We are very excited that next year’s festival will be taking place across the city over the same week as Fierce festival: 22-27 March. As well as complementary elements in the programmes, we will have a communal hub which will be catered by nomadic artistic and gastronomic adventurers Companis. If the cakes they baked for the last festival are to go by, expect exquisite surprises! Over that week Birmingham will be buzzing with international artists, performances, screenings and happenings.
Also, a quick reminder that there are only two weeks left to submit short films for the festival. The deadline is Friday 10 December. The team will be forgoing the usual Christmas holiday films in order to sift through submissions (with obligatory Turkey sandwiches). Information on how to submit is here.
Over the next weeks we will be revealing more about the festival programme. Keep an eye on here and the Facebook page for updates.
Lengthening nights and falling leaves mean it’s time to start cranking up for Flatpack, and our first milestone of the season is the 2011 call for submissions. We’ll be spending the christmas holidays sifting through hundreds of shorts for the programme, and if you’d like your film to be one of them please print off the pdf below, fill it out and post it to us with a playable DVD. (No movie files please!).
Submissions deadline is Friday 10 December, and next year’s festival dates are 23-27 March 2011.
Flatpack 2011 submissions form [pdf]
Crikey, dormant blog. Apologies for the month-long silence. We were busy tracking down good stuff for next year, and as you can see rejiggling the website. The full monty will be online next February, and in the meantime we promise to be better bloggers.
Much to the relief of our postman, today is the final day for Flatpack submissions. A few hundred dvds to keep us busy this Christmas! Many thanks to all those who’ve sent in work; we’ll be in touch in the new year.
DVDs have been steadily thumping onto the mat. One of today’s crop contained a warning relevant to all shorts programmers.
Ok, we are ready for your mini-masterpieces. If you’d like your short film to be considered for the next Flatpack Festival (23-28 March 2010), please fill out the form below and get it to us by Friday 4th December 2009. Flatpack is not restricted to one particular genre, but we recommend that you have a little browse of last year’s programme or the one before just to get an idea of the kind of thing we show.
Flatpack Festival 2010 submissions form [.pdf]
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