Wednesday Jan 11th Hanbury Ballroom, Kemptown, Brighton. 7.30pm £2.50

Jeremy Howe, Head of Short Films for BBC Drama, will be there to co-present the winning film and the runners up from the New Filmmakers Award. Following the screenings Jeremy will be ‘in conversation’ offering advice and lifting the lid on what makes a short film stand out to him.

Cineville is supported by Screen South; Brighton and Hove City Council; Creative Brighton, SEEDA and Hotel du Vin & Bistro.

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News release 26/12/05

Screen South Digital Short The Karmic Wheel of Doo Doo shown on CANAL+

After being selected to appear as part of the Super Shorts Film Festival, this 3 minute absurdist comedy was spotted by one of CANAL+’s team at the Brief Encounters festival back in November and aired on French national TV on January 23rd. Brothers Richard & Robert Hull produced the short as part of the 2005 Digital Shorts scheme and are delighted with their film being purchased by CANAL+, after a series of screenings at various festivals. They now plan to enter the film into more fesivals in 2006 and hope that their French television debut will generate even greater interest.

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News release 21/12/05

BBC Hampshire Online Film Festival

The BBC’s Hampshire and Dorset Where I Live websites would like to invite local film-makers to take part in this year’s online film festival, and have extended the deadline for entries to April 30th 2006. The festival, now in its fourth year, is held in partnership with Harbour Lights Picturehouse and Southampton film charity City Eye. It is a celebration of talent and an opportunity for local film-makers to show their work. Film and media students, as well as independent film makers and individuals are all welcome to take part and submit entries in four film genres – comedy, drama, factual and animation.
For full details, click here

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News release 21/12/05

Innovative job share scheme launched for women in film

A groundbreaking initiative to help women film practitioners returning to work was recently announced today by Skillset, Sector Skills Council. Timeshift will provide job sharing roles on film productions for teams of eight women with an allowance paid towards child care cost in addition to their salaries. The unique scheme is a part of A Bigger Future, the UK Film Skills Strategy, a five year joint initiative by Skillset and UK Film Council, funded by lottery money and industry investment, to address creative and skills development within the film industry. To find out more click here or visit www.skillset.org/timeshift

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Screen South Digital Short English Patience continues successful run…

Following on from its premiere screening at Cannes earlier in the year, Trevor de Silva’s English Patience continues to perform well on the festival circuit. Most recently it has been selected for the prestigious 18th Leeds International Film Festival in the Best of UK Shorts section. Prior to this it was also selected for the Super Shorts Film Festival in London. Finally, the short has screened as part of a programme put together by Short Circuit Films for the Film Tent at the Reading and Leeds Music Festivals.

In addition to his success with English Patience, Screen South-supported writer Trevor de Silva has now got his feature, the family comedy POLICE DOG in development at Little Bird. Their credits include Bridget Jones I and 2 and Croupier. Congratulations Trevor !

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‘Real Life’ wins out at The Seaward 14th Chichester Film Festival

March of the Penguins, which had its UK premiere at The Seaward 14th Chichester Film Festival, scooped the top prize in the Festival’s Audience Award, coming joint first with another documentary, Mad Hot Ballroom, which enjoyed its English Premiere at the Festival.

To read more about Chichester's most succesful film festival to date, part funded by Screen South, click here

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£3 Million push to open cinema-goers eyes to wider choice of films over next three years

Bids invited to run National Lottery funded scheme to boost cinema attendances and develop audiences for new lower budget British and specialist films . . . more

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News release 25/11/05

First 2006 Digital Short Wraps!

Rug, written by Ewan Kilgour, directed by Graham Page, produced by Hank Starrs is the first Screen South Digital Short to complete principal photography. Shot mainly on location in Oxford, Rug tells the fantasy tale of a world weary salesman whose timely attempt to sell his last rug leads to the chance for a woman in an abusive relationship to find a way out. Casting director Urvashi Chand brought in Linda Bellingham and Richard Graham to play the leads, supported by a fantastic crew put together by Hank. The shoot wrapped on schedule and on budget and we are all looking forward to seeing the rough cut in January.



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News release 25/11/05

Summerscreen on the BBC

The Summerscreen 1 minute movies made by young people from the region are now up on the BBC website. Click here to find out more. They will stay there for a long time according to the BBC!



News release 25/11/05

Want to have the chance of being represented at Cannes 2006?

