 community centres to be equipped to show films digitally

Production and development funds for British films set to increase by 30% over next 5 years

10,000 British films digitised

A four week consultation opens today around the BFI’s proposals outlined in its five year Future Plan for Film 2012-17 New Horizons for UK Film. With Lottery funding for film increasing, the draft plan outlines how the BFI proposes to invest an expected total of £273m with an average yearly Lottery investment of £57m a year in film for the next five years. This equates to an average annual investment of £17m for Education and Audiences; £28.2m for supporting British film; £3m for Film Heritage and £1m for Research and Statistics, a £3m contingency and an 8% cost of delivery. The BFI has sets its sights on a new horizon for UK film with bold new proposals that will help the film industry outride the recession and give audiences across the country a better deal and more choice. Underpinning the BFI’s vision is a renewed commitment to the future – future generations of audiences, future generations of filmmaking, new ideas and future opportunities the digital revolution can bring. A year on from becoming the UK’s lead organisation for film, and in response to Lord Smith’s independent Review of Film Policy in January, the BFI has indentified its future strategic priorities:

Education and Audiences - includes:

Ensuring every child in the UK aged 5-19 (a potential 8.5million in 23,000 schools) has film and filmmaking as part of their education.
1 A Future for British Film – commissioned by the Dept for Culture, Media and Sport

A UK-wide film academy to spot and nurture the talent of the future giving 16- 19-year-olds, regardless of their background or where they live, a unique experience to work with and learn from film professionals.

A UK wide network of virtual and physical film hubs, probably based at
independent cinemas, with links to schools, film societies, film archives, rural and community cinemas.

Digital equipment installed in up to 1,000 community centres, village halls and other non-theatrical locations across the UK.

Supporting the future success of British film – includes:

Production and development funds for British films set to increase by 30% over 5 years.

Launching new talent development centres across the UK for writers, directors and producers in association with our partners

Helping the UK retain its competitive edge in the industry by equipping up to 5,000 a year of the UK’s work force with new skills via a new film training scheme that includes next generation skills such as special effects and digital production.

Film heritage – includes:
Working in partnership to unlock the UK’s film heritage for everyone to enjoy by digitising 10,000 British film titles that will transform our understanding of British cinema.

Greg Dyke, Chairman BFI said ‘We have set out a bold, long term vision for film that will genuinely make a difference to education, audiences and filmmakers and support the UK’s growth agenda by boosting jobs and the economy and stimulating inward investment and export. I would like to thank Lord Smith for his thorough Film Policy Review which has springboarded the BFI’s own Future Plan for Film.’

Amanda Nevill, Chief BFI said: ‘British creativity and talent is world class and our plan capitalises on that to help drive economic growth in the UK, support jobs and skills and incentivise new thinking and new ideas. But this plan is also about creating a new deal for audiences. This isn’t just about the next five years; long term the BFI wants people to have a lifelong relationship with film, both the next generation of audiences and filmmakers.’

The BFI wants to encourage as many voices as possible to contribute to the proposals and participate in this exciting new direction for British film as it launches a public consultation today via www.bfi.org.uk/future and at a series of BFI hosted events throughout the UK (see Notes to Editors).

FURTHER INFORMATION ON STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

Strategic priority 1

Expanding education opportunities and boosting audience choice across the UK.

Research shows that children who go to the cinema are three times more likely to be frequent cinema goers as adults, instilling a love of cinema going and an appetite for a broad range of film. The BFI’s aim is for film to be a part of every young person’s education in the UK, that young talent is nurtured and that those starting a career in film are supported. The BFI also wants to ensure that audiences have a greater choice of film available across multiple platforms.

The proposals include:

Creating UK-wide network of virtual and physical film hubs based at
independent cinemas and linking through to rural and community cinemas,
schools, film societies and film archives.

Financial support for cinemas across the UK to access a wider range of films to broaden audience choice out of London.

New Prints and Advertising (P&A) fund to support broader choice of films across the UK in cinemas and online.

New fund to support the UK’s international film festivals.

Initiatives to encourage more people to watch British film on digital platforms, including apps and VoD services.

Strategic priority 2

Supporting the future success of British film by investing in film development, production and skills The BFI is committed to backing new voices, new stories, new ideas and developing skills by increasing Lottery investment. The BFI aims to help enrich and diversify British film production and contribute to overall growth for the industry

by:

Increasing development emphasis on under-represented genres such as
animation, comedy, documentary, family and international co-productions.

2 Public online consultation open until midnight June 10th 2012

Invest in new and diverse talent to help deliver a 20% increase in underrepresented groups across the UK film sector.

An international strategy in which the BFI brings together partners including The British Film Commission, BBC Worldwide, The British Council, Film Export UK and BAFTA to work collaboratively to ensure and strengthen our position in the global film market place.

Restructuring of Lottery investment to reward success including investigating a joint venture.

Maintaining, monitoring and reviewing the BFI producer equity corridor.

Strategic priority 3

Unlocking the UK’s film heritage for everyone to enjoy The BFI’s aim is that eventually everyone across the UK’s will be able to access and enjoy the UK’s remarkable collection of film and TV. Alongside many significant collections, the BFI holds one of the most important film and TV collections in the world – the BFI National Archive - and is committed to keeping this archive safe for future generations and digitising a significant proportion of content in order that screen heritage can be used for education and accessed in venues and on multiple platforms. The key proposals include:

Giving everyone in the UK the opportunity to see their film heritage, and inspire the filmmakers of tomorrow by digitising 10,000 British film titles that will transform our understanding of British cinema and making them available to the public across different platforms.

Setting up a UK Register of Film Heritage to identify all British works, signpost where materials can be found and where rights are held.

New public/private sector partnerships to enable rights holders to digitisecontent

New creative and entrepreneurial partnerships to ensure access on pay per
view, subscription and multiple free platforms.

