Annual General Meeting Friday July 16th at 11am
The NAHEMI AGM, for 2021, will take place on Friday, July 16th at 11.00 am online, followed by a presentation by Melanie Hoyes BFI Industry Inclusion Executive.
Details and Zoom link to follow.
Nahemi News
Talking Shop Call for Papers (Extended Deadline)
Talking Shop is NAHEMI’s annual conference where its members can reflect, share, and debate issues of the day associated with the moving image in Higher Education.
Talking Shop 2021: ‘Looking Forward’
Keynote Speaker: Melanie Hoyes
Industry Inclusion Executive BFI
July 16th 2.00pm
‘However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light’.
Stanley Kubrick
This one-day, online, conference will investigate how we move forward in a post-pandemic world. The past year has impacted our role as film educators in a significant way and it is time to focus on the positive aspects of our experience. Lockdown was an unprecedented situation, during which we have reinvented methods of communication, redesigned our teaching strategies, and found new ways of providing guidance and support. In response, students have discovered creative ways of telling screen stories and engaging with the curriculum through the innovative use of technologies. Furthermore, during the time of restricted movement people have found a voice of protest, Black Lives Matter, Everyone is Welcome and Climate Change have all been visible in raising questions about who we are and the nature of our future. Going forward, how will these events change our curriculum, the teaching materials we use, the way we communicate, and the films our students produce? NAHEMI Talking Shop invites papers, reflections, presentations, or Pecha Kutcha, no longer than 15minutes, on or around the following topics:
What have we learned from the pandemic?
What new practices have emerged?
What new forms of work through the use of technology are there?
Have we found new audiences and new formats?
What creative solutions have we found?
How can we decolonise the curriculum?
Have new communities been formed?
Have online forms of communication been more inclusive, if so how?
Is blended learning here to stay?
Has climate change been upstaged by recent events?
What are the strategies for supporting students, challenged by a post COVID world?
Dates for submitting proposals: Tuesday 6th July 5.30 (extended deadline), please send no more than 150 words, to Chair@nahemi.org
Please Note – NAHEMI, AGM will take place on 15th July, details to follow.
Kodak/Nahemi Student Commercial Awards
Kodak/Nahemi Student Commercial Awards on YouTube Premiere
Friday 4th June from 18.30 to 19.30
Talking Shop 2021
Talking Shop is NAHEMI’s annual conference, an opportunity for members to share their experiences and good practice as film educators. This year TS2021 is called ‘Looking Forward’ and invites papers on how we move forward in a post-pandemic world. Calls will be sent out this week, we are looking for 15-minute thought-provoking presentations. Deadline for proposals: July 1st – TS will be held on 16th July online. We look forward to receiving your ideas – watch your inbox!
NAHEMI Canon UK Eat Our Shorts Winners
We are pleased to announce the winners of the NAHEMI Canon UK Eat Our Shorts Film Festival 2021. Well done to all involved.
Screening One
Winner
Title of Film: Christian’s Voice
Filmmaker: Phoebe Sharp
University: Cardiff University
Runner Up
Title of Film: Please Don’t Touch
Crew
Directed by & Editor & Sound Design Gabby King
Director of Photography- Marcia Rumsey
Music- Kyle Gabbidon
Choreography by and starring – Megan Landi
Sound Recordist- Rishabh Yadav
University: Coventry University
Screening Two
Winner
Title of Film: 48 Cuckoo Lane
Crew
Producer James Sinton
Director Luke Ainger
Screenwriter James Sinton
DoP Louisa Karayiannis
Production designer Rebecca Sprague
Editor Carolina de Andres
Sound recordist Jack Marshall
Sound Editor Oscar Brierley
Gaffer Vojta Stanek
University: University of Westminster
Runner Up
Title of Film: Bad Flowers
Crew
Directed by Macy Byfield
Music by Chloe Howard and Annabel Whittle
University: Manchester School of Art
Screening Three
Winner
Title of Film: Eden
Crew
Director: Charlie Bush
Producer: Patrick Whinder-Montague
DOP: Barney Janes
Editor: Sam Schottner
Sound Designer: Maryam Bahaari
Sound Assistant: Guy Newland
University: University of West of England
Runner Up
Title of Film: War at my Front Door
Filmmaker: Sophie Zermatten
University: Cardiff University
Canon UK ‘Emerging Talent’ Award
Winner
Title of Film: Ballast
Crew
Jesee Gilbert- Director/Producer
Kalyani Pathak-Producer
DOP-Yash Suda
Editor- Sarah Stock
Editor- Chris Lipscombe
University: Northern Film School
GEECT Spring 2021 Online Conference – Remembrance of Things to Come
GEECT Spring 2021 Online Conference, June 21st & 22nd 2021.
A two day conference exploring the making and the meaning of film school archives.