Initialize Films will select at least one project by a writer based in the Screen South region for representation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. All you have to do is sign up for one of our evening or short screenwriting courses in London or Oxford and you may well end up having a one to one meeting with Ridley Scott's company Scott Free, one of the many meetings we organised in 2005. Visit www.initialize-films.co.uk for more information.

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News release 25/11/05

Writemoves - latest

Lighthouse has selected 8 writers, new to feature film writing to attend the Skillset supported Write Moves programme. The 8 writers will develop their feature ideas over a year with script editors Claire Moorsom and Emmanuel Oberg. The course will also include masterclasses and guests who will speaking about all the stages of getting a film made including distribution, writing to low budget, producer/director relationships, casting and the development process. Writers selected from the Screen South region are television writer Emilia di Girolamo, short film writer and feature editor David Wigram and short film writer and editor Sadie Mayne.

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News release 25/11/05

Shooting Drama - New course dates from OFVM

This level 3 course will be run by award winning short film maker Simon Hook. Students will be taught the main principals of drama production and the key roles of the production crew, as well as how to use OFVM’s production equipment. Click here for more or visit www.ofvm.org

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News release 25/11/05

Prague Trade Mission

Jo Nolan (CEO) and Jenny Cooper (Film Commissioner) led Screen South's successful trade mission to Prague and the Czech Republic (19-22 October), with the support of UK Trade and Investment. The objective was to introduce service industry companies from the region to their Czech counterparts. Find out more

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News release 25/11/05

2 Days Later Halloween screening results

Well done to all those all participated in this year's competition! (and also to those that didn't quite make the deadline in time). Thank you also to this year's Judges, Ken Colley, Phil Ilson, and Robert Morgan. The evening went very well. Click here to find out more. Full details will be updated soon on the www.2dayslater.co.uk website in the next few days.

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News release 25/11/05

BBC Film Network Showcasing New British Filmmaking Talent

BBC Film Network (www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork) - the interactive showcase for new British short filmmaking talent – launched as a full service on today with new features and a new generation of films including the online premiere of Joe Penhall’s The Undertaker starring Rhys Ifans.
Find out more.

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Skillset announces New Film Academies for UK Film Industry

A brand new network of screen academies to educate and train new filmmaking talent was announced today by Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the audio visual industries. Seven academies in England, Scotland, and Wales will share over £5m funding and will work together to provide new courses (including the first ever film MBA), summer schools, work placements, master classes, bursaries, online learning resources and a talent scout programme to help develop the brightest and the best . . . more

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News release 21/12/05

Sandwich Exchange Day Success

Screen South made further strides across the channel when they played host to students from the Nord-de-Calais region for the Journée d’échange Cinéma at Sandwich Technology School.

Jointly organised with regional delivery partner Kent Screen and Summerscreen, the film festival for young people in Kent, the day was in response to a visit by our own local students to the Festival de l’ Autre Cinema in Arras in 2004 where, having viewed a selection of films by both English and French students, Nadia Paschetto of Plan Sequence, and Patrice Soulier, College Charles Peguy d’Arras, were keen bring the pupils to our own shores.
Read all about the day here.

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News release 02/12/05

Gypo wins prestigious award!

Screen South supported low-budget feature film, Gypo, won the “Outstanding Achievement in Production” Award at The British Independent Film Awards 2005 on Wednesday night.

Rank outsiders, new filmmaker team of producer Elaine Wickham and writer/director Jan Dunn, who met on Screen South’ Good Foundations Programme in 2004, were stunned when the announcement was made at Hammersmith Palais in London on Wednesday night. The film will be released by Redbus in the UK in June 2006. The film is due to be released in the US also in 2006 by Wolfe releasing

Gypo is a dramatic feature film starring Pauline McLynn best known for her comedy role as Mrs Doyle in Brit TV’s Father Ted, here seen in a startlingly dramatic contrast to the familiar comedy roles she is known for. The Hollywood Reporter dubbed her “the outstanding Pauline McLynn”.

The film also stars Paul McGann, Rula Lenska and newcomer, Chloe Sirene who has gone on to work with director Paul Greengrass (Bourne Supremacy/Bloody Sunday) in his new movie, Flight 93, currently shooting at Pinewood.

The film was originally made as a calling card for the two newcomers but stunned critics at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival and has been winning accolades in competition at film festivals all over the world.

