SHORT FILM AWARD

LONG DISTANCE INFORMATION
Country: UK
Running Time: 07:40
Director: Douglas Hart
Producer: Ohna Falby & Beth Montague
Production Company: HSI London

Set one Christmas Day, between East Kilbride and London, ‘Long Distance Information’ is a black comedy that explores the strained relationship between fathers and sons. Alex is in his early twenties, and has lived away from  home for several years now. He and his father are as distant emotionally as they are in miles. In the waning light of the afternoon Alex phones home.

ANIMATION AWARD

LA DÉTENTE
Country: France
Running Time: 08:30
Director: Pierre Ducos/Bertrand Bey
Producer: Pierre Ducos/Bertrand Bey
Production Company: Not To Scale

In a trench during the First World War, a French soldier becomes paralyzed with fear. His mind disconnects from reality and he escapes to a world where wars are fought by toys.

DOCUMENTARY AWARD

ABUELAS
Country: UK
Running Time: 09:16
Director: Afarin Eghbal
Producer: Kasia Malipan
Production Company: National Film & Television School

In a small apartment in Buenos Aires, an old woman eagerly awaits the birth of her grandchild and all the joys of becoming a grandmother. However, horrific circumstances means she will be forced to wait over 30 years. Using real-life testimonials this animated-documentary raises issues of memory, repression and loss.

INTERNATIONAL AWARD

TROTTEUR
Country: Canada
Running Time: 08:40
Director: Arnaud Brisebois/Francis Leclerc
Producer: Anton Cozzolino
Production Company: Cirrus

A metaphorical tale of adversity. A settling of accounts between a young man and a locomotive turns into a diabolical race against a merciless opponent.

LONG FORM AWARD

PETER AT THE END
Country: USA
Running Time: 22:25
Director: Russ Lamoureux
Producer: Lorraine Yurshansky
Production Company: Pushbroom Pictures Inc

Facing an uncertain future, Peter travels home for a final visit with family and friends.

MUSIC VIDEO AWARD

KEATON HENSON // SMALL HANDS

Country: UK
Running Time: 03:39
Director: Joseph Mann
Producer: Joseph Mann, Tamsin Glasson, James Bretton
Production Company: Blinkink

Echoing the deeply personal sentiment of the track, “Small Hands” is a tale set in a beautifully handcrafted forest inhabited by wild animals.

NEWCOMER AWARD

THE NORTH LONDON BOOK OF THE DEAD
Country: UK
Running Time: 14:59
Director: Jake Lushington
Producer: Shelley Rubenstein
Production Company: Pinata Productions

A comic story of loss and acceptance coupled with a surreal vision of the afterlife, ‘The North London Book of the Dead’ tells the comic tale of a grown man, struggling to come to terms with the death of his domineering mother, only to discover she is spending her dead existence very happily in a small flat in Crouch End.

PUSHING BOUNDARIES AWARD

GOOD BOOKS – METAMORPHOSIS
Country: USA
Running Time: 02:42
Director: Buck
Producer: Buck
Production Company: Friend

Buck delved into their inner Gonzo to create this psychonautic, flow-of-consciousness hallucination of a spot to promote not-for-profit company Good Books. As a homage to HST it is most flattering, as an exercise in cell animation, combining ideas and transitions it is as high quality and entertaining as it gets.

AUDIENCE AWARD

82
Country: UK
Running Time: 07:45
Director: Calum Macdiarmid
Producer: Alexei Slater/Jessica Turner
Production Company: Turn the Slate Productions Limited

A postman lets us into his dark world in quiet suburbia.

Here are the results of this years shortlisting and judging process. Over 1200 films were submitted for consideration. 199 films were shortlisted for the competition screenings and here are the three finalist films, as chosen by our judging panels, from each category.

Please note that films are listed in no particular order.

ANIMATION

LA DÉTENTE

LA DÉTENTE

Directed by Pierre Ducos, Bertrand Bey

(Not To Scale)

ROBOTS OF BRIXTON

ROBOTS OF BRIXTON

Directed by Kibwe Tavares

(Factory Fifteen)

CADAVER

CADAVER

Directed by Jonah D. Ansell

(Jams)

DOCUMENTARY

ABUELAS

ABUELAS

Directed by Afarin Eghbal

(NFTS)

WALK TALL

WALK TALL

Directed by Kate Sullivan

BAGONG SILANG

BAGONG SILANG 

Directed by Zena Merton

INTERNATIONAL

TROTTEUR

TROTTEUR

Directed by Arnaud Brisebois, Francis Leclerc

(Cirrus)

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF ROCKY

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF ROCKY

Directed by Kevin Meul

(Visualantics)

THE HICCUP

THE HICCUP

Directed by Matt Smukler

(Hello & Company)

LONG FORM

PETER AT THE END

PETER AT THE END

Directed by Russ Lamoureux

(Pushbroom Pictures Inc)

GHOST IN THE MACHINE

GHOST IN THE MACHINE

Directed by Oliver Krimpas

(Threesixnine Films Ltd)

FRIDAY

FRIDAY

Directed by Seb Edwards

(Academy Films)

MUSIC VIDEO

KEATON HENSON // SMALL HANDS

KEATON HENSON // SMALL HANDS

Directed by Joseph Mann

(Blinkink)

DUCK SAUCE // BIG BAD WOLF

DUCK SAUCE // BIG BAD WOLF

Directed by Keith Schofield

(Somesuch in assoc. with Caviar)

WILEY // NUMBERS IN ACTION

WILEY // NUMBERS IN ACTION

Directed by Us

(A+/Academy Films)

NEWCOMER

THE NORTH LONDON BOOK OF THE DEAD

THE NORTH LONDON BOOK OF THE DEAD

Directed by Jake Lushington

(Pinata Productions)

CALLUM

CALLUM

Directed by Michael Van Der Put

(Drama Centre London / 6bcc)

