DISTANT DIALOGUES - UK / CHINA Project

You are encouraged to get involved with this project ‘Connecting the people of China with artists from the UK and vice versa’

Bristol based musician, Kayla Painter, is one of the UK artists involved.

The Chinese musicians/ artists are asking uk residents to respond to their music/ brief.

Take a look at the briefs below, take a listen to the music and send your response. Nice open briefs and lots of room to be creative with them. Engages you with an international project and hopefully gives you a greater understanding of opportunities for artists, musicians, film makers…

TAKE PART IN DISTANT DIALOGUES

Here's an open invitation for anyone in the UK to submit their ideas and contribute to the Distant Dialogues project. Each artist is looking to hear your responses to their brief so they can incorporate them into their new work. How will you respond?

DANCE

'I want to understand, what is dance music to British people?' says GOOOOOSE. 'Or to put it another way, what kinds of sound make them feel like moving their bodies?'

You can submit anything that makes you feel like dancing. It could be a sound, a music video, short clip or ambient sound recorded on you phone, or even some text, an image, or a video. Find out more and submit your response.

WHAT IT IS FOR STARING?

To participate in the ‘What It Is For Staring?’ project, please submit a video of a subject keeping a fixed gaze on self-chosen object for between 20-30 seconds. Participants shall try their best to avoid eye contact with audiences (including the camera or any other devices employed for recording) and maintain such avoidance for no less than 20 seconds. The object they are staring at should not be a phone, computer or television and the video should not show the object the participant is staring at, only the person staring in their environment. Find out more and submit your response.

SEEING FLOWERS

To participate in the ‘Seeing Flowers’ project, please send different photos of indoor or outdoor flowers that capture your feelings at that moment. After collecting a set of photographs, Shii will compose a song out of her visual impression, and after this, she will rework the collected pictures and cooperate with a visual artist to make a 3D animation. Find out more and submit your response.

Control Shift Network (CSN)

Control Shift

2 - 18 Oct 2020 - Hybrid edition

An exciting new arts programme coming to Bristol this Autumn

Three weeks of workshops, discussions, installations and screenings - online and across Bristol, UK - exploring ways to reframe and rethink our relationships with technology.

The Pervasive Media Studio is a partnership between Watershed, UWE Bristol and University of Bristol. Control Shift Network is a collective of artists, technologists and producers. In 2019 they produced ‘You Make the Rules’ - a day of workshops followed by an algo-rave performance, which was part of Processing Community Day (a global celebration of ‘art, code and diversity’ initiated by the Processing Foundation). Control Shift has developed from this event and follows in the same ethos, with a focus on accessibility and diverse engagement.

In the talk below curators Becca Rose, Martha King, and Rod Dickinson will discuss core ideas behind the event.

Indigeneity & Digital Entanglements

Programme of short films, Online + also showing at the Arnolfini 10-11th Oct, 12-17:00

The ruins of history offer a host of unresolved traces that imagine the global south as a site of prehistoric technologies. This programme of short-films offers counter evidence to the assumption that technology is a western construction. The films address the politics of technology in Africa, affirming the continent as an active agent in the production of technology through indigenous practices.

Films will be online throughout the Control Shift programme, and also screened at Arnolfini on 10-11 October 12-5pm.

Indigeneity & Digital Entanglements (curated by Russel Hlongwane) assembles critical voices and cinematic expressions from Africa. These films present a broa...

Find out more about Control Shift, and how to get involved at https://www.control-shift.network/ Control Shift is funded by Arts Council England, Knowle West Media Centre, Institute of Coding, and University of the West of England. And supported by Watershed, Furtherfield, Aksioma, We the Curious, Bristol City Council, and Processing Community Day.

BFI London Film Festival 2020

From 7 to 18 October the BFI London Film Festival will be the first ever edition to be widely accessible wherever you are in the UK, with over 50 virtual premieres, free online events and cinema screenings across the land.

Find out more

GUEST FILM TALKS - #TEAAT3WITHMAMFROMAGE

As members of NAHEMI you are invited to these superb Guest Film Chats / Q&A with Industry folks over a cuppa …

JOIN TALKS VIA ZOOM (just before 3pm with Mics on mute)
Meeting ID: 795 261 3779 Passcode: TEAAT3

THURS 8TH OCT 3:00PM

EDITOR - DAN CRINNION

Join via Zoom: Meeting ID: 795 261 3779 Passcode: TEAAT3

EMMY-NOMINATED EDITOR DAN CRINNION

Dan is a TV & Film Editor with over 19 years experience in the cutting room. Specializing in TV Drama, his credits include working on Jed Mercurio’s groundbreaking medical drama, Critical (Hat Trick Productions/Sky1); The Last Kingdom (Carnival PIctures/ Netflix); Harlots (Monumnetal Pictures/HULU) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s BAFTA award winning Spy Thriller, Killing Eve (BBC America) -starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer- for which he was recently nominated for an EMMY in 2019 and won the ACE ‘Eddie’ award for Best Commercial Drama (Season 2, Episode 4 “Desperate Times”)

Previous recent talks included:

TUES 6TH OCT 3:00PM

WRITER/ DIRECTOR - SARMAD MASUD talking with TEAAT3WITHMAMFROMAGE

Sam Masud recently the Bulletproof Special for Vertigo and Sky, having also directed on Season 2 of the series. He also recently directed on Ackley Bridge for The Forge and Channel 4.

