At the time of publication, it was recently announced that ifeatures2, Britain’s low-budget, feature film-making initiative, has just reopened for submissions. Creative England, the BFI Film Fund and BBC Films are joining forces to support the development and production of three full-length features, all to be set within the English regions. Each film will be produced on a budget of £350,000 and the BBC is also pre-buying UK Free TV rights to the completed films. It’s open to writer, direct...
The SFF London is the first London-based international film festival solely for student film. We aim to fill a crucial gap in the existing market for international competitive festivals featuring student works. SFF London film screenings will be one of multiple opportunities for filmmakers to showcase their talent. Networking events, workshops, and mentorship awards will create space for professional guidance and cross-industry relationship building, sowing seeds for future development within the filmmaking industry. Competition & Categories: Short Film, Fiction Film (over 45 min), Animation Film, Documentary Short, Documentary Feature (over 45 min), Music Video.
CREATE11, now in its fourth year, is a summer arts festival for east London, celebrating the intrinsic creativity of the area and sponsored by Deutsche Bank. The festival presents over 200 homemade, world-class events profiling east London creativity taking place in surprising spaces: a disused motorway undercroft in Hackney Wick; London’s historic music halls; a 1980’s building in Canary Wharf; a WWII bunker in Dalston; a floating cinema on the waterways of east London; a shop turned into...
Friday 24 June to Monday 25 July
www.createlondon.org
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
CREATE11, now in its fourth year, is a summer arts festival for east London, celebrating the intrinsic creativity of the area and sponsored by Deutsche Bank. The festival presents over 200 homemade, world-class events profiling east London creativity taking place in surprising spaces: a disused motorway undercroft in Hackney Wick; London’s historic music halls; a 1980’s building in Canary Wharf; a WWII bu...
Director: Tony Clark.
Peter and his parents arrive on their holiday hut in the idyllic Tyrolean Alps. Although seemingly a happy family, not everything is well under the picture-perfect surface. Peter's parents are unusually quiet, father seems tense and mother is becoming more and more distant. Something is wrong, yet Peter isn't let in on the cause. One fine day his father sets out for an unexpected hike in the mountains, taking the boy with him. As they walk towards the snowy peak of the mountain, the truth that has been carefully kept from Peter is slowly revealed...
Director: Mariano Melman.
ELMO is not like any other puppet you have seen before, he have lived long enough to see a clear evolution of mankind and its positive and negative sides. He is going to take you to different moments of history to point out when humans stopped being mere thinking animals to become power greed puppet masters.
The evolution of events will lead you to the actual media bombarding situation and why there is a sine qua non inevitability to keep human minds entertained.
Graduation film at London College of Communication, created and directed by Mariano Melma
In Cannes today the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) in association with Skillset announced the 25 Trailblazers of 2009. These up-and-coming individuals have been selected from the EIFF programme and from the graduation shorts submitted by students of the Skillset Screen Academies. The intention of the Trailblazers showcase is to unite the work of the Skillset Screen Academies with that of EIFF. The scheme honours their joint commitment to the generation, encouragement and promotion...