The producer/director team are represented in the UK by Sean Gascoine at Lou Coulson Associates and were successfully wooed by top LA agents William Morris at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

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News release 02/11/05

DIGITAL SHORTS TO GET CINECITY SCREENING

Once again Final Cut is part of Brighton's annual CINE CITY film festival and this year they have joined forces with Screen South to screen a collection of the latest Digital Shorts produced in our region.

Date: Wednesday, November 23rd
Venue: Hanbury Arms Ballroom, Kemptown, Brighton
Doors open: 8pm
Admission: £4

Final Cut has also been selected for the UK premiere of SOMEWHERE, a new short film starring Hugh Cornwell in his first film role which will be screening alongside the Digital Shorts programme. Hugh is a founder member and former front-man of seminal punk band, The Stranglers, and is currently touring with US punk icons, Blondie.

SOMEWHERE - Ben Thomas (2005)
A disturbing glimpse of the future in which internet gambling has become the new reality: an intrinsic part of life - and death.

PLENTY OF SPOONS - Simon Hook (2004)
A chance meeting with a young thug brings a disturbing resolution to a marital problem for elderly Jack

LOFTY LIFE - Josh Pulman (2004)
A disciple of film-maker Michael Moore sets off through her grungy loft life in search of a camera and love.

ONE MINUTE WONDER - ultra-shorts showcase (2005)
A selection of ultra-shorts from Final Cut's innovative One Minute Wonder film course.


For stills and synopses of films being shown www.finalcut.gb.com


SUPPORTED BY THE FILM COUNCIL, SCREEN SOUTH, LIGHTHOUSE ARTS & TRAINING, BRIGHTON FRINGE ARTS PRODUCTION, AWARDS FOR ALL, FACILITATE, KOMEDIA FACILITIES AND CITY CINEMA SCENE

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News release 25/10/05




CINECITY: The Brighton Film Festival welcomes Nick Cave for a special preview of his new film
 
Cine City is pleased to confirm that both John Hillcoat and Nick Cave will be present for a Q&A after The Proposition on Sat Dec 3rd 6.30pm.
 
The Proposition Adv 18
Sat 3 Dec - 6.30PM
Duke of York's, Brighton
 
For more details click here or call 01273 602 503

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News release 25/10/05

Screen South, Spice Factory and Lighthouse's Cineville present: SPIN-OFF
Saturday 26th November, 2pm-5pm at Sussex Arts Club.
£2 full £1.50 concessions

This is a networking event aimed at writers, directors and producers.

The event will start with a discussion by the Brighton based Vicious Circle Writing Group, who will be talking about their collaboration as writers and how to approach the development of scripts with your peer writers.
A pitching competition will then be held to give writers and directors a chance to pitch their feature ideas in one minute to a panel of film industry experts. The best pitch, voted by the panel, will win an 'Intensive Introduction to Screenwriting' course at Lighthouse for 2006. Producers are welcome to join the audience as you may just find the next best movie idea being pitched.
Networking drinks in the bar afterwards.

Vicious Circle 2pm-3pm. Pitching 3pm-4pm.
Networking 4pm-5pm.

To take part in the pitching competition, please register by e-mailing info@spicefactory.co.uk




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News release 25/10/05




CINECITY
The 3rd Brighton Film Festival
Thursday 17th November – Sunday 4th December 2005

The South Coast's major new film festival returns this Autumn (Nov 17 - Dec 4) to celebrate its third birthday when CINECITY: The Brighton Film Festival returns to the Duke of York's Picturehouse, Brighton's Cineworld, Gardner Arts Centre, and venues across Brighton and Hove for a packed programme of UK premieres and previews, international guests, major retrospectives, treasures from the archives, the latest digital work and artists' moving images, shorts and documentaries, free schools screenings, and a special programme exploring the Cuban capital, Havana.
For more information click here
or visit:  www.cine-city.co.uk

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News release 25/10/05

d-media: The Digital Media Conference

1st & 2nd December,
The Grand Hotel, Brighton
Not to be missed!
Visit www.intellectuk.org or click here for more details.

