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About Digi Shorts
Digi Shorts expert tutor Mike Figgis, with Stellan Skarsgard, on the set of Timecode
For much of the last decade the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund partnered with organisations in each of the UK's regions and nations in order to enable filmmakers to make innovative shorts using digital technology. Sadly the scheme as a whole has now ended due to the current restructure of the public funding bodies, although many individual regions are continuing with their own digital schemes.
Digital Shorts was a major annual programme, and was adapted by each regional or national organisation into a bespoke programme to suit the filmmakers in each area. Despite differences, there were several unifying features to the scheme in each region:
King Ponce, a Screen Yorkshire-funded Digital Short from 2007
* Each filmmaker shot their work using digital technology
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* Each filmmaker had the chance to attend up to 3 days of advanced training designed both to help them complete their film as well as to equip them with useful skills to progress their careers
And this is where The Script Factory came in: courtesy of funding from Skillset's Film Skills Fund, we were commissioned to design and deliver the training programme to accompany the Digital Shorts programme from 2007-2010.
Click to read about our Digi Shorts Training Programme here. Guest tutors ranged 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 joined 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.
