The Bechdel Test rating (now in use in Sweden) explained.
News
- The @EuropaCinemas Annual Conference took place this weekend – if you didn’t make it to sunny Athens to discuss the issues of the day, check out the event’s Storify and this piece on the discussion on young audience development.
- It’s not exactly news, but it’s newsworthy! Mark Kermode praises our friends @Saffronscreen in his new book, Hatchet Job.
- John Smith recently won the 2013 Jarman Award. See this list of his work available to book from @LUXmovingimage and gain insight into his work here.
Calls for submission/training opportunities
- @sheffdocfest has launched Fast Track to Features 2. A seven month programme of workshops, mentoring and networking for regional documentary filmmaking talent, it also offers participants a delegate pass for Doc/Fest and an opportunity to pitch at the event. Not bad.
- And @BirdsEyeViewFF has launched FILMONOMICS, a skills-based training programme for filmmakers who want to gain industry insight and effectively position and market their films. Sponsored by @SkillsetSSC.
- Our friends @flatpack are calling for submissions for their 2014 festival – deadline er this Friday 29 Nov (eek!).
- I’ve been to Tampere, and it was a delight. Submit your short film to @TampereFilmFest and you too might have an excuse to visit the Moomin Museum.
- The @UKJewishFilm Fund needs submissions for its Pears Short Film Fund. The scheme will see two lucky winners awarded 10k each to produce a short film on a theme significant to both Jewish and general audiences.
- @screenyorkshire is looking for UK-wide writers, directors and producers for the 4th edition of its talent development programme, Triangle 2014.
- @BristolFilmFest 2014 will run from 3 to 9 March next year and will include a dedicated short film strand. Are you a maker of films radical in topic, content or form? Submit away or if it’s festival experience you need, they’re also looking for volunteers.
- One for artist filmmakers, @artexpogroup is calling for artists’ films for a screening at Nottingham Playhouse in Jan 2014 entitled BORDERLAND – The entropy of identities. Think you can interpret this visually? Submit by 7 Dec.
- @IdeasTap are offering free filmmaking advice sessions for ages 18 to 30 with directors @wearehalcyon in December. They’ll feed back to you on shorts, music videos, art films, docs – you name it. Apply by 2 Dec.
- Filmmaking students! @Screentestfest is seeking submissions for its 2014 edition so get yours in, by 31 Dec.
- @KINOFILM Manchester Short Film Festival has extended its applications deadline to 31 Dec and @norwichfilmfest is now open for submissions for its 2014 edition.
- And, are you a poetic soul? Make a short film based on a poem and submit it to Berlin’s @ZebraFestival.
Good reads
- A touching tribute to the late Ian White by his friend and collaborator Emily Roysdon.
- Show your support – the Rivoli Cinema on the Isle of Wight needs your help and so does @CUBECINEMA in Bristol with The Film That Buys The Cinema (also a fab example of innovative fundraising).
- While you’re in supportive mode, check out @ArrowFilms‘ Kickstarter campaign to restore Walerian Borowczyk’s masterpiece, Goto, l’le d’amour.
- A lovely piece by Jackie Brett-Holt, one of @BFI‘s projectionists, evoking the practical magic (yes) of projecting 35mm.
- Sweden introduces a rating based on the Bechdel test to address gender bias in cinema in a provocative and semi-brilliant move that’s energised the discussion of women on film.
- @Screendaily explains the complicated launch plans for Von Trier’s latest controversy-fest, Nymphomaniac, in perhaps slightly too much detail.
- Slightly surreal reading, this: a transcript of a discussion of government policy on indie cinemas in the House of Lords.
- And finally: good to see @guardianfilm asking the important questions.