About Yellobric

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Yellobric was set up in 2011 to enable sustainable, long-term economic growth through education in the developing world.
They enrich the lives of thousands of school children in sub-Saharan Africa, many of whom have never had the educational materials to achieve literacy. Leveraging modern technology, they deliver educational texts in a low-cost and sustainable manner to where they are needed most.

Putting a library of eBooks in the hands of developing world children for under £100.

Yellobric is currently focusing on the wide scale distribution of eLiterature as a low cost and effective way of providing developing world children with thousands of eBooks and other educational tools. These are deployed through partner charities with existing operations in schools and communities across the developing world. Yellobric has nine schemes in operation across sub-Saharan Africa. In total 49 devices have been deployed, each with a library of between 400 and 1,600 eBooks. In their first year Yellobric were able to deliver eBooks at around 40p per eBook. For more information: http://www.yellobric.com

Videos: https://vimeo.com/user14252292

Yellobric ltd

128 Buckingham Palace Road

London

SW1W 9SA

Behind The Scenes Of Total Hell – Launches 22nd April

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BTSOTH Main Logo

Behind the Scenes of TOTAL HELL is a feature length mockumentary about a film production, gone wrong. The film follows hapless, egocentric film director “Jamie Gunn” and friends through their filmmaking exploits. The brainchild of filmmaker Andy Wilton, a promos director from the North East of England. The film is based on many of the incidents and bizzarities Andy had witnessed, suffered and caused within the industry. “Behind the Scenes of TOTAL HELL” will be launched free online on April 22nd.  You can see the trailer here

http://youtu.be/KH3-xe2j9X4

The film is being supported by SHOWFILMFIRST and has featured in the Guardian.

Full details can be found on their website

www.btsoth.co.uk

 

Kino Shorts 31: North West Short Film & Networking Event

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Announcing the next Kino Manchester Shorts event at the Three Minute Theatre. Full details can be found on the facebook invite here

https://www.facebook.com/events/504552029609029/

Kino at 3MT DETAILS:
Mon 25th March
Doors open 7pm / start 7.30 pm
£5.00 full price
£4.00 concessions (students / unemployed – Id /evidence must be presented).

Participating filmmakers £3 (unless a donation was made when film was submitted in which case the participating filmmaker will have free admission).

Advance reservations recommended by emailing John as seats are limited – but not essentlal as tickets will be available on the door.See more

The Three Minute Theatre

Afflecks Arcade, 35-39, Oldham Street, M1 1JG Manchester, United Kingdom

Kino 49 Coming Soon

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Kino 49 is coming up on Wednesday 27th March from 7.30 with another collection of great shorts. There are no themes and no pre-selection of the films they show. They ask only that films be under 6 minutes, on dvd, and include the Kino London logo (just for the screening). They also stipulate that the filmmaker should be there on the night, of course,… to stand up and say “Hi, I made this!” If you’d like to screen at Kino #49 drop Laura a line at screen@kinolondon.com. She’ll need your name, the title and duration of your film and some contact details. The Kino logos are available to download here http://www.kinolondon.com/about/want-to-screen/. The details for the night are Wednesday 27th March at the HORSE HOSPITAL, Colonnade, Bloomsbury London WC1N 1JD Nearest tube: Russell Square (Piccadilly Line) Doors at 7:30pm, films start 8:15pm £4 entry, £3 with flyer (home-printed flyers accepted!) Free Popcorn. The facebook invite is here

https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/events/423379924422464/

 

Rockkiss Digital Media Entertainment release their new game Grump’s Quest on Kickstarter

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Grump’s Quest on Kickstarter

Digital animation and VFX studio Rockkiss Digital Media Entertainment are launching a new cinematic adventure game titled ‘Grump’s Quest’ to the crowd funding site, Kickstarter.com. Destined for the PC and Mac with versions also planned for the mobile tablets the game will utilise all the power of next generation platforms. The inspiration hails from the landmark games of the past like the amazing Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee, also coincidently created by a VFX company. The game will take the form of a side scrolling adventure utilising incredibly detailed artwork, intercut with some amazing animated cinematic sequences. However, the game is far from being just an interactive movie. Grump’s Quest will host a wealth of highly developed and strong characters in the format of immersive and strategic game play. Of note on this project is Rockkiss’s desire to open up the development of the game to its backers and there are case studies on much of the production pipeline on their website.

http://www.rockkiss.co.uk/Projects_Grumps_Quest.html

The idea of creating a new world with new characters and opening up the process to the players at an early stage is very unusual. There will also be a great challenge in developing the game for the large array of different mobile formats there are now. However, Rockkiss are confident in having a strong team of industry veterans and feel they are uniquely placed to deliver a landmark game.
So for anyone with an interest in animation, VFX or games look out for Grump’s Quest on Kickstarter.com and get involved.

