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May 2005

Future Shorts
Animate The World
Brighton Festival Fringe
Abbas Kiarostami: Forest Without Leaves
Commonwealth Film Festival
Screen South Shorts Session
End of the Pier Film Festival
Showcasing Shorts 2005
The World of Gilbert & George
Recycle
Adieu Derrida
Pitching for Profit
Screening Conditions
Lives on the Line: Independent British Film
UK Korean Film Festival 2005
Final Cut at the Brighton Festival
Digital Filmmaking Course
Q&A Paul Bush: Maverick
Medway Media Conference 5: Representing 'Yoof'
Encounters with Nomads and Farmers of the Himalayas
Brief Encounters On Tour
ScriptWriting Magazine Masterclass
Masterclass with Syd Field
London Day on the Riviera
The Dam Busters 50th Anniversary
HG Wells: A Life in Film
DocHouse Presents: Stalin's Skyscraper + Detriot: Ruin of a City
The Producers Clout - Managing Stories, Talents and Markets
Directing Performance with Chris Thomas
Jean Viggo
Screen Talk: Laurie Anderson - Hidden Inside Mountains
Screen Talk: A Letter to the Prime Minister
The Flicks: Short Film Cafe
Heart of the Festival
onedotzero9 Adventures in Moving Image

Cinematic shorts: The Future of Film - 3 May

Future Shorts Launches Largest Short Film Network In Europe

Tuesday 3 May
7.30pm
Too 2 Much (formerly Raymond's Revue Bar)
11-12 Walkers Court, London W1
£5
film samples and experimental beats from the award-winning VJs Exceeda and music from the acclaimed Tuesday Weld

Innovative and acclaimed short film label Future Shorts celebrates the creation of the largest short film network in Europe.

Future Shorts is extending its monthly programme of entertaining and innovative short films from around the world to diverse cities across the UK in partnership with Picturehouse cinemas - furthering its aim of providing a public platform for outstanding shorts and the filmmaking talent behind them, whilst encouraging audiences and the industry to recognise and enjoy short film as a genre in it's own right.

Over the next month venues in Bath, Edinburgh, Exeter, Cambridge, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Oxford, Aberdeen and Richmond will be added to the circuit, alongside a further three London venues - enabling audiences nationwide access to the unique Future Shorts experience, and exposure to some of the best filmmaking around.

For more info on screening and events go to www.futureshorts.com

Interview with Fabien Riggall, founder of Future Shorts

Download the May Program PDF
Download the May/June Calender PDF

ANIMATE THE WORLD - throughout May

Animated features and shorts for children aged 5-11 years from around the world

020 7638 4141 | mmcvean@barbican.org.uk | www.barbican.org.uk    

BRIGHTON FESTIVAL FRINGE - 3 to 25 May
www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk/

ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: FOREST WITHOUT LEAVES - 3 May - 5 June

Victoria & Albert Museum
Admission free
Abbas Kiarostami will transform one of the V&A's galleries into a three dimensional forest of trees, made up of huge hollow tubes completely covered by life size photographs of bark. The installation is part of long term investigation by Kiarostami into the way we see our surroundings. He believes that we have become accustomed to only look at the detail in nature once it has been framed and placed in a museum environment. Through this installation he persuades the viewer to take a closer look at the world around them.

Organised by The Iran Heritage Foundation, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

COMMONWEALTH FILM FESTIVAL - 29 April to 8 May

Features, documentary, shorts  

0161 342 0044 | info@commonwealthfilm.com | www.commonwealthfilm.com    

SCREEN SOUTH SHORTS SESSION - 4 May

CITY EYE, SOUTHAMPTON
City Eye is delighted to host the SCREEN SOUTH SHORTS SESSION at Swaythling Neighbourhood Centre, Rear of 200 Burgess Road, Southampton, SO16 3AY

Wednesday 4 May 2005 4.00pm

An opportunity to get the latest news about short schemes both regionally and nationally and to find out what the selection panel and commissioners are really looking for.

In particular there will be discussion opportunities for the following schemes: Digital Shorts, Digital Shorts Plus and Cinema Extreme.
This session will be relevant to first timers and also those who have successfully completed Digital Shorts and higher level projects.

