Competition
Vote for The Retirement Village
The winners for tonight’s Bafta Awards, maybe sealed in their envelopes and out of our hands, but you’ve still got the power to elevate a new filmmaker to award winning status. The BAFTA members panel has whittled down a plethora of entries to three nominees, which are now open to a public vote to decide [...]
Mixtape – Luke Snellin
I’m normally dubious of corporate short film competitions. You know, the ‘make a two second short featuring our brand in 14 minutes yada yada yada’. It was with trepidation then that I checked out the Virgin Media Shorts winner Mixtape by Luke Snellin. It came recommended by the wonderful Electric Literature magazine though so I [...]
Ctrl.Alt.Shift
As normal I’ve been a little slack in getting a post up about this, but that’s in no way a reflection of my enthusiasm.
Ctrl.Alt.Shift is a youth initiative that’s challenging young filmmakers (aged 18-25) to tackle the issues of poverty and injustice through their creativity. The five winning treatment directors will get the opportunity to [...]
Nobody’s Perfect
Nobody’s Perfect is a newly launched charity short film competition that’s open to 16 – 25 year olds interested in directing, producing, acting, writing or composing regardless of previous experience.
Submitted material will be judged by musician Sandi Thom (‘Punk Rocker’), actors Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter), Tom Hardy (Band of Brothers), JJ Feilds [...]
Hotel Harabati Competition
A few days ago it was my pleasure to interview French director Brice Cauvin about his feature debut, the excellent Hotel Harabati, which you may recall appeared in both Miss D’s and my top ten lists of 2007. I’ll be posting clips from the film and our interview in a few days, but right now [...]
Vote for Duelity!
Directors Notes’ friends Boca & Ryan Uhrich – DN076 – have rightly been nominated as finalists at FITC 2008 for their dual screen extravaganza DUELITY which automatic puts them up as an entry for the people’s choice awards – this is where you come in. Just go to http://awards.fitc.ca/pc, select DUELITY on the Motion Graphics [...]
Tracey Re:Fragmented
In an industry that is often cutthroat and ruthless, I think it is always worth giving publicity and a lot of respect to those artists that decide to give something back to all us fellow creative types. It is with this in mind I wanted to bring to everyones’ attention the great act of giving [...]
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