Northern Futures 10

Overview

Northern Futures Film Award seeks to uncover emerging filmmaking talent from the North of England who are driving the genre of film and animation forward through inspirational and innovative works. Whether you have just left film school or have been making films for years, Northern Futures seeks to award and promote your work. Accepting films in all genres: drama, documentary, music video, satire, comedy and artists' film.

Three finalists will be chosen from all the entries in this category. The finalists will have their work screened within Northern Futures.

Criteria

We cannot accept postal entries. Only films submitted via our online entry system will be accepted. There are 2 main ways to submit your film, one is to export and compress your film for upload via our website or for filmakers to upload their video to YouTube or another recognised online video sharing service and provide us with a link to their work. If the film or animation is hosted on their own website, entrants are welcome to submit this URL instead.

Northern Futures Film category is open to films of all production techniques, including animation, documentary, drama, experimental or artist film but excepting advertising.

Films or Animations must be made in the North of England or by a Northern Director or Producer. The purpose of Northern Futures Film is to showcase new Northern filmmakers, so we regret we cannot accept submissions from wider UK applicants.

• All entries must have been completed in the last 2 years.
• How long? Films and animations can be from 90 seconds to 120 minutes.
• The primary contact completing the submission process must be authorised to submit the film(s) and must have obtained necessary permissions for the inclusion of copyright music and/or images within the films.
• When exporting films for submission, please make sure the compressed film is good enough quality for us to judge. As a rough guideline, it should not be smaller than 320x240 pixels, and not less than 15fps. If your film(s) is /are shortlisted, you will be asked to send in a higher resolution version for screening within Northern Futures.
• Plus full contact details including postal address, telephone number and email address.
• Your film must not be in breach of any copyright, including music or sound contained in your entry.

Rationale

As part of the entry process, entrants will be asked to submit a rationale (description) for their project. This should be prepared in advance and pasted in to the appropriate box during the submission process. The rationale should include details of any original brief or commission, processes used, any tools or techniques employed and any appropriate explanation of the work. This rationale is important as it will allow the judging panel to understand fully the aims and purpose of the work. It should also include details of previous screenings of the work. Applicants are encouraged to present this information clearly and concisely in no more than 250 words.

Submission

We accept the following submission methods formats (in no particular order): Maximum file size to be uploaded 10mb

•     Any QuickTime format (e.g. Sorenson, Motion JPEG, etc)H.264
•     MPEG-1,2 and 4
•     AVI (must be compressed)
•     WMV (Windows Media)
•     Real Player format

REMINDER: When exporting, please make sure your compressed version is good enough quality for us to judge it. As a rough guideline it should not be smaller than 320x240 pixels, and not less than 15fps.