The session is free of charge. For more information or if you would like to attend please email info@screensouth.org | www.screensouth.org

END OF PIER FILM FESTIVAL - 4 to 7 May

Features, shorts, animation, documentary  

07719 116 758 | bryantimmy@aol.com | www.bognorfilmworkshop.org  

SHOWCASING SHORTS 2005 - 5 to 7 May

OXFORD FILM & VIDEO MAKERS
Premiere Thursday 5 May 8.45pm Phoenix Cinema, Oxford .
Repeat screenings Friday 6 May 11.00pm and Saturday 7 May 4pm.

11 films and 95 minutes of new shorts made by the freshest talent that
Oxfordshire has to offer - drama, documentary and animation - it's all
here!

See OFVM web site for film details www.ofvm.org
Phoenix Cinema Box Office Telephone: 01865 512 526 or book on-line at
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/site/cinemas/Oxford/local.htm

THE WORLD OF GILBERT & GEORGE - 6 May
(Philip Haas, 1981 UK, 69')
7pm
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
Free, no booking necessary

For tickets, call 020 7887 8888.

After a brief burst of video-making inspired (and shot) by German video artist/curator Gerry Schum, Gilbert & George only returned to film when invited by Philip Haas to collaborate on this feature-length work. The artists focus their black comic vision on the bleak world of Margaret Thatcher's London . Brilliant, funny and macabre, this screening accompanies the display of Gilbert & George's early film The Nature of Our Looking (1970) and follows a talk in the display by Stuart Comer, Curator of Events and Film.

RECYCLE - 6 to 7 May
Curzon Soho

A SHORT SEASON OF FOUND-FOOTAGE CINEMA & THE DOMINANCE OF AMERICAN CULTURE

RECYCLE is a two day look at found footage, cut-up culture and the dominance of American trash culture, in film & video work from diverse artistes working in VJ & AV collages, to experimental filmmakers who look towards the Hollywood and trash aesthetic, to the work of the anarchistic political film collectives of Europe who portray America as a corporate war-mongering devil.

www.curzoncinemas.com

ADIEU DERRIDA - 6 May to 18 June

Adieu Derrida is a series of lectures in commemoration of Jacques Derrida , organised jointly by the Institut français and the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Birkbeck College . Jacques Derrida , who died last October, was arguably the most famous and influential French philosopher of our time. Over the next two months, some of the greatest contemporary thinkers will come together to celebrate his work and consider the role of the public intellectual in the world today.

Among the participants are four leading French philosophers, Jean-Luc Nancy (6 May), Jacques Rancière (11 May), Etienne Balibar (3 June) and Alain Badiou (10 June).

In addition to the lectures, two documentaries on Derrida will be screened at Ciné lumière on Friday 27 May ( Derrida by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman) and on Friday 18 June ( Ghost Dance by Kenneth McCullen).

Institut français and Birbeck College
Reserv. & info: office@fac-arts.bbk.ac.uk , T. 020 7631 6794
www.bbk.ac.uk

PITCHING FOR PROFIT - 7 May
Grand Hotel, Brighton

Brought to you by Longman Films, this seminar workshop will give you everything you need to pitch your screenplay with confidence. Practical sessions, advice, industry professionals and networking.

£110.

Telephone 07888 669193

Enquiries@longmanfilms.co.uk

SCREENING CONDITIONS - 8 May
ICA , Cinema 1, The Mall
10am
The Institute of Psychoanalysis

A psychoanalytic exploration of films representing various forms of psychopathology and other emotional conditions.

Taxi Driver
Dir Martin Scorsese, Cert 15

A screening of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver followed by discussion.

The second in a series of four events exploring films about 'disordered characters' introduced by Psychoanalysts, Andrea Sabbadini and Sira Dermen.

Tickets and further information from Events, The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112A Shirland Road , London W9 2EQ , 020 7563 5017, email: ann.glynn@iopa.org.uk

Full Price : £18.50.
Concession : £15.