The BFI will be hosting a series of public consultation events on the proposals set out in New Horizons for Film across the UK at the following locations:

Sheffield - Wednesday 23 May, 13:30-16:00 Showroom, Cinema 2, 15 Paternoster Row,
S1 2BX

Bristol - Thursday 24 May, 13:30-16:00 Watershed, Cinema 1, 1 Canons Road,
Harbourside, BS1 5TX

Newcastle - Friday 25 May, 13:00-15:30 Tyneside Cinema, The Roxy, Pilgrim Street, NE1 6QG

Cardiff - Friday 25 May, 13:30-16:00 Chapter, Cinema 2, Market Road, Canton, CF5 1QE,

Birmingham - Monday 28 May, 13:30-16:00 mac, Cinema, Cannon Hill Park, B12 9QH,

Glasgow - Tuesday 29 May, 13:00-15:30, Glasgow Film Theatre, Cinema 2, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB

London - Wednesday 30 May, 10:30-12:30, BFI Southbank, NFT3, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT

Manchester - Thursday 31 May, 13:30-16:00 Cornerhouse, Annex, 70 Oxford Street, M1 5NH

Belfast - Friday 1 June, 13:00-15:30 Queen's Film Theatre, Cinema 1, 20 University Square, BT7 1PA

A consultation event aimed at the international film industry will be held at the Cannes Film Festival at the UK Film Centre on Monday 21st May at 11am -12.30pm.

You can fill in an online consultation here, if you are unable to attend an event:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/future/

PRESS CONTACTS:
Judy Wells, Head of Press and PR, BFI
Tel: 020 7957 8919/ 07984 180501 or email: judy.wells@bfi.org.uk

FULL DOC/FEST PROGRAMME IS ANNOUNCED!!

THE SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST 2012 FILM LINE-UP: 9 OUT OF 11 WORLD PREMIERES BRITISH; 11 EUROPEAN PREMIERES; 20 UK PREMIERES
http://sheffdocfest.com/

For five heady days in June, Doc/Fest films roll out across the city of Sheffield - into its cinemas, theatres, and, for 4 days of free outdoor screenings, at the Howard Street Screen. Doc/Fest's 19th edition will bring to Sheffield some of this year's documentary heavy-hitters in a programme that includes 83 feature docs (including 2 secret screenings), 10 outdoor screenings, plus 27 shorts and 4 cross platform films. Of the 11 world premieres, 9 are by UK filmmakers.

Says Hussain Currimboy, Doc/Fest Film Programmer, 'I'm really excited by the new talent that has emerged this year in documentary, especially from Britain. And very proud to have such big films about artists. In fact, 2012 feels like it's definitely the year of the artist inspired documentary.'

Alongside new docs from Penny Woolcock, Julien Temple, Phil Agland, Alison Klayman, Lucy Walker, Morgan Matthews, Sean McAllister, Eugene Jarecki, Ross McElwee, and Michael Grigsby, the 2012 Doc/Fest film programme celebrates the Russian pioneer of documentary filmmaking Dziga Vertov in a four film retrospective including: Man With a Movie Camera (1929), Enthusiasm (Symphony of the Donbass) (1931), Lullaby (1937) and Three Songs About Lenin (1934). From the BFI National Archive are two titles which capture peculiarities of Britain: Bill Morrisons's silent documentary The Miner's Hymns which celebrates the now-extinct mining industry, and the strong regional tradition of colliery brass bands, plus Philip Trevelyan and Richard Massingham's Roll Out the Barrel - The British Pub on Film - an intoxicating treasure trove of 19 shorts made between 1944 and 1982 devoted to that most traditional of national institutions: the public house which includes renowned German director Peter Nestler's documentary on leisure time of the workers who gather at the Dial House Club in A Working Men's Club in Sheffield (1965) which is presented in partnership with the Goethe-Institut.

The film programme is book-ended by two legends from the world of rock music and poetry: on Wed 13 June, the mysterious Mexican-American singer-songwriter Rodriguez - who was momentarily hailed in 1970, only to suddenly disappear into oblivion - will attend the European premiere of Searching for Sugar Man. Five days later Doc/Fest welcomes punk poet John Cooper Clarke to attend the screening of Evidently, John Cooper Clarke, which includes live footage from Sheffield's Leadmill, plus interviews with Jarvis Cocker, Bill Bailey, Arthur Smith, Mark Thomas and Billy Bragg. And in between Doc/Fest will screen the world premiere of Matt O'Casey's Quadropenia: Can You See the Real Me? featuring Pete Townsend revisiting the 'last great album The Who ever made', and on Sat 16 June the festival will welcome the rock doc master Julien Temple, hot-out-of-the editing room, for Glastopia, his latest behind-the-scenes look at the world's most famous music festival.

For the first time ever at Doc/Fest will feature a cross-platform interactive film produced by Sheffield Doc/Fest and Crossover. Directed by filmmaker Penny Woolcock using BFI National Archive footage of Britain's coast, From the Sea to the Land Beyond will play at Doc/Fest with a live musical score composed and performed by British Sea Power (Wed 13 June). Commissioned by The Space, the on-demand digital arts service developed by the Arts Council in partnership with the BBC, the interactive version will go online during Doc/Fest and allow delegates and visitors to edit from 100's of coastal clips in the BFI National Archive (and tracks from British Sea Power) to create a personalised video postcard from the piece of the UK coastline that is most dear to their heart.

Penny Woolcock will also receive Doc/Fest's Inspiration Award this year. Says Heather Croall, Festival Director 'I'm delighted that Penny Woolcock is the recipient of this year's Doc/Fest Inspiration Award, in recognition of her amazing achievements in documentary to date, coupled with her profound commitment to the subjects throughout her career'. The film programme will also screen Woolcock's One Mile Away, which tells the human side of gang violence in Birmingham.

