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ur programme is bigger, bolder and better than ever before, with more events, more guest screenings and more fun. We’re incredibly excited at the addition of our sixth competition category, Documentary Shorts. After many years of seeing documentary film become more relevant and more important in our society it’s something that we feel truly passionate about including in our festival this year and we hope you have the chance to experience this amazing programme. This is not the only addition you’ll notice, with the return to the Curzon Soho, the bastion of independent film, we’ve increased our screenings and developed a stronger educational theme to our events and lectures. Curzon Cinemas created the Short Film Summer School three years ago, it ran successfully for two years but, sadly, this year fell short of funding and support. We could not come home without honouring their dedication to filmmakers and, wanting to see the SFSS continue, we have worked to create what we hope is a small reflection of the SFSS’s formative and former years. We’ve panel discussions with the London Short Film Festival: Halloween, tours of post production houses, a pub quiz with Shooting People, industry networking with Le Patchwork Productions and the Directors Guild of Great Britain, seminars with film funders, IPTV channels and interactive filmmakers, Masterclasses in post production and film pitching with the London Film Academy, HD demonstrations with SONY and HD seminars with VMI. There are parties with the APA honouring the CFPE/shots Young Directors Award, ThinkSync Films will be throwing a fabulous party on HMS President and straight 8 will be celebrating their latest competitors with fifty premieres… and we’ve not even covered the films yet!! Complementing our Events and Competition Categories we have a wonderful collection of guest programmes celebrating the best work in a vast range of mediums. Encounters Short Film Festival, Route Master Renderyard Film and Animation Film Festival, straight 8, Four Docs, First Light Films, Kodak Commercials, APA, Dazzle Short
Film Label, Shorts International, MySpace: MyMovie MashUp, Cobravision and Digital Shorts Plus are just some of the generous contributors providing films from Fabulous Flappers to the last moments of the Route Master 157. As a welcome note we’ll leave the programme there. There are plenty more pages to read through following this one. I hope you’re inspired, enthralled and aghast, equally, at how much time you might have to take off work for this week! But never fear! We thought of that too and this year you’ll be able to watch our competition programmes online with Babelgum, who’ve come to our rescue and encoded all our categories so you have a chance to watch everything online! Need I remind you that 99% of what I’ve described is free? We could not possibly begin to do all this without the incredible support of our sponsors and supporters; as a sponsor or supporter your continuing input to our festival is invaluable and hugely welcomed, we really do appreciate it. Thank you. It’s also important to understand that all this support does not only come from outside our company but from the teams within Rushes. No one can work at Rushes without being involved on some level or to some degree and there are those who’ve dedicated years (I do not joke) to supporting this festival and to ensure its success, making it a formidable platform for promoting new talent and giving voice to new work. To all those folks, in my first year as Festival Director, I reserve the biggest, boldest and bestest (sic) thanks, not just from me you must understand but thanks from us all, filmmakers and audiences alike, THANK YOU. And on that note I’ll leave you to peruse the pages ahead and plan your viewing.
Enjoy! Joe Bateman Festival Director
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Welcome… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 03 Babelgum……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 06
An interview with Geraldine James………………………………………………………………………… 12 Short Film Award……………………………………………………………………………………………… 14 An interview with Nick Broomfield… ……………………………………………………………………… 18 Documentary Film Award… ………………………………………………………………………………… 20 An interview with Tom Harper… …………………………………………………………………………… 22 Newcomer Film Award… …………………………………………………………………………………… 24 An interview with Emily Mann… …………………………………………………………………………… 27 Animation Film Award………………………………………………………………………………………… 28 An interview with Run Wrake………………………………………………………………………………… 34 Music Video Award…………………………………………………………………………………………… 36 Titles and Idents Award……………………………………………………………………………………… 40 Awards Night… ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 42 Venue Map… ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 48 Screening Timetable… ……………………………………………………………………………………… 49 Venue details… ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 50 Events… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 54 Guest Programmes…………………………………………………………………………………………… 66 Judges… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 09
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For the maker of a short film casting a star, or at least a name or face that potential backers will recognise, is a good start in getting a project off the ground. And for the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival signing up a star who is a recognizable name and face helps no end in publicising the event and extolling the virtues of the short film. Geraldine James ticks all those boxes. She is an acclaimed stage actor, a familiar presence in British films and television drama series from the late 1970s onwards - Bloody Kids, The History Man, Jewel in the Crown, Blott on the Landscape, Band of Gold, Kavanagh QC, Gandhi, The Tall Guy and Calendar Girls among them - and now is a favourite on Little Britain as Mrs Pincher, the disturbingly indulgent mother. She succeeds another film and TV stalwart, and friend of hers, Charles Dance, who was spokesperson for the Festival last year. The choice of an actor for this role is not merely because the public, and some in the business, might more readily recognize and connect with a well-known performer but because short films are as important for actors as they are for directors, producers and writers. “The short film is a crucial way for people to increase their experience,” Geraldine comments. “The filmmakers coming from film courses are very competent but need to develop, which they do through making short films. And by appearing in them actors get the chance to see themselves. It’s all very well to think you’re doing something but an actor needs to be able to see it back. In theatre we get to rehearse but the opportunity for more camera acting is invaluable.” So short films allow actors to improve their technique; and by appearing in them the performers improve the chances of a production becoming reality and help promote it once completed. “We’re supporting those coming into the profession,” says Geraldine. “Having someone people have heard of in a film is a way of getting it seen or raising money.” There is also the thought that if a young director makes the big time they may call on those they have worked with before for future projects. “We only get work because of other people getting work,” says Geraldine. She feels that new ideas and styles are vital in the development of the business, as is government funding. But on that last tricky subject she is less confident. “I hope British talent is coming through,” she says. “There’s the Film Council and other bodies that help encourage and
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develop new films and filmmakers but until the tax laws are sorted out there’s still going to be difficulty in getting things made. Unfortunately the situation will stay as it is now until someone takes responsibility.” She sees Rushes Soho Shorts as promoting talent and vibrancy in the British industry, an important job as other festivals, particularly Cannes, become bigger and increasingly commercial. “Cannes is more and more American,” says Geraldine, “and it’s something I don’t feel part of. Venice is fabulous because it’s Venice.” The Venice Film Festival is significant in Geraldine James’ career as she won the Volpi Cup best actress award there in 1989 for She’s Been Away. She’s also received three BAFTA TV Award nominations, for The Jewel in the Crown, Band of Gold and The Sins. Prizes, she says, matter and the Rushes Soho Shorts Awards matter just as much as any of the others. But the Festival has another vital function. “It’s a great event for Soho,” says Geraldine, “because there’s so much going on. And people get to see films for free - at Costa Coffee or in Soho House without being a member.” Geraldine James recently finished work on Medieval Heist, directed by Justin Hardy, and is now filming as Nell the Gin Maker in City of Vice. She appeared in a short film in 1979, The Dumb Waiter, which launched director-writer Robert Bierman, who directed Nicholas Cage in Vampire’s Kiss and now has a solid TV credits list. As for aspiring directors looking for suitable casting today, she says, “If anyone wants to make a film with me in it, that would be great.” n
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BEGINNINGLESS Jonathan Pearson Park Village A young man unwittingly makes himself an easy target.
