Contacting people involved in festivals

Justinne Kenyton - Event Manager- came to our class to talk about festivals.

The subjects varied from; Festival Managers to Risk assessment.

Planning a Festival

1) Paper work - permission H& S ferns 

2) Timeline - schedule to organize your time

3) Timing of the Festival

4) Content - what will e involved 

5) Funding- Fund raising

6) Marketing and Promotion - use a variety of ferns

                                                    - Press - Local newspapers - make contact 

                                                    - Social networking - Facebook

                                                   

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The up coming Events are;

               

American Express Screen Talks: A series of on-stage interview offering the chance to learn more about some leading figures in modern cinema.

 

Leading Figures such as 

-Darren Aronofsky one of the most exiting directors of his generation who talks about his 'brilliant' work.

-Mark Romanek, director of the opening film who will discuss his music video work and his thoughts on and his provoking feature films. 

Special Events and Panels

masterclasses: a series of in depth with key festival filmmakers such as: 

Brightwide presents; no woman no cry.  Brightwide the online home for the best social and political cinema hosts model Christy Turlington burns, following her directional debut No Woman no cry. This will be shown on Saturday the 23rd at 13:00. THere are still tickets available.

British Cinema: Breaking with convention. They bring together some British filmmakers who are using their work to challenge the conventional notion of narrative and documentary form. This will be shown on  Wednesday the 20th at 18:00 Tickets available.

In the Hands of Fate: Existentialism in Film. They bring together some LFF filmmakers to discuss the existential themes in their work. This will be shown on Monday the 18th at 18:30 It is fully BOOKED. 

A Novel Idea: Adapting Books for the screen. A range of screenwriters and directors from films within the LFF program come together to discuss adapting novels for the screen. This will be shown on Monday the 25th at 18:15. It is Fully BOOKED

Planning Festival 1

Today we were separated into two groups I was lucky enough to be in the creative group.

we decided what out logo and the name of the festival would be.

Comparing Festivals

La Tomatina tomato fight in Buñol near Valencia happens every year on the last Wednesday in August though the partying starts earlier in the week. The highlight of the festival is the tomato fight which takes place between 11am and 1pm on that day.

The event has become one of the highlights on Spain's summer festivals calendar with thousands of people flocking to this little Valencian town for this chaotic event.

The origins of La Tomatina aren't clear with several theories explaining how Bunyol has become home to the world's biggest tomato fight. However, the most plausible suggests that the most likely explanation dates back to 1945 when an annual parade of enormous figures with big heads (Gigantes y Cabezudos) was passing through the streets of Bunyol.

It seems that some youngsters tried to join in the parade and accidentally knocked over one of the giants who got to his feet and started swinging out at everyone around him. In retaliation the youngsters grabbed some tomatoes from a nearby vegetable stall and started throwing them at him until the police arrived to break things up.

The following year on the same last Wednesday of August these young people returned to the town hall square and started another tomato fight using their own tomatoes. Again the police intervened and in subsequent years the local council tried to ban the 'El día de la Tomatina' but with little success as event continued to grow year after year reaching the ludicrous size it is today.

The festival was launched in November 2005 and has enjoyed five successful years. Each year thousands of children, young people and their families enjoy a world-class film programme from all over the world. This year, we will present an exciting mix of films, animated features, workshops, events and hands-on film fun in 12 different locations throughout London.

The film programme in 2009 included premieres, film classics, animation masterpieces, and workshops ranging from the silent film play-a-long to the ‘Make a film in a day’, animation and dance!

In addition to all this, there are very exciting special events and lots of free fun activities for the entire family in the drop-in zone at the Barbican during the LCFF.