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Leeds Met supports Leeds International Film Festival
01/11
Leeds Met students and staff are supporting this year’s
Leeds International Film Festival, taking place from 28 October
until 7 November, with a whole host of events.
A showcase of films made by film and moving image production course students at Leeds Met’s School of Film, Television and Performing Arts will take place on Tuesday 2 November and 3 November, 11am, in the Ster Century Cinema. The BA, HND and MA courses at Leeds Met regularly showcase some of their students’ work as part of the Film Festival. The showreel of short films this year will include: 'Thaied Up', a close to the bone, comedy about a middle-aged man who still lives with his mother; '£3.50 adv/£4 door' breaks away from the real life and delves in the world of claymation; and a selection of documentary shorts.
For the first time Screen Yorkshire has selected 28 talented people, including a Leeds Met student and alumnus, to come together in teams to each make a digital short film from scratch. The project, called Caught Short: Focus, is part of the UK Film Council’s nationwide Digital Shorts initiative to make innovative short films using new technology. Filming will take place in Bradford and each participant attended masterclasses before production week during the Film Festival. All the short films will be screened as part of the Film Festival on Saturday 6 November.
The School of Technology at Leeds Met will also be taking part in the Film Festival on Wednesday 3 November. A Creative Technology Innovative Showcase of students’ work will take place from 6pm until 8pm in the Leeds Met Bar. This will include a mixture of 3d animations, short films, computer games and multimedia products. This year, for the first time, music technology students will also be playing self-composed and live music before, during the intermission and after the showreel.
An Adobe presentation will also be hosted during the day at Leeds Met’s Civic Quarter, Lecture Theatre B2, from 1pm until 5pm, to demonstrate how Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After-Effects 6, Audition, Photoshop 8 and Encore work together to take an original idea from the storyboard to authoring it using Encore.
A discussion with writer and film-maker Paul Cronin, about film
director Alexander MacKendrick, was hosted by Leeds Met School
of Film, Television and Performing Arts in conjunction with Leeds
International Film Festival. Never-before-seen footage of Alexander
MacKendrick at work in the California Institute of Arts, where
he taught classes in ‘Dramatic Construction’ and ‘Film
Grammar’, was also shown at the beginning of the festival
in the Leeds Film Forum at the Cathedral Hall.
In addition, Head of Screenwriting at Leeds Met, Alby James,
will also be a member of the Golden Owl Jury during the Festival
which judges films in the Golden Owl Competition for features
that have no UK distribution.
For more information about the Film Festival please visit:
http://www.leedsfilm.com/2004/liff/page/home
