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From: info <info at scottishscreen.com>
Subject: New Scheme Launched - Tartan Smalls
Tartan Smalls offers an opportunity for new talent to work in the children's area, or existing talent, (without previous children's experience) to enter this exciting creative genre.Applications are welcome from writer/producer/director teams or from individual writers. With additional support from Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund awards will be for 35,000 UKP
Scripts of all genre are welcome, but tone and focus should be inspired by and appropriate for the 16.35 or 17.00 weekly drama slots on CBBC1. It is important that the duration and the cost of the film is considered.
Projects exceeding 9 minutes in length will not be selected. Deadlines for submission is 11th January 2002.For an application form call 0141 302 1700 or email jane.thomas@scottishscreen.com
Short Circuit is a Short Film distribution initiative. It is a partnership between London Film & Video Development Agency, Showroom Cinema and Yorkshire Media Production Agency. Our aims are to distribute and secure cinema exhibition of new innovative short films from the broadest possible range of filmmakers across the UK.
Short Circuit are looking for new, innovative short films of up to ten minutes length. They can be shot on any format, but must be completed on 35mm. Any filmmaker within the UK, who has a film that fits the criteria of length and format, may submit their film to Short Circuit. The fund is not in a position to offer completion finance. Calls for entry: (Please note on application form the round to which you are applying.)
MARCH 31ST 2001
AUGUST 31ST 2001
Please check our website www.shortcircuitfilms.com for more details or email: info@shortcircuitfilms.com. While you are there why not check out upcoming seminars on film distribution or use the discussion forums for help or advice.The SUPER SUPER 8 WORLD TOUR is back for it's fourth voyage around the globe. Last year's tour included screenings in 50 different cities and 20 different countries throughout this wonderfully wacky world of ours....... This year's Tour will return to Europe and North America while also making it's first stop south of the United States Border in Mexico. We leave April 10th and hopefully return unscathed in September. Send us your films to be a part of the adventure. All films must have some element of Super 8 filmmaking involved however we are flexible with regards to exhibition format. Super 8 prints, Super 8 blown up to 16 mm and DV copies of Super 8 films are all acceptable. There will be a small honorarium given to films that are chosen to tour and you will have your name in lights in all corners of the globe. Log onto: http://www.polyesterprince.com for entry details or email: polyesterprince@hotmail.com I hope to hear from you all very soon, Paolo Davanzo Festival Director
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ON SHORTFILM.NET My name is Jeroen de Boer: together with my collegue Mark Bouwmeester I am both the director of the Cyberslag Foundation (organisor of the annual Open Electronic Festival) and Cyberslag Content Providing. With the last mentioned company we are exclusively responsible for the content on the website the Broadband Internet Company 'Shortfilm.Net', part of the New Amsterdam IT Group (NAIT), located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Shortfilm.Net is the first European broadband-based shortfilmsite, and discerns from American counterparts like Atom Films or IFILM, because it is paying a financial compensation to all the selected filmmakers. The site will be launched in October 2000. Cyberslag Content Providing is looking for filmmakers who are interested in showing their work on Shortfilm.Net. We are interested in the following categories: . music video . narrative . documentary . experimental . animation . sci-fi . action . comedy If you are interested in the offer to show work on Shortfilm.Net, please contact Jeroen de Boer or Mark Bouwmeester. You will then receive an application form, plus detailed information about Shortfilm.Net. Note that you automatically have the opportunity to show work at our Open Electronic Festival, an annual multiple-day event, focussing on electronic music & media art. Besides the festival we also organize separate screenings, exhibitions and performances.Yours sincerely, Jeroen de Boer
FAN>2000 is a brand new international short film & animation festival due to take place in the East of England this October. Currently calling for submissions. The two main categories are Short Film and Animation with three awards in each:
*Best International Short Film / Animation
*Best British Short Film / Animation
*Best Student Short Film / Animation
The participation requirements are as follows: > maximum length 30 minutes > date of production : after 31st December 1997 > deadline for application : 30th June 2000 > there are no restrictions on genre Films that are not selected for screening can be included in the festival through the 'vision bar' at the discretion of the film maker. For more information or a submission form visit our website : http://www.filmartsnorwich.co.uk or you can contact me at the festival office. Kind regards, Rose Hanna Festival Director Film Arts Norwich Limited 70B Swan Yard King Street Norwich NR1 1PG Tel: + 44 (0)1603 618618 Fax: + 44 (0)1603 767838 rhanna@primex.co.uk FAN>2000 is brought to you by Cinema City and Film Arts Norwich Ltd. In the lead up to the festival FAN Ltd will be staging one themed film event each month; highlighting short film and animation but also featuring music, multimedia and live performance. FAN Ltd works with artists across the board be they animators, film-makers, poets, graphic designers, DJ's or projectionists. FAN has a close working relationship with London's Halloween Society and is supported by ASIFA and Eastern Screen.ref 2/5/00Call for Entries: Screening Short Black Film Festival Sydney, Australia 22 - 29 October 2000 Entry Deadline: 15 September 2000 http://www.shortblack.easy.com.au Independent filmmakers explore your cultural identity! Short Black invites you to participate this year by submitting a short film up to 10 minutes that represents your creative impression of the country you live in. International filmmakers are invited to submit short films that represent their own nations cultural and inter-cultural identity - white, black, American, Mexican, Latino, African, Asian, Indian, European, New Zealand, whoever you are and wherever you live explore your culture share your ideas and show Australia the world in which you live. Screened in Sydney Australia, Short Black Film Festival will also feature shorts based on 'Being Australian' a theme that looks at how independent filmmakers portray their diverse cultural identity. This includes multi culturalism, aboriginal heritage and reconciliation, sport, the environment, humour, music, youth, sexuality, spiritualism, art, etc - thought provoking, political, humorous or dramatic the theme is open for filmmakers to explore. All films entered will be screened throughout Sydney for one week in October 2000 with a final night presentation featuring live music, presentations by Australian film personalities and prizes and awards.
The fourth year running Short Black has entertained audiences with a diverse range of films and judges have included George Miller (Mad Max, Babe, Witches of Eastwick), Margaret Pomeranz (SBS The Movie Show) and Victoria Treole (Acquisitions Consultant, Miramax Films). Celebrate your passion and chosen art, identify your culture and express yourself! For more information on how to enter visit the website at http://www.shortblack.easy.com.au or email films@shortblack.easy.com.au. Regards, Teresa Charchalis Short Black Film Festival 2000 29 Belgrave Street Manly NSW 2095 Australia Tel: +61 (02) 8588 3317 Email: teresa@shortblack.easy.com.auNew site will pay for your scary shorts If you're an aspiring director with a taste for the terrifying or a penchant for the paranormal then it will probably be worth checking out a new site launched by urbanchillers.com. The UK-based company recently set out its store with the grand aim of capturing the global market in chilling entertainment. To this end it will pay up to £2,600 for any original spooky short feature uploaded on the site. Directors who really shine will be commissioned by urbanchillers.com to make further films. The company is talking distribution deals with several major studios and to date three films have gone out via Universal on broadcasters that include the UK's Sci-Fi Channel. If you want to submit a short send it to: urbanchillers.com, Studio 14, Shepperton Studios, Studios Road, Shepperton, Middlesex TW17 OQD. For details on entry criteria visit the website at www.urbanchillers.com.