One of the most powerful strands in 2012 is Resistance, is a potent cocktail of raw docs: Not A Carwash (UK premiere) by young filmmaker Gentian Koi is an explosive account of student revolt against the Albanian government's destruction of their film school. David France's highly crafted archival doc How to Survive a Plague (European premiere) depicts the struggle of the gay community throughout the last four decades to make the US government invest in anti HIV medication. Brian Knappenberger's We Are Legion: The Story of Hacktivists (European premiere) from the USA contextualises online activism, one of the most powerful yet misunderstood forms of protest, and Karim el Hakim and Omar Shagawi's _ Revolution (UK premiere) is a thrilling emotional roller coaster of 2011's Egyptian revolution seen through the eyes of a group of friends in living in the heart of Cairo. Within the sessions programme, Tim Poole, who became an overnight online phenomenon the night Occupy Wall Street was first evicted from Zuccotti Park in New York City, will attend the festival for Occupy Wall Street: Livestream This!, when he will talk about his live stream which drew more than 20,000 simultaneous viewers and 250,000 unique visitors throughout the course of the day.

Morgan Matthews, winner of not one but two Doc/Fest audience awards, returns with a snapshot of the UK in the world premiere of Britain in a Day and also his Seven Seven, a testimony based film exploring the London bombings on July 7th 2005.

Other returning Doc/Fest favourites include Yung Chang (Up The Yangtze) with China Heavyweight (UK premiere) about one of China's newest sporting passions - boxing; Anand Pathwardan (Father Son and Holy War) with the award-winning Jai Bhim Comrade (UK premiere) which the director worked on for 14 years and explores discrimination against the Dalits (also known as 'untouchables') in India. From the US Doc/Fest is delighted to welcome again Eugene Jarecki (Reagan) with his Sundance Grand Jury award winner The House I Live In which questions the futility of the USA's 'War on Drugs', and Stacy Peralta follow up to Dogtown and Z Boys with Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (European premiere) which tells the story of the first American skateboarders (featuring Tony Hawk) to make skateboarding world famous. Legendary autobiographical filmmaker Ross McElwee returns with another highly personal documentary close to his heart, Photographic Memory (UK premiere).

Of the 11 world premieres at Doc/Fest this year, 9 are from the UK. One is Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope's atmospheric Jaywick Escapes. Jaywick on the coast of Essex is a forgotten slice of Britain, that was once the favourite holiday destination for Eastenders, and is now officially Britain's most deprived place. Guthrie and Pope followed three Jaywick newcomers, drifters whose reasons to escape there are revealed over a year. Others include: Steve Read's Glory Road follows the fortunes of three Olympic British boxing hopefuls from Liverpool, the Bantamweight champion Jezza, Natasha who's planning to be one of the first women to compete, and Stalker who went from a life of crime to joining the GB men's world championship squad in Azerbaijan. Read goes on the road with these young Brits in the 1,000 day run-up to the London Olympics. Chopin Saved My Life, by UK director James Kent explores how one of Frederic Chopin's Ballade No. 1 has become an internet sensation and changed the lives of three ordinary people.

Three world premieres from UK filmmakers follow up previous projects: award-winning filmmaker Phil Agland revisits the Baka Pygmy family he filmed 25 years ago and explores how life has changed for the new generation in Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest; In We Went to War veteran British filmmaker Michael Grigsby's returns to Texas to discover what has become of the three young Vietnam veterans he filmed in 1971 in I Was A Soldier; and in Aluna, Alan Ereira continues to work with the KOGI a genuine lost civilization hidden above the Colombian-Caribbean coast, who Ereira first brought to TV screens in the 1990 doc From the Heart of the Word: The Elder Brothers Warning.

Two of this year's most fascinating characters hail from the art world. Matthew Akers' Sundance hit and Berlinale award winner Marina Abramovi: The Artist is Present (UK premiere) grants an unprecedented glimpse into the life of one of the world's most famous performance artists as she prepares for her biggest exhibition in New Yorks' MoMa. Ai Weiwei is China's most famous international artists and its most outspoken critic. In Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (European premiere) Alison Klayman tells the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics.

Other European premiere highlights include: A Fierce Green Fire by Oscar-nominated director Mark Kitchell which explores 50 years of the environmental movement; Catherine Scott's Scarlet Road starring Australian sex worker Rachel Wooten who works with people of disability who blossom under her loving touch; and Caveh Zahedi's The Sheik and I. Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of "art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi (I am a Sex Addict) goes overboard. Told that he can do whatever he wants except make fun of the Sheik, who rules the country and finances the Biennial, Zahedi decides to do just that, turning his camera on the Biennial itself. But his court jester antics fail to amuse. Zahedi's film is banned for blasphemy and he is threatened with arrest and a fatwa.

Two titles explore extreme rifts between religion and homosexuality: Set in Uganda where homosexuality is outlawed Malika Zouhali-Worrall's Call Me Kuchu (UK premiere), shows how American Christian evangelicals are implementing a 'kill the gays' bill, while in Macky Alston's Love Free or Die the Anglican Church's first openly gay bishop Gene Robinson asserts it is time to recognise that homosexuality and faith are not incompatible.

