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.
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