Coinciding with the opening of the Kendal Mountain Film Festival, Berghaus sponsored athlete Leo Houlding made his latest daredevil challenge by climbing the Printworks building in central Manchester today (9 November).As well as launching the Kendal Mountain Film Festival, of which he is a patron, climbing a landmark building is

A free public screening of two episodes from the new fully-funded Open University/BBC series Nation on Film with strong Yorkshire themes will be held at the Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds.The screening will take place at 7pm on Monday November 13 and is free to the public on a

SHORT SNAPSHOTS OF TRUE TALENT: NOKIA SHORTS 2006 FINALISTS REVEALED- Amateur filmmakers in line to win a BIFA-The five finalists of the Nokia Shorts 2006 Classic category are announced today. They will receive a massive boost to their film careers by having their entries screened at this year’s British

YourKindaTV Launches Annual Awards For The User-Generated GenerationBritain’s newest broadcaster launches its web based TV channel next week (November 6) with the search to find the best mobile and video clips on the planet.Entries for the British User Generated Awards 2007 – the first ever annual awards ceremony for user

The University of Stirling is delighted to announce its support for Scotland’s first ever African Film Festival, Africa in Motion (AiM), which takes place 20-29 October at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse Cinema.The festival, which is being run by Stop and Stir Arts Ltd in conjunction with the University of Stirling’s School of

BBC Worldwide has joined forces with multi-award-winning independent wildlife filmmakers, Mark Deeble & Victoria Stone to co-produce its third wildlife feature film, Distant Thunder.Combining Deeble & Stone’s incomparable storytelling, their eye for the extraordinary and the very latest in cinematic technical innovation, Distant Thunder promises a natural history epic of

‘TOUR OF THE HOUSE’ SCOOPS MOBILE MOVIE AWARD- Winner of Nokia Shorts 2006 Handset category revealed -A short film which takes the audience on a house tour with a criminal twist was announced as the winner of the Nokia Shorts 2006 Handset category at the Raindance Film Festival last night.The

Slingshot wins £100,000 grant from Skillset.Grant will fund development and training programme for up to eight digital filmmakersslingshot, the all-digital film production and distribution company, has won a £100,000 grant from Skillset to fund an innovative development scheme for writers, directors and producers.The “Training and Development into Greenlight” scheme is

The cultural association Filmstudio90 with the help of Ronzinanti announce the fourth edition of Cortisonici, a shortfilm festival which will take place in March 2007 in Varese, Italy. Short must not have been shot before January 1, 2006.In order to participate to the festival, film should match the following requirements:last

unique scriptwritING competition launched todayBY NIK POWELLchance to win £3,000Opportunity for aspiring scriptwriters to Make their Mark in FilmA new nationwide competition to encourage and support young British scriptwriting talent has been launched today (23 August 2006) by film producer/director and Director of the National Film and Television School, Nik