Through its unique pitching forum MeetMarket, Doc/Fest champions documentary film not just by showing them but also by helping to get docs made and seen. In this year's programme Doc/Fest will screen 15 projects that were nurtured by MeetMarket including the opening film Searching For Sugar Man and the world premiere of Jaywick Escapes. Other highlights include: Lost and Sound (European premiere) in which partially deaf filmmaker Lindsey Dryden follows three music lovers - alongside the world's leading neuroscientists - on a journey into sound and silence, as they attempt to re-discover music after deafness; from Palestine Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi's IDFA and Sundance award winning 5 Broken Cameras (UK premiere); and the IDFA prize winning (and hit at Tribeca) Planet of Snail, made by and about the deaf and blind filmmaker Young-Chan; and Looking for Sarkozy (UK premiere), William Karel's timely look at the ups-and- downs of the impulsive, and now former French president. More MeetMarket titles in the film programme are: Off Label; Putin's Kiss; The Punk Syndrome; Town of Runners; Law of the Jungle; The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song; The Reluctant Revolutionary; Ping Pong; and The Story of Film: An Odyssey.

In an Olympic year, the programme would not be complete without a great collection of sports docs. Marius Markevicius' The Other Dream Team (UK premiere) tells of Lithuania's Olympic basketball team's struggle for existence (aided by The Grateful Dead) in the height of the Cold War to gain triumph and recognition in the 1992 Barcelona games. This year's Oscar winner, Undefeated (European premiere) filmmakers Dan Lindsay and T.J Martin follow the Mannassas Tigers, a beleaguered American football team in their tumultuous season. Hugh Hartford's Ping Pong (European premiere) follows eight players from five countries preparing to compete for the over-80s Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia and last but not least, The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus (world premiere) tells the story of the real star of the 2010 World Cup - Paul the 'psychic' octopus who repeatedly picked the winning football team.

For further information contact:
Sarah Harvey Publicity:
Sarah Harvey, sarah@sarahharvey.info, 020 7232 2812, 07958 597426
Paul Smith,

List of Premieres:

WORLD (11):
Aluna (director Alan Eriera / UK 2011)
Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest (director Phil Agland / UK 2011)
Chopin Saved My Life (director James Kent / UK 2012)
From the Sea to the Land Beyond (director Penny Woolcock / UK 2012)
Fire in the Blood (director Dylan Mohan Gray / India 2012)
Glory Road (director Steve Read / UK 2012)
Quadrophenia: Can You See the Real Me? (director Matt OÕCasey / UK 2012)
Straight 8 (various / UK 2012)
The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus (director Alexandre Philippe / USA/Switz 2012)
We Went to War (director Michael Grigsby / UK/Ire 2012)
Jaywick Escapes (directors Karen Guthrie/Nina Pope / UK 2011)

EUROPEAN (17):
A Fierce Green Fire (director Mark Kitchell / United States 2012)
AI Weiwei: Never Sorry (director Alison Klayman / United States 2012)
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (director Stacy Peralta / United States 2012)
Chasing Ice (director Jeff Orlowski / United States 2012)
How to Survive a Plague (director David France / United States 2012)
Indie Game: The Movie (directors Lisanne Pajot/James Swirsky / Canada 2012)
High Tech, Low Life (director Steve Maing / United States 2012)
Lost & Sound (director Lindsey Dryden / UK 2012)
Scarlet Road (director Catherine Scott / Australia 2011)
Searching for Sugar Man (director Malik Bendjelloul / UK/Sweden 2011)
Sector Zero (director Nadim Mishlawi / Lebanon 2011)
Off-Label (directors Donal Mosher/Michael Palmieri / United States 2012)
Ping Pong (director Hugh Hartford / UK/Canada 2012)
The Bastard Sings The Sweetest Song (director Christy Garland / Denmark/Canada/Sweden 2012)
The Sheik and I (director Caveh Zahedi / UAE 2012)
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (director Brian Knappenberger / United States 2011)
Undefeated (directors Dan Lindsay/T.J. Martin / United States 2011)

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE (1):
Law of the Jungle (directors Michael Christoffersen/Hans la Cour / Denmark 2012)

UK (20):
ÁVivan Las - Antipodas! (director Victor Kossakovsky / Germany/Netherlands/Argentina/Chile 2011)
5 Broken Cameras (directors Guy Davidi/Emad Burmat / France/Israel/Palestine 2011)
1/2 Revolution (directors Karim el Hakim/Omar Shagawi / Denmark 2011)
Big Boys Gone BANANAS! (director Fredrik Gertten / Sweden 2011)
China Heavyweight (director Yung Chang / Canada/China 2012)
Call Me Kuchu (directors Malika Zouhali-Worrall/Katherine Fairfax Wright / United States 2012)
Hometown Boy (director Hung-I Yao / Taiwan 2011)
Italy: Love it, or Leave it (directors Gustav Hofer/Luca Ragazzi / Italy/Germany 2011)
Jai Bhim Comrade (director Anand Patwardhan / India 2011)
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet (director Jesse Vile / United States/UK 2011)
Going Up the Stairs (director Rokhsareh Ghaem MAghami / Iran 2011)
Looking for Nicolas Sarkozy (director William Karel / France 2011)
Maori Boy Genuis (director Pietra Brettkelly / New Zealand 2012)
Marina Abramovi: The Artist Is Present (director Matthew Akers / United States 2012)
Mark Lombardi - Death-Defying Acts Of Art And Conspiracy (director Mareike Wegener / Germany 2011)
Not A Carwash (director Gentian Koi / Albania 2012)
Photographic Memory (director Ross McElwee / United States/France 2011)
The Law in These Parts (director Ra'anan Alexandrowicz / Israel 2011)
The Other Dream Team (director Marius Markevicius / United States/Lithuania 2012)
The Punk Syndrome (directors Jukka KŠrkkŠinen/JP Passi / Finland 2012)

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ITV PROGRAMME LOOKING TO 'SURPRISE' SOMEONE!!

Hold on to your seats – The hit ITV show Surprise Surprise is back!

We are looking for people to nominate someone special in their community or to surprise a family member or friend… CONTACT US NOW!

After a decade away, the classic all-time favourite is back. And it’s bigger and bolder than ever before. Holly Willoughby will be surprising the nation and we want you to be part of it!

