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The Birdies Film Festival 2012

The Birdies Film Festival, founded in 2011 by students and graduates of Kingston University aims to give young people the opportunity to showcase their films, whilst providing a unique opportunity to network with Film Professionals. Operating under the umbrella of Creative Youth and with the support and guidance from The Birds Eye Film Festival and Hollywood producer Kevin Loader, The Birdies team put together a hugely successful first Festival during the International Youth Arts Festival in July 2011. The Festival showcased some outstanding films made by young people from all over UK – and internationally too! The event was received incredibly well by all those who attended and participated.

The summer of 2012 will be bringing the second Birdies Film Festival to you all.  We will be looking for young aspiring film makers worldwide to enter their short films as part of the contest.  The best entries will be screened at our gala event at the Odeon, in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey on the 12th July during IYAF.

This will be a great opportunity for you as film makers to get your films showcased at one of UK’s largest cinema chains, whilst having the opportunity to mingle with like-minded film makers and industry professionals.

This year our film themes have been broken down into two sections. We will be looking for films that fall in the following categories:

 

  • General: Films of any theme
  • Silent Cinema

 

Every film must be under 15 minutes long, be copied onto DVD minus R, and the content of the film must be suitable for audiences of 12 and over i.e. no bad language, nudity, offensive content etc. Also, as this is a festival that celebrates youth art, all entrants must be no older than 26 years old. The deadline for film entries is 1/07/2012.

Application forms are available HERE 

Terms and Conditions are available HERE

Visit the Birdies Blog HERE

Check out the video from last year’s screening!