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Sponsorship and Prizes

Posted in nahemi @ bfi 2011 by claire, June 15th, 2011

Nahemi is delighted and very grateful for sponsorship for this year’s Talking Shop and Eat our Shorts from Progress South Central and Skillset.

The audience prizes for Eat our Shorts have been generously donated by Avid.

Nahemi @ BFI Southbank, 2011 Conference and Student Showcase NFT 3, July 4 & 5.

Posted in Nahemi News by jim, June 12th, 2011

• Mornings – Talking Shop: The second Nahemi conference about the teaching of practice in higher education with topics on the relationship between the creative practice and the teaching of screenwriting; the impact of digital SLR cameras on creative practice and the awkwardnesses of film-making practice as research.
• Afternoons – Eat Our Shorts: The 9th Nahemi student film showcase with a selection of this year’s documentary, fiction and animation films from member schools and departments.  The programme will be introduced and discussed by the filmmakers.

University of Westminster

July 6

• 10.30, 309 Regent Street, WIB 2UW.  All members welcome.

Full programme details available shortly.

Talking Shop and Eat our Shorts 4th and 5th July

Posted in Nahemi Events, Nahemi News by claire, March 20th, 2011

Dear NAHEMI friends,

Building on last year’s success, this year’s conference and showcase will be held at the BFI Southbank centre with the Talking Shop conference in the mornings and Eat Our Shorts, the students’ showcase films, in the afternoons.

Please note the dates are Monday and Tuesday 4^th and 5^th July in NFT3.  The AGM will be held at the University of Westminster Regent Street building on Wednesday 6^th July.

Talking Shop

The conference provides a unique opportunity for members to report on and debate current initiatives in the teaching of practice.  As you may remember, last year’s themes were on Teaching Creativity, New Approaches to Documentary, Assessments and Questions of Employability.  We are open to topics that come from you and might for instance include – the best kept secrets of teaching, exercises that didn’t work, the creative possibilities of belt tightening and teaching film in a global culture.  From your topics we will fashion congruent themes for four different panels at the conference.

The deadline for proposals (titles and abstracts of 200 words) is the 8^th April.

Eat Our Shorts

Eat Our Shorts presents a non-competitive showcase of your students’ recent films selected by you.   We invite you to encourage (coerce?) your filmmakers to come to the showcase which will include the Kodak Audience Award.

The deadline for registrations (but not the programme details) is the 8^th April.

The cost of participation in either or both events is £150.  Please note, we will send annual invoices (£150 membership + £150 conference and showcase registration) immediately after the 8^th April.

Please check the small print in the attached guidelines and programme outline.

With best wishes and looking forward to seeing you all in July

Claire

Claire Barwell

Chair of Nahemi

Nik Powell to present NAHEMI awards

Posted in Nahemi News by alistair, November 17th, 2010

Nik Powell, Producer and Director of the National Film & Television School will be presenting the NAHEMI / KODAK awards

at this year’s Encounters Film Festival in Bristol on Thursday 18th November.

The two awards to be given are  the NAHEMI / KODAK  Creative Filmmaking Award and the Kodak / NAHEMI

Cinematography Award. The winners will be announced on Thursday.

NAHEMI @ Encounters International Film Festival 2010

Posted in Uncategorized by alistair, October 24th, 2010

NAHEMI @ ENCOUNTERS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010

THURSDAY 18th NOVEMBER, 18.00

CINEMA 1, WATERSHED, BRISTOL

NAHEMI is proud to present a selection of the best work from some of the top film schools and media production courses from around the UK, as part of the ENCOUNTERS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, which runs from Tuesday 16th to Sunday 21st November in Bristol.

This year’s programme is one of the strongest for several years and provides a unique opportunity to see the best of student short film making from around the UK and Ireland all in one programme.

ALL FRIED UP ( dir. Tom Marshall , UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER)

A chance encounter with an eccentric stranger during a breakfast at a roadside café leaves Martin with a bad taste in his mouth.

WHEN HUMANS RULED THE EARTH (dir. Stephen Ong, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, NORWICH)

An animated insight into the human machine and it’s obsession with consumption. Take an intriguing journey through this mechanical monster, observing it’s ruthless attitude towards our planet’s resources.

LUCY (dir. Daniel Thomas, GOLDSMITHS)

Life on a Hull Council Estate through the eyes of a young girl.

COTTON STONES (dir. Jonathan Entwistle, LONDON FILM SCHOOL)

A brother’s betrayal and the nightmare of growing up too fast, in a place where there is nothing to live for.

BETTY’S (dir. Becky Bush, UCA FARNHAM)

Come inside Betty’s hairdressers and watch as wigs and hairdryers come to life and talk about their ailments.

GE RI DE HAI RI-YA (dir. Qin Si, UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE)

Hai ri-ya is the seven year old daughter of nomadic herders who live on the Mongolian grasslands.  She tends the sheep and has learnt all she knows from her family but the day is coming when she must go to school.

12 SKETCHES ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF BEING STILL (dir. Magali Charrier, ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART)

12 Sketches on the Impossibility of Being Still is a collection of experiments in animation and editing exploring the spaces where nothing happens: the liminal zone that exists between you and me, between here and there, sound and silence, movement and stillness.

