Call for young North-East wannabe film-makers

NEWCASTLE’S Tyneside Cinema is looking for young people aged 15-18 from across the North-East to take part in its free Northern Stars Documentary Film Academy .

The academy will run from September 1 to December 3r, and the deadline for applications is Monday, August 8.

Participants will work with leading industry professionals to gain hands-on experience of all aspects of film production and make their own short documentary films about the world they live in. Workshops at Tyneside Cinema’s Pop-Up Film School will provide training in directing, producing and editing, and offer advice on everything they need to make exciting and original documentaries. The finished films will be shown at Tyneside Cinema in December at a special premiere for family and friends.

Many of the films that have been made as part of the Northern Stars Documentary Academies have gone on to be nominated for and win awards, including Closure which won Best Factual Film in the Professionally Supported category at the Royal Television Society’s Young People’s Media Festival, and whose director, Georgia Middlemiss, was awarded Tyneside Cinema’s Sarah Barton Award.

This is the fourth year of the Northern Stars Documentary Film Academy , which has been made possible by the sponsorship of intu, who co-owns intu Eldon Square in Newcastle and intu Metrocentre in Gateshead.

To apply, go to: northernstarsacademy.co.uk/apply

Viv Hardwick