Imperial War Museum Student Film Festival and Competition
November - December 2008
London and Manchester
This is the eighth year that the Museum is running its Student Film Festival. The Festival offers the opportunity to students who have made films and videos incorporating archive film from the Museum’s collection or about its subject matter, to have their work screened publicly in the cinema. Each title screened in the Festival is also eligible to be entered into the competition, for which there are three categories:
- Best Documentary
- Best Imaginative Response to the Subject of War
- Winner of the Audience Poll
All the titles in the Festival will be screened an equal number of times over a period in the Autumn/Winter of this year. Members of the audience will be given an opportunity to vote on each title screened. The results of these votes determine the outright winner of the third award, as well as generating the shortlist of leading contenders in the other two categories, which will then be submitted to a panel of judges drawn from IWM Staff and professionals from the film and television industry. The winning titles will be screened exclusively in the Museum’s cinema for a week around Christmas and New Year. The Festival’s sponsor, The History Channel, has also generously offered to air the winning titles (subject to rights clearance) on the Channel. As part of this prize, BSkyB will provide the winner of the Best Documentary category with six hours of full broadcast standard online editing and six hours of audio dubbing.
Link:
http://www.iwm.org.uk
Contact:
Dr Toby Haggith
Email:
thaggith (at) iwm (dot) org (dot) uk
Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7416 5293/5294
Address:
Public Services Office, Film and Video Archive, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