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News release 25/10/05

SEE FESTIVAL - Brighton’s 1st Documentary Festival 19th-20th November 2005

The Screen South supported SEE Festival, the first Brighton Documentary Film Festival, has been launched to take place on November 19th and 20th 2005, providing an unprecedented opportunity to view the work of some of the UK’s leading documentary film-makers. Running in conjunction with CINECITY, The Brighton Film Festival, the two day event will be held at The Sussex Arts Club in Brighton, and intends to become a permanent fixture on the international festival circuit . . . more

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News release 25/10/05

Regional Filmmaker Sue Whitting gets TV screening

Sue Whitting, who wrote, directed and produced a one minute short film called Entree under the Final Cut One Minute Wonder Scheme is gaining critical praise. The film was subsequently screened at the Tunbridge Wells Film Festival and was selected for Super Shorts which is going on tour round the country. Entree has also been selected to be screened on The Commumity Channel and various other
freeview channels in November.
Congratulations from all the Screen South team!

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SCREEN SOUTH IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE SELECTION FOR DIGITAL SHORTS 2005

This year we had almost 200 projects submitted for the Digital Shorts Scheme. 30 shortlisted applicants were selected to re-present their projects after completing a two-day development workshop with industry expert Carl Schoenfeld and one-to-one mentoring sessions with Pippa Brill, Alex Finbow and animation experts Wrench & Franks, of these, 20 applicants were then selected to pitch their re-presented material to Screen South and a panel of industry professionals.

After much careful consideration, we're pleased to announce the final selected projects who will go into production . . . more

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UK Film Council Film Publications Fund
2005-06

The Film Publications Fund invites applications from print and on-line film-related publications aimed at the general public or sectors of the film industry. The Fund aims to encourage debate about film culture and industry by broadening readership, increasing editorial range and developing the sustainability of film-related publications . . . more

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News release 09/08/05

Screen South Digital Short Hammer and Flame on show around the word !



Hammer and Flame, the 2004 - 05 digital short produced and directed by Vaughan Pilikian and Justin Meiland keeps on winning. Following its Golden Apricot for Best Documentary at the Yerevan International Film Festival in Armenia, it was recently awarded with the ‘Best Foreign Short’ prize at the Malescorto short film festival in Italy.
Meanwhile, the documentary is currently screening before Abbas Kiarostami's Five at the Brisbane International Film Festival and is also part of an interesting digital festival in India, which will be touring to several major urban centres. Called the 0110 Digital Film Festival, it is run by a Delhi-based film company in collaboration with the British Council. In addition, the film has been selected for the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival. Last but not least, Hammer and Flame was picked out of a field of 678 films to join 26 shorts to be screened at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan as part of their New Asian Currents selection.

Many congratulations from all the team at Screen South !!!

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News release 18/08/05

Julia Stovell's 'Boy with Proteus Syndrome' to get first broadcast on Channel 4.

Scheduled for airing on Monday 22nd August at 9pm, the documentary, by regional director Julia Stovell, tells the story of 9 year old Jordan who has an angelic face and a wicked sense of humour. He loves playing football, swapping cards with his mates and riding his new bike. But Jordan has Proteus Syndrome, an extremely rare genetic condition. Proteus syndrome causes his bones, joints and their connective tissue to grow uncontrollably. It is now believed that Joseph Merrick, who became known as the Elephant Man, suffered from Proteus.

The film was originally scheduled for an 11pm slot but the programmers were so impressed with it that they chose to air it at the earlier, primetime slot of 9pm.
Many congratulations from all the team at Screen South!

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News release 24/08/05

Arts & Business South East has £20,000 available to match businesses support of creativity projects with young people in East Kent.

They are looking for sponsorship proposals of between £1,000 and £10,000 from non-profit making Kent-based arts organisations. We will choose between 6 and 10 projects for which Arts & Business South East will seek business partners. They could be projects you already have planned or projects that you could propose without requiring too much work in advance of applying. Expressions of Interest should be forwarded to Arts & Business South East by 2nd September . . . more

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News release 24/08/05

Screen South Digital Short Lofty Life in LA Short Film Fest!

Lofty Life, Carole Hayman’s animation which was produced through the Screen South 2004 Digital Shorts scheme, will be in competition at the LA Short Film Festival from 6th-13th September. It will also be competing at Raindance, 28thSept - 9th Oct.

Meanwhile, Carole will be travelling to Denmark at the end of September to the Cartoon Forum, with a view to exploring the possibilities of series or feature based on Lofty Life.

Congratulations from all the team at Screen South !!!

