Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival is one of the best-known international showcases and meeting points for emerging talent, and is the leading UK gateway to the world’s most prestigious short film and animation awards: the BAFTAs, Oscars®, European Film Awards and Cartoon d’Or. The festival presents a unique opportunity for industry and creatives to … Continue reading
The BFI has put up £2.5m to support 15 film and production companies via a new scheme, entitled the Production Company Vision awards 2013 – 15. The awards will provide up to £200k per company for the next two years, allowing film businesses to develop new projects by maintaining momentum on development activity across a … Continue reading
Want to be in with a chance to have your film viewed by the major players in the film industry and win £10,000? Then this is the last call for entries to the RSFC 2013 (reed.co.uk Short Film Competition). Budding film makers have 6 weeks remaining to make a 3-minute film around the theme of … Continue reading
Fred Rowson has been a stalwart presence in the Soho Shorts office for the better part of two years. Lately, though, he’s been abandoning us to – shock – work on some projects of his own: music videos. As we face a future of having nobody to make irritating jokes and correct our grammar, we … Continue reading
The Holland Animation Film Festival 2013 is calling for entries. The competitions are open for films that had their premiere after January 1, 2012. The deadline is 1 January 2013! Click here for information how to apply. The 10th edition will take place in March (20 – 24) when the old centre of Utrecht will … Continue reading
It’s all change in 2013 for those stalwarts of the London film scene, straight 8. From Cannes to Edgar Wright and back, the filmmaking phenomenon, started in 1999, is building up to its first foray into feature filmmaking. In their own words: we are attempting to make the first straight 8 feature film, working with … Continue reading
Returning this January, for its 10th year, the London Short Film Festival is the home of esoteric, independent short cinema. Shepherded, as ever, by the erstwhile Philip Ilson, LSFF is partnered with London’s top film bodies, from BAFTA to Underwire to the British Council, and this year promises to be as full as ever. 2013′s … Continue reading
Only a couple of months ago Vimeo launched a new initiative to help its contributors earn money. The video streaming site, which more than 85 million users, has introduced a virtual Tips Jar for its community to make donations to filmmakers. “Creators have asked us for quite some time to help them monetise their work, … Continue reading
Submissions to the 3rd edition of Open City Docs Fest (20-23 June 2013) are now OPEN. Mon 17 Dec 2012 – Early Bird Mon 28 Jan 2013 – Regular Mon 4 March 2013 – Late Open City Docs Fest is a live festival devoted to exploring the power of documentary film; challenging, exploring and expanding … Continue reading
See No Evil, bi-monthly event for all animators, designers and directors is an initiative from Thiago Maia and James Wignall highly talented creatives who have animated, directed and designed work for a list of very impressive clients. This year’s Xmas Event will be a double show with Nomint and Animade invited as a keynote speaker. Tuesday, … Continue reading