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Latitude Festival launches film making contest

Latitude Festival will this year focus its attentions on some vital political and societal issues that are both timely and timeless.

As part of this wide, creative exploration, Latitude Festival – in partnership with film Production Company Brass Moustache – will commission two short documentaries (maximum 10 minutes length) to premiere in the Film & Music Arena of the festival.

Film-makers, especially young or emerging film-makers, will be invited to submit 2 page treatments to the jury, comprised of multi-award winning film-makers Callum McCrae (No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka), Sarah McCarthy (The Dark Matter of Love) and Mark Donne (The UK Gold)who will shortlist and commission two short documentaries.

The two winning film-makers will each receive a production grant of £2.5k each and both receive on-going support and workshop assistance via the Brass Moustache studio in Central London.

The jury and winning film-makers will be joined at the festival by Catherine Bray of Film 4, who will introduce the premiere screenings of the two shorts and then host a debate and audience discussion on the themes connected to them.

 

BRIEF

We call on film-makers to respond to one question: “What is Your Truth?”

We ask film-makers to meditate on themes such as: surveillance, underworld, personal, double lives, masks, brain/body, confession, social media, privacy, conspiracy theories, whistleblowing and individual perspective; and upon our own relationships with the truth and how the allure of secrecy could become embedded into our lives.

Short documentaries can be in any form: animated, docu-drama, investigative documentary, participative or observational documentary, but they must clearly respond to the brief as outlined.

Please send treatments (maximum 2 pages in length) to: [email protected]

Submissions must include:

  • Name, age and date of birth of Director.
  • Full contact details
  • A comprehensive outline (including narrative and style)of the short documentary you’d like to make
  • One paragraph on how you will technically realise the project (equipment, etc.)
  • One (final) paragraph on why you wish to make it

Closing date for submissions 28th April.

For more details (including Terms and Conditions) head HERE.

 

Lucy Christian
Lucy Christian
Lucy writes music news and reviews for Entertainment Focus.

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