THE SKINNY / INNIS & GUNN SHORT FILM COMPETITION PRESS RELEASE: WEDNESDAY 5 MARCH 2014 As we announced in our February issue, The Skinny have teamed up with Innis & Gunn to launch a competi-tion to find the best micro-budget short film (a short film produced for less than £1000) made in Scotland in the last year and give its filmmakers a modest budget to help take their creative vision to the next level. From today we’re inviting filmmakers to submit a short film to be judged by our panel, who’ll include repre-sentatives from The Skinny, Innis & Gunn, The Glasgow Short Film Festival and DigiCult. The closing date for submissions is 30 June. The winning filmmaker(s) will receive a prize of £3,000 from our partners Innis & Gunn to spend on making a second short film that will receive its world premiere at Glasgow Short Film Festival 2015. Matt Lloyd, the director of Glasgow Short Film Festival, had this to say about the competition: “GSFF is stoked to be supporting this initiative to nurture new Scottish filmmakers. At a time of limited public funds for short filmmaking, we’re astounded that more and more great voices are emerging. Talent will out, but it needs a little help along the way, and we applaud The Skinny and Innis & Gunn for rolling up their sleeves and lending a hand.” “This new competition is great news for independent filmmakers in Scotland and further afield,” added Paul Welsh, award-winning producer and founder of DigiCult, and one of the competition’s judges. “It’s going to put a spotlight on talent and push more than one team forward in 2015. We need more grass root incen-tives like this to make great films, rather than simply watch them.” Innis & Gunn, The Skinny’s partners in this venture, are similarly thrilled to be launching this competi-tion with the magazine: “As a Scottish brewing ‘indie’, Innis & Gunn are excited to be on board with this new competition to find some fresh new Scottish film-making talent,” said Lucy Hine, Marketing Manager at Innis & Gunn. “We’re looking forward to sitting down with the judging panel to check out the results!” If you’re a talented filmmaker, or group of filmmakers, with a short film you’d like to enter into our compe-tition (the film should have been in production at some point between May 2013 and June 2014, and should not be available to freely screen online), go to theskinny.co.uk/film/short_film_competition to find out more information about how to submit your film. Winners will be announced in August, giving them five months to write, direct and edit their film for its premiere at Glasgow Short Film Festival. NOTES TO EDITORS: • Founded in 2005 and recently celebrating its 100th issue, The Skinny is an award-winning Scottish culture and listing magazine with a circulation of 35,000 per month, distributed across Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee. In 2013, The Skinny expanded to the Northwest of England, where a second editorial and sales team create a sister edition of The Skinny, currently with a circulation of 28,000, which is distributed in Liv-erpool, Manchester and Preston. • Innis & Gunn was discovered by accident: it started life as a by-product of the whisky industry, a distinct beer used to season whisky barrels. Transformed by its time in oak, the beer assumed characteristics that were completely unknown in any other beer styles. Now Scotland’s leading independent beer company, Inn-is & Gunn has built a loyal band of followers across the globe. Beyond the UK, Innis & Gunn is the best-sell-ing British bottled beer in Canada and number one bottled import ale brand in Sweden. • Glasgow Short Film Festival started in 2008 and has evolved to be Scotland’s leading short film festival. This year sixty-three films competed for the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film and the Scottish Short Film Award, while the rest of the programme explored the slippery relationship between music and film with a major new classical composition, a sonic art installation in an underground car park, and an au-dio/visual spectacular complete with DJs. There was also a focus on Miami’s anarchic filmmaking collective The Borscht Corporation and a major discussion on the potential impacts of independence on the Scottish film industry. CONTACT: Jamie Dunn Film Editor 0161 831 9590 [email protected] 07756 854744
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