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NAHEMI Student Shorts Programme at Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol Each year, the National Association for Higher Education in the Moving Image, NAHEMI, selects a programme of short films submitted by film, television and animation courses across the UK and Ireland. These films are premiered as part of the Encounters International Short Film Festival in November. Two prestigious prizes are awarded at the screening - the NAHEMI/Kodak prize for Creative Filmmaking and the Kodak/NAHEMI Prize for Cinematography. Come and see a wonderful selection of this year's best student films. This year's selection panel: Nik Powell, National Film & Television School (Chair) Yossi Balanescu-Bal, London Metropolitan University Abigail Davies, University of the West of England Eileen Elsey, Encounters Short Film Festival Jim Hornsby, Bedfordshire University Ann Tobin, Leeds Metropolitan University For details of the Encounters programme see: www.encounters-festival.org.uk

EAT OUR SHORTS 2009 The 7th NAHEMI Film Makers of the Future Expo at The BFI SOUTHBANK, NFT 1 17th & 18th February 2009 Visit the EOS 2009 Website for more information Eat Our Shorts presents two days of the most dynamic, gritty, classy and quirky films made this year. The festival comprises films and videos made by students and recent graduates from some of the leading film schools and media departments in the UK and Ireland. Each year, Eat Our Shorts celebrates new talent by bringing together student filmmakers from all over the UK and Ireland to see each other's work and share creative experiences. As a long-standing EOS tradition, all filmmakers will discuss their films with the audience immediately after the screenings. Chaired by leading film, television and animation practitioners, these debates provide a unique opportunity for current students to learn from the experiences of other young film makers, recent film school graduates and many industry film makers of international standing who are EOS mentors. NAHEMI is delighted to offer members the opportunity to screen their own selection of student films and videos at BFI Southbank in the NFT Cinema 1 auditorium. You decide what to include in any or all three categories: animation, drama or documentary. As far as possible, we will screen the best programme to represent your school, department and/or course.

EAT OUR SHORTS 2008 The 6th NAHEMI Film Makers of the Future Expo at The BFI SOUTHBANK, NFT 1 19th & 20th February 2008 Visit the EOS 2008 Website for more information

EOS 6 Creative Producers Debate

13.45-15.30, 19/2/2008, NFT 1

The Creative Producers Debate event, an Eat Our Shorts tradition, is dedicated this year to the profound influence of film practice education on national film cultures and to the transition of young film makers from school into industry.

Skillset’s Director of Film, Janine Marmot, who produced Institute Benjamenta and a representative will join pioneering UK film producers Nik Powell and Ben Gibson who lead the National Film & Television School and the London Film School respectively.

They will also be joined by three prize winning young Romanian film makers, guests of the EOS 6 festival and graduates of UNATC, the National Romanian University for Theatre and Film Arts in Bucharest. They are the fiction director Catalin Mitulescu, the documentary director Alexandru Solomon and the editor Catalin Cristutiu.

The panel will examine the cultural impact of film schools and film courses in general and will explore potential avenues of support for talented young film makers in the UK and abroad by using the model of the Romanian Cinema’s ‘New Wave’ as an original case study.

Chair: Yossi Balanescu-Bal, NAHEMI Chairman and Artistic Director of EOS 6, Senior Lecturer in Film & Television at London Metropolitan University

Screenings:

Catalin Mitulescu:
17 Minutes Late,
Traffic,
The Way I Spent the End of the World (excerpt)

Cristian Nemescu, (editor: Catalin Cristutiu):
C Block Story

LFS: alumni clips

NFTS: alumni clips

EOS 6 Documentary Debate

‘Art Versus Mammon’
Opportunities for Documentary in the UK and Europe

14.00-15.30, 20/2/2008, NFT 1

The EOS 6 Documentary Debate, a first at Eat Our Shorts, is dedicated to examining the future of documentary in the UK and Europe and seeks to explore the potential for young documentary film makers to innovate the documentary form and to secure national and international funding and distribution for creative factual projects in film, television and new media.

