London Feminist Film Festival – Coming This Week!

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The London Feminist Film Festival celebrates feminist filmmakers past and present. The first festival is 29 Nov – 2 Dec 2012.

The London Feminist Film Festival was set up as a response to the underrepresentation of women in the film industry, as well as to the lack of films addressing feminist issues and the fact that the representation of women on screen is often narrow and stereotypical. They want to celebrate women creatives whilst ensuring that this feminist ethos also extends to the films they show. The festival will be a celebration of feminist films past and present. Their aim is to inspire discussion about feminism and film, to support women directors, and to get feminist films seen by a wider audience.

They are pleased to announce the very first London Feminist Film Festival, which will take place at Hackney Picturehouse over the long weekend of 29 November to 2 December 2012. They will be screening feminist shorts and feature films from women directors around the world, including films by up-and-coming directors as well as feminist classics. Each film session will be accompanied by a panel discussion featuring prominent filmmakers, feminists, academics, and arts critics.

General information
Dates: Thursday 29 November to Sunday 2 December 2012
Venue: Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, London E8 1HE, UK

Selling Your Short Films Online

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CALLING ALL LONDON FILMMAKERS – SELLING YOUR SHORT FILMS ONLINE.

A new website has launched called www.londonshortfilms.com. Set up by filmmakers for filmmakers it enables the best of London short filmmaking to be sold via download or streaming. The short films must be made by London-based directors, or shot in London.

The filmmaker receives 75% of the purchase price (top price £2 per film). It’s a non-exclusive deal, and extras can easily be added to the film offer. The system of accounting is quick and transparent with constant access to your account.

“The site has come about after personal experience as a maker of short films. I hope we can empower new and established filmmakers with this site.”

(Jeremy Wooding, filmmaker, site co-founder)

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

2013 Bristol Shakespeare Festival

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The Bristol Shakespeare Festival is a Community Interest Company (CIC), approaching it’s 10th season in 2013 (Friday 28th of June – Sunday 14th of July) and run by a team of dedicated volunteers, passionate about bringing the freshest, most exciting productions of Shakespeare’s plays to some of Bristols’s most beautiful and unusual spaces every summer.

They are striving to continue to programme the highest quality touring productions, which has been the mainstay of their festival since it’s conception. But their primary target for 2013 is to build partnerships, coordinate events and explore new performances and projects, to foster a stronger and more sustainable relationship with the Bristol cmmunity and engage with an ever-increasing and diverse audience.

Their ‘Shakespearances’ involve a diversity of media, from flashmob Shakespeare, bard-busts, film, stand-up comedy, graffiti, queer theatre, Shakespeare in sign, symposiums, art, music and pubs!

For information on the fesival, please contact Sophie Gould at info@bristolshakespeare.org.uk or visit www.bristolshakespeare.com or like them on facebook here https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bristol-Shakespeare-Festival/225392534139919 or follow them on Twitter @BristolBardFest

cgiCITY event; a presentation by VFX maestro Andrew Whitehurst (Double Negative)

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!LAST MINUTE ANNOUNCEMENT!

a presentation by Soho based, leading Visual Effects company – DOUBLE NEGATIVE


‘MAKING THE UNREAL REAL’ (Computer Generated VFX for Film)

Thursday 15th November (7pm)

Deloitte Stonecutter Theatre, Stonecutter Court, 1 Stonecutter Street, London EC4A 4TR

Andrew Whitehurst (Visual Effects Supervisor on Skyfall) will be giving cgiCITY network the full visual/technical low-down on how he does what he does.

For more details and to book on-line, click
here.

Short Films Wanted for RotoReliefs screening & networking event

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Calling all filmmakers – do you have a short film that you are dying to show the world?

Rotoreliefs are looking for interesting short films (max 15mins) of any style and genre (from music videos, animation and documentary to experimental, comedy and fiction) to be screened at their wonderfully informal and lively SHORT FILM SCREENING & NETWORKING EVENT, held on the last Monday of every month @ The Rich Mix in Behtnal Green.

