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
FT2 Film and Television Training
Scheme
For the attention of work
experience trainees and runners.
FT2 - Film and Television
Freelance Training is now recruiting for a
new scheme:
Changing Technologies for
New Entrants
The scheme is funded by Skillset's
TV Freelance Fund and Film Skills Fund. ItÕs
a 44 week, paid, apprenticeship-style training
scheme to prepare people to work in the following
areas of the film and television industry:
Art, Camera, Edit, Makeup/hair,
Production, Props, Script supervision, Sound,
Wardrobe
Application forms and applicant
information are currently available to download
from our website: www.ft2.org.uk
Closing date: 31 July 2008
Moby launches video competition for single
'Ooh Yeah'.
Moby has announced details of an exclusive
global $10,000 video competition going live
on www.mobygratis.com. Directors are invited
to submit their films for the track Ooh Yeah
and the winner, chosen by Moby, will win the
$10,000 prize money and have their video used
as the official music video for Ooh Yeah from
Moby's latest album, Last Night.
Entrants should go to www.mobygratis.com/competition.html
to register for full instructions on how to
submit their video. The entries will be available
to view and comment on here: www.vimeo.com/oohyeah
MobyGratis is a film music
website, spearheaded by Moby (himself an experimental
film student in college) which will allow film
students, not-for-profit filmmakers and visual
artists to incorporate Moby's music into video
and film on a gratis basis. See Moby talk about
the site at http://www.mute.biz/mobygratis/
CinePoems: Filmakers & Animators wanted
Poetry in the City Festival
is commissioning four micro-budget cine-poems,
to be screened on Liverpool's BBC Big Screen
and at selected venues in the city in October/
November this year.
These will be short (2-3 mins) digitally-produced
films interpreting the work of local poets.
There is a small budget of up to £500
available for each film.
Each successful applicant will be offered
a selection of Merseyside-based contemporary
poems from which to choose. Your interpretation
may include a reading/performance by the poet,
but it's not essential that it do so. What
we're looking for is striking, original work
that will communicate boldly in a large public
space.
Applications from anywhere in the UK or Europe
are welcome.
Interested filmmakers/animators should either
send a demo reel (DVD or mini-DV) to:
Cine-Poems 08,
Poetry in the City,
82 Huskisson Street
Liverpool L8 7LS
or,
alternatively, email a link to online examples
of your work to : poetryinthecity@hotmail.com
CORK FILM FESTIVAL-
SUBMISSIONS OPEN
Entries are now invited in the following
categories: Short Film | Documentaries
| Feature Films. We welcome all forms of
film production - animation, experimental,
student work, digital work, etc
The festival will run from October 12th to
19th this year.
Entries must be submitted on DVD, VHS tape
(PAL, NTSC or SECAM) or CD ROM for pre-selection.
Please note that the following formats are
eligible for inclusion:
35mm, 16mm, Beta SP (PAL only), Digibeta.
N.B. Other formats cannot be accepted.
Entries must be postmarked by 4th July. Apply
online at http://www.corkfilmfest.org/
Call for Submissions-- 22nd Leeds International
Film Festival
4 - 16 November 2008
Applications Close: Friday, August 15,
2008
Leeds International Film Festival
www.leedsfilm.com
Leeds International Film Festival is renowned
worldwide as one of the top three UK film
festivals, featuring some of the best and
most progressive programming, year on year.
As the UK's largest regional festival,
the 22nd Leeds International Film Festival
is looking for striking and innovative
features and shorts of any genre from across
the world. We want films that will challenge
and enthral, shaping our
2008 programme into the most adventurous,
daring, vital and successful one to date.
For further details please visit the website.
The Fifth Salford Film
Festival, 15th - 23rd November, 2008. -
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Salford Film Festival returns in November
for nine intensive days of screenings,
seminars, workshops, and special events.
Since its inception in 2003, Salford has
been a festival with a strong regional
voice, rooted deep in the local community.
Offering a heady mix of British `kitchen
sink' classics, international cinema with
a local connection, and premieres of new
work filmed in and around the region, the
Festival is dedicated to promoting and
raising the profile of Salford as an area
of creative excellence in filmmaking, and
as a breeding-ground for some of the world's
great talent, past, present and to come.
The festival is seeking new short films
and features produced within the North
West region, particularly those with a
strong Salford connection (and failing
that a Greater Manchester focus) to form
part of a new talent showcase. We believe
filmmaking should be accessible to all,
so we are operating an entirely open submission
policy, extending our call to professionals
and amateurs alike.
Submissions should be
sent on DVD to Steve Balshaw, Programme
Manager, Salford Film Festival, The International
Media Centre, Adelphi House, Salford Crescent,
Salford, M3 6EN. 0161 834 3537. Further
information and submission forms from stevebalshaw@hotmail.co.uk
or from our website: www.salfordfilmfestival.org.uk.
Filmmakers should include contact phone
number, email, postal address, film synopsis,
length, and technical specifications (screening
ratio, format, etc). There is no submission
fee.
The BBC New Music Shorts
scheme is now open for submissions.
BBC Electric Proms want your submissions for
this year's initiative before the closing date
of Monday 7 July.
