By:
Ebona Eastmond-Henry
Date::
04 May 2011
East End Film Festival
Some colleagues from Audio Network and I attended The East End Film Festival last week.
We were supporting the great work that the DFG do - the DFG is the national organisation working to promote documentary filmmaking talent and innovation in the UK. The work they do aims to encourage, stimulate, promote and support the growth of a strong community of documentary filmmakers and film audiences and we at Audio Network are proud to work alongside and support them in various projects.
DFG's 10 X 10
This week we sponsored their innovative 10X10 event. It’s a free project development workshop giving filmmakers the opportunity to screen up to 10 minutes of their current work-in-progress. They then receive 10 minutes of directed feedback on their footage from the audience.
We saw three documentaries, ranging from exploring possibilities for East London post Olympics; a biog on 87 year old New York photographer/artist Saul Leiter who was one of the creators of the New York school of photography in the 1950s, and a look at schoolkids in a dangerous, deprived area of the US just trying to get an education.
Networking Drinks
Some interesting, thought provoking work here, and obviously it was interesting to see the production music choices. The filmmakers gain some very constructive feedback from the audience and it was great that so many attendees were keen to carry on chatting afterwards at the networking drinks session Audio Network sponsored. What better way for everyone to meet other documentary filmmakers and learn more about our huge library of pre-cleared music over a nice glass of wine? Good times.
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