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• ANIMATED EXETER 2009 AT THE PHOENIX

By D&CFilm, on Monday, December 8, 2008

The tenth (and, if you believe the rumours, final) Animated Exeter festival kicks off next year on January 14.

• WIN A CHANCE TO WRITE FOR SKINS

By D&CFilm, on Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Aspiring young writers (between 18 and 23) can win a chance to write for hit youth-oriented progamme Skins.

• MINI MASTERS

By D&CFilm, on Friday, September 26, 2008

Mini Masterpieces is looking to showcase and develop young filmmakers (18-25 year olds) in the South West, and this year they are calling for documentaries around the theme of independence, but get a move on ’cause the deadline for online submissions is October 3.

BURN AFTER READING #2

By D&CFilm, on Monday, September 1, 2008

You’ve got your story and you’ve got your cast, but where are you going to shoot the thing? In part two of our Burn After Reading ‘inside the production’ pieces, we get the gen on where and why they shot where they did.

BURN AFTER READING #1

By D&CFilm, on Sunday, August 31, 2008

Because we’re fans of the Coen’s, we thought we’d give you some of the press stuff that is associated with their next offering, Burn After Reading. This film doesn’t feature the immense talents of Torquay-boy and director of photography Roger Deakins, but the next Coen film does. Enough of the future… let’s hear about the

FIRST LIGHT FUNDING DEADLINES

By D&CFilm, on Thursday, July 31, 2008

What is First Light Movies? from First Light Movies on Vimeo.

You wanna get your grubby filmmaking hands on up £5,000 to make a five minute film, or up to £3,000 to develop a story idea and write a script? Then read on.

First Light has announced the next deadline for its Pilot and

THE DARK KNIGHT – REVIEW

By D&CFilm, on Friday, July 25, 2008

Phig Billy gives his low-down on the latest Batman flick, The Dark Knight.

Granted, as a comic book artist myself, I’m a fan of comic books in general and Batman in particular, and if you’re well and truly fed up with the recent spate of superheroic spandex silliness at your multiplex then you may

WRITERS ROUND FOR USER-GENERATED FILM COMPETITION

By D&CFilm, on Friday, July 25, 2008

When the Screenwriters’ Festival tipped us the wink that the User Generated and User-Owned Feature Film Competition was entering its second round – The Writer’s Brief, we pricked up our ears, put a dumb look on our collective faces and said: ‘What is a User Generated and User-Owned Feature Film Competition?’

And we’re glad

DEADLINE EXTENDED

By D&CFilm, on Thursday, July 10, 2008

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