photographyandfilm

Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux and Rebecca Zlotowski in London

edinburghnapiernews — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:55:22 +0000

Louis GARREL, Léa SEYDOUX and Rebecca ZLOTOWSKI will be in London on Tuesday 10 January at Ciné Lumière for the UK Premieres of their films “The Little Tailor” and “Dear Prudence”.

These special screenings announcing the launch of the second edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival.com (12 Jan – 1 Feb), uniFrance’s online festival.

Call for Entries for Talent Development Opportunities

photographyandfilm — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:13:13 +0000

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 joining the dots in a fragmented industry. It will support and guide filmmakers as they develop their film projects, and will empower and enable them rather than tell them what to do. By using new media, participants of Network will be active in their own development.

Network is aimed at screenwriters, directors and producers, individually and in teams, who have proven experience and are ready to break into feature production, or who are breaking into it on a low budget scale.

All developments are different: some participants will be writing a screenplay; some will be learning how to package, pitch and finance a film; some will be putting together a creative team and some will be doing all of these. With Network, every participant will develop a feature project and each project will be supported and mentored individually.

Knowledge is power. Network will bring participants together in a series of ways to enable them to share knowledge, pool resources and support each other in addition to receiving training and skills development from leading industry professionals. The creation of a virtual network to support the development of both projects and individuals means that participants will not be affected by clashing work commitments, lost earnings or last minute scheduling.

Deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 07 October.

For more information please visit www.eiffnetwork.com or follow us on Twitter @eiffnetwork

CREATIVE FUTURES
Creative Futures is a programme of residencies across all art forms designed to promote the professional development, vision, connectivity and ambitions of Scotland’s creative practitioners and organisations.

The Creative Futures fund allows us to offer information, support and assistance for Scottish filmmakers who are looking to apply to talent labs run by other film festivals such as Rotterdam Lab in January 2012.

Set up in 2001, the Rotterdam Lab is organised in close co-operation with various international partner organisations involved with the training of young producers as well as funding bodies and film agencies. CineMart is a natural platform for this and is dedicated to supporting emerging producers by giving them the opportunities to create expertise and knowledge.

CineMart is known as an informal market attended by a large number of international film professionals who take a look at new film projects which are presented and who do business amongst each other in a relaxed atmosphere. The aim of the Rotterdam Lab is to give emerging producers the possibility to get acquainted with the daily routine at an international film festival and a co-production market, but also to acquire as much information as possible and to enlarge their international network with acclaimed members of the international film industry.

Over the years, the Rotterdam Lab has grown into an important event with prestige and with producers from more different regions participating every year. The effectiveness of the Rotterdam Lab resulted in several former Lab participants coming back to CineMart with their project in the official project selection, and films screening in the Festival programme. On top of that, a lot of participants from the different countries have started up international co-productions with each other.

CineMart has an extended international network with sales agents, distributors, filmmakers, producers and other film industry professionals. Furthermore CineMart has over these past years built up many strategic alliances with training organisations, funding bodies, film agencies, festivals and markets in order to be able to support the Rotterdam Lab participants throughout the year and not just for the five days in Rotterdam.

In order to take part in the Rotterdam Lab, it is necessary to be affiliated with one of CineMart’s partner organisations. This means that instead of having an open selection participants are ‘nominated’ through these partners. The participants for the Rotterdam Lab are emerging producers, who should have produced at least one or two short films, and not more than two feature films. This to make sure that the level of the group is balanced and that the producers are more or less in the same stage of building their career.  Edinburgh International Film Festival and the Centre for the Moving Image is a partner organisation of CineMart.

If you are a Scottish or Scotland based producer and are interested in being considered for nomination for the Rotterdam Lab we will be announcing our Call for Applications during October. If further information please contact: industry@edfilmfest.org.uk

Hiroshi Sugimoto Tour

photographyandfilm — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:45:57 +0000

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 and Photogenic Drawings, in a tour of the exhibition.

http://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/calendar/5:367/date/2011-09-19/0/event/21396

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

photographyandfilm — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:22:51 +0000

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 assistant at the University of Sussex, and has been appointed a Research Fellow there for the next three years.

Tomas Sheridan’s Radiostan makes it 15 international film festivals

photographyandfilm — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:31:53 +0000

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

photographyandfilm — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:28:37 +0000

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 in Glasgow.

Turo Delgado Pereira is completing his MFA graduation film, a feature length documentary set in his home town in Spain.

Ian Marrs works as a camera assistant on ‘Game of Thrones’, an HBO medieval fantasy series that is filmed in Ireland. Lucy Caird (graduate of 2010) works as a production assistant on the same series.

Julian Schwanitz has just graduated with an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art.

Daniel Taylor is working for the BBC on the ‘Antiques Road Show’.

Edinburgh Napier’s cultural influence is indeed alive and well!

Tomas Sheridan and Peter Gerard secure Media Development Funding for feature

photographyandfilm — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:40:51 +0000

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 fit into the patchwork of Europe’s increasingly cosmopolitan population.

http://www.babelsmarket.com/

http://www.polifilm.co.uk/contact/children-of-babaels-market/

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

photographyandfilm — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:23:42 +0000

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 – and follow his adventures around the UK. This is storytelling for the 21st century, encompassing hangings, illicit affairs, 18th century ‘true crime’ reporting and father and son disputes.’
After graduating from Edinburgh Napier, Emma went on to study for an MA in Film Journalism at Glasgow University.

Tomas Sheridan screening at Sheffield Documentary Film Festival

photographyandfilm — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:17:34 +0000

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. We roam the terrain, gaining an insight into the thoughts of people rarely portrayed in the media.
For more info on Radiostan check here.

Looking for Scotland’s top nature photos

photographyandfilm — Thu, 05 May 2011 13:10:00 +0000

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 camera; and third prize is a Panasonic Lumix F245 Digital Camera and a Hama Star tripod.

This free contest celebrates Scottish Biodiversity Week, which runs from 21 to 29 May. For more information on the week’s activities throughout Scotland, see www.snh.gov.uk/biodiversityweek.

This year’s theme is the gifts which nature gives to us all. SNH is looking for pictures which show these gifts, whether they are practical gifts like oxygen, food and water, or more spiritual gifts like awe, serenity or inspiration.

Scottish Biodiversity Week organiser, Zeshan Akhter, said:

“Nature gives us so many gifts every day – actually, every moment and every breath we take. But it’s easy to take nature for granted. I think that’s the reason why pictures of wildlife move us so much: because we are reminded of our connection to the natural world. I always look forward to seeing what inspires people about nature, so I hope to see lots of terrific shots again this year!”

Entrants should email their pictures of animals, plants or landscapes to bit@snh.gov.uk by 17 June 2011, as an attachment with “Photo Contest” in the subject line. Entries must be original, have a title, information on how the image shows the gifts of nature, where in Scotland the photo was taken, and the entrant’s name and contact details. Each person may submit up to two entries. SNH will notify winners in August and the winning entries will be posted on the website and highlighted in the Scottish Biodiversity Forum’s quarterly newsletter. For more information, see www.snh.gov.uk/biodiversityweek.