LIVES ON THE LINE: INDEPENDENT BRITISH FILM - 8 May
CURZON SOHO
www.curzoncinemas.com
12 NOON
TICKETS £6.00/£5.00

A double bill of poetic, visually innovative and resolutely
independent British features that examine very different lives lived in both London and in extremis, whether as an artist at the limits of expression, or an Irish migrant labourer tormented by the pressures of memory and loss.

LOVE IS THE DEVIL (18)
Director: John Maybury. Starring: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig,Tilda Swinton. UK 1998. 91 mins.

A remarkable visual biography of one of the twentieth century's most outstanding painters. John Maybury's hugely impressive feature follows Francis Bacon's traumatic seven-year relationship with his lover, model and muse, George Dyer, a low rent Cockney criminal whom Bacon first met burgling his home in 1964. Brilliantly re-creating the London milieu Bacon moved in, from bohemian Soho to the arenas of increasing fame, Maybury and his cinematographer John Mathieson literally inhabit Bacon's painterly expression, filming in a way that brings the tormented canvases of the artist to sensual, troubled life.

Introduced by Belgian photographer Marc Trivier, who knew and worked with Bacon and took some of his most distinctive portraits.

And.

I COULD READ THE SKY (15)
Director: Nicola Bruce Starring: Dermot Healy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Doyle. UK 1999. 88mins.

In a stunning adaptation of the singular text / image documentary fiction by writer Timothy O'Grady and photographer Steve Pyke, Bruce crafts a touching testimonial to difficult, marginal lives lived in isolation. Poignantly played by Irish writer Dermot Healy, the narrator, an elderly Irish labourer in a Kentish Town bedsit thinks back on his life, revisits his childhood, his family Diaspora, friends and pub society, romance, marriage and widowerhood. Hard work and longing are the constants, with memory both a balm and a source of great sadness. Filmed on multiple formats, textured and freeassociative, I COULD READ THE SKY is both elegy to, and celebration of, the epiphanies of ordinary lives. Intoduced by, and Q&A with director Nicola Bruce. This event is part of HERE IS WHERE WE MEET, a London-wide season celebrating the work of John Berger and running from 11 April to 18 May.

See www.johnberger.org for more information.

UK Korean Film Festival 2005 - 9 to 13 May
Prince Charles Cinema

Tickets for all films are free, available 30 minutes before screening
(strictly first come, first served)

The UK London Korean Film Festival 2005 is part of the 3rd London Korean Festival. The festival also contains contemporary media art screenings as well as classical and rock concerts to promote Korean culture to the UK and Europe . Pick up a festival flyer from the cinema, or view schedule www.princecharlescinema.com

FINAL CUT AT THE BRIGHTON FESTIVAL - 9 to 26 May

For the third year running, Final Cut is the biggest film event in the Brighton Festival with four screenings at different venues around the city showcasing 70+ new shorts, including many award-winners and UK/European premieres. There will be a wealth of top-quality work on view covering all genres and styles: dramas, animation, music videos, documentaries, comedy, horror, dance, ultra-shorts and unclassifiable weird stuff.

All screenings include their popular new Trailer Trash section of teasers for new and almost-completed films plus VJ sets from top local performers incorporating clips from the films being shown.

Programme Overview

Monday 9 May
Pressure Point
Doors open 8pm
admission £4 - late bar

The opening-night event presents thirteen brand-new shorts plus the launch of Final Cut's first DVD compilation, 'Final Cut - Take One'. The programme includes Someone In Particular, a new film starring Dora Bryan, currently appearing in TVs Last of the Summer Wine. Dora will be making a personal appearance, so don't forget your autograph books.

Thursday 12 May
The Marlborough Theatre
Doors open 9pm
admission £4 - late bar

Special screening spotlighting recent work by South East film-makers with a diverse collection of shorts from all over the region. Highlights include David Ward's Life In The Ring and the first public screening of a promo for Will Jewell's new feature-length doc on the south coast hip hop scene, South Coast.

Thursday 19 May
The Ocean Rooms
'Big Apple night'
Doors open 7.30pm
admission £4 - late bar

The best UK and US shorts go head-to-head in this screening giving you the chance to compare our film-makers with some of the best emerging talent from the New York indie scene. The evening includes the official launch of Final Cut's new UK-wide '24/7' streaming service and you can stay on afterwards and schmooze till late in the club's three dance/lounge areas.