FINAL JOURNEY Brendan Muldowney SP Films “When sweet life passes on, where do our souls then fly?”
GOODBYE TO THE NORMALS Jim Field Smith Idiotlamp A six year-old boy has decided to run away to America.
ONE HUNDRETH OF A SECOND Susan Jacobson Pistachio One photograph changes a photojournalist’s life forever.
i Luke Losey Neath Films Ltd A snapshot of a terrifying moment only partially revealed.
INTERIOR BEDSIT DAY James Larkin Film 38 Ltd Pete brightens up his dull life by writing himself into his own screenplays.
IS IT JUST ME: GOING IN PUBLIC Zam Salim Hopscotch films Exploring the anxieties of urban living.
MASH UP Jesse Lawrence La Famiglia An encounter with an old enemy brings unexpected results.
ONE MINUTE SILENCE Clare Harvey Amarillo Films A ballet teacher orders one minutes silence for a girl who lost her sister.
POUND Evan Bernard Chelsea Pictures The longest handshake in the world.
SILENCE IS GOLDEN Chris Shepherd Slinky Pictures My neighbour’s a right loony. He’s always banging our wall down.
SOFT Simon Ellis Bub When a father and son are terrorised by the same gang, Dad has to deal with old fears.
THE BOX Richard Fenwick Jo Phipps/Reference Point Films Where do our real lives belong when television is everywhere?
THE SICKIE Rupert Jones The Bureau Douglas throws a sickie, but his conscience sabotages his attempts to enjoy a day off.
WHAT DOES YOUR DADDY DO? Martin Stitt Sprig Productions It takes brave men and women to protect children, but at what cost?
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These two schemes are run in partnership with the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund and 12 partners across the regions and nations of the UK. Filmmakers shoot on digital. Digital Shorts is open to emerging filmmakers who are creative and technological innovators. From September 2007 Digital Shorts will be changing; filmmakers who have already made a digital short will be able to apply to make a new film. Find out more from the partner in your local region - contact details: www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/filmmaking/ shorts/digitalshorts/ Digital Shorts Plus is open to filmmakers who have already made a digital short or work of a similar level, budgets are higher at £20,000.
Cinema Extreme This scheme funds filmmakers with a distinctive directorial voice and cinematic flair. The scheme is co-funded with Film4. Budgets are high (£50,000) and the scheme intends to provide filmmakers with a stepping stone to a feature film.
Tuesday 31 July 11.00-13.00, Curzon Soho Get intimate with Lifesize Pictures - sessions for filmmakers NB Lifesize Pictures manages the UK Film Council’s investment in shorts. Digital Shorts Plus Screening Monday 30 July 14.00, The Hospital Followed by Q and A with Lifesize Pictures. Look out for the 10 short films from the UK Film Council screening at the festival: Mash Up One Hundredth of a Second Soft Chicken Soup Cherries The Projectionist Would Like to Meet Film Eight My Mother The Young Offender
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broomfield The documentary is back with a vengeance. Feature length docs have been massively successful in the cinema over the last five years - Bowling for Columbine, Capturing the Friedmans and The Corporation all raised awareness and box office figures. And television, arguably the natural home of the documentary, has welcomed back the form - and not as the bastardised docu-soap or reality show. Not only do new directors now have plenty of outlets for serious investigations and reflections of modern life, so too do the pioneers and mavericks of the last twenty to thirty years: Paul Watson, Molly Dineen and, perhaps most recognisable, Nick Broomfield. The Rushes Soho Shorts Festival features a documentary category for the first time this year and Nick is its spokesman. “It’s great to see documentary categories coming through to mainstream festivals, including short film festivals,” he says. Young documentary makers in the early 1970s did not have as many showcases for their work as now but strong, well told stories have always found an audience. Nicks first two films were shorts, the 17-minute student production Who Cares?, made in 1971, and 1973’s Proud to be British, which is that strange hybrid, a long short, running at 42-minutes. Before learning the craft of filmmaking at the National Film School Broomfield studied law and political science. Many of his films reflect those early studies: social conditions in Behind the Rent Strike (1979), the blindness of the legal system in Nick’s two films about serial killer Aileen Wournos (1992/2003), politics and society in Tracking Down Maggie (1994). Nick is not only known to audiences by his name, he was among the first documentary film directors to put himself in the story, both as a character and as a physical presence. Purists argue over the technique of a filmmaker putting him or herself into the film, other than as a disembodied voice. Today the device does not arouse so much opposition; it is fairly commonplace, with Michael Moore being its leading exponent. Audiences are also familiar with Nick Broomfield popping into shot, his headphones askew as he shambles after his quarry. Much like the New Journalism of Hunter S Thompson Nick often puts himself into his stories when the story is not coming together or people refuse to be interviewed. The Leader, The Driver and The Driver’s Wife (1991) is the prime
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example of this: Broomfield finally gets an interview with South African Nazi leader Eugene Terre’Blanche through annoying him into submission. This style first appeared in 1988’s Driving Me Crazy, originally planned as a documentary about the making of a Broadway musical but eventually a record of Nick’s attempts to make the film, dealing not only with the show folk but also his own producers, who cut budgets and schedules as filming went on. Nick acknowledges this incensed the purists but says the technique is valid. “When I first put myself in a film I was accused of narcissism and of detracting from the cinéma vérité. But the audience realised that there are filmmakers involved and my being on screen makes it more intimate, as if we’re going on a journey together.” Difficulties in getting documentaries, both his own and those of others, commissioned and funded have frustrated Nick and he has been vocal in his criticism of producers spending money on populist programming, particularly reality shows. Only a couple of years ago he bemoaned the irony of Britain, once a leader in documentaries, being a place where getting funding for such films was difficult. The success of documentaries in the cinema and more possible outlets on digital TV have swung the balance back in favour of filmmakers like Nick Broomfield. Channel 4 recently showed his drama-doc Ghosts and he is in post-production on his Iraq film, Battle for Haditha. And events like the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival go a long way in helping the next generation of documentarians. Broomfield sees the documentary category of this year’s Festival as supporting up-and-coming filmmakers, helping get their work seen by both the media industry and the general public. n
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CHEAT NEUTRAL Beth Stratford A unique solution to a problem of modern life - offset your infidelity.
