Yorkshire based filmmakers Keith Wright and Richard Guy won the audience award for Harold’s Going Stiff at Edinburgh’s Dead by Dawn back in May. Thoroughly deserved for this excellent low budget ‘zom-com-rom’. HGS played to a very appreciative audience at the Bradford Film Festival in March and is starting to create a bit of buzz on the festival circuit. Look out for it.
TRIANGLE is a unique development opportunity aimed at fostering creative collaboration between feature film writers, directors and producers in the North of England. The scheme is intended to support the development of writer-producer-director teams and new collaborative feature film projects over an extensive six-month mentoring initiative. Workshops in Leeds and Sheffield on 15th December. For more details http://bit.ly/gKT3W5
This year’s winners of the BAF awards were announced at a ceremony hosted by Barry Purves on Saturday night at a packed Pictureville Cinema. Now in its 17th year, the awards are the climax of the Bradford Animation Festival. For full details of the award winners click here.
The 17th edition of one of Europe’s biggest animation festivals is now on and the awards for the best animation work of the past year will be presented at an awards ceremony on Saturday 13 November at 7:30pm, hosted by the great animator Barry Purves. The nominated films are being screened throughout the week in each category. For more details and the shortlist go to BAF Awards. It’s a great night, and don’t miss the reception at 7pm.
Filmmaker Neil bell presents an opportunity to contribute towards the fundraising of a new feature documentary on the pirates of Somalia.
For more details visit http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rabotat/fish-n-ships
The Arbor, based on the life of Bradford born Andrea Dunbar, won the award for Best British Newcomer for director Clio Barnard at the London Film Festival last night. Jury member, screenwriter, Tony Grisoni commented: “This film, which touched all of us, both challenges conventional filmmaking and at the same time engages with real lives. A stunning debut.” Barnard also won the Sutherland Award for most original and imaginative feature. Andrea Dunbar shot to fame with her play Rita, Sue and Bob Too! that launched at the Royal Court and subsequently made as a film directed by Alan Clarke. Andrea died aged 27 in 1990.
First time filmmakers wanted to make a film in 48 hours for the 48 Hour Film Challenge!
Bradford City of Film is bringing you the event of 2010! With financial support from Screen Yorkshire and delivered by Fabric and Studio of the North, Bradford City of Film is organising the ultimate – a 48 Hour Film Challenge.
Visit the Bradford City Of Film website for more information.
This is England 1986 the TV series that follows on from the BAFTA award-winning This is England, starts Transmission on Channel 4 on Tuesday 7 September. “When I finished This Is England I had a wealth of material and unused ideas that I felt very keen to take further – audiences seemed to really respond to the characters we created and out of my long standing relationship with Film4 and Channel 4 the idea for a television serial developed. Not only did I want to take the story of the gang broader and deeper, I also saw in the experiences of the young in 1986 many resonances to now – recession, lack of jobs, sense of the world at a turning point. Whereas the film told part of the story, the TV serial will tell the rest.” – Shane Meadows
Screen Yorkshire is calling for applications from writers and producers under two new funding priorities aimed at supporting the development of high-quality film and moving image media activity in the Yorkshire and Humber region: First Sparks up to £1,500 and Spark Plus up to £10,000. For more details go to Screen Yorkshire
Deadline 3 September
A chance to get your name on a new film for as little as $5
http://www.indiegogo.com/project/widget/7468
To be directed by Peter Kershaw
