Northwest Vision and Media, create the bigger picture
Calls for Entries
Deadline: 10th October
Wanted! 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).
Market Place: Skillset's New Entrant Training for
Skills
Deadline: 13th October
Delivered by Film London and Film Export UK (FEUK), Market Place
aims to provide people starting out in the industry with the
knowledge, skills and experience needed to establish a successful
career in film sales - whether it is in acquisitions, business
affairs, publicity and marketing, or sales.
UK Film Council Short Film Completion Fund
Deadline: 10th November
The UK Film Council’s Short Film Completion Fund provides finance and support for short films that show outstanding potential but lack the funds to finish. The total annual fund available to the short film Completion Fund 2008/09 is £70,000. There will be two invitations for applications during 2008/09, and up to 14 films may be offered funding.
Birds Eye View
Festival
Deadline: 10th November
We are seeking submissions from women filmmakers from around the
globe, to be a part of a showcase programme of innovative and
inspirational shorts, features and documentaries. Awards will be
presented to Best Short Drama, Best Short Animation, Best
Documentary and a special Award for Innovation.
FilmG Gaelic Language Short Film
Competition
Deadline: 1st December 2008
FilmG Scotland’s Gaelic-language short film competition are
looking for fresh and exciting faces, voices and ideas just when a
new Gaelic television channel is coming on air! This is YOUR chance
to showcase your talent, develop your short as a broadcast pilot or
win £5000. Do you have an idea for a 3-5 minute short film?
Or a 60 second mobile phone short? Your film can be in any genre as
long as it is in Gaelic.
For further information, go to: http://www.filmg.co.uk/index_eng.html
About Films: Take the Initiative
Deadline:
February 2009
About Films is Proud to be launching their 2008 Producers
Initiative “Take the Initiative”. We have
£100,000 on offer to Independent producers seeking finance
for their feature film or documentary.
Take the initiative is not just another funding scheme for
producers. Not only are independent producers able to secure
funding for their production but they are also given the
opportunity to work along side the Sales and Consultancy
divi-sion’s of About Films to create the perfect marketing
and deliverables packages for their film, which will be represented
globally.
So if you have produced two short film projects or documentaries in
the past five years and have an exciting fully developed script
that is just waiting to be finance Take the Initiative and submit
your project to:
http://www.aboutfilms.com/initiative.html
UK Film Council Film Print Provision Grants
Call for submissions
The 'Film Print Provision' (Cinema Access Programme) helps support the distribution of subtitled and audio described film provision (for hearing and visually impaired audiences).
OC167 on Sky channel 167
Call for submissions
Liverpool has taken a massive leap forward in the cultural communication stakes with its very own Micro Channel – OC 167 - accessible at key times each day on Sky Channel 167. This is a chance for you to keep up to date with what’s going on in Liverpool in the European Capital of Culture year and also to make a contribution by submitting YOUR OWN film to be seen on screen! We are looking for a variety of content including events, community projects, local films, and cultural conversations to be shown on the channel. Your work will be shown on OC 167 (on Sky) and online and is a great way to get your film/project out to the public!
For more information about the channel and how to submit your film, go to http://open.culture.org.uk or e-mail info@culture.org.uk
thebigpix/artangel
Call for
submissions
From Bauhaus to Banksy, Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth to Turning
The Place Over, this is the place to share your favourite work of
art or building, and discover what excites other people. Find out
more here: www.thebigpix.co.uk
OC167 on Sky
Channel 167
Call for submissions
Liverpool has taken a massive leap forward in the cultural
communication stakes with its very own Micro Channel – OC 167
- accessible at key times each day on Sky Channel 167. This is a
chance for you to keep up to date with what’s going on in
Liverpool the European Capital of Culture year and also to make a
contribution by submitting your own film to be seen on screen!
New Queer Underground
Call for
submissions
The website is now ready to launch. All that's missing are your
films. Visit www.newqueerunderground.com and let's see what you've
been up to.
New Queer Underground is an online resource aggregating new visual
work from lesbian gay bisexual trans intersex and queer people and
their friends. If you are a filmmaker you can now upload a link to
your work on the submissions page. You could get your work screened
at the BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2008.
Watch and rate other short films stings blogs docs music videos and
animation and see emerging work from your peers. It is free to
submit work and free to watch. content is curated by the people who
visit. You are in control.
Don't drink from the main stream. Join the new queer
underground.
Short Film Depot: Registering for Festivals
Enter your films free of charge into Festivals all
around the world using one single form.
For more information, go to: http://www.shortfilmdepot.com/index.php?lang=2