EXTRANJERO

EXTRANJERO

Directed by Daniel Lumb, Crinan Campbell

(Th2ng)

PUSHING BOUNDARIES

GOOD BOOKS – METAMORPHOSIS

GOOD BOOKS – METAMORPHOSIS

Directed by Buck

(Friend)

BACK TO THE START

BACK TO THE START

Directed by Johnny Kelly

(Nexus Productions)

NATURAL BEAUTY

NATURAL BEAUTY

Directed by Lernert & Sander

(Blinkart)

SHORT FILM

LONG DISTANCE INFORMATION

LONG DISTANCE INFORMATION

Directed by Douglas Hart

(HSI London)

EYE LINE

EYE LINE

Directed by Ryan Tohill, Andrew Tohill

(Marine Media)

MATCH HEAD

MATCH HEAD

Directed by  Ian Barnes

(Swing & Shift Films)

TIMED directed by Mike Jones

Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, celebrating its 14^th year, is proud to announce the Official Festival Programme for 2012. The non-profit event, which will take place from 11^th to 20^th July, is recognized as one of UK’s leading international Short Film Festivals, showcasing commercially produced and independent work with an equal focus on emerging and established talent.

FILMS IN COMPETITION

199 new films from 22 countries will be competing across live action, animation and factual categories with screenings every evening at The Institute of Contemporary Arts. The Awards Ceremony will be held at the Curzon Soho on Thursday 19^th July 2012.

Tickets are now on sale at:   www.ica.org.uk

LIVE ACTION:

Live action films range in drama and scale from Dr. Grordbort presents: The Deadliest Game, that combines real life with over 10,000 hours of VFX work, taking the audience on a Venus safari, to the darkly humorous Mourn where script, film, music and post production were all completed in 48 hours. You’ll find dramatically engaging tragic-comic violence of Painkiller, sadly beautiful relationships in Peter At The End starring Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite, School For Scoundrels)  and ridiculous empathy instilled by Is This A Joke? starring Russell Tovey (Being Human, The History Boys), Will You Marry Me? and Bike Butterfly.

Talents behind productions range from students to the established. Musician turned writer Douglas Hart (The Jesus and Mary Chain) brings us Long Distance Information starring Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur, My Name is Joe, Trainspotting). Robbie Ryan (Red Road, Brick Lane, Wuthering Heights) works his cinematic magic with Ghost In The Machine, as does DOP Gary Shaw (Moon, Ill Manors) with The Farmer’s Wife starring Geraldine James (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Calendar Girls, Gandhi).

FACTUAL:

Factual work brings us a timely look at sport both through the eyes of an Olympian from 1948 in Walk Tall, to an aspiring present day Olympic athlete in Timed.

The Documentary Category also conveys personal accounts of clairvoyants in Carolyn’s Dead, young offenders in Back On Road and dissociative identities in Painting With 14 Personalities, to highlight a few of the personal journey’s in the programme. However alongside these are stories of societies, the conflicts besieging the last outpost of pure Swahili civilization in Karibuni Lamu, the stories of a community living in a cemetery in Manila in Bagong Silang and the death by development of our countries own unique ship building regions in The Quay.

MUSIC VIDEO:

In this year’s Music Video programme the boundary between shot film and music promo becomes subtly blurred, not least in NSFW music video opus Hey Jane For Spiritualized and Time to Dance, directed by innovative UK director Daniel Wolfe for cutting edge French synth-pop group The Shoes. Transgressing the standard music video form with a gripping horror narrative and chilling performance from Jake Gyllenhaal.

Work ranges from cinematic tributes to the silent era (The DØ // Gonna Be Sick) and intimate films echoing the deeply personal sentiment of the tracks (Black Black Hills // The Celebration, Keaton Henson // Small Hands), to the world’s first live interactive music video (Ghostpoet and the D.O.T. // Trouble), and the adventures of the Galaxy’s fastest panda (Gameshow Outpatient // D N A U X B).

The range of strong narrative to visually stunning work made all the more apparent comparing stop-motion promo Kina Grannis // In Your Arms, which was animated one frame at a time over the course of 22 months using 288,000 jelly beans, to Ed Sheeran’s Lego House where Harry Potter’s Rupert Grint plays an obsessive fan, ending with Sheeran and Grint meeting as Grint is forcibly removed from a music venue.

ANIMATION:

A programme full of unique graphic inspiration, this year’s Animation Category takes us to many places, from inner worlds of the mind and imagination (La Détente, Psychic Land, A Long Descent) to far off planets (Phone Home, Botanical Nightmare), to a local north London pub (The Pub).

No matter where or when the action is set it’s the narrative that drives through. The telling of both old and new stories, spanning from the dawn of the age of man with Pythagasaurus (starring Bill Bailey, Martin Trenaman and Simon Greenall), through the tales of the Brothers Grimm (The Golden Bird) to current affairs in Bradley Manning Had Secrets, unveiling the truth behind the Wikileaks, and into a dystopian future in Robots of Brixton.

Our expectations are challenged, characters are not always as they seem, whether they’re wolves learning to love sheep (Friendsheep), a magnificent beast, worshipped and exploited (The Holy Chicken of Life Music), Cadaver’s resurrected by love (starring Back to the Future’s Christopher Lloyd, Fashion Icon Tavi Gevinson, Academy Award winner Kathy Bates), or lovely Disney-like princesses that quickly turn to become more like Scarface (Whistler).

PUSHING BOUNDARIES:

The inaugural Pushing Boundaries category showcases work ranging from top-end branded content to personal, experimental films. Often sparse in dialogue but heavy on clever ideas and creativity, we’ll be heading into the future for Peter Weyland’s (Guy Pearce) TED Talk 2023 and Back to the Start with Willie Nelson in Johnny Kelly’s Clio Award winning commercial

Sitting together in this wealth of visual delight is work produced from collaborations between leading international creatives (Resonance), to a thirteen year olds ode to his home city (This is Brighton).

