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Bath Chronicle Launches Film Competition

The Bath Chronicle is delighted this week to launch an exciting new competition which gives people  a chance to make a short film  celebrating life in Bath & North East Somerset.
 
The LoveBath short film competition is being launched as part of the Chronicle’s 250 year anniversary celebrations and, to tie in with our theme, your film must be no longer than two minutes and 50 seconds.
 
The competition is being organised by the Chronicle, Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Film Office, the City of Bath College, the Bath Film Festival and the Little Theatre, Bath’s independent cinema.
 
The collective aim of the organisers is to celebrate film and also give people a chance to reflect life in and around Bath. And it will also give a chance for a host of film makers to have their work shown in the Little Theatre – and possibly win a great cash prize too.
 
The choice of the story is completely down to you, the film maker. It could be anything from a comedy to a horror story or from an historical drama to a documentary. All it needs to be is your own work and to be set and filmed in the Bath & North East Somerset area – and of course to come in under the time limit.
 
Would-be film makers have until October 21 to get their work together and all submitted entries which fit into the strict criteria outlined in the Terms and Conditions on our dedicated website which will be put online for people to view.  The best of the entries will then be shortlisted and the selected films will be screened at the Little Theatre, in Bath, in front of a judging panel and a local audience.
 
The winning film will be hailed as the LoveBath film of 2010 – and the film makers will pick up a £250 cash prize in line with the Chronicle’s 250th anniversary celebrations.
 
Chronicle editor Sam Holliday said he was very excited by the whole project.
 
“I’m so pleased that we have been able to get together with some of our friends and colleagues in the city who share our love of both Bath and film and therefore are happy to support the LoveBath competition.
 
“We are convinced that there will be many aspiring film makers out there who would love the chance to project their ideas to a wide audience and we believe this will be a competition that will stimulate interest and excitement throughout the local community.”
 
Darren Rogers, the head of department for media, music and performing arts at the City of Bath College, believes the contest will attract a wide and diverse amount of entries.
 
“LoveBath is an excellent opportunity for both new and young film makers from the area. I’ve been working for a couple of years now with local film makers to raise the profile of film in Bath, particularly among young people, and a short film competition about Bath was always my dream.
 
“I’m delighted that it’s finally happened and can’t wait to get my students working on it in September when they return, ”  he said.
 
Lynne Locker, the development manager at Bath Film Festival also welcomed the new competition
 
“Bath and the landscapes, buildings, waterways and villages nearby have been a strong inspiration for many fine filmmakers in the past. Perhaps the filmmakers who are inspired by the LoveBath competition will tell us tales about unfamiliar corners that we rarely notice and prompt us to see the places where we live and work in a new light? And what better backdrop than Bath and North East Somerset?”
 
Bath and North East Somerset Council say they are ‘very pleased’  to be supporting the LoveBath film competition through their hard working Film Office.
 
“The main aim of the Film Office is to promote film making in the area and the competition provides us with an excellent opportunity to do so.  At the same time,  we can fulfil our other equally important responsibility which is to  ensure that filming is managed safely and efficiently on the streets of Bath and North East Somerset and to minimise disruption to the local community, ’’ said Jenni Wagstaffe, the film commissioner at the Bath Film Office.
 
Mrs Wagstaffe said that although the council team wants as many people as possible to enter she urged them to be respectful of the city and surrounding towns and villages – and to read the rules of the contest very carefully.
 
“We would  ask any competition entrants who wish to film in public places  –  parks, libraries, museums, streets, for instance – to complete our application form, downloadable from the competition website, and send it to us at least 48 hours’ prior to filming.  In this way, we can help film makers obtain any necessary permission beforehand..”
 
Full details about how you can enter this exciting and unique competition – including  the rules that must be strictly adhered to – can be found within our Terms and Conditions on the special LoveBath website www.thisisbath.co.uk/lovebath.
 
 

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