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

Bristol Filmmakers Festival

Here we go…details of the Bristol Filmmakers Festival and how to submit films

On the weekend of 14/15th June, the Bristol Filmmakers Festival 2008 comes to the Watershed and the Arnolfini, an event which gathers together and celebrates the independent film community in the city. Organised by three local film exhibition and network outfits – Cineformation, Bluescreen and the Misfit Collective – BFMF2008 screens a variety of the independent film work created in the city, some well-funded, some barely funded and some that come in under a tenner.

The weekend will feature a host of special screenings and provide the chance for independent filmmakers to meet, swap ideas and knowledge. More information will be released closer to the event, but we are currently calling out to independent filmmakers in the city to send in their films so that we can select the strongest programme to screen. The criteria is that the films must be submitted on DVD along with the submission form that can be obtained by emailing bfmf2008@yahoo.com – also the address to direct any questions. The deadline is Monday 26th May, and films should be sent to BFMF2008, C/o The Misfit Rising, 82 Colston St, Bristol BS1 5BB.

We are also inviting filmmakers to submit material to the Sweded Classics section of the Festival. Following on from Michel Gondry’s feature film Be Kind Rewind, we are looking for ‘sweded’ films, where a classic popular feature film – or extract – is refilmed with DIY inspiration and resources (and at much shorter length). Can you swede the whole of Terminator in 6 minutes? There is a later deadline for Sweded Classics: Saturday 7th June at the above address.