BABYLON EUROPE 2010
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Friday 8th January
BABYLON EUROPE invites submissions for its annual project development workshop to be held at the Goethe-Institut in Rotterdam February 2nd-5th during the International Film Festival (IFFR).
Writer-director teams receive intensive analysis and coaching from experienced industry consultants in a collaborative creative exchange with other European filmmakers. Onward mentoring is followed by competitive selection for the Cannes Film Festival Market.
For further details please visit the BABYLON website:
www.babylon-film.eu
Now entering its fourth year with funding from six European nations and the UK Regions including the East of England, BABYLON EUROPE assists filmmakers of migrant and diasporic origin to break through into the European mainstream. Frequently unrecognized, the stories that emerge from these undiscovered talents of "double culture" provide the richest untapped source of European storytelling.
All enquiries to:
Fiona Howe/Gareth Jones, Scenario Films Ltd
020 8992 6332
Thursday 24 September 2009
Workshops For Filmmakers And Professionals
Professional Filmmakers -
Get Involved With First Light
Work with young people as a professional filmmaker, widen networks of professional contacts and contriute to your community with rewarding paid work on projects throughout the UK.
Want To Make A Film But Don't Know How To Start Or Where To Get The Money?
First Light Will Show you How!
New organisations, schools, youth organisations and others can access First Light and Mediabox funding. Get advice on how to apply for one of First Light's funding
Saturday 25 July 2009
TAKE1: Movie Making for Beginners
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Film Production Workshop
- Ages: 8 - 12 years (max 10 places)
- Venue: Parkside Media College
- Tutor: Filmmaker Rydian Cook
- Cost: £6.50
Plan, shoot and edit a one-minute film! Learn how to storyboard, use digital cameras, tripods and microphones, and edit. All participants will receive a DVD of their film plus a high-quality video file for uploading online to show to friends! Or watch it in the I MADE THIS programme at the Cambridge Film Festival on Saturday 19 September.
A Cambridgeshire Film Consortium event for the 2012 Open Weekend Cambridgeshire & Peterborough
13 October - 15 December, Tuesdays, 10 Weeks, 6.00 - 8.00pm
INTO FILM 1:
An Introduction to Understand Film
Un Chien andalou, La Jettee, Twelve Monkeys, Billy Elliot, The Maltese Falcon, Psycho.
Join us for this informal and friendly evening course exploring editing patterns, avant garde practises, narrative techniques and adaptation of literature into film.
Tutor: Trish Sheil. Course Fee: £90; Members: £85; Conc: £70.
Includes two cinema screenings and a comprehensive study pack.
14 October - 9 December, Wednesdays, 9 Weeks, 6.00 - 8.00pm
THE GREAT AUTUERS:
Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick
What is the difference between a director of a great film and a great director? With Hitchcockm it was blonde women and a fear of falling: with Welles a constant need to explore corruption and with Kubrick, control. Explore how personal obsessions drove these great directors to produce the bodies of work that continue to fascinate, disturb and dominate the critical lists.
Key study films: REAR WINDOW, CITIZEN KANE and THE SHINING
Tutor: Philip Lloyd. Course Fee: £80; Members: £75; Conc: £60.
Includes comprehensive study pack.
Saturday 5 December & Sunday 6 December, 10.00am - 5.00pm
INTO FILM 2:
Film Noir Weekend
Study film noirs of the forties such as THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE and DOUBLE INDEMNITY with their Expressionist stylistics, low-key lighting and seductive femme fatales. Look also at contemporary neo-noirs such as BLADE RUNNER, KILL ME AGAIN and CROUPIER. Join us for a relaxed and informal course.
Tutor: Trish Sheil. Cost: £70; Members: £65; Conc. £50.
Included comprehensive study pack and complimentary tea/coffee.
Thursday 4 February 2010, 10.00am – 3.30pm
HAMLET ON FILM STUDY DAY
plus screening of THE REVENGERS TRAGEDY (15)
Through presentations, illustrated with film clips, this CFC Shakespeare study day will explore screen adaptations of Hamlet.
Speakers: Professor Rowland Wymer: Anglia Ruskin University,
Abigail Rokison: Homerton College, Director of Studies for Education with English and Drama.
Film Education: Hamlet on Film Workshop exploring key scenes across four film adaptations,
including Olivier’s 1948 and Zeffirelli’s 1990 versions.
REVENGERS TRAGEDY (15)
Director: Alex Cox. Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Eddie Izzard, Derek Jacobi.
UK 2002. 109 mins.
A wronged man returns from self imposed exile to a Liverpool of the future to bring down those responsible for his wife’s murder. Timeless themes of moral corruption and revenge are played out on a stage of gritty punk futurism and anarchic violence. Contains strong language, violence and sex.
Cost: Students £7.00 Accompanying teachers free - includes Teachers Resource Pack
Thursday 15 October 2009
The Princes' Quest (PG) 100 mins
French with subtitles.
Suitable for primary school pupils.
Friday 16 October 2009
Katyn (PG) 100 mins
Introduced by Dr Mathilda Mroz.
Suitable for secondary school pupils.
Monday 19 October 2009
Waltz with Bashir (18) 90 mins
Monday 19 October 2009
Max Minsky and Me (PG) 94 mins
German Subtitles
Suitable for KS2 pupils.
Tuesday 20 October 2009
The 400 Blows (PG) 92 mins
German Subtitles
Suitable for KS2 pupils.