Thursday 26 May
Hanbury Arms Ballroom
Doors open 8pm
admission £5 - late bar

Final Cut's last-night screening party unleashes an exciting package of ultra-shorts, left-field music videos and experimental work on an unsuspecting city, plus the premiere screening of ten new ultra-shorts from Final Cut's One Minute Wonder participants. The night also includes a rare 'Netjacking' performance from American musician and laptop guru, Stuart Smith and the world premiere of 'No Man's Land', a new computer-driven music-VJ live piece from Anglo-Burmese singer and composer, Fiona Soe Paing.

Free popcorn at all screenings provided by Brighton 's famous
Duke of York's cinema.

To find out more about these events,
visit: www.finalcut.gb.com

DIGITAL FILMMAKING COURSE - 10 to 13 May (Tuesdays)
7pm - 9.30pm
£64/£42 concessions)
Croydon Clocktower
Katharine Street , Croydon CR9 1ET
(15 minutes from Victoria or London Bridge )

Comprehensive introduction to digital filmmaking, looking at camera operation, editing and directing. Participants produce a short film using DV cameras and iMovie editing software.

To book please call the Ticket Office on 020 8253 1030

Q & A PAUL BUSH: MAVERICK (15) - 11 May
Curzon Soho
www.curzoncinemas.com
6PM
Tickets £5/£4 concessions

All these films rely on a visual language to engage the audience but also borrow from drama and documentary and are influenced by engraving, illustration, dance and music and include the London premiere of two new works.

Paul Bush will be present to introduce his films and will be holding a Q&A afterwards.

HIS COMEDY
1994. 8mins. 35mm.
A journey into the centre of Hell; Dante's The Divine Comedy, illustrated by Gustav Dore's wood engravings and animated by scratching directly into the surface of the film.

STILL LIFE WITH SMALL CUP
1995. 3mins. 35mm.
A radical re-working of an etching by Italian artist Giorgio Morandi.

THE ALBATROSS
1998. 15mins. 35mm.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by 19th century wood engravings and brought to life by scratching directly into the surface of colour filmstock.

FURNITURE POETRY
1999. 5mins. 35mm.
How can you prove this table does not vanish or alter shape the minute your back is turned?

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
2001. 5mins. 35mm.
Imagine that the camera is possessed with a psychosis similar to human schizophrenia.

PAS DE DEUX DE DEUX
2001. 5mins. 35mm.
A classical pas de deux from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is restaged frame by frame with the original dancers replaced by four new dancers.

ROOM 2
2000. 2mins. Beta.
The cinema version of a 60 seconds commercial for Glasgow based furniture retailer.

BUSBY BERKELEY 'S TRIBUTE TO MAE WEST
2002. 1mins. Beta.
Busby Berkeley 's tribute to screen sex goddess Mae West as imagined by director Paul Bush.

SHINJUKU SAMURAI
2004. 6mins. Beta.
Twenty six citizens of Tokyo stop for a moment in front of a time lapse camera in the busy Shinjuku entertainment district of the city.

WHILE DARWIN SLEEPS
2004. 5mins. Beta.
Thousands of insects pass through the film each for a single frame.

www.paulbushfilms.com
With thanks to www.lux.org.uk

MEDWAY MEDIA CONFERENCE 5: REPRESENTING "YOOF" - 12 May
Supported by Medway Council and Medway Education and Business Partnership

The fifth annual Medway Media Conference will take place on:

THURSDAY 12 MAY 2005
9.30am until 3.30pm
Central Theatre in Chatham.

Tickets cost £5.00 per student, teachers are free. Lunch provided for all teachers so we can informally "network."

The focus of the conference is upon how young people are represented within the media. This year's event, as usual, provides an excellent opportunity for revision and a very good way of preparing media studies and film studies students for their forthcoming A/S and A2 or GCSE examinations.

