Digital Technology Gives Filmmaking Fans a New Voice

Digital Technology Gives Filmmaking Fans a New Voice LONDON, January 19/PRNewswire/ -- - National Event in London Offers Access to New Film Skills Development Aspiring filmmakers who want to tell stories not told by mainstream cinema and who are keen to get their hands on new technologies will have the chance to work with experts and award-winning filmmakers at a one day workshop this month. The workshop, entitled Exploiting the Future: Digital Opportunities for Diversity and Difference, will take place on Thursday 27 January at the Congress Centre, Great Russell Street, London and will help turn potentially powerful stories from aspiring disabled, black, Asian, gay, and woman filmmakers into films for a variety of different destinations. Fans of guerrilla filmmaking and the latest leaps in digital technologies will be offered a comprehensive schedule of presentations, workshops and one-to-one sessions, and can explore how to get their films screened on mobile phones, the internet, web and satellite TV stations. Filmmaker Bille Eltringham (The Darkest Light, This is not a Love Song) will be among those discussing the merits of making films and communicating their own stories outside of the mainstream. Filmmaker, BBC and Channel 4 Journalist David Dunkley Gyimah hosts the event. From making "mini-movies" to looking at the essential tools, methods and approaches that make a film project saleable, marketable and successful, 'Exploiting the Future' will enable participants to get the inside track on how to get original ideas seen on screen! Jonathan Caouette's film Tarnation, which won him last year's Sutherland Trophy at the 48th Times bfi London Film Festival, and was screened at Cannes and Sundance is being previewed by its UK distributor, Optimum Releasing. The film was edited entirely using his Apple computer - and Apple are offering software master classes on the day for participants to get their own skills up to speed. Bille Eltringham will be discussing her extraordinary journey making This is not a Love Song, shot and edited on low cost digital technology and streamed on the internet. The day has been organised by the UK Film Council and is endorsed by The Guardian, supported by leading mobile content agency Filter UK, the New York Digital Film Festival RESfest and The Community Channel. Source: UK Film Council For further information contact: Ian Thomson/Caroline Nagle, UK Film Council Press Office, T: +44-(0)20-7861-7861, E: press@ukfilmcouncil.org.uk ------- Profile: International Entertainment