Realtime Movie in Borough Market

Film?
Performance art?
You be the judge at Borough Market on 30 November

Beautiful South - The Horror! The Horror! - Thursday night

Explore your dark side at our quarterly night of short films and discussion for emerging film-making talent. Our first session of the evening is for first-time film-makers from the local area. In session two we showcase the most innovative and creative shorts from new film-makers. Inspired by Dracula, our panel of experts will be taking a look at the horror genre and will offer you support and advice.

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Beautiful South - The Horror! The Horror!

BFI | Southbank | Beautiful South - The Horror! The Horror!: "Beautiful South - The Horror! The Horror! Explore your dark side at our quarterly night of short films and discussion for emerging film-making talent. Our first session of the evening is for first-time film-makers from the local area. In session two we showcase the most innovative and creative shorts from new film-makers. Inspired by Dracula, our panel of experts will be taking a look at the horror genre and will offer you support and advice."

The Film and Video Workshop - Animation Bursary

The Film and Video Workshop - adult and youth courses, projects in video - Animation Bursary: "The Film and Video Workshop in partnership with the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation are happy to offer 3 up-and-coming animators bursaries up to the value of £1500 each, to make their own animated films in 2008"

Phoenix Digital: Call for digital art works for new exhibition programme

Early in 2008, PHOENIX will begin its digital art exhibition programme - Phoenix Digital. The project will seek to utilise the public spaces available within the Phoenix to present an ongoing exhibition of digital film/artwork to represent both established and emerging talent from the East Midlands and beyond.

Please send a CD or DVD including up to 5 video samples or JPEG images of your work along with a statement and artists CV. Please send your package to PHOENIX (digital submissions PXE101), 21 Upper Brown Street, Leicester LE1 5TE

Please also feel free to email the following address for any further information - digital@phoenix.org.uk

For more information about the PHOENIX please visit our website - www.phoenix.org.uk

60 seconds of Fame

60 Seconds of Fame – Call for Submissions

60 Seconds of Fame, an innovative short film initiative from the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) in association with Orange, invites budding film-makers to submit a 60 second short film, based on the theme 'unite'.

BAFTA juries will select 15 regional winners, who will receive two tickets to the Orange British Academy Film Awards on Sunday 10 February, 2008. The overall winner will be chosen by a BAFTA jury and announced at the ceremony and the winning film will feature as part of the BBC One broadcast of the event.

UK Film Council-Completion fund

Completion fund - an introduction - UK Film Council: "The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund is inviting filmmakers to apply to the 2007/08 short film Completion Fund. The fund is part of the New Cinema Fund's programme to enable directors and producers to push their creative boundaries, develop new talent and to invest in short films that illustrate unique ideas and an innovative approach."

Bringing Fresh Stories to Light - Blank Slate B3 Media's UK-wide talent search begins again

Blank Slate

B3 Media’s UK-wide talent search begins again.

Blank Slate has launched... and...

the rules have changed...

•Made a digital short already? - no problem - make another!

•More Money - up to 17K per film

•Submit without a producer

B3 are now looking for the next generation of black and minority ethnic filmmakers to take part in the fifth round of Blank Slate, the award winning digital short film initiative.

Up to six chosen short film projects will be selected to make their vision a digital reality. Filmmakers will get the chance to learn from experienced industry professionals as they develop their script for the big screen.

The latest talent search kicks off with a Blank Slate tour of the UK. Aspiring writers and filmmakers will sample Blank Slate film screenings, workshops and panel events featuring films and filmmakers from past Blank Slate programmes. This year the tour started in Cardiff at the Black Welsh Film Festival, the current stage of the tour includes Leicester, Bracknell, Manchester and Edinburgh before culminating in a Bristol showcase at the Encounters International Short Film Festival 2007.

Marc Boothe, Director of B3 Media, is looking forward to the next round of Blank Slate “B3 are always on the lookout for fresh original talent. We are excited by the prospect of unearthing the next batch of stories that raise the bar and push the creative boundaries for emerging filmmakers.”

BLANK SLATE is produced by B3 Media as part of the UK Film Council New Cinema Fund UK-wide Digital Shorts Scheme and supported by UK Film Council and Arts Council England. The UK tour is supported by a number of key regional partner organisations who work with and support BAME filmmaking talent.

Lenny Crooks, Head of the UK Film Council New Cinema Fund comments “These films represent an exciting and inspiring group of new filmmaking voices. We are very proud to support the Blank Slate scheme and the energising and diverse range of films that have come out of it.”

Over the past five years, Blank Slate films have been showcased at major international film festivals in Chicago, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, London, Venice, Durban, Cape Town, Cairo, Rio de Janeiro and more

For more information and to download an application form and guidelines visit: www.b3media.net/digitalshorts/digitalshortsapplynow08

How to Sell your Film: 5 Day CIDA Workshop (East London)

Film London : Events Calendar : How to Sell your Film 5 Day CIDA Workshop: "Events Calendar : How to Sell your Film 5 Day CIDA Workshop This programme gives you the tools to sell your film. It covers developing audiences, identifying buying trends, creating a marketing package for your film and how to gain the best from digital distribution platforms."

London Children's Film Festival

The London Children's Film Festival (LCFF) returns for a third year to the Barbican plus ten cinemas across the city with a programme brimming with films and workshops for families and children. Following the sell-out success of the LCFF06's Stormbreaker* event, Film London locations are going behind the scenes of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* with Producing Potter; a workshop hosted alongside the creators and cast of Harry Potter. Other exciting highlights include a sing-a-long screening of Chitty, Chitty Bang-Bang, a screening of Abbas Kiarostami's Where is my Friend's House?, a talk with Peter Lord, animation workshops and Bollywood and Bhangra dance workshops. Events will take place at venues across London. The London Children's Film Festival is supported by Film London and Independent Cinema Office (ICO). The festival runs from 17 – 25 November.

Beautiful South - "The Horror, The Horror" 22 November at BFI Southbank

It's last chance o'clock to submit your films for our November 22nd 'The Horror, The Horror' showcase - the deadline is end of play tomorrow. Tickets are already on sale however( book online at www.bfi.org.uk/nft or call the Box Office 020 7928 3232), and to entice you our panel is going to include the following genre masters giving top tips:

Chris Smith - Director, CREEP, SEVERANCE
James Watkins - Director, EDEN LAKE (Celador Films)
Alan Jones - Frightfest