This stunning mix of bold and stylised work, brought to us using a range of media encompassing advanced CG, live-action, photography, animation and stop-motion; takes in everything from the powerfully abstract and avant-garde (Dynamic Blooms, Grindin’, Shift – Max Hattler, Sibling AW12), to spots promoting world peace and renewable energy (RE:AX aka Peace Starts With Me, The World Is Where We Live), and ultra-violent video games and vacuums (The Witcher 2 –  Assassins of Kings, Dirt Devil – The Exorcist). Watch a model have a years worth of make-up applied in one sitting (Natural Beauty) and realise beauty is only Skin Deep before contrasting spots for Honda in the form high-octane action with Cannonball Run and environmentally conscious in Generation to Generation.

Release your Imagination, embrace your inner gonzo psychonautic (Good Books – Metamorphosis) and join us for a drink (JD ‘Tennesse Honey’, Chivas Regal 25) to enjoy… responsibly.

FESTIVAL EVENTS

This year’s festival runs over 10 days with a wide range of events for everyone interested in filmmaking. Most events are free to attend as is signing up as a Festival Delegate to make sure you are kept up to date with the latest news and activities from the festival.  Events include Brunch Sessions at The Hospital Club focusing on film production case studies social media, casting and guides on how to break into animation, commercials and music videos as a director. The lunch sessions at De lane Lea cover overviews on festival strategy, transmedia projects, the role of documentary in the modern news era, balancing independent film passion against making commercial work and a look at the latest software available to help you create great productions. The afternoon panels at the Applestore cover the ‘Future of’ key sectors within the filmmaking community and will provide insights into what to expect in the coming years. BAFTA will once again host the BAFTA/ RUSHES New Filmmakers Market with 16 events (Sunday 15^th July) on wide variety of subjects for those looking to get in to and make contact with filmmakers and organisations. All events can be found here  http://rssf2012.com/events

GUEST PROGRAMMES

Joining the events and official screenings are nine guest programmes of short film from Zubroffka International Film Festival (Poland), Hollyshorts (USA), DC Shorts (USA), Kerry Film Festival (Ireland), Renderyard (Spain), Bornshorts (Denmark), Shorts Film Festival (Australia) and Aesthetica Film Festival & the acclaimed straight 8 (UK) programmes.
Here’s a quick guide to event info and booking (more info will be added soon):

WEDNESDAY 11 JULY: Opening Night : To be announced soon

THURSDAY 12 JULY: Newcomer Prog 1; Collabor8te; Film London; Fujifilm; Funding

FRIDAY 13 JULY: Music Video 1; Pushing B; Transmedia; Radar Music Videos; USA & Polish Shorts

SATURDAY 14 JULY: A live action day! Newcomer 2; International 1; Long Shorts 1; Short Film 1

SUNDAY 15 JULY: BAFTA Day; International 2; Long Shorts 2; Short Film 2

MONDAY 16 JULY: Documentary Day; Docs 1 & 2; Raindance; Vice; USA & Spain Shorts

TUESDAY 17 JULY: Animation Day; Animation 1 & 2; UK & Australia Shorts; Networking

WEDNEDAY 18 JULY: Advertising Day; YDA; straight 8; Commercials

THURSDAY 19 JULY: Casting; Denmark & Ireland Shorts; Future of Shorts; Awards

The festival returns with its usual daily activities for festival delegates.

Sign up here to become a delegate, registration is free.

Each week day morning you can attend seminars at The Hospital Club, lunch times we have guest shorts screening in the Rushes Delegate Tent alongside discussions at De Lane Lea. Week day afternoons there will be panels at the Apple Store on Regent Street discussing the ‘Future of’ commercial and independent filmmaking sectors. Each evening we have the official screenings a the ICA where the audience also have the opportunity to join the festival judges in voting for their favourite film. The weekend sees the welcome return of our New Filmmakers Market at BAFTA on Sunday 15 July.

We mention this every year but please do buy tickets early to avoid disappointment. We often sell out of events so if you can no longer make an event please do contact us, through Eventbrite or the box office at ICA or BAFTA, as we will likely have people on waiting lists.

Here’s a quick guide to event info and booking (more info will be added soon):

WEDNESDAY 11 JULY: Opening Night (details TBC)

THURSDAY 12 JULY: Newcomer Prog 1; Collabor8te; Film London; Fujifilm; Funding

FRIDAY 13 JULY: Music Video 1; Pushing B; Transmedia; Radar Music Videos; USA & Polish Shorts

SATURDAY 14 JULY: A live action day! Newcomer 2; International 1; Long Shorts 1; Short Film 1

SUNDAY 15 JULY: BAFTA Day; International 2; Long Shorts 2; Short Film 2
FOR MORE INFO ON BAFTA, CLICK HERE 

MONDAY 16 JULY: Documentary Day; Docs 1 & 2; Raindance; Vice; USA & Spain Shorts

TUESDAY 17 JULY: Animation Day; Animation 1 & 2; UK & Australia Shorts; Networking

WEDNEDAY 18 JULY: Advertising Day; YDA; straight 8; Commercials

THURSDAY 19 JULY: Casting; Denmark & Ireland Shorts; Future of Shorts; Awards

FRIDAY 20 JULY: Details TBC

The line up for this year’s competitive screenings has been now been finalised.

THANK YOU very much to everyone who has entered this years festival.

Once again we’ve reviewed over 1200 entries from 50 plus countries and the competition has been tough. The work entered has been stronger than ever making the shortlisting process very tough. 15% of the work entered has made final selection for competition, and the work listed below represents only the tip of a very large and talented group that we wished we could promote in the festival.

Fujifilm Shorts will once again be screening in conjunction with Rushes, all awards being presented on 19th July. These film programmes will play alongside  non-competitive showcases of amazing work screening for free along with 50 events throughout the festival. The full programme of this years activities will go live on Monday 11 June.