We are currently looking for people who deserve that special treat and this is your chance to make their dream come true.

We are looking for people right now, so don’t hesitate!

You’re about to change someone’s life forever….

Best wishes

Jessica Andrews

Team Surprise

Jessica Andrews | Researcher | ITV Studios | ITV plc

HIRE SUBSIDIZED TRAINEES VIA SKILLSET!

Check out our Trainee Placement Scheme which is run by The Skillset Craft and Technical Skills Academy!

Through the Scheme you are able to recruit up to 5 subsidised film trainees per production in the following departments: Art Department, Camera, Costume & Wardrobe, Editing, Hair and Make-up, Script Supervision, Production Sound.

If your current production has contributed to the SIF you are able to recruit these experienced talented film trainees at highly subsidised rates - the scheme will pay 70% of their wages.

We currently have Film Trainees working on Les Miserables, I Give it a Year, Seven Psychopaths and The Double - to name just a few.

All our trainees have been through a rigorous recruitment process and we only interview the best trainees who have attended a high quality film course and/or have film experience working on features. In addition to ensure our trainees are set ready they also attend a two day intensive training course at Pinewood Studios run by The Production Guild.

If you are interested in looking at the Trainees that we have on our Scheme, I can give you your log in details to our Trainee Placement database. Once you have received your log in details you will be able to search for trainees by department, find out where in the UK they can work, and availability.

Do let me know if you would like any further details about the Scheme, you can find out more about how it works here:

http://www.craftandtech.org/trainee/sif-payers/sif-payers-faqs/

Many thanks

Krisse

PS Do follow us @CRAFTANDTECH and facebook.com/craftandtech

Kristen Platt

SIF Co-ordinator

Creative Skillset | Focus Point | 21 Caledonian Road | London | N1 9GB

T: 020 7713 9862 | F: 0207 713 9801 | E: Kristenp@creativeskillset.org | W: www.creativeskillset.org

VIRAL VIDEO AWARD 2012

Within the scope of the 28th International Short Film Festival Berlin, between the 13th and 18st of November 2012, Zucker.Kommunikation, Heinrich Böll Stiftung and interfilm Berlin will jointly hold the 5th Viral Video Award.

Submit Viral Videos!

Take part online in the competition at www.viralvideoaward.com!

Three prizes will be awarded:

Audience Award worth € 1.000,- given by fritz kola

Jury Award worth € 1.000,- given by Project Future

Award for Best political Viral with the themes climate, democracy or justice worth € 1000,- given by the Heinrich Boell Foundation

Submit your film online if

• it has been especially made for the internet,

• it was made with the aim to spread virally or has already been virally distributed

• and it is either endorsing or opposing an image, an institution, a brand, a product or an idea.

Entry deadline: 16th September 2012!

The public online voting of the competition will be held from Okt. 15th to Nov. 15th on this website, the Award Ceremony will be within the 28th International Short Film Festival Berlin at Nov. 16th in Berlin

The Regulations you can find at www.viralvideoaward.com

GLIMMER 2012 DATES AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

FILMMAKERS INVITED TO JOIN IN THE CELEBRATIONS AS GLIMMER : THE HULL INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY 4th – 7th OCTOBER 2012

The 10th edition of GLIMMER: The Hull International Short Film Festival will take place from 4th – 7th October 2012, and, once again, is inviting filmmakers to take part in the biggest short film festival in the North of England.

During its 9th edition - it's most successful ever - GLIMMER screened in excess of 130 films, more than 30 of which were premieres, from across the world, and awarded more than £4000 of prize money to filmmakers

Presenting a diverse selection of films, including dramas, documentaries, artist's film and video and animation, the selected films for the 2012 edition will be eligible for such awards as the Anthony Minghella Glimmer International Award, Anthony Minghella Glimmer UK Award, Glimmer Yorkshire Award and Glimmer Hull Award, all of which will, once again, come with cash prizes for the winning filmmakers. (Pending Funding)

We will again present the Glimmer Award for Best Online Short, as voted for by our online audiences. Filmmakers will shortly be able to upload their shorts to the Hull Film website for consideration, automatically entering it in the competition programme for Best Online Short. More details on this competition and how to enter will be announced shortly.

Submitted films must be under 45 minutes long and made after 1st January 2010. (submissions for online competition must have maximum duration of 8 minutes) Aside from these restrictions, GLIMMER encourages people to send in films of all types and genres. GLIMMER also welcomes music video submissions.

SUBMISSION FEES? For the past two GLIMMER Festivals we have allowed filmmakers to choose how much they wish to pay in submission fees (if, indeed, they want to pay anything at all)

As this approach has proven very popular and a great success, we will continue to provide Filmmakers with the choice of what they can afford. It is hoped that this, as far as we are aware, unique system of entry fees will continue to encourage people to enter their films into the festival.

Glimmer Interim Director Espen Jensen said:

"Ten, that’s right, TEN years old! Happy Birthday to Us! GLIMMER 2012 will be another celebration of Short Films from across the globe, and we are hoping to make it the best one yet! As in previous years we are accepting films from anyone, anywhere of any genre, so if you want to take part in the celebrations, please go to our website, download the entry form, and get your work to us! There will be cake and Fine Wine"

Full information on submitting films to GLIMMER: The 10th Hull International Short Film Festival can be found on the entry form, which can be downloaded from our website: www.hullfilm.co.uk

Submissions has to reach us by 12 noon, Friday 20th July 2012.

