Watch the Mike Leigh Masterclass

April’s Cineformation Masterclass with Mike Leigh that was filmed by Rich Warren & Jamer Nicholls has now gone live.

Click here to link to the dshed site & watch the Q&A.

Missed the Music For Film event?

If you didn’t manage to get a ticket to April’s Music For Film event due to the speed of their selling out, do not fear.

You can check out what went on at Cineformation, but also at the South West Sound daytime convention by clicking here & reading composer Alan Deacon’s fantastic write-up.

0117 - Made in Bristol

For those Cineformation members who missed the boat and haven’t sent submission forms for the new 0117 – Made in Bristol publication, you’ve got a few days to get them in to us.

The exciting annual publication will launch this September and will feature over 300 of Bristol’s leading design, digital, animation and marketing companies along with interviews and in depth features on many of the city’s creative entrepreneurs and movers and shakers.

The official deadline for submissions has passed but if you are a Bristol based film/media professional or student and think you and your work should be featured, outline who you are, what you do and why it’s worth shouting about and email it to beth@cineformation.com by no later than WED 7 MAY.

Competition will be extremely high so we can’t guarantee your you will be featured but please get in touch if you think you should be included.

Team Cineformation

Due to popular demand, Bristol Media have announced the return of their Five-a-Side Football Tournament and we at Cineformation are looking for a team of athletic & enthusiastic sporting heroes to enter and wipe the floor with the 2008 competion!

It will take place at Clifton College Sports Ground on Sunday 27th July from 2pm and it’s your chance to show off your killer through balls in front of all your colleagues.

There will be plenty of entertainment, food and drink for the crowds of friends and family who we know will be loyally supporting you through thick and thin during the afternoon. The entry fee this year is £75 which includes refreshment for everyone in your team.

If you think you’ve got what it takes, email info@cineformation.com as soon as possible and we’ll try & get you in the squad!

Five Minutes of Mystery

Calling all mysterious moving-image makers, enigmatic engineers of the silver screen! Five Minutes of Mystery challenges you to create and submit short films around a theme of mystery. Part of ‘The Compass of Mystery Festival’, Five Minutes of Mystery will bring together film-makers from far and wide to exhibit their work here in Bristol.

Judged by a panel of industry experts, awards will be for Best Film, Audience Award, Local Film-maker and Youth Award.

Entries must be no longer then five minutes in length. Submissions will be accepted in the following formats: DVD, Mini DV or as full quality DV QuickTime files. Submission to be accompanied by Five Minutes of Mystery Entry Form (see below), and sent to: Compass Film, 9, Walton Street, Easton, Bristol, BS5 0JG no later than 15th August 2008. Guidelines & entry form available at www.compass-film.co.uk

Hear Martin Kiszko's new work

The Emerald Ensemble featuring Elektrodome

Part of ElektroStatic – The Emerald Ensemble’s New Music Series

Wednesday 7th May, 8pm, Colston Hall Bar, Bristol, £8, £5 (concessions, under 26s)

Players from the Emerald Ensemble will be joined by interactive technology pioneers ‘Elektrodome’ and their unique Soundbeam equipment. In award-winning composer Martin Kiszko’s newly composed piece, the themes of spying and covert surveillance rendezvous with music in a work that explores secret messaging, bugging, phone tapping, pursuit and chase. ‘Vi Spy’ is scored for Violin and Soundbeam – an ultrasonic device that enables a performer’s movements to trigger sound and image.

Shubunkin (Stewart Freeland) performs music that is constantly evolving due to the way that it is composed and performed through live interaction with electronic devices. Using Soundbeam movement sensors to play notes, melodies, manipulate and trigger samples. Shubunkin frees himself from the desk and laptop, developing an individual act demonstrating how a digital artist is able to engage physically with the music creating a live element to the performance.

This concert is part of Colston Hall’s ElektroStatic bar series – a series of four concerts featuring Bristol’s premier professional chamber group The Emerald Ensemble. In each concert, players collaborate with pioneering artists at the cutting edge of musical innovation. Come along to encounter unique sonic and visual experiences, world premieres and rarely heard classics of the avant-garde.

Click here for more details.