EVERYBODY LIKE SOMETHING Jesse Lawrence la famiglia An asylum seeker facing deportation decides to take desperate measures...
FOR ALL THE TEA IN ENGLAND Kerry McLeod Tea Films A tea-break sized glimpse into Britain’s favourite brew.
GHANA’s ROOSTING BIRD M. Rowe & J. Gander Pig Farm Productions Ghana’s farmers struggle to compete against imported rice.
GONE 2 SOON Dewi Bruce-Konuah AD82 Productions A film about the impact that the murder of Billy Cox had on his community.
GRAVE BUSINESS James Rogan Park Village A gravestone saleswoman in New York faces her customers with compassion and wit.
KURT DIEMBERGER K2 Edward Salkeld Co-directed by Naz Sadough Snack Inc. Ltd K2 holds a spellbinding attraction over a man who lost a friend to it.
LAST ORDERS: COMPOST Jason Hendriksen Windfall Films A gardener dreams of being composted when he dies.
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LAST ORDERS: LIFEGEM Jason Hendriksen Windfall Films Carol Sullivan collects a diamond made from her late daughter’s remains.
OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN Jeremy Williams Landmark Films After the death of their abusive father, two brothers return home.
THE SCAVENGERS Janine Finlay Fin Films Ltd A priest helps those trying to scrape together a living from scrap.
WHAT WE’VE FOUND OUT ABOUT STEM CELLS Richard Fenwick Animations demystifying the world of stem cells.
OUT OF TIME Suzanne Cohen Royal Holloway University A personal journey from Highbury to Emirates and beyond.
QUEST FOR FIRE Steve Rainbow DFG Films The search for the hottest curry in the world.
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harper Some filmmakers see film festivals as purely a means to an end. Others become almost adicted to them. Tom Harper, winner of the 2006 Rushes Soho Shorts Newcomer award is back in competition this year, which he sees as important for any emergent director. “Festivals act like brands,” he says. “You know the films showing in that festival are going to be of a certain standard and so the good festivals draw back an audience year after year. Getting into a festival means your film automatically has access to that audience.” By extension, he says, the more festivals a director and a film get into, the more audiences will see the work. And, showing he already understands how a publicity savvy and hungry business like film, Tom says film festivals can often be great media exposure and PR. Tom, born in London 27 years ago, won the Newcomer award for Cubs, a grainy, edgy look at city life for young people, who put a new twist on gang culture and belonging through urban fox hunting. The film got further recognition by being nominated for a BAFTA in the short film category. “Winning the award certainly raised my profile within the industry,” he comments. “Awards are great publicity and the film reached a larger audience as a result, both in terms of the public and the industry. Cubs was the first film I made that attracted finance and due to its success I have been fortunate enough to have been making films ever since.” Among those films is Cherries, which is in this year’s Soho Shorts Festival in the short film category. Tom agrees that without the success of Cubs getting Cherries into production would have been much harder. “It was financed off the back of Cubs by the UK Film Council and Film London as part of their Digital Shorts Plus scheme. I think this is mainly to do with the script by Fiona Kissane but it’s always easier to back someone with a track record and I hope that through Cubs people got a sense of my style and were able to have confidence in my ability. Cubs proved there was an interest in my work and the award consolidated that.” Digital video and the internet have given aspiring filmmakers greater means of creating and distributing their work, which Tom thinks makes this an exciting time for directors of short films. “Costs have come down and far more people are able to make films, which can only be a good thing in terms of diversity and pushing the boundaries,” he says. “With sites
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such as YouTube and My Space, it’s never been easier to reach an audience - but this also means there’s a lot of rubbish out there.” So, he says, films online need to be bold and original, which will lead to richer filmmaking, whether for shorts or features. Tom feels getting to make a film is easy - getting someone to give you the money to make a short is difficult. “Shorts rarely make money, therefore there’s never going to be a great deal of investment in the medium,” he says. But there are short film schemes and Tom’s advice is to keep plugging away. “I had made four no-budget short films - which still took masses of time and effort - before I got onto the Digital Shorts Scheme.” The short film is a good way for young filmmakers to learn about constructing a story and develop their style. Some in the business, including the makers of the films, view it as just that - and as a path to features. Harper sees shorts as an art form in their own right - with a drawback: “They sure as hell don’t pay the bills!” Tom Harper made another short film after Cubs because he wanted to make something that challenged him in different ways, to give him more experience before attempting a longer piece. He’s now starting work on his first feature, casting for The Scouting Book for Boys, written by Jack Thorne and produced by Celador Films and Film4. But one feels his enthusiasm for short films will not dim. n
Harry Eden in Cubs, winner of the 2006 Short Film award
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A MOUSE FUNERAL Greg Butler Greg Butler The mouse is dead, but the soldiers of the bathroom give it a send off.
CHERRIES Tom Harper Free Range Films A group of boys receive some news that changes their lives forever.
CHICKEN SOUP Farah Abushwesha Rocliffe A chance encounter at an airport leads to an awakening.
DARKSIDE Michel Wright Partizan Lab As two astronauts travel around the moon, one reveals a secret.
FILM EIGHT Dan Gritsham Spool Films One man makes every wrong decision you could possibly imagine.
FISH CANT FLY Richard Murphy VMB Films A suicidal pet fish threatens to push it’s tank off a high rise window ledge.
GROWING David Alexander Growing Productions Three teenage boys’ idle lifestyle results in tragedy.
GUILTY BY NATURE Joseph Barnett Joseph Barnett The life cycle of a wild and vigorous shrub.
LUCKY HEATHER Mark Abraham Abraham Films A man faces the reality of a curse in this black urban fairytale.
MY MOTHER Elaine Wickham Medb Films A daughter delivers her mother to an old age home.
PEACE AND LOVE Big Red Button Big Red Button War. Huh. What is it good for?
THE PROJECTIONIST June Gersten Roberts Every night a projectionist watches a woman, while the past encroaches on the present.
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YOUNG OFFENDER Isabel Anderton UK Film Council & South West Screen An inmate becomes increasingly disturbed in a young offender’s institution.
