For all you who want to get into to TV production, listen up. Chris Adams and Gillian Webster are taking a group of 15 to 19 year olds in the YourTube TV production project which is taking place at Coombeshead College, Newton Abbot, TV studio between July 28 and August 1.

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The hotbed of artistic endeavour that is Drewsteignton, Devon, is the venue for a summer arts school, which features a documentary making course with such tutors as Nathaneil Lane, Anson and Hugh Hartford (see above for Anson Hartford’s portrait of photographer James Ravilious) and Chris Jones between July 26 and August 2

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Bluring the lines between fict and faction, Guy Maddin’s cult film My Winnipeg has inspired a whole new competition.

Described as docu-fantasia (now doesn’t that just roll off the tongue), My Winnipeg is a ‘hybrid genre of documentary and fantasy’, and is currently doing the rounds - oh and the film picked up the gong for Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto Film Festival 2007.

With that in mind, a documentary short-film making competition has been launched.

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If you’re young (between 13 and 17) and animated, then put your name down quick for a free animated production week taking place at the Exeter Phoenix between August 26 and 30.

During the animation week professional animators will work with the youngsters to create films and characters on the theme of ‘imaginary friends’ - which is something most animators are familiar with.

The workshops will feature all kinds of techniques and explore how to get your film seen on the internet.

For more information about this free course get in touch with Peter at peter@mypockets.co.uk

And just for a chance to show some animation, here’s something from a young people’s collaboration between Beaford Arts and the Exeter Phoenix Media Centre.

Beaford Arts Animation Workshop from phoenix media on Vimeo.

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Calling all of you creative types - two Shorts Nights and D+CFilm are calling for you to design the prize for the next Two Short Nights short film festival, which takes place at the Exeter Phoenix, on November 28 and 29.

Artists of all disciplines – including sculptors, model makers, electronic and digital artists – are being asked to submit their ideas for this prestigious and ground-breaking prize.

The theme for this year’s festival is Visions of the Future and deals with the impact new technology has had and will have on the world of the moving image. Designs for the prize should reflect that.

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The Blue Walnut cafe, the beating heart of the Torquay arts scene with a cinema out t’ back not only holds regular film nights, check their newsletter for details, but also holds film events.

On July 31, you’ll be able to catch Caged Rat, by John Tomkins. Watch the film, and listen to live performances of new songs from the forthcoming feature Like and Angel.

John, who is also the subject of a Darren Jones documentary, recently held a casting call for Like an Angel, in Torquay.

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Because some of you out there might not know the Exeter Phoenix Media Centre; because Ben Sherriff is a tipperdy-top filmmaker (he’s the guy what made it); and because I’ve not had the chance to put Stuart in a magazine lately, we thought we’d show you this film.

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Get that Friday feeling - anytime in the week with the YouTube super Fridays from Fresh Shorts. The cheerleaders of top-notch international short film have set up their very own YouTube channel and every Friday they celebrate by adding another short to the already long list. Of course, we don’t subscribe to their button down view of the world and watch films everyday of the week. Go on, try it yourself.

Here’s just one example: The Open Doors by James Rogan.

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Big Brother has claimed one of our own. Belinda Harris-Reid, who is now in The House, is partner in crime to Josephine Larson, who ran the onscreen acting tips series with us (catch them on the D+CFilm channel on iTunes). In fact Belinda worked the camera during those videocasts.

And Josephine is speaking to Big Brother’s Little Brother today. You go girls! (We’re assured that’s the correct patois for such occasions.)

To find out more about these pair, maybe it’s best to start with the Surreal Saloon, then Hearts Tongue theatre group, Act South West, and end up with Belinda’s own site.

At this point we would usually point you to the Surreal Saloon films on youtube. Hmm, but somehow they have all been removed by the user. Perhaps Channel 4 only wants us to get our kookiness through them, the dears.

• Check out the camera work, and the message of course: Onscreen skills#1; Onscreen skills#2; Onscreen skills#3; Onscreen skills#4; Onscreen skills#5
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Writer, cartoonist and comic book hero Phig Billy reports on the last day a the Screenwriters Festival

The highlight of the final day was an interview with the Controller of BBC Fiction: Jane Tranter. Ms Tranter seemed incredibly down to earth and personable, and also shockingly young to have what surely must be one of the best jobs in the country!

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Phig Billy here with a summary of action from the third and final day at the Cheltenham Screen Writers Festival

There was an interesting session on the making of a film called “Seachd - The Inaccessible Pinacle”, the first British feature film in Scottish Gaelic.

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Alright D+C Filmophiles, Phig Billy here with a summary of action from the third and final day at the Cheltenham Screen Writers Festival

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Phig Billy is back with more from day two of the Screenwriters’ Festival

And at the end of the day was the Pitch in Time competition, where we got to listen to ten finalists from the film pitch competition try to sell their ideas to a panel of four film excecutives. Kind of like Dragon’s Den with screenplay touting hopefuls.

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Phig Billy at Day Two of the Screenwriters’ Festival

The most fascinating session of the day was the panel discussion on Online and Multi-Platform Narratives, featuring Nic Ransome of resuscitated Hammer Films, Neil Mossey (writer on web series KateModern), Linda Paalane (who talked about developing the online content for Spooks), Enrico Tessarin and the very foxy Melanie Martinez (producer and writer respectively on Sofia’s Diary).

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Hi gang, Phig Billy here with a round-up of day two’s action at the Cheltenham Screen Writers Festival.

I attended an interesting panel discussion on the emergence of a new creative force in British television: the Show Runner!

The Show Runner is an idea which has been seen as instrumental to the success of long-running American shows such as Lost, and therefore has been targeted for assimilation by the British industry. Essentially, the show runner is the creator of a show who then becomes a writer-producer involved in every area of that show’s development. Why is this desirable?

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