ROTORELIEFS is a platform for independent filmmakers and video artists to gather, to showcase films, and to share ideas, experiences, tips, methods and advice. Their aim is to help demystify and break down the barriers in the filming industry; to promote emerging filmmakers; and to inspire new filmmakers, by showcasing a broad spectrum of films from new, emerging and established talent, and by creating a dialogue between the audience and filmmaker.

Their wonderfully lively and informal monthly event always attracts interesting and interested individuals; promising a good crowd with a great vibe. They always invite the filmmakers to give a short Q&A after each film, and our commitment to screen all genres means there’s always something for everyone.

NEXT SCREENING DATES:
Monday 29 October
Monday 26 November

Share your masterpiece; revive a short you once made, give your new work a test screen, or come to toast the success of your latest creation!

To SUBMIT your work please go to: http://www.rotoreliefs.com/submission where you can download the submission form. They will contact all those whose films will be shown, and hope they will come along!

// The Rotoreliefs Team // www.rotoreliefs.com //

Kino Shorts 27 – Films Wanted Now!

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KINO SHORTS is back for the Autumn season starting Wed 10th October at the Black Lion for their monthly North West Showcase and Networking event.

Their nights promote the work of emerging filmmakers and take place in the cinema lounge at the Black Lion – a really cool place and creative hub for Manchester creatives. They are looking for films from Manchester and the North West, however, they will also consider films from around the UK as long as the filmmaker is able to attend the event or do a skype interview on the night. Films should be no longer than 20 mins and made within the last 12 months (ish); all categories and genres are elligible including, drama, documentary, animation, experimental, horror, music videos, DSR, mobile phone, lomogrophy films. Films for this night must be submitted by the end of September.

Kino is the longest running short film nights in Manchester and the North West, they’ve been running these nights for over fifteeen years in an assorment of venues, and their latest venue the Black Lion is centrally located and walkable from the centre of Manchester.

Venue: The Black Lion, 65 Chapel Street, Salford M3 5BZ
The venue is just 12 minutes walk from Piccadilly Gardens, 5 minutes from Victoria train station or just 2 minutes walk down Blackfriars Street, off Deansgate (across from the bottom of Market Street/St Mary’s Gate).

Doors 7.30 for 7.45pm start.

Urban Screen Presents Sparkle

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Urban Screen, BUFF & PlayVybz – Invite you to an Exclusive Advance Screening of Whitney Houston’s “SPARKLE” + Q&A at London’s Genesis Cinema. When Whitney Houston took up the role of Emma in “SPARKLE” the world was in high expectation of this star’s revival. This is why it is so poignant that she died before it was finished, and why this film is a tribute to her great talent and her legacy.
Urban Screen are bringing you an exclusive opportunity to watch “SPARKLE” before it goes on national release, at Genesis Cinema, Mile End Road, E1 on Thursday October 4 at 8.15pm.
The film will be followed by an industry Q&A. “SPARKLE” is set in the 1960s and tells the story of 3 sisters who form a girl group. They become local sensations with major label interest, but with fame comes challenges as the close knit family begins to fall apart.
The film includes stellar perfomances by Whitney Houston, Jordin Sparks (winner of US Idol) &
Cee Lo Green.
Tickets can be booked on 020 7780 2000.
Genesis Cinema is at 93-95 Mile End Road, Whitechapel, London E1 4UJ.

cgiCITY event summary – so many highlights

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Hi,

Want to say big thanks to anyone who came down to Non-Multiplex Cinema’s first cgiCITY event. Being the first, like the audience, I didn’t know what to expect.

cgiCITY 5/9/2012

It was really enlightening to see how Will Rockall and John Sellings, who gave the talk, broke down scenes in their films, going through some quite detailed steps. They were like the masked magicians. More…