THE BOY WHO WANTED TO BE A LION (dir. Alois Di Leo, NATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION SCHOOL)

Jake is a 7-year old deaf boy growing up in the 1960s.  One day he goes on a school trip to the zoo where he sees a lion for the first time.  A feeling begins to grow inside him that will change his life forever.

ONE NIGHT STAND (dir. Jack Tew and Dave Humphreys, UNIVERSITY OF STAFFORDSHIRE)

The morning after the guy she wishes didn’t happen…

SMALL CHANGE (dir. Cathy Brady, NATIONAL FILM SCHOOL, IADT / DUN LAOGHAIRE, DUBLIN)

Karen (Nora-Jane Noone), a young single mother is bored by routine. Slot machines have become her secret thrill and addiction. With Christmas looming, a desperate hope for a big win sees her life spiral out of control.

YOU WILL NEED TO BOOK EARLY AS THIS EVENT ALWAYS SELLS OUT QUICKLY !!

See  http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/ for details

Film Producer and Director of the NFTS Nik Powell to present the Eat Our Shorts Awards 2010

Posted in Nahemi Events by Yossi Balanescu, June 7th, 2010

Nik Powell will present the EOS 8.5 Awards on 24-6-2010 at 16.30 at the BFI Southbank in the NFT 3 Auditorium

In the early 1970’s Nik Powell set up Virgin Records with Richard Branson and in the space of ten years the pair turned a small mail-order record operation into a multi-million pound conglomerate.

In 1982 Powell went into partnership with Stephen Woolley, having sold out from Virgin in the previous year. Together they formed Palace Video, followed by Palace Pictures, and then Palace Productions, soon establishing each as highly regarded entities within the film distribution and production industry. Powell has acted as Executive Producer on all of Palace’s productions including Neil Jordan’s COMPANY OF WOLVES, OSCAR NOMINATED MONA LISA, Michael Caton-Jones’ SCANDAL, and Neil Jordan’s multi Oscar nominated THE CRYING GAME.

Nik and Stephen Woolley’s new company Scala produced Iain Softley’s BACKBEAT, Terence Davies’ THE NEON BIBLE, Shane Meadows’ TWENTYFOUR: SEVEN, Mark Herman’s Oscar and Golden Globe nominated LITTLE VOICE, Fred Schepisis’ LAST ORDERS starring Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay, Helen Mirren, David Hemmings and Ray Winstone, Charles Dance’s LADIES IN LAVENDER, starring Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, Miriam Margolis and Daniel Bruer and Nik also executive produced CALENDAR GIRLS.

Nik was appointed Director of the National Film and Television School in 2005, although he remains as non-executive chairman of Scala Productions.

He is also:

• Vice Chairman of the board of the European Film Academy and previously for 9 years the Chairman of EFA and host of the European Film Awards
• Vice Chairman of the Bafta Film committee and member of the Bafta Board of Trustees
• Vice Chairman of the GEECT Board
• Member of the US academy: AMPAS (Association of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• Director of the board of the Northern Ireland Film and TV Commission and Chairman of its Film Investment Fund Committee 2003 to 2007
• Member of the council of PACT (Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television)
• Member of British Screen Advisory Council (overall umbrella body for UK media, set up by prime minister Harold Wilson, president is Lord Attenborough)
• Member of European Producers Club
• Member of the Academy of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards
• Vice President of the National Society for Epilepsy
• Chevalier dans l’ordre des arts et lettres

Nik Powell Producer and Director of National Film and Television School

NAHEMI Talking Shop Conference @ EOS 8.5

Posted in Nahemi Events by Yossi Balanescu, June 3rd, 2010

EOS 8.5 announces the addition of an exciting new teachers’ conference entitled Talking Shop and dedicated to ‘the secrets’ of teaching media practice.

Talking Shop runs at BFI Southbank on Wednesday 23d and Thursday 24th of June 2010 in the NFT 3 Auditorium between 10.00 and 13.00 on the mornings of both days. Admission is by delegate registration only.

Please e-mail: yossi.bal@nahemi.org and jim.hornsby@beds.ac.uk if you would like to attend.

Talking Shop 2010 includes four strands:

• Teaching Creativity
• Teaching Documentary
• Assessing creative practice
• Questions of Employability

Announcing Eat Our Shorts 2010, EOS 8.5

Posted in Nahemi Events by Yossi Balanescu, May 20th, 2010

The eighth NAHEMI Eat Our Shorts Film Festival runs at BFI Southbank on Wednesday 23d and Thursday 24th of June 2010. Screenings can be viewed in the NFT 3 Auditorium between 13.30 and 17.00 on both days.

Attendance is free to the general public if seats are available, (festival delegates have priority), but you have to register with the student filmmaker volunteers at the door.

EOS 2010 has been dubbed EOS 8.5 as homage to the memory of director Federico Fellini’s breakthrough film ‘8.5’

This year’s festival selection features a terrific array of student films from undergraduate and postgraduate filmmaking courses including innovative use of digital cinema, experimental video and television as well as breathtaking animation.

This year, NAHEMI member schools have been asked to preselect shorter programmes than has been customary at the previous seven festivals, placing an emphasis on quality rather than quantity and focusing on student film content and creativity.