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BFI Future Film presents…The Winning Pitch

Send in a pitch for a documentary you’d like to make via Twitter @Yollywoodfilm or email in 140 characters max to FutureFilmInstitute@bfi.org.uk and be in with a chance to win a place on a filmmaking workshop at one of four partner venues across Europe. The 10 best Twitter pitches will be selected and the filmmakers invited to join us at Encounters to our live pitching event where you’ll need to convince our panel of judges that your film idea is the best of the bunch. 2 winners will be selected on the day and will be invited to a filmmaking workshop in either Amsterdam, Seville, Istanbul or Warsaw.

For more details on this FREE event, please email: holly.mcintosh@watershed.co.uk or call: 0117 927 5128

Future Film Festival 2012 Submissions and More!

Hello again! We’ve had another busy couple of weeks (as if we ever don’t here at the BFI!), and we’ve got a few small and a couple of massive updates for you!

Since the last post we’ve chosen our Step2TV bursary winners and they spent a weekend with the Step2TV Mole getting training and advice on filmmaking. Check out the video of how they found it here. We’re currently developing a new bursary scheme that will see 6 talented winners travel to one of our EU partners for a filmmaking workshop, so watch this space!

We’ve had a series of Ken Loach masterclasses in a range of areas, from producing to acting and casting, cinematography to sound and editing. Barry Ackroyd gave some words of wisdom that really stuck with me: ‘Find your niche, get your signature, take everything you can and make it your own’.

So, what’s new that we’ve got lined up for you? Well… *Drumroll please* Submissions for the BFI Future Film Festival 2012 are now open! Hopefully this excites you as much as it excites us! Follow this link for more information on how to submit your film before October 31st!

We also have a screening of Four Lions on the 19th of October, accompanied by a Q&A with writer/director Chris Morris which should be good!

As always, for more information about our events and screenings head over to the BFI Future Film website.

Summer at BFI Future Film

(Left to Right) Noel Goodwin, Gillian Hathaway, Natalia Remfeld, Gary McQuiggin, Jacob Dwyer, Dan Allen and Ollie Hall.

Noel Goodwin and our Video-Art Bursary winners at the premiere of their Doc Next Network commissioned films.

Well what an exciting summer it’s been here at BFI Future Film! We’ve hosted our own D.I.Y. Sci-Fi Filmmaking course, as well as the National Youth Film Academy, with 6 short films being made in total, all of a phenomenal standard.

Our video Art bursary work is all completed and we’ve posted them all to our Vimeo Channel, so go and have a look! One of our young winners said “I think, hands down it is a fantastic opportunity, not only to produce a film with a little bit of money but also the mentoring. It was great experience and it was also fantastic seeing everyone else’s work develop too!”

On a similar note, we recently launched a new bursary with Step2TV. After the success of our previous bursary schemes, we’ve decided to create another Documentary bursary, with 4 places being offered for young filmmakers to receive a £500 budget, mentoring by an industry professional and entry into the Reality Capture Pitch with the chance to gain broadcast credits and a worldwide audience. The call-out for this amazing opportunity can be found here.

As you can see it’s been busy, busy, busy here, and the fun doesn’t stop yet. The BFI just had the press launch of the 55th BFI London Film Festival, and we at BFI Future Film are hosting a 2-day festival called Connect and Collaborate as a part of it all. As well as screening Better This World, we’ll be hosting Fever Pitch, a pitching competition which will see one talented young person win a £2000 production budget, professional kit loan and expert mentoring and on the Thursday we’re running a workshop on Collaborations with IdeasTap and a Networking for Beginners session (For more information on the events and to purchase tickets click here.

Casting and Acting: Lessons from the Loach Team

24 Sep 12:00 Blue Room

Come along to this workshop where you’ll learn from industry professionals about acting in films. We’ll be watching clips from our Ken Loach season to see how one of the masters of British cinema does it, as well as talking to some of his team about his approach to working with actors.

Tickets are just £3 – OR bring a mate and you both get in for a fiver!

