Young Programmers

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Aimee and Bill interviewing Rob Savage

Aimee and Bill interviewing Maia

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Bruce & Bill interviewing Kenny & Rob

Aimee & Simo interviewing Lauren

Just Do It paper

Lunch time!

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Bil and Aimee manning the entrance

Arriving for The Illusionist

Joe tidying up the programmes

L-R: Joe, Bruce, Aimee, Simo, Bill

Mini Cine Young Film Festival 3rd March 2012

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What a fantastic day that was!

We kicked off with the fabulous animation by Sylvain Chomet, The Illusionist. As it rained gently outside the venue, we tucked into popcorn and watched this sad tale of an old man in a changing world.

After the film Rob Birchall and Kenneth Anderson, both freelance animators who worked in the animation department of the film answered questions put to them by Young Programmer’s Bill Houghton and Bruce Koziarski on the making of the film. Lots of people in the audience had lots of questions; clearly there were some keen young animators in the house!

Lunch was free for all under 21 year olds (+ two hungry animators!) We tucked in and continued to question the incredibly helpful and lovely Rob and Kenny.

More people trickled in during lunch time in readiness for our next film: Just Do It - a tale of modern outlaws. This film was fantastic! It followed several direct action climate activists as they explained why they felt the need to act as outlaws and how they went about this. I think everyone in the cinema was inspired to do the same by the end!

Lauren Simpson, the film’s producer answered questions from Young Programmer’s Aimee Hornby and Simo Hussain. Video of interview coming soon!

More sustenance followed next; hot tomato soup and butties! During tea-time the evening’s speakers arrived - the talented Maia Krall Fry arrived all the way from St Andrews, shortly followed by Rob Savage’s arrival by train from Cheltenham.

We kicked the evening off with a full house and our youth shorts programme. The youth shorts programme consisted of the films of the 7 finalists from an open submissions call for 13-21 year old film makers from the UK. The Young Programmers watched all of the submissions and chose the strongest films to screen. Full details of all the films are in the pdf download of the festival brochure.

Using the trusty crowd response monitor, the ‘Clap-o-meter’, we gauged the audiences’ favourite film and stashed the result away for the awards ceremony. In the meantime, Aimee Hornby and Bill Houghton, Young Programmer interviewers extraordinaire, conducted a Q&A session with young director ofPolaroid, Rob Savage. Plenty of questions from the audience on the trials and tribulations of being a young film maker.

The final film of the evening was introduced by its director and star, Maia Krall Fry. Maia was only 17 when she wrote, directed and starred in the feature film,Ebony Road.The film was thoroughly enjoyed by all and Bill and Aimee conducted a fantastic Q&A session with Maia following the screening. Again, our wonderful audience had heaps of questions for Maia about her experience of working in the film industry at such a young age.

To round off the festival, the Young Programmers announced the winners of the short film competition:

People’s Choice: Sophie Heppel & Andrew Harrison’sCome Here Often?

Judges’ Choice 3rd prize: Rob Savage’sPolaroid

Judges’ Choice 2nd prize: Matthew Melling’sBrief Dream Encounters

Judges’ Choice 1st prize: William Fuller’sDon’t Turn Your Back

All were invited to the party at the end to wrap up an amazing day!

Big thanks to all and check out the following posts for videos and photos from the day.

- Nathalie (Young Programmers’ Coordinator)

Check out the amazing Mini Cine Young Film Festival 2012...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:46:42 -0500

Check out the amazing Mini Cine Young Film Festival 2012 line-up!

Dreams final.mp4 (by YoungProgrammers) Check out our trailer for...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:05:01 -0500

Dreams final.mp4 (by YoungProgrammers)

Check out our trailer for Mini Cine Young Film Festival 2012: Dreams, Lancashire’s first young film festival brought to you by Preston’ Young Programmers - 3rd March, The Continental, South Meadow Lane, Preston, PR1 8JP.

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Starring:

Georgina Henshall

Sally Henshall

Aimee Hornby

Bill Hougton

Simo Hussain

Bruce Koziarski

Joe Lynch

Created by: Rob Birchall - thisisobject.co.uk

Exec Producer: They Eat Culture

In conjunction with: FACT

Funded by: BFI, Creative England, National Lottery Funds

Hi Guys!

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:29:31 -0500

There's a lot for you to get engaged with on our Young Film Festival. We have an open submission date for the early days of February. So if you're someone who makes short films, or has created small hand-held clips before in the past, then come along to our open submission day and it would be great to see your work! An award ceremony will take place in March. It is a great opportunity to get your work to be seen and judged by many people (and some high quality directors). So don't hide your hidden talents any longer! :) If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask. Take care guys. Simo

Our festival trailer! Thanks to Rob Birchall who made it :) If...

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:01:10 -0500

Our festival trailer! Thanks to Rob Birchall who made it :) If you like it, a) come along to the film festival and b) check out Rob’s other work on his website here: www.thisisobject.co.uk

Christmas is coming and so is the film submissions deadline!

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:04:05 -0500

All 13-21 year olds - we are still open to submissions for Lancashire’s mini cine film fest in January! Please submit before by Christmas eve to be in with a chance of having your film screened on the big screen and be up for the winner’s award. Follow this link http://tiny.cc/xcrkl for an application form. PLease pass this on to anyone who may be interested.

SHORT FILM OF THE WEEK NUMBER TWO! ENJOY! AND WELL DONE TO ALL...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:18:41 -0500

SHORT FILM OF THE WEEK

NUMBER TWO!

ENJOY! AND WELL DONE TO ALL THE FEATURED FILMAKERS- THANKS FOR KEEPING US INSPIRED

SHORT FILM OF THE WEEK NUMBER ONE Every week from today...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:56:48 -0500

SHORT FILM OF THE WEEK NUMBER ONE

Every week from today onwards we’ll be picking one amazing short film every week we think MUST see!

HERE’S OUR VERY FIRST SELECTION

ENJOY! AND WELL DONE TO ALL THE FEATURED FILMAKERS- THANKS FOR KEEPING US INSPIRED

Watch this space!

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:02:15 -0500

We’re currently working with animator Rob Birchall to make a trailer for our festival!! Very exciting! He worked on The Illusionist as an animator and had loads of great ideas. We’re all storyboarding this week so we can start making it soon! It’ll be up on this blog before you know it :)

We’re also working with Angie from Me & Yu - a really cool clothes and graphics design company - to make our film festival poster and brochure.

Our theme is dreams so expect some dreamy stuff!

REMINDER: Anyone who’s 13-21 and makes films, we’re still looking for short film submissions to screen at our festival. Email us at youngrprogrammers2012@gmail.com for more details and an application form.

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Here’s some photos from last night’s trip to FACT.

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Inside the FACT building

On the balcony with the Tweeting plants!

Interviewing Omar Kholeif, FACT curator

Here’s some photos from last night’s trip to FACT.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

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A movie camera