We’d like you to join us as a Festival Delegate. Filmmakers who have submitted to the festival, irrespective of results, will have first access to booking events and screenings, much of which will be free or greatly discounted. Delegate Registration is open now. As last year, we are also hoping to hold a number of showcase programmes in the Autumn and Winter  screening work we couldn’t include in the festival line up, do check back for more information.

RSSF ANIMATON 2012

RSSF SHORT FILM 2012

RSSF NEWCOMER 2012

RSSF INTERNATIONAL 2012

RSSF DOCUMENTARY 2012

RSSF LONG FORM 2012

RSSF MUSIC VIDEO 2012

RSSF PUSHING BOUNDARIES 2012

See the full Official Selection for RSSF 2012 here

11:00 to 14:00 Saturday 14 July. The Rushes Delegate Tent. INVITE ONLY

A mid-morning/lunch gathering of festival friends, delegates, filmmakers and judges.The event is also a chance to meet the people behind Film Festival Academy which will be launching in the Autumn @ the New York Independent Film Festival.
Random Acts will also be screening a selection of work in the Delegate Tent.

OFFICIAL SCREENING: INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME ONE

SONBURN directed by Ella-Carey

14:30   ICA                                                      BOOK HERE
See films here.
GRANDMA MUST GET DRY directed by Alfredo Covelli (Arch Production Srl) 14:33 Italy
SONBURN  directed by Ella Carey (Tonto Films) 15.44 Australia
LA MIRADA PERDIDA directed by Damián Dionisio  (Osom Films) 11:00 Argentina
TROTTEUR  directed by Arnaud Brisebois, Francis Leclerc (Cirrus)  08:40 Canada
HALTLOS  directed by Tim Dünschede 12:48  Germany
THE GUEST directed by Jameal Ali (Delta Bay / Explosive Studios) 15:00 Bangladesh
THE HICCUP  directed by Matt Smukler (Hello & Company) 10:15 USA

OFFICIAL SCREENING: LONG FORM PROGRAMME ONE 

PETER AT THE END directed by Russ-Lamoureux

16:30   ICA                                                      BOOK HERE
See films here.
THE OTHER SIDE   directed by Khen Shalem (Little Us Films) 25:30  UK/ISRAEL
FRIDAY   directed by Seb Edwards  (Academy Films)     17:23     UK
PETER AT THE END directed by  Russ Lamoureux (Pushbroom Pictures Inc) 22:25  USA
THE FARMER’S WIFE  directed by Francis Lee (Cockfighter Films) 17:25 UK
GHOST IN THE MACHINE  directed by Oliver Krimpas (Threesixnine Films Ltd)   18:03  UK

OFFICIAL SCREENING: SHORT FILM PROGRAMME ONE 

TWO GIRLS directed by Simon Tatum

18:30   ICA                                                      BOOK HERE
See films here.
JUNG  directed by  Mohammad Munir Malik  06:51  UK
MATCH HEAD  directed by  Ian Barnes  (Swing & Shift Films)  14:00  UK
PVT. CRAINE  directed by Ben Mallaby (Jigsaw)  01:55 UK
LONG DISTANCE INFORMATION directed by Douglas Hart (HSI London) 07:40 UK
PAINKILLER directed by Mustapha Kseibati (B3 Media / BBC Writersroom) 14:19 UK
ATROX ITER directed by Graham Page (Decoder Films) 01:28 UK
ONCE AND FOR ALL directed by Ben Strebel (Saloon Films) 08:18 UK
DYING, AND OTHER SUPERPOWERS directed by Elias Ribeiro (Urucu Media) 14:06 UK / SA
TAKING LIFE directed by Steve Reeves (Another Film Company) 14:12 UK
TWO GIRLS directed by Simon Tatum (I Miss Monster) 02:19 UK

OFFICIAL SCREENING: NEWCOMER PROGRAMME TWO 

EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE directed by Dan Smyth

20:30   ICA                                                      BOOK HERE
See films here.
DAY 83 directed by Aled Matthews, Joe O’connor (University Of Glamorgan) 02:22 UK
MUM’S NOT IN directed by Claire Fowler 06:44 UK
EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE  directed by Dan Smyth (Factory Gate Productions) 14.14 UK
GAMMA directed by Jonathan Gales (Factory Fifteen) 06:47 UK
THE END directed by Ted Marcus  13:00 UK/ USA
BLACK DUST directed by James Lawes (Pretzel Films) 11.28 UK
WILL YOU MARRY ME? directed by David Allain (Rankin Film Productions) 09:36 UK
SPECIAL DELIVERY directed by Graham Lester George (Small Change Films) 04:50 UK
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM directed by Giles Ripley (Pretzel Films) 05:22 UK
WHEN THE DUST SETTLES   directed by Tom Stewart (Manchester School Of Art) 10:36 UK

ADDICTIVE TV @ THE NATIONAL THEATRE (part of the Watch This Space Festival)                          
10:00 National Theatre. FREE.

Always up for something a little different, our friends audio/video funkers Addictive TV are staging a great show this summer!  For Rushes last year, they gave a special talk at the Apple Store in Regent’s Street and performed at the festival’s closing party, this year on July 14th, slap bang in the middle of the festival, you can experience their audiovisual sampling extravaganza at the National Theatre!  But no ordinary show, it’s outdoors and up on the top roof terrace, projecting on the enormous flytower!  It’s a free open-air event from 10pm, so no tickets needed, and do get there early as it will certainly be crowded!

