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About Digi Shorts
Digi Shorts expert tutor Mike Figgis, with Stellan Skarsgard, on the set of Timecode
Did you know that the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund partners with organisations in each of the UK's regions and nations in order to enable filmmakers to make innovative shorts using digital technology?
It's a major annual programme, and is adapted by each regional or national organisation into a bespoke programme to suit the filmmakers in each area. Despite differences, there are several unifying features to the scheme wherever you are:
King Ponce, a Screen Yorkshire-funded Digital Short from 2007
* Each filmmaker must shoot their work using digital technology
and
* Each filmmaker must have the chance to attend up to 3 days of advanced training designed both to help them complete this particular film as well as to equip them with skills they'll find useful as their careers progress
And this is where The Script Factory comes in: courtesy of funding from Skillset's Film Skills Fund, we have been commissioned to design and deliver the training programme to accompany the Digital Shorts programme since 2007 and are doing so again in 2010.
The Digital Shorts schemes rolled out across the UK throughout Autumn/Winter 2009 and commissions are currently being awarded.
Click here for details of the 2010 Digital Shorts Scheme where you are.
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - post produced by DS tutor Alistair Hopkins
Click to read about our Digi Shorts Training Programme here. The programme kicks off in February and continues until April 2010 and includes guest tutors ranging from Oscar/BAFTA nominee Mike Figgis, BIFA-winners Eran Creevy (Shifty) and Paul Andrew Williams (London To Brighton), post-production experts Alistair Hopkins (The Queen, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll) and Larry Sider (The School Of Sound), and many others.
For details of the filmmakers who have been selected so far and will be joining us for Training in Spring 2010, click here.
Small Thoughts, a Screen West Midlands-supported Digital Short
Have a look around our site to find out more about the training programme, and to read about the filmmakers who were selected to make a Digi Short in the last few years.
You can also view some of the shorts made under the Digital Shorts Scheme over the last few years, here.