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mann The general perception of short films is as art. The director and the writer will work tirelessly to tell the story and prove their talent. What is also behind it, and often forgotten, is a lot of production and financing effort. Shorts are as much training ground for aspiring producers as they are for directors, as Emily knows well. She produced Mercy, which won the 2005 Rushes Soho Shorts Festival award for best film. The project taught her about filmmaking - it also emphasised that the film is the “product” and how it can work for its makers in many ways. Winning the Short Film award, she says, focused her mind on the second of those. “You have to know why you are making a short,” she explains. “I wanted to make something beautiful and meaningful but I also wanted to make something that could show what I could do as a producer, so that financiers of larger format drama could see that, with the right material, I can deliver a good film.” Emily acknowledges that she could not have achieved that alone. The director, writer, cast and crew all help to make a film - and not just in the physical sense. “The director, Candida Scott Knight, brought the project to me and worked tirelessly to create the film. Without her I would not have had anything to produce in the first place.” In much the same way Emily feels getting new projects going on the back of a short is a confluence of factors, including winning an award. “If you have a great feature script, a great director and a great team then an award winning short might help backers believe you can pull these things together to make a great film. But there are a lot of ‘ifs’ there!” Getting projects into production, Emily believes, is “almost impossible” for young and old filmmakers alike. “But that is no reason not to try,” she says. A tight script - Tina Walker wrote 19 drafts of Mercy - combined with the necessary budget, a realistic schedule, a solid finance plan, a cast someone has heard of and a director with some experience - plus a dash of luck - might get a financier interested. After all, says Emily, they are all looking for product to fill their slates. Short films, she feels, are in a good position right now; Soho Shorts, Dawn Sharpless, Simon Young and BBC Film Network have helped give filmmakers access to audiences and allowed the audiences access to films. Since the 2005 award Emily has been developing two features - a dramatic change as, before Mercy, she had almost given up on the film
business. Dead and Breathing is an edgy thriller going into production in summer 2008; the second project is a $25 million studio piece, which is taking Emily to LA in September to look for finance. “The film industry is a very hard one to live and work in,” she comments. “But I realised that once you find a project that you really believe in and you truly see an audience for then you will go through hell and high water to get it made.” Short films can be works of art in their own right - Emily suggests Je t’aime John Wayne - and many can be a snapshot of the time they were made. But Emily thinks that knowing why you are making a short film is vital. “If it is a stepping stone then you must make sure that you know where you are stepping to. Big financiers will only ever see short films as a stepping stone but this can be used as an advantage if you play the game right. Make it as a stepping stone but also make a film that people will want to see ten years from now.” n
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THE ANIMAL BOOK N. Hinchley / C. Randall Second Home Productions Ltd. A flying book offers a chance of escape from a threatening world.
AUTUMN MOON Nga Chu Fly Dragon Fly A paper lantern competition takes place despite bleak surroundings.
BEAUTY IS THE PROMISE OF HAPPINESS Jon Yeo Kill your deities, open your eye.
BLISSFUL Leftchannel Leftchannel A moment of bliss from a time when peace had more meaning.
CRUSH Franca Chrétien Kablinki A lemon goes for a walk and encounters enigmatic strangers.
EXIT 2 Satoshi Tomioka Kanaban Graphics A couple must stop the cat running away with their dinner, however they can.
FLIGHTY Leigh Hodgkinson Slinky Pictures A short film about butterfly speed dating.
GARDENS BY THE BAY Alice Scott squint/opera A magical ideas pinboard.
JUST JACK - ‘WRITERS BLOCK’ Christian Bevilacqua Therapy Films A surrealist representation of writers block.
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MY FIRST TASTE OF DEATH Laurie Hill Royal College of Art Animation Department Me and the boss discover Dodo Island.
OVER THE HILL Peter Baynton Spool Films A cunning trio of grannies discover a secret which will change their lives forever.
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ROCKET SCIENCE Sam Morrison Evil Genius The high-velocity rifle is mightier than the sword.
SHAUN THE SHEEP: OFF THE BAA Chris Sadler Aardman The pigs want to spoil Shaun’s game of football.
SHHH Fumio Obata Red Kite Animations An old man uses a magical thumb trick, unaware that his grandson is watching.
SHORT Anoras Ketzer Joyrider A beautiful film about hungarian rail travel.
THE LITTLE DICTATOR Peter Lowey Peter Lowey Animation Napoleon decides to invade Russia, but is beaten by Mother Nature.
URBAN ANIMAL 12 Foot 6 12 Foot 6 A celebration of urban animals who usually go unseen in the city.
USAVICH Satoshi Tomioka Nexus Productions The happy daily life of two Russian prisoners.
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wrake With a big green ogre back at the box office the animation boom, a phenomenon that began during the mid-1990s, shows no sign of letting up just yet. With a few notable exceptions British animation remains a less determinedly commercial animal than films from the US, often with a darker, sardonic edge that is seldom used by its transAtlantic counterpart. Among the animators working away in Britain right now is Run Wrake, winner of the 2006 Rushes Soho Shorts animation award for his unsettling short, Rabbit. Initially an illustrator, who studied at the Chelsea School of Art, Run also took to animation, studying for an MA in the subject at the Royal College of Art. Since 1990 Run has worked on music videos and musicrelated visuals, although among his first jobs was designing graphics for the game show Bob’s Full House. His long list of credits includes promos for Gang of Four, Future Sound of London, Stereo MCs and Howie B, plus video screen sequences for tours and festival appearances by U2 and Oasis. The music theme has continued by Rabbit being screened in the back of a London taxi, presumably up to its wheel arches in mud, during the recent Glastonbury Festival. As well as winning the Rushes Soho Shorts award, the ten-minute film was nominated for the best short animation BAFTA, received a special mention at the Cracow Film Festival and picked up the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2006. Run says awards are helpful in increasing one’s profile and give some cachet, as well as giving the confidence a boost. “That all helps in the process of getting a project off the ground,” he says, “but it’s still the current idea that helps most, rather than past awards.” Films like Shrek and its sequels show the continuing public taste for animation, particularly feature-length laughter and tears entertainment with star voices and a pop culture sensibility, but Run feels that the art is in a strong creative state at all levels. “The digital revolution has made animation better than ever, particularly in terms of being able to see a project through from initial idea to completed QuickTime inhouse.” Getting a project underway and finding an outlet is also easier and more controlled today, he says. “There are festivals
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such as Soho Shorts and websites like YouTube. As a result funding is less of a necessity. If the project requires funding, then there are plenty of schemes, notably animate!, without whom making Rabbit would not have been possible.” The UK has a worldwide reputation in animation, both in providing the backbone of artists and animators for international productions and for innovative pioneers such Bob Godfrey. Run Wrake and those entered in the animation category of this year’s Soho Shorts Festival can be regarded as the next generation but the might of the US and the Asian market are a strong force to take on. “The UK lags behind the US when it comes to exploiting the talent of the animators it has theatrically, which is a great shame,” says Run, “But as far as I can see it still produces the most interesting take on animation.” n
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JUST JACK ‘STARZ IN YOUR EYES’
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Pit Mark Jenkinson RED BEE Media A man uses a ‘2’ shaped hole to hide in.
Wall Mark Jenkinson RED BEE Media A man uses a ‘2’ shaped portal to hide behind.