For updates on GLIMMER and Hull Film, follow us on

Facebook: www.facebook.co./hullfilm

Twitter: @Hull_Film

FILM CULTURE FUND NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS

The aims and objectives of the Film Culture Lottery Fund are to ensure audiences throughout the English regions have access to a wide and diverse range of film content, to deepen and enrich audiences' experience and to integrate the unique resources of regional screen heritage into wider film provisions. The Film Culture Lottery Fund will support and extend the provision and interpretation of specialised and mainstream film in England by investing in:

- audience development within the film exhibition sector - covering all aspects of film culture: cinemas, festivals and non-theatrical exhibition, and film education where this is linked to venues or festivals.

- access to regional screen heritage - audience focused projects using film archive in innovative and dynamic ways.

Awards range from £2,000 - £40,000

How To Apply:

Please read the guidelines carefully before submitting your application form.

Apply at: http://www.creativeengland.co.uk/index.php/portfolio/digital-champions-3/

Projects must be completed by the end of July 2013

The application deadline for this round is noon on 1 June 2012.

ANNOUNCING THE NORTHERN BUSINESS INCUBATOR'S SUMMER SCHOOL

After submitting a successful bid for Creative Skillset film skills funding, Sheffield Media and Exhibition Centre (SMEC) in partnership with Studio of the North, are delighted to announce the Northern Business Incubator's Summer School. 30 participants will get the chance to develop their business and entrepreneurial skills for setting up or developing a film enterprise in the UK regions.

Overview of the course
The course will run for one week, 16-20 July 2012 and will be an intensive and immersive experience; it will take a collegiate approach to learning where peer-to-peer interaction and real life networking are key. The course is designed for professionals already working in the film and media industry. For the 30 participants, the aim of the Summer School is to provide inspiration as well as practical skills.

Over the course of the week, participants will work to develop their business ideas. At the end of the week, they will be given training in how to pitch their business plans before pitching their ideas to the Northern Business Incubator's panel. Up to six participants will then be offered a place in the Northern Business Incubator in the Workstation for up to a year to develop their businesses. They will receive collaborative office space, mentoring from high level industry professionals, access to the ongoing networking activities at the Showroom Workstation and placement in the Creative Industries hub for Sheffield, providing excellent opportunities for progress.

In preparation for the business pitches on the last day of the Summer School, the course will cover finance and business planning, the importance of networking and collaboration, and creating a clear business identity. Sessions will support successful collaboration on creative projects by not teaching skills in isolation, but will link directly to the participants' ongoing professional lives. By working in partnership with CollaboJam, this theme will be explored with an intensive cross-platform development session which will offer real collaboration opportunities across sectors.

In order to contextualise the work they undertake, the Summer School will be punctuated by masterclasses from high-profile industry professionals and organisations sharing their success stories and advice. There will also be several screenings of films by filmmakers who have successfully turned theory into practice in order to produce high-quality British independent feature films.

Just as important as the workshops and masterclasses are the networking opportunities the Summer School brings. Throughout the week participants will meet industry professionals who may potentially become collaborators in the near future. Creative England will host a networking event in the Workstation in the middle of the week bringing together film, TV and digital sector professionals from around the region, giving the Summer School participants a chance to network with those already established in the industry.

Colin Pons, Course Leader said:
ÒSheffield has long been a hub for media activity. This summer school is our latest manifestation of concrete confidence in the future of the sector in the region. We are delighted to be working with Creative Skillset in this initiative to ensure the consolidation of new regional talent around the Sheffield hub.Ó

Working outside London
Courses of this nature are common in London, but few opportunities of this kind exist elsewhere in the country. The Summer School looks to redress the balance. One of the key objectives of the course is to embed a new understanding of the Ôfilm industry' in the UK and recognition of the Northern regions of England as fertile ground ripe for development.

Frequently young people leave degree courses in film and media from all across the North of England and move to London to find work. This project aims to establish sustainable roots for the film industry in Yorkshire and beyond by offering appropriate training, knowledge and crucially a head start to participants who want to establish a business in this area. Additionally it will contribute to the growth of a professional regional network of peers. It is hoped this new scheme will provide a foundation for the future 'Warp's' of England. Importantly the project will support professionals into self employment by offering ongoing collegiate and mentor support through access to the Incubator.

Dan Simmons, Head of Film at Creative Skillset said:
'At a time where business models are rapidly changing, it is crucial that creative companies across the UK have access to industry support and guidance to help develop successful, sustainable businesses. The Northern Business Incubator will nurture entrepreneurial spirit, creating and bolstering an exciting hub of business activity in the North and strengthening the diverse pool of business talent on offer here in the UK.'

Applications
Applications are now open for places at the Northern Business Incubator's Summer School. Applications are welcomed from film industry professionals with talent, commitment, passion, a distinctive voice and a willingness to collaborate with others. The Summer School is designed to assist those already working in the film industry in the advancement of running their own business or in the setting up of a new business.
The course is appropriate for producers and those with film and media industry experience in other roles who would like to team up with others to bring a good business idea to life, such as directors, script writers, location managers, casting directors, post production professionals. Joint applications for those wishing to attend the Summer School as a team with whom they are developing a business idea will also be considered.

The closing date for applications is Monday 18 June.
More information and application forms can be found at:
www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/workstation/businesssupport/incubator

The full programme of speakers for the Summer School will shortly be announced.

FOCUS FORWARD - SHORT FILMS, BIG IDEAS OPENS SUBMISSIONS FOR $200,000

Here's an amazing opportunity from our friends at FOCUS FORWARD FILMS to win some big money and get global exposure alongside some of the world's most accomplished documentary filmmakers. What's even better is that it's all about celebrating advancements in culture and technology, so you'll be helping to spread the word about positive change.

FOCUS FORWARD - Short Films, Big Ideas is a series of three-minute films highlighting exceptional people and ideas that are changing our lives for the better. If you have an idea for a three-minute nonfiction film around the theme of invention and innovation, then it's time to get to work! The FOCUS FORWARD initiative has 200,000USD in cash prizes to give to the top five entries in the FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Challenge, with 100,000USD going to the Grand Prize Winner. In addition, up to 100 finalists will be featured online at www.focusforwardfilms.com in the fall of 2012 alongside work by SP patron Lucy Walker, Steve James, Victor Kossakovsky, and others.