When it comes to remixing films, London based artists Addictive TV have been leading the way for many years now, with their winning mixture of commercials and bootlegs.  This year saw them create the launch trailer for the much anticipated Namco/Capcom Street Fighter x Tekken video game and also produce a special performance sampling ten years of Channel 5’s The Gadget Show for the series’ live event in April at the NEC in Birmingham.

www.addictive.tv

CASTING ON A BUDGET

StarNow.co.uk presents ‘Casting on a Budget’.  We’ll show you how to find the right actors by crafting effective casting breakdowns and running great casting sessions.  We also give you insider tips on how the professionals work with actors to ensure they’re fully briefed prior to your auditions.

We also cover off the important topic of how to work effectively as a team with your actors so that you get the most out of your valuable time on set.

At StarNow we connect talent with casting professionals. We are the leading audition and jobs website for actors, models, dancers, crew, and musicians. As an actor, you can create a free online profile and apply to auditions and jobs.  If you are casting, you can place a free casting call on StarNow to help you find the perfect person for your next production.

www.StarNow.co.uk
@StarNow

GUEST: KERRY FILM FESTIVAL
12:00 Rushes Delegate Tent.                         BOOK HERE 

Kerry Film Festival is a multi-location festival which takes place right across the rugged and beautiful South-West of Ireland, screening provocative and inspiring film in five different towns. KFF is dedicated to championing the art of the short film and the core of the festival revolves around the short film competition with filmmakers from all over the world taking part. The 2012 festival kicks off on the 9^th October; this year KFF will launch the first ever Kerry Film Challenge, challenging short filmmakers to come and test their mettle by creating a short film featuring Kerry over three days during the festival.

www.kerryfilmfestival.com
@kerryfilmfest
facebook.com/KerryFilmFestival

ADOBE: MEET CS6 
12:30 De Lane Lea.                                        BOOK HERE 

An opportunity to look at the very latest in editing and what that means for you as a filmmaker. Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Production Premium software offers a sleek, fresh editing environment in Adobe Premiere® Pro; 3D tracking and extruded text and shapes in Adobe After Effects®; new Content-Aware tools in Adobe Photoshop® Extended; and faster editing in Adobe Audition®. New additions are Adobe Prelude™ for logging and ingest and Adobe SpeedGrade™ for color grading and finishing.

www.adobe.com
@Adobe

GUEST SHORTS: BORNSHORTS
14:00 Rushes Delegate Tent.                         BOOK HERE 

The Bornshorts Film Festival takes place in Denmark on the Island of Bornholm, with a three day programme of high quality short films, music videos, animations and four feature films in fiction and documentary.

http://bornshorts.com
@bornshorts

THE FUTURE OF SHORT FILM 
16:00 Apple Store Regent Street.                    BOOK HERE
In association with the British Council.

Distribution. Exhibition. Consumption. The value of a short film. This panel will take the pulse of short film in 2012 and attempt a little future gazing; the discussion will consider industrial and  philosophical issues, examining the crossroads between the cultural and the commercial, the professionally ‘valuable’ and the potentially lucrative. The panel will look beyond the short film community at what people feel is the potential for the medium and what we can learn from how people are consuming media. How do you consume short films?

Panellists include:
BFI Talent Tracker, The Reel (Jamie Madge)
Distrify // Guerilla Films (David Nicholas Wilson)
Onha Falby (Producer), Frankie Singler (Talent Hungry)

THE RUSHES AWARDS CEREMONY
18:45 Curzon Soho.                                      Invite Only

The three finalists from each category will be invited to the awards ceremony, where the winners of each category will be announced. Due to the seating capacity, this is an invite only event but all filmmakers featured in the festival are invited to the closing party to celebrate the end of the festival (see below).

THE RUSHES SOHO SHORTS FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT PARTY
20:00 Cafe De Paris.                                      BOOKING OPENS SOON

BREAKING INTO COMMERCIALS

Continuing the theme of last year’s seminar. The Reel’s Editor Jamie Madge will examine what it takes to get noticed when starting out and how best to propel your career into the world of advertising. With a panel made up of leading practitioners in the commercial field.

Panellists include:
Talent Hungry, BBH, Jo Wallace (DraftFCB / ASD Lionheart)
Blink// White Lodge, Alex Jenkins

THE CFP-E/ SHOTS YOUNG DIRECTORS AWARD SCREENING 
12:00 Rushes Delegate Tent.                       BOOK HERE

This Award offers outstanding new directors a significant boost to their careers. Entries come from all over the world and showcased directors are provided with an excellent promotional platform for their work. This is the first showing of the YDA following its premiere in Cannes Lions and is now an established and very popular part of Soho Shorts.

See their You Tube channel here:http://www.youtube.com/user/youngdirectoraward

www.youngdirectoraward.com
www.shots.net
www.a-p-a.net

FUJIFILM: CREATIVITY IN A COMMERCIALLY INDEPENDENT WORLD
12:30 Moving Picture Company                                        BOOK HERE 

You’re a filmmaker. A Director of Photography. A Producer. A Director. You want to make films. Long? Short? Doesn’t matter. But you’ve read a great script. You’ve got a great idea. There’s this wonderful vision you’ve had. Focusing on the creative side of choosing to shoot on 16mm and 35mm, Fujifilm present a number of case studies with filmmakers balancing their craft between commercial and independent filmmaking. Exploring those blurred lines between the commercial and independent world, confronting obstacles, the benefits and how you can try to make the most of opportunities.

www.fujifilm.eu
@fujifilmshorts

THE NETWORKING LUNCH
13:30 Rushes Delegate Tent.                    BOOK HERE 

Following the screening CFP-E/shots Young Directors Award Programme join fellow filmmakers and creatives at a networking lunch. If you missed the screening of CFPE/YDA films at midday, never fear, they will continue to screen throughout the afternoon.

www.youngdirectoraward.com
www.shots.net
www.a-p-a.net

FUTURE OF ADVERTISING  
16:00 Apple Store Regent Street.               BOOK HERE 
In association with the British Council & APA

A recent study in the USA stated 49% of consumers stop and interact with digital media Ads while 13 % stop to watch plasma screen Ads and just 4% stop to look at poster Ads. Digital outdoor advertising will soon be tailored to the situations of customers through contextual media, providing well-tailored and effective ads to potential consumers. Digital screens and projections are expanding the visible reach of that advertising, through techniques such as projection mapping, to cover the landscape. Will this soon involve holographic video, sound, lighting and smell integration? Our panel will discuss what this all means for digital outdoor advertising, for the filmmaker and the creative.

