Wednesday 27 June

Animated Realities Conference: Day One
09:30 – 17:30
Edinburgh College of Art
Access: Delegates will get free entry when they show their pass

Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in the use of animation aesthetics and production techniques to explore subject matter traditionally deemed to be the preserve of live-action documentary cinema. Animated Realities brings together filmmakers and theorists from a diverse range of disciplines in order to discuss this hybrid and rapidly expanding area of contemporary film and visual culture.

Please check animatedrealities.co.uk for more details on the schedules and speakers.
 

One to One Meetings: Legal
10:00 – 12:00
Festivalhouse@Teviot - Lounge
Access: EIFF Pass holders. Please sign up at the Info desk in the Registration area to book your place or email industryevents@edfilmfest.org.uk

Sign up for a focused meeting with experienced Lawyer Mary Brehony to get professional advice and discuss your projects. Each slot lasts 15 minutes so we advise you to prepare your questions in advance. You may only sign up for one session per expert.

Mary Brehony of Brehon & Co works as an external lawyer for financiers. She has been involved in many films such as Neds, Last King of Scotland, Shallow Grave, Billy Elliot, and Bend it Like Beckham. 
 

BAFTA and Shooting People present Short Sighted!
10:30 – 14:00
Festivalhouse@Teviot - Dining Room
Access: Open to public & EIFF Pass holders. This event is ticketed. There is an allocation of tickets available for EIFF Pass holders - please check availability at the Delegate ticket terminal.

BAFTA and Shooting People present ‘Short Sighted’, an intensive day devoted to helping you get your short film distributed.

The sessions cover every step in the process of getting your film out to an audience and the people who might fund future work, from maximising your film’s festival life to knowing the inside on traditional short film sales to TV and DVD. They also aim to help you judge when and where to put your film online, to look at where short film exhibition is headed in this digital age, and how this might start to generate revenue for filmmakers.

Speakers include: Rebecca Mark Lawson, Philip Ilson (Branchage / LSFF), Chris Tidman (Shorts International), Liz Harkman (Encounters Short Film Festival), Hannah Vincent (Itzon), Jamie King (VODO), Jamie Dolling (You Tube) and Jon Reiss.

To download a full schedule please click here *

This event is brought to you by bafta.org and shootingpeople.org

*Please note this is an indicative syllabus

One to One Meetings: Short Film Expert
14:00 – 16:00
Festivalhouse@Teviot - Lounge
Access: EIFF Pass holders. Please sign up the day before at the Info desk in the Registration area to book your place

Sign up for a focused meeting with Jude Goldrei to get professional advice and discuss your projects. Each slot lasts 15 minutes so we advise you to prepare your questions in advance. You may only sign up for one session per expert.

A former Film Adviser of British Council, Jude has experience working as an Executive Producer on more than 70 short films for UKFC including a BAFTA winner, and can also draw on her experiences working as a film advisor at the British Council to promote British cinema around the world.
Jude is happy to offer filmmakers advice on pitching, getting shorts made and seen, story development (including fiction, animation, and documentary), standing out in a crowded international market, budgeting, progressing from shorts to feature and top tips and common mistakes that happen in short filmmaking.

 

GMAC New Talent Networking Event
14:30 – 15:30
Festivalhouse@Teviot – Dining Room
Access: EIFF Pass holders

Do you want to get started in the Film & TV industry?
Do you have employment opportunities for new creative and craft talent?

GMAC has been at the heart of talent development in Scotland for almost 30 years and last year ran a highly successful film making apprenticeship for 10 filmmakers who are now making their way in the industry.

Come along and meet the GMAC team and find out more about our future initiatives.

 

Domino: Cut & Paste
15:00 – 16:30
Festivalhouse@Teviot - Debating Hall
Access: This event is ticketed. There is an allocation of tickets available for EIFF Pass holders - please check availability at the Delegate ticket terminal.

One of the most innovative independent record labels and publishing houses gets its teeth stuck into soundtracks, and gives them a good shake.

Responsible for artists such as The Kills, Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand, join Domino’s Head of Synchronisation as she edits Domino music to film whilst talking through the pitch process from the perspective of an in-house synchronisation team and invites frank discussion about what music rights holders and film producers demand from music uses in film, commercials, games and TV. To submit your film for the event send your 60 second quick time movie file by 22nd June 2011 to synch@dominorecordco.com

Click here for more information

 

Crash Course to Coming Up
16:00 – 17:30
Festivalhouse@Teviot - Dining Room
Access: Free ticketed event for public and delegates. EIFF Pass holders should get a ticket from the Delegate ticket terminal for this event.

An introduction to the makers and decision makers behind Channel 4's highly regarded scheme which showcases new directorial and writing talent to the British public. Prior to their screenings at the Nokia Shorts Weekender your chance to get the inside track on the dos and don’ts by those involved in this year's films - writers, directors, commissioners, producers and stars Daniel Kaluuya and Nav Sidhu.

 

Filmmakers In Focus
17:15 – 18:15
Festivalhouse@Teviot - New Amphion
Access: Open to Public and Delegates. No ticket required.

Take your seat to hear both British and international writers, directors and producers discuss their latest projects and listen to the industry insiders reveal all about the key topics affecting the world of filmmaking today.

Today’s filmmaker in focus is writer/director Paul Fraser, longtime collaborator of Shane Meadows, and at the Festival with his feature directorial debut, My Brothers. Interviewing him will be filmmaker and blogger extraordinaire, Shooting People’s Ben Blaine.

 

Shaken Not Stirred
18:30 – 19:30
Festivalhouse@Teviot - Loft Bar
Access: EIFF Pass holders

Creative Scotland and Scottish Documentary Institute invite you to take a break, have a beer and a blether with fellow Festival delegates and filmmakers in the Loft bar.

 
Club Nights @ Festivalhouse
23:00 – 03:00
Festivalhouse@Teviot – Underground
Access: This event is ticketed. There is an allocation of tickets available for EIFF Passholders – please check availability at the Delegate Ticket Terminal.

Surrender to a complete audio-visual clubbing experience alongside EIFF’s top talent, industry folk and passionate film buffs at Festivalhouse@Teviot, as they let themselves go after hours.

Tonight’s line-up:

PASSÉ presents

DEN HAAN live
HUSHPUPPY (RPZ, Death Disco)
// JOE CROGAN