BBC2 Rebrands Seascape Michael Geoghegan RED BEE Media A 3D wall gives this epic scale.
BBC4 - Edwardian Season Steve Cope RED BEE Media Modern shots interact with edwardian footage.
Five Is Ten Foreign Office Foreign Office Five celebrities think about the best thing to happen to them in ten years.
The Graham Norton Show R. Norley & R. Hilliard Jump Design and Direction All things weird and wonderful.
Hallam Foe David Shrigley Slinky Pictures Adventures representing the type of character Hallam Foe is.
Hotel Babylon Richard Norley & Russell Mann Jump Design and Direction The audience is flown around the Hotel.
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Pink Panther Kuntzel & Deygas Nexus Productions We follow the Panther over a glittering Paris.
Russell Brand’s Got Issues Blac Ionica Another film Company A dandy title sequence for a dandy man.
Feel Everything (Sky) Barry Skolnick United London A virtual journey into the world of colour.
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venues venues 22 Below is a unique
Costa Coffee is a large chain
Curzon Mayfair is one of London’s
Curzon Soho, with three screens
independent cocktail bar located
of Italian coffee shops serving
oldest and most prestigious
and Dolby THX sound, was voted
just off Carnaby Street. Since
a range of authentic Italian
art-house cinemas screening the
as London’s Number One cinema
its conception, the bar has won
coffee as well as hot and cold
highest standards of independent
by readers of Time Out. The
critical acclaim for its originality
snacks. Unlike any other coffee
and international film. It was one
venue has café facilities at street
and its consistency in delivering
company in the UK, Costa Coffe
of the first cinemas to import and
level and a fully licensed bar on
an atmosphere that is hard to
has it’s own roastery to ensure
show foreign language films in
the Mezzanine level, changing art
find in London. Styled on the
their unique blend is perfect
the UK and has played host to
exhibitions and a broad selection
New York speakeasy vibe, the
every time.
many significant film premieres
of art-house and world cinema
throughout its long history.
DVDs. All levels and all three
bar is serious about its music,
screens have wheelchair access.
art and drinks – made only from premium spirits and fresh ingredients.
De Lane Lea specialise in sound
Framestore CFC is the largest
The Soho House cinema seats 27
Soho Images combines a full
post production for feature films
visual effects and computer
and can be hired - on its own or
service Film Laboratory and
and television. State of the art
animation studio in Europe, with
in conjunction with other rooms
Digital Post Production Facility
facilities and talented staff allow
over 20 years of experience in
- for entertainment or work. You
in the heart of Soho’s Post
the facility to shape soundtracks
digital film and video technology.
can book private screenings, watch
Production community. Soho
to extraordinary levels of detail
The company has won numerous
videos, conduct a presentation
Images takes the stress out
and creativity. 60 and 37 seat
international awards including
or show rushes. It is possible to
of Post Production and can
theatres able to screen HD Dig-
two Technical Academy Awards
project 35mm film, Beta SP, VHS,
advise you both technically
ital and all film and video formats
from the Academy of Motion
DVD and PC Graphics. Technical
and financially on the best way
provide a great environment for
Picture Arts and Sciences, three
support is available. Contact Mandy
to deliver your service needs.
screening work from rushes to
BAFTA Craft Awards and thirteen
Kean at mandyk@sohohouse.com
Facilities include the first purpose
release print.
Primetime Emmy Awards.
or on 020 7292 0139 for more
built 2K digital grading preview
details or to make a booking.
theatre in Soho.
www.sohohouse.com/cinema
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Apple Store Regents Street
The Soho Screening Rooms,
Based in the heart of Soho, St
formally Mr Young’s Preview
Anne’s Post is an immaculately
Theatre, has been servicing
designed, comprehensive post-
the International film industry
production facility working in
for over 35 years. In the heart
High Definition, PAL and NTSC.
of Soho, the venue offers
Run as a centre of excellence,
three theatres and dedicated
St Anne’s boasts a high level of
entertaining areas. The Soho
creativity and expertise in post-
Screening Rooms offer an up to
production management.
date service that can cater for all your projection requirements, from 35mm film to 2K High Definition Projection.
This superb flagship store extends Apple’s reputation for innovation and flair to another level, bringing a totally new retail experience to Europe. It’s about enjoying the whole Apple experience, bringing your ideas to life, discovering your potential and learning how to get more out of technology. A state-of-theart 64-seat theatre hosts free workshops daily for everyone from beginners to seasoned pros. The store also boasts screening facilities and hosts frequent live music events.
Set over 7 floors, The Hospital is home to a Private Members Club with several bars and lounges, a Gallery, TV & Music recording studios. The Hospital has now acquired a state-of-the-art digital cinema D-Cinema capability. The Barco DP90P is the only digital cinema projector on the market today, specifically designed and built to meet the enhanced performance needs of the post production market. For more information, please contact Susan Picken at: cinema@thehospital. co.uk or 0207 170 9100.
The Roxy Bar & Screen is the
Montague Pyke Established in 1979, VMI
first bar of its kind to screen
Situated in the heart of theatre-
specialises in supplying quality
a high quality selection of
land near the Dominion and the
HD and broadcast camera and
audiovisual material, from classic
Phoenix, The Montague Pyke, a
grip equipment for drama, feature
and cutting edge films to visual
Lloyds Number 1 establishment
and documentary productions. A
art and weekly live audiovisual
on the old Marquee site, boasts
private 16 seat air-conditioned
nights. Screenings take place
a big screen for projection and
viewing theatre projects full-
on a large-scale, state-of-the-
plasma screens throughout. The
resolution HD images from all HD
art digital cinema screen and
large, spacious venue is set on
formats or digital media files. VMI
surround sound system, offering
different levels with a balcony
also has a specialist HD Film Unit
viewers a unique, high qual-
and disabled access. The pub
specifically set to provide support
ity cinema experience within a
has a good selection of beer
for feature films. VMI have won
relaxed bar setting. Reasonably
and food.
many awards including Hire
priced food from the bistro-style
Company of the year, Broadcast
menu and drinks from wine and
Hire Company of the year and
beer to cocktails are served
also the Natwest Business award
all night.
for good business practise.
www.roxybarandscreen.com
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The London Film School has launched a range of new short and part-time courses, with the emphasis on a totally hands-on, intensive learning experience. All courses are led by leading practitioners and offer an opportunity to study at a high professional level, right in the centre of London.