Panellists Include:
Drive Productions, Clear Channel
Contagious, Grand Visual

STRAIGHT 8:  PROGRAMME ONE

Supported by CAP GUN

18:30 ICA                                                      BOOK HERE

Please note this is not the play order

Layla Sarah Kapidzic – Allodoxaphobia
Ian Waldron Mantgani – Crime Of Fashion
David Finch – Fading Light
Dan Weston – Fat Cat
Vickie Ager – Gnom-o-phobia
Mauricio Vincenzi – La Carne Vale?
Thyrone Tommy – Liar, Cheater, Whore
Louise Hooper – Lip Service
James Henry – Marceau
Nirozen Thavarajah – Meme
Matthew Parker – Piece Of Cake
Bohemia Club Collective – Speak & Spell In St Leonards
Elizabeth Lively – Strange Attraction
Mauricio Vincenzi & Oliver Crowther –  TBC
Peter Hall – The Summer House
Richard Jung – Untethered
Mauricio Vincenzi – West Rise To London 2012 Glory
Michael Carstens – What A Party
Damo Cross – What You Doing?
Ben Partridge -  Where’s Ruth
Megan Hill – Yesss

STRAIGHT 8:  PROGRAMME TWO

Supported by CAP GUN

20:30 ICA                                                      BOOK HERE

Please note this is not the play order

Dagie Brundert – ¡Viva La Combinación!
Klara Arten – * * *
Ian Rough – A Rough Guide To Time Travel
Sophie Both, Lulu Davey, Mollie Laverty – Back To The 50′s
Shazzy & Sooz – Beer Goggles
Mark Wong – Breakdown
Andrew Panatti – Breathing
Naked Zebra – Chemistry
Helen Nias – Curiousciousness
Maurizio Von Trapp – For The Time Being
Joel Green & Miranda Howard-Williams – Hell’s Kitchen
Nick Carew – Knotted
Nathan Small & Luke Tredget – L’Adaptation (the Adjustment)
Lucy Izzard & Mark Simon Hewis – Love Triangle
Emma Oxley – Lung
Paolo Annibale – Norton Hotel
Dominic Rees-Roberts – On The Shoulders Of Gods
Eric Jowett – Stuff
Florian Schertel – Texas Instrument Massacre
Charles Cauchoix – The Earthquake
Matt Stevens – The Hunger
Francis Martineau – Waste
Jonathan Herzberg – What We’ll Remember
Dorian Dixon – X350

BREAKING INTO  ANIMATION

Adding animation to the ‘Breaking Into’ series, The Reel’s Editor Jamie Madge will examine what it takes to get noticed when starting out and how best to propel your career into the world of Animation. With a panel made up of leading practitioners in the animation field.

Panellists include:
Picasso Pictures, Nexus Productions,
Partizan, BlinkInk

GUEST SHORTS: AESTHETICA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
12:00 Rushes Delegate Tent.                         BOOK HERE 

The Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF) presents a selection of award-winning shorts. This selection showcases the extraordinary innovativeness and variety that typifies the best in new filmmaking: an exciting and vibrant programme that aims to bring independent film to new audiences.

www.asff.co.uk
@asffest

THE FOUNDRY PRESENT VFX EFFECTS 
12:30 De Lane Lea.                                           BOOK HERE

Visual effects artists will show how they are using The Foundry’s cutting edge VFX software to create inspirational animation sequences. You will get a rare behind the scenes glimpse of the complex processes and techniques that go into high-end animation projects.
The Foundry is a world-leading innovator in visual effects software providing solutions for compositing, lighting, texture painting, stereo-3D, conforming and more. The company has established itself as a critical partner to major film studios and post production houses including ILM, Weta Digital, DreamWorks, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Framestore, Digital Domain, MPC and Rushes.
The Foundry’s products have been used to create breath-taking effects sequences on a wide range of features, animation, television projects and commercials. High profile examples include the 2012 Oscar® winners, HUGO (Best Visual Effects) and Rango (Best Animated Feature Film) as well as the EMMY award winning Boardwalk Empire.
www.thefoundry.co.uk

GUEST: SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL
14:00 Rushes Delegate Tent.                        BOOK HERE

Shorts presents a showcase of Australian talent across a week of lounge-style film screenings. Set in non-cinematic venues, Shorts is an intimate event that combines great film, fabulous food and a cocktail atmosphere to create a uniquely creative vibe. The festival is fantastic opportunity for filmmakers, artists, corporate and the general public to mingle, creating a very enthusiastic audience.

www.shortsfilmfestival.com
@shortsfilmfest

THE FUTURE OF ANIMATION
16:00 Apple Store Regent Street.                 BOOK HERE 
In association with the British Council

British animation is dominating the festival circuit like never before. The welcome introduction of tax breaks for animation and games companies in the 2012 budget gives us a growing optimism that animation expertise in the UK is finally getting the recognition it deserves.  This panel will consider how these new breaks will benefit the animation industry and how they may translate into opportunities for filmmakers. We will also examine ongoing developments in new media and look at how they are pushing the frontiers for animation.

Panellists include:
Gary Thomas @ Animate Projects (Chair)
Nexus Productions, NOMINT,
Maria Manton, Mikey Please, Animade

OFFICIAL SCREENING: ANIMATION PROGRAMME ONE 

CADAVER directed by Jonah D. Ansell

18:30 ICA                                                      BOOK HERE
See films here.