During the day there will be talks and lectures on

• Youth movies and cults
• Advertising aimed at teenagers
• The history of the "teenager"
• Teens in pop
• Teens in sit coms
• The popularity of US Dramas for teens

Contributors this year come from Fort Pitt Girls' Grammar School, The Howard School for Boys, Medway Adult Education Centre and Rochester Independent College.

The closing film this year will be Pawel Pawlikowski's moving look at teenage friendship My Summer of Love (cert 15), a recent British film starring Paddy Considine.

Tickets can be paid for on the day or we can send a post-conference invoice to your school or college. RSVP.

Andrew Webber
Head of Media Studies
Chatham Grammar School for Girls, Rainham Rd, Chatham Kent ME5 7EH

Work: 01634 851262
E-Mail: webba004@medway.org.uk

ENCOUNTERS WITH FARMERS AND NOMADS OF THE HIMALAYAS - 13 May
Oxford Film & Video Makers

7 - 10 pm

Free entry & refreshments

A project using Participatory Video to value and share indigenous
knowledge and ways of managing natural resources with external agencies such as Research Institutions, Policy Makers and NGOs. You will see extracts from 4 community video messages from Ladakh (India), Pakistan and China (Eastern Tibet) with an account of the recent workshop with scientists and their responses to the films by Nick Lunch, Director of Insight and Sonam Tsering, Insight Trainee (Ladakh project).

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS ON TOUR - 13 to 16 May
ICA

Three programmes of international prize-winners and audience favourites from the UK's leading short film festival

Tall Orders
13 & 14 May
These shorts stand tall. An international sampler of our favourite short films on glorious 35mm.

The Best of British
14 & 15 May
From no-budget mini-masterpieces to BAFTA winners, these are the home-grown films that have been clocking up awards and thrilling audiences around the globe.

In the Company of Men
15 & 16 May
Macho-men, mid-life mania, dorks and dreamers. Including Richard Linklater's Live From Shiva's Dance Floor.

Brief Encounters on Tour curated by the Independent Cinema Office
Visit www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/be_tour.htm for full programme details.

Full Price : £6.50, (£5.50 before 5pm Mon - Fri).
Concession : £5.50, no concs weekends (£4.50 before 5pm Mon - Fri only).
ICA Members : £4.50, (£3.50 before 5pm Mon - Fri).

ScriptWriter Magazine Masterclass - 14 May

CHARACTERS, PLOTS AND STORYLINES IN COMEDY - Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran

From the writers of Birds of a Feather , Goodnight Sweetheart and Shine on Harvey Moon .

ScriptWriter Magazine now offers high-quality training at the lowest possible price for writers, producers, script editors, script readers, agents and directors. All classes will be held at RADA in London . Only £50 per person per event as the classes are directly subsidised by ScriptWriter Magazine.

Tickets can be booked with the RADA Box Office on 020 7908 4800.
For full details of the courses, speakers' biographies and course location go to www.scriptwritermagazine.com and click on 'Masterclasses'.

MASTERCLASS WITH SYD FIELD - 14 to 15 May

Take a fresh look at screenwriting with the original master

Internationally-acclaimed screenwriting Guru Syd Field is bringing his modern Masterclass seminar to Europe for the first time, updating classic storytelling conventions with a focus on the contemporary tools of the craft. He will guide a two-day tour of storytelling techniques, focusing on the best of modern cinema -- Kill Bill and Sideways alike -- in order to help the aspiring or professional screenwriter to create, prepare, write, and rewrite his/her own screenplay. He will be illustrating the lecture and discussions with contemporary film clips for a modern investigation of the screenwriters' choices. Whether you are writing your first or your hundredth screenplay, whether your taste skews toward Quentin Tarantino or Alexander Payne, Syd's analysis and practical approaches to the craft are poignant, simple, fresh and inspiring.

Early Bird discount of £50 until the 28th of Feb. Payment plans available. Contact the screenwriter's store for further details.

