[cma-l] Funding News: Young Film Fund (UK) Deadline Sept 2011

[Tamar Millen]

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Young Film Fund (UK)
First Light Movies provides grants to projects that enable young people 
to participate in all aspects of film production has announced that its 
Young Film Fund will re-open for applications on the 16th August 2011. 
Since launching in 2001, First Light Movies have enabled over 40,000 
young filmmakers to write, act, shoot, light, direct and produce over 
1000 films and media projects.

The funding is available to organisations such as; schools; youth 
services; community and voluntary groups that work with young people 
aged between 5 and 18. Grants are delivered through two different 
funding streams, these are:


The Studio Awards which provides grants of up to £30,000 for between two 
and four films of up to 10 minutes

The Pilot Awards which provides grants of up to £5,000 for one short 
film of up to five minutes in duration.


Previous grants awarded include Hartside Primary School, County Durham, 
which received a grant of £3,000 to help produce a five minute shadow 
puppet film using an original fairy tale devised, told and filmed by the 
children in Year 1 and Balfour Junior School in Brighton, which received 
funding to make an environmental documentary ‘The Amazing Adventures of 
the Plastic Bag’.

The deadline for applications will be 2pm on the 27th September 2011. 
For more information visit:

http://www.firstlightonline.co.uk/fundingstream/young-film-fund
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Tamar Millen
Arts Coordinator
Community Media Association
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield
S1 2BX
0114 2795219

www.commedia.org.uk