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The Imperial War Museum is now accepting entries for the Tenth IWM Film Festival. The deadline for entries is Friday 28 October 2010. The 2010 Festival is sponsored by HISTORY™, Prime Focus and October Films. Imperial War Museum Film Festival 2009 Winning Films
The Annie Dodds Award for the Best Documentary Entry Criteria and Rules of the Competition Film Festival 2009 Application Form Advice to Student and Amateur Filmmakers
About the CompetitionThe Imperial War Museum Film Festival offers the opportunity for student and amateur filmmakers who have made films about the Museum’s subject matter or that incorporate archive film from the Museum’s collection to have their work screened publicly in the Museum Cinema. Each title screened in the Festival is also eligible to be entered into the competition, for which there are three categories: Annie Dodds Award for the Best Documentary, Best Imaginative Response to the Subject of War and Winner of the Audience Poll. All the titles in the Festival are screened an equal number of times over a period in the autumn/winter of each year in the Museum's cinema. 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 Museum 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. In addition:
All those whose films are screened in the Festival are invited to a prize-giving ceremony at the Museum in the spring.
Entry Criteria and Rules of the Competition
Students submitting a film to the Festival must normally be studying at a registered university or college based in the United Kingdom. Entries from student filmmakers based/studying overseas will only be accepted if they incorporate film from the Museum archives or are made in direct response to some aspect of the Museum’s Collections or exhibitions. Films will not be accepted that merely tackle some aspect of warfare since the beginning of the twentieth century. Films that run for longer than 35 minutes will not be accepted. Submission of a film does not guarantee acceptance to the Festival. Films submitted for the Festival will not automatically be returned to the sender. For this reason, you are advised not to submit masters or high-quality copies (Beta, Digibeta film etc.) straight away. Filmmakers whose films are accepted for the Festival will be invited to provide superior screening copies for the Cinema. The Festival organisers will not normally accept more than one entry per filmmaker. The Festival organisers will not accept entries from filmmakers who are related to members of staff of the Imperial War Museum, Prime Focus, HISTORY™, BskyB or October Films. Any allegations of an attempt by participating filmmakers to bring unfair influence to bear on the audience ballot will be investigated by the Festival organisers and taken into consideration by the competition judges. Entries will be automatically disqualified if the filmmaker is found to have violated the terms and conditions for the use of archive film laid down by the Imperial War Museum. The decision of the judges is final. Selecting the Winners
Production values, while important, are not the primary concern of the judges: imagination, sensitivity to the subject matter, and a coherent and disciplined use of historical source material is more likely to impress the panel. For this reason, filmmakers submitting films made using fairly basic equipment should not fear that their efforts will be overlooked when shown alongside pieces made using broadcast-quality kit. When judging the short-listed films in the Best Documentary category, the judges will be especially looking for a responsible, historically accurate and imaginative use of archive film. Winners of the Best Imaginative Response to the Subject of War category could be a drama, an animated film, a mixture of these styles or a moving-image piece produced by an artist. Some artists and filmmakers have been hesitant about submitting their work for the Festival as they thought it might be too politically or creatively challenging for the Museum. Please be assured, the Festival will not reject a film because it is ‘anti-war’. The Festival organisers also welcome moving-image pieces that do not fit the conventional style of films and videos screened in the Museum’s Cinema.
Advice to student and amateur filmmakers from broadcaster Martin Morgan, Deputy Channels Director, HISTORY™ HISTORY™ is always delighted to be able to broadcast the winning entries whenever possible, however a number of factors can prevent entrant's work being seen by a wider audience. Durations: as a commercial channel we have half hour slots of 23 minutes and one hour slots of 47 minutes - the closer a film is to one of these lengths the easier it is to broadcast. Music: if you plan to use music of any kind, composed, library or commercial, you should make sure that it is clearable for broadcast before using it in your film. MCPS and PRS are the two key agencies and are happy to advise. Uncleared music can render a film unusable. Copyrights: you must have permission to use stills, newspaper clippings and archive before using them in your production. As with music knowing that the material is clearable for broadcast before you use it is key, otherwise you will be left re-cutting your work in order to get it transmitted. Sponsored by:
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