Masterclass: Inside filmmaking with Loach’s crew: Production with Rebecca O’Brien and Eimhear McMahon

4th October 17:00 in the Gallery

What exactly is involved in getting Loach’s films from script to screen? Rebecca and Eimhear will tell us how they help maintain Director Ken Loach’s prolific output. Iyare Igiehon will lead the questioning but you will also get a chance to ask your own questions.

This is the last in our series of Ken Loach masterclasses and looks set to be a great one! For more information on the event, click here.

Masterclass: Inside filmmaking with Loach’s crew: Sound and Editing with Jonathan Morris, Kevin Brazier and George Fenton

26th September 17:00 in the Gallery

An opportunity to uncover the complexities and challenges of turning hours and hours of footage into a coherent and entertaining drama. Iyare Igiehon will discuss editing techniques with the editor and sound editor who work regularly with Director Ken Loach, whose prolific output as one of Britain’s foremost filmmakers we are celebrating this month. You’ll also get a chance to ask your own questions.

This is the third in our series of Ken Loach masterclasses, for more information Click Here

BFI London Film Festival: Future Film’s Connect and Collaborate Festival

Education screening: Better This World Wed 26 | 10:15 | Vue West End

As part of the 55th BFI London Film Festival, BFI Future Film are hosting a 2-day festival called Connect and Collaborate.

As well as screening Better This World, we’ll be hosting Fever Pitch straight afterwards, a pitching competition which will see one talented young person win a £2000 production budget, professional kit loan and expert mentoring.

Then on the Thursday we’re running a workshop on Collaborations with IdeasTap and a Networking for Beginners session.

For more information on the events and to purchase tickets click here.

Exciting News from a BFI Video Art Bursary Winner

Some exciting news has been brought to our attention from mentor on the Video Art Bursary scheme here at the BFI, Phillip Warnell. Jacob Dwyer, who is a BFI Video Art Bursary Winner, was successful in being offered a place to study the brand new MA Experimental Film course at KingstonUniversity, London, which starts in October 2011. Jacob, who graduated Newcastle University this summer with an outstanding 1^st Class Honours degree in Fine Art, was then nominated by Phillip, who is also the director of studies on the course at KingstonUniversity, for an AHRX bursary to help him pursue this MA programme. Wonderfully he was successful in obtaining it. This bursary will cover his fees and maintenance costs for the duration of the one-year course.

Phillip added that he was “delighted that Jacob has been offered the opportunity, both in joining the MA Experimental Film programme atKingston, and in gaining such an award. His film work undoubtedly merits his success”.

Congratulations and good luck on the course Jacob!

Refuge Film Festival

“Refuge In Films is a 3 day festival created by young people from around the world working together to make positive change and challenge the negative media stereotypes about refuge and migration.” The event will be hosted at BFI. Do follow this link for more details. Hope to see you all there!

Video Art Bursary work begins!

It’s been an exciting couple of weeks here at BFI Future Film! We have selected our documentary bursary winners! In addition to this, our video artists had their first meeting yesterday, with each beginning to plan their project and having a one-on-one session with our expert Phillip Warnell. The talented young people were also awarded their £400 (€450) cheques. The winners are pictured in the image.

We’ve been working hard scouting documentaries from the UK, and have now reached the 35 mark on our Vimeo Channel, with more to be uploaded by the weekend, so keep an eye open…

Finally, we’ve been busy planning away, and have some very interesting events lined up at the BFI Southbank over the next couple of months. On the 25th/26th/27th June we are excited to be host the Refuge in Films festival 2011, a three day festival full of films, interactive workshops and discussions to explore issues of displacement, refuge and migration. Click the link for more information on all the events taking place.

Then on the 9th July we are presenting How to Be Funny, looking at new ways to break into comedy writing for film, TV and the internet. We’ll be joined by our friends at the London Comedy Writers Festival to bring a whole host of practical ways you can write for comedy and get your work in front of an audience. There will also be a showcase of work by some of the hottest young comedy writers including our friends Kool Beanz Productions.

For more information on our events Click Here…

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