We are delighted to announce the 2006 call for entries to our film festival...

Talent Circle
SUPER SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2006

The UK's largest admission free touring short film festival will take place over five days in London from 17 July to 21 July 2006, followed by a tour to major UK cities in the autumn.

But first we need your films...

*** WE ARE NOW CALLING FOR ENTRIES ***
Early deadline: 12 May 2006
Later deadline: 6 June 2006

VISIT THE FESTIVAL WEB SITE FOR SUBMISSION DETAILS:
http://www.supershorts.org.uk

Coming Up - Channel 4

COMING UP is the only talent scheme currently in the UK where new film-makers have the opportunity to make an authored drama with a guaranteed network broadcast. Now in its sixth year, IWC and Channel4 continue their commitment to innovation, experimentation and new voices, and for the second year we will be in partnership with Skillset, adding valuable training elements to the production.

This autumn we want to make 8 challenging and individual films from the best new talent in the UK. We’ll be looking for bold ideas, strong voices, originality, ambition and wit. Each film will be for a ½ hour C4 slot and must:

· Push boundaries in a way that wouldn’t / couldn’t be done in mainstream drama
· Be contemporary
· Be shot in 4 days on a limited budget
· Be largely, but not exclusively, young and urban

This is not an entry level scheme – but for writers and directors building a track record and a career in film and television drama. Submissions from multi-cultural and regionally-based filmmakers are encouraged. Successful applicants will receive a fee of around £3,000.

THE SCHEME IS ONLY OPEN TO WRITERS AND DIRECTORS WITHOUT A PRIMETIME TV DRAMA CREDIT.

THE CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS TUESDAY 18th APRIL 2006.

If you have any general queries please refer to the IWC, RDF or Channel 4 websites and links: www.iwcmedia.co.uk, www.rdfmedia.com/jobs/coming_up.asp

Visual Arts Commission

Due to an overwhelming rush of last minute responses we have decided to extend the deadline for our Visual Arts Commission.

The new deadline for submissions is 5pm, Tuesday 21st March 2006. Interviews will be held on 28th March 2006.

Please note that the commission is not restricted to artists based in the South East region. Apologies to those of you who have rushed to meet the prior deadline of the 7th March, if you wish to resubmit please feel free to do so, if not we will keep your current submission on file and accept this as your final application.

Visual Arts Commission - call for submissions
We are inviting submissions from an artist or artist group to create a digital artwork or moving image piece in response to the fit-out of the space.
To apply, artists must have a track record of delivering high quality work. The winning commission will receive £4,250. This fee is to cover artists' fees, materials, and installation costs. Lighthouse will provide support to the artist in the development of the work, where appropriate.

For more information go to http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/opportunity/arguscomm.htm

Cannes Attendance 2006

Cannes Attendance 2006

Screen South will be awarding a total of 8 people travel bursaries of £250 to attend the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

Would all individuals and organisations wishing to apply please complete the Cannes Application Form, one for each person applying, and submit it by:

12 noon on the 17th March 2006.

All short-listed applicants will be expected to attend a Cannes Induction Day on:

Monday 27th March 2006

Where interviews will also take place.

The Cannes Bursary will be a cash award to assist with your Cannes expenses. Those who receive the bursary will be eligible for on-site market support & guidance and pre-market training.


Kind Regards

Kate Smith
Reception and Administrative Assistant

2006 BRIGHTON FESTIVAL – CALL FOR FILMS

This is a first call for submissions to the Final Cut short film screening events in this year’s Brighton Festival, taking place from May 6th – 28th inclusive.

Final Cut is one of the UK’s most successful independent short film exhibitors and will be organising the festival's main film event which includes a special ‘first-film’ section for the first time. During the festival month, they expect to showcase over 70 new shorts from local, UK and international film-makers and introduce audiences to innovative image-based performances such as ‘Netjacking’, ‘ReelSpeak’ and ‘Oddfellows Casino’. They are also organising several additional film-related events, including a ‘speed-pitching for documentaries’ day (more about that later).

