Make a micro-movie of under 90 seconds and you could win a cash prize of £3000, have your film promoted online across the globe and see it screened at Brief Encounters Bristol International Short Film Festival: 23 - 27 Nov ‘05 – http://www.brief-encounters.org.uk
NEW THIS YEAR! The DepicT! 2005 winner and shortlisted entries will be offered a full distribution deal with the Dazzle Short Film Label. In addition, digital media and design company Emak Mafu will offer a website and marketing package deal to the winner.
The DepicT! 2005 winner will be picked by a panel of distinguished industry professionals, whose brief is to uncover distinctive voices - originality, style, clarity of idea & impact are key. Previous judges included renowned actor Pete Postlethwaite, award-winning director Damien O'Donnell, multi-Oscar® winning director Peter Jackson, Jeremy Howe (Executive Producer, BBC Talent) and David Sproxton (Executive Chairman, Aardman Animations Ltd). The panel of judges for this year will be announced shortly.
ORANGE DEPICT! 2005 AUDIENCE AWARD
Once again, we are inviting the public to vote for their favourite DepicT! films. Short-listed films will be posted online on http://www.depict.org and Orange World from Mon 10 Oct and the winner of the Orange DepicT! 2005 Audience Award will take home a top of the range mobile handset and other Orange prizes.
Before you go out and shoot your mini masterpiece, make sure you read through the rules. Also remember that your film must be accompanied by a completed Entry Consent Form which can be downloaded from http://www.depict.org
If you are submitting several films, you need to fill in one form per entry. For further details on technical requirements, please refer to the DepicT! Technical FAQs. Also don't forget to look at previous entries and top tips from previous winners for some inspiration. Good luck!
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 1700hrs (UK time) on Mon 5 Sept ‘05. For more info and to download an entry form, visit http://www.depict.org
DepicT! 2005 is a Watershed project as part of Brief Encounters 11th Bristol International Short Film Festival, supported by Aardman, Films@59, Orange, Dazzle Short Film Label and Emak Mafu.
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“Winning the jury prize at DepicT! was both great and unexpected. The win led to distribution deals with Interfilm Berlin and Dazzle UK, and both Canal+ and Studio Universal bought the rights to broadcast my short. ‘Non-Fat’ then received funds from the British Council to finance a 35mm print and was screened at the Curzon Soho Cinema in London for two weeks alongside the feature ‘Old Boy’. It was short-listed for a number of film festivals worldwide, won the Audience Award at Clermont Ferrand, and was released as part of the Experience 01 DVD distributed by Reperages in France.”
Oliver Manzi, Director, 'Non-Fat', co- winner of DepicT! 2004
“Winning the competition was fantastic as was the response following it. We have got a distribution deal with Dazzle films, the film has been broadcast on BBC3 and we appeared at Aspen shorts fest. There was something wonderfully surreal about being flown to America to show our 90-second short alongside the cream of the short film world, bizarre”.
Stephen Scott Hayward & Alex Kirkland, Directors, ‘Le Cheval: 2.1’, Winners of DepicT! 2003
"'We like short shorts' the Royal Teens sang so memorably in their 1958 hit. So does the Brief Encounters short film festival, whose 90 second film competition is a veritable treasure-trove of tiny triumphs."
Guardian Unlimited
NEW THIS YEAR! The DepicT! 2005 winner and shortlisted entries will be offered a full distribution deal with the Dazzle Short Film Label. In addition, digital media and design company Emak Mafu will offer a website and marketing package deal to the winner.
The DepicT! 2005 winner will be picked by a panel of distinguished industry professionals, whose brief is to uncover distinctive voices - originality, style, clarity of idea & impact are key. Previous judges included renowned actor Pete Postlethwaite, award-winning director Damien O'Donnell, multi-Oscar® winning director Peter Jackson, Jeremy Howe (Executive Producer, BBC Talent) and David Sproxton (Executive Chairman, Aardman Animations Ltd). The panel of judges for this year will be announced shortly.
ORANGE DEPICT! 2005 AUDIENCE AWARD
Once again, we are inviting the public to vote for their favourite DepicT! films. Short-listed films will be posted online on http://www.depict.org and Orange World from Mon 10 Oct and the winner of the Orange DepicT! 2005 Audience Award will take home a top of the range mobile handset and other Orange prizes.
Before you go out and shoot your mini masterpiece, make sure you read through the rules. Also remember that your film must be accompanied by a completed Entry Consent Form which can be downloaded from http://www.depict.org
If you are submitting several films, you need to fill in one form per entry. For further details on technical requirements, please refer to the DepicT! Technical FAQs. Also don't forget to look at previous entries and top tips from previous winners for some inspiration. Good luck!
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 1700hrs (UK time) on Mon 5 Sept ‘05. For more info and to download an entry form, visit http://www.depict.org
DepicT! 2005 is a Watershed project as part of Brief Encounters 11th Bristol International Short Film Festival, supported by Aardman, Films@59, Orange, Dazzle Short Film Label and Emak Mafu.
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“Winning the jury prize at DepicT! was both great and unexpected. The win led to distribution deals with Interfilm Berlin and Dazzle UK, and both Canal+ and Studio Universal bought the rights to broadcast my short. ‘Non-Fat’ then received funds from the British Council to finance a 35mm print and was screened at the Curzon Soho Cinema in London for two weeks alongside the feature ‘Old Boy’. It was short-listed for a number of film festivals worldwide, won the Audience Award at Clermont Ferrand, and was released as part of the Experience
Oliver Manzi, Director, 'Non-Fat', co- winner of DepicT! 2004
“Winning the competition was fantastic as was the response following it. We have got a distribution deal with Dazzle films, the film has been broadcast on BBC3 and we appeared at Aspen shorts fest. There was something wonderfully surreal about being flown to America to show our 90-second short alongside the cream of the short film world, bizarre”.
Stephen Scott Hayward & Alex Kirkland, Directors, ‘Le Cheval: 2.1’, Winners of DepicT! 2003
"'We like short shorts' the Royal Teens sang so memorably in their 1958 hit. So does the Brief Encounters short film festival, whose 90 second film competition is a veritable treasure-trove of tiny triumphs."
Guardian Unlimited
