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About Digi Shorts
Did you know that the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund partners with organisations in each of the UK's regions and nations in order to enable filmmakers to make innovative shorts using digital technology?
It's a major annual programme, and is adapted by each regional or national organisation into a bespoke programme to suit the filmmakers in each area. Despite differences, there are several unifying features to the scheme wherever you are:
King Ponce, a Screen Yorkshire-funded Digital Short from 2007
* Each filmmaker must shoot their work using digital technology
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* Each filmmaker must have the chance to attend an intensive 3 day programme of training designed both to help them complete this particular film as well as to equip them with skills they'll find useful as their careers progress
And this is where The Script Factory comes in: courtesy of funding from Skillset's Film Skills Fund, we have been commissioned to design and deliver the training programme to accompany the Digital Shorts programme during 2007, 2008 and will do so again in 2009.
The Digital Shorts schemes are now rolling out across the UK with many application deadlines approaching in October and November.
Click here for details of the 2008 Digital Shorts Scheme where you are.
To read about the training programme we designed to accompany the Digi Shorts Training Programme last year click here. Our next programme kicks off once the regional agencies around the country have selected filmmakers for their own individual schemes. The training will begin in the New Year 2009.
Then A Summer Starts - Digital Short supported by GMAC
Small Thoughts, a Screen West Midlands-supported Digital ShortHave a look around our site to find out more about the training programme, and to read about the filmmakers who were selected to make a Digi Short this current year. As filmmakers are selected for the next intake (2008/09) we'll be adding their details here too.
You can also view some of the shorts made under the Digital Shorts Scheme over the last few years, here.
