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FILMONIK KABARET AT SALFORD FILM FESTIVAL Thursday 12th – Sunday 15th November To energise the local filmmaking community and to kick off this year’s Salford Film Festival in grand style, Filmonik will be presenting a 4-day pre-festival filmmaking extravaganza out and about on the streets of Salford. Not so much an “Open Mic”, as an “Open Screen”, Filmonik offers a censure-free public platform to all filmmakers, be they Industry Professionals, self-styled Media Guerrillas, or relative novices still finding their creative voice. The Kabaret is Filmonik’s boot camp. Filmmakers and creatives from around the world will be descending on Salford with cameras, equipment and bright ideas to create new work that must be completed and screened during the Kabaret week. If you’ve always dreamed of making “that little movie”, if only you had the time / talent / equipment, now is your chance to watch that dream crash and burn, and see something else come stumbling from the ashes. We’ll provide the workspace and screening venue. All you need to do is write, shoot, edit, and screen your film. In only FOUR DAYS! You’ll never have another opportunity like it. Flat out, peddle-to-the-metal 24/7 filmmaking, where fortune favours the brave, the quick-witted and the fast-working, where only the strong survive and the crazy obsessives flourish. This is the chance to get really involved, to eat, drink, and breathe cinema. The only thing you won’t get to do is sleep. There’ll be access to equipment and talent, a little basic training for novices, opportunities galore for creative collaboration. We’ll even have a few spare script ideas available for people who don’t like to set off without a road map. All we require is your commitment… Please note, participation in the Kabaret will cost £10. This will cover access to film lab, equipment, tech support, screening, and basic food provisions. Follow us and join the fun on facebook! THE FILMONIK KICK-START KABARET IS NOW OVER... Those of you who were a part of it will probably never be quite the same again. Those of you who weren’t - where the hell were you? You missed quite a party. Several, in fact. The Kabaret attracted filmmakers, actors, and musicians, from Canada, the USA, Australia, France, Belgium, and Germany, as well as from all around the UK; all of whom wanted to subject themselves to insane deadlines in a confined workspace. All of whom believe that nothing is a greater spur to creativity than this kind of stress. There were technical difficulties, tantrums, sleepless nights, and lots of jokes in dubious taste. Oh, and there was a lot of funny business involving hats, which made perfect sense to us all at the time. And over the space of nine days, this strange hot-house atmosphere spawned nearly forty short films, forged numerous new creative partnerships and collaborations, inspired several people to make their very first films, and several more to experiment in new genres and styles. Nobody who took part is ever going to forget it. All in all, we count it a success. And none of us can wait to repeat the experiment. Watch this space! THE FILMONIK 2.0 KICK-START KABARET March 14th – March 22nd 2009 Filmmakers of the world! You are cordially invited to join us for a nine-day white knuckle ride of cinematic creation on the streets of Manchester and Salford! To energise the region’s filmmakers, to draw out eccentric new talent, to generally slap everyone back into shape, we’re having a Kabaret. Those of you who lived through the earlier ones will have some idea what to expect, those of you new to this are in for a wake-up call. This is cinematic bootcamp. Over a week of flat out, peddle-to-the-metal 24/7 filmmaking, where fortune favours the brave, the quick-witted and the fast-working, where only the strong survive and the crazy obsessives flourish. If you’ve always dreamed of making “that little movie”, if only you had the time / talent / equipment, now is your chance to watch that dream crash and burn, and see something else come stumbling from the ashes. This is the ultimate expression of Filmonik’s Kino00 “do it now” philosophy: we’ll provide the workspace and three separate screening venues. All you need to do is write your film, shoot your film, edit your film, and screen your film. In a week - or less. You’ll never have another opportunity like it. This is the chance to get really involved, to eat, drink, and breathe cinema. The only thing you won’t get to do is sleep. There’ll be access to equipment and talent, training for novices, opportunities galore for creative collaboration. We’ll even have a few spare script ideas available for people who don’t like to set off without a road map. We’ll be operating all week from our top secret headquarters in the Northern Quarter - a location revealed only to committed Kabaret Filmmakers! |
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