News round-up... 12/01/2015

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Sarah Rutterford

Categories: News Round-Up

Boyhood
Looking ahead: Boyhood, winner of Best Picture (Drama) & Best Director at the Golden Globes 2015

Happy New Year!

  • Boyhood justifiably won Best Picture (Drama) & Director awards at the Golden Globes 2015 last night – see all winners here, commentary by Peter Bradshaw (with Oscar predictions) here (and jokes here). The BAFTA nominations are also out, with The Grand Budapest Hotel out in front (though sadly no noms for Mr. Turner or Selma) and nominees for the Oscars will be announced this Thursday.
  • Our Artists’ Moving Image Network is fully up and running with programmes in place at the four lead venues – FLUX at Barn, Film Lab at The Dukes, kinetics at Kinokulture and ASPECT at The Maltings.
  • The end of January is the deadline for both our One-to-Ones – perfect if 2015 is the year you want to make changes at your venue and need affordable advice on anything from audience development to fundraising – and our Tech Skills scheme for venues in need of bespoke technical support.

Calls for submissions, opportunities

  • The London International Animation Festival needs your animated shorts.
  • Open City Docs Festival – celebrating the best in non-fiction contemporary filmmaking – is open to submissions.
  • Deaffest is looking for films made by deaf filmmakers, or films with a significant deaf involvement. Submit.
  • Reel Islington Short Film Award submissions close on 19th January – the theme: Urbanscapes.
  • Submissions are open for Sheffield Doc/Fest 2015 and the Festival has also opened submissions to its MeetMarket and Crossover Market events for filmmakers hoping to access to the international doc film market.
  • St. Albans Film Festival is open to submissions until 3rd February.
  • Oska Bright Film Festival is calling for films made by disabled filmmakers.
  • Zln Film Festival needs your films for its 55th edition.
  • Plymouth Film Festival is looking for shorts by national & international filmmakers.

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