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We are proud to announce the winner of the ticket draw from CAN2008 and recipient of £1000 of shooting kit and camera hire is....Matthew Barker of Leicester. Matthew will be putting the money toward producing one of the multitude of short film ideas he has. Production is likely to start in January and we look forward to helping Matthew produce his film and screen it to the world at large. Congratulations!!
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It seems fitting to steal the Alan partridge classic to sum up this year's
festival in headline form as I think we can safely say we've never seen a
festival like this before.
Thursday saw an intimate crowd enjoy a collection of films made on the Max Q
course over the last 10 years. Classic moments were relived such as Biggles
first flight, the return of Zero and Fender, Simon Dore kicking arse in
'Fingertips', Santiago going crazy with the Mask of Dominion, soul searching
from George McCluskey. Claudia reducing Leicester City's squad by one, Summer
York's ace 'Light Up & Die' and the Jonas Harris classic 2007: A Lounge Epic
"My God. It's full of beans." Great work one and all and a running
order to salivate at, all who were there enjoyed it and salute you!! More Max Q
films on the way and a bar screening in December.
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If you stage it, they will come and they did as we started the festival with an audience well in excess of last years figures. Films in competition began with Marc Withers excellent comedy 'My Dad Made A Seagull' kicking off the festival in fine form. 'Professor Pebbles', a claymation film from Australia got a rousing response and was widely acclaimed by the attending audience. Barney and Lucy Heywood joined us to watch the beautiful Janis Joplin inspired 'Back in Ten' and at half time they also led the Audience Choice Award. After half time oranges the audience adopted the position and opened their peepers for the second half. 'E Finita La Commedia' a comedy by Jean-Julien Collette & Olivier Tollet featuring a father and son discussing the murder of their mother and wife received rapturous applause and the performance of Lee Attwood and Mick Dyer got 'Count' in front at the end of the evening with the Audience Choice Award. CAN is a film festival that has always tried to bring a diverse programme and this was no more evident than with the film 'Most - The Bridge' focusing on a massacre on a bridge during the Balkan conflict. The silence of the audience during the film and the applause it received after displayed both the quality and substance of the film.
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As Happy Days states "Saturday! What a day!". Jon Schwab joined us with his son, who worked the floor like a professional pushing their feature debut 'The Hide', to watch his two productions 'The Applicant' and 'Out Of Nowhere'. The Gynaecologist had people cringing at the thought of the ending and laughing at the great dialogue. Seasoned campaigners joined us in the shape of Joel Henderson and Stuart Sharp with their latest film 'Abduction'. As the wind swept and the rain poured we continued into the second half in great anticipation of the films to come. The very funny 'Nightwalking' by Daniel Cormack snuck up on the inside rail and claimed the Audience Choice lead. This was followed by two stunning Leicester films 'A Vicinity Code' by Thomas Whitworth and 'Choice' by Richard Bailey both were greatly received and touted as potential award winners. Attack of the Robots from Nebula 5 stuck a note with everybody and became one of the most talked about films of the weekend. Then it happened. As the credits of 'Sudstadt' were rolling there was a sudden sensation of water all over our backs, we turned to see water gushing through into the projection booth. We ran to block the water unaware that water was also coming into the bar area. The elements it seems had got the better of the Phoenix gutters. As the situation cleared it became apparent that the rest of the screening would be called off and Sunday would also be in doubt. After evacuating the building we set about assessing the situation regarding Sunday, would it still be on? You know it, we ran over to the kind people at Firebug and asked for the use of their room. Fortunately for all concerned it was and the job of moving the festival had begun.
