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VERTIGO NEWSLETTER #42, September 2009
Vertigo's newsletter features the latest on the magazine, what's new on the website plus exclusive competitions, events listings, links to resources and more.
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CONTENTS
1) Vertigo News - August Online issue, Vol 4 Issue 3 Out Now
2) Events and Courses - BFFS Conference, Mathieu Amalric and Pedro Costa Q&A's, Branchage Film Festival, FilmFest Hamburg
3) Calls for submissions and applications - Electric December, Potenza International Festival, European Independent Film Festival 2010
4) Links
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1 - VERTIGO NEWS
August Online issue now on the Vertigo website
The August On line issue is currently available on the Vertigo website. The new issue has 6 web-exclusive, free-access feature articles, including an interview with director Antonia Campos about his upcoming feature 'Afterschool'; an in-depth analysis of the media reactions to Lars von Trier's 'Antichrist'; a roundup of Oberhausen 2009; a review of the re-released 1963 Italian cinemafest 'Boccaccio 70', a collection of 4 short features by Fellini, De Sica, Visconti and Monicelli and much more.
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The latest issue of Vertigo-including an exclusive FREE DVD of Ken McMullen's feature '1871'
The latest issue of Vertigo - Volume 4 Issue 3 - is out: in bookshops, on newsstands, on the website and, if you are a subscriber, in your own mailbox.
Vol 4 Issue 3 includes an exclusive FREE feature length dvd of director Ken McMullen's 'Parisian-set historical tale of the turbulent times of the Franco-Prussian war '1871' (and extras including cast interviews and the acclaimed short '1867') The new print issue also offers exclusive interviews with documentary legend Frederick Wiseman and Desperate Optimists Joe Lawlor & Christine Molloy; excerpts from a new script by Trevor Griffiths; profiles of filmmakers Eva Weber and Ramin Bahrani; an appreciation of the late actress Ann Savage; Kathy Acker on Iain Sinclair; Gideon Koppel's 'Sleep Furiously'; the (timely) re-release of the classic silent epic 'L'Argent'; the healing power of cinema; Iraqi Film now, and much more.
To buy the current issue (Vol 4 Issue 3) go to http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/shop/shophome.htm
2 - EVENTS AND COURSES
Film, Participation and Re-Enactment, Bristol, 12th September - 17th October
Down at the Bamboo Club is a new Picture This exhibition of artists' video exploring the idea of legacy though participation, historic sites and events. Films include Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's 'File Under Sacred Music ', re-enacting a 1978 performance by The Cramps at a California psychiatric hospital; 'Session (Sugar Version) ' examining the mental health of the slaves that kept Bristol's sugar trade profitable, and Mark Wilsher's 'The Use of Money ', based on a a speech by the Methodist founder John Wesley. Click here for more information
The British Federation of Film Societies National Conference for Community Cinemas, Sheffield, 19th -20th September
The BFFS National Conference is a national event dedicated to the needs and interests of film societies and not-for-profit community cinemas. This year the 2-day conference will offer introduced film screenings, facilitated networking, and expert training dedicated to the needs of volunteer-led community cinema groups. The BFFS brings together hundreds of delegates from across the UK, including community cinemas and film societies, directors, industry experts, academics, film critics, distributors, and equipment specialists. For more information click here
Mathieu Amalric: 'Stade de Wimbledon ' and Q&A, London, 20th September
The South London Gallery and the Institut Francais are hosting a screening of actor and director Mathieu Amalric's 2002 feature 'Stade de Wimbledon '. The rare screening is part of a programme of films that explore the links and overlaps between contemporary art, cinema and documentary, and a film that had also been included in Crossing Borders, the Vertigo/Cahier du Cinema hosted season of films presented at the Institut Francais in 2006, which resulted in the series of podcasts in Vol 3 Issue 2. Mathieu Amalric (see Vol 3 Issue 8 for the article on 'Heartbeat Detector ') will be present for a Q&A after the screening, held at Hackney's Rio cinema, just round the corner from Vertigo's office. For more information click here
Pedro Costa: 'O Sangue (Blood)' and Q&A, London, 23rd September
As part of the Kinematheque programme of screenings, Second Run film is hosting the first UK screening of Pedro Costa's 1989 debut feature 'O Sangue (Blood) '. Costa will be in attendence for a Q&A with Jonathan Romney, discussing his work, including 'Colossal Youth ', profiled in Vol 3 Issue 9 For more information on the event click here
For more information on go to Second Run website
Abandon Normal Devices, Liverpool, 23rd -27th September