His first feature My Pure Land, is set and filmed in Pakistan and based on the extraordinary true story of one woman and her family who defended their home and land from 200 bandits. It premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and was the UK submission to the Oscars in the Foreign Language category. Sam was also nominated as a Screen International Star of Tomorrow.

Previously Sam’s short film; Two Dosas, funded by Film London was voted best film in their London Calling Plus category by David Yates and then went on to pick up numerous awards on the festival circuit; winning at London Short Film Festival, Aspen shortsfest, River to River in Florence and Shufflefest voted by Danny Boyle. Sam also wrote and directed Adha Cup which was the first Urdu language drama commissioned by Channel Four, going on to develop it as a six part TV series with the BBC.

I am delighted to let you know that Tea@3 is now sponsored by NAHEMI (The National Association of Higher Education in the Moving Image), an organisation committed to excellence in UK film education, of which I have been an active member for many years.

FRIDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER

ALIX TAYLOR - TALENT EXECUTIVE for BFI NETWORK (SW)

A great chance to get advice generally on writing Film Applications for funding?

Find out what the key things BFI are looking for in an application?

and what is the current landscape on funding for short films like in the UK at the moment? https://network.bfi.org.uk/film-hub-south-west

Now available to view along with previous Tea@3 interviews: https://www.youtube.com/user/FreyaBill

FRIDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER

RICH WARREN, Festival Director of ENCOUNTERS FILM FESTIVAL

Rich will be talking about the upcoming (and original) Short Film Festival, how they have moved it online and give his thoughts on what makes a great short festival film

Initially starting live as Brief Encounters back in 1995 as a one off event to mark the centenary of cinema, the festival as gone from strength to strength. Animated Encounters was added to the fixtures in 2001 and in 2006 the two festivals united to become the Encounters Short Film Festival. Since then the festival has grown in standing, becoming a qualifying festival for the Academy Awards short film category. https://www.encounters.film/

THURSDAY 24th SEPTEMBER

Director LEWIS ARNOLD (DES, CLEANING UP) and JON WARDLE (Head of the NFTS) talking about the free online resource Lewis set up in lockdown DIRECTORSNOW which was supported by Jon and discussing Directing in general. http://www.directorsnow.com/

Lewis Arnold is riding high currently on the huge success of ITV Drama DES (David Tennant, Daniel Mays) which is the biggest drama launch on the channel since CLEANING UP 2019 (which he also directed) For more info https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3285219/

Since heading up the NFTS (recently voted the No.1 film school in the world) Jon has developed a number of new courses working in partnership with organisations including Sky, Channel 4, Discovery Networks International, the BBC and Aardman. Jon also leads the annual BFI Film Academy, a ‘talent campus’ for 66 of the most talented 16-19 year old filmmakers in the UK. For more info https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jon-wardle

THURSDAY  1ST OCTOBER

Jon Swain - Head of BBC Unscripted Productions

Jon leads the BBC Studios unit, which creates new and returning popular factual, lifestyle series such as Crimewatch, Bargain Hunt, Countryfile. Gardeners’ World, Crimewatch Roadshow and Wanted Down Under.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/bbc-studios-jon-swain

COMING UP

NATASHA BRAIER CINEMATOGRAPHER

HONEY BOY, NEON DEMON, GLORIA BELL

At the 2017 Robert Awards, Natasha won the Robert Award for Best Cinematography for her work on The Neon Demon. At the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, she won the Special Jury Award for Vision and Craft for her work on Honey Boy.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1161987/

TIPS ON SHOOTING LOW BUDGET IN A PANDEMIC!

Recent Graduates Director ELIAS WILLIAMS (https://mandemhood.com/) and Producer LOWRI ROBERTS (BAFTA award wining GIRL) have just shot a Zombie short for BBC NEW CREATYIVES and will discuss ways to film in the current climate.

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www.freyabillingtonfilm.com 

#TeaAt3WithMamFromage 

https://www.youtube.com/user/FreyaBill

 'I am delighted to let you know that Tea@3 is now sponsored by NAHEMI (The National Association of Higher Education in the Moving Image), an organisation committed to excellence in UK film education, of which I have been an active member for many years'

Three Minutes incubator - create a music video with a minimum budget of £12,000

APPLY for this superb incubator scheme for young music video directors by Crack Magazine (Bristol based magazine)

A new initiative for unsigned directors aged 26 and under with a focus on supporting talent from underrepresented groups and disadvantaged backgrounds.

Apply for the 2020/21 scheme for a chance to create a fully-funded music video.

Brilliant opportunity!

Applications for the 2020/21 scheme are now open. The deadline is 23:59 (GMT) on Wednesday 16 September

Apply at: http://threeminut.es/