Exposures - New Talent in Moving Image

BBC

The BBC is supporting exposures and new local talent through the BBC Best of the North West Award.

Channel M

Channel M brings you all the programmes that are local to Greater Manchester. You can watch all the news, sport, entertainment, lifestyle and music from Greater Manchester on Sky Channel 203, Virgin Media 878 and free to air channel 39. So from the latest sporting events to the region’s breaking news stories, celebrity chat to cinema reviews and new music, there’s guaranteed coverage of the issues that are important to you.

Electric Sheep

Like your cinema offbeat and leftfield? Then Electric Sheep is the film magazine for you. The new quarterly publication features uncompromising reviews of weird, wild and wonderful films and DVDs, reappraisals of forgotten works and in-depth features on many aspects of underground and cult films. The first issue (summer) is a cinema and jazz special, with articles on Shirley Clarke, John Cassavetes, Jim Jarmusch and Beat cinema – among others.

Special offer for exposures website visitors: Take out an annual subscription today for just £12 (£15 overseas) and receive a free book from publishers Wallflower Press: take your pick between The Cinema of Jan Svankmajer or Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945. email amanda@wallflowerpress.co.uk with ‘EXPOSURES OFFER’ in the subject line.

ITV Local

You can watch ‘Hide’, a short film directed by James Easter and acclaimed at last year’s exposures festival on the broadband TV service, ITV Local Granada. The winning films from this year’s festival will also be shown on ITV Local Granada, so keep an eye out for those later in the year.

ITV Local Granada provides a free platform to showcase content from regional film makers alongside the top news stories and programmes from ITV Granada. For details of how to submit your film for our Short Films channel, please email granada@itvlocal.com

Sub.tv

Sub.tv is an interactive entertainment channel that has created a unique connection with 18-24 year olds and is an integral part of today’s youth culture. Sub.tv connects with students throughout the day through its screens, website, mobile messaging and events, allowing students to interact and broadcast music, sport and other entertainment content across university campuses.

The interactive channel began broadcasting in Students’ Unions in 2003 and now reaches 1.8 million students weekly. Check out their website to see what’s what and upload your film today.

DepicT! call for entries

Now in its tenth year, this ultra-short film competition is on the hunt for emerging filmmakers who can take imagination, style, emotion, drama, mystery, humour and passion and pack them into one captivating 90 second mini-movie. DepicT! loves all kinds of films, from live action to animation, documentary to experimental, as long as they’re distinctive, fresh and engaging. If your film is shortlisted, not only will your film get priceless industry exposure through screening at Encounters Short Film Festival, but you’ll be eligible to win a range of prizes geared to help you with your career. deadline: Mon 8 Sept, 1700hrs (BST).

Leeds Young People’s Film Festival

The 10th Leeds Young People’s Film Festival (Thu 2 Apr – Fri 10 Apr 2009) is currently looking for exciting and innovative films made for and by children and young people from the UK and the world. deadline for submissions is 15 December 2008 and entries for the National Young Filmmakers’ Award is 30 January 2009

The Media Festival

The Media Festival will take place across Greater Manchester 26 – 28 November 2008 and will explore how content will be funded, created and distributed in future and introduce you to the people who are making this happen. The Media Festival will organise events in partnership with exposures specifically aimed at students filmmakers.