Screentest

Screentest today opens its doors to film submissions for the 2009 event (6th to the 8th March)!

Are you a student registered at a UK-based institution? Have you made a film? If so the National Student Film Festival would be delighted to consider your creation- please head on over to the submissions page and follow the directions there. All films must be accompanied by a completed copy of our entry form, as this serves as our license to screen your work. Note: you must own the copyright for or have permission to use all material (particularly music) in your film.

The closing date for submissions is the 31st January 2009, so get those films in!

Hi all,

It’s been a busy time here at Screentest HQ as we prepare to bring you another dose of the UK’s only National Student Film Festival. Today we are delighted to be able to confirm the dates of our forthcoming event: Screentest 2009 will be held on the weekend of the 6th - 8th March, 2009. We are fortunate once again to have at our disposal the facilities of the University of Bristol Students’ Union (UBU), so we look forward to welcoming you all back in March.

More key dates, including details of the 2009 submissions process will be posted in the coming days, so please check back and if you’re a student film-maker, get to work on those masterpieces!

Until next time,

James Grieve
Screentest Coordinator 2009

After a great event in 2008, the National Student Film Festival is already looking ahead to 2009! There have been several significant changes to our infrastructure here in Bristol, so we’re more excited than ever about our chances- next year’s event looks set to be the best yet.

All this festival goodness doesn’t just happen by itself however… behind each talk, screening, workshop or party is a dedicated team working tirelessly for weeks, sometimes months. Think you’ve got what it takes to get involved?

Screentest has a number of management positions currently up for grabs:

Sponsorship Manager

Running a film festival is an expensive project, and Screentest is funded almost entirely by sponsorship and partnerships with businesses and organisations. Connecting Screentest to potential sponsors and brokering deals is one of the most important roles on the committee and would be a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in a career in media to develop contacts within the industry.

National Network Manager

Screentest is far more than a Bristol-based event, and each year students from dozens of universities get involved by submitting their films and making the trip to Bristol to attend the festival itself. We need someone to take an active role in connecting Screentest to this sprawling network of societies and courses as well as laying the groundwork for screenings and talks around the country.

Regional Network Manager (South West)

As the National Student Film Festival you might expect Screentest to receive plenty of attention from the students and residents of Bristol. Sadly this doesn’t happen by itself- we need an outgoing and well-connected individual to get the word out, promoting the festival to Bristol and the surrounding area and arranging pre-event parties. (This role doubles as our social secretary.)

You can apply to any of the positions by emailing [email protected] — we’ll get back to you with interview details as soon as we can. We have also set up a recruitment group on facebook, so feel free to check us out there as well.

Note: the positions currently available are all Bristol-based, so you’ll need to be a full or part time student located in Bristol (but not necessarily at Bristol University) to apply. Keep your eyes open though- we have plans to expand our national network this year so there may well be jobs up for grabs near you in the coming months.

As always, thank you all for your commitment to student film, and we look forward to seeing you all again before too long!

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Screentest is pleased to announce the provisional screening schedule for our 2008 event.

We tried to squeeze as many films in as we could but the competition this year was incredibly strong - commiserations if your film didn’t make it. We appreciate all your efforts and the festival this year is better than ever thanks to the many entries we received from across the country.

We hope that this is the final schedule but in very extreme cases times and if we absolutely can’t avoid it film selection may change (although we’ll do everything we can to not go down that route!) The order of films within a screening has yet to be decided and the list below is in alphabetical order for each screening.

The Screenings for Screentest 2008 are as follows:

BAFTA screening (17:00-20:00, Friday 29th February)
A selection of the award winning shorts from this year’s Bafta awards including a screening and Q and A with Short Animation winner Luis Cook

Drama screening (20:00-22:00, Friday 29th February)
Belle and the Blind (Ed Wilkes, Southampton)
Billy Wright (Ed Lilly, Farnham)
Jump (James Nunn, Westminster)
Long Walk Home (Chris Nunn, London South Bank)
Made Up Love Story (no 23) (Jack Whitely, Manchester Metropolitan)
Modern Times (Craig Martin, Worcester Uni/Kidderminster College)
Osgood’s Circus (Elliot Fu, Westminster)
The Ritz (Dino Dimopoulous/Simon Ryninks, UEA)

Lock-in Showing (22:00-00:00, Friday 29th February)
A Quick Beep (T.Y., Bristol)
Breaking The Silence (Vito Bruno)
Chess Film (Phil Hewitson and Cameron Davey, Cumbria Institute Of The Arts)
Cold Reading (Piers Royce, Southampton)
Dream Project (Haruka Furuya, Bristol)
Emma (Kate Shenton, York)
Ignorance (Liam Pearce, Southampton Solent)
Remember To Rescue Me (Kate Lane, Bournemouth Arts Institute)
The Immaculate Art Of Deleting The Past (Laurence Brook, Glasgow)
The Seamstress (Tony O’Reilly, Leeds Met/Northern Film School)

Comedy (12.30PM , Saturday 1st March)
Anticlockwise (Director Dimitris Bavellas, Northern Film School)
James Had A Problem (Director Dino Dimopoulous, UEA)
My Cereal Friends (Director Stephen Bleakney, Queens Univeristy Belfast)
Nan’s Special Brew (Director Jack Valente, Bucks New University)
Starting Docs: Immigration (Director Michael Shelley/Anthony Bell, Edge Hill)
Submarine (Director Adam Butcher, Bristol)
The Device (Director Alec Milne, Bristol)
The Doorstep Deed (Director Zak Klein, UEA)
The Visitors (Director Tom Savage, Bristol)
The Wardens (Director Chris Nunn, London South Bank)

Documentary (17.30-19.00 , Saturday 1st March)
Blood, Tar and Honour (Director Jonas Molina, Farnham)
Busker (Director George Clipp, Manchester)
Buy Nothing Day Bristol (Bristol Drama department)
Cinema, Where’s The Romance? (Director Craig Martin, Worcester Uni/Kidderminster College)
Not So Sunny By The Sea (Director Dom Maker, London South Bank)
Shenzen - Transformation In Modern China (Director Tianqi Yu, Westminster)
Sunaina (Director Namrata Goyal, Queen Mary College, London)
The World’s Biggest Experiment (BlueSci Team, Cambridge)

Music Video/Animation/Additional Films (10:00AM , Saturday 1st March)
Dreams By The Clyde (Darren EggenSchwiler, Glasgow)
Eyesaw (Syd Harvey, London South Bank
Greener Grass (Rob Harrison, Lincoln)
I Am Ahab (Max Alexander, Bristol UWE)
Phil And Shaun - Filmmakers (Greg Pittard, Kent)
Routine (David Casson, University College for the Creative Arts, Maidstone)
Superhero (Nick Cork, Bristol)
Motion (Robin Whenery, Exeter)
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (Paul Phillip Green, Bristol)
World On Fire (Piers Royce, Southampton)

There will also be repeats of most of the screenings on Sunday 2nd March for those who miss them during the rest of the weekend. We have a number of excellent workshops on filmmaking all day Saturday which we highly recommend - for this reason all Saturday showings will be repeated at least once on the Sunday.

The Award show is at 7PM on the Saturday and will be followed by a party with live music, DJs and drinks promos. The ‘Best Of’ Screening with the award-winning films willn be shown on Sunday and possibly late Saturday night.

Thanks for all your submissions and we hope to see you at Screentest 2008!