The Deaffest team is excited to announce that we have 3 judges confirmed for the judge panel for our Gala Awards film competition!
The members of the Deaffest 2013 judge panel are John Maidens, an acclaimed Deaf filmmaker, Maggie Ellis, the Head of Production & Talent Development at Film London and Kalen Feeney, a Deaf script-writer from America. They will be using their wealth of experience in the film industry to help them to select the winners of the Deaffest 2013 film competition.
Keep an eye out next week when we’ll be posting more details about each of the judges!
There will be a VV competition at Deaffest 2013, on Saturday 18 May at the Late Deaf Party! If you’d like to enter, please read the information below.
VV Competition: Information for entrants
To enter the competition you must submit a short clip of yourself performing VV. If you are short-listed you will be invited to perform at Deaffest in Wolverhampton on Saturday 18 May, where the winner will be selected.
Guidelines
You must follow the those guidelines or you will not be able to enter the competition.
- To enter you must be above the age of 18 years
- You must be a Deaf or hard-of-hearing person
- Your performance must be entirely in VV (Visual Vernacular). Please watch this clip to see what VV is. VV is not sign poetry or BSL story-telling. Entries that use sign poetry or BSL story-telling will not be considered.
- Please make a short clip of no longer than 3 minutes of yourself performing VV
- Your clip must be sent to Deaffest by April 22 via WeTransfer or on a DVD
- You must be available on Saturday 18 May to perform at the Late Deaf Party
You will be informed by email whether you have been short listed.
Short-listed entrants will perform on Saturday 18 May at the Late Deaf Party which will be taking place late in the evening after the Deaffest Gala Awards at Light House, Wolverhampton. A judge panel will be present to select the top three winning entrants.
If you are short-listed you do not have to perform the same piece that you used in your clip; it is your choice if you wish to use it again at Deaffest or develop a new piece.
Prizes
1st prize: £150
2nd prize: £75
3rd prize: £25
For more information email mija@zebra-access.com or jackie@zebra-access.com
Ted Evans, the winner of the 2012 Ben Steiner Bursary, has been busy working on his Ben Steiner Bursary film project.
The film is in pre-production, with the script being finalised and the casting process about to begin. The shooting is scheduled to take place in the New Year. The film will be completed in time for its premiere screening at Deaffest 2013 on Friday 17 May.
Even at this early stage the film is promising to be a very exciting project! Ted offered us a sneak preview with this synopsis of the film:
In a crippling world that has pushed them to the fringes of society, two women find themselves at a crossroads between an unforgiving world and a dark community that appears to offer them hope. Set in an alternative present, a vast recession has seen the structures of society dwindle. Priorities have changed and a hierarchy has segregated the population. Initially established to lay roots and to start over again, this new community rapidly sees obsession overtake reason.
Ted is currently in Malaysia giving talks about his award-winning film The End. We’re looking forward to more updates from him about his Ben Steiner Bursary project when he returns to the UK!
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