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Mediabox
Mediabox is a new fund that offers disadvantaged 13 to 19 year olds the opportunity to develop and produce creative media projects, using film, television, print, radio or online platforms. Mediabox is for young people to; express their own opinions, ideas and views, gain new skills, encourage creativity, boost personal development and get their voices heard.
Mediabox offers three different types of grants to create and distribute youth-led media projects that express young people’s ideas and/or views in a creative way, using their preferred media platform.
My Mediabox – open to individual young people and groups of young people. Grants from £100 to £1,000.
Mid Mediabox and Mid Mediabox - open to youth and/or media focussed organisations. Grants from £1,000 to £80,000.
Mediabox can only award grants to organisations and young people based England.
The Department for Education and Skills has invested £6 million in Mediabox which is run by a consortium consisting of First Light Movies, Media Trust, Skillset and the UK Film Council.
To sum up:
Mediabox will fund the creation and distribution of youth-led media projects that express young people’s ideas and/or views in a creative way, using their preferred media platform.
To apply:
Go to the Mediabox website
and download the guidelines for the Mediabox fund that you want to apply for then fill in your form online.
Deadlines:
Round 1 30 January 2007
Round 2 27 March 2007
Round 3 22 May 2007
Round 4 17 July 2007
Round 5 18 September 2007
Round 6 20 November 2007
Contact details:
Tel: 0121 753 4866
Email info@media-box.co.uk
Ten First Light films hit the screens at Showcomotion
The largest and longest running young people’s film festival, Showcomotion, offers an opportunity for young people’s films to be screened alongside blockbusters such as Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit and Hoodwinked.
A number of films funded by First Light will be screened at this year’s Showcomotion Young People’s Film Festival which takes place in Sheffield between 29 June and 8 July.
Five films made by 13 to 18-year-olds with C Media wil be shown at the festival on Wednesday 5 July at 5.30pm and 7.30pm. Consequences Killed the Cat is a poignant, but amusing look at name telling and bullying; She Loves Me follows a forlorn heart broken lover and has disastrous consequences; Squirrels Ate my Hammock is a charming animated short that focuses on sibling differences; Which Witch? follows the antics of two very different plasticine witches; and zombies and corpses take centre stage for Dead Kid.
Bridport’s PVA Media Lab worked with a group of 10 young filmmakers aged 16 to 18 years to produce Living Statistic a heart felt insight into the life of Alex Kachepa. This powerful documentary that focuses on the theme of immigration and the Kachepa family’s struggle to avoid deportation back to Malawi will be screened on Wednesday 5 July at 4pm.
SHIFT (Sheffield Independent Film & Television) worked with a group of over 40 young people aged between 13 and 18-years-old created three films focusing on Muslim identity issues that will be shown on Tuesday 4 July at 6.30pm. First Impressions looks any young Asian women’s changing attitudes to arranged marriages; What Goes around Comes Around is a gritty tale of gun crime and teenage pregnancy; and Artist and Friend which is a sophisticated drama about intellectual and emotional responses to art.
A group of 12 young people aged 14 to 18 years created the animated film Every Street Dreams in association with Manchester’s Cornerhouse, which is a documentary style film that explores the dreams of residents on a terraced Manchester street. On Wednesday 5 July at 4pm, Every Street Dreams will be being screened as part of New Views.
Pip Eldridge, First Light’s CEO said, “We are delighted that these films are being screened as part of Showcomotion. It’s great that the young people’s hard work and excellent filmmaking has been recognised by such a prestigious festival and hope that other young people will become inspired to get involved with films by watching them.”
For more information about the festival log on to Showcomotion
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