SCREENWRITING
Writers’ Gym: 8 week p/t starts 24th Sep
PRODUCING
Sales, Marketing & Distribution: 12th & 13th Sep
FILM COMPOSING
Diploma in Composing Music For Film: 1 year p/t starts 19th Sep
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Technical Drawing for Film and TV: 6th - 17th August 3D Drawing/Sketching for Film and TV: 15th & 16th Sep
DIRECTING
Directing Actors for Greenscreen: 15th July The Craft of the Director: 22nd & 23rd Sep Working with Actors - ‘The Other Side of the Fence’: 10th - 14th Sep
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events Shooting People presents:
Halloween presents
Work Your Short Film
The Future of Music Video
Wednesday 1st August, 6pm The Apple Store (FREE)
Tuesday 31st July, 5:30-6:30pm Curzon Soho, Screen 3 (£6.50)
So you’ve made your short film, now how will you make it pay? Shooting People, in conjunction with the Halloween / London Short Film Festival,
With advances in digital techniques and cheaper equipment, the days of
present this exciting and dynamic panel discussion offering everything
overpriced music videos are over. Added to this are changes in the music
you need to know about short film sales and acquisitions and the com-
industry, with the record buying public jumping ship to be on-line. Where
missioning process. The event will look at traditional methods alongside
does the music video fit into this new landscape? Do labels still commission
the new world of revenue and distribution models opened up by user
videos? Where can they get seen? Do they still work as a promotional tool?
generated websites and new broadband channels. This panel sheds
How much do today’s videos cost? We present representatives from both
some light to filmmakers in this murky new world, and offers dozens of
ends of the scale, from directors and commissioners working with chart
practical tricks and tips. Panelists include Kate Vogel from Channel Four’s
names to representatives from Record labels, who deal with rising artistes.
Three Minute Wonders, Sasha Nixon from Partizan, filmmaker Ben Blaine,
The event will be chaired by Halloween co-director Kate Taylor. This will be
and more.
followed by Shooting People Music Video Network open-access video nite! Bring your music videos on DVD to be screened.
Fabulous Flapper Fashions on Film
Swinging London Fashion
Monday 30th July, 7pm: Apple Store (FREE)
Tuesday 31st July, 7pm: Apple Store (FREE)
In the 1920s many hundreds of short films presenting the latest in
Film Archivist Jenny Hammerton presents this fascinating programme
fashion fads were screened in cinemas all over Britain. Button up rubber
of short government films produced between 1967 and 1986 telling
stocking protectors and beaded Charleston frocks were displayed in all
the story of modern British fashion. See the advent of the mini skirt
their glory for the enticement of the female viewer and the titillation her
on Carnaby Street and fabulous fashion shoots in a variety of bizarre
male companion. Film Archivist Jenny Hammerton presents a selection
locations, including the zoo and on the back of a flat-bed lorry travelling
of these hugely entertaining short films with live accompaniment on her
down the King’s Road! Every aspect of design is covered, from Gerda
wind up HMV gramophone.
Flockinger jewellery to seventies knits via Saville Row. The selection features trendsetters Tommy Nutter, Paul Howie, Lynne Franks, Laura Ashley and Thea Porter and includes ‘Insight Zandra Rhodes’ directed by Peter Greenaway.
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ThinkSync Films
Networking Night
Wednesday 1st August, 7pm HMS President (1918), Victoria Embankment, EC4Y 0HY (FREE)
Hosted by Patchwork Productions In association with the Directors Guild of Great Britain Tuesday 31st July, 7pm Montague Pyke (FREE)
ThinkSync Films is a competition designed to search out, celebrate and
Patchwork Networking organises events for people from the video, TV and
reward creative new independent filmmaking talent, with particular attention
film industries to meet, network and make new contacts in central London.
given to the role music plays. Filmmakers have been granted permission to
Set up in 2004 by Christopher Gavin and Christine Hartland, each event
use tracks from a variety of artists to incorporate into short films based on
offers the opportunity to socialise as well as showcasing new technology
the theme of “Twist”. Five shortlisted films will be screened in conjunction
and examples of members’ work. Patchwork Networking for the first time
with Rushes Soho Shorts and will be judged by a high-profile jury including
organizes a sector specific Networking Night in association with the Directors
Anton Corbijn, Lynn Fainchtein, John Hassay and Andrew Weatherall. The
Guild of Great Britain and in partnership with Rushes Soho Shorts Festival.
event will then continue with artists performing from some of the labels who
Representatives from the film and TV industry will attend to socialise and
have kindly offered their tracks for the competition.
showcase their activities. The event will also include sessions from Shooting
Please note that places for this are limited and will be allocated on a first-
People’s Open Access Music Video Event. If you have a music video you
come first-serve basis to people who RSVP to rushes@thinksyncfilms.com
would like to screen bring in along and get in line! Other screenings at the
For more event details please check the website: www.thinksyncfilms.com
event will include Rushes Soho Shorts’ Newcomers programme.
Shooting People Pub Quiz
VMI Workshops
Monday 30th July, 7pm: Montague Pyke £1 donation minimum on the door Join Rushes Soho Shorts at the pub quiz to end all pub quizzes, hosted
HD for Producers: Monday 30th July, 10am Wednesday 1st August, 10am
by Shooting People at the Montague Pyke. Tens and tens of pounds of
Including real HD footage of various ‘looks’ as well as comparative foot-
prizes are up for grabs. Teams will battle it out over questions on a vari-
age of HD vs. S16, HD vs. 35mm and HDV vs. Varicam.
ety of subjects thought up by a host of industry players. Video and audio clips will be used across the venue’s multiple plasma and projection screens to illustrate questions. Come along and pitch your knowledge
HD for DoPs Thursday 2nd August, 11am & 3pm
against the rest of the filmmaking community. Interval entertainment will include The Bunnysaver Challenge, a unique interactive experience that
Showcasing full film-style ARRI matte boxes and follow-focus, HD Digi
pitches women against men to save a cute little bunny from becoming
Primes, extension viewfinders, film-style head and legs etc, all designed
rabbit stew. To register your team check in at the Delegate Centre at
to be used with the current equipment in circulation.
the Curzon Soho before 5pm on the day of the event, or email info@ sohoshorts.com with ‘Pub Quiz’ in the subject line.
Spaces are limited. To book a place please email a CV with a list of any specific questions you may have to: nh@vmi.tv
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events How to Handle Your Equipment
Getting Intimate
Sony HD Seminars Daily 30th July - 2nd August, 4pm: Screen 3 : Curzon Soho (FREE)
Getting Intimate offers the opportunity to talk face to face with experts in various specialist industry fields. (FREE)
Digital technology is developing at an astounding rate, with new hardware
Get intimate with Lifesize Pictures.
and media appearing all the time. With so much choice on the market, how
Monday 30th July, 11am & Tuesday 31st July, 11am
do filmmakers keep up to date and choose the right equipment for their
Lifesize Pictures delivers all of the shorts schemes for the UK Film Council’s
projects? In these seminars, Sony representatives and their customers
New Cinema Fund. This includes Digital Shorts and Digital Shorts Plus,
discuss the creative possibilities of specific new media, as well as offering
Completion Fund and Cinema Extreme. Rebecca Mark-Lawson and Julia
expert technical advice on the nuts and bolts of using it.
