Guerillas in the East End

Kino London's 3 Day Filmmaking Challenge

Kino London partners with East End Film Festival in April to lay a challenge at the feet of London filmmakers - a 3-day session of guerilla filmmaking with the resulting shorts presented at a very special screening on Tuesday 27 April at Vibe Live.

Filmmakers are invited to take part in the East End Kino challenge, kicking off with a production meeting at midday on Saturday 24 April at the festival's filmmakers centre, just moments away from Brick Lane. Filmmakers will announce a project they intend to shoot, along with needs of cast, crew, locations or equipment. The projects announced that Saturday morning will go from the pre-production to completion as a brand new short ready to screen the following Tuesday.

Each film will be set in London's East End and feature a signature location handed out on the day.

The launch event is free and open to anyone who wants take part - although signup is essential as spots are limited.

For more information or to register interest contact sam@kinolondon.com

http://www.kinolondon.com
http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/

Submissions Open for the 3rd Babelgum Online Film Festival

In response to the success of its previous editions helmed by Oscar-nominated director Spike Lee, independent web and mobile video content platform Babelgum is pleased to announce its call for entries for the 3rd Babelgum Online Film Festival (BOFF3).

Official partners of BOFF3 are Shooting People, the world's largest network of independent filmmakers. Joining forces, both organisations hope to to celebrate and reward the very best in international independent short filmmaking by providing exposure and cash awards of up to $6,000.

Deadline for uploads is 28 March, however, filmmakers can submit work from any year of production and there are no restrictions on whether the film has been previously distributed or entered into any offline or online film festival.

To find out more, visit Babelgum.

Branchage at True/False Film Festival

As mentioned on an earlier post, Branchage's Carla MacKinnon went to True/False Film Festival in Missouri, and all she brought back was this EXCELLENT video of the festival!



We love those cats, and the two films that Branchage screened there both went down a storm - four sold-out screenings in fact! x

Brilliant competition from Mofilm | Even better deal with Shooting People

Last month, Shooting People pulled out all the stops to encourage their filmmakers to enter Mofilm's Barcelona Ad Competition. It paid off, with eight Shooting People members winning prizes, two coming top and one winning the Grand Prize; this filmmaker is now off to make an ad with ‘Avatar’ producer Jon Landau.

As one competition ends, another opens - this time, winners will be flown to New York for Tribeca Film Festival and pick up a host of cash prizes. To enter, filmmakers must make an ad of less than 90 seconds for one of six brands including Nokia, Nature Valley and Best Buy.

Mofilm have again offered Shooting People members an EXCLUSIVE OFFER - all members who enter go into a draw to win a brand new Apple MacBook. 


Not a member? No problem. Claim your free trial membership at shootingpeople.org/mofilm.

DEADLINE: 6 April 2010

Branchage's Best Friend - True/False Film Festival is just days away

Steal a car, invent a jet pack, build an aeroplane... do whatever you have to do to get yourself to Missouri for Feb 25 - 28 for the True/False Film Festival.  It's everything you dreamt a film festival could be.  Really.

Screening the documentaries that captured imaginations at Sundance and Toronto as well as pulling out its own premieres and showcasing those 'i-caught-this-amazing-little-doc-at-a-festival' gems, True/False's programme is brimful of must-see films and cracking entertainment.

Branchage and True/False are really good friends.  We want to hold their hand actually.  And we get to play at each other's houses sometimes.  At Branchage 2009 True/False presented a clutch of superb docs and co-founder David Wilson crossed the Atlantic (and the Channel) to be in Jersey for the festival, talking at panel events, hosting Q&As and hitting the dancefloor at the Spiegeltent parties.

T/F's David Wilson interviews Borut Strel at Branchage 2009

And now it's our turn to repay the favour, sending Branchage Producer Carla MacKinnon over to Missouri and screening a couple of  utterly brilliant British docs.

First off, there's the absolute belter It Felt Like A Kiss, brought to True/False by director Adam Curtis.  Curtis has made his name in BBC Current Affairs programming for his searing, uncompromising documentaries that niggle away at those things you know about the media/ the government/ the people but had never quite faced.  It Felt Like A Kiss is an absolute sucker punch of a film, built up entirely from montaged archive footage and an irresistible soundtrack of 60s nostalgia, and it's a damning criticism of Americana, the American Empire and the psychosis that lies beneath it.

'It Felt Like A Kiss' will screen on 26th, 27th and 28th Feb

Our second screening at the festival is a 'secret film'... that means we're not allowed to tell you what it is.  We promised.  But here are some clues: It's a British film with an 'American' subject, it's tinged with sadness but it's comedy genius, it's .....  Okay, that's enough of that.  We give this film a double thumbs up and we're sure it's going to be big later this year.

Aside from the films we're presenting, 'Branchage Best Bits' from the film programme are: The British In Bed, Colony, The Tightrope and When We Were Boys... but it's hard to choose favourites from such a great programme.

And then there's all the other bits that put the 'festiv' in festival: legendary parties, live music, free panels and debates, a psychogeographic walking tour (I know!), a banquet, a live documentary gameshow... they've got everything short of a parade!  Hold up... there's also a blinking parade!

Branchage is a-quiver with excitement.  Feast your eyes on all the details here and start wending your way to Missouri.