We are challenging filmmakers to make original
new films inspired by new music tracks. You
will get to work with Warp Films and up to £5,000
to make your film, which will be premiered
at the BBC Electric Proms in October. Our record
label partners have provided tracks from their
latest releases by XX Teens (Mute Records),
Wild Beasts (Domino), and Roots Manuva (Ninja
Tune/Big Dada).
We want you to submit creative ideas for films
that use and are inspired by these tracks.
The important thing is that
your idea is narrative driven. It could be
anything from a music promo, a short drama,
animation or even a documentary.
For the full details go to: www.bbc.co.uk/electricproms/newmusicshorts
Entries close 7th July 2008
Animate Projects - SUBMISSIONS
OPEN!
Animate Projects invites UK based artists
and animators to submit proposals for films
to be broadcast on Channel 4 and 4mations,
the new animation online channel that launches
in September 2008.
What are we about?
Animate Projects develops initiatives that
explore the relationship between art and animation,
and the place of animation and its concepts
in contemporary art practice. We have commissioned
more than 90 films since 1990, exploring aesthetic
possibilities in film, and establishing an
international reputation for thoughtful and
diverse practice.
Previous Animate commissions include Rabbit
by Run Wrake (BAFTA nomination, British Animation
Award for Best Short Film - watch a video about
it on 4Talent), Who I Am and What I Want by
Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley, Yours Truly
by Osbert Parker (British Animation Award for
Best Short Film), and Magnetic Movie by Semiconductor
(BAA for Best Film at the Cutting Edge).
There's a round-up of 2008's British Animation
Awards on the 4Talent magazine site, including
interviews with Osbert Parker and Semiconductor.
What do we want?
Ambitious, original and thought-provoking
proposals that develop the possibilities of
animation techniques: films that explore ideas
of what animation is, with challenging content,
as well as new forms and processes, compelling
narratives and challenging content.
We are commissioning three films, and the
maximum budget for each is £20,000, including
fee. Animate Projects provides production and
editorial support.
What's the deadline?
31 July 2008. Download the guidelines at animateprojects.org
Sheffield's
REDUCTION FESTIVAL needs YOUR FILMS
October 2008 sees
the launch of an exciting new arts festival
in Sheffield, focusing exclusively on
environmental/green art and media. In
it's debut year, the festival will be
focusing on short film content and will
include an international short film competition
and a regional time-based filmmaking
challenge.
More details will emerge over the next
few months and the website will be launched
in early July but for now, we're
looking for a handful of existing, environmentally-themed
short films to screen at
the launch of the Cube Live/Work space
on July 10th.
For more details or if you
already have a short film of this nature
(can be documentary, fiction,
experimental, animation, music video...anything
really) please don't hesitate to
get in touch asap! Or you could just send
us your uncompressed SD .avi or
quicktime on a data DVD to the address
below...
info@reductionfestival.org
(drop us an email if you want to be signed
up to the mailing list to be kept up
to
date with developments)
Reduction Festival, C/O Sort Of...Films
Ltd, 1st Floor,
Site Gallery, 1 Brown Street, Sheffield,
S1 2BS
THANKS!
Five
Minutes of Mystery short film competition
Calling all mysterious moving-image makers,
enigmatic engineers of the silver screen!
Five Minutes of Mystery challenges you
to create and submit short films around
a theme of mystery. Part of The Compass
of Mystery Festival, Five Minutes of
Mystery will bring together film-makers
from far and wide to exhibit their work
here in Bristol. Judged by a panel of
industry experts, awards will be for
Best Film, Audience Award, Local Film-maker
and Youth Award. Entries must be no longer
then five minutes in length.Submissions
will be accepted in the following formats:
DVD, Mini DV or as full quality DV QuickTime
files. Submission to be accompanied by
Five Minutes of Mystery Entry Form, and
sent to: Compass Film, 9, Walton Street,
Easton, Bristol, BS5 0JGDeadline: 15th
August 2008Guidelines & entry
form available at www.compass-film.co.uk
Bite
the Mango Film Festival -
Call for Entries
The 14th Bite the
Mango Film Festival is open for entries.
The Bite the Mango Film Festival returns
for 2008 running from 19th – 25th
September. Hosted at the National Media
Museum, Bite the Mango will again be bringing
audiences an impressive collection of the
very best cinema from around the world
drawing influences from Africa, South Asia,
Central America and the Far East.
To download an entry
form, please visit www.bitethemango.org.uk.
Deadline for entries is 4th July 2008.
SIDF 2008 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2008 are
calling for your documentaries - submissions
now open. Documentary films from established
or debut filmmakers, students - any style,
format or subject are accepted for consideration
into the official programme. Selected docs
may also be nominated for the Grierson:Sheffield
Youth Jury Award.The 2008 festival coincides
with the result of the US Presidential Elections.
Doc/Fest is getting into the spirit by presenting
a
programme around the theme of REGIME CHANGE.
They are particularly interested in work that
could be programmed into this strand.Full details,
rules, other strands, other awards and entry
form: www.sheffdocfest.com.Deadline 30 June.Questions:
hussain*at*sidf.co.uk.
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