Exeter Phoenix Digital commissions
Short Film Commissions 2010
Commissioned by Exeter Phoenix Digital with support from Devon County Council
call for submissions
Deadline for submissions Sunday 28 February 2010
Following the eighth highly successful Two Short Nights Film Festival, Exeter Phoenix Digital is proud to announce our 2010 Short Film Commissioning sheme.
We are looking for proposals to shoot a short, digital format film of 5-12 minutes duration. Films must be based on an original script or treatment but can be of any genre, for example; narrative film, animation, documentary, visual art film, music video, etc.
A sum of up to £500 is offered towards the budget of the films. Exeter Phoenix Digital will provide camera skills training, script development, directing and production advice as well as assisting with the use of lighting, sound, studio and post-production
facilities. In order to qualify for the bursary, you must reside in Devon and be prepared to produce the finished film within five months of the original submission.
All films will be screened at Two Short Nights Film Festival 2010.
Download full guidelines and an Application Form here
Supported by Devon County Council
Animation Bursary 2009
Commissioned by Exeter Phoenix Digital with support from Animated Exeter
My Dad and The Kinks
Written and Animated by Louis Neubert
Louis Neubert has been awarded the Exeter Phoenix Animation Bursary 2009 to make his film, My Dad and The Kinks. Louis trained at Exeter College, where he did his Art & Design Foundation, then at Bournemouth, studying Film and Animation.
The film is a 'short chronicle of a father's attempt to provide a stable single parent figure to his teenage son and daughter, told through their eyes'.
Louis says, 'I'd like this film to reflect our shared experience as local people - to try and pick out the quirky and difficult moments that are as entertaining as anything you'll see in the mainstream media'.
The completed film will be premiered at Animated Exeter 2010 and screened at Two Short Nights 2010.
Digital Shorts 2009
Commissioned by Exeter Phoenix Digital, South West Screen & the UK Film Council with support from Devon County Council
The Undertow
Written and Directed by Toby DeBurgh
‘The Undertow’ is a darkly-surreal affair that tells the story of a man who awakes on a beautiful summer’s day to find himself drifting along a river in clapped-out old rowing boat. The course of the river takes him past a garden party where he is helped ashore by a strange array of eclectic party guests. This tranquil vision does not last long however, as events quickly take a rather sinister turn...
The Hairy Hands
Written, Directed and Animated by Ashley Thorpe
Dartmoor: the dead of night...953 square kilometres of desolate moorland...1000 ghosts...and a fugitive racing a haunted road to meet one.
'The Hairy Hands' is the fourth in the series of 'Penny Dreadful' animations inspired by neglected aspects of English folklore. Based upon a genuine Dartmoor legend it draws upon such influences as Alfred Hitchcock, Film Noir and 'The Hammer House of Horror'.
"When you reach into the dark...sometimes the dark reaches back."
Short Film Production Bursaries 2009
Commissioned by Exeter Phoenix Digital
Steal
Written and directed by Misha Vertkin
“Steal” is the story of a 17 year old shoplifter way beyond his years, and an inquisitive 8 year old intent on being stolen.
Non-Calculator
Written and directed by John Martin
A 16-year old student in a GCSE Maths exam worries that failing the exam will ruin the rest of his life.
My Suicide Suit
Written and directed by Rob Hutt
Danny Donnelley has decided to commit suicide because he feels he has no place in world. Danny literally feels invisible as he lives alone and works in a photo lab developing other people's holiday photos, all the time wishing he was in them.
PAL
Written and directed by Kate Graham
Mike is a 15 year-old boy growing up in early 1990’s Britain – a time when mix tapes, road protests and rollerblades were all the rage. Set in a small town in South West England, we follow Mike wandering aimlessly alone after school to avoid going home to his arguing parents. With nowhere to go and nothing to do, Mike seems to have no escape route from the boredom of living in a place that holds little opportunity for young people. That is until he meets a remarkable PAL.
Uncomfortable
Written by Benjamin Borley and David Salas
Directed by David Salas
It must be a terrible thing to be left alone.
An old man comes to terms with his grief by talking to his dead wife. She is still in the house. Untouched, lying where she collapsed, over 24hours before.
La LegendE~DALI
Written and directed by Tom Austin
La Legende~Dali is a surreal comedy docu-drama which looks at the life and work of Spanish painter and film-maker Salvador Dali. Set in a boxing gym, it tells in a theatrical way, how his odd family (including his dead brother) helped shape the young man into becoming arguably the twentieth century's greatest painter.
With reverential references to his and Bunuel's ground-breaking film, Un Chien Andaloux, and his collaboration with Hitchcock on Spellbound, its aim is to remind us how much Dali has influenced the way we look at this weird world we live in.
Digital Media Bursary 2009
Commissioned by Exeter Phoenix Digital & Galleries
Pure Flow
Katy Connor
Katy Connor’s work demonstrates a fascination with the moving image and its capacity to visualise patterns of thought and physical sensation. Her latest work Pure Flow, commissioned through the Exeter Phoenix Digital Media Bursary, will generate live, moving imagery created from the data flows between a Global Positioning System [GPS] device and the multiple satellites which triangulate its position at any one time.
Connor reveals a new way of visualising ordinarily invisible streams of data and acknowledges the common usage in surveying and navigational tools of sophisticated technologies, initially developed for military purposes.
Exhibition in Exeter Phoenix Galleries
20 Nov–21 Dec
The exhibition will also include a further selection of Connor’s screen-based works, sculptures and drawings which also reflect upon the profound and ubiquitous presence of technology in our daily lives.
www.katyconnor.com
Other supported films 2009
Supported by Exeter Phoenix Digital
The Imps
Written and Directed by Pippa Stephenson & Michaela Morning
"An uneasy feeling had come over me,
I was about to capture what could not be named."
Discommunity
Written and Directed by Gwenhyver Davies
She is a Firefighter and he is a Paramedic. Going about their usual morning routine: she on her treadmill - he prepares breakfast. When she falls and he sets the apartment on fire, their pairing seems a perfect one. But not quite...
Day of Rest
Written and Directed by Andy Oxley & David Williams
Day of Rest ... is not only that, it's a day to do whatever we please. This documentary peers into the lives of six members of our nation as they show us what Sunday means to them.
Plan B
Written and Directed by Jerri Hart
Crime and therapy collide in this Ealing Studios-style comedy caper along with wool, cake high heels and an unhealthy dose of attitude.
2008 Bursaries
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2007 Bursaries
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2006 Bursaries
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2005 Bursaries
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