Two Devon filmmakers, Toby De Burgh and Ashley Thorpe, won Digital Shorts funding for 2009 for their films Undertow and The Hairy Hands. South West Screen is looking to throw its money and expertise at four more filmmakers.
Those SWS bods want you to be: ambitious, energetic, enthusiastic, dedicated, committed, professional, with a vision and stories, provocative, idiosyncratic, audatious, stand-out-of-the-crowd, have something to say (with a clear voice), and be able to harness the power of cinema while you surprise, challenge and delight.
If you fulfill those criteria, and let’s face who doesn’t, then you’ll be in the running.
The Digital Shorts people will be looking to commission four films, with running times of no more than 10 minutes, at budgets of between £10,000 – £15,000, in any style.
The commissioned films will be drawn from a ‘development pool’ of eight projects/filmmaking teams who’ll be supported through an ‘intense’ eight-week development phase.
The four greenlit films will go into production over summer 2010, for delivery in August 2010.
The deadline is 1pm on Friday, January 22
(image, Toby De Burgh on the set of his film Undertow)
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