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The day started early with the moving of the kit to the Firebug. It took most of the day but by 7pm we had the vision mixer, monitors, cameras, microphones, awards, screens and the room layout sorted. We were ready to go for CAN2008 @ Firebug. Conditions were a little cramped but everyone joined in with the 'never say die' attitude and pitched in making seats spare for others and offering up space so we could fit everyone in. 'I Don't Feel Like Dancing' left the audience thinking while Michael P Sexton showed what's possible and what you will encounter if you decide to travel and experience the world in 'Barefoot'. The superb one shot, 12 minute French film 'For Real' wowed the crowd and we were in to the final section with 'Nightwalking' still leading the Audience Choice. Ryan Man's 'Supermarket Spirits' took us into the eery underworld of Leicester's supernatural forces at the Co-Op. The guys from 'How We Do' threw down 'Sexy Thing' for the masses but did they have enough to win Audience Choice and the whole festival was brought to an end with the fabulous playground western 'For A Few Marbles More'. I have to say that this was probably the most stressful festival we have staged but we got there in the end and it left us with the awards, so who won what and did 'Sexy Thing' catch 'Nightwalking'.....well yes it did beating it by one solitary decibel. Ladies and Gentlemen here are your CAN2008 Award Winners:
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CAN2008 SELECTIONS ANNOUNCED...The judging process has been completed and the films have been
selected. Firstly allow us to apologise for the delay in contacting all
filmmakers and for announcing the line up but this year’s films have
been incredibly difficult to judge due to the superb quality of all those
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| The highly recommended films are being chosen now, here are the films in competition in running order: |
Friday 7 NovemberMy Dad Made A Seagull |
Releve Dir. Sebastian Natto/Denis Truembach/Bastian Casper (Ger) My Darling Wife Dir. Matt Loudon E Finita La Commedia Dir. Jean-Julien Collette & Olivier Tollet (Belgium) Count Dir. Keith Allott Ducks Dir. Adam Young The World's Worst Chat Up Line Dir. Steve Friendship Paintbrush Dir. Alex Barrett Most (The Bridge) Dir. Haris Bilajbegovic (Austria) The Problem With Pets Dir. Catriona Craig |
Saturday 8 NovemberThe Applicant |
Fitzmary 3 Dir. JUST Nightwalking Dir. Daniel Cormack A Vicinity Code Dir. Thomas Whitworth Choice Dir. Richard Bailey Attack of the Robots From Nebula 5 Dir. Chema Garcia Ibarra (Spain) Sudstadt Dir. Malte Jehmlich / Nicolai Skopalik / Nils Voges (Ger) Violeta, La Pescadora del Mar Negro Dir. Marc Riba & Anna Solanas (Spain) Cat-Man-Do Dir. Simon Tofield Circle Dir. Mehul Desai Lisa Dir. Lorenzo Recio (France) |
Sunday 9 NovemberCheeese
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Bloodline
Dir. Rupert Bryan Supermarket Spirits Dir. Alan Harding / Dane Smith / Ryan Man Satu Dir. Zulman Zeki Supardi (Malaysia) Oops Dir. Trevor Hardy Lions3 Dir. Matt Soden Sexy Thing Dir. Rhys Davies Crimson Dir. Piers Hill Knock em Dead Dir. Andrew Baxter For A Few Marbles More Dir. Jelmar Hufen (Holland) |
CAN2008 Selection has begun!
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CAN2008 ENTRY DEADLINE EXTENDED! The new deadline for all Can2008 short film entrants has been extended to August 14th, however we will allow an extra week after the 14th for anyone with extenuating circumstances, get in touch if you have any issues. Don't forget, entries are FREE! We've already received many great films from almost every corner of the globe, but we want more! Send us your entries and have it shown on a big screen, alongside filmmakers from all across the world. To enter your film, please download the submission form below, and please remember to read the terms and conditions. GOOD LUCK!
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CAN2008 NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! |
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Last years event saw the submission of over 600 films from over 40 different countries with a greater genre and stylistic diversity than ever before. This year the judging panel and audiences would like to see this excellence continue and develop. Once
again……SUBMISSIONS
ARE FREE! With the development of the new Digital Media Centre
in the city centre we would like what will probably be the last CAN Film
Festival to be held at the Phoenix to go out on a crescendo. In order to
do this we need you, the filmmakers of the world, to enter your films or
take up your cameras and Submissions close on August 14th 2008 so if you have
made a film you would like to see on the big screen click on the
submission form below. We will
accept films of any genre, from any age, anywhere in the world but
please make sure to thoroughly read the rules and regulations attached
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