Please register for the conference online. You will be sent a link that will allow you to complete your registration and pay the conference fee , which is £50 for GEECT and CILECT members.
Please, note that there are FEE WAIVERS available for non-GEECT members. Each Full Member school may receive only one fee waiver for each conference, on a “first come-first serve” basis. Please tick the fee waiver box on the order form to request this (subject to approval by the Executive Director of CILECT).
The fee for non-members is £100.
If you do not receive a booking and payment link within 48 hours please contact Peter Hort hortp@westminster.ac.uk
NAHEMI CANON Eat Our Shorts Film Festival 2021
The NAHEMI CANON Eat Our Shorts Film Festival 2021 will take place this weekend! Below is the line-up of events:
Click for the full Eat Our Shorts Programme
Screening 1-Friday 21st May-6pm-7:15pm
Screening 2-Saturday 22nd May- 11:30am-12:45pm
Screening 3-Saturday 22nd May- 3pm-4:30pm
You can find the full programme here.
Look out for Vimeo links to provide you with access to the screenings, half an hour before each screening is due to start.
Straight after screening one and two, we will conduct a 20-minute zoom meeting so you can vote for your favourite films. You can vote for your favourite film of screening three during the online awards ceremony.
We will run the live online awards ceremony and Q & A zoom meeting on Saturday 22nd May 4:30pm-6:00pm.
See you there!
NAHEMI’s Diversity and Inclusion Booth
Check out NAHEMI’s Diversity and Inclusion Booth Made by NAHEMI Members and Partners
Francesca Zerenghi at Westminster has set up a Diversity and Inclusion Booth – we would like to invite all our members to contribute to it – creating an active digital tool that can be used to enhance our teaching, decolonise the film curriculum and encourages a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion.The aim is for members across the UK to use this link to share best practice/pool resources.
Check it out below or here for the full version.
TeaAt3WithMamFromage
Freya Billington continues her series of NAHEMI supported talks this Friday 15th January and Wednesday 20th January. Both at 3pm
Grab a cuppa and please let your students know.
Zoom Meeting ID: 795 261 3779 Password: TEAAT3
Her guests are:
PHILIP ILSON – Artistic Director of the London Short Film Festivalliterally as it kicks off this year
Philip Ilson is the ‘GO-TO’ guy when it comes to distribution/ exhibition of SHORT FILMs in the UK. He is the LFF’s Senior Short Film Advisor. He is also the Artistic Director of the London Short Film Festival, which he co-founded in 2004, and has previously worked as a programmer at the East End, Cork and Branchage Film Festivals as well as Curzon Soho Cinema.
Note at this year’s LSFF21 All industry talks are free, all tickets under a fiver and we’ve cost-effective passes too. Full programme – bit.ly/LSFF21
3:00pm WEDNESDAY 20TH JANUARY
WRITER/DIRECTOR CAROL MORLEY
Carol Morley is an inspirational film-maker whose work includes BAFTA nominated The Alcohol Years, Dreams of a Life, The Falling and most recently her first US-based film Out of Blue. Together with Producer Cairo Cannon, she runs CAMP Films which has made award winning shorts, documentaries and features that have played in cinemas, on TV, in galleries and at festivals world wide.
Extraordinary Times Winners and Runners Up (with links).
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 NAHEMI Extraordinary Times / Canon Awards:
BEST OVERALL FILM, Winner: ‘Coronavirus Poem’ (dir .Lucy Gatenby, prod Rebecca Hardess) / Falmouth University
BEST OVERALL FILM, Runner Up: ‘Mask’ (dir. Joana Caiano) / Arts University Bournemouth
BEST CREATIVE IDEA, Winner: ‘Banding Apart’ (dir. Edward Scott) / University of Roehampton
BEST CREATIVE IDEA, Runner Up: ‘The Bread’ (dir.Sophie Lee) / Arts University Bournemouth
BEST VISUALS, Winner: ‘Raft’ (dir. Jake Thompson) / University of South Wales
BEST VISUALS, Runner Up: ‘For Me’ (dir. Ioulietta Thymi) / University of Greenwich
BEST SOUND DESIGN, Winner: ‘Elsewhere’ (dir. Shiyun Gu) / London Film School
BEST SOUND DESIGN, Runner Up: ‘Home Escape’ (dir. Jing Zhao) / London Film School
BEST EDITING, Winner: ‘Watch’ (dir. Tom Ford) / University of South Wales
BEST EDITING, Runner Up: ‘What We Had Time For’ (dir. Michelle Siu) / Anglia Ruskin University
You can watch the October 29th screening here. The password is ExtraordinaryTimes
And the Q&A here. Again, the password is ExtraordinaryTimes.
With huge thanks to Alya Soliman, the Competition Co-ordinator.
Congratulations to all entrants and winners!