Caithness from Lifesize Pictures will be available to talk
There will be four sessions over four days, each lasting an hour and
about the company’s work and funding opportunities.
focusing on a different digital format. Each event will include a screening and a Q&A.
Get Intimate with Babelgum
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to find out how to get the most from
Wednesday 1st August, 10am & Thursday 2nd August, 10am
cutting edge High Definition equipment.
Babelgum is a free on-demand TV over the Internet that lets you watch whatever you want, whenever you want, as often as you want. Internet TV
Session 1: Digital Master Tape for HDV -
is changing the way film is bought, distributed and seen. Talk to Babelgum
4pm Monday: Screen 3, Curzon Soho
representatives and find out everything you ever wanted to know about this
This widely used and hugely popular format, designed to work with firewire
revolution in broadcasting and what it means to independent filmmakers
and programs such as Final Cut Pro, is the most accessible entry level HD
and content distributors.
format. Get Interactive with Martin Percy. Session 2: XDHD - 4pm Tuesday: Screen 3, Curzon Soho
Monday 30th July, 12pm, Tuesday 31st July, 12pm
XDHD offers superior picture quality and audio capabilities to HDDV, and is
Wednesday 1st August, 12pm, Thursday 2nd August, 12pm
also designed to stand up to very low light and extreme shooting conditions. Broadband and digital cinema are now changing the way standard movies Session 3: HDCam - 4pm Wednesday: Screen 3, Curzon Soho
are distributed and seen. But they’re not just a method of distribution
HDCam, the HD version of Digital Betacam, is for many the preferred format
-- they offer the chance to do things which are impossible with analogue
for shooting HD.
media. Martin Percy is one of the world’s leading interactive directors, working online and with digital cinema. He was recently nominated for a
Session 4: HDCam SR - 4pm Thursday: Screen 3, Curzon Soho
BAFTA for his work with Ian McKellen and for a Webby for his work with
HDCam SR is the best available format for shooting HD providing higher
Tracey Emin. He’ll be available to talk about his interactive movie work
quality true RGB pictures as opposed to HDCam which compresses images.
and the huge opportunities for filmmakers who see that the creative
HDCAM SR is used commonly for HDTV television production. HDCam SR
opportunities offered by digital media are far more than just making normal
is used by many prime-time television shows.
movies quicker and cheaper. You can see his work for Tate, UKFC, BFI, National Theatre and more at http://www.martinpercy.com Sessions will take place at Rushes and spaces are limited. To book please email: info@sohoshorts.com or register at the delegates centre at the Curzon Soho.
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London Film Academy Masterclass: Post Production/Visual Effects Tuesday 31st July, 7pm: Screen 3, Curzon Soho (£6.50) This not to be missed masterclass will offer guidance on how to create professional post production visual effects on a low budget. It will be
Dark Arts Tour (FREE) Monday 30th July Tuesday 31st July Wednesday 1st August Thursday 2nd August
delivered by David Hilton, David Barnard and special effects expert Alan Marques. Hilton is a Professional Special Effects and Model Cinematographer with feature credits including Aliens and several James Bond films. Marques has worked for a number of high-end visual effects companies. His credits include Goldeneye and Seven Years In Tibet.
Framestore CFC: 10am St Anne’s Post: 12pm & 6pm Wardour Street: 2pm Rushes: 4pm
Barnard has been working with computer and moving image technology for over 20 years and has worked for various post production companies
This series of intimate tours offers behind the scenes access to the work
including TSI and Smoke & Mirrors. He was Post Production
of editors, operators and VFX technicians in some of Soho’s top post
Technical Supervisor on the feature film Mirrormask for the
production houses. A small group will be collected from The Curzon,
Jim Henson Company.
Soho, and brought to the venue where they will be taken through the post
For more information please visit londonfilmacademy.com
production process by experts. A tour of St Anne’s Post provides a unique insight into the complete editing journey including grading and sound, while Rushes focuses on cutting edge VXF work. Other establishments opening their doors include Wardour Street, experts in encoding data, and Framestore CFC, the largest visual effects and computer animation studio
London Film Academy Masterclass: Pitching
in Europe, responsible for acclaimed film, television and commercial visual
Monday 30th July, 4pm: The Hospital Club (FREE)
send a CV with ‘Dark Arts Tours’ in the subject line to info@sohoshorts.com
effects. Tours will operate daily and each tour will last about an hour. To book, by Sunday July 29th.
The London Film Academy in association with MySpace and Lifesize Pictures will be presenting this session on successfully pitching your project. This is a great opportunity to watch fellow filmmakers pitching their short film projects and a chance to understand the pitching process from the other side of the table. If you would like to register to pitch your short film idea please email info@londonfilmacademy.com with “pitching session” in the subject line, the genre and length of the film idea and your contact details. Five lucky pitchers will be selected to verbally present their short film idea to the panel and the best pitch will be awarded a prize. Spaces at this event are limited - to book a place email info@londonfilmacademy.com with “pitching session” in the subject line. For more information please visit londonfilmacademy.com
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events Lifesize Pictures:Digital Shorts Plus Monday 30th July, 2pm: The Hospital Club
Lifesize Pictures delivers all of the short film schemes for the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund, including Digital Shorts, Digital Shorts Plus, Completion Fund and Cinema Extreme. They will present a screening of recent films from the Digital Shorts Plus scheme. This will be followed by a discussion and Q&A session with Lifesize Pictures about UK shorts funding. To book a place please send an email to: info@sohoshorts.com with ‘Digital Shorts’ in the title, or check in at the Delegates Centre at the Curzon Soho.