Wednesday 21 October 2009
Mitchell and Kenyon (U) 90 mins
Primary School Archive Workshop.
Thursday 22 October 2009
Shifty (15) 86 mins
With BBFC Masterclass on film classification. www.bbfc.co.uk.
Suitable for secondary/sixth form students.
Friday 23 October 2009
Coraline (PG) 100 mins
Suitable for primary school pupils.
Monday 7 December 2009
FUNKY FLAMINGO:
National Disability Film Awards 2009
Funky Flamingo TV is the first internet TV station run by and for people with disabilities. Join us for the second annual National Disability Film Awards 2009. Films have been submitted already from all over the country and the standard for this year is set to be even higher than last year!
Categories include: drama, comedy, animationdocumentary and super-shorts.
To submit your film or enquire about the awards, email funky@inspire.co.uk
To watch 2008 winners and find out more, visit Funky Flamingo online.
Thursday 29 October 2009
SPOTLIGHT ON VITAL COMMUNITIES
DOCUMENTARY FILM PLUS Q&A
Director: Dominique Chadwick
How important is participating in the arts for local communities? Funded by NESTA this documentary film is an in-depth analysis of the workings of Vital Communities in Peterborough, Sutton, Trumpington and Wisbech St.Mary. It explores the impact of the arts on young people, families and communities who participated in film, dance, music and other art projects.
A vital Communities event in collaboration with the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium and the Camridge Film Trust for Cambridge University, Festival of Ideas.
Introduced by Trish Sheil from the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium.
BLACK NARCISSUS (U)
Sunday 20 September 2009Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, David Farrar.
UK 1947. 100 mins.
Monday 21 September 2009
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (U)
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.Starring: David Niven, Roger Livesey, Kim Hunter, Richard Attenborough, Kathleen Byron, Robert Coote.
UK 1946. 104 mins.
Tuesday 22 September 2009
THE RED SHOES (U)
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.Starring: Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook, Jean Short.
UK 1948. 133 mins.
Tuesday 22 September 2009
JACK CARDIFF: PAINTER WITH LIGHT
AN EVENING WITH FILM CRITIC AND HISTORIAN IAN CHRISTIE
This special Festival tribute to the late Jack Cardiff reveals the influences behind his stunning, Oscar-winning cinematography (for Powell and Pressburger’s BLACK NARCISSUS) and, with clips from some of his greatest films, explores the work that made Jack’s name synonymous with Technicolor photography.
The evening is presented by Ian Christie, Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck University of London, co-founder of the international review Film Studies and author of several books on cinema, including Arrows of Desire: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
↑ Archive Screenings
BFI Mediatheque
Central Library, Cambridge
Discover a wealth of film and television from the BFI National Archive
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free to watch at the click of a mouse.
The BFI Mediatheque at Central Library, Cambridge is a digital jukebox of film and TV feautring many of the best, the rarest and the ost extraordinary titles fro the BFI National Archive. Simply log on at one of our viewing stations, choose from over 1500 complete films and TV programmes and watch them free at the click of a mouse.
For a complete list of titles available, and for more information about the BFI Mediatheque
check here.
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BEFORE MIDNIGHT:
A PORTRAIT OF INDIA ON FILM 1899-1947
This programme shows how lives — both Indian and British — were led across the Subcontinent. Home movies include The Maharajah of Jodhpur’s 1940’s princely life and an intimate picture of British family life
in 1930’s India. TINS FOR INDIA shows the kerosene tin in rural India. NOAKHALI MARCH shows Mahatma Gandhi’s visit to Noakhali, after the 1946 Hindu-Muslim riots (the Calcutta Riots or Noakhali Massacre).
Kanu was one of the most important chroniclers of Gandhi’s life and photographs formed the basis of a number of the shots in Richard Attenborough’s biopic, Ga ndhi.
Wednesday 2 December 2009
Housewives Choice
Peace & War
Not so long ago housewives had a number of very good reasons to be desperate. Not only did they have to look after their families in an age of depression, war and austerity, but they also did without the consumer durables thaqt we now consider essential. With humour frequently in its sights, Housewives' Choice is a programme of films from the BFI National Archive that explores the lives of Britishhousewives from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Britain at Bay:
Peace & War
(1937 - 1940)
Britain at Bay contrasts the relative calm and advancement of life in Britain in the late 1930s with the build up to and first days of WWII. The programme includes the film IF WAR SHOULD COME.
Wednesday 14 October 2009
The Big Smoke:
Films from a lost London
(1896 - 1945)
Explore the forgotten face of the capital with this tantalising tour, taking in horse-drawn traffic, change and continuity on the underground plus the mighty Thames captured in glorious colour.
Features a specially-commissioned score.
Wednesday 23 September 2009
LUNCHTIME ARCHIVE SHOW
A GOOD DAY OUT: CROSS-CHANNEL MEMORIES OF LEISURE ON FILM
Introduced by Jane Jarvis, Screen East Digital Heritage Project Manager, and Simon McCallum, BFI
If the British have family memories of cricket on the village green or holidays by the sea, the French too remember days at the beach under white cliffs or a picnic in the country. As we compare and contrast our social history of the last century, see how we spent our time at leisure, both here and across the channel, in this screening of Linsday Anderson’s O DREAMLAND (1956), John Taylor’s HOLIDAY (1957) and amateur archive films from the East Anglian Film Archive and Rouen’s Pôle Image Haute-Normandie.
Special reduction of £1.00 off each ticket for senior citizens.