Romanian documentary director and producer Alexandru Solomon, author of the critically-acclaimed The Great Communist Bank Robbery presented on BBC 4 and at the Voyages Festival, will screen excerpts from his recently completed documentary on Radio Free Europe, Cold Waves. This challenging documentary project came to life through European co-production funding.

The panel will be joined by Kerry McLeod and Deborah Kingsland from DFG and may include a ‘surprise’ UK based documentary film maker.

The EOS 6 Documentary Debate is a collaboration with the One World Broadcasting Trust and with the Documentary Film Group.

Chair: Andy Glynne, Director of the One World Broadcasting Trust, founding Director of the Documentary Filmmakers Group and Executive Producer for Mosaic Films.

Screenings (indicative):

Alexandru Solomon:
The Great Communist Bank Robbery (excerpt)
Cold Waves (excerpt)

OWBT: clips

Mosaic Films: Three Minutes Wonders

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	SUMMING UP THE NAHEMI ‘EAT OUR SHORTS 2004’ FESTIVAL SOME QUOTATIONS FROM THE FESTIVAL SCREENIG DEBATES AND MASTERCLASSES AT ‘EAT OUR SHORTS 2004’ EOS 2004 ran on the 14th and 15th of December 2004 at The National Film Theatre in the NFT 1 auditorium. NAHEMI was thrilled to present two days of  innovative film, video and animation from twenty member schools in the UK and in the Republic of Ireland, an EOS festival record.
M. Martell, internationally known line producer said: “If you have enormous drive, determination, good skills, give attention to networking and make the effort to keep your skill attributes up to date… plus have a tiny bit of good luck, you will ultimately get a job in the Industry! At the end of the day, you make your own luck...” Keynote address at the ‘SKILLSET, GETTING IN & GETTING ON CAREERS SEMINAR’ with Yossi Bal, Giles Burgess, Carol Jacobs and M. Martell on 14/12/04. Mike Leigh the much-loved pioneer of powerful dramatic story telling in film, theatre and television said: “We are all film makers here. If we have to start the EOS screenings and debates at 8 am. to allow for more time for discussion next year, so be it! We should be on the set at 7.45 to put the show on the road without fail.” Mike Leigh in discussion with the students in the NFT Bar following his debate of the EOS Screening Session No 4, on 14/12/04. EOS Session 4 featured work from the London Metropolitan University and the National Film School of Ireland in Dun Laoghaire. Tony Grisoni, one of the leading screenwriters in the UK who wrote ‘Fear And Loathing In Last Vegas’ and ‘In This World’, amongst many, many other wonderful films said to the student film makers: “I come here having recently tried to make a short film. It’s so hard! I ultimately couldn’t do it… I’ve just watched your films and I’m overwhelmed with the richness of your ideas! I don’t know what to teach you… You teach me…” Tony Grisoni at the start of his debate of the EOS Screening Session No 6, on 15/12/04. EOS Session 6 featured work from the London Film School, University of Luton and University of the West of England. Stephen Woolley, one of UK’s leading feature film producers and co-founder (with Nik Powell) of Palace Pictures not to mention founder of the Scala Cinema said: “It is so exciting to be in this theatre (NFT 1) and to remember that on the very stage I sit now, Buster Keaton once sat! No matter where the new technology will ultimately take us, digital distribution, DVDs, Internet downloads etc. it is important that you, the young film makers of the future, keep the flame for live Cinema, for that unique human experience which is intimately shared with an audience of strangers sitting in the dark, alive and burning as bright as possible.” Keynote address at the ‘CREATIVE PRODUCERS’ DEBATE OF THE 21ST CENTURY @ EOS 2004’ with Sally Hibbin, Ben Gibson, Nik Powell and Stephen Woolley, 15/12/04.
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