020 7261 1908 | Johanna@thesws.com

London Day on the Riviera - 16th May

Top London film talent including Stephen Frears and Gurinder Chadha are joining Film London , to mark a day of events celebrating London 's contribution to global film production. London Day kicks off with a press conference where film-makers Paul Hitchcock , (Mission Impossible) and Film London chair Sandy Lieberson (Performance) together with Film London Chief Executive Adrian Wootton will launch the results of the 12 month Film London Executive Task Force to make London a more film-friendly city. Other events on the day include a head-to-head discussion with UK film-makers Stephen Frears and Gurinder Chadha who will talk about the unique qualities of film-making in London . London Day also sees the launch of London Plus.

www.filmlondon.org.uk

SPECIAL EVENT: THE DAM BUSTERS 50TH ANNIVERSARY - 16 May

6.30PM NFT1

In the first part of the evening, Brad King of the Imperial War Museum will present rare footage of the development of Barnes Wallis' 'Bouncing Bomb'. The Imperial War Museum 's rich collection of technical film reveals the trials and tribulations of the invention of one of the most spectacular weapons of WW2. Footage includes film of 617 Squadron practising just a few days before their famous raid on the Ruhr dams. Following a short interval, we will then screen a new print of The Dam Busters in the film's 50th anniversary year. This understated British war epic is a straightforward and restrained recounting of Wallis' development of the 'Bouncing Bomb' and its successful use in the raid led by Commander Guy Gibson. The film achieved its huge box-office success thanks to skilful pacing, a sincere performance by Michael Redgrave as the boffin, and the stirring march composed by Eric Coates. We also hope to welcome some members of the production crew to this event.
With Richard Todd
UK 1955/Dir Michael Anderson
£11.50, concs £9.25 NFT Members save £1

H G WELLS: A LIFE IN FILM - 17 May

6.20pm NFT1

Accompanying our HG Wells season, a chance to see rare films and documentaries illustrating Wells' involvement with cinema, spanning his career from 1909 to 1942. The programme will include the first showing in this country of L'Invisible Voleur (made in France in 1909) and a rarely seen amateur film scripted by Rebecca West which features Wells as a very unconventional clergyman. Newsreel shots include Wells speaking about the future of the Soviet Union and a protest march by Moslems against 'A Short History of the World'.

DocHouse Presents: Stalin's Skyscraper + Detriot: Ruin of a City + Q&A - 18th May
19:00 - 00:00, £8.50/adults, £5.50 /cons

Location: The ICA, The Mall, SW1, London

Contact: DocHouse, gus@dochouse.org

Stalin's Skyscraper - UK Premiere:
Pavel Lounguine , UK /France, 2004, 77 min.

The Moscow skyscraper was Stalin's pet project, envisioned in the spirit of a Communist utopia but in reality built by prisoners of war and Gulag detainees to house KGB agents and the Moscow Intelligentsia. Shot in the ghostly corridors, and told through the stories of the residents, this is an ironic, off-beat portrait of modern-day Russia .

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Detroit : Ruin of a City (London Premiere)
Michael Chanan and George Steinmetz, UK/USA 2005, 92mns, Music by Michael Nyman

Motor City was built upon the social concept of 'Fordism'. Through interviews and photographs as well as a remarkable variety of archive footage, this film traces the company's ideological roots and the effect of its ruthless progress on the city.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director of ' Detroit ', Michael Chanan

The Producers Clout - Managing Stories, Talents and Markets - 21 to 22 May

Oxford Film & Video Makers

This course is designed to prepare emerging producers and filmmakers with an organisational map through the various stages of the feature film production process and look at how to meet film industry requirements beyond the magic words We are in! During the course, participants will work on approaches to presenting their projects strengths to a variety of potential funding sources and also gain a clear understanding of creative, financial, legal and management issues which will help turn a script into a viable investment opportunity

Dates
May 21/22nd (10.00 - 6.00pm)

Cost
Cost £180 Full / £110 Concessions

Workshop Outline

Saturday am: Feature Film Development Foundations
. Introduction & overview
. The various roles and responsibilities of a Producer
. Where you can fit in
. Clarifying aims & ambitions
. The UK production environment - What works?
. Identifying stories that find an audience
. Script analysis: dramatic, economic, marketing considerations
. Structure and needs of the development industry
. Identifying potential partners: writers, producers, directors, financiers
. Successful delegation: strategies to ensure a productive relationship
. Copyright & chain of title

