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Call for Entries for Talent Development Opportunities

Call for Entries for Talent Development Opportunities from Edinburgh International Film Festival and the Centre for the Moving Image NETWORK Edinburgh International Film Festival is currently seeking applications for Network. This online talent development initiative offers access to a wide variety of information, advice and industry professionals. Network is about forming connections between people, and [...]

Hiroshi Sugimoto Tour

Monday, 19th September 2011 12.45-1.30pm Modern Two (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art) Purchase of Exhibition Ticket Required On the door or in advance by callilng 0131 624 6560 between 9.30am-4.30pm with debit or credit card details. Roberta McGrath, Reader in Photography and Film at Edinburgh Napier University, explores Sugimoto’s most recent series, Lightning Fields [...]

Yorgos Karagiannakis (Graduate BA (Hon) Photography and Film 2004 and PHD student) update

Yorgos Karagiannakis (Graduate BA (Hon) Photography and Film 2004 and PHD student) is about to depart for Athens. He has a commission to make a film on the Europeanisation of the Balkans, as part of a larger research project being carried out by the University of Edinburgh. He has also been working as a teaching [...]

Tomas Sheridan’s Radiostan makes it 15 international film festivals

Tomas Sheridan – Graduate BA (Hos) Photography and Film 2006 Tomas Sheridan’s short documentary film Radiostan has been selected for its 15th International Film Festival, this time in the Thai International Short Film Festival to be held between the 18th and the 28th of August.For more info – http://www.polifilm.co.uk/

2009 graduates update

Some updates on several graduates from 09: Chris Cook (class of 09) is currently dubbing a new short fiction film of his, with one of the MA Sound Design students, at Merchiston Avenue. The film was edited by Lewis Carmichael (also 09). Lewis Carmichael and Leo McHugh both have jobs in post-production at BBC Scotland [...]

Tomas Sheridan and Peter Gerard secure Media Development Funding for feature

Tomas Sheridan (as director) has also secured Media Development Funding, along with Peter Gerard (Graduate 2004 as cinematographer), for a feature length documentary project, ‘Children of Babel’s Market’. Set in Europe’s largest market located in Turin, the documentary will follow four immigrants from different countries and backgrounds showing how their lives are woven together and [...]

Emma Lennox (Graduate 2005), Co-Director of a Cross-Platform Doc, ‘Boswell in Space’ at the Sheffield Documentary Festival

Emma Lennox (Graduate 2005) is Co-Director of a Cross-Platform Doc, ‘Boswell in Space’, at the Sheffield Documentary Festival, showing from Thursday June 9th to Saturday June 11th. ‘Come on a web-documentary journey to befriend the original documentarian James Boswell – an 18th century writer, manic depressive, sex addict, and father of the travel journal – [...]

Tomas Sheridan screening at Sheffield Documentary Film Festival

Tomas Sheridan, who graduated from the BA (Hon) Photography and Film Programme in 2006, has a short film, ‘Radiostan’, screening in the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival on June 8th and 10th. On the long road from Kyrgyzstan to Moscow people speak what’s on their mind, from the intrusion of immigrants to living in a yurt. [...]

Looking for Scotland’s top nature photos

The hunt for Scotland’s best nature pictures is on, as part of a Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) contest to celebrate Scottish Biodiversity Week. The fifth annual Nature Photography Competition is open to both amateur and professional photographers. First prize is a one-to-one tutorial with a professional photographer; second prize is a Olympus E-450 Digital SLR [...]

MULTI-CITY PROJECT SEARCHES FOR EDINBURGH’S BEST YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER

Calling Edinburgh’s hottest young photographic talent – a new Europe-wide competition aims to showcase the continent’s best young photographers as part of the EUROCITIES ‘Your City – your view’ project. The City of Edinburgh Council’s arts development unit has teamed up with EUROCITIES to invite Edinburgh’s aspiring Harry Bensons to enter this exciting contest. Councillor [...]

Call for Proposals for new audiovisual productions

Languages through Lenses promoting multilingualism in Europe (minimum 60 – maximum 90 seconds) European student competition Deadline: 25 March 2011 ELIA – European League of Institutes of the Arts – in cooperation with CILECT- International Association of Film and Television Schools – is organising this competition on behalf of European Commission and in partnership with [...]

CALL FOR ENTRIES: AESTHETICA SHORT FILM COMPETITION

The Aesthetica Short Film Competition 2011 is now open for entries! It’s a fantastic opportunity to get your work broadcast to a wider audience and Aesthetica are keen to see entries from both new and established filmmakers who are driving short film forward. The winning film receives a fantastic prize package including: ~ £500 prize [...]

The Nurture Room – Matt Pinder

Matt Pinder, Napier Graduate 2001, has a 90 minute documentary, ‘The Nurture Room’ on ‘True Stories’, More 4 TV at 10pm tonight

Submissions for EIFF 2011 are open

Calling all filmmakers… it’s that time again. Submissions for EIFF 2011 are now open! If you’ve made a film, now it’s time to submit it! EIFF can get your film seen by the decision-makers of the film industry.  Register today for more information www.edfilmfest.org.uk/submissions Edinburgh International Film Festival 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH3 9BZ Copyright (C) [...]

Open Day Presentation web links

For our visitors who attended the Open Day talk today, here are the links to the websites I mentioned. Paul Gray (Programme Leader, Photography and Film) Graduate website links: Aleksandra Kocela (2010) http://www.aleksandrakocela.com/ http://www.festivalofpolitics.org.uk Niina Topp (2009) http://www.niinatopp.com/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3392959/ Martin Scott Powell (2008) http://martinscottpowell.com/ Niki Rooney (2006) http://www.limepictures.com/Hollyoaks.htm Gem Pope (2005) http://www.gempope.com/ Anna Purkis, Dee [...]

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