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Following the announcement of the abolition of the UK Film Council in July 2010, the Regional Screen Agencies (RSA's) have been working with DCMS to decide on the best structure of continued support for the film and media industry outside of London, and to secure a strong future for the UK’s creative industries.
On 29 November 2010, the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries Ed Vaizey announced that the BFI will become the lead strategic body on film and the distributor of Lottery funds to UK filmmakers from April 2011, and that Film London will manage the UK’s national inward investment function for film. The Minister also announced that the English RSA’s outside London will transform their network into Creative England, “a simpler, more efficient structure with an expanded remit to support the creative industries across England.”
here Creative England will be a new nationwide network to support the content industries of Film, Television, Games, and Digital and Creative Services. It will be based on three key hubs; Creative North, Creative Central and Creative South. To read FAQ’s about Creative England, please visit the website here.
South West Screen and the other RSA’s outside of London are now working together to reform into the new Creative England network, working with the BFI to develop a Film Strategy and developing the wider Creative England business plan with Government and industry.
We need you to opt into the new Creative England database now so that we can keep you informed of Creative England developments and news. To register your details, please click here.
In the meantime, it will be 'business as usual' for the RSA’s, which will remain your first point of contact for questions regarding regional funding, production, locations, filming, skills, training, audience development or exhibition.
Creative England wants to connect with you
The One World Media Awards, which recognise the best media coverage of the wider world, are for the first time looking to reward an outstanding piece of student media that tells a story from a developing country.
The Awards are presented by Jon Snow in a high-profile ceremony each year, and broadcast on BBC World News to a global audience of millions. After running for 23 years the One World
Media Awards ceremony represents a key date in the media calendar – and in 2011 they will take place on 10th May at Kings Place in London.
This year they are launching the Student Award, for the best piece of media produced as part of a media, journalism or documentary filmmaking course at a UK university or film school. Any medium can be submitted, so long as it tells a story from the developing world. The piece must have been submitted to the corresponding course between 13th Mar 2010 and 7th Feb 2011. A panel of senior industry professionals will choose the winner as well as two runners up.
More details can be found on the One World Media website: http://oneworldmedia.org.uk/awards/categories/#Cat12
The closing date is 7th February 2011.
The iFeatures iNNOVATE call for tenders is looking for digital, marketing and advertising experts from across the South West to collaborate with the three iFeatures filmmaking teams.
There are 3 x £15,000 awards available to support a range of ideas which make the very best use of online, mobile and interactive tools in helping to identify and connect with audiences for the three feature films – Eight Minutes Idle, Flying Blind and The Dark Half - currently in production.
Join iFeatures for a live webchat on Monday 24 January where you can put your questions to iFeatures experts about the scheme. Find out more about the films, who they are aimed at and the kind of digital ideas they are looking for.
Chris Moll, iFeatures' Executive Producer, Liz Rosenthal, the founder and Director of Power to the Pixel and the three iFeatures producers will be standing by for your questions from 2 - 3.15pm on Monday 24 January.
If you would like to partake in the webchat, please click here to book and you will be sent details of how to participate.
To view full details of iFeatures iNNOVATE, click here. Please note, the deadline for tenders has now been extended to 12 noon on Friday 4 February 2011.
You can now submit films for the first edition of TRICK - animation film festival which will take place in Milan 4-6 March 2011. They are looking for short film of animation of every kind - stop-motion, plastiline, 3d, graphics, pixilation, computer animation, silhouette.
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