Saturday pm: The Rough Guide Through Development Hell
. Your first production company
. Growing a business plan organically
. The slate
. Development finance, budget & schedule
. Corporate structure, mentors and executive producers
. Pitching & Negotiation
. Production finance partners put to the test
. Finance structure: license, minimum guarantee, equity and co-production
. Packaging the project
. Promotional short (pilot)
. Pitching & Negotiation - getting the money

Sunday am: After the Green Light - Preproduction
. Standard conditions precedent to funding: completion bond, approvals, recouping positions & corridors
. Progress and cost reports
. Production team, heads of department, crew: what do they do? How can they help?
. Contracts
. Rights Clearance continued
. Insurances
. Budget & Schedule
. Health & Safety
. Running production meetings

Sunday pm: Shoot & Deliver
. Supervise the shoot & schedule
. Control cashflow
. Manage creative talent
. Publicity
. Postproduction route
. Credits
. Rough cut screenings
. Delivery lists
. Using press, TV and film festival to find your audience
. The work of sales agents and distributors
. Q&A

Carl Schoenfeld
Carl has been managing production companies for ten years, producing award winning documentary and drama for TV as well as theatrical release. He has worked with industry financiers, completion bond and sales agents, and has been invited to talks, panels, master classes and international film festivals around the world. His experience has been condensed into these workshops to provide a short cut around some of those costly and long winded learning curves faced by all who want to get their first movie made.

Carl is a fine teacher because he conveys a real enthusiasm for learning.
There is a freshness about what he teaches because one feels he has recently learned it himself from personal experience and with a good deal of pleasure Simon Perry, President, ACE

I learned more in one afternoon than I did in three years at film school and because he had made all the mistakes himself - and he was not coy about admitting them we all felt safe to make a few ****ups of our own along the way too because that was the only way we were ever going to know as much as Carl clearly did. Darren Bender, Head of Production, Screen East

My Brother Tom was a classic independent producer triumph of hope and determination against the adversity of a difficult market for challenging work. Robin Gutch, Head of FilmFour Lab

From the feedback we received on the course I believe everyone greatly appreciated the pitching event to the extent of asking when it will be run again!
Jo-Ashton Jones, Road Movies (Wim Wenders Production Company)

To book on-line or by post see booking form in main menu of web site

www.ofvm.org

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DIRECTING PERFORMANCE WITH CHRIS THOMAS - 21 to 22 May

Raindance

You get the money, you get the crew, you get the script, you have the actors, but what do you do next?

On May 21/22, Chris Thomas presents Directing Performance where he demonstrates how to coax terrific performances from your actors, and, where and how to place the camera to heighten and maximise the emotion of the scene.

Pre-registration is £195 + VAT

Not sure if this is the right directing course? Call us on 0207 287 3833

Or look at http://www.raindance.co.uk

Raindance Film Training courses: The original, and still the best

JEAN VIGGO - 22 May
Barbican, Cinema 3
3 pm

A programme to mark the centenary of the birth of genius of French poetic realism, director Jean Vigo.

A Propos de Nice (U)
Probably one of the first satirical film essays, this work was influenced by Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera and shot by Vertov's brother, Boris Kaufman. The film presents a savage, frenetic vision of a superficial society in a state of putrefaction.
France 1930 Dir. Jean Vigo 25 min

Zero de Conduite (U)
Revolution breaks out in a boy's boarding school with a tyrannical headmaster. This renowned forerunner to Lindsay Anderson's If...was immediately banned and censored by the French authorities for "praise of indiscipline & attacking the prestige of the teaching profession". The ban was only lifted well after WWII.
France 1933 Dir. Jean Vigo 41min

L'Atalante (PG)
Vigo 's only full-length feature is a mesmerising poetic journey down the canals of northern France on board the eponymous barge. Jean, the captain, brings his bride Juliette to live with his crew - an eccentric cabin boy, the anarchic Pere Jules (Jules Simon) and his countless cats. Vigo successfully turned the lacklustre love story imposed on him by the studios into a unique vision, a film quite unlike any other made before or since.

www.barbican.org.uk

SCREEN TALK: LAURIE ANDERSON - HIDDEN INSIDE MOUNTAINS - 22 May
Barbican, Cinema 1
4pm

The Barbican is delighted to welcome composer, writer and master storyteller Laurie Anderson, to talk about her work following the UK premiere of her film Hidden Inside Mountains .

