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Secret City – Coming Soon

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Secret City, a documentary film about the City Of London, the Corporation that runs it and its role in the economic crisis.

As the economic crisis has drawn attention to the machinations of financial institutions, director, Michael Chanan, and writer, Lee Salter, have produced a feature length documentary film about the secretive institutions at the heart of the City of London and the impact these have on people’s lives.

The film is a story about the development of the Corporation of London through the ages, landing in the present. Using interviews with politicians, businessmen, vicars (including from Bethnal Green and Hackney), activists and analysts it tells the story of the consolidation of the City’s power in the world economy, its role in the crisis and its effects on people and institutions. The score includes original music by Simon Zagorski-Thomas and the Vaults Quartet. The film uses some impressive archive footage including William Raban’s MMX, Anthont Simmon’s Bow Bells, and the Dream of Toyland from 1907.

Having been previewed in Parliament, the Secret City is now rolling out across the country, with forthcoming screenings in London, Bristol, Brighton, Liverpool and elsewhere. See the web site for details www.secretcity-thefilm.com Contact: salter.lee@gmail.com

Promote Your Film At WatchReadReview

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WatchReadReview love promoting independent films and getting the word out there, get some interest pumping around your project. Too much time and credit is given to Hollywood productions and often they are not worthy of such praise. Independent films is where the true stories are and their aim is getting people to hear about, talk about and watch your story.
Unfortunately they are unable to do this for free but they do offer the low price of £8.99 GBP paid via PayPal.
For your money they will write an article on your film project, promoting the film. They will discuss the film itself, who is involved and some background information on the cast and crew in order to make my readers really feel like they know where this film has come from. They will provide links to the film’s website, your personal website (if you have one) and anywhere else you feel would be beneficial to you. They will also use only pre-approved trailers and pictures which you have selected.
They will then email you a copy of the article for you to have a look at and ask for changes in any areas you feel were not accurate before you pay.
Upon payment They will publish the article on the website and promote it through their social media connections e.g. Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon etc. Your article will remain on their website for people to read at their leisure.
They only ask for payment as this takes rather a large amount of time and without funding they are unable to devote that time due to work.
If you’re still interested then they would love to hear back from you! So email them on: watchreadreview@hotmail.co.uk

London Feminist Film Festivals – Submission Deadline Soon

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The London Feminist Film Festival is being held 29 November to 2 December 2012 at the Hackney Picture House. The festival aims to counterbalance the mainstream film industry’s narrow representation of women and its neglect of feminist issues by showing a season of feminist feature films, documentaries, and shorts made by women directors from around the world.

The London Feminist Film Festival will be a celebration of feminist film making and will showcase up and coming women directors as well as screening rarely-seen feminist classics. The films will be feminist in their representation of women and /or their handling of feminist issues.

The deadline is 31 August 2012 and these are the guidelines

• Women directors from any country may enter.
• Films should deal with feminist issues and/or be feminist in their representation of women.
• Films can be of any length or genre, and from any year.
• Non-English language films must be presented in English-subtitled versions.

All the details can be found here http://londonfeministfilmfestival.com/

£100k Games for Film competition launched

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Games For Film
A major competition to use computer games to promote films has launched created by the University of Abertay Dundee, D-Media and IC tomorrow in association with Lionsgate UK and the BFI (British Film Institute).

Four £25,000 prizes are available in the Games for Film contest. Two prizes are for games which innovatively promote the upcoming theatrical release of two exciting new British feature films the BFI is offering early access to, Spike Island and Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers, both of which were co-financed through the BFI Film Fund and are currently in post-production.

The two Lionsgate UK prizes will prototype how games can be used for a film’s cinematic or home entertainment release. The titles available for development for the Lionsgate prizes could include Dirty Dancing, Great Expectations, The Expendables 2, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D and many more films.

Abertay University’s Prototype Fund is funding the prizes and working with the Technology Strategy Board’s IC tomorrow programme and the D-Media Network to deliver the Games for Film contest.

Games for Film invites applications from UK-based games developers interested in developing new ways of using games to promote films and build an audience.

The first prize for a BFI-supported film will go to the best entry for promoting Spike Island, which is the second feature film from director Mat Whitecross (Mat’s first feature was Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, 2010). The film follows 72 hours in the lives of five young lads from Manchester who travel to Spike Island to see their idols, The Stone Roses, play their legendary 1990 gig.

The second prize for a BFI-supported film is for the best entry promoting the theatrical feature documentary Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers. Produced by Academy Award-nominated Mike Lerner and Sundance–winning director Havana Marking, the film entertainingly reveals the fascinating underworld of diamond stealing, smuggling and fencing, using innovative and striking rotoscope animation to disguise the thieves’ true identities.

Applications will be judged on whether their idea could be used by other content providers, its market potential, readiness for consumer trial by early 2013, and the potential of the applicant to be developed as a successful content partner for the film industry.

Full information on all four prizes is available at https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/games-for-films-contest/overview

The deadline for submissions is 20 September 2012.

Imaginox Lab – Applications open

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Imaginox Labs at London’s East End Film Festival is taking place on Friday 6th July and is now open for Applications

A project – based lab for 5 filmmakers with a current feature project. Selected teams will present their project to a panel of experts including a sales agent, distributor, financier, script developer and a social media expert. They will receive feedback on how best to take their film to market.
Space is limited to five attendees. RSVP becky@imaginox.co.uk with ‘Project Development Labs 2012’ in the subject line. The deadline is 27th June.

Further details can be found here www.imaginox.co.uk