Film Project Opportunities for Young People- 28 May Deadline

First Cut! Film Project invite short story/script submissions for the First Draft Short Story Writing Competition, PLEASE NOTE: deadline for entries is 28 May, 2010, (upto 500 words/2 pages typed max.).
This competition is linked directly to the First Cut! Film Project, in association with Cork Film Centre, funded by Cork County Council Arts Office and South and East Cork Area Development, (SECAD).

You don’t have to be a filmmaker… or even have any ambition of becoming one… but, if you have a short story (up to 500 words – two typed pages, or less) that you’d like to see made into a short film by young filmmakers participating in the FIRST CUT! Summer Film Week, send it in!

The First Draft competition is open to all young people at youth project/secondary school level in the Cork area.
The winning author will be prominently credited on the film which will be made at the First Cut! Summer Project 2010 – Make a Film in a Week, see below for more detail, and shown at the FIRST CUT FILM FESTIVAL in September 2010. The winning story and two runners up will be published on an internet site connected to Cork Film Centre and the FIRST CUT blog site.

All entries to Cork Film Centre, Civic Trust House, 50 Popes Quay, Cork.
E mail: info@corkfilmcentre.com.

The winners will be announced on the CFC website and on the FIRST CUT blog site: cfcfirstcut.blogspot.com on Friday June 7th, and will be notified by e mail.

Last years winners ;

She Was Just A Girl (Robert McCarthy)
Henry and Zooey (Kieran Doyle)

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The dates for the First Cut! Summer Project 2010 – Make a Film in a Week have been set for June 28 to July 2, 10am to 5pm, in Midleton, the deadline for applications for a place will be May 28th.

Films made during the week will be shown at the First Cut! Film Festival, provisional dates 25/26 September 2010. Anyone interested should contact us at firstcutfilm@gmail.com asap with information on what you have done to date, your track record in film making and send us anything you have shot,even on mobile phone or been involved in making. Let us know why you want a place on this project.Any questions call/text or e mail. See cfcfirstcut.blogspot.com for info on content/ photos from 2009.
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MARY MC GRATH, FIRST CUT CO ORDINATOR,

South and East Cork Area Development Ltd., SECAD,

Midleton Community Enterprise Centre,

Owenacurra Business Park,

Knockgriffin,

Midleton,

Co. Cork. 0868139019

OR e mail firstcutfilm@gmail.com

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