Qualifying films for the Filmmaker Challenge are three-minute end-to-end stories about people or organisations whose innovative efforts in medicine, computer science, robotics, engineering, green energy, or other fields of art and knowledge have had a significant positive impact on humanity. Recent, cutting-edge inventions that are changing how we live today are of special interest.

A selection of Challenge films will be available online to a global audience through Vimeo along with the first 30 films produced by FOCUS FORWARD filmmakers. As the program progresses, FOCUS FORWARD films will be distributed across cable and satellite VOD, gaming system networks, Internet Free On Demand services as well as in theaters and on DVD.

The Grand Prize and Jury Award winners will be announced at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Submissions close on August 23, 2012. Visit www.focusforwardfilms.com/challenge for more information.

This is an awesome opportunity - let us know how your applications go everyone, can't wait to see some Shooters on Focus Forward soon.

WIN A £5000 COMMISSION TO MAKE A NEW FILM FOR THE 94 ELEMENTS PROJECT

94 Elements is a new collaborative filmmaking project based around the 94 naturally occurring elements, from hydrogen to plutonium. The stories of the elements are the stories of our our own lives - they tell the details of our personal lives, the patterns of our economies and our relationships with our natural resources. The basic idea is for award-winning and upcoming filmmakers to each take one element as the basis for a short film around how it's used. We've already produced new films for the project with BAFTA-winner Marc Isaacs and Sundance-winner Nino Kirtadze - you can watch them now at www.94elements.com

As part of the launch we're running 2 opportunities for filmmakers to win a £5000 commission to make a new film for the project:

The Sheffield Pitch - A live pitch event at the Sheffield DocFest in June, with the winner voted for by the festival audience. Details on how to submit are here: https://sheffdocfest.com/view/ninetyfourpitch

The Indiegogo Pitch - with the winner voted for by contributors to our Indiegogo campaign here: http://www.indiegogo.com/94elements - submission details the same as above.

The deadline for pitches is 29 May so you need to get to work now!

You can support this fantastic project by spreading the word

ASFF 2012: TWO WEEKS TO GO! SUBMIT TODAY TO SCREEN YOUR FILM

I hope this finds you well. It’s now only one month until the deadline for The Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2012 (ASFF), and here in the Aesthetica offices, we’re getting very excited. We’ve already had some excellent entries from filmmakers across the world, and with an amazing line-up of masterclasses and networking events with the likes of Warp and BAFTA, ASFF 2012 is going to be truly spectacular!

ASFF is a unique film event, showing international short films in 15 iconic locations across the historic city of York from 8-11 November 2012. It’s a fantastic opportunity see your film in new and surprising visual contexts, and with the whole city teeming with the vibrant film community, you can be sure to meet industry as well as filmmakers and people who share your passion for film. Plus there are also some wonderful prizes at stake, including up to £500 in cash, reciprocal screenings at other festivals, and editorial coverage in Aesthetica Magazine which has a worldwide circulation of over 100,000.

Whether your members are established or budding filmmakers, ASFF 2012 will enable them to connect with new worldwide audiences and interact with some of the biggest personalities in the film industry today. If you know of a film of up to 25 minutes made by someone in your circle, it would be great to hear from you!

Visit www.asff.co.uk for more information and to submit today! Or why not follow us on Facebook or Twitter, and share this message with your followers: –

1 week to go to enter @asffest ! Submit today and share your #short #film with an international audience. More info at www.asff.co.uk

ASFF 2012 Submission Guidelines

- Running times up to 25mins.

- English language, dubbed in to English or with English subtitles.

- Entries to be submitted on DVD with no regional coding.

- Please include: An entry form with Order Reference Number, Director's name, country of production, running time, and full contact details

- Your film must not be in breach of any copyright, including music or sound contained in your entry.

- Films of any genre are accepted.

Entry is £15 and the deadline for submissions is 31 May 2012: don’t forget, there’s only TWO WEEKS to go!

I do hope that you will be interested in entering ASFF, and look forward to seeing your work!

Very best regards

Helena

Helena Culliney

Marketing

Aesthetica Magazine

PO Box 371

York, YO23 1WL, UK

(+44) (0) 1904 629 137

www.aestheticamagazine.com

CALL FOR SHORT FILMS FOR LOUIS VUITTON JOURNEYS AWARDS

Journeys Awards is an international short film competition organized by LOUIS VUITTON inviting emerging filmmakers to express their talent and creativity through their own vision of travel in a 3 to 5 mn film (no spoken dialog, no distinctive mark of the Louis Vuitton brand).

In 2009, LOUIS VUITTON teamed up with acclaimed director Wong Kar Wai to create the first Journeys Awards film competition. For this second edition, another celebrity guest will head the jury of the competition: Italian director Luca Guadagnino.

Journeys Awards is a tremendous opportunity for you to showcase your talent:

> International audience and guaranteed media exposure.

> 2 prizes of $25,000 prizes for the jury’s choice and the people’s choice awards (online vote)

Submission deadline is June 18th, 2012.

Visit www.journeysawards.com to find out more about the brief and enter the competition.

RAZOR REEL FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Cannes is approaching soon and as usual our staff will be on the Marché de Films to learn about your new features.The Fifth Edition of the Razor Reel Fantastic Film Festival, will take place from October the 25th till November the 3th in the Medieval city of Bruges, Belgium.

· Participating in the festival is free.

· European shorts are awarded with the Méliès D’Argent diploma

· European debuting Directors are awarded with the Young Blood Award

Check the Attached documents for more info!

