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LATEST FUNDING DEADLINES, CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES & FESTIVALS
BBC BLAST COMES TO DERBY
BBC Blast will be in Derby Market Square from Wednesday 25th to Saturday 28th June.
Free workshops are on offer from film making to breakdancing to turntablism.
13-19yr olds can sign up for free workshops and masterclasses online
or drop in to take part on the day.
AMERICANS FILM STUDENTS VISIT DERBY
A group of 12 young people from across America are visiting Derby in July to make a fim.
The students are the second group to come to Derby following last year's group who made
a documentary on how terrorism effects young people in Britain. A group of film-making
students from the Joseph Wright Centre will meet up with the group to share ideas,
and will be making films themselves whilst the US group travel around England.
VIRGIN MEDIA SHORTS COMPETITION
Deadline Monday 30th June
Last chance to submit your shorts! Virgin Media have announced that Kevin Spacey
will be joining the judging panel for Virgin Media Shorts, the first ever short film
competition to run across four platforms - TV, cinema, mobile and Internet.
The competition aims to find the best up and coming British film makers. Kevin Spacey will
also be joined by; Oscar-nominated short film director, Daniel Barber,
Founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson,
Lenny Crooks, Head of the New Cinema Fund of the UK Film Council.
Filmmakers can now submit their short film (no longer than 2mins 30 seconds)
online and take part in the competition. The top 12 films will be blown up to a
35 mm print and shown on 211 cinema screens across the UK.
The winner will be given the chance to work directly with the UK Film Council and Virgin Media
to develop and produce their next short film with a budget of up to £30,000.
BBC PERFORMING ARTS FUND
The BBC Performing Arts Fund helps aspiring music-makers and performers looking
for a way to get ahead. To date the fund has allocated £2.4m to fund young musicians,
from a range of genres, to help them pursue their careers in music. Its mission is to
seek out and support excellent aspiring performers and those directly supporting performing
artists, who for reasons of lack of existing opportunity, personal background or circumstance,
would not have been able to achieve their most ambitious goals, or their talent's greatest
potential without the Fund's support or intervention.
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
18 - 29 June 2008: 3 Day Industry Events Pass for newcomers
Filmmaking can be a tough business, often low-paid and seemingly impenetrable,
with access to training, contacts and sound business advice hard to find, which
is why this year EIFF is offering a dedicated, value for money 3-day delegate pass,
specifically designed for newcomers to the industry.
Spanning the first weekend of the Festival, the 3-day Industry Events Pass provides a
full range of training, networking, critical panel discussions, speakers, public events
and a listing in the 2008 Industry Guide along with over 500 industry professionals, all
for only £50.
DEPICT! 08: NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS
Deadline for submissions: Mon 8 Sept '08, 1700hrs (BST)
Now in its tenth year, ultra-short film competition DepicT! continues to celebrate
the imagination, style, emotion, drama, mystery, humour and passion that can be packed
into one captivating mini-movie.
Can you do it in 90 seconds? DepicT! offers emerging filmmakers the opportunity
to win a range of unique prizes and to gain priceless exposure through Encounters
International Short Film Festival, the Digital Screen Network, depict.org and beyond.
Judges, who in the past have included directors Peter Jackson, Terry Gilliam and Royston Tan,
film critic Nigel Floyd and Aardman AnimationsÕ David Sproxton, are looking to discover
distinctive voices which evidence originality, creativity and the ability to engage the viewer.
*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
4TALENT SEARCH FOR THE GRIERSON:SHEFFIELD YOUTH JURY
Deadline extended!
4Talent has partnered with Sheffield Doc/Fest to present an exciting national hunt
for the documentary voices of the future. Due to popular demand they are extending
their deadline for receipt of applications. They want young people to have a bigger voice
in the documentary world - and that's why they want to find 5 young people to be part of
the Youth Jury at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest, who will select the winner of the
Grierson:Sheffield Youth Jury Award.
So if you're 16-21 and want to get involved Ð visit the website and enter reference 4T
CARRIBEAN FAMILIES WANTED FOR WINDRUSH DIAMONDS BBC DOCUMENTARY
This major four part BBC 2 documentary series is a celebration of the British family.
In each part, we'll be following a different extended British families as they prepare for
and then go on a big family reunion. It's crucial that the four families featured in the
series are representative of Britain's diverse demographic, which is why I've been working
with the Gleaner to reach a Caribbean family.
The reunion will take the form of an all-expenses paid weekend in the UK, later
on in the year - it will be a chance for the whole extended family to share their
collective history and re-establish family bonds. The weekend will be packed full of
family activities, with the opportunity to rediscover relationships and memories, see
archive footage and photographs that may have lain unseen for decades, participate in
genealogy workshops and meet distant family members.
Does this sound like something you might be interested in getting involved in?
If you'd like to find out a bit more, please give me a call on the number below,
or alternatively, drop me a line with your number and a convenient time to ring.
I'd be happy to discuss the series in more detail with you, and answer any
questions you may have.
Anna Llewellyn
allewellyn@blastfilms.co.uk
Assistant Producer. Blast! Films. Tel: 020 7267 4260SDF
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