LA DETENTE directed by Pierre Ducos, Bertrand Bey (Not To Scale) 08:30 FRANCE
THIS IS NOT REAL directed by Gergely Wootsch (Royal College Of Art) 06:40 UK
WHISTLER  directed by Tokyoplastic (Picasso Pictures) 01:30 UK
ROBOTS OF BRIXTON directed by Kibwe Tavares (Factory Fifteen) 05:36 UK
PYTHAGASAURUS  directed by Peter Peake (Aardman Animations) 03:52 UK
BAO directed by Sandra Desmazières (Les Films De l’Arlequin) 11:21 FRANCE
THIS IS COLIN directed by Perrie Murphy 04:35 UK
CADAVER  directed by Jonah D. Ansell (Jams) 07:26 USA
BRADLEY MANNING HAD SECRETS   directed by Adam Butcher 05:30 UK
THE PUB directed by Joseph Pierce (59 Productions) 07:45 UK
AN ORGASM directed by Fred Joyeux (Krazy Bird) 01:20 FRANCE
MY BLOODY LAD directed by Deadwalter (Quad Productions) 02:34 FRANCE
CHERRYWOOD CANNON directed by  Charlie Paul (Itch Film Ltd) 06.40 UK
MEGALOMANIA directed by Jonathan Gales (Factory Fifteen) 04:35 UK
CALVAIRE FRUITÉ directed by Eddy Loukil, Ghayth Chegaar, Victor Jardel 06:15 FRANCE

RSSF NETWORKING BOAT PARTY 
19:00 Tattershall Castle.                                 BOOK HERE
In association with Mosaic Networking.

This is an opportunity to meet new contacts and catch up with old ones on the banks of the river Thames. An informal event for all festival filmmakers, supporters and short film lovers as well as folks from other creative industries and backgrounds. Stands from key sectors of the industry will also be present offering advice on various aspects of filmmaking.

RSVP is essential.

OFFICIAL SCREENING: ANIMATION PROGRAMME TWO 

FRIENDSHEEP directed by Jaime Maestro

20:30 ICA                                                      BOOK HERE
See films here.

KAHANIKAR – THE STORYTELLER directed by Nandita Jain (NFTS) 10:02 UK
RONI directed by Andrea Schneider (Hslu Art&Design) 07:00 SWITZERLAND
CBEEBIES: SPRING OLLIE    directed by Matthias Hoegg (Beakus) 01:16 UK
PHONE HOME directed by The Brothers McLeod 02:23 UK
THE HOLY CHICKEN OF LIFE AND MUSIC directed by (Nomint) 02:37 GREECE
FRIENDSHEEP directed by Jaime Maestro (Primerframe) 07:00 SPAIN
FLORÊTTE directed by Gus Filgate & Paul Miller (Little Fish Films) 03:58 UK
A LONG DESCENT directed by Alex Dunford 05.32 UK
THE GOLDEN BIRD directed by Cat Bruce (Edinburgh College Of Art) 11:37 UK
NIGHT ISLAND directed by Salvador Maldonado (Breakthru Films) 06.15  UK
BOTANICAL NIGHTMARE directed by Tom Lucas (University Of Glamorgan) 03:59 UK
SLOW DEREK directed by Dan Ojari (Royal College Of Art) 08:12 UK
BERTIE CRISP directed by Francesca Adams (NFTS) 08:05 UK
PSYCHIC LAND directed by Pablo Gostanian  (2veinte) 02:00 ARGENTINA
ADDRESS IS APPROXIMATE directed by Tom Jenkins (The Theory) 02:40  UK

FOR NO GOOD REASON
10:30 The Hospital Club.                          BOOK HERE
In association with Itch Studios

‘For No Good Reason’ is a visually stunning unique biographical study of Ralph Steadman, whose art rose to prominence during his collaborations with writer Hunter S Thompson.  The animation ’Cherrywood Cannon’ is selected to screen in the RSSF Animation category. The short film has taken two years to complete and was initially a chapter in ‘For No Good Reason’. Here, Itch Studios will talk about making the feature both creatively and financially. They will also explain how this came about and the idea of using a short to promote their feature alongside a screening of ‘Cherrywood Cannon’.

www.fornogoodreasonmovie.com

GUEST: RENDERYARD
12:00 Rushes Delegate Tent.                        BOOK HERE 

Set in La Rioja, the wine capital in the North of Spain, the Renderyard Short Film Festival this year runs from 5th to 12th October and supports the screening of new Short Films, Animations, Documentaries, Music Videos and Micro Films. The Festival also includes Film Scripts and Film Scores. Renderyard have teamed up with other film festivals worldwide to provide a new film channel that allows them to show the year’s films to an international audience online. They also show films from previous festivals as well as material from selected filmmakers around the world.

http://renderyard.com
@renderyard

VICE present YOUTH IN REVOLT 
12:30 De Lane Lea.                                       BOOK HERE 
In association with VICE

The role of documentary in the modern news arena.

VICE, the skatepunk fanzine that became famous for it’s stories of sex, drugs and rock and roll now finds itself centre stage in creating and distributing video news content to the world’s youth.

With offices in 37 countries, a generation of fans, content deals with CNN, Bloomburg and The Huffington Post, and a primetime news show for HBO, VICE is producing huge amounts of documentary video for millions of global viewers.

Hosted by VICE producers and editorial staff, “Youth In Revolt” will discuss the role of documentary in telling the stories that matter to young people who, more and more, are shunning the traditional broadcasters. We will also look at the huge quantity of tools for content creation and distribution, as well as discussing the opportunities for independent producers interested in working with us.

