Zoom Awards 2009
What is the Zoom Young Filmmaker Awards?
The Zoom Young Filmmaker Awards are designed to show the very best films made by Welsh children and young people as part of
Will each film submitted be shown?
Not all films submitted will be shown during the Film Festival. We will choose films by screening them for a panel consisting of members of our Film Festival Team, including the Festival Director, Administrator, and our Film Programmer. A panel of children and young people from the Zoom Film Council, who help us plan the Film Festival, will also be involved in the selection process.
What are we looking for?
There are no strict rules about what your film should be like, what we’re looking for is originality and creativity. All we’re asking for is that the majority of your film’s crew, including the Director, and those who appear on screen are aged from 8-25. The best films will have an interesting story or subject matter, filmed and cut to the best possible standard within their time and budget constraints. So if you have a good story you want to tell everyone and think you could tell it in an original way, send it to us and you may well be seeing your work on the big screen.
CRITERIA FOR APPLICATION
1. Produced by children/ young people
By this we mean that the majority of the people involved in the production of the film must be aged 25 or under when the film was made. The director of the film must be aged 25 or under and have received no formal education in filmmaking above further education level. Any questions please call Zoom 01443 497166.
2. Fiction, Animation or Documentary
3. No longer than 10minutes
4. Made in
There will be 10 Awards, nine of these will be decided on by a panel of Industry professionals and members of the Zoom Film Council, the Zoom Audience Award will be voted for by the audience during the Festival.
Zoom Award
? Best Film age 8?13
? Best Film age 14?25
? Best Performance
? Best Direction
? Best Animation
? Bets Documentary
? Best Fiction
? Best Welsh Language
? Zoom Audience Award
HOW TO ENTER
Return the form which is here with a DVD copy of the film to the following address by this Friday 5 December:
Zoom Young Filmmaker 2009, Office 5, Porth
Tel: 01443 497166 Email: rebecca@zoomcymru.com
NB If your film is screened as part of Zoom ? Wales’ International Young People’s Film Festival 2009, you must have gained permission for any copyrighted material, including music and soundtrack. You may be asked to prove that permission has been gained by the Zoom team.
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