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Hassle-free funding launches for young filmmakers PDF Print E-mail
Written by Sam Parsons   
Monday, 22 February 2010 16:33

IdeasTap launches Ideas Fund Shorts, £40,000-worth of funding to help young people realise short film projects.

Recognising the wealth of talented young filmmakers in the UK, IdeasTap is offering eight awards of £5,000 each for the most original, engaging ideas. Entries must be for films no longer than five minutes and can include documentaries, conceptual pieces, trailers for features, music videos, fashion films and animated shorts.

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MDA International Film Fund appoints Distribution Workshop as its sales agent PDF Print E-mail
Written by Marylou Johnston   
Monday, 18 May 2009 11:30

 Following the launch of its new International Film Fund (IFF) at the start of the Cannes Film Market, Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA) today announced the appointment of Hong Kong's Distribution Workshop as the worldwide sales agent for the first batch of films produced under the IFF.

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UK SUCCESS IN EUROPEAN UNION FUNDING PROGRAMME PDF Print E-mail
Written by Rachel Coldwell   
Friday, 20 March 2009 15:56

A report published by the European Commission confirms that 60% of UK applications to the Culture programme in 2008 were successful – out of 25 applications submitted 15, were successful (this excludes applications to the literary translation strand). This is the highest success rate of any participating country submitting more than one project*.

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Black Film Exhibition Publicity Fund PDF Print E-mail
Written by film london   
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 18:30

The Black Film Exhibition Publicity Fund (BFEPF) has a budget of £100,000 over 2 years. It has been designed in recognition of the fact:
    * that there exists in London a wide range of film exhibition activity showcasing the work of Black film talent and;
    * there is a huge opportunity for audiences across the capital to celebrate and enjoy this burgeoning area of cultural activity.

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New Grants for San Francisco Filmmakers PDF Print E-mail
Written by San Francisco Film Society   
Wednesday, 28 January 2009 10:40

The San Francisco Film Society and The Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced today that over the next five years they will disburse a series of annual grants totaling $3 million for narrative feature films being made in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants support films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, antidiscrimination, gender and sexual identity and other urgent social justice issues of our time.

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