D+CFree competition
It’s the 50th anniversary of the Free Cinema movement and to celebrate, D+CFilm, in association with the People’s Republic Of South Devon, has launched a new competition encouraging local lensers to pick up a camera and document life as it is today.
Free Cinema saw UK filmmakers like Lindsay Anderson making documentary films outside the framework of the film industry. The movies all had a very low budget and featured ordinary, mostly working-class people at work and play.
The best short documentary films submitted to D+CFree will be put together and shown with Free Cinema 1, at Two Short Nights, the short film festival at the Exeter Phoenix, and be eligible for a unique award designed by Helen Snell.
The choice of subject is entirely up to the filmmaker, but should reflect modern life in Devon and Cornwall. Submitted movies must be no longer than 10 minutes and should be primarily dialogue-free. In the 1950s, the Free Cinema directors wouldn’t have been able to record a huge amount of sound on location. This situation still holds for people shooting on mobile phones, etc. So it isn’t really an aesthetic choice - it just levels the playing field a bit.
Perhaps fillmmakers will update Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson’s Momma Don’t Allow by taking cameras into the local nightclub, or reinvent Lindsay Anderson’s O Dreamland by filming at a funfair.
There are three age categories (eight-18; 18-55; and 55+). Entries can be shot on any medium and submitted on DVD to D+CFree competition, 19 Gloucester Road, Newton Abbot, TQ12 1AY. Mobile movies should be sent to ideas@dandcfilm.co.uk.
The closing date is November 5.
Prizes will reflect D+CFilm’s aim to stimulate the making and viewing of films, like vouchers, training courses, and use of professional editing suites.
Two Short Nights takes place at the Exeter Phoenix on December 6 and 7. The Free Cinema event, featuring D+CFree, will including a discussion on Free Cinema led by Christophe Dupin, who produced the BFI Free Cinema compilation, and chaired by Dan Paolantonio, film lecturer at Plymouth College of Art and Design.
If you have any questions or need more information, email info@dandcfilm.co.uk
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May 27th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
[...] Flip over to D+CFilm for more information. [...]
May 30th, 2007 at 9:42 am
[...] So why not click on this bit of underlined text and have a look round? And while you’re browsing, check out Eye On Cornwall, which has a little feature about our sexy D+CFree compo. Hooray! [...]
June 13th, 2007 at 9:24 am
[...] Who knows, you may even feel inspired to enter our D+CFree compo, which costs absolutely nought pence to enter… [...]
July 17th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
[...] B. Yapping to the Two Short Nights people in Exeter about this year’s event. Look out for a heap of lovely Free Cinema fare to tie in with our D+CFree compo and a rather beezer masterclass with a big-screen sfx whizz. Coo! [...]
August 7th, 2007 at 9:43 am
[...] But then (BUT THEN!) we realised there’s a bit about our rather beezer D+CFree compo. So we won’t complain. We’ll say jolly good show. Well, we won’t actually say it. But we’ll think it. [...]
August 8th, 2007 at 9:26 am
[...] Obviously, we think D+CFree @ Two Short Nights is gonna be waaay better, but we guess Shoot is also worth a mention. [...]
September 13th, 2007 at 9:53 am
[...] There are loads of beezer events happening in the region this November. We’ve been wittering on this week about the Cornwall Film Festival, and we’re always dropping D+CFree @ Two Short Nights into the conversation (cos it’s gonna be fantastic, etc). [...]
September 18th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Could I send in ‘A Hard Day’s Knight’ or is that completely out of the question due to the nature of the short? Be nice to get it out and about.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
[...] D+CFilm asked festival founder Elliot Grove how he came up with the whole Raindance thang. We were taking feverish notes, of course, in anticipation of D+CFree @ Two Short Nights. [...]
October 1st, 2007 at 8:40 am
[...] Oh, and while we’re talking about documentaries, don’t forget D+CFree @ Two Short Nights. It’s gonna be chuffing great. [...]