Films4Lives Competition 2005

The first year of the Films4Lives competition in 2005 was hosted by the Showcomotion film festival for children and young people, (the biggest children’s film festival in the UK), which generously adopted this initiative. Following the spirit of the host festival, the Films4Lives jury consisted of young people from Cube magazine, NSPCC young people’s centre and Connexions South Yorkshire.

Tremendous support for the production and promotion of this event came from the Regional Fundraising Manager of UNICEF UK, Louis Coles who first provided the Films4Lives competition with the internationally respected title of the UNICEF UK awards.

Other substantial support came from Sheffield Independent Film, which provided Films4Lives with both equipment and studio location. Also AVID, Shepperton and Pinewood Studios and The National Museum of Photography Film and Television who donated prizes for competition winners

Gorilla Cinema Ltd provided resources, personnel and voluntary work over the period of a year.

We sincerely wish to thank all the filmmakers around the world for their contributions. We hope to have the pleasure of receiving more work from them in years to come.

Films4Lives is a challenging new initiative being launched in 2005.

Filmmakers from all over the world and at all levels are invited to submit short films on the theme of human rights to raise awareness of global social issues.

All money raised by this event will be donated to charities helping young people internationally and in the U.K.

The Films4Lives event will consist of:

• ‘UNICEF UK Youth Award’
  A competition programme with prizes for young filmmakers under the age of 19.
• ‘UNICEF UK Award’
  A competition programme with prizes for professional filmmakers, semi-professional filmmakers and students aged 19+.
• ‘Right Direction Award’
  An audience award for best over-all film.
• The Showcomotion Elections
  Students from Schools across South Yorkshire will be asked to form their own political party to debate the issues of the day. Organised by Connexions South Yorkshire.
• Free Film Making Workshops
  Gorilla Cinema are offering young people the opportunity to create their own 1 minute short on the theme of young people’s rights.
• Fundraising Gala
  Raising money for UNICEF and the NSPCC.
• Touring Programme
  After the Showcomotion screenings films will be taken on a fundraising tour with the mobile Gorilla Cinema.
  www.gorillacinema.co.uk/cinema

The award ceremonies will take place during Showcomotion between 30 June – 9 July 2005

www.showcomotion.org.uk

Programme

2 &3 JULY 2005 — SHOWROOM CINEMA SHEFFIELD

Open Your Eyes & Make A Difference

Make a difference by joining us at Films4Lives, a brand new initiative to raise money for children's charities and to raise awareness of young people's rights.

Films4Lives is the UK's first and only young people's rights film festival. On screen will be some fantastic films from around the world, all of them imaginatively and movingly exploring the lives of young people. Money raised at these screenings will be donated to UNICEF and NSPCC charities, helping young people internationally and in the UK.

A local young people's jury will award the prestigious UNICEF UK YOUTH AWARD and the UNICEF UK AWARD. You, the audience, can vote for the RIGHT DIRECTION AWARD for best over-all film.

The winners will be announced at 6pm Sunday 3 July.

Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX
BOX OFFICE 0114 275 7727
www.showcomotion.org.uk www.films4lives.org.uk
Tickets £3.50 & £2

Sun 3 July 4pm FILMS4LIVES COMPETITION Films4Lives 8+

Total programme 67 mins
Award Category: UNICEF UK AWARD for category for film makers 19 years+
A selection of funny, heart-warming and thought-provoking shorts from around the world, suitable for viewing by everyone over the age of eight.

Lions are Green

Dir: David Bond
UK 2004
5 mins colour
A boy finds out he is colour blind when he paints a lion green. He tries to conform but then discovers that he prefers his way of seeing things.

Chicken and Egg

Dir: Suzanne Phillips
UK 2004
9 mins colour
Billy suddenly stops speaking after his grandmother has a stroke. What will get him talking again?

Nabat

Dir: Marzieh Vafamehr
Iran 2002
11 mins colour
Persian with English subtitles
During the war with Iraq, Teheran suffers from constant bombardments. A little girl is home alone taking care of her dolls.

Strong Hold

Dir: Morten H. Evelid
Norway 2004
9 mins colour
Norwegian with English subtitles
Tom, aged nine, thinks hair and girls are difficult issues. But when everything seems hopeless, simple solutions can solve most problems.

Homecoming

Dir: Emma Farrell
UK 2004
15 minutes colour
Tadine is a long way from home and wants to return to Kosova and her beloved Dog, Kostandin.

The New Beginning

Dir: Sundhakar Reddy
India 2004
10 mins colour
Two Indian boys fight over a kite, but learn to cooperate when their struggle leads them into danger.

Weight Of A Wall

Dir: Tim Clague
UK 2004
2 mins colour
Only those that are free can fight for freedom.

Lard

Dir: Ornette Spenceley
UK 2004
6 mins colour
Jake is dying to play football with the big boys. When he inadvertently ends up with the ball, Jake realises that friendship has its price.

Sat 2 July 2pm FILMS4LIVES COMPETITION Films4Lives 12+

Total programme: 83 mins
Award category: UNICEF UK YOUTH AWARD for young film makers up to the age of 19.
A selection of the best films made for young people by young people. Don't forget to vote for your favourite film.

