The
Africa in Motion film festival (AiM), which takes place annually in October at
Edinburgh Filmhouse, is officially inviting African filmmakers to submit short
films for a new AiM competition. In order to target the competition
specifically towards young and emerging African talent, filmmakers who enter
a film for consideration must not have completed a feature-length film
previously. Films entered must have been completed in 2005 or after, and must
be no longer than 30 minutes.
The
competition winner will be selected from a shortlist of films and will be
announced at an awards ceremony at the third successive Africa in Motion
festival in October 2008. The winner will have the opportunity for their film
to be screened at AiM 2008 as well as the chance to win a significant cash
prize. A selection of other short films specially commended by our competition
jury will also be screened as part of a short film showcase at AiM 2008.
A
jury panel, still to be confirmed, consisting of local film specialists and
established African filmmakers will judge the AiM 2008 Short Film Competition.
The
deadline for competition submissions is 31 May 2008, and following from
this a shortlist of films will be selected by an AiM viewing committee. The
shortlist will be announced in July 2008. These films will then be viewed by
all jury panel members, who will make a collective decision as to the
prizewinners, based on a point scoring system that will take into account the
relative merits of each of the short listed films.
Please
see www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/call.html for full submission guidelines and to download an entry form.
For any further enquiries, please contact AiM
festival director Lizelle Bisschoff at: [email protected].
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