22nd Dec 2011 ⁄ London ⁄ In the midst of all the international financial gloom, a two-minute comedy film based on a school photography session for six year-olds and set in a British school, is raising spirits internationally. School Portrait, a short film which cost just £200 and took only a day to shoot...
19th Dec 2011 ⁄ South West ⁄ Bristol-based regional screen agency South West Screen has today announced the full transfer of all of its projects and activities into the new agency Creative England. Creative England opened in October to support film, TV, games, digital and creative services in the English regions...
7th Dec 2011 ⁄ London ⁄ Lisson Gallery presents a major retrospective of video work and new work by controversial artist Santiago Sierra. The exhibition includes a timetabled cycle of performance based films shown alongside documents, photographs and a curated selection...
17th Nov 2011 ⁄ North West ⁄ The University of Salford’s innovative public exhibition space at its new MediaCityUK building will present a series of video works by Korean artist Junebum Park from this weekend. Puzzle, which shows a group of people trying to solve a problem...
28th Sep 2011 ⁄ West Midlands ⁄ The Public in West Bromwich are inviting interactive artists and artists working in film and video to submit work to two unique open exhibitions, taking place early 2012. After receiving over 70 entries from across the world to Touch Interactive and Screening 2011...
22nd Sep 2011 ⁄ London ⁄ Creative agency Knifedge has won two prestigious awards in the IVCA Clarion Awards for its imaginative approach to charity marketing.
Organised by the International Visual Communications Association, the IVCA Clarion Awards are Europe’s biggest awards to recognise and reward communications for CSR, diversity, sustai...
5th Aug 2011 ⁄ London ⁄ Young Mexican director Alberto Gomez, a 23 year old who graduated from Vancouver Film School only 2 years ago, is the winner of the Saatchi & Saatchi, Vimeo and Moby ‘Hello, Future’ Music Video Challenge...
1st Aug 2011 ⁄ Vimeo is building on its reputation as the home for high quality video sharing today as it launches 'Vimeo PRO'. The new Vimeo PRO account is the easiest and one of the most affordable professional video hosting solution for small businesses available. The product will go live on the site today at 5pm...
29th Jul 2011 ⁄ London ⁄ Four Southern Housing Group residents will star on the silver screen in October 2011 as part of a prestigious film festival. The young people, who live at the Group’s Royal Arsenal Development in London, feature in The Abandoned Wand, a short film which has been selected for screening at the Co-operative Film Festival on 6-7 October in Bradford.....
28th Jul 2011 ⁄ East Midlands ⁄ Aspiring filmmakers once again have a chance to see their ideas up on the Silver Screen as QUAD in Derby announce the launch of QUAD Shorts 2. QUAD Shorts commission will fund up to five pieces of film or moving image by artists and film makers from Derby, Derbyshire and the East Midlands...
26th Jul 2011 ⁄ Japanese beer, Kirin Ichiban has announced the four finalists for their short film competition, with the winner being chosen by the public. The four finalists have been chosen from a judging panel of industry experts from the world of short film including the London Short Film Festival and award winning Short Film director Simon Ellis...
20th Jul 2011 ⁄ North West ⁄ Two new faces join North West based full service creative agency The Fresh Group, both in the busy studio. Mark Bloore, previously of Photolink joins as Senior Copywriter, and Barry Kenyon is the new Senior Artworker, previously of TBWA. The Fresh video team have also been busy, winning a commission to produce the first TV commercial for TopCashBac...
10th Feb 2012 ⁄ East Midlands ⁄ Blue Yates is a professional Classical guitarist, performer and recording artist, specialising in Classical, Acoustic and Latin genres and this February marks the 10 year anniversary of his guitar tui...