I Spy Love

UK 2005 9 mins colour

No Joy

Dir: Paul Slater UK 2004 6 mins colour

Child of Bethlehem: Grandfather

Arabic with English subtitles
Dirs: Stuart Bamforth & Zan Barberton UK/Palestine 2004 4 mins colour

Fir Vale Vision

UK 2004 17 mins colour

School Is Not Compulsory

Dir: Tommy F. Robin UK 2004 3 mins colour

We Are From Sudan

UK 2004 13 mins colour

The Sweet Thief

UK 2004 2 mins colour

Our Lives With Horses

UK 2005 7 mins colour

Balancing Worlds

Dir: Cheryl Bickerton UK 2004 12 mins colour

Rebecca's Difference

Dir: Rebecca Mortimer UK 2004 2 mins colour

The Great Cone Tree

Suuri käpypuu
Finnish with English subtitles
Finland 2004 2 mins colour

Sako Sakon

Armenian with English subtitles
Dir: Aram Abrahamyan Armenia 2004 5 mins colour

Total Respect Group & Rainbow Girls Group & Gorilla Cinema One Minute Films

UK 2005 2 mins colour

Sat 2 July 4pm FILMS4LIVES COMPETITION Films4Lives 12+

Total programme 81 mins
Award category: UNICEF UK YOUTH AWARD for young film makers up to the age of 19.

Cat's got your tongue

Dir: Corinne McPake UK 2005 1 min colour

Journeys Across My City: Buenos Aires Film 1

Viajes Por Mi Ciudad
Spanish with English subtitles
Dir: Mark Raeburn UK 2005 6 mins colour

Fresh Views

UK 2005 5 mins colour

Drugs R Us

Dirs: Philip Beal, Matthew Walters & Patrick Hague UK 2004 5 mins colour

Escape

Dir: Gonca Erdogan UK 2004 3 mins colour

Choices

Dir: Helen Ward UK 2004 8 mins colour

Martin's Story

Dirs: April Jones & Patsi Baldock UK 2004 6 mins colour

Article 2

Dir: Paul Slater UK 2004 10 mins colour

Sticks & Stones

Dir: Christopher Bradley UK 2004 13 mins colour

I Can See You

Dir: Chris Taylor UK 2004 15 mins colour

Skate Head

Dir: Paul Slater UK 2004 7 mins colour

Cube Magazine & Gorilla Cinema One Minute Films

UK 2005 2 mins colour

Sun 3 July 2pm FILMS4LIVES COMPETITION Film4Lvies 14+

Total programme: 81 mins
Award Category: UNICEF UK AWARD for category for film makers 19 years+
A great collection of some of the best film making around, running the full gamut of emotions from humour to heartbreak. Suitable for viewing by adults and young people aged 14 years+.

Marco Solo

Dir: Adrian Bosich
Australia 2004
9 mins colour
Poor Marco. Born into an overcrowded Australian-Italian household, he fights for a space of his own.

Night Commuters: Children Of Northern Uganda

Dirs: Marc Hoeferlin, Ashley Jenkins & Justin Purefoy
Uganda/UK 2005
12 mins colour
English & Acholi with English subtitles
In northern Uganda thousands upon thousands of children leave their home and walk for miles each night to escape rebel adduction.

Light In Shadow

Dirs: Alexandros Konstanaras, Golkou Parhizgar & Juan Reina
UK 2005
11 mins colour
Nadifa, a young asylum seeker, remembers her happy childhood with the help of her viewmaster toy.

After Refuge

Dir: Claire Pope
UK 2004
4 mins colour
A young woman from Afghanistan tells of her successful new life in England.

Gravity

Dir: Colin Hutton
UK 2004
6 mins colour
Three boys power-play with a gun. After a scuffle the gun goes off. It looks OK as it was fired up into the air, but what goes up must come down.

Waiting for Sunrise

Dir: Aneel Ahmad
Pakistan 2004
6 mins colour
Urdu/Punjabi with English subtitles
A powerfully emotional film looking at the extreme poverty of the lives of young street children in Lahore.

Not From Where I'm Standing

Dirs: Samuel Dore & Jez Toogood
UK 2004
4 mins colour
The integrity of the interpreter at a film premiere is called into question when he is caught on camera almost literally with his pants down.
 

Berocca

Dir: Martin Taylor
UK 2004
13 mins colour
In this alternative 13-minute road movie, a man with a severe disability joins forces with a silent boy dressed in pyjamas.
Selected for Sundance 2005.

Mercy

Dir: Candida Scott-Knight
UK 2004
14 mins colour
Ben, a fragile and sensitive boy traumatized by the harsh adult world he lives in, finds a chilling resolution to his problems.

Special People

Dir: Justin Edgar
UK 2005
12 mins colour
Struggle, Camera, Action! Jasper, the film director on the verge of a nervous breakdown, is on top of a mountain
making a film with a group of kids in wheelchairs who really don't want to be there.

Films4Lives is partnership between Showcomotion, UNICEF, NSPCC, Gorilla Cinema, Cube & Connexions South Yorkshire. Films4Lives is an initiative conceived by Gorilla Cinema.

Supporters

Partners:

UNICEF

NSPCC

Gorilla Cinema Ltd

Showcomotion Festival for Children and Young people

Cube media project, an initiative of S.Sheffield CLC

Connexions South Yorkshire

 

Sponsors:

AVID UK

Pinewood and Shepperton Studios

National Museum of Photography Film and Television

 

Supporters:

South Yorkshire Filmmakers Network

Sheffield Independent Film