Bournemouth Skillset Screen and Media Academy, in co-production with Ealing Films, announces the launch of Academy Pictures.

 

Academy Pictures is a new initiative to enable Bournemouth film students and alumni to develop, produce and release feature films.  Harnessing the industry-recognised excellence of the talent and teaching in Bournemouth film and media, the project will invest in the ideas and talent of Bournemouth students with a view to producing a feature film with a £100,000 cash budget.  It will be supervised by the Academy and Ealing Films, external industry professionals, and academic leaders at Bournemouth University and the Arts University College at Bournemouth.

 

After a process of sifting through all the initial pitches, the best three will be fully developed to feature film screenplay stage, and out of these, it is hoped that one will make the grade and be good enough to be ‘greenlit’ into production later in 2010.

 

The call for submissions is open from today and closes at 6.00 pm on Monday 8^th March 2010. Students and alumni are invited to submit a short film treatment and application pack available at www.bsma.ac.uk.

 

From the initial submissions, 10 will be shortlisted and presented to a panel of judges.

The panel includes:

 

Gary Kurtz – Academy Award-nominated producer of STAR WARS, AMERICAN GRAFFITI, and many other movies in a 40-year career to date

 

Peter Urie – Managing Director of Metrodome Distribution, who recently released the Bafta-nominated micro-budget feature film hit SHIFTY

 

Ann Phillips – Acquisitions Manager at West End Films, which came on board to handle British indie film THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED, along with Stephen Frears’ latest film TAMARA DREWE

 

It is hoped that if the first round of submissions is successful, it will be followed later in the year by a second round.

 

Click here for the Guidelines (PLEASE NOTE NEW VERSION 2.0 GUIDELINES WITH SOME IMPORTANT CLARIFICATIONS)

Click here for the Application Form in Word

Click here for the Application Form in PDF