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WANTED: SHORT FILMS
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Scottish Internet Television
The brainchild of Sharon McAllister, a media graduate and former Apprentice in the BBC programme of the same name, Sit1.tv is an online television station that focuses on Scotland.
The target market is 18 to 40-year-olds with an interest in Scotland both at home and abroad.
The station is now looking for shorts from Scottish filmmakers about Scotland or with a very strong Scottish focus. This will be an ongoing opportunity that Sit1.tv would like to establish to support and promote Scottish talent in the creative industries.
The station would ask anyone interested in submitting a short film, drama or documentary, to email Sharon.
REGIONAL SCREEN SCOTLAND DIRECTOR
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HI-Arts and Scottish Screen have established a new cultural cinema agency, Regional Screen Scotland. The new company will increase access to, and appreciation of, cinema and the moving image in rural and remote areas of Scotland. It will also take over the running of the acclaimed mobile cinema operation, the Screen Machine.
The Director of Regional Screen Scotland will be a key strategic and operational post, working closely with the other 'Hubs' identified in Scottish Screen's Exhibition strategy to build a dynamic and effective new organisation with a national role, and devising innovative ways of providing access to a quality cinema experience. The post will be based initially in Inverness (with appropriate financial assistance) and thereafter at a Central Belt location.
Salary: £30,000-35,000
Closing Date: 5pm Friday 8 August 2008
It is intended that interviews will be held in the week of 18 August 2008.
An information pack and application form can be downloaded from the website.
CAST & CREW
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Lochaber based production company Mont Films is looking for people interested in producing Scottish product on a film sales percent paid only basis. You do not have to be skilled or even in the film business. Experience and training are provided through Mont Films productions. The aim is to build a skilled local Highland & Argyll cast and crew.
For more information, please contact Robert McClymont, producer.
EXTRAS WANTED
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Real People Casting are recruiting people of all ages for work on film/TV and photographic work in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Scotland.
Real People
PO Box 2288
Glasgow
G33 9AR
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FREE SCRIPT REPORTS
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HI-Arts has announced a new and important extension to its highly successful critical reading project for writers - Work in Progress.
Under the new scheme, writers of screenplays for TV or film living in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland can submit their work for assessment and will receive back a detailed report with professional advice on areas for possible improvement and development. It can also provide advice on promoting completed scripts for potential production.
Work in Progress is free to use and is open to writers over the age of 16 years, but not to those in full-time education or completing a post-graduate course in creative writing. Writers submitting work and the assessors to the project remain anonymous to each other.
FREE CAREERS ADVICE
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Skillset Careers in Scotland - FREE face-to-face guidance
Do you feel 'stuck' in your career? Want to diversify but are not sure where to start? Do you want to brush up on a skill or get some new ones but don't know where to go? Are there barriers to you getting work? Or have you had a break from the profession?
Well, if this sounds familiar, then you are not alone. These are common scenarios for professionals working within creative media.
Skillset Careers is currently able to offer a limited number of face-to-face careers guidance sessions completely FREE OF CHARGE to those working in creative media within the screen industries, or who have had experience of working in the creative sectors.
Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the creative media industries, provides specialist, one-to-one careers guidance sessions to individuals in the creative industries.
Skillset's advisors are highly experienced industry practitioners who have been trained and given the resources to provide individuals in Scotland with an opportunity to discuss their career development in detail. Our careers sessions enable individuals to put in place a tailored action plan to take away and use. The service is also available in England, Wales and in Northern Ireland.
Your session will last between an hour and hour and a half and take place in a central location in Glasgow or Edinburgh. And the best part? For a limited number, this service is available completely FREE OF CHARGE.
To book a session, please complete an application form, giving information about your career and needs to allow your allocated advisor to prepare for your guidance session. Once we receive your completed application form, we will contact you to schedule a suitable appointment. Please note that free sessions will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. All forms can be downloaded from Skillsets website.
Skillset also offers an email service and freephone helpline number for more general career-related enquiries, such as, where to find a course for a specific skill and marketing yourself. Email one of our Careers Advisors to ask anything you need to know and kick-start your career. You will receive an answer within 10 working days.
SHOOTING PEOPLE
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We are an on-line filmmakers network set up in '98 as a catalyst for change, growth and innovation in independent film. "We believe Shooting People can make a major contribution to building a strong independent film scene, one which can offer alternatives to mainstream cinema, not only in how films are made but how those films are then seen." Jess Search (Co-founder of Shooting People)
As a member you receive daily bulletins on film making, networking events, castings, screen writing, script pitches, animation, documentary, music video, and film music. You can also advertise your skills and/or business in your personal profile and on a Shooter's card. We are here for filmmakers, actors, writers, producers, crew, editors and everyone who loves independent film.
“Shooting People is a necessity for anyone who works, lives and breathes independent film" Morgan Spurlock (Dir: Supersize Me)
Shooting People allows you to find collaborators, share information, find funding, festival news, news on what is happening in your area and connection to over 30,000 other filmmakers in the UK and US. To find out more visit our website.
ACTOR MONTHLY SOCIAL
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Actor Meet-Ups Scotland is a monthly social gathering in Glasgow and Edinburgh for professional actors in Scotland.
The idea is to get actors living/working in Scotland to meet once a month to socialise, exchange ideas and information, and make new friends (and catch up with old ones).
A lot of actors spend a lot of time at home waiting for the phone to ring. This is a chance to meet your colleagues once a month for drinks and a chat.
To attend these monthly meet-ups you must be either a member of Equity or Spotlight.
If you are and want to come along now or in the future, please sign up to Actor Meet-Ups Scotland on the Facebook group or on MySpace at myspace.com/actormeetupsscotland, where details of each monthly meet-up will be posted well in advance of the date.
Alternatively, if you do not have access to either Facebook or MySpace, you can email Laura Pearson to be included in the mailout.
The monthly meet-ups will alternate between a Glasgow and Edinburgh pub/bar, and will be on the first Sunday of each month from 4-6pm.