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guests straight8 Sunday 29th July, 4:30pm Screen 3, Curzon Mayfair (£9, £8 concessions) Monday 30th July, 6:30pm Screen 3, Curzon Mayfair (£9, £8 concessions) straight 8, which has become one of Rushes’ most popular events, puts
the first time” says straight 8 founder Ed Sayers. “Apart from looking at the
filmmakers into the unusual position of seeing their own rushes at exactly
film through a viewfinder they haven’t seen their work yet. Watching your
the same time as the audience. In an event devised to get people to shoot
film this way feels like both the fastest and slowest three minutes of your life
films instead of just talking about it, directors are set an inventive and
at the same time. And it’s brilliant that Rushes share our whole enthusiasm
excuse-free challenge to create a mini-masterpiece. The brief is to shoot
for that rawness of approach: ironic and refreshing coming from an
a three-minute twenty-second epic using colour Kodak Ektachrome super
organisation that’s all about technically polishing film.” straight 8 is open to
8mm film. No editing is allowed, and the cartridge containing the film must
anyone anywhere – more details and past films are at www.straight8.net
be handed over exposed but undeveloped, along with a separate original soundtrack. Filmmakers do not see the film until it screens in front of a huge audience. “There are no other film screenings that I know of where the audience sits with the directors, actors and crew to watch their film for
CobraVision CobraVision, the short film competition which gives aspiring filmmakers the chance to get their film shown on national TV, is bringing a programme of selected 50 second shorts to this year’s Rushes Soho
For details of films screening check in aT the delegate’s centre at the curzon soho or go to www.sohoshorts.com
The Advertising Producers Association Wednesday 1st August: 6.30pm Reception 8pm Screen 3, Curzon Soho
Shorts Festival. This hugely imaginative and innovative programme is a treat for short film fans!
Thursday 2nd August: 12pm Framestore CFC Please rsvp nicki@a-p-a.net for your invitation The Advertising Producers Association return to Rushes for the third year to screen the CFPE/shots Young Directors Award programme. The Award
For details of films screening check in aT the delegate’s centre at the curzon soho or go to www.sohoshorts.com
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offers outstanding new directors a significant boost to their careers. Entries come from all over the world and showcased directors are provided with an excellent promotional platform for their work.
guests dazzle Short Film Label dazzle is one of Europe’s leading short film sales agents and
Encounters International Short Film festival
distributionm labels, handling UK and world sales for some 500 titles. Known for championing new directors and producers, dazzle have a
Encounters is the umbrella title for two of the UK’s leading film festivals;
refreshingly innovative approach to the sales and distribution of shorts.
Brief Encounters and Animated Encounters, now combined. Screenings
This year Rushes Soho Shorts and dazzle will be screening a selection of
are accompanied by a host of cross-over attractions at venues in and
beautiful, moving, surreal, gritty and challenging titles from the UK’s hottest
around the Harbourside area of Bristol.
short-film talent.
It is acknowledged internationally as one of world’s best-respected celebrations of short films. The festival has won widespread media attention at home and abroad, and audience figures in 2006 topped 6,700. In 2007 Encounters received over 1900 submissions from 71
For details of films screening check in at the delegate’s centre at the curzon soho or go to www.sohoshorts.com
Shorts International
countries.
Halloween Short Film Festival Halloween began in 1994 as a short film club. It has since grown into a
Brit Shorts International is a full-service short film programming agency
major festival showcasing up-and-coming UK talent. In 2006 the festival
to over 120 international broadcasters across every platform and every
expanded from the ICA to the include screenings at Curzon Soho and
medium. The Company provides tailored programming and stellar service
2008 will see it re-branded at The London Short Film Festival.
to blue chip entertainment companies in Television, Broadband Internet, Electronic sell-through, Airlines, Home Video and Mobile Phones. With clients as varied as Channel Four, HBO, Sony PSP, Sundance and Diesel, Brit Shorts International works to distribute and promote short films to a wider audience.
For details of films screening check in at the delegate’s centre at the curzon soho or go to www.sohoshorts.com
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guests Kodak Student Commercial Awards
Renderyard Film Festival
Rushes Soho Shorts will this year be screening winners from The Kodak
Renderyard produces and distributes short films and offers an annual
Student Commercial Awards, a competition for student filmmakers to
showcase of cutting edge animation and experimental filmmaking by
make a 30 second commercial off one roll of 400ft negative film stock
emerging talent. Rushes will be screening a selection of films from the
from briefs set out by a leading AD agency. The competition proves to
2006 festival, which was held London’s Escape Gallery.
- Explore The Digital Playground
the commercials industry the large amount of talent we have in the UK and how the schools work with this to produce creative and compelling work with film.
For details of films screening check in at the delegate’s centre at the curzon soho or go to www.sohoshorts.com
For details of films screening check in at the delegate’s centre at the curzon soho or go to www.sohoshorts.com
First Light Screening
FourDocs Screening
First Light Movies was launched in 2001 with the purpose of inspiring
The BAFTA-winning broadband channel FourDocs provides advice and
young people to make films. It has enabled over seven hundred and fifty
training for documentary filmmakers as well as streaming four minute
short digital films to be produced by five to eighteen year olds. Rushes
documentaries from all around the world alongside classic feature-length
presents a programme of winning films from the First Light Movies
documentaries. Rushes will be showcasing a selection of favourite shorts
Awards 2007. From gripping dramas to enchanting animations, this is
from the programme
where to spot the talent of tomorrow.
For details of films screening check in aT the delegate’s centre at the curzon soho or go to www.sohoshorts.com
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Farewell Routemaster 25 filmmakers, 1 bus, 7 days
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In the final week of the Routemaster’s London passenger service in Dec 2005, London filmmakers responded to a challenge to make a film about the iconic British bus that was about to vanish for ever. Rushes will be screening a selection of the resulting films, which celebrate London’s cultural heritage through the spirit of independent filmmaking.
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For details of films screening check in a the delegate’s centre at the curzon soho or go to www.sohoshorts.com
MySpace MyMovie MashUp MyMovie MashUp gives one up and coming filmmaker the chance to direct a £1m feature film shaped by MySpace users. Almost 1,000 directors submitted short films on MySpace that were used to decide the 12-person shortlist by the project’s partners: MySpace, Film4 and Vertigo Films. Mymovie Mashup reflects the growing interest in MySpace from filmmakers, aspiring filmmakers and independent film fans, who use MySpace to discuss, promote and develop film. Rushes Soho Shorts will be screening shorts by the projects’ 12 finalists. For more information on the project go to: www.myspace.com/mymoviemashup
For details of films screening check in at the delegate’s centre at the curzon soho or go to www.sohoshorts.com
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judges
Thank you to all our judges for the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2007 Amy Hardie, Andrew Morahan, Claire Cook, Con Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, Daisy Allsop, Dan Jolin, Dave Knight, Dave Waters, Dom Delaney, Jake Bickerton, James Christopher,
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Jason Solomons, Jess Sykes, Julia Short, Lawrence Garwood, Louise Stevens, Maggie Ellis, Marc Booth, Mark Adams, Mark Roalfe, Michael Bonner, Mike Connaris,
Nik Powell, Nina Nannar, Ollie Madden, Paul Rothwell, Philip Ilson, Phil Savage, Rob Kenny, Roger White, Sandra Hebron, Saskia Van Roomin, Scott Cappuro,
Sefton Woodhouse, Simon Trewin, Simon Young, Simone Pyne, Stephen Woolley, Steve Davies, Teresa Iezzi, Tim Dams, Trevor Beattie
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