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News release 24/08/05

OFVM Summerscreen -
Cinema Packed to the Rafters for festival finale

Over 250 young people and friends turned up to Best of the Fest screening at the Phoenix Picture House in Oxford on Sunday evening (31st July). The screening was a celebration and finale of the 2nd Screen South Summerscreen festival (23 – 31st July) showcasing work on the big screen created by young people over the week. Find out more…

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News release 09/08/05

Louise Etheridge has been appointed as the first Cultural Observatory Manager for the South East

The new Observatory will be launched in January 2006 and will highlight innovative work in the sport, arts, tourism, media, heritage, and museum library and archive sectors. In particular it will show the contribution culture can make to sustainable communities, social inclusion and economic development. Find out more

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News release 09/08/05

Lighthouse Presents -
Write Moves

An exciting new programme for experienced writers new to feature screenwriting supported by Skillset's Film Skills Fund

Are you an experienced writer who has yet to tackle writing for the big screen? Do you have a passion for film and want to develop a career writing feature films? Would you benefit from expert guidance to develop your ideas into viable screenplays? If your answer is yes to any of the above then you click here

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Mercy wins prestigious award at Rushes Soho Shorts Festival

It was recently announced that Mercy won the prestigious Ascent Media Short Film Award at the Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival. Directed by Candida Scott-Knight, produced by Emily Man and written by Tina Walker, the film has enjoyed a continuing run of success since its completion last year. Starring newcomer Bradley Hall and Nathalie Press (My Summer of Love), the film relates the story of a sensitive and small 11-year-old, who faces bullying at school and neglect at home. The film has played at a number of festivals around the world to great acclaim.



Many congratulations from all the team at Screen South

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Screen South Filmmakers win Prestigious
Award

Jan Dunn and Elaine Wickham’s Gypo, which received funding from Screen South, won The Levi’s® First Feature Award at the prestigious Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. Starring Pauline McLynn (Angela's Ashes), Paul McGann (Withnail and I) and Rula Lenska (Rock Follies of '77), alongside a cast of homegrown talent, the Dogme certified feature was shot entirely around the Margate area and relates the story of a Czech refugee’s effect on a working class British Family.
Congratulations from all the team at Screen South

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Summerscreen 2005


News release 13/06/05

Summerscreen
Oxford 2005
‘Inspiring young
people in film’

This years festival, running from 23 – 31 July, looks like its going to be even bigger and better than last year thanks to the support of over 25 local organisations including BBC Oxford and Central TV. Highlights include BBC Minute movies, Video Games and special effects workshops, outdoor film screenings and Harry Potter and Central TV tours. Thanks particularly to the Local network fund, PAYP and Oxfordshire County Council for an additional £14,000 support and of course Screen South for festival seed funding.
For more information www.ofvm/summerscreen

News release 05/07/05

West Sussex Summerscreen – A celebration of film and filmmaking running across West Sussex in July

Key events will include Workshops for young people, Screenings, Network Events and Community Filmmaking… to view the programme in click here or to find out more about the Community Filmmaking Forum click here

News release 21/07/05

Kent Hot House Summerscreen - Film Opportunities for young people this Summer

The programme of events has just been announced for Summerscreen 2005 with a series of filmmaking workshops for young people in Kent. To ensure quality for participants workshop spaces are very limited in numbers so anyone wishing to attend should they book quickly. www.summerscreen.co.uk or click here to view the flyer

OFVM Summerscreen -
Central TV Studio Visits
(Tues 26th and thurs 28th July 12.00 and 4.30)

Here is a great opportunity to have a look round Central Studios meet Wesley and find out what happens behind the scenes - you even get to read the news!!. Its free but you need to be between 15 - 19.
All booking via Isabel Clarke at Central 0121 634 4240. LIMITED PLACES

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Michael Duffy, a Screen South funded Regional Filmmaker is highlighted as being part of the UK's freshest new film talent, as part of Wideshot, a scheme run by Shooting People to target and profile films and filmmakers. See Michael's profile here

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Screen South Rolling Deadline: New Guidelines and application forms now available to download from this website

The guidelines to the rolling deadline open fund are now available to view and download from the Screen South website. Simply go to the 'Funding' page to read all about it and if you have any questions you may want to browse our new 'Frequently Asked Questions' page. The new application forms are also available to download. As ever, if you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to get in touch.


The State of the Region.

It's been a very busy year for Screen South.
153 awards, £458,336 awarded. From first time filmmakers to Harry Potter, find out how we have been supporting filmmaking in our region throughout 2003-2004. Meet some of our filmmakers, and discover our diverse and fascinating world . . . more


Screen South Studio Group Directory

Over 200 companies based at Pinewood Shepperton at your fingertips, click here for your free copy
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