All screenings include their innovative ‘Trailer Trash’ section of teasers for new and soon-to-be-completed shorts, plus film-inspired VJ sets from top Brighton video artists.

If you are interested in submitting a film and/or trailer, please visit their website at www.finalcut.gb.com for advance details of the screening programme and a downloadable submission form.

The deadline for receipt of films is Friday, April 21st.

Meeting moved to Thursday lunchtime, Falmer House

We've had to move the meeting from Wednesday to Thursday Lunchtime, lets aim at around 1.15 in either the Debating Chamber if I can get it or the Common Room if I can't.

It'll be a pretty informal chat about projects for the term so do bring a sandwich,

See you there,

Jon

Today, 21st Century 3D announced the introduction of the 3DVX3

Foregoing tape, a unique direct to disk recording system captures RAW CCD data in 4:4:4 RGB color space at 10 bits per channel, producing remarkably vivid 3D images at up to 1280x720 per eye, 24fps progressive. This unique capture method provides industry leading dynamic range and color fidelity, more akin to motion picture film than digital video. The genlock synchronized system features two entirely discreet image channels simultaneously captured by 6 CCDs, two on board CPUs running Mac OS X with over 2.8ghz of processing power, 2gb of RAM, 8gb of flash memory and a maximum record time of one hour per eye on paired sets of 100gb removable 7200 RPM drives.

Link

January already

I trust you've had gainful christmas period, toiling away at your
studies. I plan to bring us all together to discuss projects for the
term on Wednesday the 18th at 5.30, if I can book a room in the union
this afternoon, I will email you again to confirm.

If you're in need of a little academic respite, SuperShorts are
popping into Brighton on Monday:

Next stop: BRIGHTON, NEXT MONDAY - 16 Jan
Hanbury Ballroom, 83 St. Georges Rd, Brighton, BN2 1EF
Doors open at 7pm, films start at 8pm. Admission FREE. Running time:
90 mins. Followed by Talent Circle networking.

http://www.supershorts.org.uk

The Brighton Fringe Basement

As part of CINECITY The Brighton Film Festival, The Brighton Fringe Basement turns into an underground cinema showcasing a diverse range of artists’ film and video. The screenings from Sat 26 Nov to Sat 3 Dec are completely free.
Visit www.cine-city.co.uk for full details.

Supported by Arts Council England

Highlights include:

IAIN FORYSTH and JANE POLLARD Fri 2 Dec 6pm
Artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard make remarkable work about popular culture and ordinary life. They are best known for their pioneering re-enactment projects including A ROCK N ROLL SUICIDE (ICA, London) recreating David Bowie’s final performance as Ziggy Stardust.
Michael Connor, Head of Exhibitions at BFI South Bank introduces a selection of their film-based work including WALKING AFTER ACCONCI (REDIRETED APPROACHES) which references an early video by Vito Acconci and features Plan B; and FILE UNDER SACRED MUSIC, their controversial remake of an infamous bootleg video documenting The Cramps playing live for the patients at Napa State Mental Institute in 1978.

A MOVIE Sat 3 Dec 6pm
Some of the most exciting international artists have been commissioned to make new short films for the cinema. Ian White, a writer and curator (including previously at Lux Cinema) introduces this sneak preview before the works go on tour in the new year. Artists include: Daria Martin, Jimmy Robert, Mark Leckey, Mika Taanila, Imogen Stidworthy and Yann Fudong.

AVANTOSCOPE Tues 29 Nov 6pm and Sat 3 Dec 8pm
Brighton-based curator and film–maker Ian Helliwell was invited to make the selection for this year’s Avanto Media Arts Festival in Helsinki. He presents for CINECITY a two-programme ‘best of selection’ which gives a great opportunity to see the latest international film and video work.

GRANT GEE Fri 2 Dec 8pm
Brighton-based film-maker Grant Gee balances personal work on experimental documentaries with creative commercial work as a director. Here he presents a selection of his work from 1998 - 2005 including 400 ANARCHISTS and an extract from his Radiohead documentary MEETING PEOPLE IS EASY.