Electric December @ Biograf Spegeln & BUFF

Electric December ‘08 winners:

The two winning Electric December films as chosen by the panel will be announced at the Electric December launch on Monday 1 December at Watershed in Bristol, UK, and its creator will receive a travel bursary to attend BUFF - The International Children and Young People’s Film Festival in Malmö, or another a European Young People’s Film Festival in 2009 with a member of the Eshed.net steering group…

BUFF - March 10-14 ‘09

BUFF - The International Children and Young People’s Film Festival in Malmö, was founded in 1984 and is a non-profit organization. The aim was, and still is, to screen good films for children and young people as well as adults. A meeting place for people working with children, young people and film. BUFF strives to open the possibilities for more influences from Europe and the rest of the world by showing films that might never be screened otherwise. In the cinema we get to meet different cultures, hear foreign languages and tag along on endless adventures. BUFF considers children and young people to be the most exciting resource we´ve got, our future.

Since 1995, BUFF is an official Swedish film festival, an assignment given by the Swedish Film Institute. About 100 films are shown during the six days of the festival, with screenings both day and night. BUFF arranges seminars and discussions for teachers, film-makers and cultural workers aiming to inspire the children and youth film.

It’s time to submit your film to The International Children and Young People´s Film Festival in Malmö 2009. The festival will take place March 10-14 2009, but you can already submit your film.

SCREEN 2008 (Photos by: Magnus Grubb)

The idea with SCREEN is to get young filmmakers the opportunity to meet professionals in meetings, seminars and workshops.

BUFF Filmfestival has many guests with long experience of filmmaking around the world; directors, producers, distributors and mentors. At SCREEN 2008 we had about 200 visitors, both young filmmakers and professionals. BUFF coproduced the event with local high schools that took part in planning, preparing and producing the event. BUFF also used other local networks to come up with the program. The workshops and seminars were produced together with local filmmakers and production companies.

Workshops: Make up with SODA FX, Special Effects with Pyro Smålands Krutbruk, Sweden, VJ, Flash animation class, Post Production, 90 sec film in 90 minutes challenge.

Seminars: How to distribute your short film, Panel with SVT (Swedish Public Television, Folkets Bio (distributors) Uppsala International Filmfestival, Glimz.net, Lisa Nyed from Nordic Panorama in Malmö as moderator. Scripwriting – Marek Walton from The Mustard co in Edinbourgh gave a talk about writing for TV and videogames. Film as resistance – how to use the media to make a point, World Media Summit and Nisimasa gave a talk about networking and filmmaking, Filmschool seminars – which filmschool suits me? Panel with students from different filmschools in Scandinavia, Live Feed-back with dvoted.net, Filmmusic, Music video.

Screenings: Best of Pixel – the regional short filmfestival for young people in Skåne. Best of Novemberfestivalen, the national short filmfestival that takes place in Trollhättan every November. Local High Schools Mediegymnasiet and NTI-gymnasiet screened their films. Open screen with music videos. Video library with films made by the SCREEN participants. Photos by: Magnus Grubb