AND kicks off with five days filled with screenings, exhibitions, public interventions, debates and workshops. Highlights of the festival this year include a masterclass with Apichatpong Weerasethakul; The Yes Men - an exhibition and screening of the new documentary; a new large-scale video project by Krzysztof Wodiczko; Real Time: a conference discussing showing art in the age of new media; and Rebirth of a Nation - DJ Spooky provides a new live soundtrack to DW Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation '. For more information click here
Filmfest Hamburg, Hamburg, 24th September to 3rd October
The year the 17th Filmfest Hamburg focuses in on films treating the topic of 'Vibrant Metropolises '. A selection of 12 international feature and documentary films presents metropolises of extreme contrasts - containing social criticism, dealing with radical strategies of survival, and depicting breathless hypermodernity alongside urban traditions that have developed over centuries. Films include Fatih Akin's new 'Soul Kitchen ' (2009), as well as films set in Cairo, Bombay, New York, Tehran, Belgrade, Vilnius and Istanbul. Click here for more information
2nd Branchage Film Festival, Jersey, 1st to 4th October
This year the 2nd Branchage Film Festival has expanded and added more imaginative new films and events. Venues for screenings include the war tunnels, the castle, a church (screening 'Into Great Silence ', Vol 3 Issue 5), a barn ( 'Sleep Furiously ' with Q&A, Vol 4 Issue 3) the Opera house, and a drive-in cinema in the park. Special events include Kim Longinotto's (Vol 4 Issue 2) new Sundance award winner 'Rough Aunties ', Winstan Whitter's Legacy in the Dust (Vol 4 Issue 2), Man of Arran with a live soundtrack by British Sea Power, and A Jersey Jape, the launch of Andrew Kotting's new 'Gallivant'-style (Vol 3 Issue 6) project for 2010. For more information click here
Cineuropa.org screenplay training course - ongoing
Cineuropa.org, the European cinema portal, is now offering an online scriptwriting course in English, French, Italian and Spanish, based on a direct and personalised contact between the participants and the teacher Following the first trial lesson, which is available, free of charge, on the website, the course is structured in eight lessons over 14 weeks, offering essential theoretical and practical notions in scriptwriting, highlighting the differences between cinema scriptwriting and other creative forms. Follow ups with the tutor and the practical aspects provided by the exercises are at the core of the project. There are no deadlines and candidates can apply anytime during the year. For more information click here
3 - CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS, APPLICATIONS AND COURSES
Call for submissions: Electric December 2009
Electric December is open for the submission of short films made by young people aged under 21 years. The Electric December Online festival brings together short films by young filmmakers from all across Europe - showcasing 24 films during December - one for every day before Christmas - like an electric Cinema Advent Calendar. They are looking for films, including fiction, documentary or animation, less than 5 minutes long, by filmmakers under 21 years old, and completed since September 2008. Submission is free. For more information and submission guidelines click here
Deadline for submissions: 25th September 2009
Call for Submissions: Potenza International Film Festival 2009
Potenza Film Festival, held in Italy this year, is seeking submissions to the competition categories of Feature, Documentary, Short and Mobile Phone film. Awards will include up to 30,000 euros in goods. The festival will be screening from December 1st to 5th this year. For more information and submission guidelines, click here
Deadline for submissions: 1st November 2009
Call for Submissions: The European Independent Film Festival 2010
Since its inception, The European Independent Film Festival (ECU) has become an ideal place in Europe for independent filmmakers to screen their films to large international audiences, to network with producers and distributors as well as exchange ideas with other indie filmmakers. Held in Paris in March 2010, the competitive ECU festival is seeking features, shorts and documentaries, as well as short and feature scripts, and entries to the 'Made on Mobile' category. In addition, for the first time this year there is a new Scriptwriting competition if you have not yet made your film. For more information click here
Deadline for entries: 14th December 2009
4 - LINKS
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SIDF: FREE NEWSLETTER AND FESTIVAL INFORMATION
SCRIPTFACTORY: SCRIPTWRITING EVENTS AND NETWORK
IFP: THE USA'S INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER NETWORK
BBC FILM NETWORK: NEW BRITISH FILMS ONLINE
RHIZOME: GLOBAL NEW MEDIA ART COMMUNITY
ARTIST'S MOVING IMAGE NETWORK
BIRDS EYE VIEW: WOMEN FILMMAKERS
FILM STREET: FOR YOUNG CINEMA LOVERS
WALLFLOWER PRESS
SCHOOL OF SOUND
CLOSE-UP FILM LIBRARY
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CINEPHILIA
UK FILM FORUM
VERSO BOOKS
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