For a new generation sick of broadcasting cliches and suspicious of the news establishment, VICE is uniquely positioned as a truly modern news source.
www.vice.com

GUEST: DC SHORTS
14:00 Rushes Delegate Tent.                         BOOK HERE

DC Shorts showcases the largest audience-driven collection of short films in the USA. The DC Shorts Film Festival (September 6-16, 2012) turns the spotlight on truly independent short films, created by new and established filmmakers in an era when the art of filmmaking is opening to all. They select films of every genre and niche for our competition screenings — with a special focus on films created by metropolitan Washington, DC-based directors and writers. After each screening, filmmakers have the opportunity to speak to the audience as part of a moderated panel.

www.dcshorts.com

FUTURE OF DOCS

16:00 Apple Store Regent Street.                  BOOK HERE
In association with the British Council

Opportunities for documentary seem to be growing by the day and let’s face it, there’s no shortage of subject matter. This panel will discuss the various funding and distribution platforms available to documentary makers while looking at how to sustain a career in the medium. Discussion will also cover the particulars of the social and the commercial documentary plus the increasingly important relationship between brands, commissioners and filmmakers.

Panellists include: Doc/Fest  (Chair)
Britdoc/Good Pitch/Good Screeings, Trinity Films ,
Documentary Filmmakers Group (DFG),
Cairo Cannon (Producer), Journeyman Pictures

LSFF // RSSF LONDON SOCIAL
19:00  / ICA Bar / Free
Hosted by London Short Film Festival
Come join filmmakers and short film clubs from across London.

ED SHEERAN// LEGO-HOUSE directed by Emil Nava

OFFICIAL SCREENING: MUSIC VIDEO PROGRAMME TWO 
18:15 ICA                                                  BOOK HERE

JARGON // DISAPPOINT YOU directed by Ian Pons Jewell (Studio Murmur) 06:19 UK
PLAN B // ILL MANORS  directed by Yann Demange  (Rokkit) 03:48 UK
ED SHEERAN // LEGO HOUSE  directed by Emil Nava  (Pulse Films)  04:05  UK
COUNTDOWN directed by  Céline Desrumaux   (Passion Pictures) 03.43  UK
GHOSTPOET AND THE D.O.T. // TROUBLE      directed by  Unknown  (Passion RAW)  04:55  UK
CLOCK OPERA // LESSON NO. 7  directed by Aoife Mcardle (Agile Films)  06:00  UK
UNKLE // ANOTHER NIGHT OUT directed by Toby Dye   (Black Dog / Rsa Films)  05:12 UK
BAND OF SKULLS // BRUISES  directed by Joe Connor  (Chief Productions) 03:45  UK
FRIENDLY FIRES // HURTING directed by David Lewandowski  (Pulse Films) 04:05 UK
POLICE DOG HOGAN // SHITTY WHITE WINE  directed by  Fred Rowson  04:08  UK
LIZ GREEN // DISPLACEMENT SONG   directed by Kate Anderson (Dept.A @ Hsi London)  04:05 UK
GRAHAM COXON // WHAT’LL IT TAKE  directed by Ninian Doff  (Pulse Films) 04:29 UK
SOUND ARROWS // MAGIC  directed by Oskar Gullstrand & Andreas Öhman (Naive Ab) 04:12 Sweden
LITTLE DRAGON // CRYSTALFILM  directed by Daniel Wirtberg (Daemon Film) 04:25 Sweden
PORTER ROBINSON // SPITFIRE directed by Saman Keshavarz (Pulse Films) 01:53 UK
BENGA // I WILL NEVER CHANGE directed by Us (A+/Academy Films) 02:00 UK
THE HORRIBLE CROWES // BEHOLD THE HURRICANE directed by Corin Hardy (A+/Academy Films) 04:34 UK
SBTRKT // HOLD ON directed by Sam Pilling (Pulse Films) 03:35 UK
GAMESHOW OUTPATIENT // D N A U X B  directed by Tony Comley (Team Outpatient) 03:30 UK
KLUMZY TUNG // COUNTING SHEEP directed by Chris Bates  (Skyhook) 04:13 UK

TIMED-directed-by-Mike-Jones

OFFICIAL SCREENING: DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMME ONE 

18:30 ICA                                                      BOOK HERE

See films here:

#BUTTERZISTHELABEL directed by Wouter Westen (Circus Family Bv) 12:46 UK
THE FORGOTTEN ENEMY directed by Samuel Williams (Glamorgan University) 03:19  UK
KARIBUNI LAMU directed by Georgia Scott & Sophia Scott  11:34 UK
BAGONG SILANG directed by Zena Merton  10:06  UK
THE QUAY directed by Richard Fleury (Skeletope Multimedia) 15:00 UK
TIMED directed by Mike Jones (Who Is Mike Jones Producitons) 07:37 UK
CENTREFOLD directed by Ellie Land (Lynchpin) 09:14  UK
THREE BLIND MICE  directed by Chris Whitehead, Ian Miles (Film Infinity) 03:22 UK
SEEING THE FUNNY SIDE directed by Manos Ioannou (London Film School) 16:36  UK

OFFICIAL SCREENING: DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMME TWO
20:30 ICA                                                      BOOK HERE

ROGER THE REAL LIFE SUPERHERO directed by Cathy Macdonald

See films here.

CAROLYN’S DEAD directed by Deva Palmier (Deva Films)  11:37 UK
WALK TALL directed by Kate Sullivan 10:38 UK
PAINTING WITH 14 PERSONALITIES directed by Tuyet Le (Patient 17 Ltd) 04:00 UK
BACK ON ROAD  directed by Fliss Buckles 09:23 UK
ABUELAS  directed by Afarin Eghbal (NFTS) 09:16 UK
BOWLING FOR FINCHLEY directed by Colum Eastwood (London Film School) 14:04 UK
ROGER THE REAL LIFE SUPERHERO directed by Cathy Macdonald (Earnest Productions) 10:18 UK
BABYISH  directed by Nick Jesper (Leafstorm / Jesper Films) 09:18 UK
SASSIE’S GRAN directed by Derville Quigley (Doubleband Films) 05:26 UK