Inspiration and fuel for film makers

Glasgow Film Festival is on until the 22nd. If you are in the area do go and catch some films. Film festivals are great because they ought to show a large number of films shorts and features which don't normally get screened. If you write you should read a lot and if you are a film maker or have ambitions to be one then you should see lots of different films.

Saw Milk this week myself- fantastic.

Rushes Soho Shorts Festival - call for entries

The entry form for this year's Rushes Soho Shorts Festival can now be downloaded at http://www.sohoshorts.com/.

The festival provides many programmes and events for free, intending to encourage, inspire and promote talented filmmakers to the public and the huge number of production companies and creative organisations in and around London and the UK.It is also free to enter your film to the festival, sumbit it on DVD along with an entry form to: Rushes Soho Shorts, 66 Old Compton Street, London, W1D 4UH, UK.

Films can be submitted up until Thursday 23 April with the shortlisted films being announced early June and the full programme available from 1 July. The festival will open on Wednesday 22 July and will culminate, as is tradition, with the Rushes Awards hosted by Terry Christian on Thursday 30 July 2009.

Further information can be found at http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=7Ec_m&m=1cuCXlhybY4y01&b=leSFAqqe.jV2EqaaZddi3g.

Edinburgh International Film Festival submissons now open

just a wee reminder - go here

South African Links

The Writing Studio and ScreenAfrica they both look like good starting points.

down under film makers

Bloggy silence due to extended trip away from shores of UK. Been doing family stuff in Sydney but picked up leaflets about 2 different lots of filmcourses and seen posters for film festivals all over - so the film culture here seems pretty lively. One terrible 'artist video' at the Contempoary Art Gallery though - please would someone legislate to keep cameras away from 'artists'. The public needs protection !

Sydney Film School

International Film School Sydney

Flickerfest

BBC Blast Live Film Festival

Film festival for 13-19 year olds. Deadline 17th October. Also go there to find out about the blast film bursary for 16-19 year olds.

The Adders

a new award and film festival for filmmakers under the age of 19. Email by the 27th Sept for an application form - theadders@adderfilms.co.uk - via Netribution

Rushes Soho Shorts

Deadline 25th April more info here (be patient slow website to load)

Film Live Rushes Festival Stirling

Deadline 22nd April - more info here.

Call for submissions

Film live is holding a film festival in the MacRobert Stirling. More info here.

EIFF gets £1.8million from UK Film Council

"The council's cash injection will be allocated over the next three years and is designed to bolster the Scottish festival's ambitions to become a leading event of discovery, showcasing new films and talent.It marks the single biggest investment by the U.K. Film Council in a film festival to date and is the first from its newly established 4.5 million pound ($9.1 million) festival fund."

More from Variety

The good news is all this extra money is to invest in new talent. Hopefully with the move to June EIFF will become even more significant in the industry in the UK.

Edinbugh International Film Festival submissions open

Just a wee reminder as they have come forward with their change of date. Info here.

short film writing and submission deadlines

Light and Shade have a great guide

Edinburgh International Film Festival

submissions are open for 2008. Due to the change of dates from August to June the submissions process starts and closes much earlier.

Call for film entries

Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival 5th Sept

Where I've been all these months Hallam Foe EIFF opening party 2007 - well for about an hour!

Very Short Movies call

for the Very Short Movies Festival in Hollywood

Also the AFI (American Fim Institute) has a call for entries.

The Way We Played

Just a wee reminder that this short produced by Susan Nickalls will be shown at the Leith Short Film Festival on Sunday at 10.30pm - free entry. At the Granary on the Shore (formerly the Lighthouse).

I'm going to do an interview with Susan next week for the blog.

Raindance Film Festival

submissions open until 1st June - submission form available here.

YA TUBE!

HAVE YOU GOT A MINUTE?
At The Leith Agency we’re always on the look-out for the freshest writing and film-making talent in Scotland. We’ve come up with the idea of YaTube to flush that talent out.YaTube is a short film competition we’re sponsoring as part of The Leith Festival.No more, no less.You can shoot it on anything you like, from a Bolex to a mobile phone.As an ad agency, we work in short time-lengths and we like ideas you can describe in a single sentence.So here’s one final short sentence from us:You’ve got sixty seconds to live.For further details about the competition go to www.leith.co.uk or call The Leith Agency, 0131 561 8600