Check out Shooting People's Training Directory http://shootingpeople.org/directory/ - with over 190 searchable listings, the Directory is rapidly growing to become a comprehensive resource for independent filmmakers in the UK.

Deadline for entries is November 30 2009

Visit: 4docs.org.uk/competitions

2009/10 Digital Shorts scheme, Northwest Vision and Media has teamed up with Shooting People and BAFTA to present Short Sighted at Abandon Normal Devices, a brand new festival of new cinema and digital culture.

If you're a short filmmaker, making your film is only half the battle. Short Sighted is an amazing opportunity to help you plan an effective distribution and exhibition strategy in the digital age.

This free festival will take place Friday September 25th from 2:00pm until 7:30pm at the Art and Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University - Duckinfield Street, Liverpool, L3 5YD.  For more information and registration details please click on the following http://shortsighted.eventbrite.com 

Split Focus is an hour or so in the company of two directors who have built up a distinctive creative voice and who are on the cusp of great things. It's a chance to delve through their back catalogue, to watch their style develop, to see how they learnt from their mistakes and capitalised on their unexpected successes. It's a quick catch up on some of the new talent that you might have missed out on, as well as a happy reminder to us all that most 'new' talent has been struggling away at it for years.

Special guests will be directors Bevan Walsh ("Mumbo Jumbo", "Love Does Grow On Trees") and Jacqueline Wright ("Out Of Water"), ("Lifespam") and Jacqueline's co-conspirator, actress and muse Alice Lowe (Garth Marenghi).

Our very own Ben Blaine will be hosting the event.  If you don't know him have a look at
http://shootingpeople.org/bensblog.php .

DATE: Monday, 13th July
TIME: 7:30pm
PLACE: BFI Southbank

For more info see http://...com/nfzevs

It's FREE. But space is limited so please do RSVP by emailing help@shootingpeople.org with 'Split Focus' in the subject header and with a short message saying "I'd like to reserve a spot".

See you there,

Shooting People.

Do make sure you attend Meet Reframe tomorrow (02.07.09) 6:00PM - 7:30PM.  Its Free.
Location: BFI - The South Bank Centre, Belvedere Rd, , London , SE1 8XT

This event is a unique opportunity to meet and question Reframe’s Acquisition’s Director, Kelly DeVine. A short presentation will be followed by a thorough Q&A session, and then a complimentary drink at the BFI’s Benugo Bar.

Reframe is a programme of the Tribeca Film Institute. Its goal is to help individual filmmakers, distributors, archives, libraries and other media owners to digitise and sell their work, and to become a trusted resource for educational buyers and cinephiles to discover, recommend and purchase media. Reframe is not a typical distributor, but rather a support to its content partners.



PLEASE SEE http://shootingpeople.org/calendar/index.php?mode=detail&event=10686&day=2009-07-02&event_type=single for more details.

Shooting People.

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Attention!

As we all march forth into the digital age, we want to make sure you’re all fully equipped with the knowledge you need to survive in this new and ever-changing landscape. Leading the troops will be Colonel Mullighan, who will chair the event, which features filmmaker and digital marketer Harriet Fleuriot and Ingrid Kopp, Head of Shooting People’s US Operations. The three will guide you through a series of panel discussions, case studies, practical exercises and networking.

We’ll be looking at what’s new in funding, crowd sourcing, production and distribution; which social network you should be using for your film; we’ll give you a crash course in blogs and vlogs; our top ten tips from basic html coding to video compressions rates; how social media can help you, and how you can help yourself stay on top of things.

Using recent case studies, we’ll be looking at how films such as Franny Armstrong’s ‘Age of Stupid’ broke new ground in the way filmmakers can approach the their projects, opening up radical and exciting new possibilities.

....Oh, and we’ll be rounding off the afternoon with a networking session in the salubrious surrounds of the Frontline club.

Date: 4 July 2009

Time: 15.00 – 19.00

Location: The Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, , London , W2 1QJ

Cost: 40 GBP

Full details can be found about the event in our calendar here (http://...com/mlan6k)....

Book your place quick!

Love, SP

Pray the Devil Back to Hell



Presented by Shooting People & DCTV
Thursday, June 25th, 7:30pm-9:30pm
DCTV, 87 Lafayette Street, NYC

DCTV & Shooting People are honored to screen Pray the Devil Back to Hell followed by a Q&A with the film’s Producer, Abigail E. Disney.

Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the extraordinary story of a small band of Liberian women who – armed only with white T-shirts and the courage of their convictions - came together in the midst of a bloody civil war, took on the warlords, and brought peace to their shattered country. Through interviews, archival footage and striking images of contemporary Liberia, this documentary film reconstructs the moment as compelling testimony to the potential of women worldwide to alter the history of nations.

Since the film’s premier in New York in April 2008, it has won awards at Tribeca Film Festival (Best Documentary), Silverdocs (Witness Awards), Jackson Hole Film Festival (Audience Choice: Documentary), and Heartland Film Festival (Best Documentary). The film opened in theaters to accolades of positive reviews in over 40 American cities, as well as in cities and countries around the world including London, Bosnia, Monrovia, Peru, Khartoum, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Kenya, and Goma. Pray the Devil Back to Hell also had the honor of being the first film ever to be shown at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2009.

Abigail E. Disney (Producer) is Founder and the President of the Daphne Foundation, a progressive, social change Foundation that makes grants to grassroots, community-based organizations working with low-income communities in New York City. Over the years, the Daphne foundation has provided more than five million dollars in general operating support grants, along with grants for technical assistance, and infrastructure improvement. Abigail is also Vice Chair of the board of Shamrock Holdings Incorporated, an investment company that runs fund in private equity, real estate and stocks. Abigail has also spoken to a wide variety of women’s groups, community foundations and financial professionals across the country and internationally about the power of activist philanthropy and the importance of pursuing a life of engaged and intelligent volunteerism. Abby serves on the boards of the White House Project, and the Global Fund for Women, and the Fund for the City of New York, as well as on the advisory boards of the Association to Benefit Children, and the HIV Law Project. She is currently co-producing, with Gini Reticker, a series for Wide Angle and WNET tentatively called "Women and Children First" about the changing role of women in conflict worldwide.

Praise for Pray the Devil Back to Hell:
"Uplifting, disheartening, inspiring, enraging – the mind reels while watching the documentary."
- Manohla Dargis, New York Times

"The film is inspiring, uplifting and is a call for action for all of us." 
- Desmond Tutu, Winner 1984 Nobel Peace Prize

Price:
$10 DCTV & Shooting People Members
$12 Partner Organization Members (IFP, NYWIFT, WMM)
$15 General


To buy tickets or get more information go to: 
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/70471


212-966-4510 x646
publicity@dctvny.org

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