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Shooting People Sale!

Spring sale! Get Shooting People membership and the Shooting People Shorts Directory for only £35 (save £18!)

A year’s subscription to Shooting People normally costs £30 – for only £5 more you will receive a copy of ‘Get Your Short Film Funded, Made and Seen: the Shooting People Shorts Directory’ (RRP£23).

To redeem this offer, visit www.shootingpeople.org/backtoschool . Offer strictly limited until 17 March.

Shooting People is the world’s largest network of independent filmmakers. Over 34,000 members in the UK and the US share tips, recommendations and news, and cast their films using eight Daily Bulletins: UK Filmmaker, UK Casting, UK Documentary, UK Animation, UK Music Video and Film Music, Global Script Pitch and Screenwriters, NYC and SF / LA.

Shooting People: Get your film made and seen. www.shootingpeople.org

Cineformation does South West Sound

We’re very proud to be a part of this year’s SOUTH WEST SOUND Annual Music Convention on Thursday 24th April at Watershed Media Centre, Bristol.

This year’s convention will look in detail at the dramatic changes across industry and show delegates how best to keep up with the rapidly changing world of music. With presentations, satellite events, discussion forums plus opportunities to network throughout the day and evening, South West Sound will help you make the right choices for your career.

As well as the sessions throughout the day Cineformation will present an event in the evening as South West Sound extends its remit into the world of film TV and media, offering a unique in depth insight into the opportunities that are open to musicians and composers. Keep checking the website for more details.

Join delegates from across the South West to develop your skills and contacts, examine new ideas and best practice, take pearls of wisdom from our industry experts and network, network, network!

www.southwestsound.org.uk

Film Financing Course

Atlantic Film Group’s Film Financing Course

17-18 April 2008, London

Atlantic Film Group’s popular, two-day film financing course is back. The course provides an overview of how to finance feature films, from low/micro budget features that break all the rules to multi-million pound co-productions. Presented by producer and financier Alan Harris, with guest industry speakers, this intensive but informal course will enable you to understand the current film marketplace and the key factors essential to getting feature films made, including:

Financing overview: finance plans; recoupment schedules; packaging; rights

Sources of finance: what’s available, how to increase your film’s chance of getting it; how to combine it; Case studies of recent micro and medium budget films

International co-production; Sales, marketing and distribution; Key legal issues: closing the deal.

Guest speakers include leading producers, distributors and fund executives.

For producers, writers, directors and anyone who wants to understand film financing fundamentals and learn how their work fits into the business of making films.

17-18 April 2008, 9.30 – 5.30pm, Central London Course Cost: £195 + vat

To book or for more details: Go to http://www.filmfinancing.co.uk/training.php Call 07834 173429 Email nicole.dade@atlanticfilmgroup.com

You may be eligible for up to 80% off this course through a Skillset Screen Bursary.

Volunteers for new Knowle West Media Centre

Call for volunteer stewards to help out at the brand spanking new Knowle West Media Centre at the beginning of March.

The exhibition, Greenhouse Britain: Losing Ground, Gaining Wisdom, is running at KWMC from March 7 until April 2 as a joint venture with Arnolfini. The exhibition is by two of America’s foremost ecological artists, The Harrisons, and comprises a large relief map of the United Kingdom onto which a series of videos is projected, showing how Britain may change if, as predicted, climate change causes sea levels to rise. One element is a video showing the local effects of tidal change on the river Avon and Bristol.

If you’re interested in helping out or would like more info, please contact Katie Taylor at katie@kwmc.org.uk or call 01179030444

www.kwmc.org.uk

www.knowlewest.co.uk

February Dorkbot

February Dorkbot

19 February | Pervasive Media Studio | 7pm

An informal skills swap and exchange event for ‘people who do interesting things with electricity’. This months speakers will be talking about music related subjects.

Mike Harris on D.R.O.I.D. (an event being held at Trinity and simultaneously in Second Life on 23 February)

The aim of D.R.O.I.D is for two audiences, the physical and the digital, to come together, meet each other, interact, and know each other. How many technophobes out there have never spoken to their virtual brothers and sisters? How many of the new-wired generation have never left the confines of their virtual reality interfaces to interact with the rest of us? Greater understanding is what we seek, together we shall stand, shoulder to digitized shoulder….

Nat Gavin on Circuit Bending

Circuit bending is the creative short-circuiting of devices such as low voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children’s toys and small synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators. Bring a toy which makes an electronic sound to dismantle and indulge in some sonic invention…

Please note – from this month Dorkbot will be held at our new home at the Pervasive Media Studio in Anchor Square (above Firehouse Rotisserie). Directions available from wwww.dorkbot.org/dorkbotbristol