Entries for 2010 short film production open
Entries for 2010 round of short film production now open
Short Film Otago is now calling for entries in its 2010 round of production. Entries will close on Monday 9 August 2010.
The call for entries coincides with the launch of a new website which highlights the films made to date through Short Film Otago.
Over the past 3 years, Short Film Otago has produced 6 films which can now all be viewed online at www.sfo.org.nz. Two of these, “Paradise” (in 2009) and “Eden” (in 2010), have been accepted for showing at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Short Film Otago is a registered charitable
trust, funded by the Otago Community Trust. Its mission is
to generate well written and edited scripts, and then
over-see full production on two or three of the best scripts
each year.
Entries are open to anyone in the Otago region
or who has a strong connection to the region. The written
concepts can be fully finished scripts, or one-page
outlines, or works in-between. The scripts themselves must
be strong, original stories that are visually interesting
and have an ideal length of ten to fifteen minutes.
When entries close the SFO Board reads the submitted projects then meet to discuss them.
The number of projects is
reduced to a short list of 4 to 6, and the writers of these
scripts are paired with script editors to work on the next
draft or drafts. The writers and editors are paid for this
process, which has a deadline.
After this process, the
SFO board again reads the scripts, and they are reduced to
the final 2 or 3 which will go into production.
Each
production is assigned an experienced Executive Producer,
with a solid industry background, who may continue to work
on the script with the writer.
A team is assembled for
each production. A call will go out for crew through the SFO
website, and through other industry sites/email groups; also
the EP may approach people whom they think would be a good
Producer or Director for the project.
More information about the initiative is available on the web-site www.sfo.org.nz or by email on contact@sfo.org.nz.
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