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The University of Stirling is delighted to announce its support for Scotland’s first ever African Film Festival, Africa in Motion (AiM), which takes place 20-29 October at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse Cinema.The festival, which is being run by Stop and Stir Arts Ltd in conjunction with the University of Stirling’s School of [...]

BBC Worldwide has joined forces with multi-award-winning independent wildlife filmmakers, Mark Deeble & Victoria Stone to co-produce its third wildlife feature film, Distant Thunder.Combining Deeble & Stone’s incomparable storytelling, their eye for the extraordinary and the very latest in cinematic technical innovation, Distant Thunder promises a natural history epic of [...]

‘TOUR OF THE HOUSE’ SCOOPS MOBILE MOVIE AWARD- Winner of Nokia Shorts 2006 Handset category revealed -A short film which takes the audience on a house tour with a criminal twist was announced as the winner of the Nokia Shorts 2006 Handset category at the Raindance Film Festival last night.The [...]

Slingshot wins £100,000 grant from Skillset.Grant will fund development and training programme for up to eight digital filmmakersslingshot, the all-digital film production and distribution company, has won a £100,000 grant from Skillset to fund an innovative development scheme for writers, directors and producers.The “Training and Development into Greenlight” scheme is [...]

The cultural association Filmstudio90 with the help of Ronzinanti announce the fourth edition of Cortisonici, a shortfilm festival which will take place in March 2007 in Varese, Italy. Short must not have been shot before January 1, 2006.In order to participate to the festival, film should match the following requirements:last [...]

unique scriptwritING competition launched todayBY NIK POWELLchance to win £3,000Opportunity for aspiring scriptwriters to Make their Mark in FilmA new nationwide competition to encourage and support young British scriptwriting talent has been launched today (23 August 2006) by film producer/director and Director of the National Film and Television School, Nik [...]

UKscreen would like to announce an increase of server space for showreel, music and film uploads to members.Showreel uploads:Now all members can upload a showreel in different sizes.Verified member: up to 1 MBSilver member: up to 2 MBGold member: up to 5 MBPremium member: up to 10 MBExtraPremium member: up [...]

The regional and country finalists for The National Lottery Awards 2006 have just been announced, and some of the UK’s most innovative film projects will now be competing in a public vote against a wide range of Lottery funded initiatives to decide the UK’s favourite National Lottery funded projects.The National [...]

Battle for the Fort “Overwhelmed” by EntriesUK’s Biggest Battle of the Bands Rescheduled due to Popular Demand17th July 2006 The ‘Battle for the Fort’, the UK’s biggest ever battle of the bands, has been moved to September due to an overwhelming flood of entries from aspiring rock stars across the [...]

BBC New Music ShortsA new filmmaking initiative from the BBC21 July 2006. A new filmmaking initiative called BBC New Music Shorts was launched today. BBC Electric Proms, BBC Film Network and BBC New Talent are offering a challenge to new filmmakers to develop original and creative ideas around music filmmaking [...]