IdeasTap launches Ideas Fund Shorts
IdeasTap has launched Ideas Fund Shorts, £40,000-worth of hassle-free funding to help young people realise short film projects. Recognising the wealth of talented young filmmakers in the UK, IdeasTap is offering eight awards of £5,000 each for the most original, engaging ideas. Entries must be for films no longer than five minutes and can include documentaries, conceptual pieces, trailers for features, music videos, fashion films and animated shorts.
Aiming to make the funding process easier for young people, the Ideas Fund is dedicated to providing opportunities for up-and-coming talent.
*Deadline for applications: 29 March 2010
Ideas Fund Shorts is part of IdeasTap's annual £150,000 Ideas Fund that first launched in June 2009. The awards are open to 16-25-year-old UK filmmakers.
About IdeasTap
IdeasTap is a creative network and funding body for emerging arts talent. A not-for-profit organisation, IdeasTap brings creative people together and offers cash funding, exclusive opportunities and a platform to showcase new work.
To apply, visit www.ideastap.com
Yorkshire Film Archivenow online!
The fully interactive website features rare footage of Queen Victoria visiting Sheffield in 1897, the pioneering filmmakers of Bamforth and Company, our region's industrial powers of steel, textiles, farming and fishing, a royal visit from Charles and Diana to Leeds in 1982, home movies to the Yorkshire coast, wartime footage, the opening of the North York Moors Railway in 1973 (pictured) and more recent films including the Castleford Tigers Wembley dream from 1999.
YFA online is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, with the continued support of Yorkshire Forward and Screen Yorkshire, who have been central in developing and highlighting innovative ways of using archive footage for audiences across the region.