Hidden Inside Mountains UK Premiere
Laurie Anderson has written, directed and created an original score for her film of short stories about nature, artifice and dreams. Located in a fictitious world of theatrical spaces, the stories unfold through music, gesture, text and the poetry of visual images. Capturing both joy and loss, the film's haunting music features violins, bells, electronics, dog barks and melody.
US 2005 Dir. Laurie Anderson 25 min. In Japanese and English

www.barbican.org.uk

SCREEN TALK: A LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER: JO WILDING'S DIARY FROM IRAQ - 24 May
Barbican, Cinema 1

World Premiere

A Letter to the Prime Minister follows activist Jo Wilding - who kept an online diary of her time in Iraq read by thousands of people around the world - on her remarkable journey of the last few years, with the people of Iraq . Narrated as a letter to Tony Blair, Julia Guest's documentary serves as witness to the destruction of the lives of ordinary people during the bombing campaign and subsequent neglect by Occupation forces and authorities.
UK 2005 Dir. Julia Guest 70 min.

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Panel discussion with Julia Guest, Jo Wilding, John Pilger and Eric Herring, moderated by Gareth Evans, film critic, Time Out.

www.barbican.org.uk

The Flicks: short film cafe - 25th May
19:30 - 22:30, £3/concs

Location: Chichester Cinema - New Park Community Centre, Chichester , PO19 7XY , Southern

Contact: Roy Hanney, flickscafe@yahoo.co.uk , 07714 159 646, http://www.aalto.co.uk/flicks/

This month the Flicks presents an evening of Documentary Shorts. The Flicks also screens touring shows such as the Film Council programme from Short Circuit Films and curated evenings of shorts by Screen South Regional Delivery Partners such as City Eye and Kent Hothouse.

HEART OF THE FESTIVAL - 26 May

Cine Lumiere

Heart of the Festival is a DVD anthology of the greatest moments of the Cannes Film Festival, compiled by the festival's president, Gilles Jacob, and released in the j'aime le cinéma! agnès b. Collection. Using stunning archive images, the film tells a fascinating history of the festival, one made particularly intriguing thanks to its star-studded cast. Heart of the Festival features interviews with some of the greatest moviemakers in cinema history, and lifts the lid on historical backstage secrets, all of which make it an essential addition to any film buff's DVD collection! Ciné lumière is pleased to present a preview screening of Heart of the Festival , ahead of its DVD release on 13 June by Nova.

The preview screening will be introduced by agnès b.

ONEDOTZERO9 ADVENTURES IN MOVING IMAGE - 27 May to 5 June

'the most groundbreaking festival of the early 21st century' Guardian
'pushing beyond boundaries of celluloid, narrative and genre' Empire

onedotzero's groundbreaking annual festival, returns for the ninth year with ten days of adventures in moving image. The globally acclaimed festival features new forms of moving image across music video, computer gaming cinematics, architecture, motion graphics, new media, feature films and graphic-inflected narrative shorts and documentaries with a series of panels, presentations, screening programmes and live events. Moving image, design, fashion and architecture have been intrinsically connected from the birth of moving image to the present day. onedotzero charts the current creative crossovers and explorations with focused programmes highlighting the excitement of convergence. Please visit www.onedotzero.com for further programme information.

Content of onedotzero programmes is subject to change

onedotzero9 ICA Membership
Become a onedotzero9 festival member for £8 (£6 concs) and gain unlimited access to the galleries and bar (perfect for networking!) at the ICA for the duration of the festival and gain entry to all onedotzero9 events at the ICA members' price.

Prices for all events (unless otherwise indicated) are given below:

Full Price : £6.50.
Concession : £5.50 (no concs weekends).
Members : ICA/onedotzero9 £4.50.

www.ica.org.uk