 Grump’s Quest on Kickstarter

Grump’s Quest now live on Kickstarter! The direct link:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/178285878/grumps-quest

Sixth Wimbledon Shorts Film Festival 2013

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Sixth Wimbledon Shorts Film Festival, Saturday 29th June 2013. Terrific line-up of judges:

•    Lila Rawlings: Development Editor, Film4
•    Andrew Pulver: Film Editor, The Guardian
•    Manu Luksch: artist and filmmaker
•    Dominic Buttimore: Director, Th1ng Animation
•    Nick Brimble, actor
•    Derek Malcolm: film critic
•    Avie Luthrie: BAFTA-nominated film director (“Mad, Bad and Sad”)
•    Julia Blackman, co-founder and Executive Producer of Scion Films
•    Allisa Ferrier, Acquisitions Executive, Artificial Eye
•    Nick Toon, Vice President, UK Public Policy, Time Warner

Wimbledon Shorts is dedicated to showcasing new and innovative work in film and video from around the world. Whether your film is narrative driven, animated or experimental, we’re looking for films that challenge or shift the boundaries of conventional filmmaking. Have a shot at getting your film screened. Just so long as it’s under 15 minutes.

Submission details at: http://www.wimbledonshorts.com
Submission deadline: 31st March 2013

Kino 48 Coming Soon

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Kino 48 is coming up on Wednesday 27th February from 7.30 with another collection of great shorts. There are no themes and no pre-selection of the films they show. They ask only that films be under 6 minutes, on dvd, and include the Kino London logo (just for the screening). They also stipulate that the filmmaker should be there on the night, of course,… to stand up and say “Hi, I made this!” If you’d like to screen at Kino #48 drop Laura a line at screen@kinolondon.com. She’ll need your name, the title and duration of your film and some contact details. The Kino logos are available to download here http://www.kinolondon.com/about/want-to-screen/. The details for the night are Wednesday 27th February at the HORSE HOSPITAL, Colonnade, Bloomsbury London WC1N 1JD Nearest tube: Russell Square (Piccadilly Line) Doors at 7:30pm, films start 8:15pm £4 entry, £3 with flyer (home-printed flyers accepted!) Free Popcorn The facebook invite is here

https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/events/507743839278462/

News About Rushes Soho Shorts 2013

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For many years we have helped spread the word about Rushes Soho Shorts, an excellent short film festival held every year in London. Unfortunately, there won’t be one this year and we wanted to forward on their message on this and to thank them for some great films and events.

“Sadly we have to announce that we will not be holding RSSF 2013. The festival has been a passionate commitment for 14 years; the decision has not been easy to make. We sincerely THANK YOU for your support, for entering your films, for coming to our screenings and events. We’ve had a huge amount of fun meeting everyone over the years and truly appreciate all the films that have been entered for consideration – whether shortlisted or not. Having had the opportunity to see everyone’s work has been a huge privilege and biggest highlight of our year, each year. We want to keep our festival family together. While the festival is discontinued the social media sites will remain – continuing to promote news, screenings and events from the short film world and the festival community. There may even be the occasional event we put together. But that is all to come. For now please join us below to stay in contact…

Join us in our new LinkedIn Group: http://linkd.in/UcDNrH

Follow us on our Facebook Fan Page: www.facebook.com/rushessohoshorts

Follow on Twitter @Sohoshorts: http://twitter.com/#!/sohoshorts

Follow us on our Website/Blog here: www.sohoshorts.com

We hope you have a very festive December. Please stay in touch. Keep making shorts!

Yours as always,

The Soho Shorts Team.”

Greenhorn At The Dugout

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Greenhorn Short Film Festival is happy to announce a short film programme to be screened at The Dugout, an affiliated Inclusive Women’s Arts Festival. The screening will take place on Saturday 2nd March 2013 at the Hoxton Arches between 11.30am – 5.30pm. The film programme will run alongside a day of inclusive workshops, exhibitions, stalls and collaborative projects. The Dugout is organised and run collaboratively by women with and without learning disabilities and Barnet Mencap.

The Dugout aims to…

>provide a platform for female creativity

>support women with learning disabilities to better access artistic opportunities

>provide a space for women to collaborate and share skills

For further details please go to: www.thedugoutfestival.com

 

SCI-FI-LONDON 48 Hour Film Challenge

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Over the last four years the SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival has run a 48hour Film Challenge and we have had over 380 films completed, many of which have gone to other film festivals and been broadcast on TV. The challenge takes place a few weeks before the film festival so they can judge all the entries and the winning films can be screened at the festival. The jury this year includes Benedict Cumberbatch (SHERLOCK), Brad Wyman (Producer, MONSTER) and Guillermo Del Toro.

ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

CHALLENGE STARTS 10.00AM, SAT 6 APRIL

Taking part is easy. Get a crew together, scout some locations, prep your cast and be ready to make a 5 minute short film in just 48 hours. They will ask your team to come to the BFI Southbank on Saturday 6 April at 10.00am where they give you the TITLE of the film you will make, some DIALOGUE that one of your characters must say to screen, and a list of PROPS that must be seen in the film. They also give you an optional scientific theme… this could be nano-tech, cloning, gene-splicing…or something a little more “fringe”. Once you have all your elements, you have until Monday morning to return the completed movie to them. You can either deliver it to the BFI or send it via the Internet (wetransfer).

It is free to take part and you just need to register in advance on their site

http://www.sci-fi-london.com/48-hour-film-challenge