There are no submissions fees or hidden fees. Submission deadline is August the first (Postmark). Please send together with the screeners your contact details. There will be a selection of feature Fantastic Films and a fine selection of the latest Fantastic Shorts. All Genre related films new & old from all over the world are welcome as long as they are not on the sellthrough market in Belgium before November the 4th 2012.

Please call or mail us for more info or for general requests regarding the festival or specific info about the EFFFF short film competition or the Youngblood Award.

Contact RRFFF at info@RRFFF.be

Don’t hesitate to spread the word or contact us in case you need extra info! Thanks for submitting your screener, supporting the film community and please always feel free to update us.

The RRFFF is organized by Razor Reel, with the kind participation of the Flemish Government, the Flemish Province, The City of Bruges and the European Federation Of Fantastic Film Festivals

VZW RAZOR REEL

St-Arnolduslaan 47

B8200 Brugge

Belgium

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - KILBURN FILM FESTIVAL 2012

We are looking for short films to be shown on the big screen at our "Movie Makers' Brunch" at the famous Tricycle Cinema, Kilburn High Road, as part of the Kilburn Film Festival 2012 (28 June-8 July).

Awards for Audience Best and other categories.

If you live or work in Camden or Brent and your film is not longer than 10 mins, of any genre and made in 2011/12 then...

Please send link to Anna.bowman@blueyonder.co.uk or post DVD to Anna Bowman at Cotleigh Studios, 3 Cotleigh Road, London NW6 2NL. www.kilburnfilms.co.uk.

Contact phone: Anna at 07800569957

Submissions deadline: May 31st 2012.

IMDB NEW FILMMAKERS AWARD

New filmmakers, young, old and in between, are invited to send their short (1-15 minute) film to Bath Film Festival. The winner will receive £1000, as well as having their film screened during Bath Film Festival and by other festivals around Europe. They will also be given their own IMDb title page, and receive an IMDB enamel badge. Deadline for entries September 21st 2012.

Submit your films at www.bathfilmfestival.org.uk/awards

SHOW US YOUR SHORTS - VIRGIN MEDIA SHORTS IS BACK

Virgin Media Shorts is back! Got a little slice of movie magic up your sleeve? Upload it before 12th July 2012 and you could soon be watching it on the big screen. This year we've got a whopping 13 spaces on the shortlist so there's an extra chance to hit cinemas. And if you're the lucky Grand Prize winner, you'll be skipping away with £30,000 funding to make your next film with the BFI. Good, eh? So why aren't you uploading your entry already?

More info here, folks - http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/

GET YOUR FILM IN CINEMAS WITH OUR UNIQUE COMPETITION

50 Kisses Competition - Write Film / Make Film / Distribute Film: a unique competition from The London Screenwriters Festival.
http://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/50-kisses/

Get your script produced and get your movie released in cinemas. A unique competition that guarantees 50 scripts will be shot and 50 films will be theatrically released next year.

Are you in? Read on/

Stage 1 (for writers): Write Film What does love mean to you?
Write something extraordinary.
Write a two page screenplay set on Valentine's Night and enter it into our free London Screenwriters' Festival Feature competition (closes June 29th). From the entrants, fifty winning scripts will be chosen by our judges. These scripts will then be released to the film making community on July 30th. Filmmakers around the world can then make films based on this rich vein of themed and loosely connected scripts.

Stage 2 (for filmmakers): Make Film Produce an amazing movie!
Anyone can then make any of those fifty winning scripts into a movie (including the writers). This is the second and unique phase of the competition that will give filmmakers two months to produce and upload their film based on their chosen script from the fifty winners. The filmmaking competition opens on July 30th and ends on September 28th. The best 50 films (one film per script) will then be assessed by our Judges and edited together to make a feature length crowd sourced movie set on Valentines night.

Stage 3: Distribute Film
This feature film, '50 Kisses', will receive a London theatrical release on February 14th 2013. And we already have interest from a major broadcaster too! These final fifty films (that make up the feature film) will also be judged by our industry panel and the overall winners will be announced at the world premiere. Prize categories will include Best Script, Best Actor / Actress, Best Direction etc¡ Alongside the industry judging, we will also run a public competition where you and your community can vote for your favourite films too. Prizes are to be announced soon and will be spectacular.
Distribution and Judges

We already have a UK film distributor onboard, interest from a broadcaster and a raft of high profile judges lined up. More information will follow soon.

Be part of this unique new project and get involved... it's going to be loved up!

More information here...
http://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/50-kisses/

Chris Jones
www.ChrisJonesBlog.com

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - ENCOUNTERS FILM FESTIVAL

Encounters launches it's 2012 call for submissions for the main competition
Call for Submissions 2012

Calling all filmmakers and animators from across the world, submissions are now open for the Encounters 18th Short Film and Animation Festival in Bristol UK. Submit your short film or animation by Wednesday 6th June, for a chance to win a prestigious award and an opportunity to showcase your talent on an international stage.

Short films and animations are eligible from all over the world, completed from 1 Jan 2011, under 30 minutes in length from every genre (animation, live action drama, documentary, experimental and music video). There are discounts for multiple submissions

Why submit to Encounters?
It's the leading UK gateway to the world's most prestigious short film and animation awards (Academy Awards, BAFTAs, Cartoon D'Or and European Film Awards).

It's one of the best-known international competitive showcases of its kind, and is a key meeting point for emerging talent and industry.

If your film doesn't get selected, it can still be seen by delegates during the festival and for 6 months afterwards via the Online Digital Viewing Library.

The 2012 festival will be held between Tuesday 18 - 23 September 2012 in Bristol, one of the most culturally vibrant cities in the UK.

Visit www.encounters-festival.org.uk to see the awards up for grabs, submission criteria and for further information.
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